All Films

Treasure in Heaven: The John Tanner Story

2009 • 20 min • United States of America

As the director of such films as "The Touch of the Master's Hand", "Praise to the Man" and "Gordon B. Hinckley: A Giant Among Men", T.C. Christensen has touched the hearts of millions of Latter-day Saints with his exemplary filmmaking. Now he shares the incredible true story of a man who had everything he wanted, but discovered something greater in sacrificing all for the building of the Kingdom. "Treasure in Heaven" is the true story of John Tanner, a wealthy New York landowner and convert to the Church who in 1834 sold his properties to assist the Church. He freely gave all he had, giving us an example of generosity and consecration in serving the Lord.

Gravity Is Tops

2009 • 20 min

A stereo-photo of an ocean wave slowly turns and churns. The hidden forces of Cinema conspire with an instant of history to produce actions that never were or could be. 3D for everyone (one eye will do). Regarding the title, one hears on all sides (doing battle) that “God is great”. I donʼt get it, seeing that no one is listening or watching or doing anything about what happens here. However, gravity surely exists, if only for now, until the universe dissipates further, and it clearly decides much—if not everything—that happens. Gravity is the result of momentum, Earth a flung ball issuing from The Big Bang, every species of life a mad effort to regain the once-totality, dismemberment of which made us possible. I donʼt suggest praying to gravity for what you want for your birthday but it is very palpable in this movie.

Scary True Stories: Night 14 - Mysterious Disappearance

2009 • 60 min • Japan

19th installment in Broadway's "Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi" series.

Here Come The Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized

2009 • 60 min

Here Come The Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized" is an animated collaboration between the band and four filmmakers: Guilherme Marcondes, Julia Pott, Peter Sluszka and Santa Maria. The Los Angeles Times describes it as "a tumbling series of visuals with four distinct aesthetic styles. Peter Sluszka's ultra-slow motion capture of exploding mushrooms and elegantly disseminating seed pods … Julia Pott's line art of wolves and foxes hovering in geometric constellations … Guilherme Marcondes' renderings of skeletons caught among leafless branches and verdant human arms that unfurl like ferns… Santa Maria provides context…with cosmic, computer-generated vistas, cartoons of splintering bones.

Asia's Titanic

2009 • 46 min • Philippines

The passenger ship Doña Paz collided with an oil tanker in the Philippines. 4,000 passengers died in the tragedy. Just five days before Christmas in 1987, the passenger ship Doña Paz collided with an oil tanker off Mindoro Island in the Philippines. 4,000 passengers died in the tragedy. It was the world's worst peacetime maritime disaster. Through dramatic first hand accounts from survivors and rescuers, transcripts from the Philippine congressional inquiry into the tragedy, archival footage and photos and a re-enactment of the collision, dissect the unfolding tragedy of Doña Paz.

Plato's Atlantis

2009 • 17 min

Under the direction of Nick Knight and with support from IMG, SHOWstudio.com streamed Alexander McQueen's Spring/Summer 2010 presentation, Plato's Atlantis, live from Paris.

Nekketsu Uchuujin

2009 • 2 min • Japan

A short in which a student named Ai meets an alien with a time machine. Ai also appears in the short "Kobe to Watashi".

Bangkok Blues

2009 • 20 min

Louis and his girlfriend Fern are on the rocks. He finds some secret messages she left hidden in the pages of his books. Louis drags his best friend Ananda over to Fern's apartment to confront her. He doesn't want to keep finding these messages years after they have broken up. But that is precisely why she left them there. A short film about preserving old memories, originally appearing as part of the omnibus film Sawasdee Bangkok.

Barbara Steele in Conversation

2009 • 29 min

A documentary revolving around an extended interview with Barbara Steele, in which she recounts the many facets of her career.

The Police Box

2009 • 7 min

A girl writes love letters to a policeman and puts them in a police box on his beat. One day a jealous boy sees her tampering with the box and decides to play a trick on the two.

