All Films

Frank Zappa: The Broadcast Archives

2008 • 25 min • United States of America

Frank Zappa - The Broadcast Archives is a collection of live performances from the master of experimental and comedy rock. These Saturday Night Live performances demonstrate the musical genius and the progressive jazz-rock arrangements that were the signature of the phenomenal Frank Zappa. Featured tracks include: Peaches En Regalia I Am The Slime Purple Lagoon Dancing Fool The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing St Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast

The Wren

2008 • 4 min

A little essay about certain qualities shared by Emily Dickinson and Troglodytes troglodytes (the winter wren). A spontaneous collaboration by two women on opposite coasts searching for elusive things.

Cheech & Chong Roasted

2008 • 43 min • United States of America

Cheech and Chong, the stoner pair who dominated the comedy scene in the 1970s and ’80s and recently reunited for their Light Up America tour, take their place in the hot seat to be roasted by close friends and fellow comedians. The duo made a name for themselves with their drug-laced humor, which kept audiences rolling in the aisles with such comedy routines as “Earache My Eye,” “Basketball Jones,

Pictographic Piles

2008 • 11 min

As I rummage through a stack of photos the memories of this and that plus who’s what and where rush in helter skelter. There’s a lot to swallow on screen and off (most of it from Oriental kitchens) but there are dashes of the even more exotic as the viewer glimpses renderings of the indigestible here and there (but mostly above and beyond!).

Souvenirs souvenirs

2008 • 29 min • France

Homemade footage of parties, travel, and everyday life.

Lightning Strikes

2008 • 47 min

Follow Mick Fanning as he rips his way through 10 stops on the ASP Dream Tour and his first ever ASP World Title.

One 2008th

2008 • 26 min

short films

Prisoner Pair

2008 • 11 min • United Kingdom

Two pears dissolve in a bottle of Schnapps.

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

2008 • 55 min • United States of America

Kind Of Blue: Celebrating A Masterpiece incorporates material from the 2004 mini-documentary, Made In Heaven, including black-and-white still photography of the recording sessions and the voices of Miles (at the sessions), as well as excerpts of radio interviews with the late Bill Evans.

Seaside Show

2008 • 20 min

Waves crash on rocks as tongues flap in the wind about all things cinematic. People chirp and chew in various states of dress and undress as the climate shifts from coast to coast on the tide of a national pleasure/treasure: film festivals, lectures and art happenings.

Theo Angelopoulos: The Internal Journey

2008 • 50 min • France

A deeply personal look at the life of Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos, one of the foremost representatives of Greek cinema. His life reflects the tragedies faced by an entire nation during the oppressive era of military dictatorship. It is a story of boundless ambitions, hope, love and the responsibilities that haunt every artist, even after death.

The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious'

2008 • 28 min

Documentary on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Notorious' (1946).

Three Women

2008 • 9 min

Part of Bill Viola's "Transfigurations" series, this work shows a mother and her daughters enacting a transfiguration when they choose to pass through a threshold of water and briefly enter an illuminated realm.

Reaction

2008 • 13 min

A man sees a woman who is beaten by her husband in the car. Decides to follow the car.

We Need a Blockbuster, Charlie Brown

2008 • 14 min • United States of America

A documentary short detailing the making of the classic cartoon "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," and the particular pressure the creative team felt after the massive success of its former creation, "A Charlie Brown Christmas."

Torihada 4: yofukashi no anata ni zotto suru hanashi wo

2008 • 44 min • Japan

A young woman has decidedly strange hobbies. She has fun calling strangers and hanging up on them. However, one night, she dials the wrong number, and on the other side of the line a pre-recorded voice announces her death for the same day, at 2 hours and 5 minutes.

Axe Massacre

2008 • 12 min

An unsuspecting family, celebrating the Christmas holiday, falls victim to an axe weilding maniac known only as, the Santa Slasher.

X Mass

2008 • 7 min

A California winter turns the left coast into a brew of foaming festivities while landlubbers leap for joy in the spray of salty slurpings.

Australia China Experience

2008 • 23 min

“A month long journey through the outback and the far east” David Gravette, Kenny Hoyle, Matt Miller, Nick Trapasso, Richie Jackson, Sean Malto

Midnight Snack

2008 • 13 min • United States of America

A film producer meets an odd couple at a bar. Little does he know, he's about to become part of this couples main course.

Flying On One Engine

2008 • 51 min

Wheelchair bound, without a larynx, and diagnosed with a life-threatening aortic aneurysm, Dr. Sharadkumar Dicksheet now lives only (and barely) so he can travel to India to perform free operations in marathon-like surgery sessions where up to 700 children receive treatment for their cleft lips and other deformities. Although Dicksheet survives off of social security while living in his Brooklyn apartment, his life is drastically different in India where the eight-time Nobel Prize nominee is treated like a living god.

The Making of Noriko’s Dinner Table

2008 • 31 min • Japan

A behind-the-scenes look at Sion Sono’s 2005 film Noriko’s Dinner Table.

Planet Blood

2008 • 57 min • Canada

After the fall of mankind, one man is left to rebuild. The world's other survivors, however, are vampires. Our hero is about to be added to the menu.

Winter

2008 • 22 min • United States of America

San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal.