All Films

Trophy

2008 • 10 min

A teenager's routine visit to her father's vacation home turns steamy when she finds herself unexpectedly attracted to her father's fiancée.

Say It With A Sign: Vol. 1

2008 • 30 min

Using modified sign language perfect for little hands, parents can learn to communicate with their babies and toddlers well before they learn how to speak. THe introductory volume of this exciting instructional program uses dynamic visual presentations, sound effects, colorful animation and repetitive lessons to teach parents and children 44 basic signs for food, animals, parts of the body and more.

Dennis Swanberg: Hug Your Momma!

2008 • 48 min

A tribute to all moms. Recorded live at First Baptist Lavaca.

Autogrill Verghereto

2008 • 3 min • United Kingdom

2008 Nicky Hamlyn short experimental work

New Hefei

2008 • 10 min • China, Austria

New Hefei was done in the winter of 2007/2008 during a stay in China for several months through a series of photographs and prepared in the spring of 2008 in the provincial capital Hefei in black and white on 16mm shot. Hefei has an extreme economy growth rate and is one of the fastest-growing mega cities of the new China. The conglomerates from private and state-dominated industry dominated the economic growth and repeated this in the Chinese provincial city. Currently the process of urban transformation has been completed here, as in other urban centers in China. The presentation of new urban areas is an important issue in contemporary Taiwanese and Chinese films.

A Saga das Candangas Invisíveis

2008 • 15 min

Less than four years to build a city. Thousands of workers. And their story…

The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly

2008 • 4 min

An intoxicating flower; a metaphorical insect; a longing reach across the centuries. The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly is a philosophical search drenched in luminous colours and sparkling light. The film was shot on colour reversal, entirely hand-processed and re-printed on the optical printer. "Having grown the exquisite tulip, I feel deeply under its spell--an affliction shared by an artist from another time and place, yet the dilemma we faced was shared: to fall for such a luxurious and temporary beauty raised a fear (a reminder--a fly) of the transience of life" - CP

Yesterday

2008 • 13 min • Indonesia

A reflective biography fragment of three friends reminiscing about their college days through the ten years of the ongoing Reformation era in Indonesia.

Car Wash

2008 • 6 min • United States of America, Canada

In the spring of 2008, car wash workers throughout Los Angeles formed the Carwash Workers Organizing Committee of the United Steelworkers (USW), a precursor to eventual plans to unionize the informal workers of a multi-million dollar industry rampant with exploitation. Most of these workers are undocumented migrants from Central America whose aspirations have led them to washing cars in the city of angels. This experimental documentary, shot on Super 8 film, journeys into a city defined by as much by cars as it is immigrant labor to offer a quiet commentary on the relationship between class, place, and work.

Alfie is Go!

2008 • 10 min

Alfie Carrington dreams of building a flying saucer. He is not a scientist. He is a dishwasher. He has no financing. He funds his dream by entering karaoke contests. Far fetched? Maybe. But he currently holds two patents and has gotten the attention of NASA.

One of the Last

2008 • 12 min

Mauro is a 78-year-old Italian farmer who loves his life. He picks olives, grapes, cherries. He wonders why anybody would want to do anything else.

Aquarium

2008 • 5 min • France

16mm film. no other info available.

David Huggins: Experienced

2008 • 7 min • United States of America

David Huggins: Experienced Short Film, U.S.A. Directed by Jeremy Vaeni

A 70mm Film Wearing Thick Heavy Black Liquid Eyeliner That Gets Smeary

2008 • 1 min

70mm film leader lined with liquid black eyeliner, doused with Jello Vodka shots and rubbed with body glitter.

Rothkofilm

2008 • 7 min

This is not a short documentary on Rothko, but rather my reflection on his canvasses, that become so deeply assimilated with the screen, frames of film, the frame line. A film excavated from two books. A silent film that should be a sound film. The rhythms, the inter-pulsations of the frames of film make me think of a sound I do not know.

National Geographic Inside: On the Run

2008 • 50 min

When fugitives are on the run and have evaded all attempts at capture, there's only one bounty hunting team to call: Leonard Padilla - "The Godfather of Bail," and his partner Rob Dick.

Zwischenzeit

2008 • 9 min • Germany

When a thought turns into reality, when conceived images start to exist, this is when fiction becomes reality. A handcar on the tracks of the metropolis. Infinite, without any destination.

The Making of 'The Last Emperor'

2008 • 45 min

THE LAST EMPEROR swept the technical Oscars in 1988. This forty-five-minute documentary features new interviews with cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, editor Gabriella Cristiana, costume designer James Acheson, and art director Gianni Silvestri.

The Souls of Black Girls

2008 • 52 min • United States of America

A provocative news documentary that questions whether or not women of color are suffering from a self-image disorder

Penetrations

2008 • 49 min • Spain

An examination of cultural psychology of domination and submission as how they relate to labour, race, gender and class.

Prince Charles' Other Mistress

2008 • 47 min

Prince Charles' Other Mistress tells the fascinating, largely unknown and ultimately tragic story about his intense relationship with Australian heiress Dale "Kanga" Tryon.

Film Quartet/Polyframe

2008 • 13 min

FILM QUARTET / POLYFRAME is conceived as a small cinematographic bomb attempting to question the established definition of frame as the minimum unit of (cinematographic) time by dynamiting it in four fragments. A step further in the so-called sub-genre practice of found footage film – recycled material – is also put forward for consideration in this project. The appropriationism applied in this work makes use of material found in Hollywood cinema (Singin’in the rain, Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952); Pink Panther; Buster Keaton; etc., the first avant-garde period (Un chien andalou, Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí, 1929) and American experimental film (Wavelength, Michael Snow, 1966-1967). Such method makes possible, therefore, to maintain image ecology while it provides an analysis of the history of cinema. — AP

Parallax

2008 • 6 min • Netherlands

Christopher Becks’ video, Parallax, is converted from richly colored 16mm footage. He addresses the practice of landscape/travel films by presenting scenes that seem to connote wandering, and searching for something.

E lei si scordò

2008 • 10 min