All Films

Pyrats

2006 • 1 min • France

Animated short film about a group of pirates.

Cinémathèque Française

2006 • 6 min

Jonas Mekas films the inside of the Cinematheque Française. Especially while running. Part of the cycle of the First 40.

Sci Fi Inside: Stargate SG-1 200th Episode

2006 • 41 min

The 200th episode of the venerated sci-fi series is discussed during this special.

Summer Stock: Get Happy!

2006 • 17 min • United States of America

Discussion of the making of the film Summer Stock (1950).

Phoenix: Earthkeepers

2006 • 7 min • Japan

In a future Earth where cities have been buried by global warming and the environment essential for humanity has been devastated, a lonely hero named Kai lives without any friends to connect with. One day, guided by the “Phoenix”, he ventures into the desolate landscapes of what was once a thriving planet. What fate awaits Kai when he encounters a girl in this barren world?

Who Is Ferris Bueller?

2006 • 9 min • United States of America

A short documentary that looks at the qualities that define the title character in the classic film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," told through interview clips and film footage.

To Barbara Rubin with Love

2006 • 7 min

This is a mini-portrait of one of the legendary figures of the 60s who should be credited for the discovery of the Velvet Underground, for saving Bob Dylan's mind after the motorcycle crash, for her pioneering sound/image installations, for keeping the New York Sixties' art community together, for one of the key works of erotic cinema Christmas on Earth, and etc. and etc.

Brothers, Let Us Be Merry

2006 • 1 min • Austria

As part of the 2006 Mozart Year, 28 Austrian filmmakers, including Ulrich Seidl, were commissioned to create a minute-long film featuring Mozart's music. Seidl decided on the slaves' chorus from Zaide: "Brothers, let us be merry and bravely defy adversity" rings out while two dimly-lit men give themselves over to purposeless pleasure. They masturbate mechanically and monotonously. Paper towels stand ready next to them, as if waiting for consummation, the climax. Nietzsche claimed that all pleasure seeks to be eternal; Brothers, Let Us Be Merry depicts the hangover left by this unfulfilled utopia.

Scars

2006 • 47 min

Scars is a recreation of a series of interviews done over about a year with Chris, a man with a violent, dangerous past who, now with wife and child, talks about his regret for the pain he has caused to his victims, how his personality was molded by his violent father, and his fears for his young son. Jason Isaacs stars as Chris, and is interviewed by Leo Regan (as himself).

Moki, Sanna & Tonie

2006 • 57 min

Moki Cherry, Susanne "Sanna" Beckman and Tonie Roos, women who have lived close to successful men, while at the same time being independent in their various artistry. Moki was the widow of the jazz musician Don Cherry, Sanna is the daughter of the founder of Beckman's School of Design, Anders Beckman. Tonie lives with photographer Georg Oddner and is the daughter of Malmö architect Totte Roos. The friendship between the three artists has been lifelong.

The Fourth Sex

2006 • 27 min • Italy

Initially produced for the Surreal Sit-Com "The Fourth Sex" starring Claudio Santamaria in the role of Jesus that on the night of his 34th birthday goes to visit his new neighbors.

The Small Ones

2006 • 3 min

During World War II, the United States Army hired Lynne Sachs’ cousin, Sandor Lenard, to reconstruct the bones, small and large, of dead American soldiers. This short anti-war cine-poem is composed of highly abstracted battle imagery and children at a birthday party.

Postmortem Bliss

2006 • 11 min • United States of America

The over-medicated, addicted, and misdiagnosed generation of today.

Casket Climber Insect God

2006 • 3 min

After death, Teeth Man spends time around his casket with a monstrous insect and other horrid creatures before transforming into one himself.

Dangerous Love

2006 • 45 min

After a photoshoot in a secluded, forested area, all five band members are told to rest in the house they are staying at. Xiah, who desperately wants to play football, drags Max outside to play with him. Both get hurt and are rescued by a mysterious girl, who provides a place for them to heal from their injuries. However, they soon discover that she will not let them leave. Back at the main house, Micky is in his own world, extremely worried about his lost band-mates. Hero, after reading a fanfiction about his supposed romantic relationship with U-Know, becomes anxious about why U-Know is suddenly being extremely nice to him.

Lady's Pedigree: The Making of Lady and the Tramp

2006 • 52 min

A documentary on the making of Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp created for the 2006 Platinum DVD.

D-Day: The Price Of Freedom

2006 • 52 min

D-Day, June 6, 1944, was a turning point in the history of the world and thousands of young Americans played an important role that day. Travel with several of these men as they return to the beaches of Normandy to tell their stories of survival.

Saling Pusa

2006 • 6 min

Without any money in her pocket, a seemingly innocent girl joins an intense game of gambling with three shady-looking men. Who will win everything? Who will leave with more than nothing?

Jams Run Free

2006 • 4 min

Music Video for the song Jams Run Free by Sonic Youth

Yume

2006 • 2 min • Japan

A visualization of how dreams mush up unrelated events together to make up a single story.

P.o.v.

2006 • 13 min

As Joe struggles with his guilt of giving into his long repressed desires, relive the night through his P.O.V. What will happen?

Sam Remembers Papa Kong

2006 • 1 min

A monkey reminisces about King Kong

La Paloma

2006 • 1 min • Germany

A reference to the song of the same name, which carries the motif of "La Paloma" (the dove) and can be traced back to an episode that occurred in 492 BC, before Darius' invasion of Greece, a time when the white dove had not yet been seen in Europe.

Sound of the Street

2006 • 3 min

One of 13 short films produced by the Palestinian Filmmakers’ Collective in the omnibus collection Palestine, Summer 2006.