All Films

Simultaneous Contrast

2008 • 6 min

The striped pattern of the municipal bus shelters in San Francisco becomes a fixed foreground behind which the city passes. Spatial oscillations provide a constantly permutating play of figure, ground and space, imaging the possibility of being two places at once.

The Music in Me: The Leopards Take Manhattan - The Little Band That Roared

2008 • 30 min

Prepare for a fun-filled, emotional journey with 52 young musicians from a variety of backgrounds! This delightful film--the final installment in HBO's acclaimed 'The Music in Me' specials--profiles the young members of the Louisville Leopard Percussionists as they embark on a trip from their Kentucky home to the Big Apple.

Va, Regarde - 1

2008 • 22 min

... I head to Thailand and then to northern Lao (Luang Prabang then hopefully further north), then certainly to Cambodia. At the source of this journey, there is a longing for a renewal of my cinema, for the search of new lights, of new areas, of new relations...

Le Marché Oriental

2008 • 2 min

A 2-minute intervention inside Cape Town’s disused Oriental Plaza, an Apartheid-era shopping mall designed to control Cape Malay trade. On the 4th day of Ramadan, 2008, Sheikh Mogamat Moerat of District Six’s Zeenatul Islam Majid mosque was invited to sing the Adhan (call to prayer) inside the empty remains of the building a few weeks prior to its demolition to make way for luxury apartments.

A Walk / Im Park / ZUOZ

2008 • 12 min

A triptych of three short silent films. A Walk through the winter of Engadin and Bergell, scenes in the park of the Rietberg Museum in Zurich with its collection of Asian, African and Indian art, and an ice-skater on a sunny day in Zuoz, a village in the Engadin.

Quiero Ver

2008 • 6 min

On the 13th of each month, hundreds of people gather at a site in the Mojave Desert to see visions of the Virgin Mary appear in the sun. They point Polaroid, cell phone, and video cameras at the sun, and compare interpretations of the resulting images. This film documents the creative energy of this populist spiritual event.

15 Experiments On Peripheral Vision

2008 • 29 min

Surrounded as we are by the proliferation of photographic images, we sometimes confuse these images with the actual, embodied experience of seeing. In reality, only a small central portion of human vision is sharp like a photograph. Peripheral vision is blurry and indistinct, the realm of intuition. In a series of short, playful experiments, this film explores what can be seen from the corner of the eye, perversely pushing at the central rectangle of the film frame to see how far it can stretch to suggest what lies beyond it.

After Monet Water Lilies

2008 • 4 min

"My experience of Monet’s large-scale panoramic paintings of his water lily garden when I was about 14 years old became a crucial artistic memory. There have been a number of versions of the material I shot in about 1984 of water lilies and reeds in a pond. This [...] is the latest version and is part of work on a larger project ‘Treatise’ still in process." -MLG

Self Portrait After Raban Take Measure

2008 • 9 min

Self Portrait looks for an approach to a specific relationship between the duration of a work and material conditions in the projection as did William Raban in the film-performance Take Measure. The main difference is that Raban’s work was made when cinematic media had distinct physical properties linking medium directly to image - this self portrait recognizes that there is no such simple materiality for cinema following the emergence of digital processes. Instead the work takes a conceptual base – the speed of light and the time taken for light to travel from the sun to illuminate objects on earth –thus the duration of 8 minutes 20 seconds.

Our School, Our Life

2008 • 12 min • Indonesia

Documentary filmmaker Steve Pillar Setiabudi (Pilar) initially wanted to get some insight on democracy and political awareness from his young subjects, a group of third year high school students in Solo, who are about to graduate soon and enter another phase of their lives as college students and would become eligible to give their votes on the upcoming election in 2009.

Kucing 9808: Chronicles of a (Former) Demonstrator

2008 • 11 min • Indonesia

April 1998: Wisnu "Kucing (the cat)" Suryapratama is one of the activists of KA KBUI (United Movement of the University of Indonesia). He was the program coordinator of the KA KBUI post, who arranged almost all of the KBUI demonstration acts from start to finish. April 2008: Wisnu is now a father, freelance filmmaker, and husband, with his own routine. Is the demonstrator in him still there?

David

2008 • 3 min • United Kingdom

As the winning artist of the 2008 Film London Jarman Award, Luke Fowler was commissioned to produce four short films for 3 Minute Wonder, Channel 4s shorts strand. The four films premiered on Channel 4 over four consecutive nights in April 2009. Entitled, Anna, Helen, David and Lester, they are a series of portraits of four diverse individuals brought together through a shared residence – a flat in a Victorian tenement in the West End of Glasgow. Composer: Taku Unami

Caryatid Row

2008 • 12 min

Filmed in Prague and at the Unité d'Habitation in Marseille Caryatid Row is a film about people reading in the public space moving through it and transforming it. Reading seems to transport them into another world changing the image of the habitual one.

90 Years

2008 • 3 min

Refers to Schwartz’s grandfather-in-law’s age during the making of the film–an anniversary celebrated with the gift of piloting a U.S. army light aircraft, the kind he used to maneuver in the Second World War. While he rises and falls, watched by the impassive but attentive look of a woman who could be his wife, he is the protagonist of a flight into the past. Again, there is tension emphasized by an impending sound in crescendo, this time the one of the jet engine. This jump into the void is a recurrent creative preoccupation that might refer to distance, wounds, and risks.

Tactic

2008 • 5 min

Directed by Raymond Salvatore Harmon

Colossal Portal

2008 • 5 min

Directed by Raymond Salvatore Harmon

First Corruption

2008 • 6 min

Directed by Raymond Salvatore Harmon

Sami Nieida Jojk

2008 • 58 min

Armed in a Kolt and with a summer's course in the lingo the director intends to take her place among the people she belongs to. It's an exciting trip filled with expectations and fear of rejection.

Seemannstreue

2008 • 11 min

The story of a romantic sailor who is deeply devoted to his beloved, the beautiful Alvina, and refuses to part with her even after her death.

O Destino Mudou a Minha vida - Volume 1

2008 • 60 min

Fate Has Changed My Life

Chasing Birds

2008 • 52 min

Follow three teams - the Hunter Thickheads, the Hunter Home-Brewers and the Whacked-Out Woodswallows as they travel up to 500 kilometres from the desert to the sea - in their attempt to spot more species than any other team.

My Second Painting

2008 • 3 min

Chicago, May 2008

Pursuit of Sacredness

2008 • 8 min • Portugal

This movie was directed in order to homage the poet Sebastião Alba, through Antonin Artaud’s poem “Pursuit of Fecality”. In this movie we can also find poems by Alba, as well as the director, Ricardo Leite.

Cinema in the Round

2008 • 42 min

Pairing a handsome suit with his blonde, surfer shag, Leckey looked every bit the irreverent orator as he assumed the lectern in the museum auditorium and delivered a refreshingly unorthodox reading of art and cinema history. Of particular importance was the question of how something cinematic may move from a state of "pure horizontality" to that of "pure verticality," which, for Leckey, was analogous to asking how a cinematic image may become an object, sculpture, monument or "beast." James Cameron's Titanic was one of many exemplars of this process, described by Leckey as a "time-travel film" that compressed "the bookends of the 20th century" (the materiality of early industrial manufacturing, the immateriality of late software production and 3D design) and torqued this resulting hybrid around one deceptively small iceberg.