All Films

Family Deck

2007 • 21 min • Japan

The Seven Lucky Gods (or kami, meaning both "hair" and "gods") live in the Takada’s barber shop in Tokyo—a set based on a real-life now-lost local store close to Murata’s heart—where they play charming tricks on the family of four.

Cross Section #2

2007 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin

My Happy Family

2007 • 45 min

This documentary, open and courageous, examines the challenges of lesbian motherhood in Russia. The film focuses on the first stage of parenthood, along with the decision of giving birth to a child in a same sex family, and a consideration of the options available to a lesbian couple in Russia. The two women welcome the audience (with the future baby's point of view) into their world, emotions, dreams and hopes.

Life as It Is: The Neorealist Movement in Italy

2007 • 40 min

A film scholar named Mark Shiel discusses the history of italian neo-realism in filmmaking, accompanied by rare still photographs and newly restored film footage.

My Favorite Child

2007 • 14 min • United States of America

The story of Dwight Core, Jr. and his family, following up the events of the home documentary "Think of Me First as a Person", shot decades ago by his father Dwight Core, Sr. and portraying the love a boy with Down syndrome shares with his four sisters, but also a heartache common to the era's disabled: leaving home for an institution. The little boy, Dwight Core, Jr., grew into a tall, 48-year-old man who enjoyed coloring and watching television in the living room of the Ocean View section of Norfolk, Virginia home he shared with one of his sisters, Cindy Klingler. In 2007, filmmaker Roger M. Richards brought the story of Dwight Core, Jr. to the present, documenting him as a grown man and the continuing love and devotion of his sisters to their brother.

Moose on the Loose

2007 • 48 min

Anchorage capital city of Alaska is the wildest city on Earth thanks to its dramatic wildlife. Alongside 260,000 people are up to 1,000 moose, 200 black bears and 60 grizzlies as well as large numbers of beavers, ravens and eagles. Managing this urban menagerie is all in a day's work for rangers Rick and Jesse. They believe that people and large dangerous animals can live in one city and through the groundbreaking Alaska Fish and Game project they're determined to prove it.

Compression Study #1 (Untitled data mashup)

2007 • 2 min

Single channel video, source material from YouTube.

The Drift

2007 • 9 min • United States of America

A mysterious disappearance on a late 1960s space journey entrances the nation. The ensuing search for the lost astronauts radically changes the nature of the country. This film reexamines the nature of our country's expansionist doctrines and the desire to push too far, too fast.

Ten Years before Independence

2007 • 35 min • Malaysia

October 20th, 1947 was a historical day in the Malayan people's constitutional struggle for independence from British colonialism. This documentary chronicles the events that culminated in the Malaya-wide 'Hartal' day of protest against the undemocratic Federation of Malaya Constitutional Proposals devised by the British Colonial Government, and the rise of the people's democratic movement in Malaya, ten years before independence.

Nooma Open 019

2007 • 12 min

Many of us have experienced situations where we've prayed and it felt like God wasn't listening. And yet other times we've prayed or known someone that prayed and the situation changed. Does God answer prayer? Sometimes, but not all the time? Or does God always answer prayer and it's just that sometimes God says no? Some of us are angry with God for not answering the prayers we've prayed for years. Why did he answer their prayer but not ours? What if there's more to prayer than just God listening and answering? Maybe if we understood how Jesus prayed, our concepts and expectations of prayer would change.

Western Union: Small Boats

2007 • 18 min

Isaac Julien’s 2007 multi-screen installation Western Union Small Boats is a work where individual voyages, journeys and travel are explored locally, in order to allude to the global scenario.

Sticks & Balls

2007 • 3 min

Golf is like sex, it's sticks and balls. Made for straight 8's 2007 competition on one cartridge of super 8 film with only in-camera edits and no post-production. premiered at straight 8's cannes film festival screening

War File: Aircraft Carrier

2007 • 56 min • United States of America

From its first modern use in World War II through the present day, the aircraft carrier has changed the face of air and sea combat. This vlolmne of War File follows its development and use from World War II on.

