All Films

The Sophilights

2005 • 28 min

The Big Fix 2000: Who Runs the Show?

2005 • 55 min

Who owns America's elections? Was the final outcome of the 2000 US Presidential election determined by secret men behind closed doors? Did Mobsters manipulate voter counts in the state of Florida? The Big Fix 2000 takes you beyond the election night media frenzy, uncovering at every turn, the hidden connections to nationwide electoral fraud.

Une vue sur l'autre rive

2005 • 24 min • France

Love Is a Choice: The Life of St. Gianna Molla

2005 • 52 min

This video documents the heroic life of St. Gianna Molla through interviews with her husband, children, friends, letters, and family mementos. St. Gianna, who sacrificed her life to save her unborn baby, was a mother, a medical doctor, a lover of opera, art, and culture; one who can speak much to our present day especially when family life is threatened on so many fronts.

Mrs. Potts' Party

2005 • 21 min

Belle plans a surprise party to cheer up Mrs. Potts. However, this launches a heated rivalry between Lumiere and Cogsworth as to who can put on the most elaborate affair.

Bob Frissell - Nothing to Something

2005 • 57 min

A look at the works of Bob Frissell

Actors Descending and Ascending a Staircase

2005 • 16 min

In this thespian workout, a troop of stage actors improvises within a kaleidoscopic zone of warped spaces.

In the Garden of Eros

2005 • 18 min

The dialogue for this production, featuring Cupid, is taken from the pages of a personal diary found under a chair.

Mind Me Good Now!

2005 • 8 min

A Caribbean version of the old children's story of Hansel and Gretel. Two children disobey their mother and go into the forest where a "Cocoya" lives. The wicked witch invites them into her house because "little boys taste so nice." Based on the book by Lynette Comissiong.

Light Travel

2005 • 5 min

Landscapes of Portugal and the travel of the light.

Au fond des yeux

2005 • 3 min • France

To embody moments of transition between two different worlds, worlds which look alike. There are only antechambers and settings. Being the mask one wears, I have lost my decency. Dream and lie, what is the prospect of a one-eyed man? I question the dreamer’s figure as being simultaneously the emitter and the receiver of its own visions, the director and unique spectator of its projections.

Antonym of Concord(e)

2005 • 9 min • Japan

A work whose title is the idea. Shot at the famous Place de la Concorde in Paris. The square owes its discord neither to its Egyptian obelisk nor to the fact that it was the site of the execution of King Louis by guillotine. The film was shot with Super8, Kodacrome 80 film and has been re-shot with an optical printer during editing. The mixing of stills with 24 frames/second film creates visuals with a ‘discordant passage of time’.

Under Discussion

2005 • 7 min

The Puerto Rican island of Vieques was used by the US Navy for sixty years, leaving its landscape scarred with bomb-craters and its ecosystem severely contaminated. In 2003, a civil disobedience campaign was successful in forcing the military out, and the land has now been designated as a federal wildlife reserve. But this designation entails its own violence, marginalizing the demands of island residents that it be fully decontaminated and turned over to municipal management. This conflict is the point of departure for Under Discussion. An overturned conference table has been retrofitted with an engine and rubber grafted from a small fishing boat. In liberal thought, the table is a common architectural trope used for symmetrical communication and the non-violent resolution of conflict. Yet it often fails to account for the inequalities that structure spaces of negotiation.

Cataract

2005 • 8 min

In part Buddhist koan, in part urban love story, the film poses the question of unconditional love, and suggests that there may be an answer. Set in a lonely Berlin petrol station, it tells of the chance encounter between two strangers - a young Turkish woman who works at the petrol station and an enigmatic Russian immigrant who walks in one night. Abruptly he opens a conversation which leads them to embark on a fantastic journey, and to an end that no one is prepared for.

A Circle Around the Sun

2005 • 15 min

In a cyclical structure from dark to light, this film is a reflection on growing up in Beirut during the civil war years and adapting to the "post war" life: accepting the body that is in ruin, and learning to live in the city that is always already in ruin.

Totality Remix

2005 • 8 min

Directed by Johanna Vaude.

Asleep

2005 • 7 min

Night wandering in a labyrinthine city. Layout of roads, avenues, deserted streets, hostile architectures where the homeless, shadows of flesh and blood, lost in the power of the city, silently die. The film carries us away in the madness race of the city, at night, submerged by the insomniac, alienating waves of the media, through which the human voice tries, like a distant echo, an obstinate wake up call.

Panda Nursery

2005 • 50 min • China

Although they are trying to hold on to life despite all difficulties, there are fewer than a thousand in the wild today. But the struggle to save Panda and his species, the most beloved and charming bear in the world, continues with a great determination and dedication. The newborn panda puppies are now being raised by people with a new and wonderful partnership called 'exchange, cultivation', not just by their parents. In this documentary we look at the adventures of the panda nursery, who saved the lives of the twin pandas and the future of their generations, and the life stories of the cute pandas.

The Kings of Christmas

2005 • 10 min

Every year, starting on December 26, Steve Pancini begins to think about what animated-doll he will add to his lawn for next year's Christmas-even though he's already got hundreds of such dolls and has just taken weeks off from his job to maintain this year's display. Pancini, a Staten Island electrician, and others such as Frank Seddio, an Assemblyman in Canarsie, Brooklyn, compete to have the biggest, brightest, most over-the-top Christmas house in New York City. This short documentary shows what motivates these men and what it takes for them to pull it off bigger and flashier every year--despite the sometime objections of angry neighbors.

You Made Me Love You

2005 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Twenty-one dancers are held by your gaze. Losing contact can be traumatic. Twenty-one dancers play a game of cat and mouse with an unpredictable camera. Disoriented, the viewer is fixed by the gaze of dancers who crowd the frame. …On the one hand this is like looking at a group of aliens who have never seen anything like the camera (or you) before. The concentration of the faces on what is before them takes away their self-consciousness, and like a series of Thomas Ruff portraits they have an unsettling air of insouciance. But ultimately, the thought one is drawn to, and the allegory the title suggests, concern the contemporary obsession with becoming visible through some sort of brush with celebrity, however brief, demeaning or meaningless that might be.

Panni

2005 • 3 min

Panni is a visually arresting work in its formal structure and visual expression of colors. The subject matter of the film is a row of bed sheets flapping on a clothesline, drying in the wind. The colors punch through the screen as orange sheets flutter against a green backdrop of grass and trees.

Circunstancias

2005 • 53 min • United States of America

The story of a gay and Latino couple in New York. One of the lovers has a full professional life, the other, who has left everything in his native land, is unemployed and complains that his boyfriend works a lot and does not spend enough time with him.

Jane's Window

2005 • 11 min

My grandmother cherished her large dining room window for the opening it afforded her onto the world. From this perspective she would espy the arrival of friends and family, contemplate the change of seasons and reflect on time past. On the shelves of this window she collected mementos of a childhood in China, life as an artist, and the travels in between. Combining images of my own travels through Japan and China with images of the home my grandparents built, Jane’s Window reflects on the passing down of memory, curiosity and creativity across generations.

Case 442

2005 • 49 min • Australia

Frank Byrne was forcibly removed from his mother Maudie at the age of 5 and has been searching and yearning for her almost all of his life.