All Films

Ken Leishman: The Flying Bandit

2005 • 47 min • Canada

Ken Leishman: The Flying Bandit tells the remarkable story of the life of Canadian bank robber, prison escape artist and folk hero Ken Leishman. Earning his nickname "The Flying Bandit", by using his plane as a getaway vehicle. Leishman masterminded several stylish yet completely non-violent bank robberies throughout Canada during the 1960's and 1970's including the biggest gold heist in Canadian history.

Caspian Bride

2005 • 9 min • Azerbaijan, Germany

Beneath layers of grime and waste, a man unearths an ancient mannequin, bringing it back to his humble abode. After a meticulous cleansing and adorning, he embarks on a whimsical bicycle journey through the oil fields, with the mannequin as his unconventional companion. As a band of curious children playfully trails behind him, their escapade takes an unexpected turn when they encounter a flock of grazing sheep.

I Had an Abortion

2005 • 52 min

Underneath the din of politicians posturing about "life" and "choice" and beyond the shouted slogans about murder and rights, there are real stories of real women who have had abortions. Each year in the US, 1.3 million abortions occur, but the topic is still so stigmatized it's never discussed in polite company. Powerful, poignant, and fiercely honest, I HAD AN ABORTION tackles this taboo, featuring 10 women - including famed feminist Gloria Steinem - who candidly describe experiences spanning seven decades, from the years before Roe v. Wade to the present day.

The first day as a grandmother

2005 • 15 min • South Korea

Short film by Minkyou Yoo.

Homos en banlieue

2005 • 52 min

How does one live in the suburbs when one is a young homosexual? Should you run away or stay hidden in this macho environment? Is violence against gays a myth or a reality? Let's discover through their testimonies, the life of four homosexuals who agreed to break the law of silence.

Helen Hill's Home Movies

2005 • 23 min

"These unedited rolls of live-action footage shot by the animator capture images of New Orleans rituals and events, and glimpses of several neighborhoods both before Hurricane Katrina and in its aftermath. The footage, too, was a victim of the storm and despite preservation shows clear signs of water damage." - Anthology Film Archives

Turning Points Stories of Life and Change in the Church

2005 • 57 min

Turning Points is a documentary about Presbyterians struggling with the denomination’s previous barriers to ordination for LGBT Presbyterians. It opens with the poignant visit of Susie Smith, now a minister in the United Church of Christ, to her former Presbyterian congregation in South Carolina. Congregation members speak to the camera and to Susie about how their lives were changed by her presence and her departure. The choice between one’s son and one’s church is the focus of the Calhoun family’s story in the second segment. The third story recounts a tragic moment of misunderstanding in the life of a young minister and a daring act of reconciliation twenty years later. The fourth segment considers how a thriving congregation in the Midwest welcomes and includes gay and lesbian members.

Knowledge of Good and Evil

2005 • 2 min • Canada

"An abstract exploration of the tension surrounding women and stereotypical representations of their knowledge. The film was created from footage shot at Phil Hoffman's independent imaging retreat in Ontario as well as from footage shot in Vancouver (where I had given myself the challenge of shooting 100 feet of film every month). All of the footage was hand-processed, and some of it was contact printed by hand and treated in baths of potassium ferricyanide. The final film was created through various optical printing techniques." — Amanda Dawn Christie

Lancaster Bombers

2005 • 55 min

There is something delightfully nostalgic about the Lancaster Bomber that aircraft experts and enthusiasts alike will always appreciate. Reliable, versatile and readily available, the Avro Lancaster's arrival in 1942 made way for a new calibre of the four-engined bomber that would become Bomber Command's primary weapon during the Second World War. Participating in some of the most daring and famous missions of the day, the Lancaster marked a momentous period in British aviation history, and has maintained an iconic status ever since. Using original wartime footage and recent colour film of one of the few operational Lancaster's remaining in the world, this programme relays a full and fascinating account of the Lancaster's story, which will prove both informative and highly dramatic.

