All Films

Josué e o Pé de Macaxeira

2009 • 12 min • Brazil

By trading his donkey for a "magic cassava", Joshua discovers that it's not just beans that can take us on a fantastic adventure.

(If I Can Sing a Song About) Ligatures

2009 • 6 min • United States of America

Words taken from lines of Nada Gordon's unrequited love poems, whose sentences are taken, in their turn, from anonymous web poems, reveal a history of sexuality.

Bucket List Night

2009 • 5 min • United States of America

Soren learns some disturbing facts about his roommate Dan when they share their "Bucket Lists."

Sister Wife

2009 • 10 min • United States of America

An interview with a Mormon Fundamentalist who shares a husband with her younger sister.

Real Snow White

2009 • 10 min • Finland, France, Netherlands

The absurd logic of the ‘real character’ and the extreme rules of Disneyland become apparent when a real fan of Snow White is banned from entering the theme park dressed as Snow White.

Transitecture

2009 • 15 min • Germany

The highway, revisited. Years later. Transformation of a locale. A place of mobility that, in the meantime, has become a place of silence.

A Boca do Mundo - Exu no Candomblé

2009 • 26 min

An ethnographic and experimental approach to the multiple cultural manifestations of Exu, Orixa/God of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé

Flak

2009 • 30 min

Canadian filmmaker Ron Mann attempts to capture the apolitical spirit of the 1970s by following several people as they wander the city, work, play street hockey, and sit around debating political change.

Fatenah

2009 • 29 min • Palestinian Territory

Fatenah is the first 3D animated film made in the Palestinian territories. It revolves around the main character, a young adult living in Palestine. While conducting a self-examination she discovers a lump. The story evolves around her attempt to get medical attention for the lump while living in the Palestinian territories.

Resolution, Synthesis, Re-composition

2009 • 19 min

Experimental film by Takashi Makino.

Vistas: InukShop

2009 • 3 min

In this short film, filmmaker Jobie Weetaluktuk mixes archival and new footage to make a statement about the appropriation of Inuit culture throughout history.

Denial

2009 • 4 min

Erin. He thinks he's in 4th period math. Oh he's wrong

Out of Nowhere

2009 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Obsessed with a vision in his dream, a lonely man tries to discover it's meaning. His journey becomes one of self discovery, but he soon finds himself wanting to return to normality.

Certified Universal

2009 • 28 min • India

An impressionistic sketch of ‘the public’ as created by our cinema and its relationship with cinema itself.

Lamanglupa

2009 • 37 min • Philippines

A group of friends whose camping trip suddenly turns into a nightmare when they find themselves being relentlessly pursued by a couple of ferocious creatures.

The Memory of NiAvaran

2009 • 28 min • Iran

The Memory of NiAvaran is a documentary that examines the ancient times of Shemiranat village and Niavaran region, and besides the anthropological observation of the people of this region, it also pays special attention to the Niavaran palace complex. The events of Niavaran Palace and its capture during the Iranian revolution are also considered in this film.

Lily Allen: Live In London

2009 • 31 min

Lily Allen's Live In London is a gig footage filmed at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in 2009 during her It's Not Me, It's You World Tour.

Lithuanian Name

2009 • 15 min • Lithuania

A lithuaninan animated short film.

Minotaur

2009 • 9 min

Minotaur was the center of in a solo exhibition at the New Museum, New York. Octogenarian choreographer Anna Halprin, pioneer of postmodern dance, recently created an erotic performance based on Auguste Rodin's rendering of the Greek legend. Minotaur traces labyrinthine transformations, in which photographs, sculpture and dance succeed and replace one another, and in which bodies and objects appear part of a continuous tissue. Fluctuations between disparate media are accompanied by shifts in gender dynamics; in Rodin's original the half-man / half-bull grips an ambivalent nymph, while in Halprin's iteration the female 'victim' turns the story on its head, wresting a melancholic triumph over her captor. A score by Matmos, which includes the sounds of Rodin sculptures being struck like instruments, echoes the sculpture's muscularity.

A Slap in the Face

2009 • 14 min • Croatia

Thirteen-year-old Hrvoje has a special talent – he is extremely good at getting into trouble...

Kakurenbo

2009 • 26 min

A young man who struggles with depression and desperately fears being alone with his own thoughts. After encouragement from his doctor, he finds himself in Japan- a promising hiding place from the life of busyness and pressure he faces back home. While in Japan, he discovers being found by himself and by others is not the fearful thing he first believed. This is the story of Kakurembo. This is the story of 'Hide and Seek.'

Maria Bamford's One-Hour Homemade Christmas Stand-up Special

2009 • 52 min • United States of America

For Christmas 2009, Maria Bamford released a free stand-up special online as a gift to her fans - and this is that special!

Chick

2009 • 5 min • Poland

Humorous true-life story about male-female relations. Infatuation and its consequences are depicted in a ironic way: meeting a guy, dancing, having fun, a sexual act. A man, giddy with the charm of a femme fatale, leaves a room. He is followed by failure and doom.

Libertad

2009 • 24 min • France

The detention of Ingrid Betancourt reviewed and revisited by a fiction.