All Films

Melting Silence

2007 • 18 min • Sweden

A photographer makes a personal trip to Antarctica, like Otto Nordenskjöld.

New Ratio

2007 • 2 min

The colour fields that comprise New Ratio involve a tense relationship with the edge of the screen. The piece explores the move from the 4:3 screen ratio to 16:9, which is now effectively the standard for broadcast television and video. In the construction of New Ratio each colour was assigned a particular tone: white was attributed a standard 1KHz test tone; the pitch of the tone attributed to blue was half that of the test tone; and each of the colours in between (in descending order of luminance) were attributed tones at intervals between these values.

Sebástian

2007 • 20 min

This short tells the story of an isolated detachment of Roman soldiers in the year 14 A.D., in which a Christian slave becomes the boy toy of the Commanding Officer. A plot of desires, passions and homosexual attraction that will lead to a tragic end.

John, I'm Sorry

2007 • 7 min

John, a middle aged professional, is distressed about the recent discovery that his lover, Anton, is cheating on him with a woman.

Por um fio

2007 • 14 min • Portugal

A red hank. A white embroidered sheet. A sudden wind. The overtaking of mourning finds, in love, its magic path.

Smalltown Boy

2007 • 13 min

David has known since he was very young that he was different -- and now he's fifteen he's decided to come out as gay. David feels the village where he lives has turned its back on him -- but the town's summer carnival gives him the chance to show everyone who he really is. Each year the prettiest young girl in the town is paraded through the main square as the carnival queen. But this year the festivities are going to be turned on their head -- David is the first ever gay male carnival queen.

Standing Silent Nation

2007 • 53 min

When the Oglala Sioux Tribe passed an ordinance separating industrial hemp from its illegal cousin, marijuana, Alex White Plume and his family glimpsed a brighter future. Having researched hemp as a sustainable crop that would grow in the inhospitable soil of the South Dakota Badlands, the White Plumes envisioned a new economy that would shrink the 85% unemployment rate on the Pine Ridge Reservation. They never dreamed they would find themselves swept up in a struggle over tribal sovereignty, economic rights, and common sense.

Guns N' Roses: Rock Case Studies

2007 • 60 min

Rock Case Study of Guns N' Roses

Heróis de Uma Nação

2007 • 50 min

Documentary about the conquest of the 1981 Libertadores Cup, won by Flamengo, the most popular soccer club in the world.

Pa

2007 • 5 min

A whimsical dance of jetés and arabesques movement is an older principe than the humid and blinks in a wild tempo that could last indefinitely and yet it stops at 4 minutes and 55 seconds. It is a series of snapshots, flashes without light that record all the times, the present ticks by and the seasons pass by in fast motion while the tree rids itself inside a round of fog, whether leafy and abounding in branches and ramified leaves or on the other hand light and loose. (Suzanne Doppelt)

Man Alive

2007 • 9 min

A man named Coda emerges from the men's room of a dive and hits on a woman at the bar who's wearing a slinky red dress. She puts him down and he moves to a corner of the bar, muttering about squirrels. The bartender, a gay man named Pixy, talks to her; she's Evey. She notices a man sitting by himself and she makes her move. Later, she steps to the door for a cigarette. Are circumstances going to bring Coda back into the picture?

Multipass

2007 • 40 min • Russia

Illegal races, Street challenge, incomparable characters - a portrait of the era. Nobody argues how fashionable it is now, good or bad, This is chaos, creativity, adrenaline. The speed and speed of reaction is the manner of a free artist, not constrained by any framework and obligations. The film was shot in the MTV style that is so popular among young people now. Mikhail and his team made an almost documentary film. Not a single take in the studio, everything was filmed only on the streets of Moscow in real extreme conditions, without official permission, without special letters. This is nonsense for the capital. Feel real freedom, forget about the constraints, about the conventions imposed by the metropolis. Only forward.

North Shore

2007 • 11 min

“Where the big ones break and the undercurrents push-pull an ancient, silent tune.” (FW)

Whispering Pines 4

2007 • 11 min

In this episode of the ongoing Whispering Pines series, Moulton's hapless protagonist Cynthia seeks a cure for an ailment via "Healing Hands," a natural New Age therapy. Donning conch-shell-and-pine-cone-adorned headphones and an Avon reflexology glove, she listens to "sound medicine" and undergoes a treatment with Lady Nova, a hand healer. This is a portal for an out-of-the-body experience, as Cynthia finds physical and spiritual release, dancing ecstatically in a psychedelically animated California landscape.

Head

2007 • 4 min • Canada

A short American memory, made from manipulated found footage.

Hella - Portals

2007 • 53 min

Documentary film by R.T. Thomas of Hella at Arco & Oakland Arenas (tour with Mars Volta & System of a Down). Self-released by Hella/R.T. Thomas due to copyright restrictions.

Infero

2007 • 10 min • Italy

The regression of desire condemns the combination of shapes to lower and primeval Kingdoms in the universal equalization of the world of animals and plants.

Worlds Finest Cars: The Insiders Guide

2007 • 26 min

The annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance car show is where the world's millionaires and billionaires show off some of the most exotic cars on the planet. Winning this competition can add hundreds of thousands to a car's value, but any of these collectors will tell you that it's not about the money-it's about bragging rights.

The 5.19

2007 • 4 min

Experimental video by Peter Newman.

Mesh - P.I.V. 7

2007 • 7 min

Experimental video by Peter Newman.

Mysterious! Unbelievable: Gruesome! Photographs of Murder Scenes

2007 • 60 min • Japan

Authentic ghost photographs carefully selected from among those submitted by the general public and explores the haunting truth behind them.The series follows up on the background of the photographs and the episodes related to them.

Vegas Pawn

2007 • 7 min

Pitch pilot for a reality TV show showing what running Gold & Silver Pawn is really like. Unlike Pawn Stars which came later and focused more on historical items, this showcases the craziness of running a pawn shop in Las Vegas.

Risitas and the Pans

2007 • 8 min • Spain

Risitas tells Jesús Quintero what happened to him when he went to work at a beach bar in Chipiona and they sent him to clean some paella pans. In the end they end up crying.

This Shall Be a Sign

2007 • 32 min

An interpretation of the conflict over the reconstruction of a ramp in Jerusalem, of the struggle for sovereignty over a holy site, and of the power of technology as the ubiquitous medium of communication and information in the age of multinational capitalism and the dominion of the English language.