All Films

The Theory & Practice of Teenage Dream

2009 • 19 min

This is a portrait of today's youth living in times of serious unemployment. A day before the presidential elections, a group of students walk past an empty field in a redevelopment zone. The teenagers talk about their future and share rumors about a girl who died in the field. As they walk along, a mysterious beat-boxing girl follows them around.

Michael Jackson - Unmasked

2009 • 46 min

Interviews with people associated with the performer and clips help to illuminate the development of the icon and myth. Interviewees include a former police officer and a plastic surgeon.

Speechless

2009 • 12 min • Georgia

The 2008 Georgian War resulted in the deaths of several hundred people and expulsion of tens of thousands from South Ossetia. Is there a way to show the tragedy of families that lost their loved ones, thousands of people forced to leave their homes, soldiers doing the fighting, and children who cannot comprehend the situation? Salomé Jashi answers this question in a way that leaves few apathetic, though the horrors of war are never visible on the screen. Her short film is based on an interesting formula of making the audience witness to a tragedy it never sees.

Qi of RMB City

2009 • 9 min • China

RMB City project is developed by Cao Fei

Nobody listens to a hysterical woman

2009 • 1 min • United States of America

Jesse Stiles and I wanted to make a one minute horror movie one night. Here it is! – PL

Hobgoblins: The Making of a DisasterPiece

2009 • 30 min

The cast from the original Hobgoblins reunites for a 20th Anniversary reunion. The actors share wild stories from the set that you'll have to hear to believe. Inter-cut with clips from the film, it follows Hobgoblins' journey from low-budget straight to video feature, to Mystery Science Theater 3000 hit, to becoming voted one of the worst films of all time. Hysterically funny, the actors don't hold anything back.

ADD & Loving It?!

2009 • 57 min • United States of America

Comedian Patrick McKenna seeks a diagnosis for Adult ADHD and learns the facts from an impressive array of experts (some of whom have ADHD themselves!) including medical researchers, psychiatrists, psychologists, professors, and award-winning authors. Along the way Patrick reveals how his life as a husband and father are affected by ADD and even shares candid moments as he and his wife Janis work on the steps toward his diagnosis.

Origins of the Universe

2009 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Sir Patrick Moore and Dr John Mason take a look at the science behind the Big Bang and the origins of the universe.

Copying Is Not Theft

2009 • 1 min • United States of America

Our free culture anthem gets a fabulous arrangement by Nik Phelps. Vocals by Connie Champagne. Animation and song by Nina Paley.

Port of Wormy

2009 • 1 min • Japan

A surreal short animation by Mirai Mizue.

The Real Merlin and Arthur

2009 • 29 min

In search for the true story behind the alternate & extremely modified TV version in Merlin on BBC, the 2 lead actors went to Wales only to discover the origin of a worldwide legend of king Arthur & his older mentor Merlin, the greatest sorcerer ever to live.

ABBA '80 Concert Tour in Japan

2009 • 36 min

An insightful account of ABBA's tour of Japan in March 1980 showing them in between TV shows, press conferences and some of the concert itself. This documentary of ABBA's final concerts ever had been rumoured to exist for many, many years before its release in 2009 on the deluxe ABBA in Japan DVD set.

On Board Marine One

2009 • 45 min

We'll take to the skies with the presidential helicopter Marine One as it flies to the nation's largest city. To protect the President, Marine One must flawlessly coordinate with the Marines, the New York Police Department, and the Secret Service.

Henry & Sunny

2009 • 15 min

Henry, an unemployed clown, is in love with the famous soap opera actress, Sunny Carmichael. He writes her letters daily yet fear of rejection prevents him from disclosing his return address. Can true love prevail?

I Leave Chelsea Hotel

2009 • 4 min

Filmed in 1967 (camera: Gideon Bachmann), edited in 2009. I exit Chelsea Hotel and proceed towards Seventh Avenue where I catch a taxi. From 1967 to 1974, Chelsea Hotel, Room 725, was my home. Soundtrack: Leonard sings a song to my neighbor in room 726, Janis Joplin. -Jonas Mekas

Florence and the Machine: Live at the Rivoli Ballroom

2009 • 46 min • United Kingdom

Filmed at the launch party for their debut album 'Lungs', Florence and the Machine performs the songs at the Rivoli Ballroom in this special concert.

Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect

2009 • 56 min

"Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect" is a compelling documentation of a unique thinker and practitioner at the height of his architectural career. Through his conversation with architecture theorist and critic, Sanford Kwinter, Balmond reveals his vision and talent while the two tour his retrospective exhibition at the Graham Foundation in Chicago. Since the early 1980s Balmond has collaborated with many of today's important contemporary architects such as Toyo Ito, Rem Koolhaas and Daniel Libeskind. With his astounding aesthetic algorithms, Balmond has introduced innovative structural concepts that have resulted in some of the most challenging buildings in the canon of contemporary architecture.

Jam

2009 • 2 min • Japan

The idea of JAM was conceived while I was attending the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 2008.After returning to Japan, I soon began making the film and completed it in four months.This film is based on a very simple idea: the increasingly varied the sounds, the greater is the number of creatures. I wanted to rid myself of the frustrating experience of making Devour Dinner, which was highly unsatisfactory from the viewpoint of the movement in the film. My intention in this film was to fill the screen with chaotic movements.

Boys Love - Can I Lend My Boyfriend?

2009 • 60 min

"Boku no Kareshi wo Shokai Shimasu" consists of four stories, with four different couples (seven students and a teacher) from the same school.

Baker Has A Deathwish Summer Tour

2009 • 42 min

The Baker Has A Deathwish Summer Tour Video followed the Baker and Deathwish teams as they toured the U.S. for demos and signings. Featured riders include Andrew Reynolds, Erik Ellington, Jim Greco, Kevin Long, Furby, Jeff Lenoce, Bryan Herman, Lizard King, Antwuan Dixon, Slash, Braydon Szafranski, Terry Kennedy, Theotis Beasley, Dustin Dollin, Shane Heyl and more.

Why Beauty Matters

2009 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Contemporary philosopher Roger Scruton presents a fascinating argument for the importance of beauty in our art and in our lives, and explores what truly is and is not beautiful, regardless of its beholder.

E-Space: Fact or Fiction?

2009 • 14 min • United Kingdom

A look at the science behind the concept of Exo-Space.

The Story of Human Rights

2009 • 10 min • United States of America

This striking short film defines—simply and concisely—one of the world’s most misunderstood subjects: human rights. The informative and dramatic presentation shows the history of human rights from its origins in ancient times to the present-day Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Here are all thirty of the human rights, the basic rights and freedoms to which all human beings are entitled, including the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law. ​

All Aboard the Starliner: The Making of 'Full Circle'

2009 • 24 min • United Kingdom

Cast and crew look back at the making of Full Circle.