All Films

The Trouble with Money

2006 • 38 min

Shamus O'Reilly is supposed to receive $1 million for a scandalous video-tape desperately wanted by notorious businessman Kaiser Poppo. Before Shamus arrives for the switch, Poppo's thugs accidentally give the money to Shamus look-alike Dave Rickards, a radio host in the wrong place at the wrong time. Rickards is chased through the streets of San Diego and onto a train, where he makes a clean get-away with the cash. Now Poppo wants both the video and his money back, but must contend with the FBI, con men, and his long-time nemesis "The Greek". Despite advice from San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders and Watergate legend G. Gordon Liddy, Rickards loses track of both the money and the video-tape. He is then tricked into a dramatic showdown with Kaiser Poppo and a 30-year-old secret is finally revealed. Written by Jay Reed Stevens

Diary of a Mail Order Bride

2006 • 48 min

THEY say love can cross oceans, countries and language barriers – and these mail order brides hope that is the case. More and more women in Russia are applying to marriage agencies to meet the man of their dreams – but find themselves matched with Brits and Americans who don’t speak a word of English. This documentary follows the journey of three love-struck romantics who hope to make their future with a foreign partner. But will love conquer all?

Repeat

2006 • 10 min • Japan

Video by Stom Sogo.

無音の領域

2006 • 14 min • Japan

A chronic pain that developed about 5 years ago has been clinging to me like noise. How I wish I just opened my eyes one morning and it would be gone.

How About "Charge!!"?

2006 • 41 min

A 45-minute documentary on the making of The Aquabats' album "Charge!!", featuring a track-by-track commentary by the band.

Tevereterno

2006 • 3 min • Italy

Short animated film by Roberto Catani

Stone

2006 • 1 min • Poland

A short story about stones, one need another to go forward. By Michal Socha

Video Color Exploration #1

2006 • 4 min

Building in Detroit #2

2006 • 2 min

A. (anonymous)

2006 • 53 min

Gavin called a quack, a cult-leader, and a barista who sees himself as a guru. He also has a compulsion to wear extremely tight pants.

Slow Boat to China

2006 • 8 min

Two ex-lovers meet and realize life is underwhelming.

Hezraelah

2006 • 1 min

Remarks on the recent war in Lebanon.

Wishbone Ash: 25th Anniversary Of The Marquee

2006 • 54 min

Rock band Wishbone Ash play live at London's Marquee club on 23rd February 1983, performing tracks including 'Phoenix' and 'King Will Come'. The line up comprises Steve Upton on drums, Laurie Wisefield and Andy Powell on guitar and vocals, and Trevor Boulder on bass and vocals.

Depeche Mode : A short film from The Best of

2006 • 30 min

A short documentary film from the 2006 compliation 'The Best of Depeche Mode: Volume One'

Jongno, Winter

2006 • 18 min

Jongno, Winter is a short film included as one of the ommibus film in If You Were Me 2 (2005). It deals with　an incident of a Korean Chinese Kim Won-sup frozen to death on a street of Jongno. He was an illegal immigrant　who could not ask for help during a cold winter day with overdue wage over 10,000 USD. He died of　exposure on the street. Director Kim Dong-won expands the problem of the illegally immigrated Korean Chinese.

Amigãozão

2006 • 1 min • Brazil

They say that it is not right to call him a big guy, but I can't find a better way to talk about my BIGGEST friend. Sometimes big people even seem to forget that I exist, but never when he is by my side: at those times, I feel like I am the greatest!

No Snow on the Broken Bridge

2006 • 11 min

8-channel video installation, 35mm b&w film transferred to DVD. Music by Jin Wang. A freeze-frame tableau in which seven young men and women, dressed in a haberdasher’s ？nest, look outward from a rocky outcrop; boats slowly drifting across placid waters; lush, unpopulated landscapes dominated by mountains. Like all of Yang Fudong’s work, the narrative is loosely structured, favoring centripetal forces over linear paths. Here, glamorous young men and women are slowly pulled together as, alone or in pairs and quartets, they wend their way toward the eponymous bridge to catch a last glimpse of winter snow; the rabbits, parrots, and stubborn goats on leashes that accompany them hint at the dandyish excess of a bygone era.

Manifold Little Hills

2006 • 3 min

Wandering in the bustling streets, old-fashioned lanes and ruins of diverse-style architectures, two young man were performing singing(chang, 唱), dialogue(nian,念), acting(zuo, 做), acrobatics(da,打), in good order and well arranged. Though living in a daily and routine scene, what they were experiencing was unique and different "enjoyable dream life."

Death By Vibration

2006 • 5 min

Film shot with bearWITNESS in cooperation with SAW Video.

Surreptitious

2006 • 40 min • Philippines

Strange things lurk in a high school.

Billy Joe Shaver: Live From Austin, TX

2006 • 47 min • United States of America

Billy Joe Shaver is the quintessential country songwriter, but that s just a big word that doesn't do justice to the honest, raw intensity and outpouring of heart and soul in his lyrics. Over 50 artists have recorded his songs, but nobody does it better than Billy Joe, and that s why this show is so important. Recorded on August 14, 1984, Billy Joe holds back nothing. There s the grit, there s the attitude, there s the defiance. But there s also the intimacy, the poetry, the stories.

traveling thru with eyes closed tight

2006 • 4 min

a yellow field meets clear blue skies. a mist of water over bright green grass. a well worn sidewalk in grey and white. a lone black crow on a sandy beach. a lowering sun fades into the sea.

Fugue

2006 • 20 min

The metaphysical story, which has happened at a concert, forms an outline of the film. The young people who have come to the early music concert instead of taking pleasure from instrument fine sounding, have to struggle with a wind forced by the organ into the music hall. The air streams subjected to musical impulses, run into a listener in spite of his will. Voices are not audible, but they sometimes break through noise of the wind and music. Force of an air influence gives compound psychophysical experiences. Something tries to establish a certain transcendental dialogue, which sets in for a moment, but then disappears… At one time the wind accompanied by low monotonous organ noise, brings motionless sitting people to certain unconsciousness, to mad activity: fight is started at the concert

General Douglas MacArthur Return of A Legend

2006 • 50 min • United States of America

General Douglas MacArthur was one of America's greatest and most complex commanders, a warrior so tough and determined that he helped win World War II with a simple promise: I shall return. MacArthur was a soldier's soldier: the son of an officer, the star of West Point, and the Army's youngest-ever full general. He was already a retired hero when he was recalled in 1941 to face his biggest challenge--defending an unprepared Pacific force against a seemingly unstoppably Japanese war machine. But everything about MacArthur’s life was extraordinary; his army brat childhood to his rogue war in Korea, and his magnificent stand in the Philippines to his head-to-head confrontation with an angry Harry Truman. With rare footage and interviews with MacArthur's comrades, family, and friends, this compelling BIOGRAPHY program reveals the man who remains a hero to millions.