All Films

Red Dwarf: The Making of Back to Earth Part 2

2009 • 48 min

The second part of the documentary about the making of the Red Dwarf mini-series 'Back to Earth'.

天安門事件２０年　中国・民主化の行方

2009 • 26 min

Not Our Darkness

2009 • 25 min

30 years from the formation of Solidarity, 20 years from the introduction of democracy in Poland, there is widespread concern that the Gdansk Shipyard will be irrevocably destroyed through urban re-development. Using fragments of archive film from the popular struggle in the Poland, together with footage of the current destruction of the Gdansk Shipyard, Not Our Darkness is a poetic exploration of how memory, time and place interweave to form ‘image-constellations’; and how urban re-development threatens to obliterate the traces of past struggles.

Diccionario-Grito y Escucha

2009 • 8 min

Reflections in the Dictionary series.

Granny Basher Stinkweed and the Vic Bitter Bandits

2009 • 4 min • Australia

A local reprobate takes a day off committing crimes only to be assaulted by a bunch of beer-seeking bullies. Violence and amateur movie making ensues.

Paul Roberts, Former Frontman of The Stranglers: 3 Years On

2009 • 8 min • United Kingdom

A mockumentary about Paul Roberts who is found sleeping rough on a mattress struggling with his music career after leaving his band The Stranglers after 16 years.

Costumes of the Minorities of China

2009 • 60 min • China

The history of human dress, in a sense, is the history of human civilization. In China, this human civilization is contributed jointly by the 56 nationalities of the country. In this documentary, the costumes of 13 representative minority nationalities are demonstrated, focusing on their color, pattern, design and the materials used, which provides you a mosaic colorful dress world.

At the Reefers of Madness

2009 • 16 min

Three doped-out college students get their hands on the ancient book of evil known as the Necronomicon. Insanity and hilarity ensue.

Alice Neel Paints Margaret

2009 • 31 min

Auder observes his friend Alice Neel as she paints and talks her way through her portrait of Margaret Evans Pregnant

Live At Mission's

2009 • 57 min

Recorded live on December 19th, 2008 at Mission's, Tokyo.

Einhornfisch

2009 • 1 min • Germany

HF168 - Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl

Where There's Smoke

2009 • 1 min

Dancing flames of a burning log in a fireplace can take you out of yourself and connect you with a deep and primal place. Echoes of holidays past with the sleigh bells that run through the piece while underscoring the enchantment of losing yourself in this elemental ballet.

Singspiel

2009 • 14 min

“Ulla von Brandenburg’s Singspiel (“song-play”) was filmed in one single shot at Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye, following actors in a deceptive track through the house. In each space, a character performs a gesture or movement. The dialogue between the actors is performed by singing a collection of partially connected sentences. The title, which refers to an opera/operetta-style German musical drama, heightens the tragic and uncomfortable sense haunting the work.”

World War II: The Panzer

2009 • 55 min

With veterans of the 'Panzertruppe' this film documents with accuracy, the development and effects the various marks of Panzer through vivid recollections, depicts the experiences shared by crews, of going into battle in their steel chariots, knowing perfectly well that within one blazing moment, their tanks could become steel coffins.

A Time Comes

2009 • 19 min

Six Greenpeace volunteers in 2008 were tried and acquitted for shutting down Kingsnorth power station in the UK. This was in protest at the government's plans to build a new generation of dirty coal-fired power plants. Their thoughtfully staged defense included testimony from a NASA Director and leading climate scientist, and from environmentalist Zac Goldsmith.

Souda Kyouto He Ikou

2009 • 39 min • Japan

Three men set off from Kameari in Tokyo, riding their mama-chari all the way to Kyoto. Along the way, despite several close calls with death, their journey was filled with laughter. Enjoying the thrill of traveling with easygoing friends, the three pedaled their mama-chari toward Kyoto.

Mi Barrio

2009 • 5 min

Portrait of an old Mexico City neighborhood in the verge of gentrification.

Plundering the Harp

2009 • 45 min • United Kingdom

A documentary on the work of Derick Thomson, the renowned Gaelic poet.

Lungomare Adriatico - sette variazioni per un’onda

2009 • 7 min

Lungomare Adriatico was born following a request by the Mostra del Nuovo Cinema in Pesaro to create a new theme song for the festival; the initial intention was then amplified into seven 43-second theme songs, one for each day of the festival. The project is composed of seven variations on a single subject: a wave.

Navigators

2009 • 8 min

The grain of time is imagined at close range, revealing not a straight line, but turbulence, one moment melting into another.

Detroit

2009 • 7 min

Detroit merges his attention to particularities of cultural identity with the intimacy of a home movie. The kids in the video skillfully adapt the gritty conventions of noise rock for an audience of family and friends.

Agony; Never Ending

2009 • 4 min

A tradition depicted by the endless rotation of the wheels in which human beings, and here mostly women, follow a predetermined pathway. The loudspeakers as the spokespersons and the guardians of the status quo, loudly and in a commanding tone, express unintelligible sentences.

Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler

2009 • 40 min

In 1502 Moctezuma II was elected ruler of the Aztecs (or Mexica, as they are more correctly known). From his awe-inspiring capital Tenochtitlan (the site of modern-day Mexico City), this semi-divine figure presided over a vast a politically complex empire extending from the Gulf Coast to the Pacific Ocean. All this was to come to a dramatic end in 1519, when Moctezuma and the Mexica came fact to face with another aggressive, expansionist society - the Spanish, led by Hernán Cortés. Produced to accompany the fourth in a series of exhibitions on great rulers, this film reassesses the life, death and legacy of the once-mighty warrior-king Moctezuma.

/soiiflogger

2009 • 9 min • Argentina

Floggers: a passing fad or a new culture that will endure? Another strategy to induce teenagers to consume excessively? These questions are unraveled in this documentary by the protagonists of the phenomenon: shopkeepers, hairdressers, teachers, and, of course, the floggers themselves.