All Films

Crowning Glory

2008 • 5 min • United States of America

Parallel feelings of pride and rebellion. Attempting to resuscitate political icons by remaking themwith my own psychic-punk aesthetic to regain personal ownership.

Sutura

2008 • 28 min • Senegal

Documentary commissioned by the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life at Brandeis University on sexual abuse and justice in Senegal, in collaboration with the Senegalese Women Lawyers Association and the West African Research Center in Dakar.

Knitting a Frame

2008 • 5 min

The ball of wool seen at the sitter's feet loops over the single-frame release of a 16mm Bolex camera and back to the knitting. For every stitch that is knitted, an exposure is made, creating a structural relationship between production of fabric and a frame.

City Reflections: Vancouver 1907 - 2007

2008 • 53 min

On May 7, 1907, Seattle filmmaker William Harbeck captured street scenes in Vancouver, Canada on movie film. Shot from the front of a moving B.C. Electric Railway streetcar, this is the earliest known surviving film footage of the city. See the residents of 1907 going to work, shopping, cycling. See Vancouver landmarks like the first Hotel Vancouver, the Carnegie Library, the Hudson's Bay store. One hundred years later in 2007, we take a trip down the same streets and note a century of change. Compare the same street scenes recorded 100 years apart. Presented by the Vancouver Historical Society.

The Road to Passchendaele

2008 • 45 min • Canada

A documentary that goes behind-the-scenes of Paul Gross's Passchendaele (2008).

Roy Buchanan: Live from Austin, TX

2008 • 52 min • United States of America

This performance, captured on the ACL stage on November 15, 1976, shows Roy Buchanan in his prime at the age of 37. Indeed, it may well be the best high-quality audio/video recording of his complete performance known to exist.

The Polls Don't Lie: The Making of "You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown"

2008 • 12 min

This featurette will explore the political leanings (or lack thereof) of its producers, as well as the way in which they set out to create a politically-themed piece within the realm of Peanuts.

Miss Tibet in Exile

2008 • 41 min

Miss Tibet in Exile is a documentary film about the making of Miss Tibet beauty pageant in India and the winning girl's subsequent participation in the Miss Earth beauty pageant in the Philippines. The film portrays various behind the scene activities of the pageant's organizer Lobsang Wangyal and it also features several notable Tibetan personalities expressing their views on the beauty pageant.

Sobre la educación

2008 • 4 min

The horse monument is painted white.

Gnist

2008 • 7 min

At the request of a seductive lady, an ex-contract killer decides to go back to his old ways for one final mission that almost goes according to plan.

Laitue

2008 • 9 min

Laitue is a hand drawn film that describes a short journey of loss and reunification. Two people are separated by space and time but nevertheless coincide in a series of moments which form a choreography of anticipation and unrest

Nach dem Feuer I

2008 • 3 min • Germany

HF509 - Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl

Minotaur

2008 • 60 min

The masks we wear end up using us. A different character to each of the people in his life, a stranger to himself, Jorge Torregrossa constantly faces the loss of his own identity. A mysterious voice on the phone warns him that an irrevocable event is approaching in his destiny, meanwhile Torregrossa runs through the labyrinth of his existence, looking for a way out before it is too late.

migration (empire)

2008 • 24 min

In a series of vignettes, wild North American migratory animals have been relocated from their natural habitats to inhabit vacant motel rooms. Whether it is a beaver swimming in a bathtub or a deer scavenging for food in a mini fridge, the animals engage with the constructed environments according to their wild instincts. These interactions, accompanied by footage of the built-up landscape, further exacerbate the palpable tension between the natural environment and the mythologized idea of America.

Waking The Cadaver - The Muse, Nashville, USA

2008 • 41 min

Bootleg Footage from 2008 Tour (2008.07.13) with Catalepsy, Waking The Cadaver, Rose Funeral and Left To Vanish Tracklist: I) Always Unprotected II) Raped, Pillaged and Gutted III) Chased Through the Woods by a Rapist IV) Authority Through Intimidation V) Type A Secretor VI) Tire Iron Embludgeonment VII) Pigtails Are for Face Fucking VIII) I Know the Insides of Women IX) Blood Splattered Satisfaction Encore) Connoisseurs of Death

God Is Dead

2008 • 6 min

This film revolves around theyyam artist from a village in Kerala, India. Theyyam is a cultural form of Kerala. it explores the mind of an artist when he adorns the costume to perform the ritual.

A Ballad for Zagros

2008 • 48 min

A documentary by Halil Uysal and Hasan Salih

Legacy of the Imam: Iran Transsexual Support Society

2008 • 14 min

This is a short film about the first time I met the organizer and members of the "Iran Transsexual Support Society" in the summer of 2006 in Tehran. The group went on to play a pivotal role in bringing visibility and acceptance of sexual minorities in Iran until the death of its founder Ms. Maryam Khatoon Molkara in 2012.

Alternity

2008 • 7 min

The vanishing point of linear perspective is expanded to a plane. This allows all of the potential events within that vanishing point to mingle freely on the surface of the screen. Local sounds blend and shift. The expanded horizon causes reverberating fractures in time; multiple realities branch and flow through one another, creating a sponge-space of possibilities.

The Model Family Award

2008 • 11 min

The Philippines is the world’s fourth-largest exporter of labour. One in eight Filipinos are overseas workers. Every year, awards are handed out among them to ‘recognise the most outstanding Filipino workers and their families for their exceptional achievements’. In the video The Model Family Award, Lizza May David captures the award ceremony to create awareness about this socio-political situation, as this commodification and exportation of human labour disrupts families. Besides criticising the contest and its organiser, the artist is also interested in exploring the often ambiguously suggestive power of the visual image and the media. Where is the line between reality and imagination? Between documentation and fiction?

Terry Runders Kicks a Stone

2008 • 2 min • United Kingdom

When you kicked that stone against my house I got a we fright and dropped a plate sorry it was an accident and you've marked my wall.

Fin

2008 • 10 min

A collection of short scenes looking at reality and fantasy.

The Time Meddler Restoration: Before & After

2008 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A featurette showing 'before and after' examples of techniques used during the restoration of The Time Meddler for its DVD release.

Kate Wakes

2008 • 15 min

Kate is fighting through the post-calling-off-her-wedding blues. Then she meets Jared. Awkwardness ensues.