All Films

Kinderjaren

2006 • 52 min • Netherlands

In the summer of 2005, Piet Oomes went to Sumatra with his mother Ank and his aunt Guus, to look for the Japanese concentration camps where the two had been interned with their mother in World War II. During the trip, it becomes clear that the filmmaker is mainly making a personal quest: for an explanation of the reserved relationship he has with his mother. The camera registers the collisions the two have been having for forty years. 'I keep my mouth shut', mother Ank spews in a rare outburst of emotions. Their digging in the past brings tears to the eyes of Piet's aunt, but his mother only makes rational analyses. Eventually, their visit to the site of the last camp, Aek Pamingke, which has now been replaced by rubber plantation, brings about a long-awaited breakthrough - though the tears are kept back even then.

Bleed For Me

2006 • 12 min

A female hitchhiker is picked up by a deranged serial killer and subjected to bizarre tortures. After her burial, she returns from the grave to seek her revenge.

O senso dos desatinados

2006 • 15 min

An adaptation of "The dream of François Villon" by Antonio Tabucchi

Hi-res

2006 • 21 min • Slovenia

A video based on the dance performance HI-RES by Maja Delak and Male Kline. The video poses questions and give some unexpected answers to what is to be done in contemporary art/dance today, what are the limits of representation, etc.

Google: Behind the Screen

2006 • 47 min • Australia

Google: Behind the Screen is a documentary film about Google, Inc. from 2006, directed by IJsbrand van Veelen.

Déjà Vu

2006 • 6 min

A horror fantasy short film that questions the existence of parallel universes, the relativity of time, reality/illusion, and multiple personalities.

Vom kleinen Maulwurf, der wissen wollte, wer ihm auf den Kopf gemacht hat

2006 • 4 min • Germany

Yours Truly

2006 • 8 min

Animation and live action collide in the story of Frank and Charlie, a dark romance of psychological tension that unfolds as the two men sacrifice their morals in search of what they love.

Night of the Hell Hamsters

2006 • 16 min • New Zealand

Demonically possessed hamsters terrorize a young babysitter and her boyfriend.

The Great Bazaar

2006 • 56 min • Mozambique

Two boys with different experiences and goals meet up in a sprawling African market. One is looking for a job, to get back what was stolen from him and return home. The other will do anything to avoid having to go back with his family. They become friends and together they reinvent the world.

Printed Rainbow

2006 • 15 min • India

A matchbox collection unites a lonely woman and her cat.

Avant Pétalos Grillados

2006 • 10 min • Spain

The story tells of an extraterrestrial invasion in which the aliens kidnap bodybuilders for reasons that escape our understanding.

Keeping The Watch

2006 • 60 min • United States of America

Bigfoot researchers from around the country

End Times: How Close Are We?

2006 • 59 min

Can we know what the future holds? When it was written, nearly 30 percent of the Bible's content was prophetic. Today, nearly all these prophecies have become recorded history. Only a few of the Bible's predictions remain unfulfilled. They are predictions of the End Times. Is Christ's church dangerously unprepared for what is to come? Will you be ready when the prophetic clock stops ticking?

A Fish with a Smile

2006 • 10 min • Taiwan

Moving story about a lonely man who finds solace and company in his pet fish.

Something Like That

2006 • 15 min • Brazil

Two seventeen-year-olds go out at night looking for a good time in the streets of São Paulo and end up discovering a lot about them selves and their hidden feelings.

Railway Roundabout The End Of The Line

2006 • 53 min • United Kingdom

This compilation of footage from the BBC television series 'Railway Roundabout' features archive material from the 1960s, supplied by the National Railway Museum, York. Railway artist Terence Cuneo is seen at work, and there is also film of the Talyllyn and Ffestioniog lines.

The Standard of Perfection: Show Cattle

2006 • 56 min

The "Standard of Perfection" has become the guideline by which animal show judges award points and prizes to worthy animals. With wit and respect, director Mark Lewis (The Natural History of the Chicken) takes viewers behind the scenes at the Fryeburg Cattle Show in Maine to expose the intense preparation to prime an animal for the biggest show of the year. Viewers meet the winners and proud owners as they achieve the highest honors.

A Heart and Other Small Shapes

2006 • 30 min

This short deadpan narrative is a glimpse into the lives of two children and three adults maximizing dysfunction. Regular people keep secrets and act out intimate wants. Ultimately, this piece examines the awkwardness and specificity of human desire.

Even Kids Started Small

2006 • 30 min • Israel

School starts at 8am. Teachers and students awaiting to learn what's next on the syllabus. "What will we learn today?" Something slightly different, this time taught by the students. The teachers, our hard working educators, will sit back, and might even learn something - Learn discipline. So come on everybody, let's all embrace the new curriculum. Perhaps we'll begin to enjoy it.

Gravity

2006 • 6 min • Belgium

The cinematic kiss is probably one of the most archetypical images to be found in film history. It is usually a reassuring and sometimes climactic element in a movie's storyline. Not in Nicolas Provost's 'Gravity' though: with stroboscopic effects, more than a dozen kissing scenes, most from stereotypical 1950s romantic dramas, are edited together and superimposed. Narrative is subverted as the kissing is isolated from its context entirely; the action slows down and flickers back and forth. Every now and then, shots from different films overlap and match; protagonists merge and diverge again a few seconds later. The sugary and dramatic soundtrack of romantic film music contrasts with the deconstructed images; together, they form a dazzling 6-minute vertigo where love becomes a passionate battle.

Batuque, the Soul of a People

2006 • 52 min • Cape Verde, France, Portugal

In 1462, the first African slaves were settled on the island of Cape Verde brought by the Portuguese colons. It is supposed that they were the first inhabitants of the archipelagos. They carried with them the rhythms and the seeds of what became the BATUQUE: a music form, performed mostly by women, both singers and dancers. The singers, repeat very strong lyrics, sitting in a circle and beating the rhythms with their hands on a piece of cloth between their legs. While one woman performs a very sensual dance with her hips in the middle of the circle. During the colonial era, it has been strongly forbidden but it remained alive in clandestinity. The group Raiz de Tambarina, one of the oldest groups of Batuque on Santiago island, is composed of ordinary people, saleswomen, fish merchants, drivers... Through their every day life and performances we discover Cape Verde today and their passion for the Batuque.

Lax Readings

2006 • 13 min • Germany

The space of a voice gives what is said its real meaning. In it you can feel what is actually behind the words. A voice can be like a landscape. Nobody we met on our cinematic paths made this more noticeable than Robert Lax. His incomparable serenity hovers over every thought. You can enter this space by listening to him read his poetry, a quarter hour of which is gathered in LAX READINGS.

It's My Turn Now

2006 • 7 min • Sweden

A little story about a person who decided to give up.