All Films

Designing Dogs

2007 • 47 min

Puggles, Schnoodles, Labradoodles-they're not newfangled snack treats, they're actually newfangled dogs. Join us as we chronicle the never-ending search for the perfect canine and look at the world of hybrid, purebred, and rescue dogs.

Poetically Exhausted, Vertically Alone

2007 • 52 min • Portugal

José Bação Leal has born in Lisbon, capital of Portugal, in 1942, and died in Mozambique, during the colonial war, with 23 years old. A promising writer and thinker, he became a symbol of a youth that could not rise, victim of a country that put in cause its own future in a meaningless war. All the people who were close to him were touch by his fascinating personality and his vanguardist free spirit.

Nights and Days

2007 • 17 min • Lebanon

‘Nights and Days’ uses notes written and filmed during summer 2006 as a personal account of the experience of war. The first part, which resembles yet is not a diary of war, oscillates between day-shots and night-shots and features a soundtrack expressing the idea of time passing, awaiting, interrogations and fears experienced in such an unusual time. The second part is a journey to south Lebanon which was devastated during that war. It alternates between peaceful landscapes and ruins and destruction accompanied only by music, as no words could express this devastation. ‘Nights and Days’ questions the relation between image and sound and reflects on notions of ‘beauty’ and ‘horror through images of urban and natural landscapes, where sometimes a detail betrays the presence of war and its violence.

Color Me Bad

2007 • 23 min

Karim, a Thai boxer of Moroccan heritage, is about to be married. The families have high expectations, but Karim is filled with doubt. Pressured by the upcoming wedding, Karim has to make a choice.

Bastidores de um Sonho

2007 • 45 min • Brazil, Japan

This is a DVD produced exclusively with images made by the players themselves and the coaching staff, during the journey in Japan (in the extras appear interviews made after the Mundial). They are images and sounds with the emotion of the hour of the conquest, without images from television stations or professional resources. A DVD to watch with your heart in your hand and a certainty in your chest: nothing will ever separate us, Colorado.

Câmara Viajante

2007 • 20 min • Brazil

Documentary about the universe and the craft of popular photographers who work at parties, fairs and pilgrimages in the northeastern interior of Brazil.

Sentinela

2007 • 15 min

In Brazil, the vigil accompanies the dying as they cross into the other world, helping them take the final step when the body is too weak, and breath too short to take the leap. The vigil has many faces: the visible face of a choir of men and women, of family and friends gathered in prayer at invalid’s bedside, that of a great book containing the rites and prayers, that of slow steps treading the grass between the gravestones, of ritual objects, of amulets laid on the altar, of the candle’s quivering flame, but above all, of an invisible, floating spiritual power, shade and breath wandering over the surface of faces, over wrinkles and folds of skin, and which each of us seeks in vain without seeing it, as it has become the camera’s eye.

Colored Frames

2007 • 56 min • United States of America

A look back at the last fifty years in African American art, Colored Frames is an unflinching exploration of influences, inspirations and experiences of black artists. Beginning at the height of the Civil Rights Era and leading up to the present, it is a naked and truthful look at often ignored artists and their progenies.

L.h.o.

2007 • 4 min • Germany

In a Texas schoolbook storage room in November 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald balances a rifle against a shelf. When the shelves collapse, his careless act inadvertently kills President Kennedy.

The Vampire Assassin

2007 • 19 min • United States of America

After centuries of living the life of a free spirited, spoiled rich vampire, terrorizing the Eastern European countryside, Veronica arrives in the United States for new prey. But when her actions start attracting the attention of humans she is brought before her clan elders and ordered to reign in her "bloodlust" or be ostracized by the rest of the clan, a fate worse than death. In order to get back into the good graces of the elders, Veronica must become an assassin and kill vampires who themselves are attracting the humans' attention.

Headlines: Hybrid Films

2007 • 9 min

These films were made from The New York Times newspaper articles. The semi - automated animation process resulted in sentence recombinations that sometimes made sense while randomly emphasizing certain words and images. Each computer animation was transferred to one 100ft roll of 16mm Tri-X reversal film and then hand-processed. The reversal negative is the original.

