All Films

The Phantom Inventory

2004 • 10 min • France

The film is about a very stern looking man who has come to a very unusual flat to repossess the belongings of an old man in a wheelchair. However, again and again, the home seems to play tricks on the guy--driving him half-mad in the process.

The Old Negro Space Program

2004 • 10 min • United States of America

The suppressed history of America's Black space program, in mockumentary form broadly satirizing Ken Burns and histories of the Negro Baseball Leagues.

Gay by Dawn

2004 • 10 min • United States of America

In the deep, dark woods, four rednecks tell ghost stories around an open fire. But when one tells a tale about the horrors that may lurk around them, fear becomes suspicion. Will they make it out in time? Or will the very woods around them turn them Gay By Dawn?

UFO: An Intriguing Riddle!

2004 • 60 min • Italy

The case of UFO sightings became a popular subject in the second half of the 1940s in the United States. From 1947 to the present, there have been more than 13,000 unidentified objects sighted in Italy alone. This documentary aims to be a reconstruction of the UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) phenomenon according to all its perspectives.

November

2004 • 25 min • Germany, Austria

In the eighties, Hito Steyerl shot a feminist martial arts film on Super-8 stock. Her best friend Andrea Wolf played the lead role, that of a woman warrior dressed in leather and mounted on a motorcycle. The engagement expressed in the formal grammar of exploitation films later became Wolf’s political praxis: She went to fight alongside the PKK in the Kurdish regions between Turkey and northern Iraq, where she was killed in 1998. Now honoured by Kurds as an “immortal revolutionary,” her portrait is carried at demonstrations.

Android Music Videos Volume 1

2004 • 16 min • United States of America

Tara was built by John Bergeron back in 2003 and 2004. John was trying to bootstrap the android industry just as I have been trying to do. She is a bit primitive but that is to be expected given the tiny budget available to John. In 2004 John made a music video of Tara singing. Some folks think its creepy, but I think its just a little spooky.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Animated Series

2004 • 4 min

Unaired pilot for an unproduced animated "Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)" series. In it, Buffy is fighting a vampire and a dragon while Giles informs the gang that they will have to miss a party due to an impending apocalypse.

H.P. Lovecraft - Ipotesi di un viaggio in Italia

2004 • 26 min • Italy

A documentary about the possible ties between H.P.LOVECRAFT and the Polesine region (Italy), stimulated by the casual discovery of a mysterious manuscript attributed to the great American horror writer died in 1937.

Mga Batang Mandirigma

2004 • 57 min • Philippines

The Probe Team traces the roots of two Muslim youths who are currently studying in the U.S.: Khalid Dimaporo and Romina Bernardo. More than another war story, this is a tale of two individuals who are out to discover what it means to be a Muslim of their generation. Both come from prominent political clans in Mindanao, but consider themselves “modern Muslims,” having been raised and exposed to different cultures in other countries.

Honto Ni Atta! Noroi No Video 11

2004 • 58 min • Japan

11th entry in the popular "Honto ni Atta. Noroi no Video" series.

Crazy Horse - Le show

2004 • 58 min • France

The Crazy Horse has staged unique shows on Paris' avenue George V every evening since 1951. Enjoy some of the most spectacular numbers seen at Crazy Horse in an exceptional film shot in High Definition video, including previously unreleased sequences of the dancers and their lives backstage!

Raï Story: From Cheikha Rimitti to Cheba Djenet

2004 • 55 min • Denmark, Egypt, France, Lebanon

Raï Story is a musical journey in search of the Raï legend, Cheikha Remitti, in Oran, Algeria, where the Raï musical tradition began. In 1923, the first Raï singers performed behind screens during ceremonies to protect their identity. It was only when the music of singer Cheikha Remitti began to gain popularity among the general public that Raï music was made public, in the 1940s. Cheikha Remitti, who lives between Paris and Oran, is nowhere to be found, the filmmakers then decide to meet producers, musicians, singers like Cheba Dalila or Cheba Djenet, for whom Remitti created a wake. The opportunity, through these unique stories, illustrated with archive images, to retrace the important place of women in this musical tradition and the transformation of Raï music from the 1960s to 2000.

