All Films

Jane Austen's Society

2005 • 60 min • United Kingdom

The second installment of a three-volume collection examining the life and work of English novelist Jane Austen delves into the social mores that helped shape the author's story lines, examining the Regency era of English history from 1811 to 1820. In addition, viewers learn what constituted high fashion and haute cuisine -- and what did not -- during that time, as well as the public and political topics that ruled the day.

Submarine: Hidden Hunter

2005 • 50 min • United States of America

The Submarine Hidden Hunter DVD takes you under the sea as you are introduced to the U.S. Navy's new high-tech marvel. A Virginia class submarine, she is equipped with nuclear deterrence devices and advanced weaponry designed to protect the United States. In the Submarine DVD Hidden Hunters, you watch as recruits experience lifelike drills while preparing to become the newest defenders of America.

Scared Weird Little Guys - The First 15 Years

2005 • 55 min

A performance from one of Australia's favouriote comedy duos, the Scared Wierd Little Guys, performed late 2004 in the world famous Spiegeltent and showcasing all the favourites from a career spanning 15 years.

Pururambo

2005 • 54 min

Globe-trotting Slovakian filmmaker Pavol Barabas explores Earth's biggest tropical island, New Guinea, in this breathtaking tour of a culture wholly unfamiliar with modern civilization and with no previous contact with white people. Along the way, Barabas finds people living high in trees under conditions roughly similar to those of the Stone Age. The film won the Culture Prize at the Kendal Mountain Film Festival.

The Life of a Dog

2005 • 13 min

Paris, 1962. A scientist formulates a serum that transforms him into a dog. It's only when he changes back into a human that his troubles begin.

Africa: America's New Oil Target

2005 • 43 min

Looks at the merging of America's energy and foreign policies to secure access to world oil reserves as her own oil supply dwindles. Military bases in West Africa set up under guise of war vs. terror and poverty. Competition for resources with Europe and China.

Job Street

2005 • 10 min

A day in the life of three illegal immigrants struggling to find work in the UK black market. Rendered powerless by their situation each character faces exploitation with dreadful consequences.

Isan: Folk and Pop Music of Northeast Thailand

2005 • 48 min • Thailand

Welcome to ISAN, Thailand's forgotten frontier, where Lao, Thai and Cambodian folkloric traditions have conspired to create a mystifying pageantry of music and dance still relatively unknown to outsiders. Explore the raw cultural heritage of the Mekong interior, land of the Phin guitar and the bamboo Khaen and discover musical styles such as "Molam" and "Pong Lang". Take a forbidden look into the sultry Go-Go scenes of Gentleman's clubs and witness a spectacular Lam Sing stage show cabaret backed by a psychedelic Rock band!

Thousands... Not Billions

2005 • 48 min • United States of America

Radiometric dating is one of the linchpins of evolutionary education today. Dr. Don DeYoung shatters this and other dating methods employed by evolutionists to cast doubt on the reliability of the Bible and its chronology of earth history. Evolutionists seek to undermine faith in Genesis as the true documentary of the history of the universe. When people are told that a dinosaur bone has been determined to be tens of millions of years old, that obviously doesn’t square with the biblical record of man being created on Day 6 with the land animals. But DeYoung now demonstrates that Christians no longer have to puzzle over this glaring contradiction.

Uso Justo

2005 • 22 min

When an experimental filmmaker decides to shoot a film in the fictional town of Uso Justo the residents unknowingly become tools to his whimsy. Miller's first narrative creation is like nothing you have seen before. Uso Justo (roughly translated: 'Fair Use') is a complete restructuring of an obscure 1959 Mexican film. As the experimental filmmaker pulls the strings on the residents of this fictional town, the technique proves to be existential and hilarious, intelligent and stupid. All the while, the citizens try to keep up with the filmmaker's absurd sensibilities and crazy antics. Their actions all end in vain with hilarious consequences.

