All Films

Haiku 1: Sea Spring

2006 • 7 min • Macedonia

Short avant-garde video.

The 94 Yard Dash

2006 • 13 min • United States of America

2 friends race each other in a Sears, for all the glory in the world.

The Dark Side of Porn: Amateur Porn

2006 • 49 min • United Kingdom

Examines what is going on in the British sex industry, where new male actors are lining up to do a job without getting paid.

Journey to Jemima

2006 • 50 min

Witness the colorful, blessed journey of adoption. Take part in an American couple's life changing moments during their month long stay in the country of Kazakhstan. Walk through the process...experience the realities and intimate emotions involved as they meet their daughter for the first time, marvel at the sights and sounds of this far off land and fall in love with beautiful children of the orphan house at Semi-Palatinsk. The film makers are the adopting couple in this film.

The White Dress

2006 • 3 min • Ireland

A young girl makes her communion on her own.

Diagonal Drift

2006 • 10 min

Imagine a filmstrip of a nocturnal American landscape. The vertical frames, as usual, represent time, but here there are horizontal frames that represent parallel universes. This piece illustrates a diagonal movement across that field of frames, so that worlds continuously melt into similar worlds, always in-between realities. If these imaginary filmstrips are cut, twisted and turned back on themselves, the image changes abruptly. In keeping with the philosophy and the mood of the piece, a cellular automata program (Wolframtones) was used to create artificial mathematical melodies that constantly shift from one strange tonal system to another.

The Woman with the Severed Side

2006 • 16 min

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Planeta Deliria

2006 • 34 min

The lost hungarian sci-fi epic.

Said Zahari's 17 Years

2006 • 49 min

An interview with Said Zahari, a staunch anti-colonial newspaper editor who was accused by the Singapore government of alleged involvement in pro-communist activities and subsequently detained without trial from 1963 to 1979. This film is banned by the Singapore government for "undermining public confidence in the Government."

Kin

2006 • 19 min

Jack comes home, but it's broken.

The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf

2006 • 51 min • France

Piaf’s life is a legend, a tale, a story so powerful that one might end up asking oneself if it really existed. Beyond the icon, there is the woman the documentary talks about, a fragile figure with an extraordinary personality. A street girl who experienced fame, love and who died almost clandestinely in a rented house in the south of France.

Paris Stories: The Writing of Mavis Gallant

2006 • 48 min

Paris Stories explores the force of fiction for a woman who left Canada and her "good job for a girl" to live in a city where writers weren't viewed with suspicion and asked for three months rent in advance. Considered by both critics and her literary peers to be one of the most talented women writing in the English language, this film offers an intimate glimpse of a fiercely private woman devoted to the compact elegance of the short story.

I am well and surviving

2006 • 3 min

Sonata op 49 #2 by Ludwig Van Beethoven. The keys SI 1st octave and DO 2nd octave were broken and the piano tuner Tony Mobarak was evacuated with the Canadian community in Lebanon due to the July Israeli aggressions. Since the end of the Lebanese civil war in 1992 we were living a transit period of reconstruction and rehabilitation, a period of a fragile peace so prosperous and promising it was and yet so unstable. Since then we lived the illusion of wellbeing that masked a fear of an upcoming dramatic collapse. We lived a harmonious sonata practicum abrupt by some broken piano keys.

The Eldest Daughter

2006 • 24 min • Ukraine

One day, a beautiful and prosperous lady appears on the doorstep of former sailor Konstantin Trigubenko. Along with her and his memories, he is struck by insight and regret for the mistakes of his youth.

The Penguin

2006 • 20 min • Syrian Arab Republic

A young woman lives alone in isolation in her home and experiences many events inside her imagination or in her dreams; however, the only real thing in her life is her little goldfish.

Ngaihak Lambida

2006 • 19 min

Ngaihak Lambida (English: Along The Way) is a 2006 non-feature Manipuri film directed by Haobam Paban Kumar and based on a story by MK Binodini. It is bproduced by Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute. The film was selected in the non-feature section of the Indian Panorama at the 38th International Film Festival of India 2007. It also participated in the competition section of Short Fiction Films in the Third Eye 6th Asian Film Festival, Mumbai, 2007.

The Hunger Strike

2006 • 58 min

The 1981 Irish hunger strike was the culmination of a five-year protest during “the Troubles” by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. The protest began as the blanket protest in 1976, when the British government withdrew Special Category Status for convicted paramilitary prisoners. In 1978, after a number of attacks on prisoners leaving their cells to “slop out”, the dispute escalated into the dirty protest, where prisoners refused to leave their cells to wash and covered the walls of their cells with excrement. In 1980, seven prisoners participated in the first hunger strike, which ended after 53 days.

Emo Pill

2006 • 18 min • United States of America

An adopted teenager on the verge of suicide finds solace, and delusions of a happy home life, in the form of a mysterious pill given to him by an angelic deity.

Lost in the Woods: The Movie

2006 • 30 min • United States of America

Shirley, an old box turtle, meets a very lost raccoon named Fernando Hernandafandavez, and helps him discover the magic of spring. Together they learn about a newborn fawn who sleeps alone in the woods.

Capitalism: Child Labor

2006 • 14 min • United States of America

A digital animation of a Victorian stereoscopic photograph of a 19th-century factory floor, crowded with machinery and child workers. Filmmaker Ken Jacobs isolates the faces of individuals and details of the image, as if searching out the human and the particular within this mechanized field of mass production. Space appears to fold in on itself as Jacobs activates the stereograph; the agitated image flickers and stutters, but the motion never, in fact, progresses.

Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball

2006 • 53 min • United States of America

Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball is a documentary about making it to Koshien, the summer high school baseball tournament in Japan. The documentary follows two teams: Chiben Academy from Wakayama Prefecture and Tennoji Public High School from Osaka. The documentary covers what motivates the players and coaches, and also covers the cheer team and team managers who support the team.

Eye on the Guy: Alan B. Stone & the Age of Beefcake

2006 • 48 min • Canada

Alan B. Stone: astute businessman, quiet suburbanite - and master of the homoerotic pin-up. Eye on the Guy: Alan B. Stone & the Age of Beefcake explores the little-known world of Montreal's physique photography scene - a distinct gay subculture that emerged in the '50s and '60s - through the life and work of one of its most creative figures. Before the first wave of gay liberation, and long before Calvin Klein's poster boys marched into public view, Stone was taking hundreds of erotic photos of men and running an international mail-order business from his Montreal basement.

Curse of Halloween

2006 • 60 min • United States of America

Several people are curse to die on Halloween night when they wake the Great Queen Pumpkin during a sacrifice. Now they must fight to survive Halloween Night when the Queen Pumpkin goes out on a killing spree. How many people must die on Halloween night before the Pumpkin is stopped?

Micha Wertheim: Voor Beginners

2006 • 46 min • Netherlands

Stage registration of the first comedy special by the Dutch comedian Micha Wertheim. The central idea of ​​the performance is: 'Some people think I'm arrogant, but I spit on them."