All Films

Machine Head - The Making of unto the Locust

2011 • 19 min

Documentary from the recording of the album Unto the Locust.

Gang War USA

2011 • 45 min

An argument over the jukebox at a Mexican restaurant ends with two men dead in Greensboro, North Carolina. The killer belongs to the notorious transnational gang MS-13. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrest and deport many criminal gang members who are not U.S. citizens. But is deportation defeating MS-13? Or just making it stronger? And how did a gang that started in Los Angeles in the mid-80s end up responsible for the murder of two innocent men in North Carolina?

Tin Pressed

2011 • 7 min

Opening with jarring violence, Dani Leventhal’s Tin Pressed proceeds to negotiate a balancing act between the bewildering tonal variances of daily life—with all of its unnamable and enchantingly fragmented specifics—and the gravitational urge to construct both private and shared narratives. The world discovered through these images revolves around multiple centers. The camera’s odd equanimity feels both generous and dangerous. Leventhal’s deft oscillation between elision and inclusion reveals a brief but vast taxonomy of beauty, peace, longing, and terror.—Jeremy Hoevenaar

Shinedown: Madness from Washington State

2011 • 48 min

Somewhere In The Stratosphere: Madness Live from Washington State (Electric) is a full electric live set from platinum recording group Shinedown. Shinedown's live performances give an unsparing look into the soul and psyche amidst a fierce musical attack that, even in its quieter moments, vibrate with the passion, energy and focus of a band with high-minded ideals and limitless ambitions.

Artefacts

2011 • 9 min

Solitaire

2011 • 51 min

Into these most inhospitable of lands, a handful of drifters emerge from the whiteout, ready to cast their lot on forsaken peaks both merciless and magnificent. Venturing beyond the frontiers of most mountain films, Solitaire is backcountry skiing forged in the tradition of Western cinema. Born in the spires of Argentina’s legendary Las Lenas, a lonely two-year journey begins through an abandoned world, wandering the length of a continent from Peru’s Cordillera Blanca to Chilean Patagonia. Lost in the winds of snowbound badlands and the blizzards of primordial forests; seen from a horse’s saddle and a paraglider’s wings; ridden on ski and board and telemark...Solitaire fuses western-inspired tales of backcountry gambles into landscapes never before visited on film.

Goering's Last Secret: Revealed

2011 • 50 min

Documentary following the efforts of a historian to clear the name of Albert Goering, brother of Herman. Albert strived to save Jews while his brother masterminded plans to exterminate them. Through eyewitness accounts and the historian's findings, the film explores the notion that Albert's deeds may not have been possible without the help of his brother.

The Universe: Nemesis - The Sun's Evil Twin

2011 • 45 min

The theory of a Nemesis star that orbits the sun and causes catastrophic events every 26 million years is explored.

L'Histoire de Melody Nelson

2011 • 38 min

L'Histoire de Melody Nelson, concept album recorded by Serge Gainsbourg in 1971, is one of the most universally recognized french recordings ever. This film collects an impressive choice of archives and personal memories of those who worked on the album. Focuses on the mark Gainsbourg left on the album during its creation and shows how the story has become myth.

Soccer City

2011 • 60 min

Race. Class. Poverty. Faith. Hope. Soccer. Welcome to Alex––the largest and most notorious township in South Africa where soccer is lived, not played. With the first ever FIFA World Cup in Africa as a backdrop, witness the cultural importance of soccer in township South Africa through the lives of five individuals born and raised in the oldest and toughest of South Africa’s townships, Alexandra, locally known as ‘Alex.’ Seventeen-year-old dribbling sensation Nancy ‘Maradona’ Majola, former national team player Isaac ‘Shakes’ Kungwane, current professional Patrick ‘Raiden’ Phungwayo, 69-year-old Jacob ‘Babes’ Bopape one of the first professional soccer players in South Africa, and scholarship-winner Ricardo ‘Rico’ Kutumela will all take you into a culture dominated by soccer and into a storied township still largely unknown and misunderstood even among South Africans.

Pixelación Laboral

2011 • 11 min

Architecture is a hunt for harmony in the chaos, a way of putting order in the universe through the creation of regular angles. The severity of the forms of a Francoist building – the Universidad Laboral in Gijón, Spain – is distilled and decomposed into its patterns, in this piece made with a mobile phone device for filMO (a project commissioned by Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón).

