All Films

Snake Bite: In Search of the King Cobra

2005 • 45 min

Snake expert Austin Stevens presents this nature documentary about the most feared snake of all - the King Cobra. Travelling to the jungles of south west India, Stevens reveals that despite its reputation, the King Cobra is in fact a reclusive creature, shy of human contact.

To Wander in Oblivion

2005 • 58 min

To walk in Oblivion and remember their time when memory flows like a running river. Arne and Erik have become good friends in the grief and the realization that Oblivion struck. For Arne, music becomes a comfort when memory fails and he does not know where his wife lives. Erik meets Britta and their hands meet in incipient love. They are some of the people who live at Blackeberg's dementia nursing home.

Brush

2005 • 3 min • China

The story tells the dream work of an old painter. When the inspiration dries up, the protagonist attempts to commit suicide, enters the space in the picture in the hallucinations, realizes the inspiration of creation, and leaves the masterpiece-running horse, carrying the last life of the old painter, galloping away.

Lethe

2005 • 4 min

Two lovers swim in the river Lethe, the river of forgetfulness and oblivion. In Greek mythology, the river Lethe flowed through the Underworld, where all those who drank from it experiencend complete amnesia. The lovers never meet and thus drift apart. A girl dives into the river to forget an unhappy love.

Hammock

2005 • 4 min

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Leisurama

2005 • 49 min • United States of America

In 1963, All State Properties, capitalizing on publicity from an international debate between Nixon and Khrushchev, built a development of second homes in Montauk, New York. The homes were designed by architect Andrew Geller at industrial designer Raymond Loewy's office and were sold through Macy's Department Store. They came fully furnished, down to the toothbrush. A kitschy cold war architecture story.

Arirang Mass Games

2005 • 53 min

Official propaganda about the mass games. Especially weird is the massive “screen” in the back, composed of 15,000 or more individuals each holding a coloured placard.

Wild - The World Premiere Performance

2005 • 57 min • United Kingdom

Concert performed by Wild in London, England, at the London Hippodrome. The quintet played all the songs from their album Time, including an extra song called "Robinson Crusoe".

Gay in Middle America: One Town’s Struggle with Religion and Bigotry

2005 • 23 min

An excellent sociological case study, this ABC News program examines the plight of Michael Shackelford, a 17-year-old homosexual struggling for acceptance in small-town Oklahoma. The video outlines the development of Shackelford’s situation: his early awareness of his sexual orientation, his inability to conform and placate his mother, the attention he receives in a Washington Post article, and the subsequent media abuse he and his church endure as a result. Complex and surprising in its observations—especially those concerning Shackelford’s Bible Belt community—the program sheds light on America’s increasingly troublesome cultural divisions.

The Forest

2005 • 14 min • Ukraine, United Kingdom

The centrepiece of his major photographic and video exhibition, The Clearing, Ori Gersht’s powerful and haunting film was shot deep in the forests around Kosov in Ukraine, which were witness to atrocities against the local Jewish population — the artist’s family amongst them — during the Second World War. As the camera glides through the dense, sun-dappled forest, a tree falls heavily, and inexplicably, to the ground; and others soon follow, continuing out of shot, or heard but not seen. Afterwards, the silence of the place returns and, amongst so much that is still standing, we cannot be sure what we have just been witness to. Entranced by the hypnotic beauty of the projected image, then shocked by the ear-splitting sound of trees crashing to the ground, our immediate perception of the place is challenged, forcing us to imagine what might have happened here before.

Tropic of Capricorn

2005 • 30 min • Brazil

Four trans women are brought into a hotel room on the same night. Each one of them is asked to lay on a bed in an empty room and reveal herself to a camera mounted on the ceiling. As the film progresses, they share with the camera their fantasies, hopes, questionings and experiences in the streets of São Paulo, where they work as prostitutes.

El camino de Moisés

2005 • 52 min

At 21, his name was Moises, at 28 he changed his ID but on his social security file his name is still Ana. Life reminds him that he is a trans man before. Despite that his road has led him to reconciliation with his past and specifically with his "feminine part".

Egg

2005 • 5 min • United States of America

A dreamy document about finding a fragile treasure amongst a hasty crowd, the drinking of water, some wandering between stones, and the vulnerabilty of human life. The film was made as part of the project 'Het Beeld barst in de Tijd and the tenth anniversary of Dziga foundation.

71

2005 • 7 min

«71» is guided by impressions and feelings of an artist during shooting: a feeling of absurdity that comes when one travels to the back of beyond without ever reaching anywhere.

Magic Ferry-2

2005 • 1 min

The original film was shot in 2001 and its description sounded like: «It could be an ordinary trip on the Staten Island ferry. But shot with single frames, with a few colors added and with just 30 seconds of running time, it becomes a trip on a magic ferry... ». But in 2005 the sound was added - the music by LU who composed it especially for the film and this short movie has gotten its second life and ten more seconds...

tungsten

2005 • 2 min

Loretta Lynn: In Concert with the Edmonton Symphony

2005 • 48 min

Country-music legend Loretta Lynn performs several favorites, backed up by the Edmonton Symphony in this concert, recorded in November, 1978. Among the songs included in Loretta Lynn: Prime Concerts - In Concert with Edmonton Symphony are "Coal Miner's Daughter," "Out of My Head and Back in My Bed," and more.

The Long Blondes: Cake Shop - NYC - Jun 22 2005

2005 • 24 min

The Long Blondes live in New York City, filmed and officially released on DVDr by Punkcast. Features the songs Lust In The Movies, Swallow Tattoo, Autonomy Boy, Big Infatuation, Once And Never Again, Appropriation (By Any Other Name), Gidddy Stratoshpheres, Seperated By Motorways and Darts.

Chicha City

2005 • 47 min • Peru

This documentary narrates the different stages through which the Peruvian cumbia genre has passed. The story is told by the leading musicians of this movement, such as Jaime Moreyra and Julio Simeón from the group Los Shapis, Edilberto Cuestas from Los Ecos, Jorge Rodríguez from Los Mirlos, “Tito” Caycho from Los Destellos and Rossy War, among others equally outstanding. Their testimonies are commented on by specialists who observe the Peruvian cumbia as a sociocultural phenomenon such as Carlos Iván Degregori, Gonzalo Portocarrero, Rodrigo Montoya and Teófilo Altamirano

Fallujah. La strage nascosta

2005 • 27 min • Italy

A horrific record of reckless acts by the US to the citizens of Fallujah.

Daughter

2005 • 1 min

Short film by Liang Yue.

1000 Years of Karakami Art

2005 • 49 min • Japan

Karakami is a decorative Japanese paper used to ornament interior sliding doors during the Edo period. Woodblock-printed motifs, such as cherry blossoms and dragons, are said to have inspired several prominent European artists in the 19th century. This program examines the history of karakami through the work of a family in Kyoto that has preserved this traditional art form for nearly 400 years.

Ballon

2005 • 2 min • Japan

12 red balls spring from the ground into the air. They fall down, come to a stop and fade away to show the beautity of gravity's rhythm

The Pond: Big Mouth Bass

2005 • 32 min • United States of America

A Big Mouth Bass, living in the pond, sucks down toys because she doesn't like the noise when the creatures are playing. But then, she disappears. Now the Pond creatures have to make a choice: Celebrate or rescue her? More biblically-based, character-building lessons from the entertaining Life at the Pond Christian videos for kids (and kids at heart).