All Films

Amateur Report (Exhibition Model)

2006 • 47 min • France

Director Jean-Luc Godard reflects in this movie about his place in film history, the interaction of film industry and film as art, as well as the act of creating art.

Beyond the Train Tracks

2006 • 11 min • Japan

A boy encounters a trace of his lost father on tracks where time comes and goes, at a station where time stops. With the help of a mysterious projectionist, the boy and station master search for the truth of the father's image.

La Traversée

2006 • 55 min • France

Every summer, many people transit by sea between France and Algeria, between Marseille and Algiers. Cars loaded to the hood... packages of all kinds... men loaded with bags and stories. At sea, we are no longer in France and not yet in Algeria, and vice versa. From the singular confines of the boat, in the back and forth and the parenthesis of the journey, the crossing puts back in the heart of the passage these women and men brought up.

Kidding with Oliver Twist: Barney Clark's Diary

2006 • 6 min

Short behind-the-scenes documentary on Roman Polanski's "Oliver Twist."

Lonely at the Top

2006 • 10 min

"We´re going to exaggerate shamelessly." This sentence is spoken over black film by Lucy McEvil, transvestite, singer and passionate resident of Vienna, at the beginning of Wolfgang Muhr´s short portrait. Hyperbole is a wholly suitable leitmotif for a film in which an artist is shown portraying characters of the opposite sex, as the representation´s exaggeration, ironic refraction and displacement is what differentiates the act of dressing in drag from mere imitation of a certain sex.

The Music of Regret

2006 • 44 min • United States of America

Simmons, best-known for her photographs of miniature rooms populated by dolls and of oversized objects—such as a house, birthday cake, and pistol—balanced on female legs, both human and fake, brings these characters to life in a three-act mini-musical. The film is inspired by three distinct periods of Simmons’s photographic work: vintage hand puppets, ventriloquist dummies and walking objects enact tales of ambition, disappointment, love, loss, and regret. Working with composer Michael Rohaytn ("Personal Velocity") and cameraman Ed Lachman ("The Virgin Suicides" and "Far From Heaven"), Simmons’s puppets come to life in miniature domestic scenes that echo real life.

Girls

2006 • 46 min • Russia

A few summer days of three ordinary Moscow girls on the threshold of adulthood. Farewell to childhood in schoolyards and entrances of sleeping areas, where everything is for the first time and the world is just beginning - from secretly purchased cigarettes and cans with gin and tonic to an adult passport, first love and almost real tragedies.

Birthday Boy

2006 • 10 min • Netherlands

It is Sjoerd's birthday and his mother has spared no trouble or expense to make this day a pleasurable one. Helped by the au pair, she takes the eleven-year-old kid on a search, where an unfortunate coincidence puts them in the middle of a raid. The criminals take the complete party bunch hostage and then it is a matter of surviving for the birthday boy.

Pressure

2006 • 4 min

A young woman listens to two friends discussing their first orgasms, before telling of her childhood love of sneezing.

Paula Poundstone: Look What The Cat Dragged In

2006 • 44 min • United States of America

Paula Poundstone makes a triumphant return to primetime television in her first new comedy special in over ten years, "Paula Poundstone: Look What the Cat Dragged In."

Final Faeces

2006 • 8 min • Australia

Hilarious and fast-paced short directed by Frank Daft.

If You See Something, Say Something

2006 • 4 min • United States of America

An early short film by Josh Safdie, co-written with Benny Safdie and featuring frequent collaborators including Sam Lisenco and Ariel Schulman. Running just over three minutes, it premiered at the 2006 New York Underground Film Festival.

I clandestini del cinema italiano

2006 • 48 min

Antonio Rezza and Flavia Mastrella are two artists that use their bodies like objects. Their works are exaltations of the object compared to the subject. The interpreter is more important than the author. The role of artistic expression is to represent what is not there. Cinema is an improper weapon because it is in the wrong hands. The solution would be - according to the two artists - for cinema as well as all art to be managed by those who have imagination and who are not down to earth.

Made in Taiwan

2006 • 45 min • New Zealand

Oscar Kightley and Nathan Rarere reverse the mind blowing ocean voyage of their distant Pacific ancestors. Following a DNA trail, they travel thousands of miles, and meet people their ancestors would have left behind thousands of years earlier, before arriving on the shores of Taiwan and discovering for themselves the origins of their people.

How to Survive a Zombie Attack

2006 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A man, alone in a barren wasteland, encounters another survivor...as well as a zombie.

Book Club

2006 • 8 min

A book club meets in a coffee shop.

Nude Caboose

2006 • 2 min • Canada

A jovial shirtless man attempts to rouse a contingent of lethargic dancers to life in NUDE CABOOSE. His highjinks really get the deadbeats bustin' out until something unusual catches his eye. Dance floor seduction distilled into a fateful moment!

Miramar St.

2006 • 8 min • United States of America

San Diego, California. A Spanish taxi driver collects a client who asks to be taken to Miramar Street. These words are sufficient for the driver to feel that something in his life has just changed.

The Ralph Handel Story

2006 • 15 min • United States of America

Co-directed by Benny and Josh Safdie, this deadpan mock-documentary follows Ralph Handel, a buttoned-down office worker who spends his nights bombing on the open-mic circuit. Staged as cinéma vérité that edges into performance art—Safdie performed the disastrous sets in real clubs—the film channels Andy Kaufman’s anti-comedy and the self-reflexive diary mode of David Holzman’s Diary to sketch a sly portrait of a life quietly coming undone.

Afraid So

2006 • 3 min • United States of America

A film about fear and anxiety. 
Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival



They Chose China

2006 • 52 min • Canada

The story of twenty-one American POWs who, after the Korean War ended, chose to live in China instead of returning the USA.

Zoo

2006 • 13 min • Finland

A woman is taking pictures of cages in a zoo. The viewer and the object change places.

The Fairly OddParents: Fairy Idol

2006 • 49 min • United States of America

Norm the Genie returns and tricks Cosmo and Wanda into disliking Timmy by replacing him with a selfish, unappreciative clone version. When Cosmo and Wanda quit, a singing contest is held in Fairy World to determine who gets to replace Timmy's godparents. And there is another big problem: Norm is a participant.

Jesus from Lithuania

2006 • 60 min • Lithuania

Originally called "From Hell to Hell and Back to Heaven". Only in the final stages of production, when the film was almost complete, that the events of the hero were noticeable with biblical events.