All Films

Irene Williams: Queen of Lincoln Road

2005 • 23 min • United States of America

Director Eric Smith documents the life and wild fashion sense of Miami Beach's Irene Williams.

Erni

2005 • 7 min

Based on the Carol Reed film 'The Third Man', Edgar Honetschläger's Erni unfolds in Vienna. Two Japanese women and a young boy wander around the city. From time to time the boy sees the figure of a chicken, Erni, appear, each time dressed differently. This short, which is part of a portmanteau film, was screened at the Aichi exhibition in Japan in 2005.

Everything Is Beautiful: Fashion

2005 • 20 min

Documentary about the costume design in Jacques Tati's 1958 film MON ONCLE.

Tarde de primavera

2005 • 60 min • Argentina

A love story between a film student and a Japanese girl on their first day of work at the Japanese Garden.

Le Moulin

2005 • 6 min

The life of a coastal town is under the spell of the movement of a windmill's sails.

En garde

2005 • 4 min • France

In a flat world, a fencers' spar gets out of hand.

Experiment 17

2005 • 5 min

A German officer attempts to use to use the occult powers of The Necronomicon to aid the Nazi plan for world domination.

Pup

2005 • 22 min

This short film follows two out, gay, Christian leathermen - Master Skip and Pup Tim - as they prepare to compete in The Second International Puppy Contest (IPC), a leather title contest for human canines and their handlers. The documentary is the first to introduce puppy play - a fetish in which a human expresses the attributes of a canine, most often in relation to another human taking the position of pup handler, owner, trainer, etc.

O Resto é Silêncio

2005 • 28 min • Brazil

A reporter goes out to investigate a suicide.

Two Steps From Heaven: Tango

2005 • 10 min • Germany

People in Berlin with a passion for tango talk about this dance, to tango tones and dance moves.

Thomas & Friends: Percy Saves the Day

2005 • 32 min

On the Island of Sodor, Sir Topham Hatt is always stressing to the engines the importance of working together and listening to one another. Sometimes, though, the engines don't always do what they are told. Hop aboard and see what happens when Thomas ignores Percy's warning of a wobbly track. Cheer Rusty on as he races to save a reckless Duncan. Meet Fergus, the traction engine, and find out how he proves that even new engines can be really useful.

Butterflies

2005 • 3 min • Latvia

An audiovisual interpretation of one of the "epiphanies" by Imants Ziedonis.

The Little Monsterette

2005 • 8 min • Germany, Switzerland

A little monsterette doesn't want to sleep alone in her bed and finds a hundred excuses to stay awake until a solution is found by her tired parents.

Made in Chinatown

2005 • 6 min • United States of America

“Jennings, a prolific and consistently wonderful filmmaker, excels at constructing near-perfect short films out of glimpses of fleeting, ephemeral visual phenomena. Made in Chinatown is a street film in which the human presence is represented only indirectly and in fragments, either through its reflection in shop windows, cars, and other surfaces, or through the shadows it casts. There is nothing extraneous here, nothing which upsets the film’s fragile, delicate balance between what is physically substantial and the immaterial traces of that substantiality.” -Nathaniel Dorsky

Business Trip to Forest

2005 • 27 min • Latvia

Circumstances force two former friends and schoolmates to meet again after a long separation. There’s an unresolved conflict from their past. Will this chance meeting result in reconciliation?

The Avenging Apes of Africa

2005 • 53 min • China, United States of America

Six great apes orphaned by a cold-blooded poacher in the heart of the Congo jungle must avenge the lives of their families and those of the exploited animals around the world. Using their superior strength, magnificent intelligence, and outlandish humor, they scour the globe in search of the notorious poaching kingpin Harry B. Richbone and his evil group of merciless minions.

Music Palace

2005 • 9 min

Previously a central part of communal life, the movie palaces of New York’s Chinatown are now extinct. This documentary short takes us inside the title theater located on the Bowery, as it’s about to close its doors, with its caretakers ruefully looking back at the life that once was. Eric Lin’s poignant first film serves as a glimpse into the usually private—and, according to the Music Palace’s projectionist, “lonely”—operations of a theater, and mourns the loss of a once-vital movie-going locale.

Banned from Broadcast 4: Troublesome Neighbor Terror

2005 • 46 min • Japan

A couple are harassed endlessly by their neighbors.

Timur. History of the Last Flight

2005 • 26 min • Russia

In 2001, near Pskov, at an air show, a disaster occurred in front of 10,000 spectators. The crash of the plane, which was controlled by Timur Apakidze, was filmed by dozens of cameras. The film also contains the voice of Apakidze himself, who, shortly before his death, as if anticipating it, managed to talk about how the pilot feels in an emergency flight, being on the verge of life and death. And how painful is the choice between ejection-life and the desire to save the plane.

coffee and milk

2005 • 30 min

Homesick Blues

2005 • 15 min

Hiroko spends her final days in Osaka before running away to Chicago, hell-bent on becoming a blues singer.

Aven

2005 • 60 min

Performance, 23 September 2005, at Zoersel, Seppenshuis. Avens are relics from prehistoric times (3000 BC). They are natural cavities in the limestone soil that have been washed out by water. The early inhabitants used those cavities as a quarry from which they extracted the clay for their pottery. When the clay ran out or had become too difficult to reach these caverns were used as depositories for food. Usually an AVEN was connected to an underground vein of water. I saw AVENS like this in Cambous, Languedoc. They date from 3000 BC. "I think they’re wonderful. Time and time again it surprises me that as soon as I perform a work existing in my head, it begins to lead a life of its own. During the try-out I discovered that an AVEN could also be the crater of a blue meteor fallen from Sirius into our garden or just as likely a hole in the ground caused by the impact of a poisonous gas bomb."

Dual Injustice: Feminicide and Torture in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua

2005 • 17 min • United States of America

This documentary short explores disappearances and murders of women in Mexican border towns.

Panaginipan

2005 • 15 min

Two young, deeply disturbed women discover a different kind of bond despite their contrasting personalities. Mona, with her seemingly calm and controlled façade, has already reached a point in her life wherein she can no longer hope that life will ever get better. Sara, on the other hand, wishes to escape the constant and pointless pain of her uncontrollable need to fall in love. Both women have already attempted several times to kill themselves, seeing that death is their only escape from this repetitive suffering. After exhausting all means of suicide, they discover a foolproof way to end it all.