All Films

Abby Head On

2013 • 50 min

Abby Wambach, the soccer phenom, has maintained an astonishing level of success, from helping the Florida Gators win their first and only national championship, to collecting a Founders Cup title with the WUSA's Washington Freedom and earning two Olympic gold medals.

Snow In Vienna

2013 • 34 min • Canada

World renowned artist and filmmaker Michael Snow continues to push the boundaries of yet another field, music. The avant-garde greats mastery of free-improvisation shines through in this rare solo piano performance at Konzerthaus, Vienna.

Scotch Pilgrim

2013 • 4 min

Short film by Raya Martin, published as part of After Cinema Words, a project considering the work of director Carlos Reygadas, here responding to a still image from the 2005 film Battle In Heaven.

Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded, Claire Denis

2013 • 2 min

A short film made for ‘Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded’. People who are not seen chat with each other.

Google Me Love

2013 • 14 min • United States of America

Young Chicagoans struggle with relationships and love in this technological age.

My Sense of Modesty

2013 • 20 min

Hafsia, a student in Art History, is going to have to remove her hijab for an oral exam. She goes to the Louvre to view the painting that she has to comment on.

The History Of Iron Maiden - Part 3

2013 • 40 min

Continuation of "The History Of Iron Maiden" documentary series, following 2004's The Early Days and 2008's Live After Death. Band members, crew, friends and associates talk about the period in the band's career which saw the writing, recording and release of the Somewhere In Time (1986) and Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son (1988) albums, their respective tours (1986-87's Somewhere On Tour and 1988's Seventh Tour Of A Seventh Tour), and the recording of the Maiden England live video.

I Choose to Live

2013 • 29 min • Slovenia

The documentary »I Choose to Live« presents a touching confession of a young girl who after losing her mother, tried to end her life. Later on she struggled with self-destructive behaviour and also an eating disorder. In this documentary the young girl is portrayed by the actress Nina Rakovec. The theme of mental health of youngsters is highlighted with the help of the professional counsellors.

Pony Place

2013 • 10 min • Netherlands

Grandmother Koba has to take care of her grandchild Emma's digital horse farm.

Paramore: Rock am Ring 2013

2013 • 22 min

Paramore took the stage at Germany's annual Rock Am Ring Festival for 2013, delivering a hot performance in the sweltering summer heat. They played several songs from their new self-titled album, along with an array of classic tracks.

Jim Breuer: And Laughter for All

2013 • 58 min

Replete with long-form stories of family life, how he really got started as a comedian and his love of 1980s metal, Jim Breuer's hilariously personal stand-up special finds the "Goat Boy" comic at the top of his game.

Rift

2013 • 6 min • United States of America

A family man struggling to cope with his hidden urges has his devotion challenged by the unexpected arrival of his secret lover.

The Man Who Defused Bombs

2013 • 2 min • Brazil

A short film made for “Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded”. A detonation expert dives into a lake.

Legend of Lead Belly

2013 • 51 min

Huddie Ledbetter was born into poverty, battled racism, and did time, but in spite of his early hardships, or perhaps because of them, he became one of the great musicians of the 20th century. We trace the life and career of Lead Belly, a man praised by critics and revered by artists, whose unique music crossed a host of genres and influenced countless industry legends, from The Beatles to Led Zeppelin to Nirvana and beyond.

Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded, Shirin Neshat

2013 • 2 min

A short film made for "Venice 70 - Future Reloaded". Showcasing a sequence of "The Odessa Steps" act from "Battleship Potemkin"

Inside Death Row with Trevor McDonald

2013 • 60 min • United States of America

A documentary presented by Trevor McDonald, wherein which he interviews death row inmates at an Indiana state prison

Pipas

2013 • 3 min • Spain

Is there anymore mutual understanding than a bag of sunflower seeds between two girlfriends?

The Smiths: Not Like Any Other Love

2013 • 30 min • United Kingdom

It's 30 years since Manchester four-piece The Smiths changed the face of British pop with their debut single Hand In Glove. In this half-hour Culture Show special, fellow Mancunian and lifelong fan Tim Samuels sets out to find out why The Smiths have such a special place in the hearts of a generation of Brits. The Smiths were only around for five years in the mid-eighties, but to this day the sentiment their music evokes is strong. Samuels pays visits to a variety of dedicated fans including fashion designer Wayne Hemingway, poet Simon Armitage, Labour MP Kerry McCarthy and Oasis songwriter Noel Gallagher to analyse the look, the lyrics, the issues and the riffs that made The Smiths Britain's first, and arguably best ever, indie rock band.

Buffalo Death Mask

2013 • 23 min • Canada

For more than two decades Mike Hoolboom has been one of our foremost artistic witnesses of the plague of the twentieth century, HIV. A personal voice documenting and piercing the clichéd spectrum of Living With AIDS from carnal abjection to incandescent spirituality, no surviving moving image visionary surpasses him. Buffalo Death Mask is a three-part meditation — visual, oral and haptic, both campy and ecstatic — on survival, mourning, memory, love and community. A conversation between Hoolboom and visual artist Stephen Andrews, both long time survivors of the retrovirus, floats over what seems to be a dream of Toronto and some of its ghosts. No one savours the intimations of immortality inherent in recycled footage like Mike, no one else understands how processed Super 8 can answer the question “Why are we still here when so many are gone?"

The Hard Way

2013 • 11 min • Ireland

A troubled teenage girl and an unhappily married man meet in secret. They both have something to escape from. Now they need to find out if there is somewhere to escape to. And whether they have what it takes to make the leap.

The Forever Train

2013 • 8 min

choo choo! all aboard the forever train!

Not Bad

2013 • 29 min

This is a tale of epic adventure. A tale of seven brave riders who set out from the four corners of the globe to gather together under one roof in a town located at the ends of the earth. A tale with no beginning and no end but where a few things happen inbetween. Things like eel fights. Yeah that’s right…f’n eel fights. So watch this movie. Why? Because its ‘Not Bad…30 days of bicycle tomfoolery in New Zealand’.

50 Years on: Yasujiro Ozu's Secret Vision

2013 • 59 min • Japan

Documentary celebrating the life and work of Yasujiro Ozu, fifty years after his death.

Muslimgauze: Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones

2013 • 4 min

Beginning in 1982, after Israel's invasion of Lebanon, the Manchester-born musician's obsession with Middle Eastern conflict began. His music, a mix of industrial, hip-hop, techno, and dubstep, and usually without any lyrics, could never easily be identified for its politics. But his pro-Palestinian beliefs were at the center of his inspiration. As the head of Muslimgauze's first long-term record label recalls about their first meeting, "We didn't talk about music, we talked about politics and the whole situation that brought his music to life."Mixing news broadcast recordings, drum kit beats, pots and pans, and classic instrumentals, Muslimgauze pioneered a new style of music that sounded little like anything else at the time or since.