All Films

Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor: The Link

2009 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Explores the story behind the discovery of an early primate fossil, Darwinius masillae, nicknamed Ida, in a shale quarry in Germany. The fossil is believed to be around 47 million years old, and is extraordinarily well-preserved. Originally unearthed in 1983, Ida lay in the hands of a private collector for 20 years before it was shown to a Norwegian paleontologist, Dr Jørn Hurum. Realising that Ida could turn out to be a significant missing link between modern primates, lemurs and lower mammals, he persuaded the Natural History Museum in Oslo to purchase the fossil and assembled an international team of experts to study it. Their findings were announced in a press conference and the online publication of a scientific paper on 19 May 2009.

Trotsky: Rise and Fall of a Revolutionary

2009 • 60 min • United States of America

This film examines Trotsky, the revolutionary; venerated and reviled, loved, hated, feared. Archive material compiled from all over the world, citations and new shoots create an electrifying proximity to the historical person and to the man Leo Trotsky. Stages in his life and eventual flight are carefully examined, from St. Petersburg, to Mexico City. This is the riveting political biography of the Revolution's onetime hero.

The Best of GG Allin and The Murder Junkies

2009 • 45 min

Documentary covering the wildest moments of GG Allin and The Murder Junkies.

Gran Torino: More Than a Car

2009 • 4 min

Bonus feature for the DVD/Blu-ray of Gran Torino (2008)

Life Extended

2009 • 58 min

Life Extended continues Bigert & Bergström’s exploration of the human endeavor to control life and death. In the film, we meet the gerontologist who believes we will be immortal within a near future, the architects who constructs spaces to slow down the aging process, the monk who runs for 1,000 days in order to strengthen his spirit for its immortal journey, the street kids who lives in the moment, and many more. “Today aging is subject to control,” as one biochemist puts it. And the speed with which this biotechnological development is moving indicates that coming generations will live very long lives. Opposing the static image of the stairway of life, the film is constructed as a relay race where people move towards the viewer. Initiated as a work of art, the film envisions a contemporary memento mori for death itself, when death has become nothing but a memory.

Journey to the Stars

2009 • 24 min

Featuring extraordinary images from telescopes on the ground and in space and stunning, never-before-seen visualizations of physics-based simulations, the dazzling 'Journey to the Stars' launches visitors through space and time to experience the life and death of the stars in our night sky, including our own nurturing Sun. Tour familiar stellar formations, explore new celestial mysteries, and discover the fascinating, unfolding story that connects us all to the stars. Those who come along for the journey may never see the night sky in the same way again. Journey to the Stars is an engrossing, immersive theater experience created by the Museum’s astrophysicists, scientific visualization, and media production experts with the cooperation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and more than 40 leading scientists from the United States and abroad.

Amerika Idol

2009 • 46 min

A sweet film about a tiny village in Serbia that believes that Rocky Balboa will change their destiny and reverse 4,000 years of bad luck.

Warameiwa Erotic Incident in the Village of Six Graves

2009 • 60 min • Japan

Spit

2009 • 21 min • United States of America

In the small town of Calvin Alley, everybody plays the card game Spit at the annual Spit tournament. On the day of this year's tournament, Sherry, the champion for the last three Spit tournaments is forced to face a broken heart and new beginnings.

Carceri d'invenzione. Piranesi

2009 • 12 min • Italy

A film inspired by Piranesi's etchings.

Pamilya Kariton

2009 • 4 min

this is not a film by khavn

Churchill's Darkest Decision

2009 • 45 min • United Kingdom

The background to, events of and consequences of the Battle of Mers-El-Kebir on 3 July 1940. In that battle, Royal Navy ships fired on the French Fleet in order to prevent it from falling into German hands. A French battleship was sunk and several other ships damaged. Nearly 1,300 French sailors were killed.

American Herro

2009 • 57 min • United States of America

American Herro is the remarkable story of a young Kurdish girl who comes to America as a refugee from Iraq and lives out the American dream. 30-years later, traveling the globe working for Condoleeza Rice, U.S. Diplomat Herro Mustafa invites her first American friend, filmmaker Kirk Roos, to visit Iraq and retrace her steps to freedom.

10 Things You Need to Know About Losing Weight

2009 • 58 min • United Kingdom

In this documentary medical journalist Michael Mosley investigates the latest scientific breakthroughs in slimming and uncovers ten of the simplest ways you can shed your pounds without taking extreme measures. Michael like most of us is interested in shedding pounds without pain and exercise, so he looks at options such as losing weight when you sleep and wants to know about food that makes him fuller and keeps you full for long, but what about those of us who believe they eat right, exercise and feel their metabolism is just too darn slow?

De La Soul - Me, Myself & I

2009 • 55 min

With their clever, surrealistic lyrics, inventive use of sampling and incorporating an eclectic mix of reggae, funk, jazz, fashion and psychedelia into their sound, New York-based DE LA SOUL are one of the most original and influential groups on the hip hop scene. Hailed on their arrival on the scene in 1989 as the future of hip hop, De La Soul were quickly perceived as the leaders of a contingent of New York-based alternative rappers who dubbed themselves The Native Tongues Posse. This movement for a while looked as if it was going to eclipse hardcore hip hop in terms of popularity. This concert, filmed at the 1997 Lokerse Festival, features their big hits 'Me, Myself And I' (with its sample of Funkadelic's '(Not Just) Knee Deep'), 'Ring, Ring, Ring' and 'Breakadawn'.

Roma Parva

2009 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Director Christopher Barry demonstrates the use of a model of the studio set in the planning of camera positions and moves during recording.

紗綾15-0 フィフティーン・ラブ -2Set-

2009 • 60 min • Japan

2009 release

Jon Rafman Conversation with Nicholas O’Brien, Kool-Aid Man in Second Life

2009 • 18 min

Kool-Aid Man in Second Life- Jon Rafman interview with Nicholas O'Brien (2009)

Drop the Dog

2009 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A park. A woman. A man. Two benches. Two conversations. A cell phone.

Remnants: Ruins of Spirit Tales - Unreleased Footage & Infiltration Document

2009 • 52 min • Japan

Japan is one of the most advanced countries in the world by anyone's standards, but there are still many mysteries that have been sealed off from the public eye, such as curses that linger in abandoned and forgotten buildings, and esoteric cults that continue to be practiced in secret without the hope of becoming a national phenomenon. In this first installment, we travel to spots rumored to be haunted to find out what they all have in common.

Hydromorphone 8mg

2009 • 3 min

Experimental film by François Miron.

Woods of Arcady

2009 • 4 min

""The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy;" – with this line begins Rafman's Woods of Arcady. The work juxtaposes a computer generated recitation of Yeat's poem The Song of the Happy Shepherd, along side video of scenes captured from the artist's explorations of the virtual environment of Second Life. The simultaneously fantastic and vapid virtual landscapes documented by the artist are at home with Yeat's imagery "Where are now the warring kings? An idle word is now their glory."

Benjamin Latrobe: America's First Architect

2009 • 60 min • United States of America

A story of triumph and tragedy, the compelling saga of the man who designed much of official Washington, including the central portions of the United States Capitol and the iconic porticos of the White House.

David Bowie: VH1 Storytellers

2009 • 44 min

David Bowie recorded an intimate set for VH1 Storytellers on August 23, 1999 at Manhattan Center in New York. The set list comprises songs that spanned Bowie's career, from the 1960s until his then soon-to-be released album Hours.