All Films

Joe Zawinuls Erdzeit

2008 • 59 min

Film about Joe Zawinul's earth time, a film about friendships and a great love. A film about his life with the greatest jazz artists; he was undoubtedly one of them. The film accompanies Joe Zawinul during the work on his last unpublished album with Kristjan Järvi and the Absolute Ensemble. It visits Zawinul in his house in Malibu and shows him together with Wayne Shorter during their final sensational performance. Cannonball Adderley, Weather Report, Zawinul's Syndicate and above all Miles Davis. In 1991 they played one more time together in Paris, In a silent way, the number Joe Zawinul composed for his friend Miles Davis.

Im Park

2008 • 5 min

Scenes in the park of the Rietberg Museum in Zurich with its collection of Asian, African and Indian art.

U.N. Fever

2008 • 56 min • United States of America

U.N. Fever follows three teams of college students as they prepare to compete in the international Model U.N. competition held annually in New York City. These passionate young people are among our future world leaders. They seek real-life solutions to today's global crises. The film peers into their lives as they undergo the dramas, breakdowns and triumphs of this challenging, life-altering experience. This is a real-life story leaving audiences feeling hopeful about the next generation and its commitment to world peace, human rights and justice.

transfer

2008 • 6 min

I put together a work with the theme of "traffic crossing". Convert the video footage into still images frame by frame, and use non-linear editing again. I'm back to video. The shooting location is mainly in Yokohama City, The train was taken from Kamoi to Nakayama on the Yokohama Line. The plane was taken while panning a passenger plane flying on the same route from Haneda. The material is created by overlapping layers in Photoshop.

Hanoi Rocks: The Nottingham Tapes

2008 • 58 min • United Kingdom

The Nottingham Tapes is the second concert video released by the Finnish glam punk band Hanoi Rocks. The first video released by the band was All Those Wasted Years, recorded at the Marquee Club in London. As stated in the title, this video was shot at the Nottingham Palais in Nottingham England. The video was shot on April 23, 1984, almost eight months before the death of the band's drummer Razzle. The video features songs that would later be released on the band's next album, Two Steps from the Move, such as "Underwater World", "Don't You Ever Leave Me" and the cover of "Up Around the Bend". During the performance of the last song of the set, the cover of the Ramones "Blitzkrieg Bop", vocalist Michael Monroe and Razzle switched places, so Razzle sang and Monroe played drums. While playing the song, fans jumped on-stage, and bouncers had to come and throw the people off the stage.

Australia's Hardest Prison: Lockdown Oz

2008 • 50 min • Australia

Over the past decade Australia’s prison population has doubled. But of all the States, it’s Western Australia that has the highest number of prisoners per population. Casuarina, Western Australia’s Maximum Security Prison, is designed for 360 inmates. It currently houses almost double that. For the first time ever, our cameras go inside Casuarina Prison to witness life behind bars in an Australian Super Max.

Biotiful Planète: Saint-Pierre et Miquelon

2008 • 52 min • France, St. Pierre and Miquelon

Saint-Pierre and Miquelon lived for decades off a single resource that seemed inexhaustible: cod. When it disappeared, strict quotas were introduced. As a result, the economy collapsed and people have been looking for alternative paths. On the islands, it’s the realm of the boreal forest. But with the introduction of the white-tailed deer for hunting purposes, this treasure of biodiversity is under threat of vanishing. On a more positive note, the only seal colony in Europe is doing well. The islands are also a haven for petrels, Atlantic puffins, and razorbills, which nest there by the hundreds…

Tony Joe White: Live At The Basement

2008 • 56 min

Live recording of Tony Joe White's 2002 performance at The Basement in Sydney Australia.

An Audience with Neil Diamond

2008 • 47 min

In his first UK televised special, Neil Diamond treats his showbiz fans including Dame Judi Dench, the Zutons, Blur's Alex James, Alison Steadman, Ben Miller, Michelle Collins and Samantha Janus, to classic songs and new treasures while answering some his guest's questions.

Merle Haggard: The Real Deal

2008 • 43 min • United States of America

A profile of Country Music Hall of Famer Merle Haggard recalls his rocky personal life and his legendary status. Interviews include Jewel, Clint Black and family members.

7 Queens

2008 • 21 min • France, United States of America

Ephemeral encounters recorded during a walk beneath the elevated tracks of the No. 7 subway line in New York City.

Ah, Liberty!

