All Films

Darfur Diaries: Message from Home

2006 • 57 min

Leaving thousands dead and homeless, the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region raged for years before the world intervened. This documentary provides a record of the events through the voices of refugees, women and children.

Silly Symphonies Rediscovered

2006 • 15 min

This DVD extra was included with "Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies" and gives a very general overview of the series--the history, the art, how it influenced later films, etc..

Barnstorming

2006 • 49 min

Barnstorming is the true story of an unexpected friendship that developed between a farm family and two pilots who literally dropped out of the sky. Their friendship has created a new tradition out of an old one long gone: barnstorming.

Belfast Girls

2006 • 59 min • France, Sweden

The film follows teenage girls Mairéad Mc Ilkenny and Christine Savage. The two young women live in the same city but at the same time in two different worlds, cut off from each other by high walls that separate people.

Hallucii

2006 • 4 min

A large 3D animated drunken man passes out on a staircase.

Artel

2006 • 30 min • Russia

'Artel' portrays one day in the life of a small fisher community in the north of Russia.

Flavor Country

2006 • 35 min

Welcome to Flavor Country. Sandbox is back again with another great mix of many different styles of snowboarding. Flavor Country features some of the top pro riders along with a group of talented up and comers. We have been out shooting in some amazing locations this season such as Whistler/Blackcomb and Whistler backcountry, Blue River, the Alberta Rockies, Colorado, Japan, New Zealand, Quebec, South America, and Turkey. Athletes:Andrew Hardingham, Kevin Sansalone, Dustin Craven, Mark Sollors, Joni Makinen, Rube Goldberg, Ryan Hall, Tyler Lepore, Paul Gonzalez, Scott Shaw, Jonas Guinn, Brendan Keenan, Jeff Keenan, Rusty Okenden, Jeff Pepperdine, Geoff Brown, Andrew Burns, Mike Sudermann, Mikey Pederson, Logan Short

[desi're] - The Goldstein Reels

2006 • 4 min

An old celluloid film is labeled as being from the estate of Jack Goldstein. The unusual S8 footage is nevertheless difficult to interpret. Due to partially missing data, place, time and author cannot be determined and keep the beholder in the dark. The ongoing investigation has not been able to produce a reasonable explanation of the circumstances.

Tanagram

2006 • 5 min

Tanagram (2006-07) combines an outsized version of the titular ancient Chinese puzzle with a pair of muscular boys clad in updated gladiatorial costume. In the game tanagram (literally "seven boards of skill") players are asked to arrange seven geometric elements to fit within a set of predetermined outlines. Staged over a soundtrack comprised of mock Russian folk music and a song from the Red Army Choir, Molska's athletic performers converse in Russian using semi-incoherent lines of dialog lifted from a Polish to Russian phrase book, while creating shapes against the white background of the studio floor: one of which bears a striking resemblance to Kazimir Malevich's landmark Black Square (1915). Inflected by the parodic soundtrack and the flawless bodies that suggest Soviet-era ideals of the perfect worker, Tanagram is a send-up, if not a conflation, of Constructivist and Soviet-style utopian ideals.

Shrimp Boat Log

2006 • 6 min • United States of America

SHRIMP BOAT LOG, the first reel of the ongoing CONTINUOUS QUANTITIES series, contains 300 shots, 29 frames each, alternating between a notebook listing the names of shrimp boats that frequent the mouth of the Edisto River and images of these same boats. "I started keeping track of these boats in 1994 when my family first starting visiting Seabrook Island, South Carolina every summer. I've returned to this spot many times since, making a series of underwater, cameraless films there (the WHAT THE WATER SAID series), always continuing to watch for the shrimp boats. I filmed these images during the summer and fall of 2006 and cut them over the next several years, using Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks as a guide." - David Gatten

Hide

2006 • 8 min

Composed of densely atmospheric and highly stylized recycled commercial footage of young, picture perfect models pleasurably applying personal hygiene and cosmetic products in a quick cut montage of disembodied, glistening skins, hairs, hands, and lips, juxtaposed against the sensual application of assorted foams, lotions, waxes, and creams, these carefully constructed, plastic images begin to fade, speckle, crack, distort, and burn with the material deterioration of the celluloid itself, before being reduced to the stark whiteness - and unadulterated purity - of an empty projection. At once idealized and grotesque, the disintegrating images become an integral reflection of the title's double entendre of hide as both an organic surface that inherently decays with time, and the deliberate act of concealing its irreversible plasticity

