All Films

Battling the Yakuza

2012 • 25 min

Organized crime syndicates are deeply entrenched in Japanese history. Known as the Jakuza, they were once seen as gangsters with strict code of honor, helping the police to fight the criminal underworld. The Yakuza in Japan has links that extend as far back as 400 years to Edo era. But their days of protecting the weak against the strong are long gone. Today, the Yakuza is a criminal network with nearly 80,000 members operating in 22 crime syndicates, and raking in billions of dollars a year. And Japan's law enforcement wants to wipe them out once and for all. With their links to drug and prostitution rings, corporate crimes and deadly shootings, Japanese officials want choke the Yakuza's existence by starving them financially.

You Can't Kill the Bogeyman

2012 • 10 min

Explores the worldwide cultural presence of the Bogeyman and how that translates into the character of Michael Myers in the Halloween franchise in the United States. Screened before the 2012 theatrical re-release of John Carpenter's Halloween.

Ich - Udo

2012 • 43 min • Germany

He was a bloodthirsty vampire, an androgynous Adonis and a psychopathic killer. He's a friend of the director Lars von Trier. He gives an impressive performance in almost every one of his films. His face and his pale green eyes have etched themselves into the minds of his audiences. Udo Kier is one of the few German actors to achieve global fame via Hollywood. In the past fifty years, he has been in more than 250 films, ranging from art-house productions to blockbusters. Kier first major role was as a sinister upright citizen called Hans. The fact that he ended up staying in Hollywood was down to serendipity, like so much else in his life.

Tickled Pink

2012 • 8 min • United States of America

He is mute flesh that the stroking of fingers can bring to sing.

The Curse of the Cybermen's Tomb

2012 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Sir Christopher Frayling and Dr Debbie Challis examine the ancient Egyptian origins to the story of the Cybermen's tomb on Telos.

BigzIN

2012 • 17 min • Serbia

The story is set within a colossal old building, in the city centre, where artists are renting their workspace. The building spontaneously spawned into a huge alternative Cultural Centre, and a still fragile, emerging scene is struggling for its existence.

Another Void

2012 • 10 min

Orpheus meets the bird with the crystal plumage.

Ruben

2012 • 14 min • Netherlands

Desperately trying to come to terms with his sexuality, gay teenager Ruben finds his path to sexual acceptance complicated, as homophobic bullying brings him ever closer to the brink of suicide.

The Lark Ascending

2012 • 29 min • United Kingdom

Dame Diana Rigg explores the enduring popularity of The Lark Ascending by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.

N'Djekoh

2012 • 12 min • France

While picking up a small coin, Mariam, a young chad, remembers... seven years ago, in the village...

Screen Goddesses

2012 • 59 min

With the beginnings of Hollywood, the star system was born with an archetypal bad girl - the vampish Theda Bara - and the good girl - the blazingly sincere Lillian Gish. From the 1920s, vivacious Clara Bow and seductive siren Louise Brooks are most remembered, but none made the impact of Marlene Dietrich, an icon of mystery, or Greta Garbo, with her perfect features and gloomy introspection. From the power of Joan Crawford and Bette Davis to the seductiveness of Rita Hayworth and Ava Gardner, Hollywood studios produced their own brand of beautiful, sassy and confident women. But it wasn't to last. The era drew to a close with the supreme fame of Elizabeth Taylor and the tragic death of Marilyn Monroe.

Here Comes the Summer: The Undertones Story

2012 • 60 min

In 1978 the Undertones released Teenage Kicks, one of the most perfect and enduring pop records of all time - an adolescent anthem that spoke to teenagers all over the globe. It was the first in a string of hits that created a timeless soundtrack to growing up, making the Undertones one of punk rock's most prolific and popular bands.

