All Films

Chop-chopped First Lady + Chop-Chopped First Daughter

2005 • 2 min

A tongue-in-cheek poke at our own culture and recent history. The First Lady is none other than Imelda Marcos, the First Daughter none other than Kris Aquino. Both women’s lives and antics juxtaposed with gory evocations of the highly publicized chop-chop lady murders that were exploited by those 90s slasher films Aquino herself starred in.

Be Still, My Beating Heart

2005 • 48 min

A young man who enjoys a date with her who met at a party in the middle of the night is tossed by a mischief of fate. An eccentric love suspense.

Twenty-Six Takes on Life Without Allen

2005 • 29 min

Allen's fiancée and best mate use a Handycam to 'communicate' with him after he's hospitalised in a coma. What starts out as a birthday present for Allen to "have a laugh" when he gets back and see that he hasn't "missed much" shifts an already complex relationship into unexpected territory.

Benediction

2005 • 11 min

A filmmaker's exploration of fleeting existence. Filtered through a personal story, "Benediction" is a last attempt to pay homage to those things left and leaving. When faced with the realization of her grandfather's mortality, a young filmmaker journeys to find meaning in the wake of absence and loss. Is she trying to hold on to something that was never there?

Golden Years

2005 • 44 min

For every spot that's packed on a good swell, there are ten with only a handful of enlightened locals reaping the rewards. Golden Years features the best surf--and surfers--who live in or were lucky enough to travel the California coastline at its best.

Life of Agony: Broken Valley

2005 • 30 min

From the limited edition release. Featuring exclusive live performances, interviews and in-the-studio footage.

Railrun

2005 • 56 min

Railrun brings some fresh blood to the existing collection of Swedish graffiti movies. Filmed during 2004 and 2005, it will show you what the graffiti scene in Stockholm is about. And unlike other movies, you will see the most active and best newcomers. Representing 18 crews and 32 different writers, most of them for the first time in front of the camera, Railrun is the only movie of it’s kind. It’s filled with 19 actions on subways, commuters and stations, also containing the very first surf-panel seen in Swedish graffiti movies. Watch the AM/24-7 crew destroy a subway car during rush hour, keepings other people out of their way.

Another Part of Town

2005 • 19 min

Another Part of Town follows four friends as each of them embarks upon a typical Friday night, which ends up being more than they expected. Scott, Dan, Jay and Moses meet every Saturday for breakfast to discuss the night before, but at this breakfast the tone of the table is very different. Last night each of them had a realization, while they were living out their lives, in Another Part of Town.

Sky Burial: A Tibetan Death Ritual

2005 • 11 min

Sky Burial follows the ritual of "jha-tor", the giving of alms to birds in a northern Tibetan monastery - where the bodies of the dead are offered to the vultures as a final act of kindness to living beings. At the Drigung Monastery lamas chant to call the consciousness from the body. Juniper incense is burned to summon the vultures. Special body breakers, or "rogyapas", unwrap the bodies and cut away the flesh. The bones are crushed and mixed with tsampa, roasted barley flour. The entire body is consumed by the birds, assuring the ascent of the soul. The sky, or the universe, is where the sacred world lies. To merge with the sky after death is a holy event, one that replaces the sufferings of this world with peace.

The New Girl

2005 • 12 min • Lithuania

A chilling vignette into social pressures at school, the tyranny of status, and the slippery slope of drugs. With bold commitment and subtle nuance, Pagalytė creates a time capsule of Lithuania in the 2000s, leaving a mark on Lithuanian filmmaking for decades to come.

Marcelinho

2005 • 13 min • Peru

Paucar’s work recasts Western histories in the context of his Indigenous Andean world. Marcelinho documents a performance during which the artist mounted a bicycle wheel onto a stool in the middle of a large forest clearing in Peru, reimagining Marcel Duchamp’s famous readymade (a sculpture created from found objects). He removed the spokes, buried them, and set the stool on fire. Only the wheel’s metal rim remained, which Paucar then rolled around the grass using a stick. He recalled, “When I saw Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel at a museum in Berlin. . . . it made me remember how I would play with a bicycle wheel as a child.” [Overview Courtesy of MoMA]

Motuo

2005 • 50 min

The film is about how the childhood friendship of a boy and a girl grows with age into a feeling that they, being shy, are afraid to open to each other. Based on the story "Amma Achchygya" by Nikolai Mordvinov.

Existence And Images

2005 • 3 min

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

Grocery Store Wars

2005 • 5 min

In this short Star Wars parody, all the Star Wars charactess have become food items and takes place in a grocery store.

The Magic Flute for Children

2005 • 59 min

Mozart's masterpiece is presented in a version shortened to 60 minutes for the youngest (from 5 years), young and also adult audiences, thus providing children with their first insight into the fascinating world of opera. Papageno is the presenter, who accompanies the audience through the piece in an easily understandable, cheerful manner, and he experiences his adventures with the prince Tamino, who has fallen in love with Pamina, the daughter of the Queen of the Night, and yearns to liberate her from the kingdom of Sarastro, who has abducted her. However, until the happy ending of the piece, there are numerous hindrances to be overcome, such as wild beasts that bar Tamino's path, or Monostatos, who has also fallen in love with Pamina. And even if Papageno is in no mood for heroic deeds, his yearning for a "girl or young woman" is rewarded - and her name, of course, is Papagena.

Coming Out: Coming In - Faith, Identity and Belonging

2005 • 30 min

Gives voice to gay and lesbian Christians who have struggled to reconcile faith and sexual orientation. Their personal stories take viewers beyond the current debate in American churches. Thoughtful and compelling.

Terror at Home: Domestic Violence in America

2005 • 60 min

A powerful documentary about domestic abuse and its survivors.

Cosmic Emptiness

2005 • 9 min

Procession

2005 • 9 min

"Procession" is a portrait of the modern Colombian city of Medellín filmed during the city's Feria de las Flores, or Flower Fair, a famous annual celebration. Held during the first two weeks of August, this period of festivity was established in the late 1950s to celebrate the importance of flower growers in the regions near Medellín. It has since grown to include a range of festivities and to celebrate many aspects of this city and its surroundings. Procession proceeds through the city with a near-continuous camera motion from left to right.

Playing Jacob

2005 • 3 min

Loosely exploring the historical weight of institutionalized religion in a postmillennial society, and its relationship to individual spirituality, the filmmaker places herself into the Jacob myth of the Pentateuch. She plays the role of Jacob in an attempt to come to terms with her religious upbringing, and her anxious ambivalence towards her own agnosticism. Inspired by the in-camera techniques of the early cinema of Meliese, the film and all of its special effects were shot and edited entirely in-camera in one take.

Al Nakba (la Catastrophe)

2005 • 6 min • France, Palestinian Territory

Abdelkarim Hassan Ibrahim Mohamed Moustafa Mahmoud ABOUSROUR Al Natifi, recounts the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe) and the exodus of the Palestinian Arab population during the Israeli occupation. 700,000 to 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from their towns and villages during this war. They were generally denied the right to return. 400 Arab villages were abandoned, evacuated or destroyed. Their descendants now number more than 5,000,000.

Eyeballing

2005 • 10 min

The anthropomorphic city. A series of faces found in architectural facades or in objects around an apartment are juxtaposed with shots of policemen in uniform loitering around their precinct.

Reincarnation

2005 • 6 min

On the reversed sound of Vivaldi's Spring, a line scratched on the film follows the silhouette of outside's lifeforms, praying for them to be reborn, in a better world, in a better form.

a vanished world

2005 • 50 min

the history of jewish radautz in the bukowina