All Films

Imaginary Geography

2005 • 14 min • France, Germany, Tunisia

Géographie imaginaire is a subjective report on a deliberatly non-documentary, i.e. imaginary journey. Pauline M’Barek’s video is based on intimate observations that she made during the preparations and traditional rites for her female cousin’s wedding in Tunisia.

Redrat: The Rebellious Rodent

2005 • 20 min • Uruguay

A laboratory rat which was sacrificed with scientific purposes comes back to life. The rodent claims for revenge but in its search for the culprits, it is manipulated by the members of a love triangle to solve their problems.

¡Mezquita no!

2005 • 28 min • Spain

The installation of an oratory in the ground floors of a block of flats led to the protesting of the neighbors who complaint about the place not having the conditions to accommodate a place of worship. The Muslim community had been given a provisional license by the Town Council so that they could celebrate Ramadan and then move somewhere else. But the neighbors complaint because they had been deceived by the Town Council: they had been protesting for months against the opening of this oratory. Once the conflict ended with the relocation of the oratory in a waste ground outside Santa Coloma, "No mosque!" tries to be a documentary about dialogue and reflection, about the facts, reasons and consequences of a case which is neither the first nor the last of this nature and which is more and more common in the European society, recipient of a great number of immigrants.

The Hellraiser Chronicles: A Question of Faith

2005 • 30 min

Troubled young Priest Father Farrell returns to deserted house that cost his friends their lives nearly 20 years ago. Plagued by guilt, flashbacks and curiosity, Father Farrell attempts to confront the ghosts within himself as well as the house. But with the re-appearance of the Lament Configuration Puzzle, something much worse than dead friends is coming for Father Farrell.

The Sins of Government

2005 • 55 min • United States of America

Host David Aten takes you on a journey through two short stories: RITES OF THE ILLUMINATI - Bill Clayton wants to make a deal that will make him rich and a governor, but after meeting with the reptilian leader Pindar he realizes he is in over his head. ULTRA - Christine Wilder undergoes heinous mind control programming techniques that turn her into a human sex slave and killer.

The Other Hiroshima: Korean A-bomb Victims Tell Their Story

2005 • 58 min • Japan

Living in a slum damaged by the atomic bomb and watching elderly first-generation zainichi hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) pass away one after another, Pak felt compelled to break their silence with this documentary, her first. Using up all her savings and going into debt, she teamed up with cinematographer Otsu Koshiro and collected these testimonials from zainichi North and South Koreans living in Hiroshima and South Korean hibakusha visiting Japan for medical treatment.

Noturno de um piano

2005 • 10 min • Brazil

This music-video piece denounces the declining state of classical music by throwing a piano into the sea as a symbol of high culture submerging. The experiment focuses a grand piano floating and drifting until it sinks. This video questions the artist's role in today's society and the piano as an icon that submerges, subverted by mass culture.

Erakpoeet Marko Kompus

2005 • 33 min • Estonia

This witty and artistic portrait film shows the joy and pain of Marko Kompus, a poet from the legendary Tartu literary group "Erakkond". The author of the film, Jaan-Jürgen Klaus, who has previously filmed other cult figures from Tartu, follows Elva's hermit poet all year round.

GariVegas

2005 • 20 min • South Korea

Sun-Wha lives in Karibong-Dong. Kuro-Gongdan, the mecca of industrialization and Karibong-Dong, the cultural spot of the factory workers in which Chosun tribe Town is located and foreign labors are hanging around now. Sun-wha is going to leave Garibong because of the company she works for is moving. During the packing, her precious wardrobe is broken. She feels distressed. Her pregnant friend, Hyang-Mi comes to see Sun-Hwa off and Sun-Hwa looks back at Karibong. She feels like that all her tearful stories during the 1970’s and the 1980’s in Karibong are disappearing.

Killer Sandwich 2: Leftovers Reloaded

2005 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Killer Sandwich strikes back.

What Are You Going to Do When You Get Out of Here?

