All Films

The Dark Side of Porn: Death of a Porn Star

2005 • 47 min • United Kingdom

A look at the life and mysterious death of the woman with the largest breasts in the world, French porn star Lolo Ferrari.

Dream on Silly Dreamer

2005 • 40 min

Disney animator Dan Lund documents the studio's decision to shut down its hand-drawn animation department and focus instead on computer-generated animation.

Walking to Nairobi

2005 • 18 min

Katie is an isolated ten-year-old constantly looking for attention from her family. Her equally overlooked Granny, who has Alzheimers, lives with them. Though Granny's condition is at times frustrating, Katie uses it to get extra pocket money and sherry out of her, Granny is the only person who treats her like an adult. But an unexpected friendship begins to develop between them as they become close allies.

Antebody

2005 • 17 min • United States of America

Lois Ambro has just received some terrible news. The body of her husband, Matin, has been found in the Los Angeles River. She is about to receive some even more startling news! The detectives are at a loss to explain it. The medical examiner has never seen anything like it. The Ambro family has no idea what has happened, how it happened, who did it, or why, and are haunted by the prospect of a murder yet to come! The police may know how Marty died, Lois may know how Marty lived, but there's something you don't know about Martin David Ambro...

Molly & Grandpa

2005 • 45 min • Norway

Molly visits her grandparents.

Because of the Wonderful Things It Does: The Legacy of Oz

2005 • 25 min

A featurette about The Wizard of Oz (1939).

Roger Diamantis or Real Life

2005 • 55 min • France

Roger Diamantis owns the Saint-André-des-Arts cinema in Paris. His discovery of the 7th art, his vocation to own a cinema where he could show films that resembled him, and his years in the restoration business to achieve this… He recalls his early days, talks about the filmmakers who found their place with him, and his film “Si j'te cherche, j'me trouve”.

I Know What You Need

2005 • 33 min • United States of America

Told from the perspective of a popular, college-age girl named Elizabeth Rogan, the premise of this story concerns her sudden, unexpected attraction to a social outcast named Ed Hamner, Jr., whose paranormal ability to perceive what will make any person happy has not resulted in his own happiness.

Noroi: Hodo Sosa Saizensen Yori

2005 • 58 min • Japan

The forbidden horror that everyone involved is keeping their mouths shut about Now, we break the seal and ask you. - Is this the truth...?

Mag Bodard, un destin

2005 • 52 min • France

Mag Bodard, un destin is an archive documentary filmed for television by Anne Wiazemsky in 2005.

Airs

2005 • 8 min

A TV show that is so unclear to whom and where it is broadcast. A strange room where the recording and editing is taking place. A middle-aged gentleman like a wax figure sits on a turntable and grabs the microphone as the director signals him to do so. A reading about the mysterious genre "Ficfyon" has begun. 'What the heck did we not have time for?' The monologue of a man sitting in the audience and continuing to talk about his story will soon move into Ficfyon prophecies about the 2000s.

Born to Fight

2005 • 19 min • United States of America

Documentary on the cultural appeal of boxing and its incorporation in the film 'Million Dollar Baby'.

Christopher Ford Sees a Film

2005 • 2 min • United States of America

What would you do if you saw a terrible film and your name was Christopher Ford?

Takanaka Crossover Japan '05 Live

2005 • 57 min • Japan

All recorded at National Yoyogi Stadium on June 4th, 2005.

Serious Miracles

2005 • 10 min • Canada

Andy's situation is everyone's: he is alive in this world, with his own sense of reality, while all around him are people who continually attempt to infiltrate his conception of reality with their own.

El oficio de actor

2005 • 55 min

Three of Spain's most renowned actors discuss the acting profession and share experiences and feelings from their different shootings. The ego, the characters, the fears, the preparation and the way each one approaches this profession.

From Walt's Table: A Tribute to Disney's Nine Old Men

2005 • 22 min

Film critic Joel Siegel gets together with a group of animators, directors and producers to discuss and pay tribute to their mentors and Walt Disney's core group of animators, The Nine Old Men

The Hallway

2005 • 17 min • France

A young couple finds themselves in difficult financial straits. The man is out of work and spends his days walking the streets, without so much as a cent in his pocket to buy food. He’s so weak that he collapses in front of a store window. The store’s owner, an elderly man, comes to the man’s aid and offers him a job. His new job requires him to spend all day sitting and keeping watch on the small room at the end of a corridor.

The Soldier's Heart

2005 • 55 min

FRONTLINE tells the stories of soldiers who have come home haunted by their experiences during the Iraq War and asks whether the government is doing enough to help.

Dear Parents,

2005 • 12 min • France

A young man sends a film to his parents after twelve years of silence. He wants to show them the man he has become.

The Secret Transit Code of America's Highways

2005 • 11 min

A salesman contemplates suicide as he studies a notebook of collected graffiti in a motel. Based on the Stephen King short story "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away".

Lucy

2005 • 33 min

Single channel video, 2003. Installation on view at Locus Loppem, Kunsthalle Lophem, 2005. Lucy was found in Ethiopia. She's considered to be the eldest human being ever discovered. She was born about 3.5 million years ago. She was small and lightly built, probably not much more than 1m tall. In a pink bed lies a naked young girl with a pink felt doll. The girl is about ten, eleven years old. The doll has the same size and physiognomy as the girl. It may be her alter ego, or it may be the girl that soon will be a woman, or maybe it’s just the last doll a mother sewed for her daughter. These two fragile images show the search for identity in a kind of reflection. The contact between the girl and the doll slowly disappears, the child soon becomes a woman.

Captain's Daughter

2005 • 28 min • Russia

A cartoon based on the novel of the same name by A.S. Pushkin.

The Werewolf Cult Chronicles: Vietnam 1969

2005 • 20 min • Sweden

Vietnam 1969. Three soldiers are on a secret mission in Skull Bay, north of Laos. Sergeant Jones, Private Maddox and Private Turner shall find and kill a female Vietnamese CIA infiltrator. During the night Sergeant Jones disappears. Something is following the soldiers in the dark. A bloodthirsty werewolf is out for revenge.