All Films

The Amateurs

2003 • 49 min

What is preventing these people from completing video penetration?

Trio For One

2003 • 57 min • France

Daulagiri (8167m), Naga Parbat (8125m) and Broad Peak (8051m) are among the 14 peaks in the world. Jean-Christophe Lafaille has set himself the goal of reaching these 3 peaks in the space of two months. This film takes us on a surprising journey that begins in Nepal and ends in Pakistan, while exploring the soul of this committed mountaineer… Ed Viesturs and Katia Lafaille accompanied Lafaille on his adventure.

Automatic Writing

2003 • 3 min

Charcoal animation, taken from from Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image (2003).

Death of a Skyline

2003 • 42 min • Canada

A group of citizens lobbied to save the landmark Alberta Wheat Pool grain elevator, one of the defining features of Mayerthorpe’s landscape, from being torn down in 2003 - as thousands of others had been. This film documents those efforts while exploring the broader history and significance of the grain elevator.

Get the Fire!

2003 • 60 min • United States of America

Three young Mormon men, age 19, embark on a two-year rite of passage in Germany as part of a long-standing worldwide effort by Mormon missionaries to spread their faith at home and abroad.

Roof Man

2003 • 35 min • Latvia

The protagonist of this documentary film is not a sleepwalker. He is not a reckless adventurer. Or a madman. Or a bird - a man with wings. There are things he may lose. He has a big family - sons, a wife, dogs, a house, a job. But Eriks Rugens, the protagonist of this documentary film, has a courageous dream that has become a reality - climbing roofs. He has managed to overcome the natural human fear of height. Climbing the roofs is his hobby and work to be closer to the sky, on the spires of churches, on top of the high-rises. From where he looks at the daily and street life with different eyes.

Pass The Mic!

2003 • 52 min

This ambitious documentary turns up the volume on long-silent voices lurking beneath the surface of the Latin hip-hop underground, revealing the origins of a genre that still has to fight to be heard. Highlights include a behind-the-scenes look at the artists' creative process, plus candid interviews with stars who share stories about making it in the business -- from Mellow Man Ace and Capone to Delinquent Habits and Psycho Realm.

Waiting for the Weekend

2003 • 7 min • Serbia and Montenegro

A young couple enjoys precious few fleeting moments of intimacy during the brief periods between the day shift and the night shift.

Be Good, Smile Pretty

2003 • 52 min • United States of America

A powerfully moving, personal exploration of a grief for the father she never knew, this award-winning film chronicles Tracy Droz Tragos' heart-wrenching quest to understand and cope with a loss shared by the estimated 20,000 Americans whose fathers were killed in Vietnam. Weaving emotionally compelling interviews with home movies, stock footage, and family photos, Tragos travels from Selma, Alabama, to the U.S. Senate in search of her father’s Naval Academy roommates and war buddies, each of whom has been silently mourning his death and remembers her father’s life in his own way. Along her journey, Tragos uncovers a 30-year-old mystery, as she comes to know her father as a man, untangled from the memory of a war that wounded a nation. And while some discoveries are almost too difficult to bear, it is ultimately the truth that allows her, and her entire family, to understand and move forward.

Bad Boy

2003 • 5 min • Russia

A fairy tale about a naughty boy and his parents.

Alfred Hitchcluck Presents School House Flock

2003 • 9 min • United States of America

A animated short created by Alex Hirsch.

Tangier, the Burners' Dream

2003 • 54 min • France, Morocco

Tangier has an open identity on the Strait of Gibraltar. The border here is a presence: it is water. Opposite, Spain. Candidates for illegal departure flock without interruption to Tangier. The film follows the adventure of a few ready to "burn" their identity, to cross or die...

Geraldo José - O Som Sem Barreira

2003 • 54 min • Brazil

The story of the most famous sound technician in cinema and television in Brazil, known as the "noise-man".

Pulque Song

2003 • 60 min • Mexico

Portrait of daily life and its inhabitants at the pulquería “La Pirata”. A homage to all those who drink pulque, to ranchera music, to the “barrio” and to pulque.

Petersburg

2003 • 53 min • Russia

A poetic essay on the city of St. Petersburg in the 18th century, based on poems by Alexander Pushkin and Alexander Blok and a novel by Andrey Belyi. The film contains reworked footage from Aleksey Batalov's "Overcoat", Eisenstein´s "Strike", Petrov's "Peter The First", Tikhomirov's "The Queen Of Spades" and others. Petersburg is an unbounded visual fantasy where reality and imagination merge into one. The history of the city represented in a digital form may live its independent life. Yevteyeva presents sights of St.Petersburg that have become the genetic code of the Russian culture in a particular manner in her film. Each shot of the film was hand-painted with special strokes.

Quintessence

2003 • 25 min • United States of America

The former lover of man dying of AIDS goes for one last visit only to find the man missing and the man's angry sister there.

The Neptunes: The Eighth Planet

2003 • 24 min • United States of America

A documentary on the studio sessions for The Neptunes' chart topping 2003 album, The Neptunes Present... Clones. Originally bundled as a bonus DVD in limited edition releases of the album.

Dylan Thomas: From Grave to Cradle

2003 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Born in 1914, Dylan Thomas was an unruly and undisciplined child who was interested only in English at school and was determined from childhood to become a poet. Little did he know that he would eventually become world-renowned. The film unravels the myth by tracing the poet's biography backwards, from his much written about, much lied about death, to the heart of the Dylan Thomas story and his beginnings in a quiet street in suburban Swansea.

Jan Stenbeck

2003 • 50 min • Sweden

Jan Hugo Stenbeck died in August 2002 as one of Sweden's most controversial businessmen. During his whole life he constantly broke new ground and challenged old truths. He founded and ran corporations in a new and different way. In the first documentary after his death childhood friends, classmates, colleagues talk about what it was like to live with Jan Stenbeck - the corporate leader who became mythic during his lifetime.

In the Shadow of the Ram

2003 • 45 min • Sweden

Kommisarie Gren faces a serial killer who slaughters his victims and taking souvenirs from their bodies. Will he have time to stop the madman before the next one a victim? An amateur film produced in Gällivare, Northern Hillbilly area of Sweden

W

2003 • 13 min • France, Luxembourg

A young man can't quite commit to having sex with his girlfriend. Then he meets a mysterious lady in a local bar. Will his girlfriend find out? Will she care?

Glitter

2003 • 1 min • Canada

As two twits dance their fears away at a roadside farmers market, via costumery and choreography, they bring lesbian glamour where it was not ever.

The Akron Sound: It's Everything, and Then It's Gone

2003 • 55 min

In the early 1970s, rubber was still king in Akron, Ohio. But just a few short years later, Akron's most important product was, ever so briefly, music. In the mid-1970s, a group of local bands took over an old rubber workers' hang-out in downtown Akron called The Crypt and created a mix of punk and art rock that came to be known as "the Akron Sound." And for a while, it was almost "the next big thing." Almost. It's Everything, and Then It's Gone, a Western Reserve PBS production written and directed by Phil Hoffman., takes viewers back to a time when the music really did mean everything. And for the men and women in these local bands, it was a way out of the factory.

Dark Side of the Car

2003 • 6 min

A short film about people interacting in traffick. We're all involved in this problem whether we want it or not.