All Films

Chirico

2008 • 4 min • Japan

A wordless short homage to the maestro of pittura metafisica.

After Writing

2008 • 3 min

Scraps of text gathered from molding filmstrips and peeling chalkboards are photographed and intercut with pinhole shots from a schoolhouse.

Sans Howard

2008 • 30 min • France

François, a young photographer is hitch-hiking on a Mexican road. He comes across two strange ladies called Colette and Evelyne, they stop and take him in their car heading to some hot springs in the middle of the desert.

Titus: The Gorilla King

2008 • 48 min

The compelling story of one of the most successful mountain gorillas that has ever lived - a huge silverback called Titus. The programme starts in 1967, when the researcher Dian Fossey first made contact with a group of mountain gorillas in Rwanda. She opened up a window on to their secret lives. Forty years on, this film reveals the complete and dramatic life story of one individual animal. Titus's father was murdered by poachers in front of his very eyes. His mother abandoned him in the subsequent chaos. His family disintegrated. He should have died. But we reveal how Titus survived against all the odds. Titus's present day trials and tribulations take the viewer back in time to reveal key moments in Titus's history. Using testament from eyewitnesses, the film relives one individual mountain gorilla's extraordinary battle for survival.

The World of Vija Vētra

2008 • 48 min

This documentary tells the fascinating story of Vija Vetra, a world-renowned Latvian dancer, choreographer and teacher. At the age of 84, Vetra remains a vital and creative force, and her tale offers inspiration for both artists and lovers of the arts. In a career spanning seven decades, she has mastered diverse styles ranging from ballet to traditional Indian dance, and her talent has won her acclaim as a 'spirit in human form' and 'the bridge between East and West.' Her life is a celebration of the power and beauty of the art of dance, but is also a powerful story of struggle, loneliness and sacrifice. Her creative , positive spirit stands alone against a materialistic world that is constantly changing. Her wise soul, her point of view and criticism towards the modern world push us to think about secret meanings, symbols and the simplicity of life.

Cowman: The Uddered Avenger

2008 • 46 min • United States of America

Cowman is assigned to protect the Jurassic Corn Creature, so when it goes missing, the townsfolk accuse him of being a thief. Then Cowman sets out to prove them wrong and protect them from their real enemies.

We go nowhere

2008 • 24 min • Netherlands

Armed with a camera and eighteen clean pairs of underwear, Josefien Hendriks hitchhikes The Netherlands and askes passengers questions about faith, friendship, love and death.

Lost Night

2008 • 14 min

Only six months in London, Bangladeshi cab driver Mahmood picks up Dory a transvestite from a notorious gay club. Dory’ s face is bruised and blooded and it’s clear he’s just been in a fight. On their journey to the river Thames in central London, it seems diversity is the only link between them until they share a life saving moment that reveals a closer connection, linking the unlikely couple and bonding them for life.

In Sickness and in Health

2008 • 42 min

It is Samantha's wedding day- but she gets a note saying her groom-to-be is a serial killer.

Shinrei Kenkyūka Ikeda Takeo no Reikai Junrei Sono San: Hiai no Mori Jukai Junrei

2008 • 60 min • Japan

This is the third horror documentary film about psychic Takeo Ikeda, who undertakes a terrifying pilgrimage to save souls in the afterlife. The film clearly depicts his pilgrimage as he listens to the voices of the spirits who remain in this world even after death and are never rewarded.

Red

2008 • 11 min

Short film by Gao Shiqiang.

Learn to Surf with 3x Word Champion Andy Irons

2008 • 28 min

The perfect instructional video for beginning surfers. Learn the basics of surfing directly from 3-time World Champion Andy Irons. Concise and to the point, this video will have you surfing in no time!

Pergolesi: La Serva Padrona

2008 • 46 min

La serva padrona, or The Maid Turned Mistress, is a 1733 intermezzo by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736) to a libretto by Gennaro Federico, after the play by Jacopo Angello Nelli. It is some 40 minutes long, in two parts without overture, and was written as light-hearted staged entertainment between the acts of Pergolesi's serious opera Il prigionier superbo. More specifically each of the two parts, set in the same dressing room, played during an intermission of the three-act opera to amuse people who remained in their seats.

Ode to Joy

2008 • 31 min

An essential background for Qiu Jiongjiong’s recent A New Old Play, this dazzlingly playful short documentary remixes a Sichuan opera company’s dress rehearsal for its tribute to Qiu Fuxin, the director’s grandfather – who was a legendary opera performer of 'clown' comedic roles, and the real-life subject of A New Old Play. This exuberant celebration of a not-yet-lost past re-activates the memories of ageing, but irrepressibly vital, stage artists.

And the Sun Flowers

2008 • 5 min • United States of America

“Henry James had his figure in the carpet, Da Vinci found faces on the wall. Within this Baltimore wallpaper: a floral forest of hidden depth and concealment, the hues and fragrance of another era. Surface decoration holds permeable planes, inner passages. There emerges a hypnotic empyrean flower, a solar fossil a speaking anemone, of paper, of human muscle, of unknown origin, delivering an unreasonable message of rare tranquility.” – Mark McElhatten

Memento Mori

2008 • 59 min • United Kingdom, Spain, Brazil, France

Profile of the band who has helped to save Irish traditional music from disappearing, spreading its sound and popularity across the world for more than four decades. Featuring interviews with the current four members - fiddler Sean Keane, vocalist and bodhran player Kevin Conneff, flautist Matt Molloy and band leader Paddy Moloney, who plays pipes and whistle - and tributes from fans including Keith Richards, Sting, Elvis Costello, Sir James Galway and Andrea Corr.

The remake of the girls

2008 • 10 min • Portugal

"The remake of the girls", 2008, by Silvia das Fadas. Duration 10'40". DVD PAL -- 4:3. No sound / Black and white. Made as part of the workshop "Movimento Fixo" (Fixed Movement) at the Cinema/Image in Movement Department of Ar.Co (Centre for Art and Visual Communication).

though she never spoke, this is where her voice would have been.

2008 • 5 min • Canada

A structural autotopographical study of lindsay's great-grandmother through what was left behind and what is missing. One of five works in the series Bloodline.

Dance, Dance Baby!

2008 • 13 min

A handsome, eager actor gets more than he bargained for at a most unusual audition.

Big Time Smugglers

2008 • 10 min • Sweden

Imagine trying to smuggle something out of the Customs Museum. It’s got to fail.

Take That: Come To Town

2008 • 46 min • United Kingdom

British superstar band Take That presented their own TV show Take That Come to Town, a variety show in which they performed some of their biggest hits and along the way answer fan questions and other stuff. It aired on 7 December 2008 on ITV1.

Thumb Debate '08!

2008 • 5 min • United States of America

The single most important moment in politics is at "hand"... It's Thumbama vs. Thumbcain in the final debate before the American people hit the voting booths. Created by Steve Oedekerk, THUMB DEBATE '08 is the newest chapter in the wild world of THUMBS!

The Slope

2008 • 14 min

Sober and effective début in beautiful black-and-white by a very young maker about a man who works as a cleaner and administrator in the city hospital. We follow him for a day in his routine.

Trick or Treat

2008 • 6 min

The trick or treaters have come and gone and Kate and Sam are settling in for a quiet Halloween night when a woman appears at the door with a strange request.