All Films

Stem Cell Universe With Stephen Hawking

2014 • 60 min

The use of embryonic stem cells has ignited fierce debate across the spiritual and political spectrum. But what if we could create manmade stem cells - or find super cells in adults that could forever replace embryonic cells and remove the controversy? Today, we are on the brink of a new era - an age where we may be able to cure our bodies of any illness. Stephen HAWKING has spent his life exploring the mysteries of the cosmos, now there is another universe that fascinates him - the one hidden inside our bodies - our own personal galaxies of cells.

How To Clone A Woolly Mammoth

2014 • 51 min

The Siberian discovery of the best-preserved woolly mammoth on record has teams of experts working around the globe, and around the clock, on some of the most ambitious projects in science. In Russia, paleontologists are conducting a historic autopsy on the 40,000-year-old beast to find out how it lived, and how it died. Meanwhile labs in South Korea and at Harvard University are using the latest advances in DNA manipulation in hopes of cloning the furry giant and introducing it to the modern world.

Danny MacAskill - Imaginate

2014 • 48 min

The Scottish cyclist turns giant replicas of a model railroad, building blocks, crayons, and other toys into a wicked new bike trial.

Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch

2014 • 49 min

A portrait of the American director Jim J. at work on the set of his latest film, Only Lovers Left Alive.

Marseille

2014 • 2 min • France

Sexual music like french towns.

The Off-Season

2014 • 10 min

After losing his job, a record-holding professional football player refuses to sacrifice his blindingly obsessive dreams of returning to the NFL in the face of his new, harsh realities.

Lion

2014 • 44 min • Canada, Ukraine

A project spanning three years of production and research, Lion is a collection of 7 short films exploring the Chornobyl disaster, the nature of radiation, memory, and personal history. Conceptually arranged in to a film “album”, Lion’s seven works navigate atomic fallout and a girl’s adolescence, a dream before death, radiation as a cause and cure for cancer, masculine bravado, feminine obsession, a trip to Chornobyl amongst the death of a matriarch, and the destruction of memory. Composed of seven works, Lion is a series of films created on 16mm and hand processed with darkroom techniques that mimic the effects of radiation on film. Researched in Chornobyl, the series is a product of memories, history, pop culture and technical experiments to create visual representations of invisible forces.

Blood, Rice and Tears

2014 • 30 min • Germany

Tim is a taxi driver who divides what is left over from his irregular hours between caring for his elderly father who suffers from Alzheimer and his boyfriend, Han. Tim has things under control, in his own way, however his quiet world is about to crumble.

Hanging with Batman

2014 • 30 min

This elegantly constructed portrait of Batman star Adam West combines a new 2014 interview with selections from previous interviews during various stages of West's career. The result is an informative, measured and often moving portrait of a man who went from a farm in Washington State to the height of stardom to which the TV series propelled him. Then he had to restart his career after agents and casting directors could no longer imagine him as anything but the Caped Crusader. A highlight is West's appearance, with Burt Ward and Julie Newmar, at 2014's ComicCon. (Blu-ray.com)

Zenith

2014 • 7 min

A man drifting in deep space, remembers the wife he left back on earth.

Yannis Pappas - The Half Hour

2014 • 21 min

Yannis Pappas touches on his recent breakup, moving to Miami and how we’ve all become addicted to our cell phones.

Porn, Inc.

2014 • 49 min • Spain

Porn has shaped the Internet as we know it. Video streaming, high speed broadband, online payment solutions, banner advertising, smartphone design, and even spam were all heavily influenced by an ever growing demand for adult content. This documentary takes a look at the industry behind the global phenomenon and the people that work within it!

Delaney & Bonnie & Friends: Live In Denmark 1969

2014 • 45 min

The band, which consisted of Bobby Whitlock on keys, Carl Radle on bass, Jim Gordon on drums, Jim Price on trumpet, Bobby Keys on saxophone, Rita Coolidge on backing vocals, and Billy Preston on keyboards, is on fire during this performance. Clapton’s presence most definitely brought excitement to this lineup and while George Harrison adds to the curiosity factor, he plays little more than support guitar in the background. Knowing now what this cast of players would go on to do, this makes for one very interesting watch.

The Frozen Chosen

2014 • 55 min

Each winter a monstrous beast lures men and women to the ice of Lake Winnebago. It is the only place on the planet where this occurs. "The Frozen Chosen" introduces you to the obsessed men and women who are willing to wait days, years, even decades to propel their spears and bring you face-to-face with the prize below.

Sufferfest 1: Climbing California's 14ers by Bike

2014 • 18 min

Follow Alex Honnold and Cedar Wright on an ambitious human powered adventure to summit all of California's 14,000 foot peaks via technical climbing routes, with no ropes! New to the sport of biking, and having underestimated the scope of the challenge, Alex and Cedar soon spiral down a rabbit hole of sunburn, suffering, and a seemingly endless test of their mental and physical endurance.

P.d

2014 • 8 min • France, United Kingdom

A cruising area takes on majestic proportions as we discover Greek-esque male bodies in the forest. The sonnets 18, 57, 20 by William Shakespeare add to the Midsummer Nights Dream like ambiance of the film.

Dindo

2014 • 14 min • Philippines

Film Dindo, the son of a film editor in the 1970s, revisits the old workspace of his father and finds himself talking with the characters of a film.

Can't Piss

2014 • 27 min • China

A divorced man must deal with his son's delicate issue after his ex-wife drops him off. So much for his bachelor's life.

Martin Parr’s Black Country Stories: Tudor Crystal

2014 • 26 min

Martin Parr’s third film for Multistory. Stourbridge, in the Black Country, was once world famous for its glass. Established in 1922, Tudor Crystal is the last, multi-furnace company producing 30% lead crystal, within a traditional glassmaking cone. Martin filmed in April 2013, during the last three days that the owners, Barbara and Richard Beadman, remained in charge before they handed the company over to the new owners. The film is part of the Black Country Stories body of work commissioned by Multistory to document life in the Black Country.

Our Colonial Hangover

2014 • 60 min • Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom

Our Colonial Hangover analyzes the debate surrounding the racist component of the Dutch Black Pete character. Although the debate always heats up around the time of the Saint Nicholas celebrations every December, it reached an unprecedented level of ferocity in 2013.

You Don't Own Me

2014 • 6 min • United States of America

An obsession with Lesley Gore's T.A.M.I. Show performance of "You Don’t Own Me".

La fin du SIDA?

2014 • 51 min

The Younger

2014 • 44 min • Taiwan

Chen Hao-Zhi lives alone with his Grandmother who has Alzheimers and has suffered from a stroke. In order to pay the bills and his grandmother's medical expenses, he goes to work in a gay massage parlor. At first, it was just work...but Hao-Zhi soon finds that he is attracted to some of his clientele, and gets pulled into a world where he loses control of things he thought he could handle.

Asian Tsunami: The Deadliest Wave

2014 • 50 min • United States of America

Re-examines the dramatic events of Boxing Day 2004, and investigates the new science of Tsunami forecasting.