All Films

The Ultimate Resource

2007 • 58 min

Somewhere on earth, at this very minute, a child is beginning its journey through life. Two-hundred-and-fifty babies are born every minute, 15 thousand an hour, 132 million a year - each and every year. Among them may be the potential to cure disease, or to change the course of world history, because people are the world's ultimate resource.

The Rise of Khalsa

2007 • 57 min • Singapore, Canada, United States of America, India

This movie takes the viewers along Baba Banda Singh Bahadur's journey from his first meeting with Guru Gobind Singh Ji till he conquered Sirhind and established the first Khalsa rule.

Bauern! (Farmers!)

2007 • 51 min

While working on a film on agriculture in Burkina Faso, I heard about the custom of legré, a collective harvesting. Discussing the tradition with a unionist, he mentioned a legré that was going to happen in a near by village during the next days. The unionist called the village and asked for permission to visit and film the collective harvesting. When visiting the village the head, Emmanuel Sanou Bourouté, asked me about my research. During the filming I realized that the farmers discussed all the different problems that cotton producers are exposed to in relation to the national and international market. As well I realized that the legré might have organized just for me.

The Wall

2007 • 20 min • Ukraine

The film begins as a simple portrayal of hazing in the army and later unfolds as a metaphor for East-West relations.

Top Gear: US Special 2008

2007 • 59 min

The Top Gear team go on a US adventure. Its the ultimate road trip and finds the guys driving $1000 wrecks over 700 stifling miles to New Orleans. In a Chevy, a Caddy and a Pick-Up, their challenges include preparing a road kill feast and baiting rednecks of Alabama without getting shot.

Odesa Manholes

2007 • 7 min • Ukraine

We often see these children on our streets... A short documentary about those who live among us, under the manhole covers of Odesa.

America's Game: 2001 New England Patriots

2007 • 45 min

The story of Super Bowl XXXVI champion New England Patriots. Featuring interviews with Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady, safety Lawyer Milloy and kicker Adam Vinatieri. Narrated by Martin Sheen.

Lightchasers

2007 • 15 min • Canada

Three strangers meet at the crossroads of their lives. Unknowingly, they have a lifesaving gift for each other.

Maïté

2007 • 18 min • Canada

Without dialogues, Maϊté shows us an adolescent who goes to a big city to a black metal concert.

Fairytales & Folklore

2007 • 9 min • United States of America

Scholar Jack Zipes discusses the lasting power of fairy tales and the way their tropes are reframed in the 1987 film THE PRINCESS BRIDE.

Fuel

2007 • 21 min

Fuel was premiered in a multi-media performance with a film by Bill Morrison at the Kaispeicher B Warehouse at the port of Hamburg, Germany, in 2007.

God is American

2007 • 52 min • France, Vanuatu

Since the End of World War II, the People of Tanna, a remote island in the south Pacific in the archipelago of Vanuatu, idolize an American prophet. His name is John Frum. The islanders believe he is an American pilot that returned to the United States after the war, and will come back to Tanna with riches from the US that they call "the cargo". They pray to an American flag, awaiting his return. One man, Isaac the Last One, chief of the "Cargo Cult", claims he is Frum's Son. He has formed an army of GI's to celebrate the return of the prophet John Frum.

Grainger's World: Yindi: The Last Koala?

2007 • 48 min

After his mother is injured in a car crash, baby koala Yindi is raised by humans. Yindi later reunites with his mother, and the two of them are released into the wild, where they adapt to their new surroundings and try to survive a brutal bushfire. Filmed on location in Eastern Australia, this entertaining documentary highlights the many difficulties koalas face and the special ways humans can work to help them.

Nooma You 015

2007 • 14 min • United States of America

Some of the central claims of the Christian faith are the source of many discussions and heated debates. But are we always debating the right things? Maybe some of our discussions would change significantly if we had more insight into the actual circumstances that surrounded the first people of the Christian movement--if we had a better understanding of the things they did in the context of the world they lived in. Maybe some of the claims of the Christian faith that we typically perceive to be unique aren't really that special at all. And at the same time, maybe we don't always put enough emphasis on the things that truly should matter in our lives.

