All Films

First Stories - Patrick Ross

2006 • 5 min

In this short film, we meet 29-year-old Patrick Ross, an ex-prison inmate-turned-artist. Watch Patrick as he creates one of his extraordinary paintings while sharing his thoughts on his art, his time in jail, and his hopes for the future.

First Stories - Nganawendaanan Nde'ing (I Keep Them in My Heart)

2006 • 6 min

In this short documentary, filmmaker Shannon Letandre examines the importance of traditional knowledge and how it can be shared from generation to generation.

Elegy

2006 • 6 min • United States of America

"This poignant and unassuming color film interprets the dreams and memories of an elderly woman as she looks back on her life, The film searches for a deeper image of death. A sense of loss weighs heavily in this work as what appears to be a home movie of a grandmother alone at the grave of her husband plays unaltered. Hope is symbolized in images of cherry trees in bloom and stained glass church windows, perhaps implying the promise of an afterlife." -- Black Maria Film Festival catalogue

Amants des hommes

2006 • 27 min

During the Nazi regime, 100,000 men were arrested for homosexuality and 15,000 were deported, including 210 Frenchmen. After the depenalization of homosexuality, only one of the deported men from France had the courage to go public about an extradition that even now is not officially recognised. Alternating excerpts from Pierre Seel's autobiography "Moi Pierre Seel, déporté homosexuel" and conversations with militant gays, "Amants des hommes" seeks to shed light on a forgotten history, linking the past with the present and yesterday's homophobia with that of today.

Echoes

2006 • 7 min

While battling the stress of her everyday life, a harried woman gets a mental visit from an unwelcome yet all-too-familiar guest.

Coming Out

2006 • 7 min

A mockumentary about coming out straight in a gay world.

Jumpin' the Broom

2006 • 28 min

Intimate stories with gay and lesbians couples reveal the historical role of family, marriage and commitment in the African American Community.

Ginger Gora and the Gentles

2006 • 13 min

Mrs Chakravarty is woken early one morning by an urgent phone call from her sister Susheela. There's something wrong with her wayward niece Preeti and Susheela is demanding that she get to the root of it. Things don't quite go to plan when Preeti arrives for lunch with her ginger gora 'friend' Celeste. This ginger catalyst ultimately leads Preeti and Mrs Chakravarty to bridge a generation gap with a new and deeper understanding of each other.

Luna and the Moon

2006 • 7 min

Luna struggles with her loneliness in the isolation of a heartless city. How can a young transgender woman find love in the streets of Kings Cross, when she can't find any beauty in herself?

Act of Being Polite

2006 • 1 min

This short film deals with what appears to be about a man who has no attraction for his wife or lover, keeping this secret is the act of being polite. When he finally lets this out (he’s so exhausted of keeping it bundled) deeply hurts the lover in the situation.

Epilogue: The Palpable Invisibility of Life

2006 • 13 min

How can we make visible the invisible? How can we "see" our lost loved ones? In EPILOGUE, Vietnamese-American filmmaker Tran T. Kim Trang looks for answers to these questions in the audio recordings of her dead mother, the handwritinng of the late French philosopher Jacques Derrida and the ultrasound photos of her newborn baby. Finding no ready-made answers, Tran invites us to reflect about life and death in this moving video essay about motherhood and mourning. EPILOGUE is the eight and final installment of Tran's THE BLINDNESS SERIES.

157.74 m2, the optimal flat size in the KOLDOM

2006 • 4 min

4’02”, SD video, 2006.

Model of constructivist tower 1:50

2006 • 4 min

SD video installation, 2006

Witchwise

2006 • 13 min

Everyone adores Andrew, including his old Aunt Mary. Rather, she did... until she died.

Tent

2006 • 4 min

The artist flips handwritten notebook pages, recounting a confrontation between Fatah protesters and Hamas militia in the Gaza Strip.

Os Três Porquinhos

2006 • 4 min • Brazil

The children's fable adapted to the Brazilian reality. Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

November Ninth, We Stayed Up Late

2006 • 12 min

After a night of drinking in Los Angeles, Mark and Natalie, two transplants from Hawaii, retire to a friend's apartment where their drunken discussion touches upon notions of art, loneliness, and the inability to communicate.

The Alaska Pipeline

2006 • 55 min

When Atlantic Richfield prospectors struck oil at Prudhoe Bay early in 1968, they stumbled upon the largest oil field ever discovered in North America. Getting that oil out of Alaska would take nine years, employ some 78,000 people, cost more than $8 billion, and require threading 800 miles of steel pipe through America's most pristine wilderness.

Emma's Way

2006 • 52 min

Emma and Thérèse, students and then teachers in the 1930s, try to build a life together that is both committed and loving. But history ensnares them. A quest led by Emma's grandson to put together the pieces of two destinies shattered by the war.

American Thrill Show Stunt Film

2006 • 5 min

A promotional piece which displays a 360-degree roll later featured in the film. We can watch this with or without WJ Milligan as he tells us about the film and the stunts.

Pin Point

2006 • 4 min • United States of America

This decidedly creepy animated short takes audiences inside a gloomy orphanage where an evil caretaker seasons the children’s gruel with poison. A newly arrived little girl decides to take matters into her own hands—aided by an unlikely secret weapon.

JumpTrumpRumpBump

2006 • 8 min • United States of America

A gorgeous experimental animation, JumpTrumpRumpBump brings together recycling, a little girl, escaped convict animals and Jazz.

Adjustment

2006 • 7 min • United Kingdom

A diarist searches for flickers of hope in a drama of technical and emotional obsession.

Visitador

2006 • 19 min • Argentina

A very unusual medical representative.