All Films

Grippers Nother Onesers ———- (at Slimer Beach)

2009 • 12 min

Medley of tracks from the "Grippers Nother Onesers (At Slimer Beach)" l.p. on Olde English Spelling Bee. Grippers Nother Onesers is a channeling of teenage mutant glue sniffing psycho dreams, a prelude to the psychotic beach bum depression induced by junkfood and huffing siphoned gas out of the Oscar Meyer mobile.

Leela's Journey

2009 • 19 min

Leela has been living with Parkinson’s since 1997. In this film she and her family reflect on her journey and the challenging as well as positive transformations it has brought in its wake. Initially conceived as a personal video to mark her 80th birthday, Leela’s Journey expresses one individual’s attempt to live artfully with a debilitating and often disempowering condition. Shot on a Flip Video camera. Telecast on NDTV, December 2012.

Sink

2009 • 11 min • Singapore, Thailand

A sink sitting in the low tides. A boy playing by the beach. A chanced meeting. 'Sink' is a distilled exploration of innocence and experience; love and loss - an intimation at what might lie beyond.

Make a Mate

2009 • 4 min • United States of America

A lonely woman is about to send a letter to her mom … but then a new store, Make A Mate , magically appears. The storeowner ushers the woman inside and guides her to pick out the traits of a partner. The Mate Maker blends all the traits together and presents a wonderful creation.

Zombie Asockalypse

2009 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Prepare for a night of total terror as a band of misfits hidden in an isolated farmhouse face the onslaught of an army of sock puppet zombies.

Gypsy Vanner Horse

2009 • 43 min

A select group of Gypsies and Traveling families of the British Isles have devoted generations to developing a special type of horse. The age of motorcars changed the role of the horse drawn living wagon to an elaborate decorative cultural icon used mainly for holidays and festivals. The horses originally bred to pull these wagons have also evolved to compliment the art of the wagons. A chance meeting in England eventually brought these wonderful horses to America and ignited a passion in horse lovers from all walks. A new breed has been established around this magical gentle horse now known as the Gypsy Vanner Horse.

Lincoln - American Mastermind

2009 • 45 min

World remembers Abraham Lincoln as Frank,Candid,forthright and honest political icon but behind this mythic "Honest Abe" lies a master politician,a skilled manipulator and clever tactician bending men to his will.

Zone of Silence

2009 • 15 min • Armenia

A film about the status of women in Armenian villages; focusing on how traditional gender roles fuel domestic violence and how violence is perpetuated, taught, encouraged and even accepted in many cases.

Le Peuple Niambwa

2009 • 34 min

The Niambwa is a tribe that worships the God Mask at the centre of their society, culture and politics. The Mask is mediator in conflicts and his decision is final. His heavy figure dances accompanied by the whole population. Suddenly the panther-man appears crawling in his strange disguise, sowing the panic. Two opposite figures. The director Roger M'Bala, one of the most important of his country, has decided to film the ancestral costumes of several tribes of Ivory Coast before they disappear completely. Being a member of this community he mingles with the crowd without being noticed, delivering the essence of the celebration.

Yaseruyagi

2009 • 1 min • Japan

A story about granny, her granddaughter and a goat.

Atomic World

2009 • 3 min

The rotation of an atom ends up leading to dizzying movements throughout the world. Yoshiki Imazu's graduation work at Musashino Art University.

André Gregory and Wallace Shawn

2009 • 60 min • United States of America

In this hour-long piece, recorded in 2009, filmmaker Noah Baumbach talks with his friends the writer-actors André Gregory and Wallace Shawn about their experiences making My Dinner with Andre. Baumbach speaks first with Gregory, and then with Shawn.

From the River to the Sea

2009 • 55 min

The Soup

2009 • 4 min • Portugal

Short silent film.

Awaken

2009 • 8 min

When several people receive a mysterious flyer in the mail asking them to 'Vote for Alex Filbert, ' their minds slowly unhinge, and the resulting violence cuts a trail straight to those responsible.

Focus

2009 • 1 min

Using glue and 16mm splicing tape, I place over 1500 individual super 8 film frames from a decimated home movie one-by-one on to clear 16mm film. The resulting floating film-within-a-film becomes a jarring landscape that prioritizes the structure of the super 8 frame over its photographic contents.

Immersion

2009 • 25 min • Spain

Immersion shows us the fascinating life of aquatic animals that are habitually submerged in the warm waters of a neighborhood pool. People of all ages and conditions do what they can to develop in an environment that, in principle, is not theirs. The film, shot entirely underwater, is a literal immersion into the environment where life originated. A descent into the emotional depths of the individual.

Wild About Safety: Timon and Pumbaa Safety Smart About Fire

2009 • 12 min

Disney's Wild About Safety is an educational film that features many safety topics that were produced by Disney Educational Productions, Duck Studios, and Underwriters' Laboratories.

The Bear

2009 • 2 min • Japan

A short film by Taku Furukawa.

Thank You And Sorry

2009 • 2 min • Japan

A short film by Taku Furukawa.

En suspension

2009 • 19 min

French short film

Horror Psychic Spot Women's Independent Test

2009 • 58 min • Japan

The screams of the idols are echoed by the extremely unscrupulous actions that should never be done, including the manager of the office.

Who Gives Kisses Freely From Her Lips

2009 • 41 min • Iran, United States of America

Inspired by the work of Sara Gomez and Cuban Imperfect Cinema, Who Gives Kisses Freely From Her Lips, weaves together fiction and documentary to tell the story of a filmmaker determined to make a film on temporary marriage, a taboo subject in Shia Iran. Salomé, conducts documentary interviews with real Iranians who have engaged in temporary marriage. They speak frankly about the pros and cons of this type of union as apposed to permanent marriage. In the process of learning about Salomé's alienation from the customs of her homeland, we learn about the complexities of the Shia' Islamic institution of temporary marriage.

Self-Portrait

2009 • 19 min • South Korea

This work is a sort of documented film of live performance with improvised communion with music as replacing the body of dancer into film.