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Pas cette nuit

2007 • 3 min • France

In a darkened room a dark figure holding numerous flickering candles walks towards the camera. The single frame, however, keeps the secret of the scene to itself.

Macaframa

2007 • 58 min

San Francisco's dramatic skyline, steep streets and dynamic atmosphere all co-star in this carefully crafted portrait of an independent, free-spirited group of bike riders doing what they love in the City by the Bay.

Rehearsals for Retirement

2007 • 13 min • United States of America

Part of "In Memoriam", a body of work comprising several videos, shot entirely within the virtual world of the Grand Theft Auto video game. Solomon transformed Liberty City, the ersatz metropolis based on New York City in which the game is set, into a reflective space of stillness: devoid of players, full of melancholy, nostalgia, loss, grief, and instances of compelling poetic beauty. This work was created in response to the passing of Solomon's lifelong friend, Mark LaPore, at the age of 53, on September 11, 2005.

Little People - Christmas Discoveries

2007 • 26 min

Join the Little People characters as they experience the magic of the holidays in five delightful stories! Michael, Sonya Lee, Eddie, Sarah Lynn and Maggie discover the spirit of giving and the wonderful things that can happen when you share friends.

Love Man Love Woman

2007 • 52 min • Vietnam

Through Master Luu Ngoc Duc, one of the most prominent spirit mediums in Hanoi, and his vibrant community, the film explores how effeminate and gay men in homophobic Vietnam have traditionally found community and expression in the country’s popular Mother Goddess Religion, Đạo Mẫu.

Irinka and Sandrinka

2007 • 16 min

Fifty years separate Irène and Sandrine. One, from Russian nobility, lived through the fall of the regime, the absence of an exiled father, and an adoptive family. The other grew up spending her playtime reconstructing a fairy-tale Russian world.

Stasi East Germany's Secret Police

2007 • 59 min

Under the control of the Stasi East Germany was the most repressive police state in the history of the world. Yet it managed to convince the West that it was being progressive. Here is the story of how the Stasi gained control over the lives of the East German people and the methods it used.

Enlightenment: A Second Night of Dreams

2007 • 10 min • Japan

A samurai suffers to achieve enlightenment while being forced by a Zen Buddhist.

A Maldita

2007 • 20 min

In March 1982, Rádio Fluminense FM, known as MALDITA, airs in Niterói, which with irreverence, boldness and creativity in programming, breaks with the standardized foreign music markets and begins the so-called Rock 80 generation.

Little Guys!

2007 • 3 min

Little Guys! is a 2007 brickfilm by David Pagano. It is a faux-commercial made in the style of a 1980s toy commercial advertising a fictional toy known as Little Guys. The film is known for featuring large brick-built puppets instead of the typical LEGO minifigure. It premiered at the Spring Animation Showcase at NYU Tisch School of the Arts on May 3, 2007.

Senator Obama Goes to Africa

2007 • 60 min • United States of America

Senator and future Presidential candidate Barack Obama makes an emotional journey to his father's homeland of Kenya in Africa.

Making 'Cleaver'

2007 • 8 min

In conjunction with the premiere of The Sopranos episode "Stage 5," HBO aired this seven-minute mockumentary titled "Making 'Cleaver'", detailing the fictional film's production. It includes in-character interviews with Moltisanti, Lupertazzi, Yam, Baldwin, LaPaglia, and special-effects make-up artist Steve Kelly. The behind-the-scenes look is broken up into four segments: "Concept," "Courting Kingsley," "Cast and Crew," and "A 'Family' Production." The mockumentary is included in the Season 6 Part 2 DVD set and in the Complete Series DVD collection.

El sastre

2007 • 32 min • Spain

444 days

2007 • 58 min • Iran

A political documentary in which the filmmaker speaks with American hostages and Iranian hostage- takers after 29 years from the event.

