All Films

The Potato Eaters

2004 • 31 min • Russia

Operation Double Trouble

2004 • 10 min

A simple and, possibly as a result of this, effective reworking of a recent propaganda film. The original film is Enduring Freedom: The Opening Chapter. It was made for a large scale cinema release as a short or commercial and was commissioned by the US Marine Corps and the US Navy. Sanborn copied the film and showed each scene in its glorious bombast and heroism twice.

Sur le fil d'une lame

2004 • 52 min • France

Documentary on French rapper Rohff.

The Famous Grouse

2004 • 9 min • United Kingdom

For over 20 years now, Scotland's most famous bird Gilbert the Famous Grouse has adorned every bottle of Scotland's favourite blended whisky. This double disc collection compiles 25 of his TV appearances from 1996 until 2004. It is missing several adverts, including Glorious 12th and Office Party.

The Sound of Footsteps on the Pavement

2004 • 52 min

Since 1969, the Modca Café on Hamra Street has been synonymous with Beirut. Now, after more than thirty years, it is being demolished. In the young people fighting helplessly to preserve this embodiment of the city’s memory, we see a longing for and a vicarious experience of ‘social activism’. The camera attempts to resist traditional video activism as it accompanies these young people. Moving into the fluorescent light of the newly built mass retailer, the identity of the city is superimposed onto the fate of the café. A bold documentary essay that attempts to awaken various collective memories.

I. E. [site 01-isole eolie]

2004 • 8 min • Austria, Italy

The static and strictly framed Super8 recordings of Stromboli, the sea, and the island, construct a sublime beauty in accordance with conventions of landscape painting. The turbulent video recordings, on the contrary, play with an apparent directness, with a subjective gaze and the physicality of the images.

Colombus

2004 • 16 min • Argentina

Version of the texts of Sahagún's indigenous informants about the arrival of the Spanish to America.

El paraíso viviente

2004 • 14 min • Argentina

A paradisiacal town may not be so.

Scope

2004 • 40 min • United States of America

A series of films which start from the end of a story and moves its way back, explaining the plot from minimal and maximal vantage points.

Be Loyal and Sincere

2004 • 31 min • Canada

Images taken from the project « Alors dansez maintenant »

Sons of Osiris

2004 • 45 min

A documentary about the rise, fall and resurrection of the Black Metal music and culture in the Egyptian cities Alexandria and Caïro. This subculture was related with satanic rituals and blasphemy by the media and the government. For this reason the national security of Egypt organised a real 'witchhunt ' on all the metalfans and musicians. Many youngsters were arrested.

Rubbed Out

2004 • 45 min • Slovenia

A "Kafkaesque" yet true story of ethnic cleansing in Slovenia in the 1990's; achieved not by the sword but by the bureaucrat's pen.

The Girl Who Stopped Lying

2004 • 32 min

11-year-old Catrin's mother is mostly in bed and feels unwell during the day. In front of her classmates, she pretends that everything is fine at home, but it gets hard to lie all the time. Hopeful about family life, love and survival strategies.

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.