All Films

2 Home-Movies

2009 • 9 min

Nearly all of us have shot home movies: on film, on video tape, or using the digital cameras built in to our mobile phones. We have filmed our children, family celebrations, or holidays. Now, imagine how a home-movie might look like if it were shot in the Warsaw Ghetto at the beginning of the 1940s by a German worker on vacation… 2 home-movies invites the viewer to look again at historically charged material from a different perspective and to think about our desire to pick-up a camera to record disasters.

BUMLIFE: Charley Ager, the Whistler bum

2009 • 8 min

A day in the life documentary of Charley Ager, a true ski bum who lives in his tent alongside the river and does whatever it takes to go skiing.

David Lean and His Dedicated Maniacs

2009 • 29 min • United Kingdom

David Lean had great faith in his regular film crew, once saying "Good films can be made only by a crew of dedicated maniacs". This is a profile of four of those key men.

The Room

2009 • 13 min • Germany

An actor finds himself in a mind-boggling situation, as his hotel room becomes an unseen big brother, scrutinizing him and probing into the uncharted depths of his soul. Who is the man in the mirror? What is real, and what is fantasy?

Scary True Stories: Night 13 - Hitori Kakurenbo

2009 • 60 min • Japan

18th installment in Broadway's "Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi" series.

Ten Years After - Goin' Home (Live at the Marquee 1983)

2009 • 54 min • United States of America

Track listing: Love Like a Man I May Be Wrong But I Won’t Be Wrong Always Good Morning Little School Girl Help Me Woodchoppers Ball Slow Blues I’m Going Home

Your Voice Came Out Through My Throat

2009 • 7 min • Japan

Yamashiro Chikako channels the stories of survivors of the Battle of Okinawa through lip-synch and superimposition. With her body as an archive, she stages the link between the donors and inheritors of trauma and, ultimately, the impossibility of transferring memory across generational lines.

Vénus

2009 • 8 min

Wish Fulfillment

2009 • 15 min

A son comes out to his father 10 different ways.

Boy Crush

2009 • 12 min • Indonesia

Anto is a soft spoken and uncomforming 15 year old boy with a long time crush, Rani. But after having several homoerotic dreams, involving a naked man, he became questioning his sexual orientation. Especially when his best friend, Rudi bluntly told Anto he might be gay for having those dreams.

The Blood Show

2009 • 10 min • United Kingdom

An insight into the use and meaning of blood in society and culture. Speaking with a haematology specialist, cultural historian, goth club promoter, anthropologist, broadcaster, food writer, chef and butcher.

Fuzzy Insides

2009 • 5 min

Take a peek into the secret nightlife of the suburbs. Four stop-motion vignettes portray relationships that develop romantically and sexually, with a touch of awkwardness.

The Blockbuster Tapes

2009 • 5 min

Documents VHS Modifications, 1999-2002.

Miss Jupiter & Mr Clitoris

2009 • 8 min • Japan

An 8mm Film by Jyunya Suzuki.

WordWorld: Flying Ant

2009 • 60 min

Flying Ant - How can ant be part of the Insect Air Show if he can?t fly? He?ll just have to build a word to give him the lift he needs to be the star of the show. Catch that C! - While PIG and ant are making cookies, their bag of letter C?s gets away from them, sending the WordFriends on a wild goose chase all over WordWorld to catch that C! Shuffleword - When PIG and ant get into an argument while playing Shuffleword, PIG storms off with the consonants and ant storms off with the vowels. But they soon learn that they need each other to build words?and have fun. Play Ball! - It?s ROBOT?s first time playing baseball ? and his team is up against the powerhouse Bug Team, led by All-Star ant. Can he learn the game in time to help his team win?

Fireman Sam: Help Is Here!

2009 • 45 min

See Fireman Sam in action in this thrilling collection of firefighting adventures! Join your pals, Fireman Sam, Norman, Mandy, and Radar as they make courageous rescues throughout the town of Pontypandy. Fireman Sam saves the supermarket on Fire Prevention Day, helps the rescue dogs find missing people, shares important safety tips, and makes a daring helicopter rescue in the midst of a forest fire. Fireman Sam is here to help you learn about fire safety, teamwork, and having fun with your friends.

An Evening with Mark Knopfler and band

2009 • 59 min • United Kingdom

1. Sailing to Philadelphia 2. Sultans of Swing 3. Romeo & Juliet 4. Get Lucky 5. Why Worry 6. Money For Nothing 7. Monteleone 8. Songs For Sonny Liston 9. If This Is Goodbye 10. Brothers in Arms

Hanasaari A

2009 • 16 min • Finland

Hanasaari A is an experimental documentary about the changing cityscape of Helsinki and the final moments of a coal-fired power plant. The old industrial milieu is being destroyed to make space for modern housing units. The film is a combination of animation, live action cinematography, and graphic elements. It is based on 500 000 photographs taken during the final two years of the existence of the power plant.

Bubble

2009 • 5 min

Bubble is a short film performed by Zeena Parkins and the Plastic Girls, Eleanor Hullihan and Erin Cornell in a public park in Brooklyn, NY.

One Shot

2009 • 8 min

Its single hand-held shot lends both immediacy of viewpoint and a floating unreality to a young woman's visit to a Seattle convenience store, seemingly fraught with menacing purpose.

Spring '89

2009 • 25 min • Egypt

Camelia and Sarah in the last spring of the eighties...their last days of innocence a story told twice by 2 different girls or rather 2 similar girls.

Kogi

2009 • 13 min

For the KOGI Indians, there is a great mirror that divides two worlds, the perceptual and the sensory. The abstract world of meanings is not what we sensorially perceive, but the world of what the KOGI call "aluna." This world is what gives meaning to the destiny of life.

Excepter: Black Beach

2009 • 31 min

Here, at the literal End of the West ... Watch as Excepter descends the great stair down to Sand Dollar beach, armed only with a flute and a small bag of percussion. Listen as Excepter walks on Morro Bay to the dread beat of the setting Sun. See Excepter dressed head-to-toe in black in the noon-day heat on a nudist beach (Parental Guidance Suggested). Feel the hostile surf continuously lash the last soundclash.

Fragments of the Intimate Life of Natalia Rasstrigina

2009 • 25 min • Russia

From the series "History of Russia in Private Chronicles". Documentary ironic fantasy-parable. Photo animation. A biography of a woman she once loved, seen through the eyes of a man she once loved.