All Films

Optical Sound

2005 • 6 min • Finland

Do machines play music? Is there a difference between a dot matrix printer and a record turntable? Optical Sound, Taanila’s 2005 wide-screen interpretation of [The User]’s brutalist sound piece for an array of obsolete printers, depicts the devices ratcheting horizontally together in a stalled symphony, inkjets repeatedly blackening the same area on the page. It is not the blurring of man with machine that lies at the core of this film, but the blurring of the spaces that each has been traditionally obliged to occupy. We disappear into our data streams, which are everywhere and “nowhere” at the same time. (Ken Hollings)

Damn! The Threnody In Me!

2005 • 8 min • United States of America

A post-modern fantasy based on Lefcadio Hearne's short story "Jikininki."

C.S.T.I. (The Curse of the St. Theodore Iconostasis)

2005 • 57 min • Serbia and Montenegro

It tells about the theft of a miraculous iconostasis from the city museum.

Aníbal

2005 • 3 min

Aníbal is a detestable, scolding, annoying and devious character. With nothing else better to do, he settles for limitations in the narrator's house, until you decide to kill him. However, he managed to reappear.

Point Line Cloud

2005 • 9 min

"POINT LINE CLOUD is a collection of audio and video collaborations between Curtis Roads and myself, it has been a ever shifting project over the years which constantly continues to evolve."

Before the Storm

2005 • 35 min • United States of America

Jon returns home after a few months at college to meet his girlfriend for dinner. After Jon encounters some unexpected visitors he eventually arrives at their meeting place only to be stood up. This leads to an evening of events that will change his life and the world forever.

The Making of Scottish Fantasies

2005 • 12 min • United States of America

Filmed on location in Ms. Pine's hometown of Chicago and in Scotland, this documentary offers an engaging perspective on her album of Scottish Fantasies, from its early inspiration to a behind-the-scenes look at the recording process.

Alise

2005 • 12 min • Latvia

Healer Alise lives in a world alive with nature - swaying grass, rustling wind, rippling streams, birdsong, blooming flowers, ants, ladybugs and butterflies. Using herbal teas and water she helps people regenerate.

Birdcalls

2005 • 5 min • Canada

The written languages of birds come to life.

Seven Secrets to Perfect Porn

2005 • 32 min • United Kingdom

In 2001 the law in the UK for gay porn changed forever. Up until then, the only porn gay men in the UK could enjoy would be illegal, bad quality material mainly from Europe and America. Even up until 2003 certain sexual acts were still illegal in gay porn, whilst their straight counterpart movies still enjoyed greater freedom in sexual expression. Now that has all changed and films can be produced and sold freely in the UK and a new industry is starting to emerge. "The Seven Secrets to Perfect Porn" follows the work of Max Lincoln, who took the opportunity to start his own movie company, Eurocreme, in the UK to make porn to challenge the American and European dominance of hardcore films.

Patriotic

2005 • 4 min • Canada, France

The language of anti-terrorism takes an unexpected form in this seductive propaganda video, which scores George W. Bush's notorious Patriotic Act of 2001 to Celine Dion's Love Theme to Titanic.

What don't you understand about "I'm leaving...again"?

2005 • 4 min • Canada

A non-linear rumination of catching oneself between the headlights of cowardice and conviction. Subtly confrontational for those who can never seem to stay, nor fully walk away, featuring music by Rae Spoon.

Hanne

2005 • 7 min • Hungary

A love story torn between two men. Tragedy is lurking under the surface of deliberately kitschy images: if I can’t hold someone, I must devour him.

Nachtmaschine

2005 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Night vs. light, music vs. motion, figuration vs. abstraction. Experimental video artist Max Hattler utilises distorted urban imagery and neon glare to create this entrancing short

Marco

2005 • 5 min • Italy

Midnight Massacre: The Donnelly Murders

2005 • 60 min • Canada

February 3rd, 1880. Lucan, Ontario. On a brutally cold night, a horrific plot is about to be executed. Using darkness to conceal their movements, a secret society made up of locals converges on the Donnelly homestead. Many are disguised to conceal their identities.

Stars! Stars! Stars!

2005 • 10 min • United States of America

In this lively story, children take a colorful ride through outer space to visit distant planets and dazzling stars.

The Bomb with a Man in His Shoe

2005 • 15 min • United Kingdom

In an impressionistic rush that combines patina-marked images of shoes made by hand with the attributes of a genre film, Rivers returns to a favorite topic: objects as the bearers of their history. Shots of the cobbler at work highlight the handcrafting process, yet entirely without indicating the need for perfection. In general, purposefulness and the absence of fantasy are unlike Rivers. Ambiguity is thus waiting in the wings, in this case references to genre movies, exemplified in part by image distortion reminiscent of an old horror movie.

Don't Throw Anything Away

2005 • 7 min • Greece

Greed & ecological destruction is the issue here. A toxic substance creates a bottomless hole that is used for waste disposal. Seemingly it is capable of absorbing the whole world's junk but with a significant cost. The 3rd film with The Hole's main character, the hermit.

62 Years and 6500 Miles Between

2005 • 52 min • Taiwan, United States of America

Amidst the political upheavals of a nation and the world, the filmmaker navigates cultural, geographical and linguistic distances in search of wisdom and hope from her 100 year-old Taiwanese activist grandmother (Ama).

Traumata

2005 • 2 min

A short film by Usama Alshaibi

Zagor - A Chief without Tribe

2005 • 43 min • Serbia and Montenegro

The story of Zagor-Te-Ney, hero of the Darkwood forest, which is on this occasion situated on the slopes of Fruška gora and other wooded areas of Vojvodina, where this low-budget amateur film was made by a comics/film enthusiasts led by Svetozar Ljubojevic from Novi Sad.

Kiera's 4 Days in Gucha

2005 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Kiera Chaplin visits famous Serbian trumpet festival.

Choripán

2005 • 7 min • Chile

Choripán is a dog that yearns for freedom, manages to escape from his home and runs away from his master. In another place, outside the city, a cow is sold. His chicken friend tries to avoid being taken away and chases her until he reaches the city where he loses track of her. Donato is now alone in a dizzying city, and a girl insists on adopting him as a pet. Choripán and Donato finally find themselves in the same situation, on the run. Donato decides to protect Choripán from the dangers that the place holds, including a gang of children who like to torture animals.