All Films

Human or Machine?

2005 • 27 min • Serbia and Montenegro

Documentary about making of the album “Sing Sing” by Obojeni program, recorded in the Netherlands.

The Spiderman

2005 • 49 min • China

Documentary about the four people make a living by performing barehanded rock climbing in the Swallow Cave.

Crazy Life

2005 • 20 min • United States of America

After Dulcie helps Chuey avoid a prison sentence, she struggles with the realization that you can't force someone to change, even for love.

The Other Orange

2005 • 20 min • Netherlands

a 20 minute video by: Hassan Choubassi. Editing: Vartan Avakian. Supervisors: Chris Keulemans, Jan Van Den Berg, Harco Haagsma. Thanks to: Kristina Andersen, Moniek Toebosch, Peter Van Hoof, Christine Tohme, Ghassan Salhab, Rima Kadissi, Leyla Makdissi, Tamara Samerai, "de Prague" pub, "Layla" pub and DasArts staff.

Inflight – So This Is Love (Making Of Album)

2005 • 11 min

A behind-the-scenes documentary following Australian Christian rock band Inflight during the creation of their 2005 album So This Is Love. Featuring frontman David O’Reilly and the band in studio sessions, the film offers song breakdowns, recording footage, and commentary on the writing process. Distributed by Planet Blue Pictures.

101 Embarrassing Sexual Accidents

2005 • 47 min

Looks at various cases of people being badly injured or burned whilst attempting sex acts with various substances or implements, including vaccum cleaners and pipes, a hot melon, and concrete.

Versus

2005 • 6 min • France

Two samurai armies battle for control of a tiny island.

Pumpkin Moon

2005 • 23 min • United Kingdom

The tale of a black cat who gets caught up in a Halloween battle between an army of good pumpkins and a hoard of evil witches and their spells. Set in America mid-west in the 1950’s, it’s a classic story of regeneration and the triumph of good over evil, and at its centre is the special relationship between the cat and one of the pumpkins.

I'm Ugly But Trendy

2005 • 60 min • Brazil

Documentary about the musical and social phenomenon of Brazilian funk (or Carioca Funk), a style derived from Miami Bass, based on repetitive bass drum loops and lyrics full of sexual and violent overtones, not directly related to American funk/soul music. This style emerged in the slums and poor neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro, and is deeply associated with the lower social classes, but is gradually being accepted on higher social circles. The film is specially interested in women's participation, focusing on its major female stars.

The Cags

2005 • 4 min • Russia

An animated short film by Alexei Petrov.

Wayfarers

2005 • 10 min • Ukraine

Impressionistic documentary portraits of people in a senior citizen's home and in a psychiatric hospital in Kyiv. Film about childhood that never returns, about dreams that can’t come true and about madness as a kind of happiness or grief.

Likehell: The Movie

2005 • 55 min

Their music was raw, aggressive, inspired. Their look, breathtaking. Their bank accounts and pants, bulging. But hardships and tragedies, much worse than any rock band has ever experienced plagued their numerous climbs to the top and eventually brought about their repeated plunges to the depths of, like, hell. Take a ride on Likehell's turbulent rock and roller-coaster and witness their never-ending ordeals. Featuring cameos by members of Velvet Revolver and Queens of the Stone Age among others.

Valley of Sighs

2005 • 50 min • Netherlands

In the eighties, the bachelors of the remote Spanish village of Plan in the Pyrenees followed the example of an American Western: in an advertisement, they called on marriageable women in the ages from twenty to forty to come to their village. The appeal led to piles of reactions and a convoy of eager women. The impressive three-day party yielded a few marriages, but the frivolous action could not deliver Plan from the worrying exodus. The tough farm work still appeals to only a few women, no matter how imposing the view on the inaccessible Pyrenees may be, both in summer and winter. Director Carin Goeijers filmed the inhabitants during their daily activities at home and on the land and asked them about their loves and lives. She alternates the present with beautiful historical footage of the legendary women's convoy.

Asylsøkere

2005 • 8 min • Norway

A bunch of kids in a backyard are playing a game they call "refugee reception center". Everyone who wants to enter the backyard has to "apply for asylum" by telling an exciting story.

Dying Living Woman

2005 • 7 min

In the original horror movie The Night of the Living-Dead, a young girl is followed by an army of zombies. In Dying Living Woman, her character has been scratched out, image by image. Physically erased, she is even more visible, glowing with a surnatural light. The fictional character is erased, but her disapearance haunts the film.

Rosita

2005 • 58 min

The plight of a nine-year-old Nicaraguan girl, who becomes pregnant as the result of a rape, triggers a battle of whose life has precedence.

Hymn

2005 • 6 min • United Kingdom

An artist realises the very thing causing his creative block is the one thing he wishes to give expression to - a break-up.

Untitled #1

2005 • 4 min • Russia

A young girl’s fiery dance, accidentally caught on 16 mm film in the street. The viewer is confronted by the sacrificial and the passionate, the strong and the fragile, the fleeting and the eternal. These are the faces of femininity.

Un día con Leopoldo María Panero

2005 • 21 min • Spain

After the publication of a CD book with the poems of Leopoldo María Panero, musicians Carlos Ann and Enrique Bunbury travel to the Canary Islands to meet the "cursed poet", who is hospitalized in the psychiatric hospital of Las Palmas.

Before Vanishing

2005 • 13 min • Syrian Arab Republic, France

The Barada, the river around which the city of Damascus was built, is drying up. The film follows his journey through the city, its neighborhoods, its inhabitants, its noises and its smells.

Woman

2005 • 21 min

A coming of age story of two women set in the city slum community beside railroad tracks.

Karma, Hopes and Dreams in the Boulderfields of Nepal

2005 • 48 min • United States of America

The Khumbu region of Nepal, home of the world's biggest mountains and the backdrop for generations of mountain climbers' dreams, is the stage for a whole new generation of visionaries. A dozen individuals, both American and Nepali, some of them among the highest ranked climbers in the world, join forces to explore the possibilities of bouldering in this breathtaking land. Witness the magic that unravels as each of them discovers the landscape, the history, the customs, the people, and of course, the boulders. Featuring Adam Stack, Lizzy Asher, Justin Bourque, and Janet Bergman. A film by Brian Solano and Tim Kemple.

Origem dos Nomes

2005 • 17 min • Brazil

A Kayapó-Xikrin (brazilian indigenous people) origin myth.

In Search of Happiness

2005 • 52 min • Russia

Follows the lives of Boris and Masha Rak, Soviet Jews who in 1934 moved to the Jewish Autonomous Oblast.