All Films

Freaky Circus Guy

2005 • 60 min • United States of America

Sword swallowing, fire breathing, bull whip cracking and the burlesque arts take center stage in Freaky Circus Guy; a documentary about an eccentric collector of 1920's circus art who takes his obsession to the extreme and launches an authentic sideshow on a stormy pier in Seaside Heights, NJ. It's a wondrously strange world of gypsies, freaks, glamazon women... and one madman.

Block

2005 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Day through night Block is a portrait of a 1960s London tower block, its interior and exterior spaces explored and revealed, patterns of activity building a rhythm and viewing experience not dissimilar from the daily observations of the security guard sat watching the flickering screens with their fixed viewpoints and missing pieces of action.

Madonna

2005 • 4 min • Japan

In Madonna, Tanaami employs his signature collage-style animation, combining pop art influences, retro aesthetics, and surrealistic motifs. The film explores themes of desire, fantasy, and memory, often referencing elements of post-war Japanese culture and American pop culture.

Le cercle

2005 • 10 min • France

Rat in the Crown

2005 • 46 min • Poland

Documentary about an alcoholic and his unsuccessful struggle with addiction.

Her Royal Escape to Love

2005 • 6 min • United States of America

Photoplay and Direction by Charles Busch

Pedro, Ana e a Verdade

2005 • 10 min • Brazil

The film surrounds a misunderstood event that ends up changing completely the lives of the characters.

Zombie Mayhem

2005 • 36 min • Sweden

Sharpen your axe and change the bag of your vacuum cleaner, the zombie infestation has at last reached Sweden. Workers are improving a swimming lake in the forest outside Teentown. After setting the explosives in the lake to expand it, workers start to disappear...

Love Letters from a Children's Prison

2005 • 54 min

"Loveletters from a Children's Prison" brings us into a prison for teenagers. Many of the boys here will spend most of their lives imprisoned, convicted for hard crimes such as armed robbery, rape and murder. The film relates the love story of Vadim and Ira, a boy in prison convicted for murder and the girl waiting for him on the outside.

Way of the Flounder

2005 • 11 min • Sweden

In the Nort Sea a flounder is hiding in the seaweed. The flounder feeds on mussels and small shrimps. Many dangers lurk on the bottom of the sea but the flounder is clever. One day the flounder is caught in a net and pulled up on a trawler. It dies on the deck. The fish is now entering a new phase of its existence. The flounder travels on, though life has come to an end.

Mr. Floridor and Anacleto

2005 • 3 min • Chile

Mr. Floridor, a beloved old man, drives his vehicle in the company of his faithful dog Anacleto. His path, full of funny incidents, is suddenly involved in repetitive events that lead to an unexpected end.

Dans le labyrinthe de Marienbad

2005 • 34 min • France

A documentary about the film "Last Year in Marienbad" (1961).

Top of the World

2005 • 15 min • Israel

Somewhere in Jérusalem, two girls have been sharing an apartment for two years. Now one of them is leaving, and the other, while searching for an appropriate replacement, can't let go of what was between them, or what it could have been.

Rapsódia para um Homem Comum

2005 • 25 min • Brazil

Epaminondas is a low-income middle-class civil servant in the early 1970s. He is an ordinary man, a family man, whose day-to-day life is surrounded by bureaucratic commitments and can no longer stand the banal routine he is subjected to.

Irene Williams: Queen of Lincoln Road

2005 • 23 min • United States of America

Director Eric Smith documents the life and wild fashion sense of Miami Beach's Irene Williams.

Erni

2005 • 7 min

Based on the Carol Reed film 'The Third Man', Edgar Honetschläger's Erni unfolds in Vienna. Two Japanese women and a young boy wander around the city. From time to time the boy sees the figure of a chicken, Erni, appear, each time dressed differently. This short, which is part of a portmanteau film, was screened at the Aichi exhibition in Japan in 2005.

Everything Is Beautiful: Fashion

2005 • 20 min

Documentary about the costume design in Jacques Tati's 1958 film MON ONCLE.

Tarde de primavera

2005 • 60 min • Argentina

A love story between a film student and a Japanese girl on their first day of work at the Japanese Garden.

Le Moulin

2005 • 6 min

The life of a coastal town is under the spell of the movement of a windmill's sails.

En garde

2005 • 4 min • France

In a flat world, a fencers' spar gets out of hand.

Experiment 17

2005 • 5 min

A German officer attempts to use to use the occult powers of The Necronomicon to aid the Nazi plan for world domination.

Pup

2005 • 22 min

This short film follows two out, gay, Christian leathermen - Master Skip and Pup Tim - as they prepare to compete in The Second International Puppy Contest (IPC), a leather title contest for human canines and their handlers. The documentary is the first to introduce puppy play - a fetish in which a human expresses the attributes of a canine, most often in relation to another human taking the position of pup handler, owner, trainer, etc.

O Resto é Silêncio

2005 • 28 min • Brazil

A reporter goes out to investigate a suicide.

Two Steps From Heaven: Tango

2005 • 10 min • Germany

People in Berlin with a passion for tango talk about this dance, to tango tones and dance moves.