All Films

Era Uma Vez um Arrastão

2005 • 20 min • Portugal

Documentary on the media coverage of a beach rampage that occurred in Praia de Carcavelos (Portugal) on 10 June 2005

Looking Up

2005 • 3 min

2005, 00:03:07

Reviens et prends-moi

2005 • 14 min

Between Paris and Syria, the Orient remains an ordinary place filled with literature, myth, and the pulse of love. A love film without lovers, based on a poem by Constantin Cavafy.

The Suitor

2005 • 7 min

Cindy Kwok is 20, Cantonese, and still lives at home. While she loves and respects her parents, she desperately wants the freedom to be herself and love who she chooses. Cindy's relationship with her white boyfriend Brett, is tested when her parents arrange a suitor from Hong Kong. A bouncy comedy about cross cultural relationships, THE SUITOR explores Cindy's first steps towards independence.

Face to Face with the Polar Bear

2005 • 52 min • France

Filmmaker Jerome Bouvier spent a year in Spitzberg following the incredible destiny of a polar bear family in a rapidly changing environment. Casting brother and sister twin cubs, this tale focuses on their education and reveals their individual characters.

Lou-Lou Lives Here

2005 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Why shouldn't a young girl walk home alone? This dark little tale plays on our anxieties about girls walking through the countryside alone but this little girl has a powerful secret.

La escalera

2005 • 47 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

Double Negative

2005 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Double Negative offers a reflexive take on the rather spurious effect of 'video negative'. The piece was made by re-videoing the live output from the camera as it was displayed on a monitor, creating feedback. In using the negative video effect, a flicker of alternating positive and negative imagery is produced and various fluctuating microtonal elements in the picture plane are revealed.

Principle 1

2005 • 3 min

Principle 2

2005 • 1 min

Principle 4

2005 • 4 min

Principle 12

2005 • 10 min

Firefighter George and Amazing Airplanes

2005 • 43 min

Firefighter George and Amazing Airplanes

Portrait of a Young Woman

2005 • 3 min • Germany

A second frame is added to the picture of portrait of a young woman in such a way that the vertical colored patterns can move in a tight formation, precisely and synchronously, there is no space between them. What is then consummated in harmony with an acoustic guitar is a kind of Doctrine of Affects for the female body, conveyed by means of colors and their vitally switching values to create an organic form. At some point red suddenly breaks out of the grid, threatening to overpower everything else. Remaining the same and changing at the same time. (Marc Ries)

Slant

2005 • 8 min • Germany

Both fundamental values of the source image in SLANT, two red stripes and a bright white foundation which supports them, expose only themselves for some time, accompanied by impassioned polyphonic singing. The steles change slowly, the field opens up, the planes of color shift imperceptibly and re-divide, forming different combinations that then, without interruptions or cuts, break up and enter into new figurations. The title does not refer to an appearance, it seems as if the "slope" or "bias" were only a self-reference. (Marc Ries)

The Coming Pandemic

2005 • 52 min

It's the disease the world has been fearing. No country is prepared. Scientists now believe it's only a matter of time before another major epidemic kills millions. The most likely source is a mutation of the influenza virus, killing birds and humans across Asia. But what would happen if such a virus struck? Can anything be done to prepare?

Cho Oyu

2005 • 45 min • Greece

A documentary about a Greek expedition trying to reach the Cho Oyu peak in October 2003.

Bucky Pizzarelli: Favorite Solos - Featuring Frank Vignola

2005 • 60 min • United States of America

One of the greatest jazz guitarists of all time, Bucky Pizzarelli has been building a loyal fan base for more than 50 years. On this DVD, recorded in a relaxed studio setting on an April afternoon in New York City, he pays fond tribute to 14 of his favorite tunes. Frank Vignola joins Bucky, one of his earliest influences, on affectionate interpretations of "Tangerine", "Honeysuckle Rose", "Moonlight Serenade" and other timeless melodies. Tracks: 1. In a Mellow Tone 2. Limehouse Blues 3. Smoke Rings 4. Tangerine 5. Stars in Your Eyes / Nuages 6. Pacifica 7. If I Had You 8. Please 9. Stompin' at the Savoy 10. This Nearly Was Mine 11. It's Been a Long, Long Time / Don't Take Your Love From Me 12. Honeysuckle Rose 13. Three Little Words 14. Moonlight Serenade

Donnie & Clyde

2005 • 17 min

Two gay prison escapees go on the lamb.

Two Fathers

2005 • 30 min

The child star of BORN TO FILM, Raphael, is now a twenty-seven year old who returns to his fathers farm to plant corn and “experience fatherhood”. Intercut as a film that takes place in the world of Germany in the 1920’s, and Queens, of the 1940’s, as Dr. Ernst Lyon’s remarkable album photographs bring to life worlds long gone. Time is collapsed. “Two Fathers” is a filmic meditation on life, age, family and death.

Hubby/Wifey

2005 • 7 min

A modern lesbian couple shares a fever dream with their foremothers, Gertrude and Alice, of the joys and trials of gay marriage.

Raising the Roof

2005 • 30 min

On October 18, 1978, the San Francisco Examiner announced the birth of an innovative company, the Seven Sisters Construction Company, a group of women carpenters inspired to break down the barriers in a trade which has traditionally discriminated against them.

Tacones de Stanislavski

2005 • 15 min

Two actor friends with completely different points of view on performing are at loggerheads and decide to challenge each other in a mysterious casting to see which of them is right. But what they don’t expect is the tremendous surprise awaiting them as a result of their stubbornness.

Textual @traction

2005 • 12 min

When walking in the hills to take pictures, Tom gets a text from his girlfriend that distracts him and sees him fall down a steep slope. He is taken to hospital for a long recovery but nobody can find out who to contact - his girlfriend worries. Tom's phone is found by a young man who lives in the hills and struggles with his homosexuality as a result. When he finds the phone he carries on the text flirting, thinking it is a guy that is interested in him. With so much confusion, could everything work out in the end?