All Films

The Beirut Apt

2007 • 52 min

In The Beirut Apt, italian filmmakers rent an apartment so their lebanese interview subjects – muslims and christians – can speak freely about their sexuality, even though the country’s notorious article 514 makes it illegal to do so. the small space of the apartment harbours issues of international importance. despite different backgrounds and opinions, these eloquent men and women share the struggle to live authentically in a culture that denies their existence. It shows Lebanese gays and lesbians passing through the conflict of sexual, religious and social identity, the war against Israel and the "Article 534" of the Lebanese Penal Code that forbids "indecent acts". Main characters featured are Youssef, dancer, Maha, a psychotherapist, Rachid, a shopworker and Faisal, a Palestinian origin Reike healer

North Korea from the Train Window

2007 • 26 min • Japan

This documentary features about 20 minutes of footage of and from North Korea's aging rolling stock - steam trains being used quite in earnest rather than for the historical interest of kids and hardcore train geeks - and then about six minutes of footage of Pyongyang's subway and trams.

The Atomium Age

2007 • 2 min

Split-screen film shot at the Atomium in Brussels, the centrepiece of the World`s Fair in 1958. The remarkable 335 feet high structure representing an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times, is captured with spontaneous super-8 camerawork, in all its silver spherical glory. Soundtrack: Hellisizer 2000, Hellitron generators.

Grid

2007 • 2 min

Circles in formation glide by, in this abstract direct animation film. Coloured inks were applied onto clear super-8 with felt-tip pens, using an old speaker grill as a stencil. Soundtrack: Hellitron tone generators.

Swimsuit

2007 • 16 min

A young gay man befriends another young man sunbathing at the beach and conversation begins.

Pulsions

2007 • 9 min

9:19 (2007)

Signal Cross Over

2007 • 4 min

"Signal Cross Over is about assisted love suicide and the noisy transition into the afterlife. He is dead and, with his guidance, she will join him via a ritualized live cremation process. Shot on an old studio tube camera from 1983, all effects were done live with alcohol, glass, fire, and lights. The sounds were also created using old technology: a burning ear cone/candle, a police scanner, and a Theremin. The music of the afterlife consists of old-time Gospel, Hindu devotionals, an Islamic call to prayer, and pre-Christian Celtic folk singing. The songs were shredded, performed, and then remixed to signify all of the souls passing on." - Kristie Alshaibi

visibility of interim~

2007 • 13 min

As a dark architectural fantasy which turns spaces into buttresses, visibility of interim~ can be seen in the same category as Piranesi´s prison paintings, and also the oblique light and shade of German Expressionism. Whether copperplate engraving, film or digital animation: All forms give priority to becoming over being. (Maya McKechneay)

Gary Moore: Live at Montreux 1990

2007 • 55 min

Gary Moore – The Definitive Montreux Collection is a 2DVD recording of the 1990, 1995, 1997, 1999 and 2001 performances that Gary Moore made at the Montreux Jazz Festival. The first DVD features Gary's live performances at Montreux from 1990 and 1995, while the second DVD features his performances at Montreux from 1997, 1999 and 2001.

Drum Room

2007 • 15 min

The empty spaces of an ambiguous building open-up to reveal a group of aspiring musicians as they play together, alone. Drum Room reflects on relationships between individual and group, as young musicians express their collective and individual identities within the ordered conventions of the institution they inhabit.

N'entre pas sans violence dans la nuit

2007 • 20 min • France

Paris, October 2005: Inhabitants and undocumented people spontaneously protest against police raids and arrests in the Chateau d'Eau district.

Office Suite

2007 • 14 min

This officescape reflects the rhythms of my mind from daybreak-to-break: light journeys within and without my office, in 3 movements: InnerClose with Shadow and Steam (Andante Up, Down, and Sidelong), Exterior Fantasy from Dawn to Break (Allegro in moving colors), and Hallway (the End of that World: the pyre lit, it roars to life, rages, and fades...) -RT

21 Essential Funk & Soul Classics

2007 • 60 min

A truly funky, soulful DVD compilation of live performances from the masters of R&B music. Features incredible concert footage of James Brown, Chic, The Pointer Sisters, Dionne Warwick, The Brothers Johnson, The Stylistics and more! Includes the hit singles I Got You (I Feel Good), Le Freak, Strawberry Letter 23, Jump (For My Love), You Make Me Feel Brand New, and Have You Seen Her?

Prenuptial Tango

2007 • 14 min

Prenuptial Tango A plan to extort some money

The Announcer

2007 • 6 min • Finland

An elderly lady pushes the limits of customer service at an up-market department store by continuously requesting announcements for interesting-looking men.

The Perfect Man

2007 • 24 min

Liam is an F to M and lives in Sweden. Maria Åkesson talked with him while he was under hormonal treatment and observed how friends and family reacted to the changes he underwent during therapy. Investigating the emotional, medical and physical effects he experienced, the story is told alternating archive footage with interviews with Liam, his family and friends, in addition to animated sequences and several musical pieces, Liam created for the soundtrack.

Été (summer / has been)

2007 • 3 min

"été" is a film about abundance.An essay about the feeling of high summer and the moment you realize that the blossoming will turn into withering shortly. The enjoyment of this point in time is marred by the knowledge that it will end soon. (K.G.)

La Princesse est indisposée, elle ne reçoit personne

2007 • 16 min

The movie is composed with a series of studies which as a whole, deal with day-to-day and solitary moments of a woman played by different actresses. I intend here to capture casual gestures which suggest a sense of uncanny, closely related to psychoanalysis, between autoerotism and the genre movie. Each movements could turn the ritual into a horror scene but remain finally in a limited state. Each daily gesture becomes part of a singular ritual, undramatical, suggesting rather than explicitely showing. The ritual in each study favors very much aestheticism and falls little by little into informal and uncertainty. The idea is that the more the gestures are structural, the more they are infamous on us. These studies function throughout fictional portraits between the main actress (who plays in three studies) and myself. They express our excessive behaviour with the existence.

How to Serve the Latin Mass (Low Mass)

2007 • 40 min

“How to Serve the Latin Mass” provides thorough instructions and examples for serving the low Mass of the Extraordinary Use of the Latin Rite. “How to Serve the Latin Mass” was filmed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the beautiful Holy Family Cathedral. The diocese of Tulsa has been honored for many years to have the Fraternity of St. Peter, a fraternity of priests instituted by Pope John Paul II, ordained to celebrate the Tridentine Latin Mass.

Backstroke

2007 • 20 min

Rome and Julie end up in the same psychiatric ward a month after their relationship's sudden end, though Rome's case of amnesia means that she doesn't remember the relationship at all.

Assumptions

2007 • 29 min

Based on the Assumption of Our Lady into Heaven, Jessica trusts in God and makes a confident decision to risk her life for a child she does not even know.

Finding Mary

2007 • 29 min

Based on the Fifth Glorious Mystery of the Rosary, the Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, this inspiring film follows teenager Jess as she discovers that she is adopted. She goes in search of her birth parents and learns how each of us is connected to the entire Body of Christ, and how our good works will always live on.

Daddy

2007 • 7 min

A one-night stand leaves a young, single New York man shocked to find he might be pregnant.

Espiando al hombre

2007 • 5 min

A man discreetly goes to a public toilet cubicle with a magazine of sexy women to disperse a world of pleasure creating an instant chain of expiratory universe amongst other men in the toilet. After the eruption and when all men face the mirror, their true personalities really cannot be hidden.