All Films

Rhythm of a Diver

2004 • 26 min

A pool at night by the sea where a typhoon approaches. A world colored by the sound of the sea breeze and waves, centered on the conversation between a boy who is a member of the swimming club and a girl who is a manager.

Liquid Lunch

2004 • 4 min • Canada

Our hero, Frank the business man, peruses the Adult Classifieds in search of a lunch hour "quickie". He and his co-worker get more than they bargained for when they encounter a "real" dominatrix.

De la Fuente

2004 • 35 min

Dig with Dibnah

2004 • 60 min • United Kingdom

The ex-steeplejack takes his obsession with Britain's industrial past to the extreme as he attempts to reconstruct a coalmine in his back garden. A 100-foot deep shaft, complete with pithead gear and a fully operational steam-powered winding engine? It's an ambitious project, but if anyone has the passion to see it through, it's Fred Dibnah.

Mind If I Call You Sir?

2004 • 30 min

A ground-breaking project, Mind if I Call You Sir? is an oral history video project documenting queer Latina/o histories through testimonies on gender expression by self-identified Butch Lesbians and Female-to-Male Transgendered men. As a femme-identified Latina lesbian and community scholar, Karla E. Rosales has devoted her academic and artistic pursuits to issues of gender identity in the Latina community. Her research led her to uncover a growing rift between the ‘old school’ Butch Lesbian community and the rapidly-growing FTM community, whose numbers are increasing.

Europe

2004 • 43 min • Latvia

Armands and Žaks are two friends who decide to take a closer look at the state of their country and its capital city, Riga. They are well aware of the glossy promotional videos that showcase Latvia as a land of happy people and a thriving economy. However, their own observations paint a different picture. They see a country that is not well-organized, and where any effort to improve things is quickly stifled. They notice that many of the people in power seem to be more concerned with playing their daily theatrics than actually working towards bettering the country. Armands and Žaks come to the realization that most of their fellow citizens are either forgetful or masochistic, as they repeatedly vote for these politicians who are not working towards any actual change. Despite this, the two remain hopeful that things will get better as they remind themselves that they are living in Europe, after all.

Think Popcorn

2004 • 60 min

A tribute to the classic: “Man with a movie camera”/ Dziga Vertov (USSR 1929). A naïve documentary filmmaker, heavily armed with 3 cameras and a purple draped stage, sets out to roam his beloved country on his cheap motorcycle in order to bring to the screen the ultimate truth of his people. The racist and violent reality reflected from his people’s words increasingly darken his heart and vanquish his dream, until he is forced to confront his deepest fears through encounters with characters drawn from his tormented soul.

Frédérique amoureuse

2004 • 28 min

In what way is the life of a woman with a reliable husband and two nice kids transformed when what she expects most from life is her next orgasm with her lover ?

1999

2004 • 4 min

Video clip for the song "1999" by Roulette Cinese (2004).

Vignettes of New England Steam

2004 • 58 min • United States of America

Vignettes of the New England Steam features the films of noted rail photographers Albert Michaud and William P. Price, as they document the handsome steam power (and the occasional pesky diesel) of the Grand Trump, Central Vermont, Boston & Maine, and New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroads. The mostly color and mostly 16mm production begins with the Grand Trunk in New Hampshire, then moves to the Central Vermont in the White River Jct vicinity, and the Boston & Maine and New Haven, primarily around Boston. Many wheel arrangements are featured, as is the passenger and freight rolling stock of the era ...including truss-rodded clerestory-roofed wooden maroon passenger cars on the B&M! So come along with Clear Block Productions as we journey back to the late 1940's and early 1950's to witness Steam's Final Stand in the Northeast in Vignettes of the New England Steam.

Bishōjo jubaku

2004 • 60 min • Japan

College students Izumi, Tomoko, and Hikimasa arrive at a vacation rental villa, but it turns out to be a trap set by someone to kill them. But it turns out to be a trap set by someone to kill them...

The Potato Eaters

2004 • 31 min • Russia

Operation Double Trouble

2004 • 10 min

A simple and, possibly as a result of this, effective reworking of a recent propaganda film. The original film is Enduring Freedom: The Opening Chapter. It was made for a large scale cinema release as a short or commercial and was commissioned by the US Marine Corps and the US Navy. Sanborn copied the film and showed each scene in its glorious bombast and heroism twice.

Sur le fil d'une lame

2004 • 52 min • France

Documentary on French rapper Rohff.

The Famous Grouse

2004 • 9 min • United Kingdom

For over 20 years now, Scotland's most famous bird Gilbert the Famous Grouse has adorned every bottle of Scotland's favourite blended whisky. This double disc collection compiles 25 of his TV appearances from 1996 until 2004. It is missing several adverts, including Glorious 12th and Office Party.

The Sound of Footsteps on the Pavement

2004 • 52 min

Since 1969, the Modca Café on Hamra Street has been synonymous with Beirut. Now, after more than thirty years, it is being demolished. In the young people fighting helplessly to preserve this embodiment of the city’s memory, we see a longing for and a vicarious experience of ‘social activism’. The camera attempts to resist traditional video activism as it accompanies these young people. Moving into the fluorescent light of the newly built mass retailer, the identity of the city is superimposed onto the fate of the café. A bold documentary essay that attempts to awaken various collective memories.

I. E. [site 01-isole eolie]

2004 • 8 min • Austria, Italy

The static and strictly framed Super8 recordings of Stromboli, the sea, and the island, construct a sublime beauty in accordance with conventions of landscape painting. The turbulent video recordings, on the contrary, play with an apparent directness, with a subjective gaze and the physicality of the images.

Colombus

2004 • 16 min • Argentina

Version of the texts of Sahagún's indigenous informants about the arrival of the Spanish to America.

El paraíso viviente

2004 • 14 min • Argentina

A paradisiacal town may not be so.

Scope

2004 • 40 min • United States of America

A series of films which start from the end of a story and moves its way back, explaining the plot from minimal and maximal vantage points.

Be Loyal and Sincere

2004 • 31 min • Canada

Images taken from the project « Alors dansez maintenant »

Sons of Osiris

2004 • 45 min

A documentary about the rise, fall and resurrection of the Black Metal music and culture in the Egyptian cities Alexandria and Caïro. This subculture was related with satanic rituals and blasphemy by the media and the government. For this reason the national security of Egypt organised a real 'witchhunt ' on all the metalfans and musicians. Many youngsters were arrested.

Rubbed Out

2004 • 45 min • Slovenia

A "Kafkaesque" yet true story of ethnic cleansing in Slovenia in the 1990's; achieved not by the sword but by the bureaucrat's pen.

The Girl Who Stopped Lying

2004 • 32 min

11-year-old Catrin's mother is mostly in bed and feels unwell during the day. In front of her classmates, she pretends that everything is fine at home, but it gets hard to lie all the time. Hopeful about family life, love and survival strategies.