All Films

Unlocking the Great Pyramid

2008 • 50 min

The Great Pyramid at Giza is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the World still standing and no one knows how it was built. For centuries archaeologists have been trying to figure out how ancient Egyptians moved huge stones to the top of the Pyramid.

Slaves

2008 • 15 min • Denmark, Norway, Sweden

Animated documentary about two Sudanese children who are abducted and used as slaves

Flipping Out - Israel's Drug Generation

2008 • 60 min • Israel

Military service in Israel is compulsive for all able-bodied Jewish men and women. Once their years of service is up they are granted a bonus which many use to travel to India to wind down and recover from their experiences. About 90% of them will use drugs during their travels and every year about two thousand of them will require professional help to recover from this drug use. The extreme psychotic break these people experience is commonly referred to as "flipping out".

Mars - The Quest for Life

2008 • 43 min

Following the progress of the Mars Lander mission to Mars with the University of Phoenix.

Sunrise Earth: Great Barrier Reef

2008 • 50 min

Sunrise over Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

All About Eve Live in Bonn 1991

2008 • 60 min

Live in Bonn 1991 is a concert DVD from the British alternative rock band All About Eve. The DVD comprises the full September 5 live concert at the Biskuithalle in Bonne, Germany, part of the band's 1991 European tour promoting their recently-released album, Touched by Jesus. The footage was originally recorded for the German music television programme Rockpalast.

A Machine to Die For: The Quest for Free Energy

2008 • 52 min

Machine to Die For is about the search for perpetual motion and free energy. Conventional science claims this is impossible, yet generations of inventors have been mesmerized by the promise of an engine that powers itself. The world’s reliance on diminishing fossil fuel resources and the associated problems of pollution serve to spur them on. A Machine to Die For showcases a number of dedicated, sometimes eccentric, and always obsessive individuals who have devoted their lives to this quest. The documentary could be used as a resource when studying motion and simple machines in secondary science and physics. It could also serve as a springboard for discussions about inventors and inventions and the history of scientific endeavors. It would be suitable for teachers of middle to senior secondary students in Science.

Mission to Mississippi

2008 • 44 min

A story of one family's struggle to survive after Hurricane Katrina and the emotional journey of 54 volunteers from New York who helped them rebuild their home and their lives.

Pizza in Auschwitz

2008 • 52 min

Danny Chanoch (74), survivor of several concentration camps, convinces his reluctant children to retrace his steps through the holocaust, eventually spending a night in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

The Animated Heavy Metal Parking Lot

2008 • 2 min • United States of America

An animated tribute to Jeff Krulik and John Heyn's 1986 video documentary classic, Heavy Metal Parking Lot. Remaining faithful to no-budget filmmaking, Supnet reconstructs her favorite scenes using cut-out characters made out of aged paper, glue and ink.

The Cars of the Bond Movies

2008 • 50 min

Stunning, spectacular and eye-catching cars are as much a part of the James Bond legend as Vodka Martinis and the Walther PPK. Since the iconic secret agent hit the silver screen in 1962, and indeed since Ian Fleming's earliest Bond novels, these marvellous machines have been as much stars of the 007 franchise as the actors who have played the role. This fascinating programme pays homage to the incredible vehicles which have wowed Bond fans for generations, from the 4½ litre Bentley Blower of Fleming's books to the awesome 510bhp Aston Martin DBS V12 driven by Daniel Craig in Casino Royale. We count down the 10 most notable Bond cars, examine the role of vehicles in the creation of the 007 legend and consider what the future holds. Experts, enthusiasts, fans and owners give their views, as well as discussing the unforgettable stunts, amazing gadgets and the controversial choices.

A Fisher's Journey

2008 • 12 min

A Fisher's Journey documents the travels of Dalston Samuel, a fisherman from Antigua, to Belize and Mexico for a fisher's exchange. Dal learns from the artisinal fishers there how they have been able to conserve their livelihoods and their way of life by working with scientists on conservation. Ultimately, A Fisher's Journey is a journey of the heart, revealing the hope and healing that come from working together.

