All Films

Sunbeam Hunter

2005 • 3 min

‘With a car from 1966-1977 and a manual for violence prevention, you drive. The distance is now your compass so follow the shadows to your resting spot. Or: I was wondering if sincerity could override irony and flood out some emotions from our past. Then - all for the extension of time, follow the echo, it might disappear into the clouds.’

Pre-Hibernation News

2005 • 6 min

“hit the slopes with colorful exaggerations, take a long sleep, and hope to wake up without an anxious yawn.” – JS

For Them Ending

2005 • 3 min

…a poem made of imagery from a gardening volume, a book of flower prints, and the sound of a firework display. The images of the colored flowers, when added to the sound of pyrotechnics, become a graphic representation of exploding buoyancy. Like in a Lewis Klahr film, the images appear to collage a story-driven narration. There is motion created by the succession of cuts, and by the hand-handled camera movements so essential to Schwartz’s style–allowing a non-aggressive, handcrafted, and detail-oriented approach to the world. Movement is more essential than any possible tale. The camera follows the shape of printed instructions, drawing verses in the air. The vivid texture and colors of these images transform the ink into trails of meaning, ways to translate inner subtleties into corporeal nature. – Monica Saviron

A Joy

2005 • 3 min • United States of America

Direct animation with stained-glass contact paper, ink, and acetate.

Around Five

2005 • 54 min

Abbas Kiarostami on his film Five Dedicated to Ozu.

Reckless Eyeballing

2005 • 13 min • United States of America

Taking its name from the Jim Crow-era prohibition against black men looking at white women, this hand processed, optically printed amalgam is a hypnotic inspection of sexual desire, racial identity, and film history.

Stereolab: Oscillons From The Anti-Sun

2005 • 40 min

DVD of the "Oscillons From The Anti-Sun" Boxset.

Tough Guy!

2005 • 6 min • Japan

An aggressive and martial arts-devoted mantis kicks cans and hunts down cicadas, bringing havoc into the life of a couple of humans. This personal opus by Shintaro Kishimoto, now steady collaborator of Production I.G's 3D crew, won the prestigious Ofuji Award in 2005.

Lost in America

2005 • 6 min

2005 short by Paul de Nooijer

Wave

2005 • 15 min

Numinous tracings of beautiful light on the sea, augmented by the artifice of video.

Praise

2005 • 24 min

Do I Look Fat?

2005 • 58 min

A look at gay men, their body images and eating disorders.

NightRise

2005 • 12 min

A ripe lad embarks on a raw correspondence with his mirrored image, and thus: the dialogue is "fleshed out" to its full potential.

Alright Love

2005 • 14 min • Germany

Boy meets girl in the escalator of a Berlin metro station. The boy decides to give love a chance and runs after the girl but she is nowhere to be found. Then the city of Berlin starts giving him signs where to go.

Hick Trek 2: The Next Aggravation!

2005 • 35 min

Captain Damn-Puke ReTard, Number 2, Mister Beta and crew take on the evil Frunobulax and his army of shape shifting dogs! Can this be the end of the Redneck Federation? Will the R.S.S. Bovine be destroyed by the Phydeaux III (Fido 3)?

Okinawa: The Final Battle

2005 • 50 min

OKINAWA: THE FINAL BATTLE is a riveting look at one of the most storied engagements in military history. Soldiers who were there, including USMC General Victor Krulak and Colonel Joseph Alexander (author of Utmost Savagery) recall the extraordinary circumstances that made Okinawa unique. The Japanese defenders, in an all-or-nothing attempt to stop the Americans, employed guerilla tactics, bolstered their defense with women, and sent wave after wave of Kamikaze planes at the attackers. Dramatic footage some of it unseen for decades captures the chaos and destruction of this ultimate battle, and military historians probe its lasting legacy. OKINAWA: THE FINAL BATTLE is a gripping portrait of one of the most important engagements in military history.

Shangri-La

2005 • 40 min

Patty Chang examines the idea of Shangri-La, the mythical hamlet of James Hilton’s 1933 novel Lost Horizon, which has come to represent a romanticized, exotic paradise in the English-speaking world. Chang’s video installation documents and explores her journey to an imaginary place—and to a town recently named Shangri-La by the Chinese government to exploit its touristic potential.

I Told Them My Camera Was On

2005 • 25 min

The video is a narrative game reconstructing Lai's own video diaries (1990-2003) and found footage. It plays with the thin line between remembering and fabricating, recording and staging, documentary and story... It shows 13 women's stories as a network of acquaintances, each in an isolated moment of her life. Questions on the practice of auto-ethnography are raised via "the politics of the everyday."

Two Women and a Man

2005 • 17 min • Israel

Justine Frank was a Jewish Belgian painter and writer close to the Surrealists — an artist the world truly needed. Roee Rosen found her. He was also, via the mysterious Johanna Führer-Ha’sfari, involved with the translation of Frank’s magnum opus, Sueur douce (Sweet Sweat).

Fragments For Eye Drift

2005 • 9 min

A film about seeing. A cut up of fragments from personal diary films intercut with WWII archive footage of the fire bombing of Dresden and Hamburg from the air and the ground (...) The ruins of Dresden's Frauenkirche and cranes are silhouetted against the sky. My daughter Ra as a child runs past the apple tree in Gran's garden in winter. Summer fruit ripens on an Umbrian hillside. Darren is sleeping. Dark streets of Perugia. The train to Siracusa the year after Mum died. The train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Berlin the year Derek and my mentor and curator Manfred Salzgeber died. Ten years on. With friends with HIV. Music from Simon Fisher Turner.

emptyspiel I

2005 • 10 min

The video is cut ups of faces in the light of a dream machine. Contrast and brightness to the maximum, what is revealed are the edges of the film frame filtered by the attenuate changes of light and frame frequency. This was always a test.

Maynard Ferguson: Live - At the Top

2005 • 60 min

Maynard Ferguson with his orchestra performs his most memorable songs and he amazes the fans with his stratospheric trumpet playing. Songs include: MacArthur Park, Chameleon, La Fiest, I Can't Get Started, Gospel John, and Got the Spirit.

IN LOVING MEMORY: Testimonials of Death Row Inmates regarding Life

2005 • 47 min • United States of America

In this film, people facing death or lives of extreme privation share their warmest memories and describe the good deeds they’ve done while living under the most difficult of circumstances imaginable. This intimate portrait offers a window, through their words only, into the inner lives of men and women living in maximum-security penitentiaries across the United States, most of whom are incarcerated on Death Row.

Le tombeau d’Aphrodite, Version 7

2005 • 11 min

Erotic and « sleepy » dreams...