Money, Version 2

2007 • 22 min

"Capitalism is always more profit for the sake of profit, it is not a relevant idea" Nicolas REY "MONEY, VERSION 2" is an inhuman, violent and idiot video-film exactly like "liberalism" (inhuman, violent and idiot). This time, this video-film (without computer) can not merely take on to be only "amusing", "diverting" or even "interesting". The film (MONEY, VERSION 2) is first "unbearable" or even "painful", like its subject: "money", genuine golden calf of a society controlled by perverse and dangerous morons: the "capitalists" or "globalising-liberal-totalitarian» 31/01/07

Super 8 Diary - 2007

2007 • 40 min • United States of America

Ecstatic Vessels

2007 • 21 min

Blaze in the trees Blaze on the brow. Incidents, spontaneity and presence circle wildly in the natural world. In the deep woods the elements nod and sweep and seem to signal to each other. Incidents occur. Spontaneity. Foreground and background. Shifting perspectives. A vast scattered array pulls together and with it ideas of trees, wind, sun, and relationships.

Nif Fin

2007 • 4 min • Spain

Nif Fin is an experimental film about the end of a film with actress Carmen Sevilla as the leading role. Retaking the last shots through out of focus, this structural found footage piece recycles the original footage, by means of changing his narrative continuity. It misrepresents the cause-effect pattern to propose a new ending that challenges the notion of happy ending.

America's Game: 1986 New York Giants

2007 • 45 min

The New York Giants hadn't won an NFL championship in 30 years before Bill Parcells' led them to two Super Bowl victories in five years. In 1986 the Giants were loaded. On defense, Lawrence Taylor, considered by many to be the best outside linebacker ever to play the game, won the NFL MVP Award. He and middle linebacker, Harry Carson, both future Hall of Famers, led an overwhelming defense. On offense, the Giants were led by tight end Mark Bavaro, 1500 yard rusher, Joe Morris and quarterback Phil Simms, a good quarterback who had yet to prove he could be great. In Super Bowl XXI he did just that with a precision passing game that is unmatched as the Giants defeated the Broncos 39-20

Capitalism: Slavery

2007 • 3 min • United States of America

In Capitalism: Slavery, Jacobs uses a Victorian stereograph (a double-photograph) of slaves picking cotton under the watchful eye of a white overseer as the source for this wrenching silent work. Through digital manipulation, Jacobs creates a haunting illusion of depth and movement. It is as if he has "entered" the image and reactivated this historical moment; he moves among the figures and isolates individuals, creating a stuttering, pulsing effect that suggests motion even as it animates stasis.

Paulo Freire Contemporâneo

2007 • 53 min • Brazil

In honor of educator Paulo Freire , the Ministry of Education (MEC), through the Department of Distance Education (Seed), launches the documentary "Paulo Freire contemporaneous", by Toni Venturi. According to the director, the video takes up the origins of the first experiences of literacy and popular education developed by Paulo Freire and shows how his thinking and pedagogy are still present today. This is not just a memory movie. The documentary shows situations in which the Freirean teaching model is used today. People are unaware of actions that drank from that fountain. The film updates Paulo Freire and shows how he took root in many segments of society

Transfiction

2007 • 57 min • United Kingdom

Transfiction explores 'ethnofiction' - an experimental ethnographic documentary film style in which the participants collaborate with the filmmaker to act out their own and others' life experiences in improvisations. The film focuses on identity and discrimination in the daily lives of transgendered Brazilians living in São Paulo. Fabia Mirassos projects her life through the role of Meg, a transsexual hairdresser confronting intolerance and re-living memories of abuse. Savana 'Bibi' Meirelles plays Zilda who makes her living as one of the many transgendered sex workers in São Paulo, as she struggles to find her way out of prostitution.

Invisible City

2007 • 58 min • Singapore

Chronicling the ways people attempt to leave a mark before they and their histories disappear. Invisible City director Tan Pin Pin interviews people – photographers, journalists and archaeologists – who are propelled by curiosity to find a City for themselves.

Lotus

2007 • 3 min • Japan

Vivid, chromatic animation.