All Films

Musashi Samurai Legend

2005 • 22 min

Master Mew sends Musashi into the heart of evil Gandrake Enterprises to rescue the captured Princess Mycella and thereby save the world.

One Too Many

2005 • 16 min • Spain

After his wife leaves him, Joaquín brings his mother-in-law back home to look after him and his son.

The Intervention

2005 • 15 min • United States of America

Sometimes one's friends may gang up on you to get you admit you're an alcoholic (after all its for your own good). What if they ganged up on you to get you to admit something else?

Smudge

2005 • 12 min • Canada

This short documentary follows three Indigenous women as they practice ancestral forms of worship: drumming, singing, and using sweetgrass. These ancient spiritual traditions may at first seem at odds with urban life, but to Indigenous people in Canada who are used to praying in natural settings, the whole world is sacred space.

Furby Island

2005 • 45 min

Story about a young girl, Maddie, her brother, and their explorer parents, who travel the world looking for rare plants and animals. When Maddie tries to find a lizard, they discover Furby Island.

Telma demain

2005 • 48 min

Telma, twelve years old, is passionate about literature. She assiduously prepares a competition for budding writers. But her mother has other ambitions for her. Telma and her mother clash...

Kino's Journey: Life Goes On

2005 • 29 min • Japan

In this prequel to the Kino no Tabi series, young Kino is being trained by their teacher. They learn how to ride their motorrad Hermes and develops their gift of excellent marksmanship. However, their guilt concerning the real Kino is with them when they decide to set off on a journey. All the while, Kino is becoming confused about their real identity.

Black Jack: Dr. Pinoko's Forest Adventure

2005 • 7 min • Japan

Dr. Black Jack forgot his doctor's bag, and his assistant (plus self-claimed "wife") Pinoko rushed to deliver the bag but found herself lost in the forest. Guided by a butterfly, she found that many animals in the forest are sick or injured, and Pinoko used her knowledge to help those animals.

Mahou Sentai Magiranger the Movie: Bride of Infershia

2005 • 39 min • Japan

Kai and the Magiranger travel from the heights of Magitopia to the depths of Infershia in order to save Yamazaki from becoming the bride who releases a Hades Beastman's phantom army!

Into Pieces

2004 • 2 min • Brazil

A man tries desperately to complete a simple wooden puzzle. He is visibly frustrated by his numerous attempts to solve the puzzle. A superhero flies in to his rescue, only to be deflated and mocked when the superhero's true self is revealed.

Recently 5

2004 • 13 min • Germany

Neulich 5 is the fifth part of a series of cinematic notes on everyday life. The protagonist enters a brothel, caught between dream and reality, morality and eroticism. The prostitute reveals the town’s involvement, including his family, rather than introducing him to sex for sale. Kuhn’s manner humorously critiques small-minded moralism, while the films highlight painting’s fluidity.

Against the Odds

2004 • 44 min • Canada

Against The Odds describes different forms of resistance that existed in the German concentration camps like: smuggling of medicines, sabotage in weapons factories (especially the large effect it had on the German secret weapons programs), preparations for rebellions and escapes, and the mission of Capt. Pilecki, a Polish officer who purposefully got himself sent to Auschwitz in order to set up an underground organization in that Camp.

Panihari: The Water Women of India

2004 • 30 min

Indian-American filmmakers Abi Devan and Sudhi Rajagopal explore life in the desert communities of Rajasthan, India, in this visually lush documentary. The Panihari are lower-caste women who fetch water every morning, often walking 10 or 15 miles each day. This compelling film follows one such woman, Paru, a shoemaker's wife, as she struggles for self-reliance and to attain security for her family in the face of unimaginable hardship.

Aspect

2004 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Across the surface of the forest, light, colour, shadow shift; rhythmic, kaleidoscopic. Matter and the immaterial in constant counteraction. The screen becomes a painting in animation. Ordinarily, light describes the motif. Here, the forest is almost – almost – occluded as the light that delineates the world becomes autonomous, visible; describes itself as subject. There are some very strange effects: light and shadow grow, die back; bark shimmers; branches tremble, or clouds pass above; trees shiver in the cold, or shake in threatening gesture; sunlight flickers, on and off, like an electric bulb. The portrait lives. These films are not the index of space and objects, but a cinema of time, movement, light; flickering lashes of mesmerised eyes in the click of an aperture.

Proving Ground 2

2004 • 38 min • Russia

The zombie apocalypse, in Russia.

Two Hours to Zero

2004 • 8 min

A crime story told two different ways concerning the events of a two month period leading up to (and immediately following) a bank robbery. The imagery has all been "appropriated" (the fancy, art-world-sanctioned term for "stealing") from four issues of an early 1960s comic book version of the then-popular American television show 77 SUNSET STRIP. Music by Rhys Chatham ("Guitar Trio"). - Lewis Klahr

Napëpë

2004 • 40 min • Brazil

The documentary narrates the story of the James Neel and Napoleon Chagnon's expedition to Yanomani territory, in 1968. It's a support to these indigenous people, who claims the devolution of the blood samples collected during the expedition, samples used today by the Project Genoma.

Young Marble Giants: Live at The Hurrah

2004 • 38 min

21 November 1980. 1. NITA 2. Choci Loni 3. Radio Silents 4. Colossal Youth 5. Credit in the Straight World 6. Brand New Life 7. Include Me Out 8. Wurlitzer Jukebox 9. Salad Days 10. Final Mix 22 November 1980. 1. Music for Evenings 2. Searching for Mr Right 3. Cakewalking 4. Credits in the Straight World 5. Final Day

Brave New York

2004 • 54 min

BRAVE NEW YORK is a free-form documentary that loosely chronicles the last twelve years of intense change in the East Village "hood." From the reopening of a newly curfewed Tompkins Square Park and Wigstock in '92 to the destruction of the cherished Loisaida Community Gardens, beyond the yuppie invasions of the "dot com" years to the present era, indelibly stamped with post 9/11 grief, this durable, lusty neighborhood survives in spite of a real estate gold rush that has excluded all but the well-to-do. The movie's main voices are those of the artists and street people whose wisdom and commentaries upon the dominant culture give us pause amidst the speedy approach of a "Brave New World." This Overview was taken from Fandor, where this film is available. 2004.

The Battle for L.A.

2004 • 48 min

Filmmaker Darren Doane ("42K") and a camera, hit the streets of L.A. in an almost guerilla-like fashion and interviews a number of DJs, rappers and dancers. Not only do they give their take on what hip-hop is, what it represents on a personal and social level, but he also attends what is termed "battles" between rappers. While such battles are known to get aggressive from time to time, it is often a way for people to blow off some steam, express themselves, strut their stuff and compete.

Contamination

2004 • 6 min • United Kingdom

A glimpse of a dystopian future in which the cross-contamination of genetic material is completely out of control. Contamination depicts an atmospheric and ultimately disturbing world with hybrid life forms.

The Disappearance Of The PX-15

2004 • 46 min • Canada

Launched in the shadow of Apollo 11 in 1969, six men were sealed inside a tiny deep-sea capsule and set adrift. Their mission: to survive for 30 days exploring the depths of the Gulf Stream. We follow marine archaeologist James Delgado as he recovers the sub and reunites the surviving “aquanauts”.

Underneath

2004 • 4 min

Tia is a little girl trapped within a world of domestic violence. Her anger at the injustice of it all is about to make her snap. But will anyone take notice?

Son of Satan

2004 • 12 min

It’s not always easy when you are a kid. Bullying, cussing, growing up. It’s all a part of life. Adaptation of the Charles Bukowski story.