All Films

Circus

2009 • 23 min • Russia, United Kingdom

In Tsirk, student clown Alexei is our guide to the State School for Circus and Variety Arts, in Moscow. It's a shabby relic of a vast Soviet circus system instituted to entertain the masses and spread propaganda. While Alexei hones his pratfalls, the committed and underpaid staff remember better, but less free, days.

Perseverance

2009 • 53 min • Russia

A film about a selfless and enthusiastic person Evgeny Leonidovich Gloriozov, a five-time USSR champion in sambo and a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, who has been holding sambo sports competitions among children from orphanages for many years.

The Key Role

2009 • 32 min • Russia

Xenia’s adult life was certain to be bright and happy. Academy of Fine Arts, playing in theatre, friends, admirers, and first love were there in her life. As she plunged in her feelings, she did not even realize that she was about to follow a path of temptation and suffering. Everything she holds precious — friends and her future fame as an actress — is sacrificed to drugs. Atonement is soon to follow: she finds out she is HIV-positive, her father dies, and her mother has a car accident… There seems to be no power, which could save her. However, the discovery of the faith, the self-sacrifice of her mother and the courage of her friend help her come back to life. The film is shot in the genre of docudrama in a modern and dynamic style and is sure to attract wide audience.

wandering through secret storms

2009 • 7 min

Images – derived from the Prelinger Archive – of people doing office work (mainly women), are mixed with lines from heavily redacted FBI files full of suspicious, paranoid notations. A story of patriarchal surveillance is suggested, but the soul of Battle’s film is elsewhere: in the strange, spooky glow that emanates from filing cabinets, or the animated birds that pass freely from one screen to another. An elegant arrangement of mysterious materials. – Adrian Martin

Des

2009 • 28 min

A piece based on the artist’s intimate obsession with the serial killer Dennis Nilsen. Over the last fifteen years Bladh has investigated the uncanny likeness in Nilsen’s romantic fantasy world to that of his own, and by using the killer as a persona – a Hyde Double – aimed to uncover new depths and unlock unknown extremes within himself.

The Salt Shaker and the Moon

2009 • 15 min

The film is an observation of activities in Maine. One Town, Portland is celebrating "First Friday Art Walk" where people go to the museum and art galleries. The second town, Belfast is celebrating the boat launching of three rebuilt sailboats. By using a small digital camera, people are canidly recorded talking and eating at a restaurant, viewing artwork, and just walking about town.

Derek Bailey: All Thumbs

2009 • 23 min

Barcelona Chronicles N°02. Derek Bailey (solo electric guitar). A solo concert filmed in July 2004 on a hot summer afternoon on a rooftop of a private apartment somewhere in the narrow streets of the Ribera district.

Sketches About Gogol

2009 • 26 min • Russia

The film is based on the work of Russian writer Vasily Rozanov "Two studies about Gogol", who is trying to unravel the mystery of the writer's work.

Soldier's Song

2009 • 14 min • Russia

A fairy tale about how the guardian angels conspired to shame a thief and not to bring shame on people.

Two Princesses

2009 • 9 min • Russia

Princess Kat saves her sister and her fiance from the charms of an evil witch. Animation based on an English folk tale

Un vaso de soda

2009 • 10 min • Argentina

A boy grabs a woman's handbag in a Buenos Aires street. To escape from the police, he hides in an aging woman's house. During the hours he has to spend there, the relationship between the two changes

Lavender Mist Film/Pollock Film 1

2009 • 1 min

70mm film leader rubbed with Jimson Weed Trumpet flowers, spraypainted, dripped and splattered with nail polish, sprayed with lavender mist air freshener, 2009, 46 seconds 70mm film transferred to digital video

A Hole in the Water

2009 • 58 min • Greece

This is a documentary that looks the story of the pharaonic road project in the heart of Thessaloniki, the "needs" that were imposed on the city, how the state tried to mislead everyone to materialize, and the responsibility we have in road projects for our "convenience" and at the expense of public spaces, air and quality of life in the end.

Keep Out

2009 • 12 min

Debut documentary of Tatyana Kononenko dealing with the issues of memory and history.

Elfmädchen

2009 • 17 min • United States of America, Puerto Rico

elfmädchen is an abstract portrait poem painting pretty film for an ugly world. It's about a mod gal living in Soma, San Francisco and her vivid narcoleptic dreams. Her story is told visually with stop-motion animation, rich sound and minimal voiceover but no dialogue. Each dream sequence vignette flows in & out of reality until any lines are completely blurred.

Close at Hand

2009 • 5 min

A hallucinatory depiction of physical intimacy shot on Super 8 film.

Rukoushetki

2009 • 15 min

THE HOUR OF PRAYER is a short tale about attachment and death. It is based on the artist's own experiences. Via the events surrounding the death of a dog, it tells the story of death entering a house and the process of dealing with grief. These events begin in New York during a winter storm in January and end in Benin, West Africa, eleven months later. The first part of The Hour of Prayer retells a classical tale, in which the words and events explain each other and form a chronological progression. As the narrator speaks, words for time are prominent and images and sounds record the changes of season in various landscapes. The Hour of Prayer is made up of original material shot at the time of the events and of reconstructed situations.

Women of the Impressionist Movement

2009 • 44 min

“Impressionism is female”: we understand this when we consider Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès and Marie Bracquemond, four outstanding artists who developed distinct Impressionist subjects and manners of painting. All four knew each other, were regulars in the contemporary artist circles of Paris and, above all, shared a common fate: they were talented women in a world ruled by men. The documentary by Rudij Bergmann, an expert on impressionalism, which was filmed in France and the United States tells the story of the four women, placing their works at the centre of reflection on aesthetic, historical but also social matters. Set against the backdrop of Paris in the late 19th century, it reveals a new dimension of this fascinating and revolutionary period of art.

Japan's Scariest Story Series "Inn"

2009 • 55 min • Japan

This is the third “Inn” version in the series, which consists of image drama and real drama by selecting horror stories from the most familiar places, such as schools, hospitals, and inns. Sakiko and Chie, office workers at the same company, go to a certain inn one day...

No. 2

2009 • 1 min

16mm, silent

NO. 4 - Organic Bridge

2009 • 4 min

Fourth Series of Hand Made Film. 16mm Kodak 250D Negative.

No. 5

2009 • 2 min

Stan Brakhage and Len Lye inspired handmade film. Painted color markers and spray paints.

Insect Yakuza Mitsudango Conflict Vol. 2

2009 • 30 min

The city that never sleeps, where insects gather, is now beginning to shake violently.The stirring of a family of martial-arts insectivores, ----, which gathers together half-breed insects who do not belong to a gang and starts a war.There was always a shadow... It is Ginko, the bewitching queen bee of the wasp family.Ginko's scheming, which does not choose any means. There is no righteousness, chivalry, humanity, or love.The wasp family expands using the honey dumplings that drive the insects crazy as a source of funds.The wings of the beautiful lady swallowtail butterfly stain the moonlight with fresh blood, and our chivalrous cumulonimbus...we call him "Mushizashi-ki" Hitoshi's white blade of divine speed cleaves away the swarming insects! The war over the honey dumplings and the course of Mitsuki and Kyoko's love... now heads for a fierce climax!

Boys of Summer

2009 • 13 min • United States of America

A pop music essay that is both sweet and serious about stereotypical male and juvenile fun. Tongue-in-cheek objectifying is mixed with cryptic symbols of longing and desire along with a brief history of a fraternal order.