All Films

La beauté du diable

2006 • 13 min • France

The Devil's beauty is first a garden lived by fettereds statues, bodies tensed between sensuality, damnation and sacred. The film seduce by a brillant camera editing as a clear music. In a singular rhythm, images fall down as flights of quavers before a short lull, a shot, like a note...

Lake Ontario (in my head)

2006 • 6 min • Canada

A meditative look at a mutable and hypnotic horizon. Grainy Super 8 imagery, optically printed 16mm footage and an atmospheric soundtrack evoke the stillness of mind reached when standing before expansive sky and water. Filmed at Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts (Toronto), Lake Ontario (in my head) was created as part of the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) Film is Dead... Long Live Film! 25th anniversary commissioning project.

Lefties: Angry Wimmin

2006 • 60 min

This film charts the rise and fall of an extreme strain of feminism, which came out of Leeds in the late 1970s and early 80s. ‘Revolutionary Feminists’ castigated the mainstream of the women’s movement for being soft on men. They called on women to become ‘political lesbians’, believing that women would never be free until they withdrew from sexual relations with men.

The Golden Valley - Swindon to Gloucester

2006 • 49 min • United Kingdom

Skirting the edge of the Cotswolds the line from Swindon to Gloucester runs through the valley of the River Frome – enchantingly known as the Golden Valley. The viewing platform for our 36¾ mile journey is a 2-car class 143 Pacer operated by Wessex Trains. Some of the delights of any journey over this route are the classic GWR stations at Kemble and Stroud, little changed over time. As well as the usual shots of the driver at work, trackside runpasts and station sequences, there are aerial shots taken from a helicopter.

A Video

2006 • 3 min

A short video by Kyle Canterbury.

Larsen & Friends - ABECEDA

2006 • 60 min

Larsen & Friends ABECEDA captures an extremely special evening for Larsen, one that places them in a perfect visual and musical perspective revealing more an a little about this enigmatic quartet from Torino, Italy. For one night only Larsen assembled their closest musical friends to play to a sold out crowd at the Teatro Colosseo in Torino Italy. The purpose of the performance was to pay tribute to the work of Czech avant-garde designer, typographer, founder of Devestil and cultural radicalist Karel Teige and his ABECEDA - a 1926 collaboration with poet Vitoslav Nezva which minimalized text down to its basic components establishing a poetic dialogue between text and images.

Ledas längtan : En svanfilm

2006 • 9 min • Finland, Sweden

This is a movie dedicated to our long-necked citizens who mostly live in water. One day Leda gets enough and moves from the countryside to Stockholm.

Rancorous Call

2006 • 1 min • Sweden

Echoing through time the words from a speech originally held in 1775 with depth of panoptical dimensions. Barricades of artificial control mechanisms are installed to protect us from our selves – the ever expanding distance between us. Rancorous Call consists of imagery of surveillance cameras arranged in a symphony to Sir Patrick Henry's words uttered at St John's Church in Richmond, USA.

Fifty Minutes

2006 • 50 min

Shot over the course of three years, the video comprises a series of vignettes that reflect upon reading, nostalgia, and psychoanalysis.

L'Atolerette

2006 • 10 min

The incredible cross between nouvelle vague and funk carioca, generating the first genuinely french brazilian movie.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Funeral

2006 • 15 min

An unpleasant employee at a firm of undertakers gets the chance to change his life after something - strange happens on the way to the funeral.

Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure

2006 • 14 min • United States of America

Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure is a fourteen-minute experimental video that unfolds through a series of short episodes. "To describe Cooper Battersby and Emily Vey Duke's new video as ironic doesn't do it justice. Irony implies brittleness, cleverness and world weariness, but these two artists have...a sense of wonder at the endearing weirdness of life and all the vulnerable, furry little creatures immersed in it (mostly us)...[Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure] consists of a sequence of vignettes that share a kind of bleak humour, but the force of these artists' imaginations makes the whole anything but depressing." --Sarah Milroy, Globe and Mail

Patience

2006 • 3 min

[3:20 | Super 8 and HD versions available| B&W| 2006] Patiently, a soft breeze enters.

The Ex-Gay Industry

2006 • 22 min

The American ex-gay movement believes it can turn gay people straight. It’s becoming increasingly powerful and has Australia in its sights.They believe homosexuality is unnatural, preventable and curable.

Denver and the Mile High Orchestra: Timeless Christmas

2006 • 60 min

Denver and the Mile High Orchestra perform holiday favorites.

John Paul II - The Friend of All Humanity

2006 • 60 min • Holy See

John Paul II: The Friend of All Humanity spans the life of the former Pope, from his birth as Karol Wojtyla, in Poland, to his death as Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church in Rome.

Warmooge

2006 • 2 min

The rant of a Somali man known simply as Warmooge.

Bruges

2006 • 7 min

“Bruges” depicts life in a hotel room in a quaint, Belgian tourist town. Residents are also depicted walking and cycling to work on one of the city’s many canal bridges, as wildlife experiences its own reality in the waters below. A fine example of Jennings’ skillful editing.

L'Arc D'Iris (Souvenir D'Un Jardin)

2006 • 30 min

Three weeks of hiking in one of the highest-altitude places on earth: the Spirit Valley in the Himalayas. Two sequences of flowers picked like in herbarium, emphasized by the voice of villages and the chants of monasteries.

Copan: Até Onde Seus Olhos Alcançam

2006 • 13 min

A visit to the building Edifíco COPAN.

Pflasterzeichen

2006 • 2 min • Germany

Atelier

2006 • 7 min • Japan

A studio contains only the camera in a corner of the room. The filmmaker is absent. While rotating, the camera alternates between close-ups and wide angle shots of the studio.

mono.nucle.osis

2006 • 4 min

Your spleen could explode, but this happened instead… Based on a true story.

Wk=mMv2/2

2006 • 4 min • Austria

The abstruse title "Wk=mMv2/2" is the physical equation for a molecule's kinetic energy, and it refers to the images shown in the film: They were created by zooming at coincidentally photographed individuals on postcards. As a result of the extreme enlargement, the grid of the cards' printing is made clearly visible and the figures, many of which are only a few millimeters high in the original, are greatly abstracted.