All Films

Digital Video Effect: "Editions"

2006 • 11 min

This video was created and released into distribution as one work in a solo exhibition that Price held simultaneously at Friedrich Petzel Gallery, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, and Electronic Arts Intermix in New York in September 2006. As a video in the EAI collection, it is the one piece in the exhibition that remains "on-view" indefinitely, after the rest of the show has closed. The video serves as a sampler of Price's editioned videos to date, all of which have been sold through the Petzel and Spaulings galleries in small numbers. Here, fragments of sound and image from the editions have been brought together, yielding a montage that, while bordering on incoherence, provides access to these publicly unavailable artworks. Price juxtaposes disparate authors, editing strategies, and histories, yielding a work in the essay-film tradition, at once lyrical and messy, highly-edited and arbitrarily composed.

Prosopagnosia

2006 • 15 min

A story about a guy wandering around, sticking posters and looking for faces until he finds someone who recognizes him.

Bride of Galilee

2006 • 48 min

78 year old Fatma Hawari was a recently engaged young woman in 1948, when her village was bombed by Zionist forces during the Nakba. Found buried beneath the rubble with her lower body paralyzed, she sent her fiancé away and remained alone in a wheel chair, living in what became Israel. Every once in a while, she would take out the wedding dress she never wore. Then, over ten years ago, a man arrived in the village and asked for her forgiveness he was the pilot who had bombed her house. Unable to forgive, she sent him away, later to learn that he was Abe Nathan, better known as an Israeli peace activist. Years later, told by Israel that she is ineligible for war casualty compensation, as only “Arabs” could have caused her injuries, Fatma decides to trace Nathan, and ask him to confirm in writing that he had indeed bombed her home and family.

No mundo de Paulinho

2006 • 31 min • Portugal

Paulinho is one of the most charismatic figures of Sporting Clube de Portugal and even world football. This award-winning documentary opens up the world of a man whose life was saved by a job at the club he loved.

Vosges

2006 • 5 min

I met Antoine June 8, 2006 in Paris. Two months later, we walked in the Eschbourg forest in Alsace Bossue.

Qawliya Dance

2006 • 7 min • United States of America

Experimental short about the Qawliya gypsies in Iraq.

Drift It!

2006 • 60 min

Learn how to drift while watching the hottest talent burn rubber from Japan to the U.K. Witness some staggering sideways action and breathtaking long, fast slides, than take a seat in the classroom with rally analyst Robbie Head. He'll show you how to tear up the tarmac using any rear wheel drive car. Jump drifts, cross-line slides, vaulting box drifts and more are shown in detail - with unique pedal cameras to make sure you see how it's all done! The pros featured in Drift It! Have advice on which car and tires to use and modifications to help you drift faster and longer. Watch as legendary 'Drift King' Keiichi Tsuchiya teaches the law a thing or two about getaway driving and see drifters in action at Rockingham and Donington in turbo-charged BMWs, Toyota Supras and Mazda MX5's.

Tonic Sol-fa Christmas

2006 • 57 min

Vocal quartet Tonic Sol-fa performs a mix of traditional, secular and original holiday songs. From Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis.

Way of the Mantis

2006 • 6 min • United States of America

A young student learns his craft in martial Arts.

Handmade

2006 • 7 min • Brazil

This surreal design-inspired film blends live action and animation to illustrate the emotions of new love and heartbreak

The Language of Things

2006 • 33 min

An attempt to translate Walter Benjamin's theory "On the Language as Such and on the Language of Man" into a montage using images from Tokyo's hightech amusement parks and artificial environments: precisely calculated acceleration and merry-go-round machines, sophisticated wave pools affecting bodies with promethic rhythms – how does the language of man and the language of things read in relation to the industrial development of hightech amusement parks and the calculability of sky-reaching affects? (Angela Melitopoulos) „There is no event or thing in either animate or inanimate nature that does not in some way partake of language, for it is in the nature of each one to communicate its mental contents on language as such and on the language of man.“ (Walter Benjamin: "On the Language as Such and on the Language of Man")

To All Those

2006 • 6 min • United States of America

To All Those is a symphony by Josh Weissbach capturing a city from the perspective of commuter-dreamers, and all that unfolds in lone untethered thought. Through ambient sound and the slow textured images of an American cityscape, Weissbach creates a non-place, a site and rhythm that communicates the freedom of movement and practical pleasure of travel itself.

Vancouver Harsh Noise Purity

2006 • 50 min

Recorded live in Vancouver on July 20th 2006. Features the noise artists Richard Ramirez, The Rita, Taskmaster, Sick Buildings, and Flatgrey.

Con devoción

2006 • 53 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

La noche abre su flor

2006 • 45 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

Bracero

2006 • 59 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

Josephine Baker: Black Diva in a White Man's World

2006 • 46 min

A tender, revealing documentary about one of the most famous and popular performing artists of the 20th century. Her legendary banana belt dance created theatre history; her song "J'ai deux amours" became a classic, and her hymn. The film focuses on her life and work from a perspective that analyses images of Black people in popular culture. It portrays the artist in the mirror of European colonial cliches and presents her as a resistance fighter, an ambulance driver during WWII, and an outspoken activist against racial discrimination involved in the worldwide Black Consciousness movement of the 20th century.

Bleierne Wellen

2006 • 1 min • Germany

Gletscher

2006 • 3 min • Germany

Broadway

2006 • 3 min • Germany

From the Inner

2006 • 10 min • Mexico

This film, which was mainly shot in Mexico, deals with the spiritual power of this country, which can be found in both the nature and in its people. De dentro attempts to portray or conjure up the atmosphere of various rituals of the shamanic Maya and Huicholes tradition at a documentary and physical level.

Quelques fleurs pour un chant d'amour

2006 • 3 min • France

Two merry partners, fleshy roses and an improvised dance celebrate this glamrock jewel that glorifies the ambiguity of desire.

First Stories - My Indian Name

2006 • 6 min

This short film documents Darryl Nepinak's journey as he receives his Indian name, while exploring how traditional culture continues to shape and influence our modern sense of self.

Why be Catholic?

2006 • 55 min

Dr. Ray relates the story of his return to Catholicism after 10 years as an Evangelical Protestant. Christian Apologetics has never been so entertaining… or logical.