All Films

Echo

2007 • 44 min

Few thought that Rhapsody (E11) would be bettered anytime soon, but the first ascent of Echo Wall high on the north face of Ben Nevis brought another rise in world standards in trad climbing. Echo Wall is a strong contender for the world’s hardest traditional rock climb. The film follows Dave’s preparation and attempts on Echo Wall, through some of Scotland’s most beautiful mountains and climbing venues.

Botched Eyeball Operation

2007 • 2 min • Canada

Botched Eyeball Operation casts a voyeuristic gaze at a common operation gone awry. This is the video documentation of someone losing their sight. For this reason, this video is more horrific than your typical slasher film produced in hollywood.

Speed Tribe

2007 • 50 min

Hard-edged electronica, techno and urban beats meet the 200mph endurance of France's historic Le Mans motorsports race in an audiovisual adventure never experienced before.

Type O Negative: Live At Wacken Festival 2007

2007 • 30 min • Germany

Truck Tunes

2007 • 36 min

Sing along with ten cool original songs as you follow these tough construction and timber trucks at work! Dig a deep hole with an Excavator. Scoop up a load of dirt with a Front End Loader. Smash up concrete with an Impact Hammer. For kids.

The UCLA Dynasty

2007 • 60 min • United States of America

While the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights movement and political scandal were consuming the nation, a basketball legacy grew in southern California. Led by coach John Wooden, the UCLA Bruins amassed an unprecedented ten NCAA titles in the 12 seasons from 1964-1975, setting a standard of excellence and consistency in a volatile country.

America's Hangar

2007 • 46 min

In this exciting tour of the National Air and Space Museum- Smithsonian Networks puts you in the cockpit. From humble beginnings to the sprawling institution which has become the most visited museum in the world- the story of our struggle to leave the ground is embodied in the machines that carry us. Our HD cameras are your eyes as you view the epic achievements of the first century of flight. See famous "space race" aircraft like Sputnik and Apollo 11.

Vertigo Rush

2007 • 19 min • Austria

Johann Lurf's critical examination of the special effect of the "dolly zoom" - first used by Hitchcock in Vertigo - becomes a declaration of love to film and the richness of the cinematic language.

Shi'a Echoes from Lebanon

2007 • 52 min • Lebanon

This political documentary by Hady Zaccak delves into the world of Lebanese Shiites through interviews with three Shiite youths, each with a different political and ideological affiliation, in addition to a very valuable interview with late Shiite cleric Sayyed Hani Fahs. The documentary explores the Shiites’ relation to Beirut’s Dahiyeh suburb, a Shiite stronghold, as well as the difference between the political and social perspectives of these youths.

Clean Freak

2007 • 27 min

A lighthearted personal essay on one man’s cleaning compulsion. Filmmaker Chris Hansen details his tidying neurosis with the help of his family and students. He details coping mechanisms (the fine art of stacking) as well as the psychological roots of his problem (a childhood mess in the kitchen). CLEAN FREAK tips towards deadpan comedy when Hansen stages failed attempts at self-help programs. Perhaps the best joke of all is that the film itself wouldn’t exist without its director’s obsessive personality.

Haiku (for Onizuka)

2007 • 1 min • United States of America

"On January 28, 1986 the Challenger Mission 51-dash- L set out to observe Halley's Comet from space but exploded a minute into the launch killing everyone on board. A monument to Challenger astronaut Ellison J Onizuka stands in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo, from which I made a graphite rubbing of the text onto a sheet of plain paper, and noticed it was nearly a perfect haiku. Then re filmed to emphasize poetic structure / disaster duration."

The Last Silent Movie

2007 • 20 min

Hiller orchestrates voices of the last speakers of extinct or endangered languages. Subtitles translate their utterances while the screen remains black. Neither silent nor a movie in the conventional sense, this work provides the framework for the audience to reflect on the speakers and the conditions that may have prompted the loss of their language. These silenced speakers buried in archives, have literally been given voice again by the artist.

Whether or not you believe

2007 • 29 min

They can be seen in the whole of Greece: the small and humble buildings along the roadside dedicated to a saint. Often a burning candle illuminates the colourful interior. Most of them are erected to the memory of a beloved, killed in a car accident, others because someone has been miraculously saved. They are the evidence of a daily devotion and are called 'proskynitaria' or 'ikonismata'. The older ones many have been built becuase somebody had a significant dream on the spot, or to indicate the place of a former church or perhaps to protect the entrance of a house against ill luck. Each 'proskynitari' has its own story. This documentary tells us some of these stories and shows an importnat aspect of how the Greek people deal with death and what role religion plays in everyday life.

Departure

2007 • 3 min • Australia

An anonymous figure sets out on a journey - moving through a harsh and sunburnt terrain, towards an unknown destination. Pixels are enhanced in the video work by the use of custom-made lens filters, to create pointillist textures, and eliminate superfluous detail.

Pijn

2007 • 29 min

How much pain do you need to forget your sorrow?

The Little Black School House

2007 • 60 min • Canada

Award-winning filmmaker and writer Sylvia Hamilton painstakingly unearths the story of the children, women, men who were students and teachers in Canada’s racially segregated schools in The Little Black School House. The film is a compelling illustration of how many of the students who attended Canada’s all-Black schools look back on the experience with conflicted feelings: fondness for the dedication of their Black teachers, and outrage at being denied a right, fundamental to democracy in Canada: equal access to quality education.

Time in Heaven

2007 • 19 min • South Korea

35mm / 19 min. / Color

The Last Ridge: The 10th Mountain Division

2007 • 56 min

A compelling one-hour documentary recounts the true mission impossible of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division during WWII. After backbreaking training, the legendary alpine fighting force was sent to dislodge the entrenched Germans on Italy's mountaintops. The rest is history. The 10th turned the tide for the Allies in Italy, revolutionized winter mountain warfare, transformed winter sports and inspired a new generation of soldiers.

The Letter

2007 • 8 min

Two boys stand at the crossroads of adolescence; but their hearts can only journey one path. When Adrian decides to share his feelings for another male, he is unaware as to the upset his actions may cause. Two boys stand at the crossroads of love and adolescence; but their hearts can only journey one path When Adrian decided to write down his feelings for Patrick, the blinding power of love made him blind to the upset his actions would cause. When the letter in which he wrote his secret love made its way back into his possession, Adrian must face who he is before friendships are lost forever.

Srdjo

2007 • 28 min • Serbia

This documentary tells about the incident which happened on Januar 21, 1993 in the town of Trebinje (Republika Srpska), when a local Serb, Srđan Aleksić, aged 27, stood in defense of Bosniak Muslim Alen Glavović, who was attacked by four soldiers of entity's armed forces. Infuriated rowdies then attacked Aleksić himself, who 6 days later succumbed to fatal wounds. It is a story about one man's heroism during the times of his nation's moral low point.

The Castration Cure

2007 • 50 min • United Kingdom

The Castration Cure is a shocking and honest film examining the legal castration of child sex offenders in the USA, in a bid to rehabilitate them.

Interval #2

2007 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin

Death & Rejection

2007 • 54 min

When Ben returns a diary he found on a bus to its rightful owner, he is drawn into her psychologically dangerous world.

Paradiset

2007 • 58 min • Sweden

The third documentary in a trilogy of films about elderly couple Hans and Kerstin Stralström. This last instalment is quieter than the first two, as the couple argue and ponder whether renovation of their house is a good idea. A beautiful final portrait of the couple.