Celebrity Casino

2009 • 7 min

A trip to Las Vegas and a hike down a red carpet of star trodden footprints highlights this glimpse of glamorous glitz as flash bulbs pop to ignite titans of tinseltown as they rub shoulders with brethren of lower voltage.

Mr Foley

2009 • 5 min • Ireland

A man wakes up in a hospital bed and has his head bandages unwrapped to find he is not alone in the room as it seems there is now no noise unless it is provided by a pair of Foley artists and a small musical troupe providing a score.

Bell Witch of Leith

2009 • 4 min

An experiment in style over substance. It attempts to present the actual medium of film as the focus as opposed to the bland subject matter. The film looks to gain the viewers interest by drawing attention to the fact they are watching a film. It is a comment on the quick cutting and style prevalent in popular film.

Fourplay - Live in Cape Town

2009 • 58 min

The world's top contemporary jazz ensemble performs live in South Africa, blending their smooth jazz signature sound with large doses of pop, R&B and African beats.

John Mortimer: A Life in Words

2009 • 59 min

Documentary examining the thoughts and observations of writer, raconteur and national treasure, Sir John Mortimer.

Jethro Tull: Live at Madison Square Garden 1978

2009 • 49 min • United Kingdom

Live At Madison Square Garden 1978 is a video and an album by english rock band Jethro Tull, released in 2009. It's a concert made by the band on October 9, 1978 at the Madison Square Garden of New York City. 50 minutes of show was broadcasted live via satellite on the BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test.

The Beatles: Parting Ways

2009 • 53 min • United States of America

Parting Ways treats The Beatles with the respect they deserve and details their lives since the world's number one band fell apart.

Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop

2009 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Fleetwood Mac are one of the biggest-selling bands of all time and still on the road. Their story, told in their own words, is an epic tale of love and confrontation, of success and loss. Few bands have undergone such radical musical and personal change. The band evolved from the 60s British blues boom to perfect a US West Coast sound that saw them sell 40 million copies of the album Rumours. However, behind the scenes relationships were turbulent. The band went through multiple line-ups with six different lead guitarists. While working on Rumours, the two couples at the heart of the band separated, yet this heartache inspired the perfect pop record.

僕の秘密兵器 [#5ヒロイン森はるか]

2009 • 23 min • Japan

2009 release

Valérie n'est plus ici

2009 • 17 min • France

Valérie left the gallery of Madam Frédérique Sainteure, collector of art, renowned for her taste and her demanding nature. For the organization of the first exhibition since her departure, Marine has the difficult task to succeed her.

Other

2009 • 7 min

Tracey Moffatt’s fast paced montage videos compile scenes from film and television programs selected in response to a particular theme or coding. This is the final work in a suite of 7 videos made over the last decade; the previous works include ‘Lip’ 1999, ‘Artist’ 2000, ‘Love’ 2003, ‘Doomed’ 2007, ‘Revolution’ 2008 and ‘Mother’ 2009. 'Other' is one of the most mesmerising of the series as it edits together scenes of interracial encounters. It opens with first contact sequences, films in which the beach and the shallow waters are a zone of encounter between ships and canoes, between Europeans and non-Europeans. It then moves to images of looking, of two different peoples meeting for the first time and appraising each other visually. As imagined by Hollywood and TV directors, this is a moment of both curiosity and desire, where glances become lingering and erotically charged.

Longest Dream

2009 • 6 min

Experimental short in which Tony Ward, completely naked, moves to music. Tony ward was Madonna's fiancée in the eighties, then he became one of the most famous photomodels in the world. He was then coveted by the homosexual artists (directors and photographers) to become a symbol of masculine ambiguity and appeared naked in high-testosterone photo shoots.

Jim Clark: The Quiet Champion

2009 • 58 min

The story of an enigmatic Scottish sheep farmer who, in his day, became the greatest racing driver of all time, before being tragically killed in a race.

This Is Not a Show: Live at the Olympia in Dublin

2009 • 56 min

US rock trio R.E.M. prepare for a five-night series of concerts in 2007 at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin, Ireland.