All Films

Half Life

2004 • 6 min • United Kingdom

In an office world of half light, flickering fluorescent tubing, ringing phones and monotonous paperwork, the residents sit trapped in a state of frustration, inactivity, boredom or semi-consciousness. As the lights flicker, they get on with their chores and tasks, maybe half aware that they may never escape their surroundings for anything better.

À quai

2004 • 4 min • France

The story of a boat that docks in a port. Sailors, a bar, a woman in a red dress, a yellow dog.

2/6 02:32:09

2004 • 18 min • Sweden

Haunting and clinical disturbing tale performed with surgical precision.

Ashanti: The Making of a Star

2004 • 20 min

Stardom was just a dream for the multi-platinum artist years ago. But, with many years of hard work, sacrifice and dedication, it all became a reality. Share Ashanti's most private moments and witness through her eyes the dues she has paid to earn the title of the Princess of Hip Hop and R&B.

The Minsmere Year

2004 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Narrated by David Attenborough, this film showcases the bird diversity of the Minsmere Nature Reserve.

10 segundos

2004 • 26 min • Argentina

Four friends discover software that gives them the ability to see 10 seconds into their future. Something strange forces one of them to flee, escaping their destiny, their friends, their future... Will they be able to do it?

Angel Fever

2004 • 8 min

After experiencing a disturbing dream, Eric invites his friends over for an impromptu gathering. Initially conceived as a documentation of ketamine use, the film captures a chaotic descent into altered states, featuring the consumption of horse tranquilizers, expired prescription cough syrup, and gasoline huffing. Shot in 1994 and completed a decade later, it stands as a raw time capsule of reckless youth and experimental self-destruction.

Hora cero

2004 • 57 min • Argentina

Documentary about Héctor Germán Oesterheld, his experience as a comic book writer, and his political activism. Colleagues and comic book experts analyze his narrative style and the impact his joining the Montoneros had on his writing. Elsa Oesterheld, his wife, recounts the final years of his life, when he and his four daughters were victims of state terrorism.

Food For Love (A Shtetl That's No Longer There)

2004 • 25 min • Peru

While the mother of filmmaker Heddy Honigmann prepares a Yiddish delicacy, Heddy serves up a portion of family history.

Clever Girls 3: The Boys Are Falling

2004 • 53 min • Mongolia

A group of girls from a student class go on a trip to the countryside with their class president, a single guy named Buudka. How to spend a fun summer vacation.

Skippy

2004 • 2 min • United States of America

an Animated Short Film about the life of Skippy the Dog.

Boatman

2004 • 49 min

91-year-old Tan Bangwu is a well-known veteran boatman in the Three Gorges region. His four sons are all among the post-relocation migrants of the Three Gorges Project. After the reservoir began filling in June 2003, most of their mountain land was submerged, making their livelihood a serious concern. This film, spanning a decade, documents the mass relocation of Three Gorges migrants, the historic transformation from deep gorges to wide lakes; it captures the lived experience and emotional upheaval of an old boatman and his descendants amid sweeping change; and it preserves the arduous history and resilient survival spirit of the boatmen of the Three Gorges region.

Lucky for Some

2004 • 11 min • Australia

Two people are interviewed by police after the murder of a gambler. The two suspects give alibis to hide their activities.

Mr. Reaper's Really Bad Morning

2004 • 17 min • Canada

In the 21st century Mr. George Reaper has become your average 9 to 5 working stiff, eking out an ineffectual existence, reduced to a pale shade of his former glorious self. The film has him wake up, get ready for work, wait for a bus and suffer humiliation at the hands of Norman the Daisy.

Geranium

2004 • 12 min

While caring for her geranium, an old woman reminisces about the man she received it from.

Wait 54s

2004 • 1 min • Netherlands

Living in the beyond, there is a lot of time to count seconds, in Amsterdam there is a lot of water but there is no sea, in Amsterdam time is bigger than memories. I wish I can build an additional memory for this same time.

My Gogol

2004 • 23 min • Ukraine

A mystical drama based on the works of Nikolai Gogol.

Involución, de historias y deshistorias

2004 • 3 min • Mexico

The mother-queen-child-cannibal-larva sleeps, not knowing what it means to be awake. She sleeps until the egg disappears, until the universe consumes her and she becomes nothing. Animated linocut print based on a story by Victor Argueta.

Kulihat Tamanku

2004 • 4 min • Indonesia

A short film by Renas Makki

Pravahi

2004 • 31 min • India

Pravahi is a film that documents and cinematically interperts the dance of Alarmel Valli, one of India’s foremost Bharatanatyam dancer.

Jethro: Off The Wall - Live

2004 • 56 min • United Kingdom

Jethro explains to a jam packed audience everything from the differences between men and women to West Country logic and Viagra. He has the audience roaring with belly aching laughter with his tales and yarns of his old mate Denzel Pemberthy. He's been barmy and bonkers but now he's gone OFF THE WALL.

Joni Mitchell: Refuge of the Roads

2004 • 60 min • United States of America

Nearly 15 years after its initial release on VHS, Joni Mitchell’s critically acclaimed Refuge Of The Roads concert film is available on DVD. This legendary 1983 show, filmed on a soundstage at the end of a successful tour, is highlighted by her version of "Woodstock" (a hit for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young), "For Free" and "Raised On Robbery," as well as clips from intimate home movies shot during the tour. Mitchell’s love affair with jazz/rock was in full swing during the tour, and she brought with her a great band: keyboardist Russell Ferrante (Yellowjackets), guitarist Michael Landau, bassist (and husband) Larry Klein, and drummer Vinnie Colaiuta. The ensemble seamlessly wove elements of jazz, pop, rock and folk together, while Mitchell’s incomparable lyrics gracefully floated above it all.

Folk Music of the Sahara: Among the Tuareg of Libya

2004 • 55 min • Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Folk music of the Sahara is an intoxicating experience of sight and sound captured among the Tuareg and Libyan people of North Central Africa. Filmed from the perspective of actually being one of the performers, this mind-blowing IN YOUR FACE document captures the spirit of Libyan folklore and the essence of emotion armed with pounding rhythms and wailing vocal choruses. Both men and women are featured here equally as overseers of the hybrid forms of expression where central African traditions collide with the tones and colors of the Arab world creating one of the most unique overviews of Saharan folk music ensemble and dance the outside world has ever witnessed. The diversity of faces is extraordinary, every costume is stunning, and the women are among the most beautiful on earth.

Gorgonas

2004 • 14 min • Argentina

A retake on the classic story of the gorgons brought forward to the modern world and turned into an apocalyptic horror story.