The Story of Sodom and Gomorrah

2007 • 6 min

The Story of Sodom and Gomorrah offers a comical seventies-style version of the well known biblical account of the divine punishment of the most perverse of men. As its title suggests, the film was constructed using the Village People's disco hit Sodom and Gomorrah as well as gay porn film shot in super 8 in the 1970s. By virtue of the film's editing, the multiple superimposed images accelerate at a crescendo pace towards the film's climactic outburst, due as much to the divine wrath as to the porn actors of this cinematic Sodom and Gomorrah…

Circles of Confusion

2007 • 11 min • United States of America

Circles of Confusion is meditative experimental documentary about loss in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The filmmaker parallels her experience upon returning to New Orleans with the experience of filmmaker Stevenson Palfi, who committed suicide in the months after the hurricane.

El Pimpo Maximo

2007 • 49 min

The underground cult film

S. Hamaliuk

2007 • 1 min

Lauro discovers, using the tap of his own bath tub, how to alter time and events. What Lauro could'n't know was that the different seasons would end up chewing him down.

Louis Armstrong - Live In Stockholm 1962

2007 • 40 min

Louis Armstrong live in Stockholm 1962 features a TV appearance by Armstrong from 1962 -- working on trumpet and vocals with a small group that includes Trummy Young on trombone -- and which features Monica Zetterlund guesting on vocals on one number, and Jewel Brown singing on another. The image is a bit grainy at times -- really best on the closeups -- and the performance features 12 numbers that include "Indiana", "A Kiss To Build A Dream On", "Blueberry Hill", "My Man", "After You've Gone", and "Mack The Knife"

Antigenic Drift

2007 • 16 min

Lewis' first digital film from 2007, a precursor for his feature-length series Circumstantial Pleasures

Senritsu no Toshi Densetsu File: Sono-saki o Shirou to Shite wa Ikenai...

2007 • 56 min • Japan

A production committee was formed to visit places where rumors of mysterious urban legends have said to originate from. First entry in the 'Senritsu no Toshi Densetsu FILE' series.

Nano

2007 • 1 min • France

The tension is mounting, the race for prizes is in full swing, some artists in the running are starting to have vapors. A tribe of creatures, all driven by one and the same goal, want to announce at the risk of their lives to all animation enthusiasts the event "Annecy 2007".

Basic How-To Halloween Makeups

2007 • 56 min • United States of America

Tempe Video presents 20 unique, easy-to-apply makeups, all created from materials found around the home and in local costume shops. Professional Hollywood makeup artists introduce you to some of their secrets, explained in easy to understand, step-by-step detail! Don't settle for the same old boring Halloween masks - impress your friends and be the life of any costume party! Makeups include: Zombie, Pumpkin-Head, Lizard, Witch, Cat, Exorcism Victim, Vampire, Alien, Burn Victim, Frankenstein's Monster, Mummy, Creature, Old Man, Phantom, Gargoyle, Robot, Swamp Creature, Evil Clown, Dracula and Ghastly Ghoul.

...calling to me from the angry surface of some grey and threatening sea. I was transported.

2007 • 11 min

In this film, Walker employs paper silhouettes, archival photographs, and other imagery to examine the history and long aftermath of slavery in the United States. Drawing on references to that history, the 2003 Darfur genocide, and the American South, she uses silhouettes, a nineteenth-century portrait technique, to reflect on issues of identity, race, and violence. The brightly colored backgrounds and country-inflected banjo soundtrack create a sense of spectacle that is at odds with the violence experienced by the figures, reminding viewers that images of black bodies in pain continue to be a source of entertainment under white supremacy. [Overview courtesy of The Whitney Museum]

Tool - Vicarious

2007 • 9 min

A music video for the song “Vicarious” by Tool, released in 2007, known for its dark, surreal, and computer-animated visuals accompanying the progressive metal track.