Walt Disney's It's a Small World of Fun, Vol. 1

2006 • 55 min

You'll discover that it truly is a small world after all as you travel around the globe with this sensational animated collection. Follow a host of lovable Disney characters as they star in magical adventures from all across the world. Sit back and laugh as you enjoy these unforgettable stories, including the hilarious exploits of "The Flying Gauchito," from South America, and watch as a young boy learns to make the heavens shine in Japan's "Grievance Of A Starmaker." Join Mickey, Goofy, Pluto, and more of their friends from around the world in a wonderful collection of tales your whole family will adore!

Al Dente

2006 • 17 min • Finland

A short Finnish Western film.

Walt Disney's It's a Small World of Fun, Vol. 2

2006 • 53 min

The fun continues in Volume Two of this wonderful collection of Disney’s animated shorts. Join a host of memorable characters as they find mischief and fun in entertaining adventures from around the world. Sit back and laugh as you experience these unforgettable stories, including the hilarious exploits of Goofy in Greece's "The Olympic Champ," and Mickey and Minnie in Disney's acclaimed short "The Brave Little Tailor" from Great Britain. Your whole family will enjoy this fun-filled collection of magic tales from exciting lands!

There Is No Direction

2006 • 33 min

Short movie, from the official selection of the 2005 Cannes festival.

Versus

2006 • 10 min

Aukje Dekker’s Versus, records the artist first kissing then headbutting a boxing ball continuously for 10 minutes as a single take performance to camera. Such acts of apparent meaninglessness, allow Dekker to mediate on the status of value in a world without transcendence, which through her acts of banal repetition, create a frame of reference that can ultimately liberate us from the existential void we are all bound to eternally rehearse.

Six Arms - Homage to Mekas

2006 • 3 min

"I was asked to participate in a film program were filmmakers were asked to each shoot a 100ft roll of film in the style of legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas. This short burst cinematic film diary was shot on a nice Saturday Afternoon at my favorite Pub The Six Arms, I documented my afternoon as it happened. Their was no editing at all on this film it was all done in Camera. I liked the film so much that I decided to add a sound track and released it."

De larges détails, sur les pas de Francis Alÿs

2006 • 56 min • Mexico

Julien Devaux regularly worked with Francis Alÿs. Through interviews, happenings, paintings and videos we discover Alÿs' Mexico.

He Walked Away

2006 • 17 min

"Much in the way musicians will mine their previous compositions to create ever-evolving works, He Walked Away is a distinct yet nostalgic film. It distills what my eyes have witnessed, captured, and lost in 15 years of artistic growth, my obsessions, discoveries, vanishings and growing pains." - Jennifer Reeves

Sweet Dreams

2006 • 9 min • United States of America

Childhood dolls and adult toys populate this moody yet picturesque lullaby.

La Madonna in cielo, la "matre" in terra

2006 • 53 min • Italy

An anthropological research on the survival of the supernatural in traditional culture. Shot in different locations in southern Italy, the documentary focuses on the link between the cult of the Madonna and ancient rites related to female fertility.

Film for Invisible Ink case no. 71: BASE-PLUS-FOG

2006 • 10 min

We search for focus, the evidence is thin, but like breath on a mirror it speaks of life and provides a compass for the way home.

Tell Us the Truth Josephine: A Bitter Immigrant Story

2006 • 16 min

Tell Us the Truth Josephine is an experimental Drama about a Maltese woman's search for 'Home'. Josephine walks across Canada on stilts. And for Josephine to find home she must accept the 'Truth'. And once she does she can come off her stilts and land. Her journey is haunted by fragmented voices and images of her bloodline - bitter immigrant stories.

Tehran Chand Daraje Rishter

2006 • 28 min • Iran

Documentary about earthquake and lifestyle in Tehran.