All Films

TAMovie directors.Edition

2007 • 46 min • Japan

With a double performance of piano and violin and complete improvisation, TAM performed live music in the doujin shop for the first time in Melonbooks Nagoya 2 Go. Featuring music from Kanon, AIR, CLANNAD, Final Fantasy and Super Mario Bros.

Let's Fish

2007 • 11 min • United States of America

Let's Fish is fun and light-hearted. The use of live actors grounds the series in semi-reality, while the use of an animated background and animated characters allows for imaginative situations and stories. Let's Fish also takes aim at the American way of life, providing thoughtful social commentary.

Kill Buljo: The Beginning

2007 • 46 min

In the spring of 2007, "Kill Buljo The Movie" took Norwegian cinema by storm. 90,000 experienced the madness at the cinema. But long before the feature film was a fact, the sick gang recorded the trailers for the film which took the Internet by storm. They actually recorded several trailers; classics such as "Anne Frank's diary" and "Romeo and Julius" they also want us to look forward to. In addition to this, of course we meet the Sami boy Jompa, Karius and Baktus who have something quite different to contend with than the toothbrush, Puppi Longstocking who has contracted a bleeding disease and Bjelling who... well, you almost have to find out for yourself.

Heavy Architecture

2007 • 24 min • Portugal

Documentary about 4 large architectural landmarks that projected Portugal abroad.

100 Years Under the Sea: Shipwrecks of the Caribbean

2007 • 58 min • France

A documentary exploring shipwrecks and a massive volcano that erupted over a century ago.

Drift - The Sideways Craze

2007 • 60 min

This film follows the nation's top ranked Drifters on and off the track. It shows the journey of a Drift enthusiast building his car and learning from his mentors, Samuel Hubinette and Ken Gushi.

Anna

2007 • 13 min • Iceland

A rare syndrome keeps Anna in a world of isolation. Desperate for human contact, she attempts to break free from the shackles of her uncontrollable body with surprising results.

Thomas & Friends: Rusty Saves The Day

2007 • 60 min

Skarloey and Rheneas's old line is too battered for them to run on, but Rusty has a plan to repair the line when the quarry is briefly closed down. Join Thomas & Friends for 12 exciting adventures!

Witch's Brew

2007 • 60 min

Professor Andre' DuVena' (Scott Shaw) travels into the back woods of Southern California to find three college students who have disappeared while searching for an allusive mythical witch. This film takes movies like The Last Broadcast and The Blair Witch Project to the next level of Zen.

Brackish Water

2007 • 20 min • Norway

A teenage girl and her mother's new boyfriend meet for the first time at the family's summer house. During the mother's absence the two are left to get to know each other.

CN Invaded Part 3: That Darn Platypus

2007 • 22 min

A platypus enrolls into CDMS, and he keeps rubbing into everyones face that he is a brain-sucking alien. Adam refuses to believe this, but the animals have reason to believe from various signs.

Lioness(es)

2007 • 20 min

In a cattle market Jung-Hee, a butcher, escapes from her abusive husband, Sung-Chil, who gambles and even beats her. Neighbors who pity the situation suggest that she eat meat to be strong.

Can-Can

2007 • 7 min

Mr. Fix-It, his wife calls him. She felt safer with him at home, and he helped look after the children, especially the baby. He lingers at the door before leaving the house to meet Sarah, whom his wife knows but does not suspect, and with her go to a house on a lake his wife knows nothing about.

My First Time Driving

2007 • 17 min • United States of America

Seventeen year-old Rachel wants to take the wheel but her mom won’t let go.

The Road Becomes What You Leave

2007 • 22 min • United States of America

The Road Becomes What You Leave is a meditative documentary following the band Magnolia Electric Co. as they travel across the prairies of Canada.

Welcome

2007 • 13 min • United States of America

A family moves into their new home, only to discover it's haunted.

Goultard the Barbarian

2007 • 15 min • France

A look back at the bloody origins of the iconic Iop turned legend. Banished from his village after killing a Taure, young Goultard faces Kriture, father of the beast, alone. He emerges victorious... and a hero. An adored monster hunter, he starts a family with a witch. But happiness is short-lived: Katar, a Sacrier in Djaul's pay, enters the scene... Goultard's destiny is about to change.

I'll Be Watching You

2007 • 5 min • United States of America

A young man with a stylish crew cut watches a surveillance video monitor with great interest as a security guard makes out with a bodyguard (both with similar crew cut) among luxury cars in the underground parking of a posh building.

Creep

2007 • 52 min • Japan

Kohei and Akira are a couple running away together without a destination. They meet a geology researcher namend Shiraki on the way and the three visit a log cabin of a famous geologist Kanbe. With fortune teller Eiko, ex-girlfriend of Kanbe, joining the party, five people of diverse ages, sexes, statutes, and professions happen to spend a night together in the log cabin deep in the mountains. As the strangers get to know each other and grow closer, each one of their hidden pasts is brought to light. Meanwhile, following a thunderstorm and an earthquake, something even worse is approaching them...

Manifesto Canibal - How to Make Movies in Times of Crisis and Chaos

2007 • 20 min • Brazil

In 2002 Petter Baiestorf launched the fanzine "Manifesto Canibal" with notes on how to produce films independently without any resources. In 2004 the anarchist publisher Achiamé ordered an expansion of the fanzine to be published in book format and, thus, the book "Manifesto Canibal" by Petter Baiestorf, Cesar Souza and intervention by Carli Bortolanza appeared. In 2007, already out of print, Petter Baiestorf decided to film the book in the format of an experimental short and what follows here is the result of this iconoclastic experience that kills the gods of cinema.

Imagens do Xaréu

2007 • 19 min • Brazil

The BQE

2007 • 45 min • United States of America

The BQE is a mixed-media artistic exploration of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway of New York City by Sufjan Stevens. A cinematic suite inspired by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Hula-Hoop, and commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music, it was originally performed in the Howard Gilman Opera House in celebration of the 25th anniversary Next Wave Festival in October of 2007.

In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema

2007 • 59 min

This documentary captures the sounds and images of a nearly forgotten era in film history when African American filmmakers and studios created “race movies” exclusively for black audiences. The best of these films attempted to counter the demeaning stereotypes of black Americans prevalent in the popular culture of the day. About 500 films were produced, yet only about 100 still exist. Filmmaking pioneers like Oscar Micheaux, the Noble brothers, and Spencer Williams, Jr. left a lasting influence on black filmmakers, and inspired generations of audiences who finally saw their own lives reflected on the silver screen.

Doomed

2007 • 9 min

A collection of scenes of destruction from disaster movies.