All Films

Smilinguido em Histórias de Formiga

2004 • 32 min • Brazil

You can check out 6 unedited stories with Smilingüido and his entire class. Check out the chapters: Adventure in the Forest; Kind-hearted; Beijoqueira; Teacher's Lesson; The best gift; The thing.

Kinky Hoodoo Voodoo

2004 • 7 min • Spain

Tells the story, through surrealist and oniric images, of an alien invasion that feeds on spanish children.

Dance Me to the End of Love

2004 • 30 min • Hong Kong

Plastic city suffers from the big chill. The extreme weather conditions prohibits and human existence on the ground surface. An hostel is under this deserted landscape. A doorkeeper of the hostel Kirin is an orphan and nobody knows exactly where he is from. People named him Kirin simply because he earns his life by collecting emptied Kirin beer cans. One day he meets a woman nomad Lanian.

Oscar Boz

2004 • 12 min • Brazil

The Regulator

2004 • 16 min • France

A man and a woman adopt a child in pieces. But the choice of pieces is not easy and the long-awaited child will not be as perfect as it should have been. Experimental animated short by Philippe Grammaticopoulos

Man Seeking Man

2004 • 12 min • Finland

Fifty-year-old Seppo puts a contact ad in the newspaper. After many years, his son decides to look him up, just on the day that Seppo has a date. Sober and painful yet moving drama about loneliness and family bonds. - IFFR Duration: 12m Colour, Stereo Original format: Super 16mm film

Fish Never Sleep

2004 • 6 min

A woman tells her story. She can't sleep. She works in a sushi shop in a seaside city. We see fishing boats arrive, fish sorted and sold at market, then chopped and boxed at the factory. At her shop, live fish swim in tanks. She's tired. She tries various methods to break her insomnia, none are successful. Late one night, two weeks into her ordeal, she rides her motor scooter at top speed into a realm of discovery. Will sleep and insight be of help? BAFTA winner

Little Things

2004 • 11 min • United Kingdom

It’s the Little Things that frustrate us all. Everyday sketches of a dysfunctional world in which nothing quite works and everybody has their foibles. Can the repetition of mundanity endure under extreme circumstances?

Concert Number Three

2004 • 13 min • Brazil

A son and father must tell the mother the sad news.

Pick a Winner

2004 • 60 min • United States of America

Take your senses on an unpredictable journey with this blend of raucous music and psychedelic visuals from the artists at Load records. Based in Providence, R.I., the label's acts run the gamut from noise rock to experimental electronica. Bands include Pink and Brown, Neon Hunk, Forcefield, Mystery Brinkman, Gerty Farish, Pixeltan, Thee Hydrogen Terrors, My Favorite Home Page, Lightning Bolt, Extreme Animals, Black Elf Speaks and more.

The Moon Waltz

2004 • 5 min • Japan

In a dark alley with only one street lamp, a red-eyed young girl is admiring a music box. When the music starts, the imaginary (or not?) adventure of our protagonist begins, who will tour dark caves and starry skies, first running and later flying, to finally reach the Palace of the Moon (named Chandra Mahal in the song), where time flows in a different way...First "professional" animation work by Atsuko Ishizuka of MADHOUSE.

Bump Past Cut Up Through Windows

2004 • 4 min • United States of America

Short film by Paul Clipson from the Celluloid Sketches & Watercolor Movies DVD

Fem trappor

2004 • 5 min • Sweden

93-year-old Greta is carried off on a stretcher from her home. During the trip of five floors down the stairwell, she remembers a moment 50 years ago.

Poldek

2004 • 12 min • Switzerland

Small dog Poldek lives with a poor old lady in a small one-room apartment. The tenement block is part of a tumbledown grey town out in the nowhere, forgotten by prosperity. The dog is hungry, howles and eats flies that are magically attracted by the old woman. She leaves home every day to seek some eatable stuff. An unsavoury little horrorstory with a lot of action.

The Last Communists

2004 • 25 min • Norway

The film is about the Norwegain Communist Party in Oslo. It portrays the last standing true believers and raises questions like; What makes them tick? Why do they still fight for the Utopian - some would say dystopian - ideas of Lenin and Mao? In short, how is it at all possible to be a Norwegian communist today?

The Cordial Man's End

2004 • 3 min • Brazil

The rebel group SUB v2.7 kidnaps the greatest politician in the state of Bahia and requests the footage,recorded by them, to be shown on the local news of his own TV channel.

Tragic Love for the Cheating Nuska

2004 • 20 min • Ukraine

The story of two boys, best friends, who are both madly in love with a beauty of the village. This love is a big challenge for their friendship. What is more, they can no longer withstand the third competitor. A young man in a military uniform appears (the story is set in the postwar period). He immediately “gets down to business” in the hayloft. The two losers decide to commit suicide and thus punish the treacherous Nuska.

Bibleman: A Fight for Faith

2004 • 51 min

With Miles Peterson enjoying his retirement, Cypher, Biblegirl, and U.N.I.C.E are introduced to their new team member, Josh Carpenter—the new Bibleman! Not to be outdone by a new Bibleman, the Wacky Protestor formulates a plan to not only re-invent himself, but to create a world where there will be no Christians, no churches, no Bibles, and no God!

Birds from the Gods

2004 • 52 min • Papua New Guinea

A Japanese animal photographer, Tadashi Shimada, captures crucial photographs of wild birds in Oceania. This episode of Shimada filmed in high-definition, focuses on the rare and fascinating Birds of Paradise in New Guinea and their beautiful yet humorous courtship behavior. In yellow, red, and hybrid orange, the long-feathered Greater Bird of Paradise and Raggiana Bird of Paradise dance together in the air. The Paradise Riflebird with its distinctive jet-black body and long blue feathers lives deep in the jungle. The program captures splendid images of the Magnificent Bird of Paradise's courtship dance that's never been seen on film before. Shimada's brilliant camera work creates the supreme art of nature..

Jack Nicolson

2004 • 5 min • Japan

Short film directed by Mitsuyuki Ishibashi set to the song Jack Nicholson by Japanese rock band Bloodthirsty Butchers.

Unbroken

2004 • 52 min • Latvia

A documentary about Latvian partisans ("forest brothers") who were fighting against the Soviet occupation long after the end of WWII.

ws.2

2004 • 8 min

Seoungho Cho continues his sophisticated investigation of the moving image, its manipulation through video processing, and the ways in which these technologies can be made to represent the natural world. In ws.2, Cho's precise camera movement and hypnotic post-production techniques deliver an enigmatic tour, not simply of stark landscape and sky, but also of our status as viewers and our relation to what we perceive.

Brass Monkey

2004 • 19 min

On the 23rd August 2004 The Great War Society undertook a charity march in full period uniform to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the opening moves of the Great War 1914-1918 Over the following five days our troops marched from Mons in Belgium to St. Quentin in France in remembrance of the soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force. The march was in honour of the men who fought the famous Fighting Retreat which stemmed the German advance and ultimately turned the tide of the war. Filmed in Super 8 black and white, Brass Monkey is the first documentary by William Hamper

Happy Youth

2004 • 36 min • Slovenia

A documentary short about the Slovenian rock band Srečna mladina (Happy Youth).