Kelly Clarkson: Chapter One

2012 • 50 min

A collection of Kelly Clarkson's official music videos, released as part of her Greatest Hit's collection. Setlist: "Miss Independent", "Low", "Since U Been Gone", "Behind These Hazel Eyes", "Because Of You", "Walk Away", "Never Again", "Don't Waste Your Time", "My Life Would Suck Without You", "I Do Not Hook Up", "Already Gone", "Mr Know It All", "Stronger", "Dark Side"

The Weather War

2012 • 57 min • Sweden

The Weather War is a documentary/art film about man’s attempts to control the weather and harness it for his own purposes. In a blend of land art performance and road movie, artist duo Bigert & Bergström travel to the US tornado belt with their special machine-sculpture, the Tornado Diverter. The goal: To stop a tornado. Along the way, we see historical examples of how the science of meteorology developed in symbiosis with military goals and how these visions evolved into modern ideas of geo-engineering. Controversial ideas with socio-political consequences, spotlighting the big question of who is really entitled to modified weather.

World's Scariest Drug: The Devil's Breath

2012 • 36 min

While it is occasionally used recreationally for its hallucinogenic properties, the experiences are often extremely mentally and physically unpleasant, and frequently physically dangerous. Ryan Duffy went to Colombia to check out a strange and powerful drug called Scopolamine, also known as "The Devil's Breath." It's a substance so intense that it renders a person incapable of exercising free will. The first few days in the country were a harrowing montage of freaked-out dealers and unimaginable horror stories about Scopolamine. After meeting only a few people with firsthand experience, the story took a far darker turn than we ever could have imagined.

Não Estou Aqui

2012 • 16 min

One night, a man tries to make a film that registers his presence.

Southern Dyscomfort

2012 • 37 min

Set amongst a tapestry of fairytale excess, Michael is reared and mentored by a black maid Annie Mae. Michael is surrounded by dysfunctional, quirky, upscale family and friends. Annie Mae is the "mother" that navigates Michael through hilarious perplexing complications. Michael juggles lovers, Kelly the conniving 1st wife, Dorian the gold digging 2nd wife, Marc the easy going effeminate 1st gay lover and Robin the drug addled manipulative 2nd gay lover, all the while haunted by his deceased girlfriend Gardenia who happens to be Anie Mae's niece. Matters are greatly complicated when Kennedy Gamble the butler and Michael's half brother meddles with the family and their finances.

Ovaries Over easy

2012 • 2 min

Ovaries Overeas

The Sheep Farmer: Recap

2012 • 2 min

A recap on what we have seen previously on The Sheep Farmer.

Picking Oranges

2012 • 1 min

"I have told them I would pick oranges in California after having seen The Grapes of Wrath at the Cinematheque."

Deadliest Tornadoes

2012 • 52 min • United States of America

Scientists strive to understand what caused the devasting tornado outbreak of April 2011. Could their research improve future tornado prediction?

Titanic: 100 Years in 3D

2012 • 45 min • United States of America

100 years after an iceberg defeated the 882-foot luxury liner on its maiden voyage, scientists and historians are still exploring the Titanic. Armed with modern camera technology, submersibles were sent down to the ship's final resting place with the hope of capturing HD 3D visuals of the wreckage, in order to support or even confirm theories about the damage that took the boat down. Now, History Channel has brought some of that footage home in this 45-minute TV special, presented in 3D so that future generations can see it for themselves.

P!NK: VH1 Storytellers

2012 • 43 min • United States of America

VH1 Storytellers is a VH1 original series in which a singer/songwriter performs and tells stories in front of an intimate audience about their life in the industry, writing lyrics, playing with other musicians and their career. The series started in 1996 with Ray Davies. Since then, episodes have featured David Bowie, Kanye West, Bruce Springsteen, Mary J. Blige, Green Day, Elton John, Coldplay, Jay-Z, Billy Joel, Pearl Jam, Dixie Chicks, Johnny Cash, Foo Fighters, John Mayer and Christina Aguilera among many others.

Solipsist

2012 • 10 min • United States of America

Uses a three-story plot of feather-clad dancers, underwater puppet creatures and men disintegrating into sand to piece together this theoretical, visual and audio experience.