2005 • 52 min • Slovenia

A complex landscape of improvised situations immersed in a perpetual network of mines under the Slovenian town of Trbovlje (Iztok Kovács' hometown and his main source of inspiration). The realistic imagery of this post-socialist city, which seems to still exist outside of time, has triggered the impulse of this introspective introspection by a team of renowned dancers and filmmakers. The physical tension and human flashes of seven bodies crashing into a deliberately chosen enclosed environment, surrounded by the unlit warmth and humidity of the underworld, inhabit and create the poetic mood of the film, echoing Tarkovsky and Beckett.

The Report

2005 • 12 min

Given all the atrocities that are being committed in the world, a child decides to file a complaint against God.

Resonating Surfaces

2005 • 39 min • Belgium, Brazil, France

Resonating Surfaces is triple portrait, of a city, a woman and an attitude to life. For the personal story of Suely Rolnik, who is a Brazilian psychoanalyst currently living in São Paulo, involves the Brazilian dictatorship of the sixties as well as the Parisian intellectual climate surrounding Deleuze and Guattari in the seventies. The film is woven through by different themes: the other and the relation to otherness, the connection between body and power, the voice and, ultimately, the micropolitics of desire and of resistance.

God on Our Side

2005 • 7 min • Netherlands

Inspired by Picasso's Guernica (1937), this film is fundamentally about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Falluja, April 2004

2005 • 55 min

House For The Snail

2005 • 10 min • Ukraine

About weak and defenseless creatures that move slowly and hide in their little house – a shell – at the slightest danger. This, of course, is about a snail. And what to do if she lost her house? After all, she faces many dangerous situations. The only one way out is to seek a new house.

Los nuevos burgueses

2005 • 25 min • Argentina

It narrates a night of partying at the home of one of its directors, where various night owls and informal performers from the Buenos Aires underground gather. Intended as an accurate representation of scenes common to a certain lifestyle, we witness the decadent spectacle of a group of people who "have closed the door to society, carrying society within themselves" (Goyo Anchou).

Verde y negro

2005 • 16 min • Argentina

After meeting at the exit of a party, Andrés will spend the night with Paula, without knowing what he is getting into.

Black Azz

2005 • 54 min • United States of America

A compilation of antics from Kali "BLACK AZZ" Wilson, The Hood Superhero.

We Want to be Alive

2005 • 2 min • Uruguay

Two humans and a dog try to find shelter during a storm, but nobody is paying attention to them.

Track

2005 • 26 min • Kazakhstan

Life turns out to be much simpler and more down-to-earth than we think about it.

Operation Storm Cloud

2005 • 53 min • United States of America

They say lightning never strikes twice, but anything can happen when an evil genius invents a terrifying device that threatens homeland security. Dr. Samantha Bradley is a gorgeous and caring young physician who tries to outsmart a dangerous criminal in Operation Storm Cloud. It was just another day at the office for Dr. Bradley, but her long journey home includes unexpected encounters with rough terrain, attacking vines and deadly lightning bolts! Brenda Sampson is a beautiful but evil scientist who controls a frightening machine that generates brutal and powerful artificial lightning. And ... oh yes ... Brenda happens to be a skilled Martial artist who takes on a federal agent in hand-to-hand combat! A top secret federal investigation, beautiful women, a spiteful villain and intense action sequences. Operation Storm Cloud has it all!

The Forgotten Refugees

2005 • 49 min • Israel

The documentary explores the history, culture, and forced exodus of Middle Eastern and North African Jewish communities in the second half of the 20th century. Using extensive testimony of refugees from Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Iraq, and Morocco, the film weaves personal stories with dramatic archival footage of rescue missions, historic images of exodus and resettlement, and analyses by contemporary scholars to tell the story of how and why the Jewish population in the Middle East and North Africa declined from one million in 1945 to several thousand today.

Halleluja-bröllop

2005 • 28 min • Sweden

Madeleine, 18, and Jorge, 22, love each other, but above all else they love God. Two weeks after Madeleine graduates, they will get married and move in together. Here we get to follow their first steps into adulthood.