All Films

Projecting the Body

2008 • 56 min • Australia

An intimate look at the life and work of Stephen Cummins, who blazed a trail through the 1980s, examining desire, oppression and the politics of sexuality. Reacting against the environment of AIDS paranoia and ensuing homophobia, Stephen created films that are both bold in their politics and beautiful in their poetry.

Quando o Vento Sopra

2008 • 18 min

A man in crisis and an old super-8 movie with footage from his childhood. A paper picker and his son walk the streets in search of survival. The film traces a poetic trajectory between the impermanence of things and affective memory.

Beijo na Boca Maldita

2008 • 17 min

Very popular in Curitiba from the 70's, Gilda marked an epoch. Kind of folk street, said she is transvestite. Anyone who didn't want to take a kiss from you hurried to give you a change. They all fled their jokes on the Boca Maldita.

Coven of the Heathenites

2008 • 26 min • United States of America

A summer sojourn is fleshed out for maximum solar exposure in this video travelogue of sun, sea and epidermal exhibitionism. The states of mind and geographic localities are awash in a flow of imagery that rushes in on a tide of both Pacific and Atlantic origins. The people and places that bathe in this magnificence add both a sacred and profane froth into the salty brew; a witches brew of sculpted creations bubbling up with volatile violations from the depths of unfathomable needs.

14

2008 • 9 min • Germany

A secret unfolds within a family through the eyes of the three people who hide it.

Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: ABBREVIATION FOR DEAD WINTER [Diminished by 1,794]

2008 • 13 min

“A single piece of paper, a second stab at suture, a story three times over, a frame for every mile. With words by Charles Darwin. A long-distance dedication for a far-away friend halfway up the mountain.” —David Gatten

Lola

2008 • 3 min

[3:00 | 16mm | B & W | Mono | 2008] Through the eyes of pure content in light and darkness, to objects strange and shifting, a cat’s curiousity of all things moving.

Unveiled Views

2008 • 52 min

Five women talk about their occupations, aspirations, and the rights and status of women in their Muslim countries.

Sucker's Love

2008 • 6 min

Opening with cheesy pop style text, tribute to Jean-Luc Godard’s film titles. This is a practice of stop motion with 35mm photo stills, inspired by Chris Marker’s La Jetée and the first ever film Race Horse from 1878. The movement of the 35mm still gearwheel is like the view from a train window leading the viewer down wormhole traveling through time. In those old family photos, the video follows the viewer’s perspective as if the original action of the image is restored. Memories cross three generation from1949 to 2008. Grandparent’s KMT era, parent’s wedding, babies, childhood, activities, current bad relation, all contemporary images is black & white, old photos with original color, the noisy soundtrack and sharp high pitch noise, gives the family trip a rejection.

Transactions

2008 • 7 min

In a sewing workshop, the making of a piece of clothing is filmed in detail while we listen to a phone conversation between a Taiwanese mother and her daughter, the director of this film. The mother spends her days and nights toiling away so she can afford to send her daughter to school in the United States. They are discussing the credit card bill. Not only their physical distance, but especially their emotional one manifests itself in an increasingly emphatic way. Their worlds are light-years away from one another, which leads to miscommunication and lack of understanding. A talk between two people who love each other is reduced to a business transaction; after all, the language of the dollar is universal. Transactions is about the boundaries of a love that supposedly knows no bounds.

SheSaidHeWalks HeSaidSheWalks

2008 • 5 min • Argentina, United Kingdom

She Said He Walks, He Said She Walks (2008) is nostalgia, bitter love and postures encapsulated in a skilled short film by Dominican Nelson Carlo de los Santos. Presents a resounding account of a relationship, subject to contemplation of four minutes. Sleazy love disoriented by the wandering wanderings of what was wanted and felt, within a complaint about the industrialized and prefabricated image that pollutes the natural feeling.

Hatchet Jack

2008 • 46 min

Hatchet Jack may or may not exist. Many in this small wooded community laugh about the idea, and some are passionate story tellers. The film starts out in a bar with a group of hunters who are planning on venturing into a patch of woods that was said to be the site of a murder in 1993.

Silêncio da Mulher

2008 • 48 min • Mozambique, Spain

Marta, a young woman living in the rural area of southern Mozambique, discovers she is HIV positive after becoming pregnant.

Real Fiction

2008 • 20 min

Zach, a gifted writer, devoted son, and life-partner to his boyfriend AJ, is as ambitious as he is impatient. Success in his business seems impossibly elusive after trying every avenue available to him, and without adequate funds to provide treatment for his increasingly ill mother, it seems like a miracle when Damien, an influential literary agent, expresses interest in taking Zach on as a client.

Heads or Tails

2008 • 11 min

A day in the life of two teenagers from the outskirts of Madrid who, to escape the routine, walk the neighborhood playing heads and tails who makes the next prank. While they are honest with each other, they will doubt everything, even if their friendship will not be something else; the currency will decide for them.

I've Got a Secret

2008 • 16 min

Elisa (8 years) has got a secret and she only wants to tell it to God.

Lure

2008 • 13 min

Two women take extreme measures when running their cafe.

The Moon and He

2008 • 21 min

Lost and unable to remember his past, a young man known only as HE seeks shelter in an isolated burlesque house called 'The Moon'. The bizarre performers of 'The Moon' quickly accept HE as one of their own, but all is not as it seems. This house holds a dark secret and HE must choose whether or not to confront the painful truth of his past.

Remember the Eyes

2008 • 15 min

The story of two women, Kindra and Camille, who trust a smile ... a moment. While being aware of their differences, they will go beyond the assumptions and the fear of rejection. It is a story about love, desire, dreams and hope.

Peppino Di Capri: Live in Switzerland

2008 • 60 min • Brazil

Performing live in Switzerland in 1980, Peppino Di Capri sings some of his best songs, including the hits "Roberta" and "Champagne".

Somewhere Only We Know

2008 • 10 min

Two women fall in love in 1940s New Zealand and despite the impossibility that governs their lives they make a 'what-the-hell' decision that reconfigures their world.

North Cross

2008 • 5 min

This film is inspired by the calm oasis at the centre of North Cross roundabout in Plymouth and the contrast between the activity of walking and the relative high speed chaos of traffic. It highlights the curious physical movements that are walking and celebrates the successful complete separation of pedestrians from vehicular traffic that the roundabout achieves. Made as part of the Cafe Concrete Plymouth City Project.

Tira Os Óculos E Recolhe O Homem

2008 • 20 min

Short film based on sambas by Moreira da Silva and Jards Macalé, and on Macalé's arrest by the Brazilin military government in the 1970s, while he was touring with Moreira.

The Biscuit Song (Inkblot #11)

2008 • 9 min