All Films

Poker Face

2008 • 13 min • Canada

Two guys face off in a game of poker -- who will take home the prize? The only thing is, the "prize" has different plans.

Asian Boyfriend

2008 • 1 min • Germany

Call now and get your Asian boyfriend today!

Better Future, Wolf-Shaped

2008 • 15 min

A peripheral cult of worshipers fashions its own offerings to their Modernist ancestors in the form of architectural models of their great monuments made of corn husk. These are ritually constructed and burnt against the background of Celtic sites in Cornwall, as the group dons makeshift salad bowl and lampshade helmets, leading up to a choreographed homage to the square, and a short dance routine.

Changing Sexes: Female to Male

2008 • 50 min

It is one of the most provocative personal statements a person can make: I was born the wrong sex. To express this dilemma, and the desire to resolve it, is to be transsexual. Meet four transsexual men, and share their journey from where they started to where they are today.

Lossless #5

2008 • 3 min

A three-minute digital video of a water ballet film by Busby Berkeley. Bodies become flowering abstractions, blooming and undulating forms slowly twirl and revolve. One scene resembles a chain of duplicating bacteria, snaking around each time it doubles its numbers. The watery, almost kaleidoscopic effect is ethereal and mysterious, slow flowing movements giving the sense of a sacred ritual.

Après

2008 • 18 min

David Perry's Hot Rod Pinups

2008 • 35 min

A sumptuous sampler of classic 1950s style pin-up girls, featuring hotties working in the garage, hanging at the drag strip and cruisin' country roads.

Prejudice: More Than Black & White

2008 • 35 min

Muslims, blacks, gays, people with disabilities, and immigrants of every ethnicity and color: these and many other groups have stood in the spotlight glare of intolerance, easy targets for every sort of discrimination and violence. What makes people prone to irrational hate, and what steps can individuals and society take to eradicate it? In this program, psychology professors Susan Fiske, of Princeton University, and Mahzarin Banaji, of Harvard University; representatives of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and other pro-tolerance groups; and victims of prejudice share their insights and experiences. A pro-gay Baptist minister who formerly took a biblical stance against homosexuality and an ex–imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who now speaks out for tolerance also offer their views. Contains inflammatory language and images.

Among the Damned

2008 • 35 min

"The brutal and bloody endeavours of Kettle Cadaver explode on to the screen once again, completely uncut and uncensored! From violent live performances to never before seen video clips, Among the Damned packs a convoy of carnage spanning almost 4 years.

drawing tone

2008 • 1 min • Japan

Short film by Shizuko Tabata

5 Walks. Hercynia Silva

2008 • 16 min • Netherlands

In the northern region is the vast expanse of the Hercynian forest, untouched by the ages and coeval with the world, which surpasses all marvels by its almost immortal destiny.

Hans Richter Early Works

2008 • 49 min

SYNOPSIS: 8 films by Hans Richter. Richter's position in the art world was unique. As one of the earliest exponents of Dada, he was also one of the first to recognize the new possibilities cinematography offered the artist. He participated in the first avant-garde film movement alongside Léger, Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, Cocteau and Dali, and later in New York his teachings would influence many of the 'New American Cinema' filmmakers.

Les 120 jours de Sodome

2008 • 1 min • Canada

Sadistic purity of transfer of raw emotions from the reading of the work of the Marquis de Sade “The 120 days of Sodom. Engraving and painting on film

aTienda

2008 • 5 min • Spain

DSK produced three surprising publicity videos carried by the very personal e-store platform Codeco.org for three highly peculiar products: Bin2pdf software, the antivirus Codeco aT, and Codeco T-shirts. Bin2pdf ad (analogue backup). 2008, 1 min. Codeco aT ad (analogue backup). 2008, 1 min. Codeco T-shirt ad. 2008, 1 min.

Sand Saga

2008 • 11 min

In Sand Saga, Moulton's alter ego Cynthia again gains access to a parallel universe via the transformative powers of New Age body treatments and domestic objects. After applying a facial beauty mask, she moves through an environment energized with Southwestern motifs and rituals, from sculpted heads and Georgia O'Keefe-like forms to sand painting and hot stone massage. Ultimately Cynthia is transported to a fantastical world and emerges transformed.

The Lavender Boys

2008 • 17 min

A short narrative film featuring John and Sid, an elderly gay couple, as they talk about being gay in 1960's Oxford, coming out and family reactions to them, the impact of the Stonewall Riots on the gay rights movements, and their role models and influences. It offers an intimate and personal account of less tolerant times, but also hope for the future.

I hate you don't touch me or Bat and Hat

2008 • 5 min • United States of America

When the mundane becomes gruesome.This film is about dealing with change and attempting to hold on to beliefs. We give something up when we try to make ourselves better.

three nooses

2008 • 4 min • Turkey

to the seas...

anopticon

2008 • 5 min

It could not be there!

All That Remains

2008 • 8 min

A study in the light, textures and ghosts that make up the abandoned.

Fraternity

2008 • 5 min

A performance of masculinity and élite-white-male rage, filmed inside the fraternity house of the Yale chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

v=d/t (velocity = distance / time)

2008 • 8 min

v=d/t is the physics formula which calculates velocity by dividing the distance traveled by the time required to travel that distance. This film explores the possibility of measuring distances between loved ones through time zones. The sound track is comprised of personal and tragic phone messages left on voicemail when individuals could not connect due to great time zone differences, while the visual elements present simple and contemplative images of antique telephones.

Q2008

2008 • 14 min

Inspired by automatic painting machines and looking for a way to replicate the effect in a digital space, Mengbo discovered that within the code for the video game Quake III Arena there existed a parameter called r_drawworld. After changing the parameter from it's default of 0 to 1, he found it was possible to capture a sequence of animation in one frame, which he used to create a painting machine from entirely within in the game's engine. His live painting efforts using this technique are showcased and set to a Hawaiian music soundtrack.

Memory of spider and moth

2008 • 33 min

Short film by Omori Hiroki screened at YIDFF 2009. A drunken lover. An anti-romantic friend. The soliloquy of a cat. Fragment gleaned from time to pass away is keeps obtaining the place on the film, and asking the meaning until the future. The camera works everyday to collect fragments of usual daily life. This film was made with usual days.