All Films

Cowman: The Uddered Avenger

2008 • 46 min • United States of America

Cowman is assigned to protect the Jurassic Corn Creature, so when it goes missing, the townsfolk accuse him of being a thief. Then Cowman sets out to prove them wrong and protect them from their real enemies.

We go nowhere

2008 • 24 min • Netherlands

Armed with a camera and eighteen clean pairs of underwear, Josefien Hendriks hitchhikes The Netherlands and askes passengers questions about faith, friendship, love and death.

Lost Night

2008 • 14 min

Only six months in London, Bangladeshi cab driver Mahmood picks up Dory a transvestite from a notorious gay club. Dory’ s face is bruised and blooded and it’s clear he’s just been in a fight. On their journey to the river Thames in central London, it seems diversity is the only link between them until they share a life saving moment that reveals a closer connection, linking the unlikely couple and bonding them for life.

In Sickness and in Health

2008 • 42 min

It is Samantha's wedding day- but she gets a note saying her groom-to-be is a serial killer.

Shinrei Kenkyūka Ikeda Takeo no Reikai Junrei Sono San: Hiai no Mori Jukai Junrei

2008 • 60 min • Japan

This is the third horror documentary film about psychic Takeo Ikeda, who undertakes a terrifying pilgrimage to save souls in the afterlife. The film clearly depicts his pilgrimage as he listens to the voices of the spirits who remain in this world even after death and are never rewarded.

Red

2008 • 11 min

Short film by Gao Shiqiang.

Learn to Surf with 3x Word Champion Andy Irons

2008 • 28 min

The perfect instructional video for beginning surfers. Learn the basics of surfing directly from 3-time World Champion Andy Irons. Concise and to the point, this video will have you surfing in no time!

Pergolesi: La Serva Padrona

2008 • 46 min

La serva padrona, or The Maid Turned Mistress, is a 1733 intermezzo by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736) to a libretto by Gennaro Federico, after the play by Jacopo Angello Nelli. It is some 40 minutes long, in two parts without overture, and was written as light-hearted staged entertainment between the acts of Pergolesi's serious opera Il prigionier superbo. More specifically each of the two parts, set in the same dressing room, played during an intermission of the three-act opera to amuse people who remained in their seats.

Ode to Joy

2008 • 31 min

An essential background for Qiu Jiongjiong’s recent A New Old Play, this dazzlingly playful short documentary remixes a Sichuan opera company’s dress rehearsal for its tribute to Qiu Fuxin, the director’s grandfather – who was a legendary opera performer of 'clown' comedic roles, and the real-life subject of A New Old Play. This exuberant celebration of a not-yet-lost past re-activates the memories of ageing, but irrepressibly vital, stage artists.

And the Sun Flowers

2008 • 5 min • United States of America

“Henry James had his figure in the carpet, Da Vinci found faces on the wall. Within this Baltimore wallpaper: a floral forest of hidden depth and concealment, the hues and fragrance of another era. Surface decoration holds permeable planes, inner passages. There emerges a hypnotic empyrean flower, a solar fossil a speaking anemone, of paper, of human muscle, of unknown origin, delivering an unreasonable message of rare tranquility.” – Mark McElhatten

Memento Mori

2008 • 59 min • United Kingdom, Spain, Brazil, France

Profile of the band who has helped to save Irish traditional music from disappearing, spreading its sound and popularity across the world for more than four decades. Featuring interviews with the current four members - fiddler Sean Keane, vocalist and bodhran player Kevin Conneff, flautist Matt Molloy and band leader Paddy Moloney, who plays pipes and whistle - and tributes from fans including Keith Richards, Sting, Elvis Costello, Sir James Galway and Andrea Corr.

The remake of the girls

2008 • 10 min • Portugal

"The remake of the girls", 2008, by Silvia das Fadas. Duration 10'40". DVD PAL -- 4:3. No sound / Black and white. Made as part of the workshop "Movimento Fixo" (Fixed Movement) at the Cinema/Image in Movement Department of Ar.Co (Centre for Art and Visual Communication).

though she never spoke, this is where her voice would have been.

2008 • 5 min • Canada

A structural autotopographical study of lindsay's great-grandmother through what was left behind and what is missing. One of five works in the series Bloodline.

Dance, Dance Baby!

2008 • 13 min

A handsome, eager actor gets more than he bargained for at a most unusual audition.

Big Time Smugglers

2008 • 10 min • Sweden

Imagine trying to smuggle something out of the Customs Museum. It’s got to fail.

Take That: Come To Town

2008 • 46 min • United Kingdom

British superstar band Take That presented their own TV show Take That Come to Town, a variety show in which they performed some of their biggest hits and along the way answer fan questions and other stuff. It aired on 7 December 2008 on ITV1.

Thumb Debate '08!

2008 • 5 min • United States of America

The single most important moment in politics is at "hand"... It's Thumbama vs. Thumbcain in the final debate before the American people hit the voting booths. Created by Steve Oedekerk, THUMB DEBATE '08 is the newest chapter in the wild world of THUMBS!

The Slope

2008 • 14 min

Sober and effective début in beautiful black-and-white by a very young maker about a man who works as a cleaner and administrator in the city hospital. We follow him for a day in his routine.

Trick or Treat

2008 • 6 min

The trick or treaters have come and gone and Kate and Sam are settling in for a quiet Halloween night when a woman appears at the door with a strange request.

The Hidden People

2008 • 3 min

Who can you trust deep in the woods?

Andrew Maxwell: Live in Edinburgh

2008 • 56 min • Ireland

In between performing at Dublin's maximum security prison and staging the Conflict Revolution gig Andrew Maxwell performs his sell out, five star performance at the 2008 Edinburgh festival. If you like your comedy funny and your storytelling memorable, this is the live show for you. "I've seen the future of Irish Comedy and its name is Andrew Maxwell" Irish Times

General Idea: Art, AIDS and the fin de siècle

2008 • 47 min

"GENERAL IDEA: Art, AIDS and the fin de siècle is a humorous, informative and ultimately poignant documentary about General Idea. Formed in 1969, they produced art that targeted and mimicked media, consumerism and celebrity, creating a revolutionary new spirit of art making. Interviews with AA Bronson, the sole survivor of the trio, lends personal relevancy to this story of art and sexual politics. GENERAL IDEA: Art, AIDS and the fin de siècle is a tale of love, fame, overwhelming loss and, ultimately, renewal." -AGO.net

The Study of Another Vanishing Point

2008 • 7 min

Byun explores the disappearance and creation of spaces through continuous movement. The principle of perspective is seen as a vanishing point. In this work, vanishing points of photos are moved to one vanishing point in the frame of the video. Similarly, a landscape’s multiple points of view are conveyed as a 360‐degree globe form of time and space.

Hitchcock in the News

2008 • 8 min • United Kingdom

An impressionistic compilation of archive newsreels and interviews with the legendary film director.