2008 • 19 min • United Kingdom

A family's place in the wilderness, outside of time; free-range animals and children, junk and nature, all within the most sublime landscape. The work aims at an idea of freedom, which is reflected in the hand-processed Scope format, but is undercut with a sense of foreboding. There's no particular story; beginning, middle or end, just fragments of lives lived, rituals performed.

Clever Monkeys

2008 • 50 min

David Attenborough's entertaining romp through the world of monkeys has a serious side: for when we look at monkeys we can see ourselves. From memory to morality, from 'crying wolf' to politics, monkeys are our basic blueprint. Pygmy marmosets 'farm' tree sap; bearded capuchins in Brazil develop a production line for extracting palm nuts; white-faced capuchins in Costa Rica tenderly nurse the victims of battle; and in the Ethiopian highlands, a deposed gelada baboon has got the blues.

Along with the Phoenix

2008 • 10 min • Russia

The film is conceived as a free cinematic improvisation vaguely based on the myth of the Phoenix.

The Choice of Love

2008 • 35 min

A short documentary examining the intersection of Islam and LGBTQ identity. Through meetings with the first openly gay Muslim in Norway, Kaltham Alexander Lie, the leader of the Islamic Union of Oslo, Basim Ghozlan and an anonymous interview with a gay Muslim, the director tries to understand what it means to live without the freedom and to love whoever you want to love.

Dahlia

2008 • 3 min

"Dahlia" is the result of a controlled chaotic filmmaking approach created by artist Michael Langan.

School of Thought

2008 • 48 min

School of Thought is a mysterious and amazing documentary about the Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment in Fairfield, Iowa, with David Lynch (Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and The Elephant Man). David brings a few friends along to Fairfield, including folk-musician Donovan (Mellow Yellow, Hurdy Gurdy Man and Sunshine Superman) and the world-renowned quantum physicist John Hagelin (featured in What The Bleep Do We Know!?).

Dwight Yoakam: The Grand Tour

2008 • 28 min

Released in 2008, The Grand Tour presents Dwight Yoakam's live performance at the Peterborough Country Music Festival, England, in 1986. While showcasing Dwight's signature showmanship and vocals, the poor mix quality renders some instruments, such as Pete Anderson's guitar, barely audible. The release is named after the track The Grand Tour, which became a #1 hit for George Jones in 1974.

Ouaga! Hommage à l'homme du 4 aout

2008 • 11 min • Burkina Faso, France, Italy

An expressionist reflection on a country's future. The 'l'homme du 4 aout' is former President Sankara, the 'African Che Guevara' who changed the name of Upper Volta on 4 August 1984 to Burkina Faso. His Marxist mission failed, the country is still searching.

One Gay, One Straight: Complicated Marriages

2008 • 28 min

When Ann returned home at 10am one Tuesday to collect a forgotten notebook, what she found shocked her to the core. Her husband was with another man. What happens when one spouse admits to being gay?

In Complete World

2008 • 53 min

in complete world is a feature-length documentary made up of street interviews done throughout NYC. Mixing political questions (Are we responsible for the government we get?) with more broadly existential ones (Do you feel you have control over your life?), the film centers on the tension between individual and collective responsibility. The film can be seen as a user's manual for citizenship in the 21st century, as well as a glimpse into the opinions and self-perceptions of a diverse group of Americans. It is a testament to the people of NYC in this new millennium, who freely offer up thoughtful, provocative and at times tender revelations to a complete stranger, just because she asked.

Lilla Spöket Laban: Världens snällaste spöke

2008 • 44 min • Sweden

Laban and Bus are playing soccer. Laban is the goalkeeper. A hard shot from Bus flies past Laban and into the darkest tower. Ouch! Laban has to retrieve it. He is so afraid of the dark. Inside the tower, something whizzes by and Laban lets out a terrible scream as he rushes out. On his head is a small furry bundle. Bus carefully removes it and places the little tangled bundle in Laban's hands. It slowly unfolds itself. It's a baby bat! Taking care of a little bat isn't so easy; no matter what they do, the little creature doesn't look very happy. But then they come up with something they have to try, even though it means staying out in the middle of the night.

Weekend

2008 • 8 min

Among the countless attractive couples who dot the streets of the big city, there circulates a young single woman spending her weekends alone.

Interview with the Earth

2008 • 18 min • Mexico

Through a series of interviews and enactments we learn the story of Nico and Amalio, two children who lost a friend while climbing a mountain. Documentary and fiction seamlessly merge creating a hybrid, poetic film.