All Films

End of Code

2009 • 15 min • United States of America

An animation that combines narrative experimentation with the abstraction of motion capture about two groups of misfit hackers in a city of traffic. They speak a language of advertising, corporate branding and self-help, while engaging in a battle to control traffic lights. The discovery that the entire social code is embedded in the access code that regulates traffic lights, begins a twisted ride of cultural espionage techniques. These techniques include surveillance cameras and costumes, as they attempt to untangle the social codes of characters caught in an endless rush hour. The project is a 3D animation using motion capture applied to non-human characters that took five years to produce.

And God Loves Gays, Too!

2009 • 10 min

Questioning your faith is a healthy part of every religion.

Siku

2009 • 5 min • Austria

Siku tells the journey of an explorer and his husky to a remote mountain at the South Pole.

Sibusiso

2009 • 30 min • Netherlands, Tanzania

Sibusiso is a center for children with mental disabilities located in Arusha, Tanzania. Mentally disabled children here have limited possibilities to realize their developement potential because within Tanzanian culture, a handicap is often regarded as a taboo and a punishment from God. Sibusiso's mission is to increase the acceptance of mentally handicapped children and to give them the opportunity to discover and develop their capabilities.

Killswitch Engage: The Making Of The Album, On The Road And Behind The Scenes

2009 • 24 min

Over 30 minutes of backstage footage, exclusive in studio interviews and more. Intro / Last Tour We Will Ever Do Ask Killswitch Engage Beefbelly Ask Killswitch Engage Rhymes With Rear Ask Killswitch Engage Life In A Tube Ask Killswitch Engage Still Killswitch Places Seen A Thousand Words Winning The Band Lottery Ask Killswitch Engage Outro Credits

Spokes

2009 • 7 min

Spokes follows the story of a boy and his enchanting journey for love. He lives out his fantasies through his quirky imagination. After finding the perfect flower for his crush he sets off on his fantastical mission to deliver the object of his affection. An angry French ant, a pack of nasty schoolgirls, and an old lady with a wild glint in her eye, all help (and sometimes hinder) the boy on his quest for true love.

The Principal’s Fight

2009 • 31 min • Norway

The Principal’s Fight examines the case of Community School, Sector II, Sabalibougou and the struggles of Negueting Traore and his fellow teachers to keep in functioning. We meet various government officials who emphasise the importance of community schools to the nation without being able to guarantee sufficient support to keep Sector II viable. Along the way we see something of the home life of Principal Traore and his wife – who also teaches at the school – and we come to realise that they have a fight on their hands just to keep their own family viable.

Bad Habit Ultimate Collection 1987 - 2009

2009 • 53 min

A collection of video clips and behind the scenes footage tracing the history of Swedish AOR rockers Bad Habit, from their formation in 1987 through to 2009. 1 Need Somebody 2 More Than a Feeling 3 Never Find Another You 4 Rainbow 5 Another Night 6 Alive 7 Walk Of Life 8 I Don't Want you 9 Above And Beyond

The Forgotten Coast

2009 • 15 min

Dylan escapes his suffocating life in the city and befriends Hunter, an outcast from the forgotten coast of Florida.

Regatta (Part I)

2009 • 4 min

Regatta (Part II)

2009 • 3 min

The Yukou Paper

2009 • 50 min • China

As a kind of traditional handmade paper in the area of Ninghua in western Fujian Province, Yukou paper is named after its soft and delicate quality as well as white and jade-like color. It is the best of handmade papers and needs to go through several complicated and elaborate processes. In a small village deep in the Wuyi Mountains, Xikeng, there were once more than five hundred paper mills, but now only one remains, still struggling to survive. The film crew focused their camera on the paper maker Hu Lanshan's family, quietly recording the process of making Yukou paper, the joys and sorrows of the paper maker’s family, and the changes of the whole era...

Gadi Lohardaga Mail

2009 • 27 min

Gadi Lohardaga Mail is a documentation of people’s memories about a passenger train that ran on the now defunct narrow-gauge tracks till January 2004.

Mr. India

2009 • 46 min • India

The life and achievements of HIV-positive bodybuilder K. Pradipkumar, who won the Mr Manipur title in 2007 and several other laurels in other competitions at national levels.

Powers of Three

2009 • 33 min

Set against the backdrop of Ireland's primal landscape, 'Powers of Three' presents the extraordinary tale of Tom Lowe, Fergal Smith and Mickey Smith risking all to extend the meaning of courage, commitment and artistry in one of the most brutal locations on earth. Both in the water and out, Powers of Three journeys beyond the traditional clichés of the surf film genre to penetrate the unflinching minds of three Artists united across the long dark winter by their shared big wave obsession.

Exposure Adjustment on a Sunset

2009 • 39 min

Video of a full sunset altered so that the brightness level remains constant from beginning to end.

Letter From Moldova

2009 • 28 min

Inspired by Chris Marker’s Letter from Siberia, this journey to Moldova is narrated through ten letters that reflect on the collapse of the Soviet Union, the contradictory nature of the current power of the communist party, and the uneasy proximity between post-colonialism and nationalism.

Dai Henwood - Dai Another Day

2009 • 59 min • New Zealand

Over two nights in September 2009, Dai Henwood performed to a packed SKYCITY Theatre in Auckland to record the best of his stand-up for this DVD. With more than a decade of comedy experience under his belt, Dai nailed it and you are holding the result in your hands.

Three Sisters And Andrey

2009 • 14 min • Bulgaria

Time has passed, but nothing has changed in the home of Prozorovs. Andrey takes care of his sisters as usually. With the help of a number of innovative technical devices he succeeds in maintaining their physical and psychic health. Everything is about to change when a mosquito appears in the November sky.

Bloom

2009 • 8 min

"An elf of dandelion takes off her bloom after her boyfriend, who has transformed into down a bit earlier. But there are monsters outside, and they take aim at her. In the outer world with no one to depend on, she grows up bravely."

Bohemia: The Life of a New York City Poet

2009 • 40 min

This documentary film displayed the personalities of many poets in New York City through their deep poetry and revealing interviews. Their poems are truly the stories of the streets of New York City. If the sidewalks can talk this is what they would say.

Vita Nova

2009 • 26 min • Belgium

In Mythologies (1957), Roland Barthes first presented his renowned critical analysis of the cover of a 1955 issue of Paris Match—the iconic image of a young African cadet saluting the French flag. What haunts this famous analysis? When Belgian artist Vincent Meesen went in search of the then-cadet for his film Vita Nova (2009), he found an old African who had forgotten almost all of the French national anthem. As Meessen’s investigation reveals, Barthes himself “forgot” to mention the history of his own family’s relation to colonialism, particularly the history of his grandfather, Captain Louis-Gustave Binger, who “gave” Côte d'Ivoire to France. The film launches a critical and moving account of the specters that haunted one of France’s most enlightened cultural critics, and have yet to be fully acknowledged today.

Promise

2009 • 2 min • Japan

A short film by Taku Furukawa.

Petit Manga

2009 • 6 min • Japan

A short film by Taku Furukawa.