Torture: America's Brutal Prisons

2005 • 48 min

The recent Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal shocked the American public. But they might be even more stunned to discover that strikingly similar violence occurs inside prisons throughout the United States, where prisoners are routinely abused, even tortured, by prison guards. TORTURE: AMERICA'S BRUTAL PRISONS visits correctional institutions in Texas, Florida and California, uncovering penal systems with deeply ingrained cultures of punishment, rather than rehabilitation.

Joe Zawinul & WDR Big Band - Leverkusener Jazztage

2005 • 49 min

Zawinul is onstage with the WDR Big Band from Germany and a special international rhythm section. The music is a tribute to the pioneering 1970s fusion collective Weather Report, originally with Wayne Shorter on sax, Zawinul on keys, and later Jaco Pastorius on bass (among other personnel). Zawinul and the WDR play "Brown Street" and "Carnavalito." Arranger Vince Mendoza re-imagines this colorful, small-group music for Europe's longest-lived jazz orchestra. And they can play!

Day of Miracles

2005 • 55 min

Documentary - Was God called upon on 9/11, and did He answer? This documentary, a Christian look at the tragedy's survivors and heroes, contends that He did. - TJ Myers, Patrick Williams, Brenda Epperson

Noodlebug: Let's Pretend

2005 • 30 min • United States of America

Get ready to sing dance and exercise your imagination with NOODLEBUG® in this all-new collection of stories songs and activities set in the world of make-believe! Drawn from the pages of the award-winning LADYBUG® magazine Let's Pretend is a delightful blend of music animation and live-action footage of real preschoolers dressing up role-playing and pretending. Unlock your child's imagination with NOODLEBUG® Let's Pretend - a fanciful journey they'll want to explore time and again.

From Kansas City to Hollywood

2005 • 9 min

This featurette is available on the 'Walt Disney Treasures: Disney Rarities' DVD.

Inside Van Der Graaf Generator

2005 • 54 min

Progressive rock pioneers Van Der Graaf Generator opened doors for groups including Genesis and Pink Floyd and remains one of the most influential yet unappreciated bands of the genre. This inside look features rare archival performance footage, plus critical reviews and in-depth analysis of the band by former Van der Graaf members Judge Smith, Nic Potter and David Jackson, as well as a team of prominent music critics and rock journalists.

Tsugaru Shamisen: The World of Michihiro Sato

2005 • 49 min

art documentary and part concert, this video features Michihiro Sato, the preeminent player of the Tsugaru shamisen -- a three-stringed instrument vital to Japanese folk music -- performing and discussing his craft. Sato chats about the history and role of shamisen minstrels, the Tsugaru shamisen's future and his collaborations with jazz and progressive musicians in the United States and Europe

Q1 The Journey

2005 • 18 min • Australia

Q1 The Journey documents the construction of the then world's tallest residential tower, developed by the Sunland Group.

Film for Tom

2005 • 12 min

A lyrical homage to a friend and formative influence. Tom is eloquent and effusive, yet finds no resolutions to the issues that haunt him. Yet to whom is he speaking and how – is his speech a lecture or a conversation? How do we understand the domestic space shown – is it home or the scene of a crime?

Test One Two

2005 • 5 min

Two women and a man test poor sound equipment by shouting "test one two" into the orange microphone increasingly loud and aggressive.

Catalog

2005 • 11 min

CATALOG is a composition of stillness. An inversion of the spectacle. Actors are posed, recreating various photographs in surroundings unfrozen. The soundtrack is a dense tale of spaces. A photograph more mutable than an image should be.

Vanishing Points

2005 • 4 min

2005 short by Schatzl

Thomas & Friends: Peep! Peep! Hurray!

2005 • 57 min

More animated adventures with Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends Ivor, Henry, and the Fat Controller.

Slaughterhouse: The Task Of Blood

2005 • 59 min

The vast majority of people in Britain eat meat but have little knowledge of how that meat ends up on their table. In a powerful observational documentary, Slaughterhouse: The Task of Blood reveals the day-to-day workings of a small, family-run abattoir and attempts to get inside the minds of the people who work there.