All Films

Kaiser Chiefs: Enjoyment

2005 • 56 min • United Kingdom

Enjoyment is the follow-up DVD release to indie band Kaiser Chiefs' highly successful debut album Employment, released on November 28, 2005. The main focus of the DVD is an approximately 90 minute documentary directed by Walpole-based artist Cally Callomon (who is responsible for much of the band's artwork), with an unusual narration by Bill Nighy and over an hour of live footage shot from various points in the band's career, ranging from their time as indie band Parva to the 2005 tour of Employment.

Megadeth: Back to the Start

2005 • 44 min

Bonus DVD (Greatest Hits: Back to the Start) featuring the video for "Kill the King" as well as a seven-song live set recorded at the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver, CO, on December 27, 1999.

Lori and Cathy Get Married

2005 • 18 min

A warm, funny, joyous look at gay marriage in San Francisco. Going inside San Francisco City Hall during the historic days of February, 2004, the video follows a lesbian couple through the marriage process and on their wedding reception with friends and family in Napa, California.

China & The Forbidden City

2005 • 56 min

The first Westerner, man or woman, to film inside Communist China was Lucy Jarvis. A very special insider's look at the mystery, opulence, and grandeur of one of mankind's greatest treasures: a city, Peking, and a civilization that continues to endure.

Unknown Chaplin

2005 • 13 min

The Mechanicals

2005 • 8 min

Ever felt theres more going on than you can see? Ever wondered why your walls are thicker than they have to be? In the unseen spaces live ... The Mechanicals.

The Sculpture 100

2005 • 50 min • United Kingdom

The Sculpture 100 is a journey through one hundred public sculptures made across one hundred years. In 1905, Thomas Brock and Aston Webb began work on their final grand celebration of Victoria Regina, the Victoria Memorial, at one end of London's Mall. A century later, Marc Quinn's Alison Lapper Pregnant sits triumphant on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. This is a film about these, and ninety-eight other distinctive, significant, quirky, glorious public sculptures made for England in the century in between.

Columbus: Secrets from the Grave

2005 • 50 min

Aided by a direct descendant of Christopher Columbus, historians, scientists and archaeologists attempt to uncover the truth about the famous explorer's lineage in this investigative program. Researchers exhume Columbus's remains and analyze his DNA, as well as that of his brother and son, in an effort to unravel the explorer's mysterious origins. Scientists and experts also test vital documents and handwriting believed to be Columbus's.

Dervish: Live at Johnny Fox's

2005 • 60 min

In a brilliant move, the makers of this dynamic video set up a camera at Johnny Fox's Pub in Dublin, Ireland, to capture the merry members of Dervish in their element. The result is an unforgettable evening of traditional Irish music that includes "The Fair Maid," "Welcoming Poor Paddy Home," "A Stór Mo Chroí," "Johnny & Molly," "Maire Mhór," "The Hungary Rock" and "I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her."

Light from the East

2005 • 55 min • Ukraine

A troupe of American actors travels to the former Soviet Ukraine to participate in the first cultural exchange theatre project in history and find themselves trapped at the epicenter of a political revolution.

Combover: The Movie

2005 • 54 min

Hair Today gone tomorrow... this film examines the combover hairstyle. Tim Fenoglio and Chris Marino travel across America on the lookout for people with combovers.

Krypton Is Doomed

2005 • 34 min • United States of America

This work is derived from one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use neither film nor video. Highly stroboscopic and hallucinatory, these kinetic performances result in otherworldly spaces and plays of near-abstraction and suggestive imagery. In Krypton is Doomed, the audio accompaniment to the shifting visuals is an installment of a Superman radio play — the first ever broadcast, in 1940. This work highlights Jacobs' relentless experimentation with the very fabric of projected light.

Hurricane Katrina: The Storm That Drowned a City

2005 • 53 min

This arresting installment of "Nova" delivers a minute-by-minute account of Hurricane Katrina's destruction. Viewers will learn what made Katrina so lethal and why the event caused unparalleled devastation. The program presents riveting eyewitness reports about what occurred during the storm -- which was powerful in the face of planning and a sophisticated flood-protection system -- and state-of-the-art graphic imagery.

