All Films

Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story

2008 • 54 min • Australia

Controversial South African political satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys allows writer/director Julian Shaw into his previously off-limits inner world.

Torchlighters: The Richard Wurmbrand Story

2008 • 30 min

Risking his liberty and his life, courageous Romanian pastor Richard Wurmbrand refuses to conform and pledge his allegiance to the communists in power in this children's animated program based on true events. After the authorities throw him in prison, Wurmbrand must draw on his deepest resources to survive and maintain his faith. A documentary about Wurmbrand and his wife is included and features interviews with their son, Mihai.

2019: A Future Imagined

2008 • 8 min

Visual Futurist Syd Mead ("Blade Runner," "Aliens," "Tron") reflects upon the nature of creativity and how it drives the future. Photographed in stunning High Definition, this featurette provides insight into the fascinating mind of one of the most influential artists of modern cinema.

Capsicum

2008 • 11 min

Ruminations about the color red.

Optical Vacuum

2008 • 55 min

Optical Vacuum, 2008, 55 min., Beta SP, Voice & Diary: Stephen Mathewson, Music: Stefan Németh

Epitaph

2008 • 10 min

Meditations on human destruction composed at land's end.

The Writer

2008 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Science Fiction writer Lucas Reed muses on muses.

The Trainee

2008 • 16 min • Finland

Artist Pilvi Takala goes undercover at a marketing department. Her intention was to do nothing until she was fired; hidden cameras catch the bewilderment with which her co-workers react to this.

Easter Morning

2008 • 10 min

Departing from an inimitable film repertoire of tour-de-force editing technique, visual comedy, and apocalyptic themes, avant-garde master Bruce Conner envisioned EASTER MORNING (2008)—a metaphysical quest for renewal beyond the natural and ephemeral worlds—to be his last finished masterpiece.

Tomorrow Yeaaaaah!

2008 • 13 min • Germany

The study stylizes the highly concentrated training of a basketball team and the start of the big game the next day. Bodies, movements and sounds are fragmented in unusual excerpts, alienated by the reduction to black and white and reassembled in an original and fast-paced montage.

Donner la parole

2008 • 33 min • France

Documentary Short

Meaning of Life

2008 • 11 min • Finland

Meaning of life is a poetic short film about seeking happiness. The film gives us insight as to what happiness and good life mean for the habitants of Queens, New York City. Do they share the idea of “American Dream” and is it possible for everyone to achieve this? Meaning of life is filmed on black-and-white film, inspired by the “Man With a Movie Camera”.

Ex-E.T.

2008 • 8 min • France

A little child in a far-away planet ruled by synchronism and conformity starts showing antisocial behavior to the embarrassment of his parents, who take him to the doctors to be fixed.

The Naked Night

2008 • 31 min • France

In a room under the roofs of Paris, a twenty year old boy receives a man he met through the Internet. After they have sex, a summer storm breaks and the boy asks the man to stay until it stops raining.

Fully Awake: Black Mountain College

2008 • 60 min

Documentary about the history and ideas of Black Mountain College.

Carlão - Um Autor de Cinema

2008 • 21 min • Brazil

A short film on Brazilian filmmaker Carlos Reichenbach and his works, including interviews with those who worked with him and with the man himself.

Musical Brotherhoods From The Trans-Saharan Highway

2008 • 60 min

Filmed in 2005 by Hisham Mayet predominately at the Jemaa Al Fna in Marrakesh Morocco, 'Musical Brotherhoods of the Trans-Saharan Highway' captures an assortment of spectacular musical dramas presented live and unfiltered on the home turf of the world's most dynamic string and drum specialists performing and manifesting the ecstatic truth. Ancient mystical brotherhoods have been flourishing for centuries in and around the cities of Marrakesh and Essaouira in Morocco where the trade caravans have gathered from their long journeys across the Trans-Saharan Highway. This is some of the last great street music on Earth. A must see for string aficionados looking for inspiration as electric ouds, banjos, mandolins and the Gnawa sentir peel flesh from bone right before your eyes!

Baby Bible Bashers

2008 • 48 min

Follows the stories of three young children who preach the word of the Lord.

Yoshida …or: The Explosion of the Story

2008 • 30 min • France

A documentary about Yoshishige (Kijû) Yoshida's creative process for his most significant film, the 1969 avantgarde tour-de-force Eros + Massacre (1969).

Udedh Bun

2008 • 21 min

Ashu is leaving his boyhood behind and growing up into a man. His mother is dying. A boy at school torments him. He is attracted to his neighbour’s wife. He must reinvent himself.

The Other War

2008 • 50 min

In a middle of a war, three women fight for a normal life, but can never seem to agree on the actual meaning of normal. "The other war" tells the tale of Tel-Aviv during the second Lebanon war. It's a film about Israel, Militarism and denial, but mainly about love.

A Dream of Roses

2008 • 14 min

A House Wife's hum-drum world dissolves away into a thorny Passion Play of miraculous visions.

A Midsummer's Nightmare

2008 • 9 min

Things "go bump in broad daylight" as archetypical characters romp about in a sunny forest...doll like things and beast men.

Picture Perfect: The Making of Sleeping Beauty

2008 • 43 min

Artists, collaborators, and historians past and present reflect on the making of one of Walt Disney's masterpieces, and how no animated film has been able to top this perfectionist art style since.