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Susana & David

Susana & David

2008 • 4 min • Spain
A first date takes an unexpected turn
Western Sahara, a nation that wants to exist

Western Sahara, a nation that wants to exist

2008 • 33 min • Italy
The documentary gives as overview of the history of the Sahrawi people and their current situation in the refugee camps and in the liberated territories of Western Sahara. It describes how water, education, land etc. are managed.
El closet

El closet

2008 • 31 min
One day in the life of a young software code writer, who in a distant future wakes up and can not remember anything.
Sombrero

Sombrero

2008 • 12 min
James and Raymond meet for a blind date in a Mexican restaurant. As the two men learn more about each other, their rocky date takes an unexpected turn toward the absurd.
Mannequin

Mannequin

2008 • 2 min • United Kingdom
Alice Hawkins indulges her obsession with Page 3 girls and the domestic politics of sex, gender and taste in a paean to glamour model Danni Wells.
Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois

2008 • 52 min • France
A documentary about Louise Bourgeois by director Camille Guichard. Bourgeois created art for more than fifty years and at the time of filming was still creating.
Zap Cat

Zap Cat

2008 • 3 min • Japan
Circles printed on white paper. Animation frenzy as music becomes more erotic/erratic.
Ben Jordan: Le Chateau Macabre

Ben Jordan: Le Chateau Macabre

2008 • 32 min
Whilst on vacation in France, Ben meets a distressed man from England who has seen some kind of ghost at the local chateau he and other friends are staying at. Ben is happy to help out & begins to investigate the disappearance of the chateau's porter, Claude. But as his investigation unfolds, it becomes clear there are supernatural forces at work. Ben has his suspicions, but are they right? And are the other guests in the hotel there to help him or hinder him?
Fenêtres

Fenêtres

2008 • 9 min
"In this film, I wanted to explore the potential of in-camera editing by photographing and juxtaposing the window frame and its outside landscape as visual references. I executed three attempts (using three rolls of 16mm film) and aligned them one after the other. I wanted to show the raw material exactly as captured inside the camera." ⁠— Alexandre Larose
The Innocents

The Innocents

2008 • 9 min
Part of Bill Viola’s Transfiguration series, The Innocents explores the presence of the dead in the world of the living. The video documents a boy and a girl who slowly approach out of the darkness and into the light. Shown on separate screens, they break through what is, at first, an invisible threshold of water, suggestive of a passage from the spiritual world into a physical plane of existence. Once incarnate, however, all beings realize that their presence is finite, and so the figures eventually turn away from material existence to return from whence they came.
The Four-Winged Dinosaur

The Four-Winged Dinosaur

2008 • 55 min
In 2002, the discovery of a beautiful and bizarre fossil astonished scientists and reignited the debate over the origin of flight. With four wings and superbly preserved feathers, the 130 million-year-old creature was like nothing paleontologists had ever seen before.
I Was Here: Eisner's Story from the Inside Out

I Was Here: Eisner's Story from the Inside Out

2008 • 22 min
For all their colors and shapes, our plaques' stories are mostly the same. It was a few of our friends, in the last days of summer, trying to figure out how to remember. Sometimes we made them in secret. Sometimes we spent days on them. But a plaque could be a hastily-done afterthought, and it would still become a symbol to future generations of what friendship could really be, what it could mean in our lives. Some of us made several plaques - some of us never put our name on any. But anyone who's spent time in the Tzofim Bet Am knows that a unique, mysterious history lives on its walls, and what a summer once felt like, way back then. Because everyone loves a good story.
Youth

Youth

2008 • 2 min • France
Arsehole voters.
Reset

Reset

2008 • 28 min
Robert, his boyfriend Markus and his autistic brother Ferdi try to survive in a devastated, cold world, where zombies roam. Together with a group of other people they hide in an isolated mansion, but they all know they can't stay there forever. They need to get into the mountains in Austria, but they have only one small car. In addition to the rising tension, why does Ferdi sneak out at night in secrecy?
American/Sandinista

American/Sandinista

2008 • 31 min
At the height of the Cold War in the 1980s, a civil war between socialist-influenced Sandinistas and US-backed Contras ravaged Nicaragua. Using rare archival footage and contemporary interviews, American/Sandinista tells the story of a controversial group of US engineers who went further than anyone expected and paid the ultimate price.
Ten Commandments of the Mafia

Ten Commandments of the Mafia

2008 • 43 min • United States of America
In 2007, Italian police make an astonishing discovery during a raid on a Mafia boss’ villa: a list of the Mafia’s most sacred laws. It’s an incredible find: a code of conduct for the Mob. Now, for the first time, former Mobsters speak out about the rules that govern their criminal world; and reveal what happened when gangland began to question the so-called Ten Commandments of the Mafia.
Radio Dada

Radio Dada

2008 • 4 min
The video-images are constructed out of nothing but the image created by feedback (I turned a high-end camera on a screen that was showing, in real time, what I was filming, creating a feedback loop). Then I glitched the video by changing its format and subsequently exporting it into animated gifs. I (minimalistically) edited the video in Quicktime. Then I sent the file to Extraboy, who composed music for the video. The composing process started with a hand held world radio. Extraboy scanned through frequencies and experimented with holding the radio in different parts of the room while touching different objects. Eventually he got the radio to oscillate noise in the tempo that he perceived in the video. The added synthesizer sounds were played live to further build on the non-digital sound and rhythm. This was later contrasted with drums which were digitally synthesized and processed through effects with a very digital sound to them.
Henry Box Brown

Henry Box Brown

2008 • 24 min
In a magical take on a true story, a slave mails himself from a plantation in Richmond, Virginia, to freedom in Philadelphia in 1848.
Stress - Portrait Of A Killer

Stress - Portrait Of A Killer

2008 • 50 min
Over the last three decades, science has been advancing our understanding of stress—how it impacts our bodies and how our social standing can make us more or less susceptible. From baboon troops on the plains of Africa, to neuroscience labs at Stanford University, scientists are revealing just how lethal stress can be. Research tells us that the impact of stress can be found deep within us, shrinking our brains, adding fat to our bellies, even unraveling our chromosomes. Understanding how stress works can help us figure out ways to combat it and how to live a life free of the tyranny of this contemporary plague. In Stress: Portrait of a Killer, scientific discoveries in the field and in the lab prove that stress is not just a state of mind, but something measurable and dangerous.
Derren Brown: The System

Derren Brown: The System

2008 • 47 min
"The System" was based on the idea that a system could be developed to "guarantee a winner" of horse races. Cameras followed a member of the public, Khadisha, as Brown anonymously sent her correct predictions of five races in a row, before encouraging her to place as much money as she could on the sixth race.
Defensive Tactics: Jim Wagner's Reality-Based Personal Protection

Defensive Tactics: Jim Wagner's Reality-Based Personal Protection

2008 • 49 min • United States of America
Learn core defensive tactics with this step-by-step program from self-defense expert Jim Wagner. Based on military and police methods, this course covers threat zones, angled arm blocks, conflict stances, Wagner's own piston arm strikes and more. The course also covers proper head-butting techniques, leg strikes and counters, stopping power and the legalities of the use of force -- all strategies that are easy to learn and teach.
The Godmother

The Godmother

2008 • 10 min
Lola is a travesty who lives in a small community in Mexico. She wants to be the godmother in the first communion of her niece, but the church is not going to let that happen.
Engano

Engano

2008 • 11 min
A man. A woman. A city. Two tracking shots.
Somebody Got Murdered

Somebody Got Murdered

2008 • 41 min