All Films

Duran Duran : Songbook Performance

2009 • 49 min

This is a recording of Duran Duran's performance for the SkyArts Songbook, a TV programme broadcast in two parts. The show was an intimate live event, that showcased the band's musical catalogue and included a rare live performance of "Late Bar". There were only 150 tickets available for the event. The tickets could not be bought, and were be only obtained by winning them through DuranDuranMusic.com. As the performance was for TV there were strictly no cameras allowed and the audience were placed in front and back of Duran Duran on stage. This allowed the band to communicate with the audience on a personal level, with Roger Taylor turning this back on many occasions asking if everything is fine and if there were any wishes for songs to play. John Taylor also commented how intimate the show was.

It's Free for Girls

2009 • 23 min • France

Laetitia and Yéliz are two teenage girls from a small suburban town who cherish the dream of opening a hairdressing salon together.

Polaroid Feedback

2009 • 2 min

Unlike traditional video, or double-mirror feedback, this Polaroid doesn't reference the infinite extendibility of a single moment, but rather it reverse engineers the collapsibility of many moments into one.

Licogi 12

2009 • 34 min

The civil engineering company “Licogi” has hidden the housing designed for its workers and their families behind a wall of containers. Most of the men are away from home, working on major building works across the country. It’s the women who organise life in the community. Since the rainy season is close at hand, new problems of leaking buildings, water drainage and insalubrious homes are coming up once again. Delegations of women regularly visit the firm’s headquarters to call for the buildings to be renovated. But every time, the delegation gets sent home.

Dinosaurs Decoded

2009 • 45 min • United States of America

New evidence has paleontologists questioning whether a third of all dinosaur species ever existed. Could some discoveries once thought to be distinct species, in fact, be the same species at different stages of development? National Geographic joins famed paleontologists—including Jack Horner, a contributing expert to the Jurassic Park films—who are challenging the long held belief that young dinosaurs looked like miniature versions of their parents.

House of Harrington

2009 • 25 min

Profile of the late iconoclastic director Curtis Harrington, featuring images from many of his poetic and haunting films.

Wild Croatia

2009 • 50 min • Germany

Picturesque coves, freshly caught fish on the harbour, one of the many areas where history is still alive. Hundreds of islands are strewn across the royal blue water. Croatia is the Adriatic's jewel. "Wild Croatia" reveals a heartfelt, emotional portrait of one of Europe's smallest countries, influenced by some of the largest contrasts in landscapes and the special inhabitants who live there.

EcoSoc

2009 • 10 min

What happens when average student Michael is asked by the girl of his dreams to meet up? Why are EcoSoc, her sinister student union society, so interested in using his car? Will he make it through the day alive?

Animal

2009 • 17 min

Masked men prowling in the bushes and not touching anything but satin, dandelions and flesh.

When Ali Met Cathal

2009 • 47 min • Ireland

In advance of his fight with Al ‘Blue’ Lewis at Croke Park in Dublin, Cathal O’Shannon interviews Muhammad Ali about boxing, and his life outside the ring. When a fight is coming up Muhammad Ali (formally Cassius Marcellus Clay, junior) admits he deliberately intimidates his opponent. He does this because historically in America black people have always been taught to be subservient. ’Muhammad Ali V Cathal O’Shannon′ was filmed in RTÉ Television’s Studio 1 on 17 July 1972. It was first broadcast on 18 July 1972, the night before the fight with Al ‘Blue’ Lewis at Croke Park. The programme was re-mastered in 2008. This was re-edited and re-transmitted as ‘When Ali Met Cathal’ on 5 January 2009.

Asgard Jamming

2009 • 54 min • Belgium

Attempt to make the first free climbing of the Mount Asgard.

鈴木咲「Oh! My Sister」

2009 • 50 min • Japan

2009 release

Lily Allen - Main Square Festival in Arras

2009 • 53 min

3rd July 2009, Lily Allen is performing at the Main Square Festival in Arras.

Les derniers maîtres de la Martinique

2009 • 52 min

Dame Shirley Bassey: BBC Electric Proms

2009 • 55 min

Dame Shirley Bassey graced the Roundhouse stage with a unique performance celebrating 50 years at the top of show business.

Last Minutes with ODEN

2009 • 6 min

Thank You Jason Wood for allowing us this moment. Oden's struggle with cancer finally came to an end. May he rest in peace and his memory be eternal.

Stauffenberg: The True Story

2009 • 52 min

He was a shining light in the German resistance movement and the bomb he placed at Hitler's headquarters could have put an end to war and genocide. Yet like most German army officers, Claus Schenk, Count von Stauffenberg, was at first a fascinated observer of Hitler's rise and his early military successes. He, too, was carried away by the triumph of the French campaign. It was a long road for this loyal follower of his commander-in-chief to become the man who tried to kill the Fuhrer on 20 July 1944. So what turned an ambitious officer from an old aristocratic family into the mastermind of a coup d'etat? What did he know about the crimes committed under the Nazi regime? Based on the latest research about the German Resistance, this documentary seeks to answer these questions.

Starting to Go Bad

2009 • 30 min

2009 --- Digital Video --- 30 minutes --- Color --- Sound Sound Mix: George Lockwood

Yogarizuma

2009 • 57 min • Japan

Shinsuke runs a pension inherited from his wife Mitsuko's parents, but he feels inferior to Mitsuko and their marriage is not going well. One day, while Mitsuko was away on a Buddhist memorial service, Shinsuke called up a Japanese sex club hostess, Hiromi, and they had a flaming game of widowhood. Soon after, Mitsuko suddenly returned home, saying that she had been involved in an accident on the road. In fact, Mitsuko was having an affair with her lover Kamonari when he was injured in a car accident. Later, Kamonari came to visit her at the pension, but Shinsuke thought he was just a guest. When Shinsuke went out for shopping, Kamonari proposed to Mitsuko. Hiromi also shows up at the pension. What will become of the couple's love?

The Grandmaster & The Dragon: William Cheung & Bruce Lee

2009 • 54 min • Australia

36 years after the world lost the incomparable icon, Bruce Lee, his early friend and martial arts training partner, William Cheung, recorded his thoughts and fond reflections on the man he knew as 'Little Dragon'. Born in the same year as Bruce, by 1958 Grandmaster Cheung was spending his weekends training with and coaching Bruce Lee in preparation for his upcoming bouts in Western boxing. Today, Grandmaster Cheung teaches thousands of kung fu students in the same art that Bruce Lee began. This is his story of Bruce Lee.

Mars: Making the New Earth

2009 • 54 min

A step-by-step guide to terraforming Mars, transforming a frigid desert planet into a living world.

Dustin!

2009 • 9 min

Berlin, Gendarmenmarkt, February 4, 2003, 8:31 pm, subzero temperatures. The Golden Camera awards ceremony. Shortly, Dustin Hoffman will be honored with the lifetime achievement film award. Security guys, professional and amateur photographers, fans: all awaiting his arrival. A (non-)spectacular documentary take, filmed with a normal digital video apparatus, investigates the human reactions to glamour, the star system and fame.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master of American Sculpture

2009 • 56 min • United States of America

The documentary traces Saint-Gaudens' life, both personally and professionally, from his birth in Dublin, Ireland to his work in New York City and Paris to his death in Cornish, New Hampshire. The film discusses how Saint-Gaudens' projects ranged in scope from large public monuments and portraits in relief to cameos and gold coins. The story of his personal life is woven around in-depth studies of six of his major works of art.

Private Screenings: Ernest Borgnine

2009 • 59 min • United States of America

Oscar®-winner Ernest Borgnine sits down with Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne to discuss his life and career.