All Films

Bigger Fish

2004 • 17 min

Secret data on a mysterious disc is passed from deadly assassin to deadly assassin in a never-ending game of cat, mouse and round-house kick to the face.

Obras

2004 • 12 min • France

In one single shot, Obras offers a poetic journey through time and space, exploring Barcelona's wild irreversible destruction.

Sem Respirar

2004 • 8 min • Portugal

The near future: Bruno is trying to win back his ex-wife. Under the pressure of her domineering mother and a new (arranged) boyfriend, Jorge, Isabel brings charges of harassment against Bruno. Bruno is trialed and sentenced. A device designed to suffocate him if he gets within 100 meters of Isabel is implanted in his throat. But that doesn’t stop Bruno, he practices holding his breath.

Holiday Roman

2004 • 7 min

Once upon a sunny day in the park, the Easter Bunny meets the Tooth Fairy and falls desperately in love. But soon she's off to molar excavations, leaving our furry friend depressed and dismayed. Will he ever see her again? It may take the ultimate sacrifice.

Insomnia

2004 • 7 min • Latvia

She comes at night, quiet as a cat, to take his sleep away until he feeds her. All she needs is milk brought by him somewhere between sleep and reality. Her name is Insomnia.

Aeon

2004 • 12 min • New Zealand

Dealing heavily with perceptions of time, Aeon documents the urban cityscape as Wellington transforms through a zen-influenced eternal cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth within a 24-hour period.

Μηδέν Θετικό

2004 • 25 min • Greece

The Green Paddle

2004 • 34 min

Over two months in the summer of 2003, a 23-year-old Beau Miles paddled his kayak, solo, around three major island chains off Australia’s southern coast. Originally released in 2005, this film was re-edited in 2018 for YouTube. Relatively inexperienced in open water, moments of near capsizing, being washed off rocks, sleeping in abandoned homesteads and traveling up to 40km a day becomes just as much about personal discovery as the destination. With homemade camera mount, homemade roof-racks, yellow kayak and industrial supply of sunscreen, the film alludes to Beau’s underdone sea kayaking skills as he leaves mainland Australia under his own power for the first time. In the final days of the journey, Beau comes to realise that sea kayaking, and ad-hoc travel with only the bare essentials, is the most potent combination of living he’s ever experienced.

Iara

2004 • 10 min • Brazil

In the heart of the forest, Pedro hears a beautiful chant and meets Iara, the Mother of the Waters.

Glenn, the Great Runner

2004 • 3 min • Sweden

Glenn, the great runner, will go out and compete. The question is, does he get the support he needs?

Tree Fellers

2004 • 23 min

The story of the 900 Belizean lumberjacks who in 1942 left the tropical rainforests of British Honduras to help Britain fight fascism by felling trees in Scotland. Sam (93), Eric (87) and Amos (86) were among those who stayed on after the war to make new lives in a country where, for better or worse, the colour of their skin marked them out. Newly discovered archive, long cherished memories and a last reunion are intertwined in this lyrical and moving documentary testament.

Mountain Talk

2004 • 57 min • United States of America

Mountain dialect, culture and identity are revealed by the true experts on Southern Appalachian culture--the people whose families have lived there for generations.

Jean Claude Droyer, Unconditional Freedom

2004 • 23 min • France

Portrait of Jean-Claude Droyer, a famous French climber and mountain guide. He is known for having participated in the rise of free climbing in France in the late 1970s. Trained at the climbing schools of Fontainebleau and Saussois, he distinguished himself in 1965 by solo climbing the Pentecôte route at Glandasse. He also made first ascents in the Verdon Gorges, winter ascents in the Prealps and the Mont Blanc massif, notably in 1971 the first solo ascent of the Directe Américaine on the west face of the Drus. The film was selected for the "Les Écrans Documentaires" festival in 2004.

Monkey Hunters

2004 • 47 min • Tanzania

Lions rarely hunt baboons because they are hard to catch and usually not worth the risk or effort. But there is one place in Africa's Great Rift Valley where baboons are plentiful and lions have learned to catch them.

The Butcher of Rostov: Andrei Chikatilo

2004 • 44 min

In 2004, the Biography Channel aired its program about Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo, one of the greatest serial killers of the 20th century. Due to its length, 44 minutes, the program does not provide many details about his life or murders, however, it is very well conducted and explained.

Miracle in the Pacific

2004 • 50 min • United States of America

Filmed over the course of two decades, this beautiful portrait of North America's Pacific Coast will show off its abundance of marine life. But it wasn't always so. The richly illustrated action sequences of whales, seals, dolphins, sharks, sea otters and seabirds combine to make this an unforgettable and inspirational story.

Cactus

2004 • 18 min

Summer Clouds

2004 • 15 min • Sweden

Three stories about people at emotional moments in their lifes.

Two Minutes to Zero

2004 • 1 min • United States of America

A feature-length narrative crime film compressed two different times into two separate films of diminishing duration until the synoptic is synopsized. 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 Glenn Branca (an excerpt from "The Ascension"); film commissioned by the 2004 Rotterdam Film Festival's "Just a Minute" program. - Lewis Klahr

Copo de Leite

2004 • 11 min • Brazil

Audrey & Einstein

2004 • 17 min • United States of America

A love story between a lonely girl and a googly-eyed fish

Choir of the Prisoners

2004 • 6 min • Germany

The film is based on a scene in Beethoven’s opera Fidelio. The inmates of the Seville prison are kept in dark cells without daylight. Now, for the first time after years, they are allowed to see the sun. Light as a metaphor for freedom.

Septiembre (Los amores jóvenes)

2004 • 12 min • Spain

L. is a seventeen girl. This is the last afternoon of her summer holidays at the coast, so she grabs her bike to go and see C., a boy she met throughout the summer. The two of them had planned to spend their last afternoon by the beach, but a walk over town and a few casual encounters will make an impact on L.

Atlantic City Hookers: It Ain't E-Z Being A Ho'

2004 • 60 min • United States of America

Documentary - HD. Hidden cameras capture prostitutes working the streets of the neon-soaked gambling mecca of Atlantic City.