All Films

The iDol

2006 • 52 min • Japan

Ken is a mild-mannered man in his mid-twenties who like many his age has interests that stopped developing during adolescence. On a visit to a local toy collectors shop he acquires a rare alien action figure. Unexpectedly, Ken's world is turned inside out as the somewhat silly looking toy alters his life by benevolently giving him everything he has ever dreamed of, and then callously taking it all back...

Linerboard

2006 • 19 min • Sweden

Linerboard is a film about thin paper between cardboard. It’s about how fragile items need to be properly protected and about a hesitant but long-term relationship.

Maya, Raya, Daya

2006 • 10 min • Indonesia

The rise of women from three eras who are persecuted in marriage life.

The Making of 'Dog Day Afternoon'

2006 • 58 min

A documentary chronicling the making of the 1975 film "Dog Day Afternoon."

Deep Imagination

2006 • 57 min • Japan

A series of five Studio 4°C shorts collected in January 2007 as a direct-to-DVD package film titled Deep Imagination. Featuring Professor Dan Petory's Blues, End of the World, Comedy, Higan, and Junk Town.

North and the Music of the South

2006 • 9 min • United States of America

The score of Alex North for A Streetcar Named Desire is analyzed.

Fiore

2006 • 9 min • Italy

Before the great crossroads that traces the border between the two provinces, there lies a sheet metal cage at the end of Linden Street. Two women walked slowly.

The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge

2006 • 56 min

Twenty-three bizarre looking vehicles line up at the starting gate of the DARPA Grand Challenge with one thing in common: there's nobody behind the wheel. Sponsored by the Pentagon's research agency, this race for robotic, driverless vehicles has a $2 million prize. Its ultimate goal is to gather new ideas for the future of unmanned warfare.

The Comedians of Comedy: Live at the El Rey

2006 • 54 min • United States of America

For the final show of their successful "Comedians of Comedy" tour, "alternative" stand-up comics Maria Bamford, Brian Posehn and Patton Oswalt pull out all the stops in a grand finale-worthy performance that finds humor in unexpected places. Taped live at Los Angeles's El Rey Theater and featuring fellow funnyman Bob Odenkirk, this farewell gig is sure to please fans who like their laughs with bite.

La Grenadière

2006 • 48 min • Japan

The Japanese painter FUKAZAWA Takeshi expresses in pictures the novel written by Honoré de BALZAC “La grenadière”. Over 70 tempera paintings are beautifully brought to life and put together by FUKADA Koji for this Ga-nime that tells us the story of a mother and child in the 19th century, coated in a music that punctuates the whole experience. FUKAZAWA and FUKADA thus succeed in reproducing the ambiance of this mansion so dear to BALZAC, as the artistic pictures call to the imagination and the emotions of the viewer that only be so aroused by a Ga-nime.

Dr. Seuss and the Grinch: From Whoville to Hollywood

2006 • 16 min

A documentary that reveals the origins of Dr. Seuss as well as his Grinch creation going from children's book to TV special.

The Fair Haired Child

2006 • 55 min • United States of America

A creepy couple kidnaps a teenage outcast and locks her in their basement with their seemingly kindhearted adolescent son - who harbors a terrifying secret involving the forces of evil.

Sokurov

2006 • 26 min • Russia

Poetic portrait of a filmmaker. The famous director reflects on creativity and love. His friends and associates take part in the film: artist Vladimir Shinkarev, engineer Vladimir Nikolaev, actress Elena Kramer (Spiridonova), director, film critic Oleg Kovalov, necrorealist directors Yevgeny Yufit, Igor Bezrukov.

No al no: Visca el piano!

2006 • 12 min • Spain

Carles Santos plays several of his pieces on the piano. This film was made for the exhibit on Carles Santos Visca el piano! held at the Miro Foundation in the summer of 2006.

Mahou Sentai Magiranger vs. Dekaranger

2006 • 47 min • Japan

Mahou Sentai Magiranger vs. Dekaranger is the teamup movie between Mahou Sentai Magiranger and Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger.

Thumbsucker - Behind the Scenes

2006 • 22 min • United States of America

Game

2006 • 4 min • Canada, Switzerland

A visual and musical game which builds and destroys itself according to the vivacious rhythm of Serge Prokofiev’s Scherzo to Piano Concerto No. 2.

Making Capote: Concept to Script

2006 • 17 min

Featurette on the making of Capote (2005).

Shadows of Suspense

2006 • 37 min

A documentary featuring film historians, directors and authors discussing the making of Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity."

The Mozart Minute

2006 • 30 min • Austria

Twenty-eight well-known filmmakers living and working in Austria were invited by WIENER MOZARTJAHR 2006, to produce associative miniatures on Mozart. Requirement: they had to be one-minute artistic short films. The directors come from a whole range of different backgrounds, ranging from animated, experimental and short film to documentaries and feature films. The result is a multi-facetted sampler of diverse formal and contextual positions with regard to Mozart’s person and his influence on today’s society, art and culture. The contributions run the gamut from experimental-conceptual statements through socio-critical and documentary observations to pithy short feature films.

Pulp: The Story of Common People

2006 • 56 min • United Kingdom

A look at Pulp's Common People, a song that examines class, politics and Britain in the 90s.

The Fakir

2006 • 13 min • Finland

The Fakir is fairy tale about the responsibility of ones life, and avoiding it.

Vimy-Ridge

2006 • 2 min • Canada

In this short animation Damien Hess attempts to connect with the tragedy of the First World War, a conflict that helped define Canada. In this film he uses imagery of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial monument in northern France to summon up names, faces and shadows that are fading from our memory. This film was made as part of the third edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

Censorship and Desire

2006 • 16 min • United States of America

Censorship issues with the film "A Streetcar Named Desire."