All Films

Identität

2008 • 2 min • Germany

"Sometimes i don't know who i am." A short-film about an old fellow being confronted with other peoples' judgments about him and how he deals with stuff like that.

Attica

2008 • 3 min

Experimental film about Jazz.

Sidewalk

2008 • 30 min

Short film about a street in New York.

Two Times 4'33''

2008 • 9 min

Experimental film about John Cage's famous musical piece.

My Room

2008 • 23 min • Faeroe Islands

A single mother (Óluva Johannessen) is frustrated to see her son (Sámal H.Hansen) lonely and unhappy, so she decides to buy him a new computer that is so brilliantly designed that it can give her son everything he longs for. A computer that can give him love and deeper understanding.

Berlinmuren

2008 • 24 min

The tale of a Swedish woman, Eija-Riita Eklöf Berlinermauer, who is ‘objecto-sexual’ and has fallen in love with and married the Berlin Wall.

First They Came For

2008 • 5 min

Inspired by the poem by Reverend Martin Niemoller of the same name, First They Came for...is set in a not so distant future where a nondescript regime takes away innocent people while one man struggles between standing up for what is right and saving himself.

La Dolorosa

2008 • 12 min

The bride, the groom, the best man and a destructive passion. A wet dream turned into a nightmare. "La Dolorosa" is the second episode from "The Trilogy of Dream", an attempt by screenwriter/director Odilon Rocha to bring lyricism back to cinema.

Doctor Zodiac's Fantastic Odyssey

2008 • 10 min • Croatia

Due to professional and personal problems, Dr Zodiac loses himself to childhood obsession with circus and eventually escapes from humanity altogether.

Look at the Sun

2008 • 5 min • United States of America

Original Wholphin Short

The New Yorkist

2008 • 7 min

A megalomaniac undertakes a doomed enterprise in order to become enshrined in the annals of history

Out of the Poison Tree

2008 • 57 min

On the eve of the long-awaited Khmer Rouge trial, an American survivor of the genocide returns to Cambodia hoping to unlock the mystery of her father's disappearance in 1975. Thida Buth Mam's quest intersects with many silent voices: widows, survivors from remote villages, monks and even former perpetrators. Her search for the truth stirs up the fractured pieces of one family's nightmare, unearths an unimaginable heartbreak and ultimately shines light on a people's broken silence.

Hot Buttered Soul: The Movie

2008 • 56 min

The story of a free surfing dream that started with the evolution of the single fin surfboard. Starring Terry Fitzgerald and his extended surfing family enjoying classic waves over three and a half decades. The development and designs of HB surfboards built in the 70's stand the test of time when three originals are pulled out of the bag and taken to modern day Jeffreys Bay. Thirty years later those same boards draw lines and find speed like the day they were first launched. Cape St Francis is bigger than ever filmed providing a finale for an epic adventure through time.

Nauru 1973

2008 • 4 min • Nauru, Canada

Home movies shot on Nauru in 1973.

Sorry I'm Late

2008 • 3 min • United Kingdom

A stop motion short film shot with a stills camera in the ceiling pointing straight at the floor.

Tm

2008 • 2 min • Argentina

TM stands for “tuyo/mío” (“yours/mine” in Spanish): an idea related to found footage practice but also to the hypnotic rhythm of 35mm film frames cut in half by a 16mm film projector. What you hear is what you originally saw.

The Evil Cat

2008 • 52 min • United States of America

In a small Midwest town unbeknownst to the townsfolk, something evil lurks. Guided by Satan and eager to find its next victim, the townsfolk may very well find out their souls belong to The Evil Cat.

There are No Limits to What I Can Do

2008 • 8 min • Sweden

A man talks about his life as a petti thief.

Dix

2008 • 7 min • France, United Kingdom

A man with a phobia of stepping on the cracks between paving stones seeks professional help.

Rua das Tulipas

2008 • 11 min • Brazil

A great inventor used to make useful things to everyone on his street, the Street of Tulips, after seeing the happiness of them all, decides that one person's happiness was still missing.

Field of Green: A Soldier’s Animated Sketchbook

2008 • 8 min • United States of America

A hand drawn animation developed between 2000 and 2007, Field of Green was based on drawings made by Sky David (formerly known as Dennis Pies) during his tours in the United States Army during the Vietnam War between 1967 and 1970. The documentary animation relives these events and reenacts the major metal and bodily traumas that they caused, mixing animation with video footage and body motion.

We Found the Body: Live & Unauthorised

2008 • 60 min

Concert film of metal band We Found the Body performing at The Distillery in Calgary, Alberta in 2008.

Electrifying Holiday Spirit

2008 • 2 min

Produced for Glass Eye Pix as part of their 2008 Creepy Christmas Online Film Festival, in which each short was inspired by the inhabitants of a diorama advent calendar. Each filmmaker was assigned a specific date and given the props that were used in that window to use in their short. This is the first film in the series.

The Legend of Little Mary Mint & the Twists

2008 • 10 min

Produced for Glass Eye Pix as part of their 2008 Creepy Christmas Online Film Festival, in which each short was inspired by the inhabitants of a Christmas diorama advent calendar. Each filmmaker was assigned a specific date and given the props that were used in that window to use in their short. This is the seventh film in the series.