All Films

Théocordis

2007 • 10 min

Much more interesting is the wordless Serge de Cotret's "Theocordis" (2007), a creepy and atmospheric Canadian exercise in religious iconography as the Super 8 camera prowls around a church intercut with disturbing juxtapositions of Christ images and a victimized woman.

Spirit of the 60's

2007 • 50 min

Join Gerry Burr on Britain's biggest classic motorcycle run. 500 motorcycles from the 50's and 60's gather each year at the Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovilton for a classic bike run around Somerset. Gerry seeks out the motorcycles that capture the spirit of the 60's and we follow the run to the East Somerset Railway at Cranmore. There are BIKES, BIKES and more BIKES on this biggest classic bike run in Britain.

Notes on Milk

2007 • 20 min

Notes on Milk is a short variation of the 2007 feature documentary Milk in the Land: Ballad of an American Drink. Ariana Gerstein and Monteith McCollum, whose Hybrid aired on POV in 2002, take a quirky and poetic look at some lesser-known aspects of America’s favorite drink: the industry’s spiritual underpinnings, politics and the struggle of independent farmers.

Passing Down, Frame One

2007 • 11 min • France, Germany

The artist reconstructs fragmentary memories of her Jewish grandmother, who avoided being deported from Lyon in 1944 thanks to a misunderstanding. The film moves between France and Germany, and between the 1940s and Schweizer’s everyday life today.

My Night Heart

2007 • 14 min • Japan

Welcome To the Grindhouse: The Making of Grindhouse

2007 • 24 min

A look behind-the-scenes of the Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino passion project Grindhouse.

Enola Gay's Navigator: Theodore (Dutch) Van Kirk

2007 • 55 min • United States of America

Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk navigated the first atomic bombing mission in Hiroshima, Japan, and later participated in the first Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests.

feeling of night

2007 • 13 min • Japan

Movement and Stillness

2007 • 2 min • New Zealand

A short animated meditation

Concert

2007 • 1 min • Poland

A man-orchestra plays a concert you have never heard before By Michal Socha

Icarus

2007 • 2 min • Poland

Inspired by mythical story about Ikar, it shows eternal desire to be free. But absolut freedom is not achievable…

Run to Me

2007 • 6 min

David has stopped speaking to his running buddy, Ben. David writes Ben a letter asking him to forgive him and telling him that he wants to run with him again. When David finally meets up with Ben, will he have the courage to give Ben the letter in which he reveals his true feelings for the first time?

Moment

2007 • 5 min

A film accompanying the 2008 exhibition "Instruments of uncertainty."

Belgrade Pride

2007 • 27 min

In June 2001 Belgrade lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and trans people organized a Pride event in celebration of the new era of democracy and tolerance that was believed to have come to Serbia. About 40 people came to celebrate. Several thousand counter-demonstrators organized, showed up and brutally beat them. This crucial documentary serves as a reminder that LGBT existance is not safe and sound, and human rights should never be taken for granted.

RemmbrMe

2007 • 11 min

Dirk De Bruyn’s eleven-minute RemmbrME (2007) is a visually engaging film that documents in a painterly fashion the numerous gaps and intersections between analogue and digital moving image manipulation. RemmbrME is a work that critically focuses on the re-shaping of the lost material that is germane to a basic cameraless direct-on-film practice and resonates important ideas concerning the increasing fusion between analogue and digital image-making in our everyday culture.

Candle

2007 • 8 min • Japan

Lee Zo

2007 • 10 min • Japan

There were three people who killed merely over differences in religion. One day the three believers who lost a mosque and icons through war no longer understood who belonged to which religion, and lost their reasons to fight. At that time, one statue rose in the center of town. Although the town thought it had regained peace by building the statue unrelated to any nation…

Dancers

2007 • 51 min • Egypt

They are between 17 and 40 years old, coming from all over Egypt, young girls, wives, mothers, they dance for a living. They are the dancers of Cairo among the popular class. At the hairdresser, in the “hotel” for dancers or at home, at weddings, nightclubs, on and backstage, the film follows them and tries to show the depth of a struggle under the make-up and the dance. A reality far from the cliché of belly dancing.

Heat Shot 1

2007 • 12 min

“Heat Shot 1” includes the process of deconstruction burning 10 years ago` s photos and negative films when I learned and made photography at first time and also reveals the process of reconstruction making a new piece, “Heat Shot” after 10 years later. It is about the process of deconstruction and reconstruction of an artist` s personal memory and life and also a question for representing images between emotional memory and material process by the strategy of repetition and difference.

Hit Stitch - Heat Shot 2

2007 • 11 min

“Heat Shot 1,2 “ is a pair work and also independent pieces. Both are originally made by film but sometimes they have been shown through various projections such as video version with sound and two or triple projections with improvisational sound performance. Especially, “Heat Shot 2” was shown with triple projections composed of one loop projection of just stitch image and two versions of print image in this January, 38th Rotterdam film festival. It is a trial to expand film medium mixed with performance and improvisational sound.

The People's Advocate: The Life & Times of Charles R. Garry

2007 • 59 min

During the late 1960s, when Charles R. Garry gained prominence as one of the top criminal defense attorneys in the United States, his clientele read like a who's who of the leadership of the Black liberation and anti-Vietnam war movements.

Psycho Pussy Slaughter

2007 • 10 min

The Egyptian Goddess Sekhmet is brought back from her long slumber on the wine of the Nile. She is defeated, shortly after sacrificing several felines and females in her bloody revenant rituals.

How to Conduct a Love Affair

2007 • 8 min

An unexpected letter leads to an unanticipated encounter. Some windows open easily; other shadows remain locked rooms. Have a cup of tea dear. I’ll trade you a stitch from the past for a leaf from the future. This is a Valentine and a fragment: for the one who mends my rips; from the next film in the Byrd project.

Nervous Lantern at Kill Your Timid Notion Festival

2007 • 48 min

This event was part of Arika’s Kill Your Timid Notion festival in 2007 at Dundee Contemporary Arts.