All Films

Hung

2005 • 12 min

Living in a world that seems rife with phallic symbols, five lesbian friends take a teaspoon each of a concoction from Prague that will give them, for only one day, a penis. Next morning, the cock crows and the women seek men's experiences: they measure and compare, pee standing up, and look for women who'll sleep with them. At the end of the day, they gather to compare scores. It's a jungle out there.

Forest

2005 • 7 min

Video installation, 2005, at LOKAAL_01 Breda 2007, Burning Marl, curator Frederik Vergaert in Seppenshuis Zoersel, 2005. A woman walking through 3 video images. Three screens display how the day’s light passes by: from the early morning light until late at night. Along with the woman the artist walks through the forest, in the same rhythm, the same pace. Off-screen she looks through the camera, fragmenting time. The age-old androgynous trees are a vertical constant along which the woman moves, as if in an interval between visibility and invisibility, between sound and silence, while the light keeps on evolving metabletically.

When Shaun Met George

2005 • 15 min

The star, director and co-writers of "Shaun Of The Dead" travel to Toronto to film their cameo roles as zombies in the latest film from the man who inspired them in the first place: George A. Romero ("not George B.Romero, he's not as good")

Blindgångare

2005 • 24 min • Sweden

The Time-Bomb waiting to go off reflects the fear of the times in which we live. It’s central character, an important government minister, finds himself squeezed between the pressures of political office and the very real, personal security threat that gives rise to his deepest, innermost fears. Fear is a strong and intractable human mechanism, the expression and form of which has changed throughout time. Once it was the darkness and its’ unknown power that terrified but today that fear has other faces.

Bonnard

2005 • 26 min • France

"I have been lucky enough to be able to film the cleaning and restoration work on a painting by Pierre Bonnard: Nu dans la baignoire. I completely inhabited this canvas. It drew me to it and allowed me to record the palpable cinematic evidence of Bonnard's art of painting. It has led me along the hidden path of his private life." (Alain Cavalier)

Audition One

2005 • 5 min

Ignorant armies of sketchy people clashing by night.

Atrapar un ruiseñor

2005 • 18 min • Costa Rica

A short Costa Rican drama

Brother Yusef

2005 • 52 min • Germany, Switzerland

The path to Yusef Lateef was a journey into the unknown. We were aware that he is one of the great maestros of jazz and one of the last of his generation still alive. In an era of black culture that probably found its strongest form of expression in music, he was a contemporary and companion of those musicians who helped to shape and renew jazz: John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Cannonball Adderley. Now, at the age of 84, Yusef Lateef lives withdrawn in his house in the woods somewhere in New England – in a room full of musical instruments. He still plays his saxophone today, as he has done for most of his life. (Humbert & Penzel)

Worldly Desires

2005 • 43 min • South Korea, Thailand

One of three films commissioned by the Jeonju International Film Festival in 2005. A couple escaped their family to look for a spiritual tree in the jungle. There is a song at night, a song that spoke about an innocent idea of love and a quest for happiness. Worldly Desires is an experimental project where I invited a filmmaker friend, Pimpaka Towira, to shoot the love story by day and the song by night. The story, Deep Red Bloody Night, was written by my assistant who wanted to reprise a forbidden love story in a more romantic time in the past. I picked a pop song, Will I be Lucky? to convey a sense of guiltless freedom one feels when being hit by love. The video is a little simulation of manners, dedicated to the memories of filmmaking in the jungle during the year 2001-2005. -Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Eu te Darei o Céu

2005 • 17 min • Brazil

Tremble, tyrants

2005 • 17 min • France

From his window, 10-year-old Henry Brulard witnesses the death of a citizen wounded by counter-revolutionaries. When his father tells him he's on a list of people "notoriously suspected of disliking the republic", the hatred between them erupts. Based on Stendhal's "The Life of Henry Brulard".

Open Your Mind

2005 • 35 min • France

The plot of Open Your Mind follows the extraterrestrial origin of life, coming from outerspace as six deities (Intermission act), evolving into water (Sho-ho) then emerging to the air (Hyakkin) and to the ground (Ku-nu). Each one of these creatures rules one of the six elements of the godai philosophy, i.e. Earth, Water, Fire, Wind (referred to as kaze in the Hyakkin chant), Sky and Consciousness (referred to as "Awakening" in the movie's title).