This Heat: Live In Koln Germany 1982

2005 • 43 min

A set from the end of This Heat's life, mid-transformation into Camberwell Now.

The Distance Between Here and There

2005 • 7 min • Canada

Traveling through an invented landscape... the space between here and there.

Envío 1

2005 • 1 min • Chile, Switzerland

for Ute Aurand, Berlin

After Hours

2005 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Shooting on 8mm film and making field recordings on cassette tape, recorded patterns of light and sound become a low quality, dreamlike plane of stillness, silence and uncertainty, exploring the passing of time through the study of vacant institutional spaces. The transitory spaces of these mundane but haunting buildings become an obsolete reality of forgotten ideals, the filmstrip itself a receiver of these resonances.

Living in the Dark

2005 • 5 min • United States of America

Often we can't appreciate something so close to us until its taken.

Invisible Cities

2005 • 48 min

Invisible Cities depicts a slow, almost weightless flight through what seems to be a deserted city where the only thing that reminds us of some life, are birds flying next to the central square. The sky is clear as the camera passes different archetypical aspects of any small northern European city: housing blocks, high rises, industrial areas, shopping streets and a railway station, leading to a central square.

The Hills Are Alive

2005 • 7 min • United States of America

With "The Hills Are Alive" BIermann takes an iconic scene from the 1965 Hollywood musical and reveals another take on the tenderness of this Rodgers and Hammerstein song, deconstructing it down to its smallest components, repeating its moments and reinscribing its music into something completely different.

Baby See 'n Sign: Vol. 1

2005 • 45 min • United States of America

This award-winning video provides parents with more than 60 baby and toddler signs and images -- the building blocks needed to learn basic American Sign Language. Baby See 'n' Sign is a first-rate educational tool and can promote communication with Down's Syndrome and autistic kids, as well as hearing, non-hearing, latent-deaf and adopted children from overseas. It's also an excellent source for those learning English as a second language.

Myten om prinsgrodan

2005 • 3 min • Sweden

Is it true that if you kiss the frog, it becomes a prince?

Al Simmons: I Collect Rocks

2005 • 55 min • Canada

Wildly popular entertainer, inventor of astounding gadgets, and all around nutty guy Al Simmons delivers a big dose of daffy to your DVD player. Continuing in Al’s tradition of offbeat unpredictability here’s one hour of wackiness that can't fail to delight. Loopy vaudeville-inspired routines connect six madcap music videos mixing adult and children’s humour. The result is entertainment we can all enjoy. This is truly a tour-de-force of ingenious, charming silliness.

cousin cousine

2005 • 20 min

cousins. words between chairs. voice to the piano. fingertips grope sense. bridges too high. personal collage about a hidden and hiding love.

Something to Love

2005 • 10 min

The protagonists of Something to Love are a young man, an older man, a young woman and an underground parking lot, devoid of people and cars, reminiscent of the sets of many thrillers. The film is charged with a film noire atmosphere and the ghosts of all the mysteries shot in parking lots and staircases.

Bliss and Heaven

2005 • 9 min

Melodramatic but never campy or over the top and with Hollywood-quality production values, Jesper Just films probe vulnerable, ordinarily well-armored zones of the masculine psyche like grief, same-sex love, Oedipal conflict and spiritual desire.

Bosques

2005 • 46 min

José owns a window and door shop that is on the verge of bankruptcy and plans to emigrate abroad in hopes of finding a better life. José is single and unable to compromise.

Radionica

2005 • 12 min

Margareta Kern spent a month recording the working life at her mother's made-to-measure tailoring business, which she runs from a small flat in Banja Luka (Bosnia-Herzegovina). The resulting video, Radionica, is in two parts. The first part reflects the intimate nature of conversations between women while getting their clothes made, and on the slippage between the private space of home and the public space of work. The second part focuses on the story of Desa, who re-counts a scene from the war that she saw on the TV, but which happened not far from her house. While re-telling her story, Desa does not stop sewing; the very act of working is enabling her to speak.