All Films

The Elementals

2006 • 2 min

Early test 1952. After an introduction from Ray, we see a glimpse of another un-made Harryhausen film. A test animation to encourage interest in this fantasy project, whereby a dragon-like being is attacking a man.

Dear Mrs Ougi Chikage

2006 • 34 min • Japan

Kenji Murakami seeks out legendary wildman director Kenji Onishi and arranges a meeting with director Yoko Oguchi. The meeting turns unexpectedly intense...

The Once and Future Griffith Observatory

2006 • 24 min • United States of America

Documentary about the Griffith Observatory, shown at their Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater

Awaiting

2006 • 11 min

The film is a lyrical representation of waiting and expecting as a basic condition of human existence.

Elizabeth Murray: 4 Decades

2006 • 58 min • United States of America

"Elizabeth Murray: 4 Decades" tracks the artist's career and shows her moving forward fearlessly toward new shapes and concepts for her unique style of painting. Inspired by artists of the Abstract Expressionism movement such as Willem de Kooning and Philip Guston, Murray was privy to their technique and motive. Though she may share ideals with her artistic predecessors, Murray has created miraculously original work which she discusses with curator Robert Storr as they explore her MoMA retrospective.

Kubasa in a Glass: The Strange World of the Winnipeg Television Commercial (1975-1993)

2006 • 52 min • Canada

A found footage video essay tracing Winnipeg's civic pathologies, aesthetic fabulations and exquisite strangeness through the prism of its own low-budget, lo-fi TV advertising produced between 1975 and 1992.

Kateryna

2006 • 3 min • Ukraine

A family, a husband, a member of the Ukrainian People's Republic, goes to war, accompanied by his wife Kateryna, mother, and father. At night, a clash occurs between Ukrainians and White Guards...

Derek Meddings: Making It Small in Pictures

2006 • 3 min

A short documentary about Derek Meddings.

The Kinks: The Live Broadcasts

2006 • 60 min

The Kinks played a leading part of the British Invasion of America. With Ray Davies' incredible song-writing talent at the helm, they soon became one of popular music's most significant bands, influencing a plethora of styles from hard rock to Britpop. This superb DVD features rare footage of the Kinks previously unreleased on DVD, featuring their greatest hits from rare live performances from television and film archives. Features You Really Got Me, All Day And All Of The Night, Waterloo Sunset, Lola, Celluloid Heroes, No More Looking Back, Life On The Road, Sleepwalker, Misfits, Live Life, Lost And Found. Formed by brothers Ray and Dave Davies in 1964 London, the Kinks cultivated an inventive, post-Beatles pop sound that helped launch the British Invasion. This program captures the Kinks at their creative peak with a collection of rare live performances culled from their television appearances.

Linoleum Dodo

2006 • 1 min • United States of America

a Geefwee Boedoe Cartoon made at CalArts

Tokyo Strut

2006 • 5 min

Short film made by Masahiko Sato and Mio Ueta, featured in Tokyo Loop.

Ghost Stories III: School Ghost Stories

2006 • 50 min • Japan

Who walks around the school at night?　What happens when people die? Why did his classmates choose to die? When a boy's "thoughts" encounter a spirit, he is pulled into the story! A Ghost Story in the House "I can't go home anymore. Is this a dream or reality?

Shock! Urban Legends

2006 • 55 min • Japan

In the corner of a bustling city, strange rumors known as "urban legends" are whispered with eerie conviction.

The Destruction Quartet

2006 • 60 min

This was originally an art installation by Jonas Mekas which was later shown in a single-screen tetraptych.

Down There They Don't Mourn

2006 • 10 min

We meet two classmates who can´t adjust to life at school. Even though he has lived there for a year now, Thomas has still not been accepted by his classmates. Karsten is an oddball liked by few. The film is about the day when they, for various reasons, sneak away from their swimming lesson and destroy the carpentry room.

Depeche Mode: 1983 “Teenagers Growing Up, Bad Government… and All That Stuff.”

2006 • 39 min • United Kingdom

"Teenagers Growing Up, Bad Government… And All That Stuff" - While Alan Wilder becomes a full member of Depeche Mode, the band experiment with new sounds through sampling, for their third album "Construction Time Again".

Train Strasbourg-Paris

2006 • 1 min

Train Strausbourg–Paris primarily consists of Guerin’s earlier, preliminary attempt at filming the elements of a scene that appears in In the City of Sylvia.

McKids Adventures: Get Up and Go with Ronald

2006 • 31 min • United States of America

Ronald and the kids go outside and play with their bicycles, scooters, and skateboards. They also warm-up and play soccer and fly Kites. Ronald McDonald shows the kids his skateboard, which he mistakes for a unicycle. The kids point out his mistake and Ronald then brings the big wheel labeled "Get Up and Go" so the activity of the day is chosen. Ronald picks Jamal to spin the wheel and it lands on wheels. All the kids pick their favorite rides with wheels except for one girl named Kim, who is unsure if she is good enough at it.

Drifting Paradise

2006 • 52 min

A drifting soul is searching for meaning and connection after leaving home.

Hoch genug

2006 • 26 min

Morbidity, absurdism and a oral fixation for young girls.

A Smart Experiment

2006 • 3 min • Japan

Bonus short included on the "Atsushi Wada Works 2002-2010" DVD.

Bibi Hansen

2006 • 3 min • United States of America

I filmed the young Bibi Hansen in 1966 as a screen test for a film I wanted to make out the life of a young girl growing up in New York. The film was never made. This footage was taken in Central Park. The haiku in the film is by Matsuo Basho in Mobuyuki Yussa translation.

The Song of Central Park

2006 • 4 min • United States of America

During the course of a single winter’s day, January 16, 1966, Jonas Mekas captured impressionistic glimpses of people playing and working in Central Park and around the city on 16mm film. The kaleidoscope of skaters, strollers, vendors, and animals creates a multitude of patterns, while on the soundtrack Mekas comments candidly on the nature of cinema.

The Pandrogeny Manifesto

2006 • 12 min

Genesis P-Orridge and Lady Jaye Breyer P’Orridge talk about their pandrogeny manifesto, about gender, and about how they seek to become identical to one another via medical experimention.