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Montaña de luz

Montaña de luz

2005 • 53 min
The Cuban documentary Montaña de Luz-produced by ICAIC (Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos)-follows Cuban doctors working in collaboration with the communities throughout Latin America and Africa.The doctors work for no pay in areas of the world where there is either no medical care available or where the few local doctors are unable to meet the enomorus need, such as the AIDS epidemic in Namibia and flood victims in Haiti.
Children of Rome Open City

Children of Rome Open City

2005 • 53 min
A look at the making of Roberto Rossellini's neorealism classic, Rome, Open City.
Another Place and Yet the Same

Another Place and Yet the Same

2005 • 35 min • Russia
It is my endeavor to stop time for a moment and to look through a different prism at things which have been around us for so long, forgotten and unnoticeable by us for so long. Forest, lake, meadow, sky... twilight... moon.
Gallery Dogs

Gallery Dogs

2005 • 3 min • Peru
2005 Peruvian experimental short
Blind Alley Augury

Blind Alley Augury

2005 • 3 min
A direct record with on-screen edition in which beings, objects, light, shadow, and color are portrayed in a program, as if they were part of an ecosystem.

The Girl Who Lost Her Head

The Girl Who Lost Her Head

2005 • 21 min
Out of the Closet

Out of the Closet

2005 • 13 min
Despite often being deemed the most liberal society in the Middle East, Lebanese law still condemns and criminalizes homosexuals, often arbitrarily arresting and abusing innocent civilians. This documentary features interviews with gay citizens who have suffered rejection from their families and been ignored by the law. It features an interview with oneof the founders of Lebanon's first LGBT rights organization, Helem.
Sketch Film #1

Sketch Film #1

2005 • 3 min • United States of America
Sketch Film #1 (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2005, 3 min., super 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, USA) As a painter carries a sketchbook and practices drawing, I carried a Super 8 camera and shot frame by frame, as an everyday exercise to make animations of lines and shapes found in the public space. The entire film was edited in camera and hand-processed afterwards.
Red Bull 5X

Red Bull 5X

2005 • 42 min
A new pick-up game for surfing. Andy Irons, Mick Fanning, Bruce Irons, Jamie O'Brien, Ian Walsh, Ben Dunn, Beau Emerton, Alex Gray.
Aim

Aim

2005 • 3 min
Western-found footage, manipulated to the point of being unable to convey a plot: an armed robbery is prevented through the camera, which brings one figure into a grotesque conflict. The armed confrontation gets stuck in a pounding staccato, while the public - although enbedded in the narration - remains disinformed.
Shadows Choose Their Horrors

Shadows Choose Their Horrors

2005 • 31 min
Shadows Choose Their Horrors is the dark and melodic diary of a necromancer living on the edge between the mortal world and the realm of lost souls. Sinister forces surround Madame G (Winsome Brown) as she tries to bond with her favorite undead. Using magic and ritual to give them new life and pleasures, Madame G is shocked by the devastating outcome. This camp and experimental reworking of early silent horror was inspired by both the un-staged Aaron Copland ballet Grohg, and the film that stirred the young Copland to write his ballet, Nosferatu.
Oil and Water

Oil and Water

2005 • 26 min
Superimposing images and layering psychological inquiry with poetry, Oil and Water is an experimental environmental film, attempting to sway the heart in ways reason and science cannot.
Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the Korean People's Army

Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the Korean People's Army

2005 • 60 min
This is a documentary film about the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Army of North Korea.
Motion Studies: Gravity

Motion Studies: Gravity

2005 • 3 min
Gravity was shot on a quiet fall afternoon and provides empirical evidence of the instantaneous propagation of gravity and our world's drag on foreign bodies. Set against the tragic transmissions of Soviet cosmonauts, it's a short study of humanity's persistent self-sacrifice for the sake of scientific 'progress'.
Urban Inuk