Plein d'essence

2007 • 58 min

The Aire de Berchem on the Luxembourg - Dudelange motorway is the most important service station in Europe in terms of fuel flow. Summer and winter, day and night, people of all nationalities, all ages and all social classes meet there in a constant stream of cars and trucks. The film will attempt to highlight both the differences and the similarities in the behavior of this population, which represents a melting pot of Europe.

Kanashibara

2007 • 11 min • Canada

In the wake of his girlfriend's death, a man's sense of the real and the illusory world begins to blur when he is visited nightly by hallucinatory representations of his depression in the form of a Succubus.

Voice Over

2007 • 8 min

A man betrayed by his mind.

The Last Day

2007 • 12 min • France

On July the 1st 2005, the 1867 Schneider and Co power hammer N°125 ceased operating at the former smithy of the Brest military harbour. This is the story of the machine and its workers' last working day.

Kad mano namai būtų pilni

2007 • 56 min • Lithuania

A film about marginalized people who have hit rock bottom and are trying to pick themselves up again. They arrive in a remote religious community, do their daily chores, and perhaps turn to God for the first time.

Parapax

2007 • 58 min • China

A physics professor, a sci-fi writer and a young writer from parallel universes find that their lives are entangled. She thinks she is a replicant of her real self, she is the imprisoned soul in her novel, and she is the mastermind behind all. This is an author's movie about authors, this is a science fiction movie about science fiction, and this is a movie about movies. What kind of existence is our world, and whether our life is existence or nothingness?

Los campos del silencio

2007 • 41 min

Who made the dams of the Ebro, Entrepeñas, Barrios de Luna and many others? Who rebuilt towns and cities like Belchite, Brunete, Oviedo, Teruel... among many other populations? Who built from airports such as Sondica or Labacolla to municipal stadiums like those of Valladolid and Palencia, to prisions like Carabanchel or Cordoba? Republicans who were prisoners condemned to work as slaves, whose only "crime" had been to defend the democratically elected legality. This documentary tries to recover the memory of these events focusing on the battalion of Republican prisoners of Fabero del Bierzo. It investigates the mechanisms of social construction of silence, fear and forgetfulness that even today can be felt where the events occurred and where the descendants of many of those prisoners still live.

Tara Tinjon: Tea-Master

2007 • 33 min • Bangladesh

The three unemployed guys are back with a new plan of selling tea, coffee and lemonade to customers in a park. They have a rival tea-seller who doesn't want people drinking from them, and he starts hitting people for it.

Holiday Train Show With David Hartman

2007 • 28 min

From Thanksgiving through January each year, visitors of all ages, by the thousands, stream into the Haupt Conservatory from wintry cold New York to a miniature make-believe New York City, a wintry wonderland warmed by sparkling holiday music, all beautiful and fun. The video takes us to rural Kentucky to join Paul Busse and his talented team of artists as they collect their plants, roots and berries, then design and construct the new additions to the show, guiding us through the creative process. Video of New York City's "real" buildings mirror the make-believe as we rejoin Paul and the team reinstalling the fairyland city to celebrate the new holiday season.

Jonah's Quids

2007 • 14 min

One day Jonah finds a fifty pound note near his home. He asks Crystal, a 15-year-old out on a date to his favorite seaside town of Margate. Out of season though, Jonah realizes that it is not as he remembered, and impressing Crystal might be a pointless affair.

Grandfather Mazai and Others

2007 • 13 min • Russia

Grandfather Mazai saves not only hares, but also other famous heroes — Mumu, the Persian princess, Robinson, and even the Titanic.

Parigala

2007 • 30 min • Azerbaijan

The events in the film take place in a remote place, far from the modern city and civilization, where the real and the unreal worlds meet. There, mysticism and reality are so intertwined that all kinds of miracles are expected. The people there live by their own unwritten laws. The punishments given to those who violate them are also completely different.

Bunnykill 3

2007 • 18 min • Finland

Snowball returns in a high-stakes, sci-fi adventure! Tasked with eliminating the mysterious Professor Sludge, he infiltrates the villain’s Moon Fortress under disguise. Along the way, he crosses paths with Smoke—an old rival on the same mission. Despite their uneasy alliance, the two face deadly cyborgs, advanced mech bunnies, and a fortress full of danger. Originally released in two parts (2005 and 2007), this chapter delivers non-stop action, unexpected teamwork, and a race against time in the most intense Bunnykill mission yet.