All Films

Ich stelle mich noch einmal vor: Ich heiße Franz Kafka

2004 • 60 min • Austria

On August 13, 1912, Franz Kafka meets Felice Bauer. In 1912 alone, Kafka sends her around 100 letters to Berlin. Five years later, at the end of a nerve-wracking and sometimes painful relationship, he throws Felice's replies into the fire. The documentary film about Kafka's literary and private life is based on his letters and diary entries.

Chrysalide

2004 • 20 min • France

Three chapters showing the different stages of the butoh dance. The contrasts between this traditional dance and 3D.

A Mail

2004 • 5 min • Norway, Indonesia

An Indonesian filmmaker is amazed about the ice on the window of his apartment in Norway.

Le train où vont les choses

2004 • 9 min • Canada

Still more motion pictures shot in motion. How does one evade this kinetic fascination, this play of paradoxes, this procession of shifting fields. Road images : this time an up-close recording in which the territory is only perceptible as an impressionist play of textures, forms and colours riddled by sounds.

Beware

2004 • 7 min • France

A short film.

Memories of a Nabrežina Fisherman

2004 • 13 min • Slovenia

Zdravko Caharija Babčev presents his life story and the creation of his collection of fishing items.

Gore Gathering

2004 • 20 min • Sweden

A small community is besieged by an ancient evil. After Peter watches his girlfriend get brutally murdered he prepares himself for battle against the undead, armed with shotgun, pistol, and samurai sword. Can he stay alive long enough to confront Vurlak, lord of the living dead? This film was created for the Swedish Gore Film Festival, 2004, where it won the prize for best film.

The War Against Terror: The Musical

2004 • 15 min

This mock-documentary follows the cast and crew of 'The War Against Terror: The Musical!' as they struggle towards the opening night.

All the Tamburas of Shima

2004 • 48 min • Croatia

Documentary about Šima Seletković, a famous Croatian tamburitza player.

Me queda la palabra

2004 • 50 min • Argentina

Survivors of the Shoah and the last Argentine dictatorship recount the horror they experienced in places of repression and how they managed to rebuild their lives. The documentary explores the need to recount what happened, the responsibility of survivors, and the usefulness of words as a tool for building memory.

Compression À bout de souffle de Jean-Luc Godard

2004 • 4 min • France

French sculptor César Baldaccini, commonly known as just César (1921-1998), began creating his “directed compressions” of objects in the 60’s, often with his colleague Arman, making monumental series of cars transformed into compacted iron bundles by a hydraulic press. Influenced by these techniques, in the 90’s Courant started making one of his series, out of compressed versions of films.

the gods of times squareD

2004 • 44 min

outtakes from the gods of times square

Compression de Niagara de Henry Hathaway

2004 • 4 min • France

Niagara's compression was designed along the same lines as the compressions of Alphaville and Breathless previous. In the 3600 frames of Niagara Compression, not a single shot from Henry Hathaway's film is missing.

Free fall at 180º

2004 • 10 min

The end of the Cold War marked the end of an era without bringing forth the beginning of a new one, we find ourselves in a moment of transit where space and time cross to produce complex figures of differences and identities, past and present, inside and outside, inclusion and exclusion. We find ourselves lost in the au- delà as Homi Bhabha likes to call it, or in the non-place as Marc Augé describes the transit places; for there is a sense of disorientation, a disturbance of direction, we are living in the beyond.

places in pieces vol. 1

2004 • 59 min

places in pieces vol. 1 is an experimental documentary with a geographical focus on the northern half of the United States. The intent of volume 1 is to draw attention toward the overlooked and the discarded, while observing and interacting with primarily urban environments, and those inhabiting that landscape.

And the World Didn't Catch Me

2004 • 46 min • Ukraine

After completing his higher education, Hryhorii Skovoroda (1722-1794) traveled throughout Europe and learned several foreign languages. From the early 1770s, he led a nomadic lifestyle. In his later years, he stayed with one of his students. It is said that shortly before his death, Skovoroda began digging a hole, saying that it would be his grave. He also asked for the following words to be written on his tombstone: "The world pursued me, but did not catch me."

Birdsong

2004 • 7 min • United Kingdom

A film tableau featuring Biswas's son and inspired by his first spoken sentence aged 18 months, in which he expressed his desire to have a horse live with him in his living room.

On Detour with Manny Farber

2004 • 27 min

Documentary about the work of the acclaimed modernist painter and celebrated film critic, Manny Farber

Guided By Voices: The Who Went Home and Cried

2004 • 60 min • United States of America

Video documentary of the last show of bass player Greg Demos. Includes footage of the band's practice session on Bob's front porch with Bob playing guitar.

Signes de vie

2004 • 10 min • Belgium, France

One night, near a cliff-to, a young woman receives a marvellous and unhoped for invitation of life.

Le Dieu Saturne

2004 • 40 min

Laurent comes to visit his father not far from Bethune. But his father, who lives a hermit's life deep in the woods, has only one thing on his mind : to do away with his six children in order to relieve them of the miseries of life. Welcomed at the Caboche farm where his brother Frederic works (Frederic advises him not to try to see their father), Laurent is delighted to see hardy 81 year old Alfred again. The gods are not far off, and, despite all, the pleasures of existence too.

Communique

2004 • 4 min • Norway

The film is about the longing for a new language, a language that can grasp things at the limit of what we can understand and perceive. A unique form of communication, a place where words are not enough.

Bullets Over Breakfast

2004 • 11 min

What happens when three armed roommates realize there is only one waffle left in the house? Armageddon, Quantum Petshop style!

Farce Sensationelle!

2004 • 3 min • Spain

2004 Spanish experimental short