All Films

NASCAR: The IMAX Experience

2004 • 48 min • United States of America

A big-screen look into one of America's most successful entertainment industries, NASCAR racing.

Travis

2004 • 12 min • United States of America

An experimental film matching shifting colors with audio taken from an NPR radio interview with a mother who lost her son in the Iraq War.

Hermie & Friends: Webster the Scaredy Spider

2004 • 36 min • United States of America

A frightened little spider named Webster ventures into the garden. He's a walking encyclopedia of fears and phobias, shocked when the other denizens of the garden seem even more afraid of him than he is of them. His primary coping mechanism consists of praying to God for the courage to fact life in this Christian animated film aimed at young children.

Fuyu no hanabi hen - Imouto no teryouri

2004 • 50 min • Japan

About a Ram and a Goat

2004 • 13 min • Russia

The goat and the ram ran away from the owner in search of a better life.

Nôpan tenjôin: Anata o nigiritai

2004 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film directed by Sakae Nitta.

Beholden

2004 • 13 min • United States of America

Experimental short film that combines a theme of child abduction carried out by a lonely woman with images of alien abduction.

Last Letters Home

2004 • 60 min • United States of America

Ten families read letters from their loved ones killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom in this powerful and moving HBO documentary by Oscar and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Bill Couturie (Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam). Photos of the soldiers in military and civilian life are shown as family members read the final correspondence received from Iraq and share their thoughts and memories about the fallen troops and the realities of war.

The Old Man and the Studio

2004 • 12 min

What if Ernest Hemingway had to endure 'development hell' as he adapted "The Old Man and the Sea" for the big screen in today's Hollywood?

Unfortunately

2004 • 13 min • Poland

Oneiric tale about aging angels.

Sayonara, Sayonara

2004 • 37 min

Johane, the only survivor of a mass suicide, invites people on a bulletin board to die with him.

Schabbach ist überall

2004 • 58 min • Germany

Filmmaker Utz Kastenholz has accompanied Edgar Reitz during the filming of the third part of the legendary family chronicle "Heimat". The fictitious town of Schabbach, home to the TV family Simon, for many audience members has become a synonym for their own experience. "Schabbach ist überall" (Schabbach is everywhere) follows the origins and workings of the legendary film series and moreover addressess the question what "Heimat" really means today.

Thinking XXX

2004 • 58 min • United States of America

For a book project, photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders took photographs of 30 stars of adult movies, each pair of photographs in the same pose, clothed and nude. This film records the photo shoots and includes interviews with the performers and commentary from eight writers (and John Waters). The actors and writers discuss economics, nudity and exhibitionism, careers, and private lives.

Nine Dog Christmas

2004 • 59 min

Animated tale about Santa's reindeer, who have come down with the North Pole flu. Nearsighted elf leader Buzz thinks he's found the perfect replacements, but the makeshift reindeer turn out to be nine stray dogs in an old beat-up wagon! Will this ragged band of canines be up to the task of guiding Santa's sleigh, or will Christmas have to be grounded?

The Downing Street Patient

2004 • 59 min

Michael Cockerell presents this documentary on the health problems of Britain's Prime Ministers.

Mute

2004 • 6 min • United States of America

What would life be like without music? Mute takes place in a futuristic world without sound. Earless people gather at a nightclub to watch the light show and communicate via electronic orbs. Everything changes when a brash LJ (Light Jockey) seduces the wrong woman and stumbles upon his fifth sense.

DEVO | Live

2004 • 55 min • United States of America

The film details an entire live performance from Devo's 1996 reunion tour with Lollapalooza, opening for Metallica. The band performs a stripped down set consisting of songs from their first three albums, filmed at Irvine Meadows, California.

The Characters of Star Wars

2004 • 19 min • United States of America

The Characters of Star Wars is a Video Documentary included in the 2004 DVD release of the Star Wars Original Trilogy. It explained the Mythos of many of the "Star Wars" Characters.

Fanny & Alexander: A Bergman Tapestry

2004 • 40 min • United States of America

Short documentary featuring interviews from the cast and crew of "Fanny and Alexander." Featured on the Criterion Collection box set of the film.

Kakurenbo: Hide & Seek

2004 • 25 min • Japan

Among the ruins of the city, there is a game only children can play. It is called “Otokoyo”; a game of hide-and-seek. But whenever children play this game, one by one they would disappear into the blinds of the buildings… The story begins when a boy enters the world of Otokoyo, to find his missing sister.

Ten Minutes

2004 • 14 min • Spain

A desperate man makes a call to customer service looking for an answer.

Skelter+Heaven

2004 • 19 min • Japan

In the distant future, a mysterious floating object appears suddenly in the center of Tokyo. The top secret mission unit Alta Mira Agency or AA is comissioned by the Defense Agency to deal with this mysterious invader. In charge of the robot training is Funagai Otsuya. He trains five special girls to use the Battle Soles to push back the enemy even at the cost of their lives.

Angel Wars: About Face

2004 • 33 min • United States of America

Eli and Kira, two junior members of the Guardian Force must grow up in a hurry when their first mission to earth takes a detour, pitting them against Morg, a deadly but long forgotten foe. In a race against time, the Guardians must uncover the source of Morg's power, defeat his crafty minions, and stop the ruin of a mortal life, all while learning to work together.

My Little Pony: Dancing in the Clouds

2004 • 19 min • United States of America

Twinkle Twirl has to choreograph a special dance for the Friendship Ball, and she's completely uninspired! She asks Sky Wishes to make an extra-special wish so that she can come up with a great idea. Little do the ponies know that a wish-granting Pegasus pony, Star Catcher, has heard about this wish and is going to make it come true.