Seahorses: Wanted Dead or Alive

2011 • 45 min

With a horse's head, a monkey's tail and sex-swap parenting, seahorses are one of the ocean's strangest and most charismatic inhabitants. In this one hour special, wildlife filmmaker Natali Tesche-Ricciardi sets out to investigate something that most people don't realize - seahorse populations are in crisis from pollution and overfishing for tourist souvenirs, aquarium stock and traditional Chinese medicine. With the help of Project Seahorse, traders and fishermen are changing their ways to help wild seahorse populations. The future for wild seahorses remains uncertain but one fact cannot be disputed - our future generations will want to experience these enchanting fish - in their natural habitat and very much alive.

The Pool

2011 • 4 min

1950s, 16mm swimmers dive unknowingly into video-infested waters…

Low: Live At Colorado College

2011 • 57 min

On the 5 Year Anniversary of KRCC’s foray into live concert events, the alternative rock band Low will be returning to play in Armstrong Hall on September 25th, 2011 at 7pm. Low was the first band KRCC Concerts booked as part of the station’s renewed commitment to live events in October of 2007.

De l'art et du cochon

2011 • 39 min • France

At a workshop at the EESI Poitiers, Jean-Louis Le Tacon invites essayist Patrick Leboutte to comment on Cochon qui s’en dédit.

And/Or

2011 • 7 min

A wandering figure traces tunnels through a space of possibilities. “… A kind of evocative visual poetry, equally stimulating to the eye and the mind” David Finkelstein, Film Threat

Tanita Tikaram: AVO Session, Basel

2011 • 51 min • Switzerland

In this intimate stage performance from 2011, Tanita Tikaram performs 13 of her songs in Basel, Switzerland: Cathedral Song, Wonderful Shadow, Little Sister Leaving Town, All Things to You, Good Tradition, Poor Cow, Valentine Heart, I Might Be Crying, Make the Day, Twist in My Sobriety, Dust on My Shoes, One Kiss, and As I Love You.

2 Stroke Cold Smoke 14: Life’s Short Go Big

2011 • 49 min

This adventure snowmobile film takes the viewers into the famed steep and deep North American Mountains. The record deep powder days have the sledders hammering the throttle like never before. Pro riders slash, whip, climb, drop and crash making this film inspiring and gut-wrenching to watch.

Primeiro Tempo

2011 • 47 min • Brazil

The departure of a crowd from the stadium where they lived historical moments. After 93 years, Palestra Itália, home of the team and Palmeiras supporters, will give way to a new stadium. The story is told through scenes from the last game on the site, interspersed with testimonials from fans, players and former players, members and club employees and residents of the surrounding area.

Living Proof

2011 • 53 min

Fagbug Films presents, 'Living Proof.' Twelve urban GLBT youth from Baltimore, Maryland come together to write & perform a play based on their real life stories with the theme being to outlast storm or danger in order to discover truth. Directors Kalima Young & Erin Davies base the 6-month improvisation writing sessions on the Hero's Journey, teaching each young person to see themselves as the hero in their own lives. Together they come across allies, mentors, tricksters, shapeshifters, shadows, and ultimately reach a higher self.

Janus

2011 • 14 min

Simon appears to be everyone's best friend, while in reality he is a jealous, manipulative schemer. He coldly focuses on destroying the only meaningful relationship his best friend Ken has ever had, with a girl called Heather. Will he succeed and what will he gain out of tearing them apart? Let the games begin...

Male Hookers Uncovered

2011 • 46 min • United Kingdom

Join Jeff Leach as he takes a fearless look at the world of male escorts. Joining the industry for real, Jeff uncovers some of the dangers that lie in store for sex workers. The ultimate no holds barred exploration of the reality of life for male escorts.

Tick Tock

2011 • 5 min

What would you do if you had only five minutes to live? Trace a young man's few minutes of trying to fulfill his life's highest potential.

Kira Soltanovich: Here Comes Trouble

2011 • 20 min

Kira Soltanovich is the voice of the Photo Booth on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and born in the former Soviet Union, raised by immigrant parents in San Francisco, Kira Soltanovich has plenty to laugh about these day. In her half hour special "Here Comedy Trouble" Kira says her parents took her to Disneyland ... not because of the rides, but because of the lines, they assumed there would be food at the end of them. Kira was also a series regular on, "Girls Behaving Badly" for four years, as well as performed a killer set on the critically acclaimed "Hot Tamales Live" on Showtime.