All Films

A Brief Summer’s Tale

2008 • 7 min

There is more than one way to get 'lost' in the woods.

Peek-A-Boo

2008 • 8 min

A hell of a lot more of you through a keyhole!!

Bathers

2008 • 46 min

The film follows a summer season in the lives of a group of retired Greek men and women who are regular visitors at various Greek spa towns. Life around Greek spa towns moves slowly with rhythms that are reminiscent of times past. Within this listless atmosphere, people feel free to do and say things they would never be allowed in their respective normal social circles. A sense of freedom and lightness is in the air. Instead of being amongst elderly people, one often gets the feeling of being around a group of teenagers in a summer camp. This joyful atmosphere often alternates with reflections on the past or on death.

Knockout!

2008 • 52 min

Knockout! takes you inside the ring with Joe Oppedisano, as he photographs every high impact sexually charged move of perfectly sculpted MMA fighters, street fighters, and the toughest athletes. Expect Oppedisano to bring Testosterone, his best-selling homoerotic photobook, to life with interviews, super erotic situations, and extended wrestling scenes. Oppedisano's gritty style only begins to describe Knockout! This hyper masculine film also features fresh tracks from up and coming artists like Logo TV's NewNowNext favorite Cazwell and was shot by Tony Sellaris at the world famous Gleason's Gym in New York.

Naica: Secrets Of The Crystal Cave

2008 • 50 min

In 2008, a team of international scientists explore a Mexican cave filled with giant crystals. In one of the deadliest environments on earth, without specialized suits and equipment, the scientists would die in minutes. Can they unlock the secrets of the huge crystals, despite the challenges?

K (Acugher/Acimi)

2008 • 10 min • France

K (Acugher/Acimi) (K Pourquoi? Pourquoi?) is the last film of the 'K' series. Each frame of film was placed individually in the printer; the film consists in fact of individual frames, developed one by one (rather than a conventional camera roll), and placed at random on the printing stock. The question posed by the film is: how can one describe the position of the Algerian administration vis-a-vis Kabylie, which has been completely abandoned by central government? It's like a game of poker, is it not ... with the only possible response one of desolation and incomprehension. An original composition by Mr. Djamel Tareb will form the musical sound-track for the film.

Colossal Squid

2008 • 44 min

The colossal squid, the largest known invertebrate to roam the oceans, has long been a mystery, mostly because no living specimens had been available for study. In 2007, however, an astonished fishing crew in Antarctica made the catch of their lives. Racing against the clock to preserve the enormous creature, scientists eagerly study the fierce predator.

Muragens - Crônicas de um Muro

2008 • 12 min • Brazil

A wall in the street tells stories.

Valvert

2008 • 52 min

Valvert is a psychiatric hospital in Marseille, founded in the mid-seventies in a spirit of freedom and openness. The film observes daily life there, painting a portrait of the place through interviews with employees and scenes from the patients’ lives. In an atmosphere resolutely opposed to the standard institutional system, the liberty at Valvert reveals various facets of ordinary madness.

The Phantom of the Cinema

2008 • 11 min

When the film 'the phantom of the cinema' breaks, the light behind the screen is turned on and the audience is witness to the struggles of a cinema-owner, the lavatory attendant and the technician. In an attempt to start the screening again they tumble through their chambers behind the screen.

Our Voices Are Mute

2008 • 5 min • Australia

Distorted visions of anonymous figures traveling across empty landscapes are used as a metaphor for metaphysical journey's made across landscapes of the mind.

Time Is Working Around Rotterdam

2008 • 25 min

In this short film, the French photographer, Valérie Jouve explores the way in which an era constructs countless layers of time and space without feeling any need to establish connections between them. The film is about time or, more precisely, the various times that today make up our everyday life.

Dédale

2008 • 9 min • Canada

On April 3, 1948, Françoise Sullivan and Jeanne Renaud presented one of Quebec's first modern dance events at Ross House in Montreal. Among the original works presented was Dédale, a solo performance by Françoise Sullivan. In this version, shot in an labyrinthine urban setting, the dancer Ginette Boutin reinterprets the work, revealing its continued topicality.

Zoo Dung Zero

2008 • 15 min

“Crawling through the space of music, you will find the song to sing” Conceived as a 15 minute meditation piece, this film stars Nolan Ballin as a senior army lieutenant plowing his way through spiritual insanity.

Impatience

2008 • 2 min • France

« I just ordered a new dress from London… I hope you don’t mind. »

Le Havre : port

2008 • 6 min • France

The lens of the camera captures the port of Le Havre during a chaotic way, a trip whose rhythm is given by the process of shooting, frame by frame. The film edited directly into the camera then takes the form of a travelling front, subject to a continuous jump-cut which imposes its frantic pace. Docks, quays, warehouses, cranes, tractors, container architecture and men at work, present and future ruins parade such fleeting impressions.

Proud Flesh

2008 • 37 min • United States of America

It is 1886 in South Dakota, and Harrius, a 70-year old wounded wanderer, seeks redemption. Through her encounters with a parched landscape and beings both physical and metaphysical (including a virtual labyrinth of mounds, geisha dancers and her pious lace-maker double, Alma), Proud Flesh is no mere re-visioning of the American Western. It is a meditation on the iconography and gestures contained within the genre itself.

Rapresent

2008 • 31 min • Serbia

This film is the portrait of Bojan, a young man with a passion for graffiti and hip-hop who lives on the streets of Belgrade. He died at the age of 21 from an overdose.

Brendan Grace: At The Gaiety

2008 • 59 min • Ireland

Ireland"s best loved comic on stage at Ireland's best loved theater. All the old favorites including Bottler

Simultaneous Contrast

2008 • 6 min

The striped pattern of the municipal bus shelters in San Francisco becomes a fixed foreground behind which the city passes. Spatial oscillations provide a constantly permutating play of figure, ground and space, imaging the possibility of being two places at once.

The Music in Me: The Leopards Take Manhattan - The Little Band That Roared

2008 • 30 min

Prepare for a fun-filled, emotional journey with 52 young musicians from a variety of backgrounds! This delightful film--the final installment in HBO's acclaimed 'The Music in Me' specials--profiles the young members of the Louisville Leopard Percussionists as they embark on a trip from their Kentucky home to the Big Apple.

Va, Regarde - 1

2008 • 22 min

... I head to Thailand and then to northern Lao (Luang Prabang then hopefully further north), then certainly to Cambodia. At the source of this journey, there is a longing for a renewal of my cinema, for the search of new lights, of new areas, of new relations...

Le Marché Oriental

2008 • 2 min

A 2-minute intervention inside Cape Town’s disused Oriental Plaza, an Apartheid-era shopping mall designed to control Cape Malay trade. On the 4th day of Ramadan, 2008, Sheikh Mogamat Moerat of District Six’s Zeenatul Islam Majid mosque was invited to sing the Adhan (call to prayer) inside the empty remains of the building a few weeks prior to its demolition to make way for luxury apartments.

A Walk / Im Park / ZUOZ

2008 • 12 min

A triptych of three short silent films. A Walk through the winter of Engadin and Bergell, scenes in the park of the Rietberg Museum in Zurich with its collection of Asian, African and Indian art, and an ice-skater on a sunny day in Zuoz, a village in the Engadin.