All Films

The Customer is Always Right

2004 • 3 min • United States of America

Robert Rodriguez wanted to create a film version of Miller's Sin City, he made a three-minute proof-of-concept short called The Customer Is Always Right with actors John Hartnett and Marley Shelton. The short film served as the opening sequence in the final version of Sin City.

DKNY Road Stories

2004 • 14 min • United States of America

Short from Steven Sebring

Árboles y arbustos

2004 • 11 min

”(…) Always green, up to 20 meters high. Right trunk, dark cut, slightly split, thin; rounded, broad, dense, dark, bright green, grayish or blackish crown. It has simple, persistent, hard leaves, with various shapes, ovate or lanceolate, 5 centimeters long ”.

Sara Jeanne

2004 • 21 min

Sara Jeanne, an aging prostitute in a military base-side town, hides her wrinkles with heavy make-up, puts on faded worn clothes, and earns her living by selling her body to American soldiers while under the influence of alcohol. However, as a prostitute, she no longer has any place to stand and her life grows more vulnerable to the danger of violence. Now she decides to leave the military base-side town. No, she desperately needs to leave.

Pinocchio

2004 • 57 min • Brazil

This modern Brazilian animation tells the classic story with Italian traits and quite entertaining mood. The dummy see his nose growing every time he tell a lie comes from the 19th century, charming and thrilling generations, showing that family and love are able to overcome any barrier.

Aljuriya

2004 • 56 min • Puerto Rico

It's 2002. Israel has intensified its military operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a result of the new Intifada. Citizens from several countries traveled to Palestine to witness the situation. This is what they saw...

Two Worlds Colliding

2004 • 49 min • Canada

This documentary chronicles the story of Darrell Night, an Indigenous man who was dumped by two police officers in a barren field on the outskirts of Saskatoon in January 2000, during -20° C temperatures. He survived, but he was stunned to hear that the frozen body of another Indigenous man was discovered in the same area.

1 week

2004 • 20 min • Hungary

The film follows seven days of a young gypsy, with a short excerpt from each day. Through these brief 'life' images, the film gives a dark and fragmented portrait of Kristóf, similar in style to Hungarian fiction documentaries of the 1970s and 1980s. A life at a standstill with no possibility of change is documented in the figure of the protagonist: Kristóf has neither the social background nor the education to turn his fate around.

Wildlife Filmmakers: Mishaps and Dangers

2004 • 50 min

Compiling footage from around the globe, a look into the humor and danger of filming wild animals.

Film as Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16

2004 • 56 min • United Kingdom

An hour-long filmed profile of Amos Vogel, 82-year old New York resident and Austrian emigre, founder of the New York Film Festival and America's most important film society, Cinema 16.

Sissy-Boy Slap-Party

2004 • 6 min • Canada

Sailors in repose on an island paradise seemingly have no worries of war or danger — until a playful gesture is interpreted as an act of wilful aggression. Soon, the innocent act of slight slapping becomes a relentless and unforgiving orgy of open-palmed face-smacking.

Fly, Fly

2004 • 56 min • Croatia

Ines is a young and beautiful flight attendant who has everything – free trips to the world’s most attractive cities, expensive wardrobe and a pilot-boyfriend with whom she lives in his luxury apartment. But when he dumps her for another stewardess, Ines tries to get her life back to normal.

Steve Hackett: Live Legends

2004 • 49 min • United Kingdom

Steve Hackett's reputation was founded on his outstanding guitar playing with Genesis covering much of the 1970s and encompassing Nursery Cryme through to Seconds Out. Having left the band in 1977, Steve built on the success of his earlier solo outing Voyage Of The Acolyte with a series of critically acclaimed albums that spawned a large worldwide following. Here we present Steve live in concert in Nottingham filmed in 1990 performing a selection of his best known solo work. FEATURING • Camino Royale • Please Don't Touch • Everyday • In That Quiet Earth • Depth Charge •In The Heart Of The City • Horizons • Theatre Of Sleep • Jazz Jam • Clocks

Vida del Ahorcado

2004 • 8 min • Ecuador

Adaptation of Pablo Palacio short story that through a teacher and a group of his students, presents an exercise of dispersion and annihilation converted into an aesthetic object.

Tax Me If You Can

2004 • 54 min • United States of America

As the documentary “Tax Me If You Can” explored, the tax shelter became one of corporate America’s biggest hidden profit centers in the 1990s and early 2000s. The General Accounting Office estimated that bogus tax shelters at the time cost the government more than $85 billion. Correspondent Hedrick Smith spoke with government officials, tax experts and industry insiders to expose these tax shelters. His reporting led him to some unexpected places — from the city of Dortmund, Germany, to the Cayman Islands. The documentary examined how difficult it was for the Internal Revenue Service to find tax shelters and how the tax shelter wave prompted a federal investigation. The ultimate victim in this scheme, experts in the documentary said, is the honest taxpayer who is left to make up what companies aren’t paying.

Faith

2004 • 3 min

A bridge is falling, and now just one hero can save us... what if he make a mistake?.

Legend of the Blue Hole

2004 • 22 min • United States of America

A New Jersey resident decides to investigate the local legend of the Blue Hole.

Yakov Smirnoff: Jokes from the Folks

2004 • 45 min • United States of America

Experience some of the funniest moments from Yakov's "Branson Today" talk show. There's always something funny about Yakov, but there's something even funnier about his audience!

Traffic Warden

2004 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A comic short – in fact, a bite-size romantic comedy – in which a serendipitous series of events leads a traffic warden to find true love.

Ron White: They Call Me Tater Salad

2004 • 56 min • United States of America

Ron White does an hour long standup routine about his life, things that bother him, and other thoughts.

Sous le bleu

2004 • 21 min • France

A man persuades a young mechanic to sell him his work overalls for a fancy dress party. The father of the mechanic, employed in the same garage, witnesses this transaction by chance. He is appalled that his son has accepted the deal. He takes him aside and a quarrel breaks out.

The Man Behind the Duck

2004 • 6 min

This featurette is available on the 'Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Vol. 1' (1934-1941).

Satoyama II: Japan's Secret Watergarden

2004 • 52 min • Japan

Each home has a built in pool or water tank that lies partly inside, partly outside its’ walls… A continuous stream of spring water is piped right into a basin, so freshwater is always available. People rinse out pots in the tank and clean their freshly picked vegetables. If they simply pour the food scraps back in the water, they risk polluting the whole village supply. However, carp can scour out even the greasy or burnt pans. They do the washing up in Satoyama villages. This traditional arrangement is called the riverside method. It’s used all over Japan. Cleaned up by the carp, the tank water eventually rejoins the channel.

Somos a Ralé!

2004 • 36 min • Brazil