Rocking the Cradle: Gay Parenting

2007 • 38 min

Prior to the 1960s, the idea of same-sex parenting had yet to reach the consciousness of most Americans. The majority of gays and lesbians did not even consider parenting, fearing the stigma their children might face. By 2000, however, the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that a full one-third of lesbian couples and roughly a quarter of gay male couples had opted to become parents. This program captures six gay/lesbian families in their day-to-day lives. Two of these families are families by adoption, two are co-parenting families, and two are lesbian families by insemination. Man-on-the-street interviews as well as emotional testimonials from the 15 adults and 11 children featured in this film provide a range of perspectives on gay parenting.

David Bowie - The Plastic Soul Review

2007 • 60 min

There were 3 distinct periods in the life of David Bowie during the 1970s. The first of course consisted of his Glam years, defined best by the startling Ziggy Stardust album. At the other end of the decade came the Berlin trilogy three dark, industrial yet ambient and often joyous works. But sandwiched between these is what has come to be known via the man's own comments as the Plastic Soul Era, an era just as creative, magnificent and popular as any other during Bowie s career, yet one rarely considered as a stand alone and separate entity within his complete body of work.

Divine R.i.p.

2007 • 5 min

Drag Queen Divine Tribute

America's Game: 2003 New England Patriots

2007 • 45 min

The story of Super Bowl XXXVIII champion New England Patriots. Featuring interviews with offensive coordinator Charlie Weis, safety Rodney Harrison, and linebacker Willie McGinest. Narrated by Tom Selleck.

Sunshine State (Extended Forecast)

2007 • 8 min

"Florida, 2007. In a quiet outer suburb of the Milky Way galaxy, we live our lives in the pleasant warmth of our middle-of-the-road star, the Sun. Slowly, but surely...there will be one last perfect sunny day" -- International Film Festival, Rotterdam.

Fitty Fitty

2007 • 34 min

Almost a decade ago, Tracks Magazine took Mick Fanning, Joel Parkinson & Dean Morrison on their first ever Indo boat trip together. The three good friends were all still juniors. Today, things have changed slightly with the global surf stardom & the Cooly trio criss-crossing the planet for years, each traveling their own distinct path. Another two week Indo boat trip with friends and waves was needed. No contest, no pressure, no nothing, just all time memories. A unique surf film from the 3 degrees crew. The surfers and the producers finally back together again, exclusively shot on HD, a real insight into the Cooly kids. Its 3 Degrees meets September Sessions.

Tim Maia: In Concert

2007 • 40 min • Brazil

Video extracted from the TV show "Tim Maia in Concert", performed at the Hotel Nacional in Rio de Janeiro in March 1989, produced and broadcasted in Brazil by Globo TV.

Les Avatars de Vénus

2007 • 40 min • France

The process leading to the making of the film-installation Les Avatars de Vénus goes back thirty years to the thousands of images I began picking up - from news stands, bookshops, libraries, museums, flea markets as I travelled around the world, drawing, photographing, analyzing, filming and remembering what I saw. Finally, I collected a giant image–bank of different incarnations of Venus spreading across time and space, coming from all continents, all civilizations, all epochs, respecting the logic of each one of them, regardless of the arbitrary ideological hierarchy established by academicians between High Art and Low Art. I chose to mix art history and popular imagery, Renaissance iconography and commercial advertisements, religious propaganda and common pornographic icons, movie stars and classical as well as non-occidental sculpture, all fetishes being complementary.

Ando-C

2007 • 16 min • Iran

Experimental short film based on M.C. Escher's paintings.

Transvestites Also Cry

2007 • 55 min

Paris. In a small side street, seconds away from the Place the Clichy, two dirty and dingy hotels face one another. Behind their facades, the lives of marginal transsexuals from Ecuador take place. They all work as prostitutes in the Bois de Boulogne. Among them, we meet "Mujeron", (the "Big Woman", in Spanish), a former boxer who chose prostitution and a solitary life in order to survive and help his family back home. We also meet the exuberant and ironic "Romina", who seems to have made her dreams come true thanks to prostitution: a woman's body, a housewife's routine, a small flat and some money. Two parallel existences that are apparently poles apart but will in fact unite in one tragic ending. Both light-hearted and tragic, switching from flirtatiousness to misery, from optimism to fatalism, the story of Romina and Mia balances between joyful complicity and solitary distress.