Torchlighters: The William Tyndale Story

2005 • 30 min

After translating Bible scriptures into English for the benefit of common people -- an act King Henry VIII's government has declared illegal -- William Tyndale begins living as a fugitive. But is his devotion to bringing God's word to every man, woman and child really a crime? This animated episode of "The Torchlighters" series follows William as he spends his life in hiding, pursued by the king's bounty hunters and aided by helpful Christians.

Panzer I & II: Light Tanks

2005 • 57 min • United States of America

One of the keys to Germany's early victories during World War II was the Panzer tanks. Although their heavier counterparts historically have received more attention, the Nazis' light tanks -- the Panzer I and II -- nonetheless played an invaluable role. This documentary zeros in on the smaller, more nimble machines, which, despite their light weight and thin armor, were a critical component in the defeats of Poland, France, Yugoslavia and Greece.

Latino Beginnings

2005 • 60 min

To be Latino in America is one thing, but to be a gay Latino is another. Norman Green's documentary delves into this minority within a minority. Gay Latinos have to break through the added layer of religion and masculinity embedded in the Hispanic culture. Jesse, an openly gay college student; Marisol, a woman who's nervous about coming out to her mother; and Gustavo, a drag performer, all share their thoughts and experiences.

Tokyo Blade: Live in London

2005 • 60 min

Rockers Tokyo Blade saturate London's Camden Palace Theatre with their trademark heavy-metal guitar riffs in this 1985 concert. Founded by guitarist Andy Boulton, the band gained international cult status in the mid-1980s with albums such as "Tokyo Blade/Midnight Rendevous," "Night of the Blade" and "Warrior of the Rising Son." They perform hits including "Dirty Faced Angels," "Lightning Strikes," "Black Hearts & Jaded Spades" and "Love Struck."

Panzer III: Medium Tank

2005 • 57 min • United States of America

Meet the Panzer III medium tank, one of Germany's showpiece weapons in World War II, often appearing in newsreel footage documenting early Nazi victories in Europe. Though it could easily hold its own against the Allied forces' tanks, the Panzer III met its match on the Eastern Front against the Russian T-34. By the end of the war, it had been shifted to secondary fronts and was often used as a command tank rather than on the main battlefield.

Motown: The Early Years

2005 • 41 min

Are You Ready For A Brand-New Beat? The gritty urban environment, the burgeoning pride and drive of black Americans, and blues, soul and gospel influences combined to form the music coming out of Detroit in the early 1960s. The sounds of early Motown were hopeful and soulful and, above all, made you want to dance.

In The Beginning Was The Word

2005 • 18 min

Three stories that take place in a bar, on a carnival day, complement each other and merge into a back and forth lyrical and humorous, which seeks to weave a reflection on the concept of truth and our search for explanations of an everyday phenomenon who nevertheless are far from fully understanding, like the invention of the wheel, or the way of life of other cultures.

Alla kan... inte ta körkort

2005 • 29 min • Sweden

A documentary about some people who together have taken hundreds of driving lessons.

Brainman

2005 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Daniel Tammet has autism. He is also a savant. He can perform mind-boggling mathematical calculations at breakneck speeds. But unlike other savants, who can perform similar feats, Tammet can describe how he does it. He speaks seven languages and is even devising his own language. Now scientists are asking whether his exceptional abilities are the key to unlock the secrets of autism. This documentary follows Daniel as he travels to America to meet the scientists who are convinced he may hold the key to unlocking similar abilities in everyone. He is challenged to learn Icelandic, one of the world’s hardest languages, in just one week. Will Daniel do it? And what can we learn from this prodigious talent?

Grey

2005 • 8 min • Bulgaria

Summer, bus stop, ordinary people, indifference... RAGE!

Stationary Music

2005 • 15 min • United Kingdom

In Stationary Music Jayne Parker finds an external shape for an internal process - Katharina Wolpe playing her father's 1925 Sonata.