All Films

Ghost Cat: Saving the Clouded Leopard

2007 • 26 min

Deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia is an elusive and endangered member of the panther family that is threatened by poachers, development, and natural habitat changes. The fate of this exotic, python-patterned, clouded leopard may rest in the hands of a small cadre of scientists, activists, and veterinarians determined to help it stave off extinction. Three daring women comb the forests of Thailand for evidence of the elusive "ghost cat." They infiltrate a notorious smuggler's paradise and black market of exotic animals, determined to save the stunning creature.

White Snake

2007 • 6 min • China

Under the influence of Caroline Leaf, White Snake employs sand to retell the famous Chinese folk story in an innovative way: the faithful love is replaced by human cruelty; the eternal memory is substituted by a fractured sense of time

Ghost Encounters: The Queen Mary

2007 • 52 min

Join world renouned ghost investigator Peter James and best selling author, journalist, television/radio personality Fiona Horne as they bring guest stars aboard the Queen Mary to experience the realities of ghosts! This is the REAL THING!

Before the New Millennium

2007 • 27 min • Canada

Based on performances by the notorious lesbian art collective Kiss & Tell, this video captures digitally processed moments hidden for over a decade, recalling historic queer and art-world attitudes towards sexuality and censorship of the 1990’s. The provocative styles of Persimmon Blackbridge, Lizard Jones and Susan Stewart come together in simple lust stories and in letters to their mothers.

The NuWest Steambath

2007 • 12 min • Canada

The NuWest Steambath is a historical short-documentary, first screened at Vancouver’s Queer Film Festival, which investigates the life of The NuWest Steambath, the Vancouver region’s first suburban gay sauna, through the account of its owner, Dennis.

Vinterriket ‎– Kontemplative Antagonismen Des Augenblicks

2007 • 58 min

Kontemplative Antagonismen Des Augenblicks DVD contains 40 minutes of exclusive music and exclusive video material

Song for the City with Music In It's Bones

2007 • 13 min • Canada, United States of America

A personal travel log of the timeless search for meaning, purpose, and belonging in a foreign place; by way of the sounds and melodies that shape its soul. A Super-8 scrap book of impressions formed on frosty early morning commutes on Chicago's El Train, tangled with recordings of underground street buskers, retired café intellectuals, street preachers, and daily commuters compose the verses for the Song for the City with Music in its Bones.

dry idea

2007 • 2 min • Canada

Lubricants are an essential part of modern machinery.

Bending Space: Georges Rousse And The Durham Project

2007 • 58 min

Bending Space: Georges Rousse and the Durham Project captures the genius of French photographer and installation artist Georges Rousse and follows the artist and two hundred volunteers during a September 2006 public art residency in Durham. The film includes interviews with Rousse, project coordinators and volunteers, and people on the street as they visit the installations.

The Bond

2007 • 6 min

"How could you raise a transsexual child and not know it?" In this honest and compassionate documentary, the father of a transgender child shares his family's story - what it was like when his child came out, how their relationship has changed, and how their bond continues to get stronger. Made by a father for trans individuals and their parents, this film offers hopeful answers to the questions parents face when a child, of any age, comes out.

Balconies

2007 • 7 min

An experimental meditation focusing on the deteriorated and unfinished balconies of the home town of Kamal Aljafari, Ramla, and inspired by Romance sonámbulo by Federico García Lorca: "But now I am no longer me, and my house is no longer my House…"

definition: Aya de Leon

2007 • 28 min

Definition: Aya de Leon looks at the process of Bay area spoken word artist Aya de Leon. Whether dissecting images of women in hip-hop, or exposing the constructs of gender and beauty, the political and fresh Aya de Leon makes you think, makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you listen. This short 2007 documentary explores the writer/poet/activist’s artistic process, and the lives she touches as she moves through the world.

Time's Arrow

2007 • 11 min

“Out on my freeway, directionality is elusive. The faces in the windows appear and then disappear, some moving out ahead, some falling behind, some moving so fast as to be beyond registering, others sliding by so languidly you’d think they want something from you. What’s irreversible is the plain fact that once they disappear from view, they’re gone forever. No amount of freeway jostling is ever likely to bring them by again. Each time I think to myself: one more person I’ll never know.” (FW)

Chinese Archives of World Heritage Sites - 长城 [Chang Cheng] = Great Wall

2007 • 30 min

For the Chinese, the Great Wall is the spirit and backbone of their civilization. For people around the world, it is the symbol of China. The Great Wall was built by more than 20 dynasties over a time span of more than 2000 years and extended nearly 4000 miles. Initially intended as a military defense system, it consisted of thousands of passes, watchtowers, barracks, and beacon towers. This immense feat of construction is recognized around the world as one of the most important landmarks of China's ancient civilization.

We Want to Get Married

2007 • 5 min • China

On February 14, 2007, Valentine's Day, eight people who support gay relationships and marriage went to SOHO Modern City and various bus stops to give roses and cards to passersby, wish them a happy Valentine’s Day, and ask their support for gay rights. Upon seeing the words in the cards, everybody reacted differently. When they were asked their opinion of homosexuality, or what they would think if a family member were gay, their answers were all different and interesting, and even blackly humorous.

Fracas

2007 • 4 min • Canada

fracas ultimately is the experience of memory on many different levels. It utilizes the still image of children with minimal digital alteration. The photograph itself will always represent the past and therefore the memory of the person it captures. The audio is of the National Spelling Bee where children must exercise their skills and memory to correctly spell a word. Yet the images and sounds of fracas are intentionally not connected. It is only when the camera zooms out from the powerful gaze of smiling children and lets the viewer in, the intention of fracas is revealed

America: Outlawed

2007 • 36 min

America: Outlawed is a 2007 brickfilm western by Doug Vandegrift that follows the exploits of the bandit Flatfoot and his crew.

Summer vacation

2007 • 15 min

8mm film by Idei Hiromi

ever present going past

2007 • 7 min

Filmmaker Philip Hoffman and poet Gerry Shikatani combine to make a cine-poem about the making of gardens, films and poems. Excerpts from Shikatani’s `First Book, Three Gardens of Andalucia’.

Waiting for Change

2007 • 32 min • Slovenia

Slovenian experimental film by Zmago Lenardič. In the video, the author presents documentary-experimental footage of the erupting volcano Etna in Sicily. The scene is almost static, showing a volcano that was active again after a long period, and the author found himself at the foot of the mountain at that time. Video defines a kinematic experience supported by dramatic music from which media space-time emerges.

Lika (Licre)

2007 • 26 min

"Lika is a glimpse into the mesmerizing world of Stom Sogo: a lush kaleidoscope of manipulated video fragments set to an entrancing electronic score. Lika subverts common signifying processes as it weaves rhythmic variations of radiant textures into a captivating immersive experience, equally mysterious and seductive in its masterful play with degrees of abstraction." (Tomonari Nishikawa)

Aggregate Training for the Safety Impaired

2007 • 33 min

Designed for use in safety training programs dealing with ways to help prevent accidents in mines.

Schlaflos

2007 • 1 min

Toki's Tale

2007 • 49 min

Wildlife documentary. Simon King has spent four years helping to raise two orphaned cheetah cubs, Toki and Sambu. Sambu was killed by lions, but Toki survived and Simon has continued with his attempt to return him to the wild. Simon's unique relationship with Toki has enabled him to enter the world of this high-speed hunter and share in Toki's adventures. This is a gritty and honest account of life with one of the world's top predators.