All Films

Woodsroads

2005 • 12 min • Italy

In Woodsroads digital photography, used to create sequential frames, produces a chain of single images that only the author's conceptual work is able to organize.

Home on the Island

2005 • 20 min

In 1851, over one hundred and fifty residents of Arainn Mhor Island, off the coast of Donegal, were evicted from their homes. Speaking only Gaelic, they stayed together as a group upon arrival in the new world, and worked on the railroads in Canada. After a time, they found their way to Beaver Island, in the middle of Lake Michigan, where they established a new community, a miniature Arainn Mhor in exile. Home on the Island tells the story of the evictees and their journey to Beaver Island but, more importantly, it endeavoured to describe the character of the two communities who share the same ancestry, but are separated by the Atlantic Ocean.

Waning Moon

2005 • 26 min • Japan

16mm short by Masaru Noto.

One Late Night

2005 • 11 min • South Korea

Encounter between the Senate and Grandfather Directors Intention: A chilly feeling!! A feeling of hope!!

A Rautrec Alley

2005 • 10 min

The concept of "Rest In Eternalism" was to closely examine and photograph the things I encountered while traveling, so I thought about what would happen if I tried photographing one place thoroughly. I focused on the alleys I had discovered during the filming of my previous works.

Light in April

2005 • 25 min • France, United States of America

"Light in April" describes the mixed emotions one can't help but feel when spending some time in New Orleans: a constant exhilaration in the face of the extraordinary vitality emanating from this city, and simultaneously, a sense of sadness and resignation in the face of the heart-wrenching misfortunes. The film pays tribute to the dignity, humor, intelligence, and human richness of these people who are confronted day after day with violence, racism, and corruption.

Junji Inagawa: The Legend of Ghost Story 3

2005 • 60 min • Japan

This is the third installment of the 2005 edition of the annual "Junji Inagawa's Super Scary Stories" series, "Legend of Ghost Stories. It happened when Odagiri, who works for a food company, went on a business trip to Tohoku with two junior employees. Odagiri was sick and had to miss a drinking party arranged by the locals, but... Total of 7 episodes will be included in the series.

theEYE: Anthony Caro

2005 • 28 min

In the early 1960s Anthony Caro led a revolution in sculpture in Britain. His abstract steel constructions, often painted in bold colours, forged a new and internationally influential sculptural language. In the years since his fertile and diverse practice has consistently challenged and extended what sculpture is, and what it might be. At the age of 80, Anthony Caro remains intensely active, working each day in his studio and overseeing every detail of an extensive retrospective at Tate. Preparations for the show are featured in this profile, along with many of his major works, filmed in Britain, Germany and the United States.

theEYE: William Turnbull

2005 • 26 min

William Turnbull is one of Britain’s most distinguished sculptors and painters. In the late 1940s he studied art in London and then spent time in Paris, and ever since he has rigorously explored a limited number of archetypal forms as well as the fundamentals of art’s languages. Over more than fifty years William Turnbull has returned again and again to the head and the mask, to the standing figure and the horse, as well as to possibilities of pared-down, often monochromatic painting. His simple objects, which draw on both primitive and classical ideas, often combine presence and poetry in unique ways.

Looking Awry (Again)

2005 • 31 min

A Palestinian filmmaker is commissioned by an American organisation to make a documentary film, which is to depict Jerusalem as a city of peace and coexistence between Jews and Arabs. But while making the film, the filmmaker keeps running into situations that are very different from what he is trying to depict. The reality of things on the ground, proves to be much stronger than its representation.

Jedi Night School

2005 • 16 min

Four students join Jedi Knight School, each for various reasons, and learn what it takes to be a Jedi.

Fujicablueを目指

2005 • 5 min

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

September Ceria

2005 • 5 min • Indonesia

This video was made for an exhibition project commemorating the political tragedy in Indonesia in September 1965. The exhibition was organized by Kedai Kebun Forum Yogyakarta. With the title "September Something. This 3 minute video capture was taken from a long duration which was full of tense situations. In this capture I deliberately took about the joy of children who are full of laughter, joy, hope and the future. This innocent little child named Ade Irma Suryani became a victim of cruelty and was shot dead by a barrage of stray bullets because her father, General AH Nasution, was still able to escape. This source of the film was taken from VCD G30S/PKI (30 September Movement/Indonesian Communist Party) directed by Arifin C. Noer. This more than 2 hour long film is known as a New Order political propaganda film.

