All Films

Six Arms - Homage to Mekas

2006 • 3 min

"I was asked to participate in a film program were filmmakers were asked to each shoot a 100ft roll of film in the style of legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas. This short burst cinematic film diary was shot on a nice Saturday Afternoon at my favorite Pub The Six Arms, I documented my afternoon as it happened. Their was no editing at all on this film it was all done in Camera. I liked the film so much that I decided to add a sound track and released it."

De larges détails, sur les pas de Francis Alÿs

2006 • 56 min • Mexico

Julien Devaux regularly worked with Francis Alÿs. Through interviews, happenings, paintings and videos we discover Alÿs' Mexico.

He Walked Away

2006 • 17 min

"Much in the way musicians will mine their previous compositions to create ever-evolving works, He Walked Away is a distinct yet nostalgic film. It distills what my eyes have witnessed, captured, and lost in 15 years of artistic growth, my obsessions, discoveries, vanishings and growing pains." - Jennifer Reeves

Sweet Dreams

2006 • 9 min • United States of America

Childhood dolls and adult toys populate this moody yet picturesque lullaby.

La Madonna in cielo, la "matre" in terra

2006 • 53 min • Italy

An anthropological research on the survival of the supernatural in traditional culture. Shot in different locations in southern Italy, the documentary focuses on the link between the cult of the Madonna and ancient rites related to female fertility.

Film for Invisible Ink case no. 71: BASE-PLUS-FOG

2006 • 10 min

We search for focus, the evidence is thin, but like breath on a mirror it speaks of life and provides a compass for the way home.

Tell Us the Truth Josephine: A Bitter Immigrant Story

2006 • 16 min

Tell Us the Truth Josephine is an experimental Drama about a Maltese woman's search for 'Home'. Josephine walks across Canada on stilts. And for Josephine to find home she must accept the 'Truth'. And once she does she can come off her stilts and land. Her journey is haunted by fragmented voices and images of her bloodline - bitter immigrant stories.

Tehran Chand Daraje Rishter

2006 • 28 min • Iran

Documentary about earthquake and lifestyle in Tehran.

Anyone and Everyone

2006 • 57 min • United States of America

Connected by having a son or daughter who is gay, parents across the country discuss their experiences in the documentary Anyone and Everyone. In it, filmmaker Susan Polis Schutz, depicts families from all walks of life. Individuals from such diverse backgrounds as Japanese, Bolivian, and Cherokee, as well as from various religious denominations such as Mormon, Jewish, Roman Catholic, Hindu, and Southern Baptist, share intimate accounts of how their children revealed their sexual orientation and discuss their responses. The parents also talk about struggling with the pain of their sons and daughters dealing with not being accepted by relatives or friends, and being ostracized by religious congregations.

One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stu Ungar

2006 • 45 min

This is a documentary about the life of poker legend Stu Ungar who died in 1998 of heart related conditions due to heavy drug use.

The Women's Kingdom

2006 • 20 min

La Mu lives beyond the strictures of mainstream Chinese society. She is part of the Mosuo, an ethnic minority that has a matriarchal society, one of the last in the world.

Oma's Quilt

2006 • 13 min

Oma's Quilt is about love, life and change. Oma's home for half a lifetime is brimming with memories that warm her heart yet bring tears to her eyes. On this day, her house stands empty, all the fragments of her life packed neatly into boxes. Oma is moving from Maple Street, where she lived for most of her life, to a senior's residence where she doesn't know anyone. Watching these events unfold is granddaughter Emily, a young girl full of wide-eyed enthusiasm. She senses that her grandmother isn't sure she will like her new home. Wishing to help, Emily does something to ease the burden of such a momentous change in all their lives.

Mortel

2006 • 6 min

Men living in stone dungeon apartments discover each other, with murderous results. A musing on isolation, human aggression and fear.

Les Rallizes Dénudés — 1994 Live Final Era

2006 • 52 min • Japan

1994年07月10日 10th July 1994 京都・京都大西部講堂 Kyoto University Western Auditorium Seibu-Kodo 首吊りの舞踏会 "Kubitsuri No Butokai" 2 audience shot videos (52:36 & 50:57) of the same concert combining a few angles, accessible via menu Visually, neither of a high-grade master copy, as released by the Ignuitas label, in 2006.

The Blood of Many Filmmakers

2006 • 27 min • Canada

Canadian experimental film

O Grande Balé de Damiana

2006 • 15 min • Brazil

An ancient story about the carimbó music, an afro-indigenous music genre from northern Brazil.

Lauberhornrennen im Sommer

2006 • 5 min • Switzerland

The Lauberhorn ski race, the longest in the world, is taking place in the summer this year. Ten thousand wooden slats laid out in a perfect course that the skiers could never make themselves. As a spectator, we get inside the skiers who race down at a dizzying speed. Accompanied by a live commentary.

O Número

2006 • 15 min • Brazil

A man whose name is constantly changed by the other people.

The Lonely Lights. The Color of Lemons.

2006 • 16 min

A visual study of a young jogger who is shown a series of inkblot paintings that propel him into a collection of stories and memories centered on childhood, questions of sexuality and an enigmatic girl.

Razor Thin Definition of Punk

2006 • 4 min • United States of America

Two hipsters bicker about what year punk really died.

Lonesome George and the Battle for Galapagos

2006 • 59 min

A documentary about the last remaining member of the Pinta Island tortoise species, affectionately known as Lonesome George. The imminent death of George and consequent extinction of his race highlighted the impact of human activity on his home ecosystem - the natural paradise of the Galapagos Islands - and fuelled a movement by the local people to conserve their unique wildlife.

Tagspotting

2006 • 15 min

Tagspotting is a documentary that examines Hong Kong’s vibrant street art scene. ST/ART (or Street Art) is a collective of artists who seek to legitimize and spread their art throughout Hong Kong. Whether they’re dodging police or ‘bombing’ the streets at 4am, they seek to break the mould of mainstream art and make themselves exist in an ever growing concrete jungle. (Completed: August 2006) Created by: Cassandra Chan, Emma-Jade Li, Edwin Lee, Manami Szymko, Marcus Tsui

Trespassing World Cities

2006 • 28 min

Trespassing World Cities records how I struggled away from the tourist video style to seek for an impersonal form to pose my response to a world of big cities whose individual distinctive is increasingly blurred. This is a travel journal in the literal sense of the term. The video records my walking through a dozen of major cities around the world, repeating routes and activities, between 1999 and 2005. The mythology of the multiple colors of diverse world cultures shatters. I found myself doing the same things, repeating places I have visited, and inside my mind is often a totally different world irrelevant to the places I visit. Globalization is a popular catch word, the token of economism. Personally speaking, it is a form of irony.

Smile

2006 • 7 min • Israel

Yuval goes to his friends’ house, where creepy things start happening. He begins to suspect that someone is out to get him when the signs keep appearing. He gets to the point in which paranoia takes over.