American Beauties

2005 • 23 min • United States of America

We enter the secretive, often misunderstood world of immigrant male to female transgenders. In a series of illuminating interviews, Amanda, Diva, Kim and Kosal give revealing insights on the issues closest to their hearts: discrimination, prostitution, and surgery as well as their former lives, and their dreams for the future.

The French Democracy

2005 • 13 min

The French Democracy is a short film by French filmmaker Alex Chan. The film was made in the 2005 PC game "The Movies," a business simulation game that allowed users to create their own films using pre-rendered scenes and tells the story of three Moroccan immigrants in France who turn to rioting after facing different forms of discrimination. The film was made as a response to the 2005 French riots which resulted from the deaths of two young boys who were electrocuted while hiding from police in a power substation. The civil unrest called attention to racism in France and abusive policing tactics. On its release, The French Democracy sparked controversy in mainstream media both as a political statement and as an example of the then-emerging Machinima genre tackling mature, political themes.

Fareler

2005 • 21 min

Two Istanbul thieves rob the house of prominent jeweler and make off with millions of lira in jewelry and cash. Back at their safehouse, they get little sleep after tensions rise over how they’ll divide the loot. In the morning, the matter is decided.

Falang: Behind Bangkok's Smile

2005 • 50 min • Canada

"Bangkok Girl" is a 'remarkably accomplished, beautifully photographed and intimate debut documentary that puts a human face on the devastating social issue that, sadly, is the fate of too many impoverished girls.' The documentary provides a glimpse of Thailand's sex tourism told through the experiences of a 19-year-old bar girl named Pla.

To a Man with a Big Nose

2005 • 3 min • United States of America

The film is a visual adaptation of a poem by Spanish author Quevedo. A frustrated little man is unable to get rid of his disproportionally big nose, which comes to life and decides to go on a strange journey, dragging the poor little man along.

To Paint With Pictures

2005 • 57 min • Sweden

Documentary about the making of Swedish film director Jan Troell's "The New Land" (1971) and "The Emigrants" (1972).

The Trapeze Artists

2005 • 24 min • Chile

Piñon is 6 years old and Chestnut is 9, they are clowns and have lived all their life in the circus, learning to combine applause and school. Piñon dreams of being a renowned circus artist, while his brother worries about studying. One day their life is interrupted by a terrible news, they must leave the circus and with it their father and friends, to go and live somewhere else, there they will be forced to behave as if they were sedentary.

Ronnie Biggs: The Last Escape?

2005 • 47 min • United Kingdom

Want to know more about how Ronnie pulled off The Great Train Robbery and his later 30-year sentence in prison? This documentary shows the whole life of Ronald Biggs an English criminal who helped plan and carry out the Great Train Robbery of 1963. He subsequently became notorious for his escape from prison in 1965, living as a fugitive for 36 years, and for his various publicity stunts while in exile.

Netorareta hitozuma: Yûki Maiko: Watashi ni matagashite!

2005 • 60 min • Japan

After finishing his delivery job, Suwa returns to the office. As he is about to go up the stairs, he sees Kiyomi about to jump off... Suwa jumps on Kiyomi and hurriedly holds her back. "I'm fed up... I'm sorry," Kiyomi weakly replies, and Suwa confesses, "I was thinking that today was the day I would jump off too... My wife ran off with another man." That day, the two comforted each other and passionately desired each other. But their happy time did not last long...

The Death of Salvador Dali

2005 • 18 min • United States of America

Salvador Dali seeks psychoanalysis from Sigmund Freud.

Franquin, Gaston et compagnie

2005 • 52 min • France

Africain poids-moyens

2005 • 18 min • Belgium, Congo

A young Congolese boxer, Samwa, and his older brother, Nourou, arrive in Brussels for the final of the Afro-European Middleweight Championship to fight against the Belgian title holder. Samwa trains heavily, despite some harsh conditions, under the authoritarian look of his brother. Until the day when the Belgian fight promoters, aware of the fact that the political situation gives the final a symbolical turn, order to Samwa to lose the fight. The day before the match, Samwa and Nourou watch Patrice Lumumba's independence's speech. Samwa decides not to give up but in this power's struggle, one of the brothers will betray the other one.