Urban Inuk

2005 • 47 min • Canada
Qallunajatut (Urban Inuk) follows the lives of three Inuit in Montreal over the course of one hot and humid summer.Only two generations ago Inuit lived in small, nomadic hunting camps scattered across the vast Arctic landscape. Since the 1950s, this traditional lifestyle has undergone an astonishing transition from Stone Age to Information Age, as Inuit first relocated (often by force) to government-run settlements, and, more recently, beyond the settlement into southern cities.
A Little House on a Tree

A Little House on a Tree

2005 • 6 min • Croatia
An animated film about loyalty and friendship that are able to overcome all trials. The unusual friendship between a boy and a tree forms an even more peculiar tree house, which seems to have grown up with the tree.
Detroit Devival

Detroit Devival

2005 • 60 min
Religions have revivals but the Chruch of the Subgenius has devivals. This is a video from the latest one in Detroit. The video itself is basically a stage being filmed. The stage has random bands playing on it , rants and all the goodness you turn to the Subgenii for.
Reparations... Now

Reparations... Now

2005 • 24 min
A critical documentary that captures the terror of unnamable loss shouldered by twenty-first century descendants of slaves.
How Little We Know of Our Neighbours

How Little We Know of Our Neighbours

2005 • 49 min • United States of America
How Little We Know of Our Neighbours is an experimental documentary about Britain's Mass Observation Movement. At its centre is a look at the multiple roles cameras have played in public space, starting in the 1880s when the first hand-held camera brought photography out of the studio and onto the street. The film looks at Mass Observation and its relationship to contemporary phenomena, from police surveillance to webcams to reality television, pointing to ways in which our notions of privacy and self-definition have changed.
Hollywood Rivals: Joan Crawford vs. Bette Davis

Hollywood Rivals: Joan Crawford vs. Bette Davis

2005 • 50 min
Their off-camera battles made headlines all over the world! Two gigantic egos, clashing on the set of one gigantic film! They were Ruth Elizabeth Davis and Lucille Fay LeSueur - much better known as Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Davis was the tempestuous queen of Warner Brothers in the 1930s, while Crawford led the parade of thirties glamour gals at MGM. In the forties, they were both under contract to Warner Brothers, but they only worked together once professionally - as bitter rival sisters in the memorable 1962 thriller "What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?" The tales of their real-life rivalry on the set are legendary. The clash of their powerful personalities threatened to shut down the film. Here is their amazing story, told thru rare film clips, photos, and newsreels. As a special bonus, this DVD contains two fascinating documentaries, Hollywood Remembers Bette Davis and Hollywood Remembers Joan Crawford, Featuring memorable scenes from some of their greatest films.
The Pilot's Funeral

The Pilot's Funeral

2005 • 26 min
In life Adrian Wagg forged an extraordinary connection with Arnhem Land and its people; in death he was given a remarkable Yolngu burial, an ancient ceremony revived in his honour.
Ailano, la tradizione

Ailano, la tradizione

2005 • 53 min • Italy
The religious traditions of a town in the province of Caserta, Italy.
Discovery: The Bali Bombing

Discovery: The Bali Bombing

2005 • 47 min
On a balmy evening in October 2002, young Western tourists and Balinese revelers pack the bars and nightclubs that line the main strip of Kuta, on the resort island of Bali. The night seems full of promise; of sizzling romance and unfettered fun. However, for hundreds of these partygoers this night will be their last.
Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, Part III

Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, Part III

2005 • 53 min
The film 'Seven Intellectuals In Bamboo Forest' is based on the history of seven talented intellectuals from the ancient Chinese Wei and Jin Dynasties. Ruan Ji, Ji Kang, Shan Tao, Liu Ling, Ruan Yan, Xiang Xiu and Wang Rong were famous poets and artists at that time. Open and unruly, they used to gather and drink in the bamboo forest, singing songs and playing traditional Chinese musical instruments, in the hope of escaping from earthly life. They pursued individuality, freedom, and liberty. Their remarkable talent and passion made them a notable group in Chinese history. In Part 3 these 7 young people try to change their identity and have a different life. They choose to live in China's Southwestern villages, where they can get closer to nature, and to their own hearts.