All Films

Samurai: Behind the Blade

2008 • 47 min

Japan's ancient samurai tradition is chronicled in this hourlong documentary, which looks to history, science and literature to answer questions about the legacy and mysterious lives of the warrior aristocracy. The film examines some of the truths behind the mask, including the samurais' preoccupation with death, their impressive mastery of fine arts and their code of honor -- which carried a heavy price.

Secret Life

2008 • 10 min

A woman is trapped in an apartment filled with moving plants. She moves at a mechanical speed and her mind functions like a clock whose hands pin the events of her life to the tapestry of time. Her thoughts escape her and come to life, growing like the plants that inhabit the space around her: living, searching, feeling, breathing and dying.

Lemon's Road

2008 • 13 min • Japan

The last in Tomoyasu Murata's My Road series.

A Restless Giant The Ever-Changing Nature of Mount Rainier

2008 • 24 min

There are places that loom large in the human spirit, special places that command our attention and draw us closer to them. Over two and a half miles in elevation, Mount Rainier is filled with extremes so massive and dominating that the mountain changes everything it touches. Whether we sense it during moments of quiet contemplation or witness its violent fury; we feel the mountain's power to change everything around it. Enter a world where colossal forces shape the landscape and fire the imagination, enter the world of Mount Rainier.

Pauillac, Margaux

2008 • 10 min

On a Tuesday morning in April, I leave the island of Patiras to return to Bordeaux. I cross the Médoc while the sun is rising. The light hits the train's window, cutting across the landscape. All I can do is film. So I stick my small camera against the window and I do not look away from what is happening outside. It is one of the most beautiful journeys that I have ever been on ... The sun tears me away from reality. Between shadow and light, the image explodes. It empties and fills itself ...

A Perfect Night to Talk about Love

2008 • 30 min • Angola

After sharing with his best friend his suspicion that his own wife is cheating on him, a young man calls back hours later to dismiss his own account. But he can't know what his friend knows. "Uma Noite Perfeita Para Falar de Amor" (A Perfect Night to Talk about Love) is a bittersweet comedy about love and betrayal loosely inspired in a short story by J.D. Salinger.

African Rush

2008 • 60 min

Kayaking legend Steve Fisher rides the dangerous river rapids of Zembezi on a thrill ride that has claimed countless lives.

Visiting Uwe

2008 • 50 min

A small film team visits infamous movie director Uwe Boll for one day.

Mystic Tube #1: Swinging, Escaping

2008 • 14 min • Japan

An episode from the "Mystic Tube" series continues the same simple basic plot of “a pilgrim passes through a tunnel, playing music as he makes his way to his destination”. This work shares the same technique and form as AN ACID FIELD or WILD SHAMAN MAIDEN described above, but its theme is limited to “the changes in the echo of a sound as its mix in the dark as the harmonies of the drone made by a chanting pilgrim and its harmonic overtones evolve inside the 650meter tunnel with its reverberations that last more than 10 seconds.

Fernan Doesn't Surf Anymore

2008 • 37 min • Puerto Rico

A hateful little man will do anything to become an icon of his era

The Real George Washington

2008 • 50 min • United States of America

Founding father, commander of the Continental Army and America's first president—George Washington's face is as familiar as the dollar bill. Today, archaeologists, scientists and historians are applying innovative forensic techniques to reveal the man behind the myth. We join a team, funded by the National Geographic Society, that has discovered the ruins of George Washington's childhood home—its exact location had been a mystery until now. As they comb the site, they unearth two cellars and a collection of incredible artifacts that help set the record straight on his fabled youth.

The Cave: An Adaptation of Plato's Allegory in Clay

2008 • 3 min • United States of America

An excerpt from Plato's Republic, the 'Allegory of the Cave' is a classic commentary on the human condition. It is an example of the philosophical underpinnings of Lovecraft's thought and fiction. Fans of cosmic horror should have no trouble discerning in Plato's allegory the roots of Lovecraft's theme of awakening to a vast and terrible ultimate reality The filmmakers have brought Plato's pedagogical story to life by shooting over 4,000 still photographs of John Grigsby's wonderful claymation. The unique look of the film was achieved by use of candlelight in a real fire that burned at the back of the set.

Praxis-3

2008 • 23 min • Austria

"With Praxis-1 I began an extensive video series, conceived in a structure of successively numbered scenes, which is parallel to all my other film/video works and paintings. Each part of the Praxis-series is approximately 20 minutes long. Both purely video works and also transformed reflections on a few of my 16mm films are shown after having been put in a new light by means of electronic transformations of the picture." (Dietmar Brehm)

Horrorshow

2008 • 31 min

Reanimating the horror anthology for the 21st century, HORRORSHOW unleashes five short tales of brutality, hilarity, terror and titillation to delight the darkest side of your soul

The Unseen Alistair Cooke

2008 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Alistair Cooke was known to millions as the graceful, amazingly well-read host of Masterpiece Theatre for 22 years. But this very public side of a very outgoing man was just the tip of the iceberg to a fascinating career extending back to the Jazz Age. The Unseen Alistair Cooke includes footage from 150 reels of film shot by Cooke from the 1930s on, recording his encounters with American scenes and celebrities. Discovered after his death, the treasure trove includes a short feature of his friends Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard in an exuberant playlet filmed aboard Chaplin’s yacht.

Nest

2008 • 4 min

The Nest is a place of resting, but for the restless spirit, it is a moving island. Here we find silence, if not solace.

Digital Underground in the People's Republic

2008 • 18 min • China, United States of America

Six documentary shorts chronicle the changing state of China's independent and underground film scene.

Huacal City

2008 • 10 min • Mexico

The world is made of boxes. We live in them, we move within them, we see the world through them and we wind up in them in the end. Huacal City introduces us to the empty containers market at the Supply Center in Mexico City, where every day thousands of wooden boxes are bought, sold and repaired.

On the Road with The Wiggles

2008 • 60 min

On the Road with The Wiggles is a Wiggles DVD released on August 10, 2008 from the Sunday Telegraph newspaper. Live in Concert Songs: OntheRoadWiththeWiggles-BackCover Hot Potato Fruit Salad Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star English Country Garden Two Fine Gentlemen Wake Up Jeff! (featuring Jimmy Barnes) Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car Film Clips: Dr. Knickerbocker The Shimmie Shake Baa, Baa, Black Sheep One, Two, Three, Four, Five Vegetable Soup I Love it When it Rains Black Velvet Band

The Scenic Route

2008 • 25 min

"One of the nice things about movies was you could keep them at a distance. Movies knew their place. We were dimensional, they were flat, so it was easy to know which was which. But THE SCENIC ROUTE seemingly spills from the screen, threatening demarcation lines everywhere." --EAI

Looking at Clouds

2008 • 2 min

Chicago, 2008.

C for Cias

2008 • 11 min

COLOUR, DVD

Familia

2008 • 37 min

Finger on da Trigger brings you the ultimate HD cinematic experience, combining narrative filmmaking with the freshest snowboard moves in the business. Blood, sweat, and tears shed during the filming turned the crew into FAMILIA. See MFM, Devine, Magoon, Tommi, Dennison, Bradshaw and the whole crew advance snowboardings family values.

L'homme atlantique

2008 • 33 min