Remote Viewing

2008 • 20 min

Science writer and adventurer Jeff Warren investigates "remote viewing," a form of ESP that the U.S. government attempted to harness as a tool for espionage during the Cold War.

Pimp C: The Final Chapter

2008 • 60 min

This career-spanning documentary pays tribute to the life of rapper Pimp C.

Vickie Shaw: You Can Take the Girl Outta Texas...

2008 • 59 min

Gay comedienne Vickie Shaw wears her Texas roots -- and her sexuality -- loud and proud in this sold-out stand-up special filmed live in Long Beach, Calif., at the Vault 360. (The show also includes a special appearance by Vickie's son, Matthew, and her longtime partner, known simply as "Sgt. Patch.") Touching on everything from men to menopause, Vickie tells it like it is with her trademark brass and sass.

Curious George Takes a Job

2008 • 24 min

Following his nose, George sniffs his way to Chef Pisghetti's Ristorante where he finds Gnocchi the cat./After George's success helping Chef Pisghetti impress a restaurant critic, the Chef suggests that George help his friend Mr. Glass wash the windows of his skyscraper--The Glass Palace.

War File: Tigers in the Desert

2008 • 52 min

Nazi tank technology takes center stage in this volume of "The War File." The key weapon in the German arsenal during World War II, the Panzer tank spawned a stronger, if less mobile, version called the Tiger, which proved invaluable in North Africa. Actual footage of the Tiger in use by Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps, interviews with veterans and an inside look at one of the few remaining specimens paint a portrait of this remarkable weapon.

Lezzieflick

2008 • 7 min

Lezzieflick is a deconstructive remix of stereotypical representations of lesbian sex in hetero porn.

Zymotic Amaurosis

2008 • 24 min • Turkey

Contagious Arbitrary Blindness is a disease caused by a virus, which can capture and store visual information and memories.

Andergraun

2008 • 46 min

Three punk-rock bands of Valdivia, a discontented youth, artists that protest, social movements in alert. Street, conscience and inconformity. In this documentary, music leaves its passivity and becomes a weapon of change.

Drip

2008 • 8 min • Costa Rica

Representation of spontaneity in the context of routine.

Caracas - The Informal City

2008 • 49 min • Venezuela

Rapidly expanding megacities are a global phenomenon and as a consequence millions of people today live in makeshift constructs they call their homes. Venezuela is Latin America’s most urbanized country, and in the capital Caracas ”informal” cities grow at a dangerous speed up along the ridges of the city. High crime rates and bad sanitary conditions are only some of the problems here. These problems are seen from the point of view of architects and designers in this documentary, which shows inspirational examples of possibilities born when when visions meet reality. The film documents parts of the experimental project called Urban Think Tank, which has substituted drawing board studies with creating solutions in dialogue with the street level. ”In future city planning one has to free oneself from the toolbox of the past” is the architects’ answer to the issues of urbanisation.

Stone Moss

2008 • 10 min

Stone Moss is composed entirely from digital still images and is a segment of a much larger and multifaceted work titled Agency of Time, a 3 tier, long-term project consisting of a symphonic mutli channel video/sound installation, a series of single channel works and a photography book. Stone Moss is the first of the series of single channel works. The content of Stone Moss as well as of the photographs and installation focus on an awareness of perception, point of view, time, desire, and memory to encourage an active yet open emotional engagement with the piece.

Sunday 6th April, 11:42 a.m.

2008 • 6 min

Sunday, 6th April 11:42 a.m. is a video about landscape understood as a complex network of connections that guide relationships between people. It is a video that focuses on the relationships between actions and places, movements and the environment, because it points out that people are the place in which they live as well as the trajectories which the place itself creates. The video underlines the reciprocal connection between environment and its inhabitants, where territory plays an inevitable role also in its anthropomorphic transformations.