All Films

1962: Proposition Joe

2007 • 2 min

A kid named Joe develops his propositioning skills.

1985: Omar

2007 • 2 min

A kid named Omar displays his own sense of morality on his first robbery.

Compression Study #3 (Superfreaks)

2007 • 3 min

single-channel video, source material from youtube

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2007 • 5 min

mv by alt-rock band CONDOR44

Tongue of the Hidden

2007 • 6 min • United Kingdom

The poet Hafez, also known as the Teller of Secrets, used the language of human love and the metaphors of wine and drunkenness to describe his desire for the Divine and intoxication with the mysteries of the Universe. Contrast the current, often narrow, view of the media on Iran with the profundity and sophistication of Persian (Iranian) culture and its influence. The landscapes and characters from the film are all constructed of Persian calligraphy.

Nightfall

2007 • 5 min

A fragmentary montage of night shots recalling feelings of loneliness and melancholy. Its filmic characteristics and the flowing rhythm of images turns narrative into an enigmatic atmosphere and dreamy mental states.

Aeterna

2007 • 7 min

An ethereal film about being judged in the after-life.

Home

2007 • 10 min

Home arose from the need to create a space, albeit an imaginary one, in which to relive my memories. The window and television set are the frame that denotes the passage from reality to dream.

28 Weeks Later: Saturday Afternoon

2007 • 2 min

Official short film supporting the DVD release of 28 Weeks Later. Produced by Damien Wasylkiw and directed by Kaethe Fine.

Yellow Flower of Rape

2007 • 12 min • China

Story of the steam train and a little gril in the hills of Sichuan province.

Il mago del cinema - L'incredibile storia di Mr. Corman

2007 • 50 min • Italy

Cult director, producer, great discoverer of talents, icon of the low budget philosophy, passed to history as the one who managed to make 100 films in Hollywood without losing a dollar. Roger Corman, an independent artist out of the box, embodies the ideal of an autarkic and democratic art, able to combine originality and popularity. In a journey of fifty minutes, through the words of the director, the images of his most famous works and crossed testimonies, is composed the portrait of an artist unique in the world, able to discover a very young Jack Nicholson - of which you can see the thunderous look already in La piccola bottega degli errori - but also talents like Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Ron Howard, James Cameron, Joe Dante.

White Wall Tehran

2007 • 2 min

In January 2007, I was stopped on the streets of Tehran by members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, who claimed I had been filming them with my Mini DV video camera. They detained me momentarily and erased 27 seconds of my footage by recording over it—pointing the lens at the white interior wall of their headquarters. This act of erasure now constitutes the artwork.

Signs

2007 • 4 min • Ukraine

Death follows us everywhere. But that doesn't mean we should be afraid to live. Life is short and beautiful, and since we will all die sooner or later, we need to enjoy it to the fullest.

Credo: A Nietzschean Testament

2007 • 56 min

A blistering monologue from British orator Jonathan Bowden, Credo is less a political speech than a philosophical inferno. Channeling Nietzsche, Heraclitus, and a firestorm of cultural critique, Bowden delivers a feverish testament to hierarchy, belief, and Western identity. Equal parts performance art, intellectual tirade, and spiritual invocation, this final address captures a mind ablaze with conviction, railing against modernity's flattening of thought, tradition, and greatness.

Inside the Hothouse 4

2007 • 13 min • Canada

Inside Hothouse 4 takes an informal look into the personalities and frenzy behind the fourth iteration of the NFB Animation Hothouse. A hand-held-mini-doc, reflective of the youthful iconoclasm of the eight emerging filmmakers (6 Canadians and 2 Brazilians). The Hothouse filmmakers and their NFB collaborators offer candid and oftentimes pithy comments on the nature of auteur animation filmmaking, the place and role of the NFB in that world, and the excitement and fear of making a first professional film. This year's Inside Hothouse mini-doc includes the process of generating podcasts for the Hothouse 4 web site.

Paprika : A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE 'DREAM'

2007 • 29 min

Paprika: The Dream CG World

2007 • 15 min

Da døden kom forbi Madame Arthur

2007 • 60 min • Denmark

In 1973 Madame Arthur opened on Lavendelstræde 17 in Copenhagen. A Danish equivalent of Studio 54 before it had even opened. It was Bent Hasebart who in the early 1972 set up the first nightclub at this address under the name Circle Club. When in the following year a double murder was committed inside the Circle Club, it was necessary to take action. A friend from the police suggested a gay club and Madame Arthur was born. Throughout the next 16 years Madame Arthur was home to the drags, gays and free-spirited people of all kinds. In 1989 new management closed down Madam Arthur and opened the short-lived Bells Club.

Born Again

2007 • 50 min

After surviving a long illness which nearly put an end to his life, author Yoram Kaniuk wrote his book Between Life and Death. The film follows Yoram Kaniuk for six weeks as he tries to recover from the illness.

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2007 • 45 min • Japan

2007 release

Rotating Mirror

2007 • 49 min • United States of America

A 14-part experimental film cycle made from impromptu Super 8 footage which was shot every day for one year. It is a contemplative, poetic body of work that, although born out of a very subjective relationship between the director and his surroundings, compels the viewer to make their own associations and readings, and question the experience of time, urban living, contrasts of environment, and the mysteries of life through the particular language of film and montage.

Erotic Exercise

2007 • 22 min • Canada

A series of vignettes that are closely or loosely related to the search for or representation of eroticism, in the manner of transcendental mediation or contemplation.

Stones Free

2007 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Mary Tamm visits the Rollright Stones used in the 'The Stones of Blood' to meet experts on this ancient stone circle.

Lost In Art

2007 • 10 min • Portugal

In an inverted world, where art oscillates between a political decoration and a conversation between illuminated people, someone in the antipodes of art attempts to undo the mirage and, facing the ghosts, in the centre of the world, thinks of the noise that could save him.