All Films

Roger Diamantis or Real Life

2005 • 55 min • France

Roger Diamantis owns the Saint-André-des-Arts cinema in Paris. His discovery of the 7th art, his vocation to own a cinema where he could show films that resembled him, and his years in the restoration business to achieve this… He recalls his early days, talks about the filmmakers who found their place with him, and his film “Si j'te cherche, j'me trouve”.

I Know What You Need

2005 • 33 min • United States of America

Told from the perspective of a popular, college-age girl named Elizabeth Rogan, the premise of this story concerns her sudden, unexpected attraction to a social outcast named Ed Hamner, Jr., whose paranormal ability to perceive what will make any person happy has not resulted in his own happiness.

Noroi: Hodo Sosa Saizensen Yori

2005 • 58 min • Japan

The forbidden horror that everyone involved is keeping their mouths shut about Now, we break the seal and ask you. - Is this the truth...?

Mag Bodard, un destin

2005 • 52 min • France

Mag Bodard, un destin is an archive documentary filmed for television by Anne Wiazemsky in 2005.

Airs

2005 • 8 min

A TV show that is so unclear to whom and where it is broadcast. A strange room where the recording and editing is taking place. A middle-aged gentleman like a wax figure sits on a turntable and grabs the microphone as the director signals him to do so. A reading about the mysterious genre "Ficfyon" has begun. 'What the heck did we not have time for?' The monologue of a man sitting in the audience and continuing to talk about his story will soon move into Ficfyon prophecies about the 2000s.

Born to Fight

2005 • 19 min • United States of America

Documentary on the cultural appeal of boxing and its incorporation in the film 'Million Dollar Baby'.

Christopher Ford Sees a Film

2005 • 2 min • United States of America

What would you do if you saw a terrible film and your name was Christopher Ford?

Takanaka Crossover Japan '05 Live

2005 • 57 min • Japan

All recorded at National Yoyogi Stadium on June 4th, 2005.

Serious Miracles

2005 • 10 min • Canada

Andy's situation is everyone's: he is alive in this world, with his own sense of reality, while all around him are people who continually attempt to infiltrate his conception of reality with their own.

El oficio de actor

2005 • 55 min

Three of Spain's most renowned actors discuss the acting profession and share experiences and feelings from their different shootings. The ego, the characters, the fears, the preparation and the way each one approaches this profession.

From Walt's Table: A Tribute to Disney's Nine Old Men

2005 • 22 min

Film critic Joel Siegel gets together with a group of animators, directors and producers to discuss and pay tribute to their mentors and Walt Disney's core group of animators, The Nine Old Men

The Hallway

2005 • 17 min • France

A young couple finds themselves in difficult financial straits. The man is out of work and spends his days walking the streets, without so much as a cent in his pocket to buy food. He’s so weak that he collapses in front of a store window. The store’s owner, an elderly man, comes to the man’s aid and offers him a job. His new job requires him to spend all day sitting and keeping watch on the small room at the end of a corridor.

The Soldier's Heart

2005 • 55 min

FRONTLINE tells the stories of soldiers who have come home haunted by their experiences during the Iraq War and asks whether the government is doing enough to help.

Dear Parents,

2005 • 12 min • France

A young man sends a film to his parents after twelve years of silence. He wants to show them the man he has become.

The Secret Transit Code of America's Highways

2005 • 11 min

A salesman contemplates suicide as he studies a notebook of collected graffiti in a motel. Based on the Stephen King short story "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away".

Lucy

2005 • 33 min

Single channel video, 2003. Installation on view at Locus Loppem, Kunsthalle Lophem, 2005. Lucy was found in Ethiopia. She's considered to be the eldest human being ever discovered. She was born about 3.5 million years ago. She was small and lightly built, probably not much more than 1m tall. In a pink bed lies a naked young girl with a pink felt doll. The girl is about ten, eleven years old. The doll has the same size and physiognomy as the girl. It may be her alter ego, or it may be the girl that soon will be a woman, or maybe it’s just the last doll a mother sewed for her daughter. These two fragile images show the search for identity in a kind of reflection. The contact between the girl and the doll slowly disappears, the child soon becomes a woman.

Captain's Daughter

2005 • 28 min • Russia

A cartoon based on the novel of the same name by A.S. Pushkin.

The Werewolf Cult Chronicles: Vietnam 1969

2005 • 20 min • Sweden

Vietnam 1969. Three soldiers are on a secret mission in Skull Bay, north of Laos. Sergeant Jones, Private Maddox and Private Turner shall find and kill a female Vietnamese CIA infiltrator. During the night Sergeant Jones disappears. Something is following the soldiers in the dark. A bloodthirsty werewolf is out for revenge.

Dear Santa

2005 • 42 min

Dear Santa is based on a selection of the most compelling letters the U.S. Postal Service receives from children asking for Santa's help. Their dramatic and heartwarming stories will be told as their holiday dreams are fulfilled.

Ivor Cutler: Looking For Truth With a Pin

2005 • 60 min • United Kingdom

An affectionate tribute to the Glasgow-born Cutler who has been Britain's best kept secret with his mix of poetry, music, painting and comedy.

Sur les traces de Mélanie

2005 • 12 min • France

Rachid learned of Mélanie's accidental death. He decides to follow in his footsteps by taking his friend's last walk again. That day, Mélanie had met her sister Madeleine, for a last face-to-face meeting. What happened? What will Rachid discover?

Keep the Secret in the Memory

2005 • 18 min • South Korea

A couple gets a phone call while they are on their way to the train station to go on a trip. Cheol-min hears from her friend that his girlfriend had previously lived with her friend. Hearing this, Cheol-min is worried and does not want to go on a trip. He is very excited by the feeling of betrayal that he cannot trust this woman.

Desire Management

2005 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Desire Management is a film by Noam Toran comprising five sequences in which objects are used as vehicles for dissident behaviour. In the film, the domestic space is defined as the last private frontier, a place where bespoke appliances provide unorthodox experiences for alienated people: An airline hostess with a unique relationship to turbulence, the owner of a mysterious box which men ritually visit to look inside, an elderly man who enjoys being vacuumed, a couple who engage in baseball driven fantasies, a man who is forced by his partner to cry into a strange device.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

2005 • 52 min • France, Italy

This documentary delivers a moving portrait of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The narrative of the life of this Jesuit and scientist of international reputation is read as an adventure novel.