All Films

Orinoco, North’s Best

2005 • 24 min • Australia

The greatest places North of the Orinoco, the Coast, the Northern Range, the Llanos, the Andes and Los Roques. Coro, Morrocoy, Oilbirds, the Llanos, Adventures in the Andes, the Underwater World, and the Magnificent Site of Los Roques Archipelago.

Soft Materials

2005 • 10 min

“What fascinates me [about film],” says Daria Martin, “is the essential contradiction of the medium: its layered ephemeral and sensual aspect, its articulation of psychological projection together with a necessary physical realization of fantasy. The camera, circling around or brushing close to constructed sets, props, faces, and bodies, caresses these material elements, intimately describes their sculptural surfaces, and yet, paradoxically, when these images are projected as a beam of light, they become transparent, their heft subtracted. I want to play at seducing the viewer while allowing escape routes from the game. My implementation of certain ideals – primary colors, mechanical or athletic bodies, geometric sets, smooth skinned faces – is always tempered by the presence of something a little more awkward: shadows, seams, aging, exhaustion.”

The Tribe

2005 • 18 min

An unorthodox, unauthorized history of the Jewish people and the Barbie doll.

Uproar

2005 • 21 min • France

Antoine, twenty-five, does not want to be alone this evening. He leaves in the middle of the night to find a remedy for his loneliness.

The Rebels

2005 • 60 min • Sweden

A hundred of Sweden's most radical leftists formed secret Maoist cells in Uppsala and Stockholm in 1968. They called themselves the Rebels. They began to retrain/reform individuals and families to lead Sweden into the Culture revolution. No revolution ever happened, still the rebels managed to shake up both themselves and the entire left movement to a degree that history repressed their existence for almost forty years.

David Lynch: 1985

2005 • 8 min • France

An interview with director David Lynch from 1985 on his 1984 film: Dune

Lo que tú quieras oír

2005 • 8 min • Spain

Sofia, a preschool teacher, returns home from her job to find a recording on her voicemail from her husband, Miguel, telling her that he has left and is not coming back. She stays at home depressed for a couple of weeks, before having the idea to take the recording and rearrange it to make Miguel say what she wants him to. After having him tell her he needs to come home and he loves her and other similar things, Sofia smiles and tells him, simply, "No."

The Scene

2005 • 58 min • Puerto Rico

What is "la escena" (the scene) and what is its importance, if any? Guillermo Gómez Álvarez tries to answer these questions with candid interviews from musicians and fans of the vibrant and, many times controversial, punk music scene in Puerto Rico. The decadence, rage, drugs, alcohol, politics, and social aspects are showcased in this documentary that tells an important part of the history of the great dysfunctional family that is "el punk boricua".

Ichthys

2005 • 16 min • Poland

Tells the story of the eternal issue of human fate, hope, waiting and fulfilment. It shows an individual totally abandoned in his pursuit to fulfil his dreams, without significant influence on his fate...but only seemingly.

Fantôme Afrique

2005 • 17 min • United Kingdom

Fantôme Afrique, weaves cinematic and architectural references through the rich imagery of urban Ouagadougou, the centre for cinema in Africa, and the arid spaces of rural Burkina Faso, and is punctuated by archival footage from early colonial expeditions and landmark moments in African history. Renowned choreographer and dancer Stephen Galloway (Ballet Frankfurt) and actor Vanessa Myrie (Baltimore) figure as ‘trickster/phantom’ and ‘witness’ in this carefully composed meditation on the denationalised, de-territorialised spaces born of the encounters between local and global cultures, where the ghosts of history linger amid the realities of the day

Shades of Destructors

2005 • 18 min • United Kingdom

Experimental film.

Herr och Fru Konst

2005 • 55 min • Sweden

"Mr and Mrs Art" - Getting attention is like being struck by the light of the sun, says artist Karin "Mamma" Anderson. If you are lucky you are hit by its rays for a short while during a lifetime, but the light is transient. Artists Karin "Mamma" Andersson and Jockum Nordström bathing in the light of fame. Few other artist couples in Sweden can compete with them in terms of attention and success. They exhibit at all the major galleries and fairs around the world, win prizes and are constantly in demand. Filmmaker Bengt Bok has followed the couple from studio to venue and talked about the conditions of creation and the sweetness and the taste of blood in fame and being famous.

Today's Specials

2005 • 8 min • Italy

Shoppers flock to a supermarket during the summer holidays to take advantage of the summers sales. But one shopper, a shy and quiet transsexual, is about to experience something beyond her her wildest imagination.

Kactus Kid

2005 • 7 min • Brazil

In an old western town called "Descansas City", we find the gravedigger Zeca Funesto. In the fight for justice, truth and some customers, Zeca becomes his alter ego Kactus Kid.

The Anatomy of a National Holiday

2005 • 50 min • Latvia

Through expressive poetic cinematography this film offers a “poem” on the hundreds of worker-bees behind the annual celebrations of Latvian proclamation on November 18.

Hurry Up, Munchausen, Hurry Up!

2005 • 10 min • Latvia

Baron Munchausen’s string of victories against the Turks is disrupted by a love letter from his bride, Jacobine von Dunten, propelling the Baron into an adventure-filled journey back to her.

Ímpar Par

2005 • 18 min • Brazil

Amidst feet coming and going, colors and violin strings, the shoemaker of a small village searches for the perfect pair, in a fable of love and shoes.

Lemmings

2005 • 8 min

Two Lemmings ponder the meaning of life, sex, and conformity as they march with the rest of the herd off a cliff.

Mick Miller: In the Club

2005 • 47 min • United Kingdom

NON-STOP FUN FOR ALL THE FAMILY AS THE JOKES COME THICK AND FAST AS MICK MILLER OF THE COMEDIANS PERFORMS HIS SIDE-SPLITTING COMIC ROUTINE TO A LIVE AUDIENCE.

Let's go again

2005 • 19 min

For the first time, Nouli won't be part of the audience. She'll confront her life, alone. Everything is already there. But she must write her own lines.

Driggling

2005 • 1 min

"Driggling is something that i have done for almost ten years. It's just what i do. One part dribbling, one part juggling, one part speed skating. With the help of director Larry Clark and some other good friends i have finally put it on film."

The Dark Side of Porn: Diary of a Porn Virgin

2005 • 60 min • United Kingdom

From a 38-year-old wife, mother and successful corporate manager to a young Muslim who previously worked in the fashion industry, people from all walks of life have decided to quit their day jobs to appear in adult films.

Hikayeci

2005 • 9 min

In a train station stripped of all concerns of time and place, a man has taken up something not at all ordinary: Writing and selling stories. The storyteller is delighted to write and his readers are delighted to live those magical moments; but one day, out of the blue, a blind woman appears in all her beauty and in this mysterious world, she asks the storyteller to write and read a story for her. Blind people are forbidden to receive stories, since they cannot read what is written. The storyteller must refuse this unacceptable request, but he is intrigued by this beautiful woman, and this intrigue has no chance of living on the page!.

god's Man

2005 • 14 min

20 years ago, everything in Heaven seemed fine. But a secret task force was penetrating God's kingdom: Mankind. Years later, God is losing strength, his ability to hear prayers is diminishing, and the future of existence is doomed.