All Films

Time in Heaven

2007 • 19 min • South Korea

35mm / 19 min. / Color

The Last Ridge: The 10th Mountain Division

2007 • 56 min

A compelling one-hour documentary recounts the true mission impossible of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division during WWII. After backbreaking training, the legendary alpine fighting force was sent to dislodge the entrenched Germans on Italy's mountaintops. The rest is history. The 10th turned the tide for the Allies in Italy, revolutionized winter mountain warfare, transformed winter sports and inspired a new generation of soldiers.

The Letter

2007 • 8 min

Two boys stand at the crossroads of adolescence; but their hearts can only journey one path. When Adrian decides to share his feelings for another male, he is unaware as to the upset his actions may cause. Two boys stand at the crossroads of love and adolescence; but their hearts can only journey one path When Adrian decided to write down his feelings for Patrick, the blinding power of love made him blind to the upset his actions would cause. When the letter in which he wrote his secret love made its way back into his possession, Adrian must face who he is before friendships are lost forever.

Srdjo

2007 • 28 min • Serbia

This documentary tells about the incident which happened on Januar 21, 1993 in the town of Trebinje (Republika Srpska), when a local Serb, Srđan Aleksić, aged 27, stood in defense of Bosniak Muslim Alen Glavović, who was attacked by four soldiers of entity's armed forces. Infuriated rowdies then attacked Aleksić himself, who 6 days later succumbed to fatal wounds. It is a story about one man's heroism during the times of his nation's moral low point.

The Castration Cure

2007 • 50 min • United Kingdom

The Castration Cure is a shocking and honest film examining the legal castration of child sex offenders in the USA, in a bid to rehabilitate them.

Interval #2

2007 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Optical sound film by Guy Sherwin

Death & Rejection

2007 • 54 min

When Ben returns a diary he found on a bus to its rightful owner, he is drawn into her psychologically dangerous world.

Paradiset

2007 • 58 min • Sweden

The third documentary in a trilogy of films about elderly couple Hans and Kerstin Stralström. This last instalment is quieter than the first two, as the couple argue and ponder whether renovation of their house is a good idea. A beautiful final portrait of the couple.

Melting Silence

2007 • 18 min • Sweden

A photographer makes a personal trip to Antarctica, like Otto Nordenskjöld.

New Ratio

2007 • 2 min

The colour fields that comprise New Ratio involve a tense relationship with the edge of the screen. The piece explores the move from the 4:3 screen ratio to 16:9, which is now effectively the standard for broadcast television and video. In the construction of New Ratio each colour was assigned a particular tone: white was attributed a standard 1KHz test tone; the pitch of the tone attributed to blue was half that of the test tone; and each of the colours in between (in descending order of luminance) were attributed tones at intervals between these values.

Sebástian

2007 • 20 min

This short tells the story of an isolated detachment of Roman soldiers in the year 14 A.D., in which a Christian slave becomes the boy toy of the Commanding Officer. A plot of desires, passions and homosexual attraction that will lead to a tragic end.

John, I'm Sorry

2007 • 7 min

John, a middle aged professional, is distressed about the recent discovery that his lover, Anton, is cheating on him with a woman.

Por um fio

2007 • 14 min • Portugal

A red hank. A white embroidered sheet. A sudden wind. The overtaking of mourning finds, in love, its magic path.

Smalltown Boy

2007 • 13 min

David has known since he was very young that he was different -- and now he's fifteen he's decided to come out as gay. David feels the village where he lives has turned its back on him -- but the town's summer carnival gives him the chance to show everyone who he really is. Each year the prettiest young girl in the town is paraded through the main square as the carnival queen. But this year the festivities are going to be turned on their head -- David is the first ever gay male carnival queen.

Standing Silent Nation

2007 • 53 min

When the Oglala Sioux Tribe passed an ordinance separating industrial hemp from its illegal cousin, marijuana, Alex White Plume and his family glimpsed a brighter future. Having researched hemp as a sustainable crop that would grow in the inhospitable soil of the South Dakota Badlands, the White Plumes envisioned a new economy that would shrink the 85% unemployment rate on the Pine Ridge Reservation. They never dreamed they would find themselves swept up in a struggle over tribal sovereignty, economic rights, and common sense.

Guns N' Roses: Rock Case Studies

2007 • 60 min

Rock Case Study of Guns N' Roses

Heróis de Uma Nação

2007 • 50 min

Documentary about the conquest of the 1981 Libertadores Cup, won by Flamengo, the most popular soccer club in the world.

Pa

2007 • 5 min

A whimsical dance of jetés and arabesques movement is an older principe than the humid and blinks in a wild tempo that could last indefinitely and yet it stops at 4 minutes and 55 seconds. It is a series of snapshots, flashes without light that record all the times, the present ticks by and the seasons pass by in fast motion while the tree rids itself inside a round of fog, whether leafy and abounding in branches and ramified leaves or on the other hand light and loose. (Suzanne Doppelt)

Man Alive

2007 • 9 min

A man named Coda emerges from the men's room of a dive and hits on a woman at the bar who's wearing a slinky red dress. She puts him down and he moves to a corner of the bar, muttering about squirrels. The bartender, a gay man named Pixy, talks to her; she's Evey. She notices a man sitting by himself and she makes her move. Later, she steps to the door for a cigarette. Are circumstances going to bring Coda back into the picture?

Multipass

2007 • 40 min • Russia

Illegal races, Street challenge, incomparable characters - a portrait of the era. Nobody argues how fashionable it is now, good or bad, This is chaos, creativity, adrenaline. The speed and speed of reaction is the manner of a free artist, not constrained by any framework and obligations. The film was shot in the MTV style that is so popular among young people now. Mikhail and his team made an almost documentary film. Not a single take in the studio, everything was filmed only on the streets of Moscow in real extreme conditions, without official permission, without special letters. This is nonsense for the capital. Feel real freedom, forget about the constraints, about the conventions imposed by the metropolis. Only forward.

North Shore

2007 • 11 min

“Where the big ones break and the undercurrents push-pull an ancient, silent tune.” (FW)

Whispering Pines 4

2007 • 11 min

In this episode of the ongoing Whispering Pines series, Moulton's hapless protagonist Cynthia seeks a cure for an ailment via "Healing Hands," a natural New Age therapy. Donning conch-shell-and-pine-cone-adorned headphones and an Avon reflexology glove, she listens to "sound medicine" and undergoes a treatment with Lady Nova, a hand healer. This is a portal for an out-of-the-body experience, as Cynthia finds physical and spiritual release, dancing ecstatically in a psychedelically animated California landscape.

Head

2007 • 4 min • Canada

A short American memory, made from manipulated found footage.

Hella - Portals

2007 • 53 min

Documentary film by R.T. Thomas of Hella at Arco & Oakland Arenas (tour with Mars Volta & System of a Down). Self-released by Hella/R.T. Thomas due to copyright restrictions.