All Films

Compulsive Viewing: The Films Of Guy Bourdin

2003 • 15 min • United Kingdom

In 2002 the Guy Bourdin Estate gave Nick Knight never-before-seen, archival cine film shot by the late photographer during the creation of some of his influential advertising and editorial fashion images. Edited and exclusively showcased by SHOWstudio, the eleven fashion films presented here are stellar examples of how a photographer’s aesthetic can translate to the medium of fashion film.

Cold Light of Day

2003 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Billy needs to buy a git for his girlfriend but he can't what to buy.

Animalove

2003 • 2 min • Brazil

A love story told with rotoscoping.

How the Album Harmonajzer Was Being Recorded

2003 • 30 min • Serbia and Montenegro

Documentary about making of the Električni orgazam album "Harmonajzer", released in 2002.

A Day in Hell

2003 • 4 min

A window into one day in a dead piece of clay's personal Hell.

Big News, Small Town

2003 • 59 min

Big News, Small Town is a glimpse into Centralia, Pennsylvania, a town that has had an underground mine fire burning beneath it since the 1960s. Throughout the documentary we spend time with a few of the remaining Centralia residents, some former residents that relocated within the anthracite coal region, and locals from nearby towns. At the core of B N S T is a dismantled community and a dying town, with no hope of revival.

Drowning Into A Mermaid

2003 • 20 min

A young girl arrives at a pool and is told that if she drowns herself, she’ll become a mermaid. Always wanting to be one, the girl does indeed drown herself. Will she become a mermaid? Or will she die trying?

Tokyo Vein

2003 • 11 min • Japan

A tour through the city of Tokyo from its waterways, originally shown in a Roppongi Hills installation space, this short film was soon adapted into a DVD with all 4 angles captured and shown in the original exhibition and a full view that condenses them onto one screen.

Snorters

2003 • 12 min

When a city girl is kicked out to the country, she discovers a dangerous pig lingering there.

Reflextion

2003 • 5 min

A woman returns, after a long time, to an empty house to confront her memories.

Dreaming of Tibet

2003 • 60 min

This earnest documentary profiles the global community of Tibetan exiles and the Dalai Lama's dramatic 1958 march to freedom with his followers. Interviews with exiles in Los Angeles and Nepal illustrate their struggles to preserve Tibetan culture.

This Wonderful Life

2003 • 14 min • United States of America

An animated short film that tells the melancholic but beautiful story about a woman who finds an orphaned baby by the river.

20 Cans of Chunky Beef Soup

2003 • 49 min

Documentary tells the story of Maxim Vakhmin, a veritable alleycat of a man. Revered as both an angel and a devil, Maxim (once known as a successful artist in his native Russia) is losing friends and finding new ones as a homeless person in the USA.

Bernard Allison: Kentucky Fried Blues

2003 • 58 min

Critics seldom agree upon anything so much as they do with Bernard Allison. The son of the blues legend Luther Allison is regarded as one of the most important and creative representatives of 21st century blues. This live concert was recorded in August 1999 at the W.C. Handy Festival in Henderson, Kentucky.

Twisted Eyes

2003 • 11 min • Austria

Experimental found footage film based on ALEXIS SORBAS.

Cape Cod

2003 • 3 min • Argentina, Switzerland

Short. A remote house in the Cape Cod area, october 1962…

Sembene

2003 • 12 min • France

A short portrait of director Ousmane Sembène.

Utama – Every Name in History is I

2003 • 23 min

Essay film about mythology and the history of Singapore.

Anomalies of the Unconscious

2003 • 12 min

"This is the second film of the Anomalies Cycle. It is a hand Painted and manipulated film. I also used the technique of bleaching and batiking of the film emulsion. The footage was then step printed on a J-K Optical Printer. Although similar in style to The Flickering of the Minds Eye I began to experiment more with other colors and different textures such as dried leaves and flowers, hair, insect parts, and a variety of different types of inks and paints. The sound track for this film was preformed by NEGATIVLAND."

An Index of Metals

2003 • 49 min • Italy

Shortly before his death, Romitelli together with his friend Paolo Pachini and the poetess Kenka Lèkovich, resurrected the dream of a total scenic art (a furnace of sensations, they called it, an_ initiation rite_) in the manner of the Futurists: rhythms and gleams of light striking metals (for the video part), poems in iron and chrome singing of fusion with matter (Kenka Lekovich), acoustic/electric music highly amplified, filtered, spatialised, in as artificial a manner as possible. An Index of Metals bears vigorous witness to this determination to go beyond: sizzling orchestration, electric and psychedelic; a voice which plays on effects, murmurs with reverb, cackles into a megaphone, screams like a pop star; and an electric guitar score of a kind that no ‘serious’ composer has ever written, sliding across an infinite range of tones with a lightness of touch and blurring of contours.

Amateur Radio Today

2003 • 9 min • United States of America

Short Subject vieo produced by Dave Bell and Amateur Radio outlining Ham Radio and its role in emergency communications in the years after the 9/11 Attacks on the U.S.A.

Bitch & Butch

2003 • 45 min • Sweden

Is it possible to make feminist porn? We follow the collaboration and discussions behind the scenes of the film Selma & Sofie, produced by Swedens first all female film crew. Sara and Camilla - who play the leading parts - come from a small place in the North of Sweden, and have never done anything like this before.

Roses Sing on New Snow

2003 • 7 min • Canada

Maylin cooks mouth-watering meals at her father's restaurant in Chinatown, but her father and brothers take all the credit. When a dignitary from China arrives for a sumptuous banquet, Maylin's father serves him her special dish, Roses Sing on New Snow. The visitor is so impressed that he demands the recipe! After her brothers fail miserably at recreating it, the father must call for his daughter. Maylin demonstrates as the dignitary follows every step. After tasting his own cooking, the man realizes he cannot duplicate the dish. The chef is the most important ingredient of all! Maylin finally receives the credit she deserves for her inspired fusion of Old and New World cuisine.

Wet Tiles

2003 • 8 min • United Arab Emirates

A young woman who is seemingly being prepared for an arranged marriage. The use of dramatic camera angles, changes of film exposure and camera focus, all serve to express her inner state of agitation, but the story is more implied than spelled out.