Blow Up 2

2005 • 4 min

A film by Keiichi Tanaami.

Specter

2005 • 12 min

Two boys go on a fishing trip in an abandoned sailing vessel. Soon, they are swept out to sea. As if enjoying the situation, they begin to tell a ghost story, when suddenly, mysterious occurrences begin to happen.

Mao and Chan. Russian Children

2005 • 44 min • Russia

The film tells about Sergei Yun-Fu, or Sergei Mao, the son of Mao Zedong, and Nikolai Elizarov, or Chiang Ching-guo, the son of Chiang Kai-shek. Both of them grew up, got an education and worked in the USSR. One fought as a tanker in the Soviet Army during the Great Patriotic War, the other was one of the leaders of Uralmash. But the Comintern and the NKVD equally disposed of their Russian destinies. Both were valuable figures in Stalin's game of influence in China and in the bitter struggle for power between the two Chinese dictators. Both returned to China to become companions of their fathers in this struggle. They themselves never met. Sergei died in the Korean War in 1950. Jiang Jingguo became the President of Taiwan.

Tierra encima

2005 • 38 min

Félix Costa, an anarchist militant who has lived in exile since the end of the Civil War, discovers that the Administration has left him for dead and decides to return to Spain. As he tours the place where they say he was shot dead, he reflects on the validity of his struggle and the fact that he has fallen into oblivion.

Pig and Tomboy

2005 • 7 min

Experimental filmmaking in its styling, the short video juxtaposes visual cut ups of various disturbing scenes being acted out (…Martin Bladh and an accomplice in a pig mask). These images play out seemingly in response to an audio collage of interview dialogue which has been collated and contributed by Peter Sotos.

Wings

2005 • 27 min • Russia

A world that seems great. Happiness that can be overlooked. A love that can be lost.

29 Palms

2005 • 8 min

“I just wanted to approach the idea of war in a more complicated and more challenging way” says artist An-My Lê, whose photographic series and film “29 Palms” (2003–04) explore the training exercises and desert landscape near Joshua Tree National Park as a staging ground for the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Two-channel 4k video projection from 35mm film (black and white, silent).

The Boy Mechanic Los Angeles

2005 • 12 min

In 2004-2005 as a recipient of the City Of Los Angeles Fellowship, I began the research for the Los Angeles Edition [of "The Boy Mechanic"]. The vast geography and dense web of highways in Los Angeles demanded a different approach to both the research and the resulting exhibition. In 2005 COLA exhibited two large scale framed color photographs, a chalk board wall sized drawing of a map of Los Angeles annotated with bar site snapshots and anecdotal text, and a ten minute video loop of drive-by footage of the located bar sites.

Taxi Drive Podgorica

2005 • 45 min • Serbia and Montenegro

A news reporter interviews taxi drivers of Podgorica about their bizarre encounters with customers.

Ustvolskaya: Scream into Space

2005 • 34 min

Dedicated the recording of the Symphony № 2 in Amsterdam.

Fossilization

2005 • 9 min

The video ‘Fossilization’ was produced as part of the ‘Memory Lane’ project, commissioned in 2005 by the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The traditional idea of soundtracks as translation and extension of moving images was reversed for the occasion: five video makers were requested to produce a work based on a composition by David Shea. Each individual filmmaker could draw out his own trajectory throughout the various musical layers. D’Haeseleer merged sound with image into an immersive panorama of fossilised shapes and traces. Images were distorted, layered and shaped into an apocalyptic spectacle in which vaguely recognisable shades and objects seem to be sucked up, into a parallel, enamelled world. Underneath all of these hermetical levels ’Fossilization’ comes forward as a meditation on the slip-off of Western civilisation to a pandemonium of mass-tourism, -media and -consumption.