All Films

Fractricide in Burkina, Thomas Sankara and French Africa

2007 • 52 min

Burkina Faso, West Africa. October 15, 1987. Automatic gunfire breaks the evening night’s silence and kills President Thomas Sankara. Had the assassins been sent by his brother in arms, Blaise Compaoré, with whom he had launched the Marxist Burkina Revolution a few years before, and who took control of the country right after the assassination?

Yamato Live

2007 • 4 min

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

A Moment’s Reverie

2007 • 10 min • United Kingdom

A train journey begins. On board is a reader whose thoughts begin to move. The letters change and flow from the pages of the book, carrying us into a world of memories and associations. We meet the letters again: swimming in a tea cup. Shot, they bleed to death on a sheet of paper and at last evaporate into the night sky.

REHEARSAL of WIZARD

2007 • 11 min

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Prediction

2007 • 16 min • Russia

In 2007, a message appeared on the Internet that before her death, the clairvoyant Vanga allegedly predicted that in far Siberia, in Bratsk, on March 17, a chlorine plant located right in the center of the city would explode. That "brothers fall asleep and do not wake up." The author of the film specially goes to the city two days before a possible disaster. And he creates a report not about Bratsk and its inhabitants, but about the era, Russia and our contemporaries.

Shell

2007 • 39 min • Russia

"Shell" is the common name for a dismantling garage. But more than a third of the shells are used for other purposes. Pensioners Karasevs lived in a shell for 79 days, and almost died. What happened in Moscow in 2006?

Synchronization

2007 • 30 min • Russia

The protagonist, betrayed by relatives many years ago, now himself, after adultery, turns out to be a traitor in the eyes of his wife and children. Betrayal has its evolution.

Regiment, Stand to Attention!

2007 • 22 min • Russia

The material for the film was a unique photograph of the Kexholm regiment, taken in 1903. A photographic plate 65 by 110 cm (more than 1000 people in the frame) made it possible to clearly reproduce both entire groups and individual faces of soldiers. All filmed in one shot. The counterpoint to the image is fragments of letters and memoirs of soldiers and officers of the pre-revolutionary army. At all times, for the Russian soldier, the main principles were love for the Motherland, loyalty to the oath, and sacrifice.

Ghost of Europe

2007 • 26 min • Russia

Nearly two hundred years ago, Paris, Berlin, Leipzig, and Varna were founded at the foot of the Ural Mountains. The Nagaybak Cossacks introduced the tradition of naming their native places in honor of distant victories. The tradition has given amazing results, and now in the depths of Russia, in the Urals, there is a kind of "ghost of Europe". How do Parisians and Berliners live far from world capitals?

The Unusual Adventures of Diego Diegovich in the Country of the Bolsheviks

2007 • 40 min • Russia

The fate of the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera is closely linked to Russia: Russian artists Angelina Belova and Maria Vorobyova-Stebelskaya gave birth to his children, for a long time he was a friend of Leon Trotsky, joined the Communist Party several times, was friends with progressive figures of young Soviet art. It was to Soviet Russia that he came in the last years of his life in the hope of recovering from a serious illness…

Plume

2007 • 44 min • Russia

The hero of the film has not only the talent to reveal secrets. He himself is a big mystery. Leonid Parshin is the son of a Russian intelligence officer, an illegal immigrant from the age of two. In the 80s, his investigation of Bulgakov's riddles aroused particular interest among the KGB. And then surveillance, an attempt to escape from the Soviet Union, to swim across the Gulf of Finland, in the 86th there was an arrest and a prison. In 2001, his report "Computer study of the psychology of M. Bulgakov and his literary heroes" was a success at an international symposium in Bucharest. In the course of the film, Parshin talks about his unusual adventures, and sometimes severe misadventures in the 70s and 80s of the twentieth century.

Last Days Before the Flood

2007 • 8 min

The Three Gorges Dam project, initiated in the late 20th century, resulted in the submergence of several ancient cities with a history spanning thousands of years. Kaixian County, which falls under the jurisdiction of Chongqing Municipality, was the last millennium-old county to be inundated. Through the utilization of experimental film techniques, the documentary captures the aftermath following the evacuation of Kaixian County's residents. It highlights the fleeting period of intersection between humanity, the city, nature, and history, just before the arrival of the impending flood.

Wisdom In Chains: Die For Us Live

2007 • 24 min • United States of America

Die for Us DVD contains live material (14 songs) recorded at show from May 2006 at Backstage Enterprises in Kingston, Pennsylvania, interview with Mad Joe Black and a three-song recording from live performance at the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia

Forced Perspective: Odessa

2007 • 5 min

My visit to the real steps at Odessa was affected by the Odessa Steps sequence from Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin. Media images have power. They shape our real-life experiences.

Baby-Havroshechka

2007 • 13 min • Russia

The little Havroshechka was left an orphan, she inherited a cow. The girl ends up with an evil aunt and her three daughters. The cow helps Havroshechka cope with everyday hardships.

Room

2007 • 4 min • Canada

Video VIII of Cartmell's unfinished series Shipwreck Theory. Part of Shipwreck Theory III (The Knowing)

Poeira i Poesia

2007 • 4 min • Cape Verde

The life and death of a wind pump, characteristic element of the agricultural landscape of the Cape Verde archipelago, which belongs to the arid zone of the Sahel. A metaphor of secular resistance against drought.

Nonsense

2007 • 13 min • Russia

A long time ago, there was a poor man in Korea. His name was Kim. In winter, he earned his living by gathering firewood in the forest. And when spring came, he fished, hoping to exchange it for a lot of rice. Unfortunately, all the fish caught were missing. Kim decided to catch the thief at all costs.

The Boy Mechanic San Francisco

2007 • 21 min

Masterplan

2007 • 21 min

A documentary/essay film, critically exploring the social contradictions inherent in regeneration plans for the vast Edinburgh Waterfront area.

Junji Inagawa no Reidan: Baba Yami Hōrō Soshite Kagami

2007 • 60 min • Japan

Fourth installment in the "Junji Inagawa no Reidan" film series.

Lafoxe

2007 • 40 min • France

The do-it-yourself film lab Atelier MTK in Grenoble, France is the cradle of the performance group Metamkine, but also for instance of Lafoxe. Etienne Caire and Gaëlle Rouard are the driving forces behind the lab and have developed a 16mm performance with its very own signature. The basic material for Lafoxe came from old Hollywood films. After extensive processing in the lab, these bits and pieces are put on the silver screen again using several film projectors at once. The result is a dynamic form of widescreen, which they have dubbed hyperscope. The sound is a live mix of the original optical soundtracks.

Le Week-end

2007 • 15 min

A young, cynical French film student comes to London for the weekend to make a film project for his course. Disillusioned by his London experience, he's befriended by a stranger who shows him a side of the city, and himself, that he never would have seen. The story unfolds through his Super 8 film footage, and his voice-over narration gives us an insight into his thoughts and feelings throughout the journey.

Rivadavia 2010

2007 • 15 min

The room in which Gargamela sleeps mixes in with her dreamscape. A man enters and leads our way. Shot using a cell phone and digital video, the images explore dream-like narrative.