All Films

The Silent Wrecks of Kwajalein Atoll

2004 • 55 min • United States of America

For the first time, the U.S. military has granted permission to an outside film crew to document the wrecks of Kwajalein Atoll -- a little-known outpost in the Marshall Islands.

At Five on the Dot

2004 • 56 min • Uruguay

The biggest peaceful demonstration of resistance to an authoritarian regime in Latin America in the 1970s was the general strike whereby Uruguayan workers and students rejected the military coup of 27 June 1973. In this documentary we follow what happened from two perspectives: that of the people who took part in the mass mobilisation, and that of those who captured those events in images.

The Dusk

2004 • 22 min • India

An old crowded chawl in the heart of Pune city. Managed by a stern landlady, it houses among others, an old man who has no family and is on the verge of becoming senile. He is all alone and the people around him don’t seem to care much. Caught in a time warp, he is slowly losing touch with reality. As time stops for him, for the rest of them life goes on.

The Spate

2004 • 4 min • Russia

A short, hilarious story about flooding phobia and sudden first love.

Ephèse

2004 • 8 min • France

Layers of colored matters spread in space. They transform and its movements let us suppose that there is an underlying law that directs the images. Ephese is thus a shape, continually mutating, although its essence remains the same.

Nenyure

2004 • 10 min • Spain

Things have disappeared in Nenyure, and only the traces of what once was remain. Nenyure are the buildings, the windows, the benches, the patios, and also the absence of what is missing, only preserved in memory.

Pink

2004 • 3 min • Canada

Director Smith examines the reasons why he likes to wear pink.

Ahmad Mahmoud: A Noble Novelist

2004 • 52 min

A portrait of the prominent Iranian novelist, whose work dealt with the troubled nature of life within his native country, often due to political upheaval.

Qudad, Re-Inventing a Tradition

2004 • 58 min

This documentary follows a group of Yemeni masons as they restore the 16th century Amiriya Madrasa using ancient—and uniquely Yemeni—techniques. Through this project they not only renovate and protect a revered landmark, but also ensure that their rare craft will not be lost.

We Iraqis

2004 • 54 min • France, Iraq

Living in exile in France for the past 25 years, Abbas Fahdel last year made Retour à Babylone, the occasion to return home, be reunited with his childhood friends and explore a reality that was now alien to him. In this film, Fahdel's camera shows us Iraqis in another light and the hopes and fears of these men and women who escaped the nightmare of a dictatorship only to be mired in chaos. He is better equipped than anyone for this task. He is both an "outside" angle of vision and a brotherly view. An Iraqi among Iarqis, he embodies a reference point in the turmoil. His presence and commitment during the past year, his receptivity during those months when everyone was preparing for war explains why his camera is never indiscreet or prying.

The Last Polaroid

2004 • 20 min • Spain

The day Mariana moves with her family to live in another city is a hard blow for her friend Eli.

O Escritor das Ruas

2004 • 14 min • Brazil

Carried out in the video workshop at Centro Cultural Taboão in Diadema, O Escritor das Ruas tells the tragic story of Salvador, a pixador from São Paulo. Daily life on the outskirts of big cities.

Fear the Reaper

2004 • 30 min • United States of America

A killer is stalking the people of Luna Pier and only one person knows what’s going on – or maybe she just thinks she does.

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...