All Films

Goodbye Garibaldi

2008 • 23 min

In light of the lack of opportunities in the big city, a pair of inseparable friends decides to rob a supermarket, not knowing the price they will have to pay for doing so.

What the Bible Code Predicts

2008 • 59 min

Scholars have believed for centuries that the Bible contains two sets of messages: The surface text we all see; and secret messages encoded in the original words. Using computers, scientists and theologians have scoured the Bible for hidden indications of people and events of past and current historical significance. Learn how modern day events were foretold 3000 years ago in the Old Testament.

Compilation Reel

2008 • 21 min • Brazil, United States of America

This is a compilation of Assume Vivid Astro Focus' video work. Born anytime between the 20th and 21st century in various parts of the world, nomads, AVAF is the combined name for the New York based Brazilian artist Eli Sudbrack and his ongoing 21st century aesthetic research project. AVAF is splashing in the interstices between art and entertainment, converting these gaps into mental pools of sensorial joy and/or sensorial pools of mental joy.

Hold Your Fire

2008 • 9 min • United States of America

A ghostly soldier comes face to face with the grim reality of his war-torn existence on the battlefield and beyond.

O Anão que Virou Gigante

2008 • 10 min • Brazil

The unlikely – yet authentic – story of the dwarf who became a giant.

Tolmin People

2008 • 42 min • Slovenia

The title comes after the novel written in 1927 by Slovenian writer Ivan Pregelj. It describes peasant bloody uprising in Tolmin in 1713. The filmmakers were interested in uprising in Tolmin in 1713. The filmmakers were interested in uprising as a contemporary phenomena.

Stealing roses is prohibited!

2008 • 34 min • Guatemala

The following narrative reveals three different stories, one where a shopkeeper has problems with his television, in which he wants to watch a game, another where a girl from high society who urgently needs to go to a psychologist, gets a flat tire in the road and the other, of two characters who get lost in search of a poet's house.

RiverWebs

2008 • 58 min

A film about life, death, science, and streams, RiverWebs explores the life and legacy of Japanese scientist, Dr. Shigeru Nakano, and the understanding he brought to the world of river ecology.

You Ruined Everything

2008 • 13 min

After the destruction of his personal library, a scholar attempts to rebuild his life by fashioning a single book from the ruins.

Jesenice: Detroit

2008 • 51 min • Slovenia

Documentary about the history of ice hockey in Jesenice and their local club.

Aztrokitifk e Mario si danno al crimine

2008 • 6 min

A stop-motion animated short based on the misadventures of Aztrokitifk and Mario, two misfit characters from Ivan Manuppelli's comic strips. The two protagonists are unlikely criminals grappling with a kidnapping that will backfire and result in a total failure. The failed adventures of Aztrokitik and Mario take place inside their battered little theater, like in a grotesque vaudeville to the rhythm of Dixieland music.

Metro

2008 • 5 min • Russia

Dona Custódia

2008 • 13 min • Brazil

A lonely writer has his routine changed by the presence of his new maid - Lady Custodia.

Ultrafuturo Manifest

2008 • 30 min • Bulgaria

A manifesto for radical trans-humanism.

The cub Budru

2008 • 9 min

Today Is Sunday

2008 • 3 min • Spain

Short film by Isaac Berrocal, winner of the special public award at the CIUDAD DE SORIA 2009 international short film festival. Starring Carina Björne.

Living Outside of the Box: The Current Cultures of Milwaukee's Riverwest Neighborhood

2008 • 47 min • United States of America

This documentary tells the story of how one diverse Milwaukee neighborhood developed its own unique identity.

The People and The Whale

2008 • 5 min

A whale has stranded on a beach and the people go there to watch the spectacle. It becomes a very special afternoon for all involved.

All The Good Things

2008 • 5 min • Canada

A short anti-MTV video clip. It can make you see things in your mind while nothing is happening, except a pattern or two.

Mängija

2008 • 53 min • Estonia

A documentary about professional chess player Jaan Ehlvest and his daily life in a harsh world of professional sports where every result influences one's income and subsistence. The protagonist questions whether it is worth living a life where between championships he keeps running through different American cities and staying in hotels that look exactly the same. So it is not that much a sports documentary but rather a view into a development story of a talented and willful man.

Aperspectival House Variation

2008 • 6 min

This house is under construction. Its design incorporates numerous points of view into one flowing form. The music for Aperspectival House uses a process of kaleidoscopic sound layering, as Hamilton’s parallel to the additive textures found in the video. All the original sounds are short recordings of construction sounds – hammering and sawing – which are transformed into somewhat coherent pitches and rhythms. TH “Where today we seem to discern only shrieks and dissonance, tomorrow we will find a new tone, a new form, a new perception.” Jean Gebser

Image Break

2008 • 4 min

A man tries to make sense of the strange phenomena he is experiencing through his television.

I Met a Girl

2008 • 11 min

A lighthearted musical about a budding romance and first date.

Bolita

2008 • 10 min • Argentina

A documentary about discrimination against Bolivian immigrants, the short film features testimony from Eugenio Zaffaroni.