All Films

Anguish Cry of Predator Bird

2003 • 27 min • Italy

A selection of deleted scenes from Nanni Moretti's 1998 film "Aprile".

The Search for the Real Mt. Sinai

2003 • 48 min

Biblical explorer Bob Cornuke and his friend, Larry Williams' incredible expedition into the blistering desert of Saudi Arabia has turned up what many scholars believe to be one of the greatest discoveries in history...the real Mount Sinai. Mount Sinai is the holy mountain on which God descended to give Moses the Ten Commandments, and the location where God ordered the building of the Ark of the Covenant. This video tells their amazing story of avoiding detection at borders, crawling into forbidden military installations, and using night vision goggles to avoid being detected as they pursued their mission. Armed with little more than their wits and a Bible, Bob and Larry embarked on a journey that would change their lives forever...finding clues that confirm the Bible as historically accurate.

The Nuclear Boy Scout

2003 • 24 min • United Kingdom

David Hahn in the mid-nineties was a teenage boy scout working towards his merit badges. One badge in particular, the Atomic Energy Merit Badge, caught his imagination when it required him to make a model of a nuclear reactor out of cotton buds etc. David went further and sought out household sources of the materials he would need to make his reactor. Here he talks us through what he did and the surprising results he got.

Willful Infringement

2003 • 58 min • United States of America

Star Wars fans, party clowns, scientists, a Rolling Stones tribute band, a private detective, teachers, artists, DJ's, magazine editors, top legal scholars, FBI agents, corporate litigators and many more tell an "extraordinary" tale about how ownership of ideas has come into conflict with free expression. "Willful Infringement", which premiered 2003 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, has been acclaimed as an entertaining, surprising and sometime shocking report from the front lines of intellectual property. This movie has screened at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the Seattle Art Museum, the Franklin Institute of Science in Philadelphia, at the 17th Leeds International Film Festival, and at numerous universities, law schools and cultural events.

Los perros de Pavlov

2003 • 14 min • Spain

A dramatic accident affects five characters in different ways. The story gradually unravels the reality of what happened from these five perspectives.

Behind the Ears: The True Story of Roger Rabbit

2003 • 37 min • United States of America

The complete documentary on the production of the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".

Uto Ughi - Cajkovskij

2003 • 59 min • Italy

Uto Ughi recounts the life and artistic career of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, performing several of his pieces: Concerto in D major, Op. 35, for violin and orchestra, with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra; and “Meditation,” with Marco Grisanti on piano.

It Was Summer

2003 • 7 min • Ukraine

The kid by the name of Plato was lying in the garden, slowly swinging in a hammock. Warm sun was shining; the day was pleasant and joyful. Suddenly a strange cat appeared behind the branches, which led Plato to a heron. And there began the journey! Or is this just a fantasy inherent to kids?

Spyz

2003 • 8 min • United Kingdom

A short film made by the people who make Ali G. Used to sell the idea to Hollywood producers

Baby Police

2003 • 56 min

Dada, a mischievously sadistic six-year old, constantly bothers his neighbors with stealing and pranks. Dada's mother is at her wits end when her brother visiting from Lagos offers to take Dada to the big city to teach him some discipline. Once there, his uncle begs him to behave. And, of course, he doesn't: pretending to be a prophet, Dada scams a woman out of a television and demands that another take off her clothes in order to perform an exorcism. After being reprimanded by the police, Dada attempts to avoid work by stealing his uncle's money and giving it to some "businessmen" on the street. When he returns to collect his profit, he finds out that he has been tricked. He then decides to pursue riches by forming the "Baby Police Force of Nigeria" (which is actually comprised entirely of adults except for Dada), and earns money by taking money from "criminals" (who are actually just everyday people).

Traces, empreintes de femmes

2003 • 52 min • Belgium, France, Burkina Faso

« Traces, women's imprints » is a film that ventures to the discovery of three grandmothers kassenas (Burkina Faso,) their granddaughter, and the exclusively feminine art of this region's mural paintings. Between these women's portraits and a traditional art form, « Traces » is a painting on paintings that reflects upon transmission, education and memory in the context of a world in mutation.

Hello

2003 • 7 min • Australia

In a digital world, can analogue find true love? It is the wise old gramaphone who has the answers for a lovesick loner.

Chaplin Today: City Lights

2003 • 26 min • France

In 1928, as the talkies threw the film industry and film language into turmoil, Chaplin decided that his Tramp character would not be heard. City Lights would not be a talking picture, but it would have a soundtrack. Chaplin personally composed a musical score and sound effects for the picture. With Peter Lord, the famous co-creator of Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit, we see how Chaplin became the king of slapstick comedy and the superstar of the movies.

Ocras

2003 • 12 min • Ireland

In a time of famine a starving girl and her mother are rescued from the roadside by a stranger. But the stranger has other motives.

Day of Independence

2003 • 27 min • United States of America

Zip, a 17 year-old Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) baseball pitcher, faces the tragic circumstances of the World War II internment of 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry. Set in a relocation camp in the summer of 1943, this film chronicles the journey of an American family torn apart by a forced and unjust incarceration, a father's decision that challenges his son to find strength, and ultimately his son's triumph through courage, sacrifice and the All-American game of baseball.

I Know I Died with It

2003 • 8 min

A 16mm Joey Smack short film.

Lucie & Vera

2003 • 26 min • Germany

Los No Invitados

2003 • 25 min • Mexico

After years of suffering from a sleep disorder, Asunción turns to a specialist who will help her discover the causes of her insomnia.

Family Bonds

2003 • 16 min • Mexico

A young man is madly in love with his mother, until he discovers a horrible truth about her sexual behavior.

The Fanimatrix: Run Program

2003 • 16 min • New Zealand

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. A short film set in the prison world of the Matrix, our heroes Dante and Medusa undertake a mission called Run Program, using classic bait and switch tactics. Of course nothing ever goes right when an Agent gets involved...

Holy Wood

2003 • 43 min • Philippines

The film illustrates the philosophy of “giving back” to nature, and documents the pinugo, the unique system of sustainable land cultivation developed by the Ifugao to take equal account of forest management and rice growing.This diary film also turns into a travelogue when a group of woodcarvers embark on a trip to Japan to the Takedera temple where they transform a 250-year-old tree, which had been struck by a lightning bolt, into a totem pole.

Museum Scream

2003 • 7 min • United States of America

When Sylvester hears that a children's museum's prize exhibit is Tweety Pie, he tires to raid the museum in order to have lunch. He doesn't succeed in his mission, due to Tweety's smartness, and the children.

The Amazing Johnathan - Live and Uncensored

2003 • 48 min

This video is the ultimate collector's item for the Amazing Johnathan's true fans. A 48 minute live performance of Johnathan taped at The Flamingo in Las Vegas. Be warned that it's not like what you are used to seeing on TV. It contains adult language and is not suitable for all audiences! See hilarious backstage scenes with Tanya, Johnathan's assistant and never before glimpses into the mind of The Amazing Johnathan. You will laugh until you are sore!

If the Weather Permits

2003 • 28 min • Canada

Director Elisapie Issac's documentary is a sort-of letter to her deceased grandfather addressing the question of Inuit culture in the modern world.