The Senior SEX

2004 • 60 min • Japan

Rika, who works at the Silver Welfare Volunteer Shirayuri Association office, has a boyfriend, Kaname, but recently they have been keeping their distance because he is too unreliable. One day, her co-worker Sachie, who is dating a man 40 years older than her, encourages her, saying, "Grandpas are nice. Why don't you find one for Rika at our place?" One day, when Rika is about to be attacked by Kaname, she is saved by Owada, who she was taking care of. Rika gradually begins to be attracted to Owada...

Sadness Beautiful Face

2004 • 17 min • France

Where we learn how Orpheus seduced Eurydice.

Daffy Duck for President

2004 • 4 min • United States of America

Daffy Duck tries to go into the government to make a law stating that Rabbit Season shall be a minimum of 12 months, while Bugs tries to stop him by means of the U.S. constitution.

Iver

2004 • 9 min • Norway

Iver's favorite thing to do is swim, but today the swimming lesson is cancelled. He sneaks by the receptionist to do some swimming anyway. No matter what Iver does in the swimming pool, the strict sound of the lifeguard’s whistle is heard. Eventually he gets thrown out. He is sulking in the reception area. People are leaving the swimming pool, and Iver gets an idea! He sneaks back in to do some more swimming. But suddenly somebody is coming – it´s that scary lifeguard…

Snail Dance

2004 • 9 min

Short by Yo Ota.

Extremely Beautiful Landscapes

2004 • 43 min • Japan

In the late 1960s, photographer Takuma Nakahira published the legendary photography magazine Provoke with Daido Moriyama. With this edgy writings and photographs, Nakahira rejected preexisting photographic expression. In 1977, an alcohol-induced coma resulted in a permanent partial memory loss. In the following years, with gradual recovery, Nakahira started photographing stray cats, homeless, and thatched roofs in the neighborhood near his home in a monomaniac manner. This is documentary is a portrait of the Nakahira's daily life. Directed by photographer Takashi Homma.

Remember the Alamo

2004 • 54 min

In the early 1830s Texas was about to explode. Although ruled by Mexico, the region was home to more than 20,000 U.S. settlers agitated by what they saw as restrictive Mexican policies. Mexican officials, concerned with illegal trading and immigration, were prepared to fight hard to keep the province under their control. Caught in the middle were the area's 4,000 Mexican Texans or Tejanos. With war on the horizon, the Tejanos had to pick a side. Many chose to fight with their Anglo neighbors against an army sent by Mexico City. The conflict pitted brother against brother and devastated the community. The Tejano gamble for a more prosperous future in an independent Texas proved tragic. Following the revolution, the Tejanos were overwhelmed by a surge of Anglo immigration -- leaving them foreigners in a land they had fought to defend.

The Making of Grace

2004 • 26 min • United States of America

A newly expanded version of the original Grace documentary, featuring new interviews with band members and producer Andy Wallace as well as unseen footage of Jeff and the band at Bearsville Studio recording Grace. Included in Grace (Legacy Edition), a newly remastered version of the album.

the deadly spawn: breed of war

2004 • 7 min

somewhere at the outer limits of the known universe, a billion years ago, a brutal war-loving race is prepared to strike another innocent planet... (special feature on the synapse films DVD release of THE DEADLY SPAWN)

Global Conspiracy?

2004 • 11 min • United Kingdom

Investigative reporter Terry Scanlon follows up the strange goings on in Llanfairfach, with interviews with people there at the time, including Professor Clifford Jones and mysterious boss, Stevens.

Vikings: Journey to New Worlds

2004 • 40 min • Canada

Filmmaker Marc Fafard examines the historical and cultural significance of the seafaring Vikings.

Demetri Martin: If I

2004 • 50 min • United States of America

If I is a Perrier Comedy Award-winning comedy one-man show written and performed by Demetri Martin at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It was also aired on British television as a special. The show is an autobiographical examination of Martin's life, as seen through various definitions of the word "if." The title of the special comes from a lengthy palindromic poem that Martin wrote; the words "if I" are at the center of the poem.