All Films

Andergraun

2008 • 46 min

Three punk-rock bands of Valdivia, a discontented youth, artists that protest, social movements in alert. Street, conscience and inconformity. In this documentary, music leaves its passivity and becomes a weapon of change.

Drip

2008 • 8 min • Costa Rica

Representation of spontaneity in the context of routine.

Caracas - The Informal City

2008 • 49 min • Venezuela

Rapidly expanding megacities are a global phenomenon and as a consequence millions of people today live in makeshift constructs they call their homes. Venezuela is Latin America’s most urbanized country, and in the capital Caracas ”informal” cities grow at a dangerous speed up along the ridges of the city. High crime rates and bad sanitary conditions are only some of the problems here. These problems are seen from the point of view of architects and designers in this documentary, which shows inspirational examples of possibilities born when when visions meet reality. The film documents parts of the experimental project called Urban Think Tank, which has substituted drawing board studies with creating solutions in dialogue with the street level. ”In future city planning one has to free oneself from the toolbox of the past” is the architects’ answer to the issues of urbanisation.

Stone Moss

2008 • 10 min

Stone Moss is composed entirely from digital still images and is a segment of a much larger and multifaceted work titled Agency of Time, a 3 tier, long-term project consisting of a symphonic mutli channel video/sound installation, a series of single channel works and a photography book. Stone Moss is the first of the series of single channel works. The content of Stone Moss as well as of the photographs and installation focus on an awareness of perception, point of view, time, desire, and memory to encourage an active yet open emotional engagement with the piece.

Sunday 6th April, 11:42 a.m.

2008 • 6 min

Sunday, 6th April 11:42 a.m. is a video about landscape understood as a complex network of connections that guide relationships between people. It is a video that focuses on the relationships between actions and places, movements and the environment, because it points out that people are the place in which they live as well as the trajectories which the place itself creates. The video underlines the reciprocal connection between environment and its inhabitants, where territory plays an inevitable role also in its anthropomorphic transformations.

Goldthwait Home Movies

2008 • 8 min

See the Goldthwait family as you remember them best, with commentary by 3 of the actors.

The Production and Decay of Strange Particles

2008 • 7 min

"In this film I began to experiment more with creating mats with liquid latex directly on the film emulsion then bleaching of all the excess image around the latex and using the clear bleached sections of film as a canvas to paint my film poem I used special inks that were custom made just for me called Keneville Dyes I then to re-photographed it all on my beloved JK optical printer. I also created this films sound design."

Journal des réalisateurs

2008 • 4 min • Switzerland

A collage made from fragments.

Iraq: The Lost Generation

2008 • 44 min

Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy investigates the biggest and most catastrophic refugee crisis in the Middle East since the Palestinian diaspora of 1948.

Because Washington is Hollywood for Ugly People

2008 • 7 min

This scathing work satirizes with images, color, and music over past and current political leadership.

Figure 3

2008 • 17 min

This film shows a series of still images of a number of archaeological objects, filmed with slight camera movement and dissolves. Paul Sietsema’s use of the film medium derives from his profound interest in the experience produced by the perception of space and the objects in it, as a cultural and historically defined entity.

Single Girl

2008 • 9 min

In this simple story of sexual desperation, loneliness and longing, women find intimacy in unexpected places.

A Juicy Turkey

2008 • 13 min

An addicted mother, starved children, a father more down to earth and... George Clooney ! Then add a touch of French cooking and get... "A Juicy Turkey". Imagine what your life could be if ...

Time

2008 • 9 min

A monochrome flat image changes slowly into a theatrical spectacle in which colour subtly melts and solidifies lines and conical forms.

Sound-Shadows

2008 • 7 min

Many people think that I live in darkness, but before my eyes there is nothing. Just air.

Tziporah

2008 • 7 min

A cinematic response to grief and loss.

Kalendar

2008 • 12 min • Ukraine, United States of America

Kalendar obliquely tells the story of language acquisition. The filmmaker, struggling to learn a new language, comes to understand that the names of the months of the year have concrete manifestations.

The FIRM: Cardio Dance Fusion - Latin Dance

2008 • 26 min

Cardio Dance Fusion is an exhilarating, heart-pumping workout which combines cardio, dance, and dance toning moves that are tons of fun! No dance experience is required and two left-feet will not stop you from having a blast and getting the benefits of this ultimate, high-energy experience. Dance the night away to a slimmer, trimmer, and sexier body.

George

2008 • 5 min • Sweden

George was an attempt to reconsider the basic components of my approach to filmmaking and boil them down to their bare essentials. The act of looking is implicit in my past documentary work but in this study it becomes the focus. The starting point for the film was the area that I was born and still reside in; the west end of Glasgow and its conjunction with the location where the film was first installed; a flat in Garnethill. The walk between these locations, and also central to the film is, through the St. George’s X area. The film deals with the relationship between sounds and images, acoustic phenomena and architectural details.

Takt film

2008 • 3 min • Switzerland

What minimalistic techno looked like in 1910?

Kimono As Art - Itchiku Kubota

2008 • 30 min

Documentary on legendary kimono artist Itchiku Kubota (1917-2003) who developed his own method of tsujigahana textile-dyeing and decorating technique, which originated from the medieval period.

Girl & Antihero: Beauty and the Beast (Northwest Tour)

2008 • 22 min

Beauty and the Beast documented the Girl/Anti-Hero Beauty and the Beast northeast tour which ran from May 20th through May 25th, 2008. The video includes both a Beauty edit done by Girl and a beast edit by Anti-Hero.

John Paul II: Be Not Afraid

2008 • 30 min

He cried out from the rooftops of the world, "Do not be afraid: Open Wide the Doors to Christ." His name is John Paul II and now he's here in animated form in this EWTN exclusive. This dynamic animated biography traces the life of the former pontiff from his childhood to his election as Pope. The whole family will enjoy seeing the experiences which fashioned this shy and brilliant intellectual into one of the greatest popes in history.

Bâmiyân

2008 • 14 min • Belgium, France

632 AD, the Chinese monk Xuanzang discovers the prodigious statues representing Buddha in the valley of Bamiyan Afghanistan. In 2008 the children living in the valley tell us the myths and legends about the tragic destiny of these statues that were destroyed by Talibans in 2001.