All Films

Luxury Trains of the World: The Palace on Wheels

2008 • 57 min • United Kingdom

Tour Rajasthan, India's largest state, with this program that takes you on a seven-day journey aboard the Palace on Wheels, one of the most elegant trains in the world. Starting in New Delhi, the trip continues through India's countryside. Stops include the pink city of Jaipur, Udaipur, Rattan Bur National Park and the Taj Mahal. Named after former Rajput states, the cars are furnished sumptuously in the style of the regions they represent.

Antioch Confidential

2008 • 14 min

The video and companion article “Antioch Confidential” examine the closed control and destabilization of Antioch College by Antioch University. “Antioch Confidential” documents the damage to educational processes when “control” is mistaken for “leadership,” and “command” is confused with “vision.” The events taking place at Antioch College are a case study of recent trends in higher education today. The article and video are available for free use by librarians, teachers, educational workers and citizens concerned with the seizure of shared resources for private interests.

La valse des musclés

2008 • 40 min

8 short films made in different years by Philippe Vallois, related to the theme of bodybuilding, in a totally offbeat, playful or poetic tone.

The Tale of Little Puppetboy

2008 • 18 min

A very lo-fi and raw claymation about a nervous clay figure named Puppetboy. The style is very hands on, DIY, but with a precise touch of facial expressions and tense atmosphere. A combination of slap stick and romantic, erotic drama.

Mutiny! The Last Birthday Party

2008 • 25 min

When director Heiner Mühlenbrock showed up with his cameras to document the tense April 1983 recording sessions for the final Birthday Party EP, Mutiny!, the group was well beyond the verge of dissolution and barely on speaking terms. Mutiny! was cut at Hansa Ton studios in Berlin.

Nine Inch Nails: The Slip - Rehearsals

2008 • 21 min

Live From Rehearsals June 2008: "1,000,000" (Live) "Letting You" (Live) "Discipline" (Live) "Echoplex" (Live) "Head Down" (Live)

Luck of a Foghorn

2008 • 29 min • United States of America

Luck of a Foghorn is a documentary featurette about the late Seattle underground animator Bruce Bickford (1947 - 2019), former collaborator of musician Frank Zappa and creator of Prometheus’ Garden, one of the most original stop-motion films in animation history. Interweaving Bickford’s pulsing, violent, magical, and mesmerizing clay animation with atmospheric 16mm and Super 8mm cinematography, home movies, and sparse interviews, Luck of a Foghorn takes viewers behind the scenes and deep into the garden of Prometheus.

Scene 3: Daniel and Alex

2008 • 12 min

Daniel has invited Alex home for dinner. It's an evening about friendship, masculinity and boundaries. SCENE 3: DANIEL AND ALEX is a tone-deaf and hilarious portrayal of how two friends' sexuality, under the influence of alcohol, gradually changes from a playground to a minefield.

Pane e Olio

2008 • 33 min

My Mother, Actress Willeke van Ammelrooy

2008 • 48 min • Netherlands

A personal documentary by Denise Janzee, made in an attempt to get closer to her mother Willeke van Ammelrooy. On movie sets and on screen, Denise saw her mother cry, laugh and fight. At home, however, Willeke shut herself off when she was sad. “I’ll only come back out once I’m smiling again. Such is my way,” she used to say. The only time Denise really saw her cry was at the funeral of her father Leendert Janzee. He committed suicide when Denise was six years old. His decision to do so wasn’t unexpected, but his death nevertheless meant the ultimate loss for Willeke. She had wanted to let him live through her love. She feels defeated and locks herself in until she is ready to face the world again. Meanwhile she expresses herself through her characters. In this compelling film mother and daughter look back on this deciding and emotional period in their lives, illustrated by home movies.

Inside the Body of Henry VIII

2008 • 45 min • United Kingdom

The team of experts that looked at the historic symptoms of the Tudor king are: historian, Lucy Worsley, Henry historian, Robert Hutchinson and medical doctor, Dr. Catherine Hood.

Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception)

2008 • 2 min

An installment of Ken Jacobs series Amorous Interludes

La vie qui va avec

2008 • 13 min

While divorcing, Sarah takes her two sons to Ikea to choose their new bedroom...

Et si tu disparaissais...

2008 • 10 min

Victoria had an accident. While Marc, her husband, rushes in her bedside, the memory of a discussion rcomes back to him. What is the dream of Victoria? This question which haunts henceforth his unconscious will it find an answer near his wife. But without mystery, can their love again remain?

Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro

2008 • 15 min • United States of America

No director-composer collaboration has been more seminal to motion pictures than the partnership of Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann. In this documentary we examine the long and sometimes painful partnership that produced unforgettable musical scores for such films as Vertigo, Psycho, and The Man Who Knew Too Much.

Saul Bass: Title Champ

2008 • 11 min • United States of America

Set to a bebop jazz beat, this documentary brings to life the extraordinary work of graphic designer Saul Bass, whose groundbreaking title sequences for Hitchcock's films transformed the art of movie titles. Through interviews with directors such as Martin Scorsese and Guillermo del Toro, this film reveals why Bass is still considered the medium's greatest artist.

Heavy Metal in Istanbul

2008 • 46 min

Follow up to Heavy metal in Baghdad. We see the band after they move to Turkey.

Sprinters

2008 • 17 min • United Kingdom

A visually striking and meditative study of a team of athletes, including British Olympic finalists Jeanette Kwakye and Sarah Claxton, filmed over the two months leading to the start of the 2007 outdoor season. Sprinters is an intimate and arresting portrayal of the frequently brutal world of top level athletics, revealing the mental and physical barriers confronted by the runners as they pursue their dreams, and a world in which agony, ecstasy, winning and losing are separated by a hundredth of a second.

Bad Religion: New Maps of Hell

2008 • 60 min • United States of America

"New Maps of Hell" has been hailed as the band's best album in years. This full 23-song live DVD from House of Blues Las Vegas showcases some of their best material from the last thirty years.

The Finster Finster Show

2008 • 7 min • United States of America

Meet Finster and Finster. They're two brothers with a passion for television and sibling rivalry. When Mrs. Finster tears them away from the TV to take a trip to the supermarket, they devise a plan to drag the television with them-the only snag in the plan being that their precious TV is then stolen by angry chickens, ready for battle.

The Boy Returns Home

2008 • 43 min • Iran

A theater directed by Masoud Saketof

Ostia (The Death of Pasolini)

2008 • 7 min

Coil's performance, which based on the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini, an Italian intellectual, activist, poet, writer and director

Ben: Diary of a Heroin Addict

2008 • 43 min • United Kingdom

Ben Rogers was a bright schoolboy from a loving, middle class family. He played in the orchestra, loved cricket and enjoyed the annual family holiday. But his future promise was halted when he started taking drugs in his teens. Early drinking led to cannabis, harder drugs, and then the revelation to his family, at the age of 21, that he was addicted to heroin. Over the next 13 years Ben and his family battled with his addiction, going through detox, rehab and attempts at 'cold turkey', but his health gradually declined. Whilst attempting another detox aged 34, he died from a brain haemorrhage. But during the last two years of his life, Ben filmed an unflinching video diary showing his final desperate attempts to come off heroin. It's a portrayal of his descent; intimate, raw, and at times difficult to watch, he talks to his glove puppet as he injects into a vein in his groin.

Ah, Man

2008 • 15 min

A comedic short film in which we are invited to observe the week of a mass-produced modern man, as he does all sorts of common activities with the abilities that God supposedly gave him.