All Films

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2006 • 2 min

A short animation by Blu from 2006

Court-Circuit #276 : Patrice Kirchhofer, Cinéaste Expérimental

2006 • 13 min

Patrice Kirchhofer

Kiss

2006 • 3 min • United Kingdom

A straight 8 film by Alastair Mills

The Truth Behind: The Dead Sea Scrolls

2006 • 46 min

Experts weigh in on the mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which contain books from the Old Testament and other ancient texts.

Play, Jankunú Play - The Garifuna Wanaragua Ritual of Belize

2006 • 45 min

The Garifuna are a Central American people of West African and Native American descent. One of their most popular rituals is wanaragua, a three-fold system of masked Christmas processionals commonly called Jankunú. This ritual is a unique blend of African, European, and Native American (Arawak and Carib) art traditions in which social and cultural identities are expressed through music, dance, and costume. As dancers adorn themselves in colorful regalia to mimic past foreign oppressors they symbolically affirm their identity. They perform stylized movements to the accompaniment of drums and social commentary songs composed by men. Descriptions of the three processions and dance styles are interspersed with interviews by Garifuna singers, drummers, dancers, cultural advocates, and scholars on the significance of rituals.

Walai

2006 • 59 min • Philippines

Walai prods on the memories of four Muslim women who once lived in the infamous White House in Cotabato City. The documentary seeks narratives in "places...we tend to feel without history." It traces the past through the women's experience of what has happened inside the wrecked home-nostalgia and fear, loss and love, and birth and death.

Phone Sex Grandma

2006 • 9 min

A 60-something grandma works a phone sex line in a small Southern ghost town.

Interview with the Skeleton

2006 • 46 min • Serbia and Montenegro

Starboy

2006 • 4 min • Canada

A Space Opera.

Harness and Wheel

2006 • 3 min • France

Jean-Gabriel Périot's short film.

Moscow Wife

2006 • 17 min • Poland

Tsarist imperialism was both a source of fascination and Russophobia for the people of the West. After the collapse of communism it seems to revive again thanks to big capital. What is the life of contemporary oligarchs' wives like in this world? If someone is expecting tinsel concealing vacuum they will be surprised to see a great need of expressing oneself through art and the awareness of possibilities that fate brings to a human being.

Yes/No/Maybe

2006 • 46 min • Canada

Voleurz's second film, released to DVD features skiing, snowboard, mountain biking and the other antics of the Voleurz family

Sahara Vertical

2006 • 47 min • France

Following in the footsteps of Frison Roche, 7 climbers explore the main Hoggar massifs in Algeria. Their main objective is the ascent of the Garet El Djenoun summit via the north ridge, a long climb symbolic of a certain difficulty and a significant commitment, due to its location in the desert. They also attempt the Diedre Agresti, a daring route from the 70s, opened in around ten days on artificial, and unequipped; it is a path that has never been repeated; the objective is to do it free and almost only on wedges, with difficulties up to 7b/c in a sometimes very delicate rock... Excerpts from the film shot in 1970 by Henri Agresti on this same route, allow us to compare the technical and material means of the time to those of today. They also discover the beauty of the Algerian desert, its silence, its rock paintings, the customs of the Tuaregs, etc... a fascinating journey.

Death by Alcohol - The Sam Spady Story

2006 • 30 min

See the Sam Spady story, and learn how easy it is for a tragedy like this to happen. Learn how to protect yourself and your friends from this happening to you. Sam Spady had a wonderful life. She had loving parents and adoring friends. She was a homecoming queen and class president. She had looks, brains, youth and promise. She had everything to live for. But all that came to a sudden and horrific end in the summer of 2004 when Sam shared too many shots of vanilla flavored vodka, passed out and died alone inside a cluttered fraternity house. Her death was an unintended tragedy. Binge drinking kills nearly 2,000 college students each year. The epidemic is growing at high schools, colleges and universities across the nation. We hope kids, parents, families and friends will watch Sam’s story, learn her lesson and know when to say no.

Octobre

2006 • 3 min

Digital film 3'25" Music Simonluca Laitempergher From a chronophotograph of the stormy night sky are born the colorful waves of a dream marked by a jolt of life. Here is a film which marks a moment not to forget. A film which tells of a night where I slept. A night where over time I moved forward in my story.

夏川純 Perfect collection

2006 • 48 min • Japan

2006 release

The Code

2006 • 4 min • Spain

In this film, the director maintains an interview with Leonardo Da Vinci (played by Manuel Tallafé). It is a priceless document where the Italian artist reveals to the world, the secrets of some of his best known works

Tar Pits Film

2006 • 3 min • United States of America

Tar pits form as petroleum seeps to the surface through fissures in the Earth’s crust, leaving viscous asphalt pools. To make Tar Pits Film, Jennifer West threw a strip of film into the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, still-bubbling asphalt pools which have seeped from the ground for tens of thousands of years. The film was then ridden over hot asphalt by a motorcycle and drenched in other substances including thick mayonnaise and body lotion.

Weewar

2006 • 8 min

In 1842 the Crown prosecuted Weewar, a Binjareb Nyungar warrior, for carrying out tribal payback by spearing Dyung of the Mooro Group. When Weewar heard that Dyung, a member of the tribe responsible for the death of his son, was moving through Binjareb Territory he was governed by one law – Traditional Aboriginal Law. Weewar’s trial became the test case in Western Australia which determined that British Law took precedence over traditional law. Dedicated to Theo Kearing a Binjareb Warrior.

Play Pause

2006 • 29 min

The two-channel video departs from Benning’s earlier work, cutting together hundreds of the artist’s gouache drawings of urban landscapes, figures, and abstractions. With its fragmented split-screen perspective, durational takes of still drawings, and occasional use of color filters, Play Pause speaks to the heightening of perception that accompanies periods of loss.

Sístole/Diástole

2006 • 20 min

Systolic/diastolic are the beats of the heart and it is this organ, which, more or less, symbolically tells the story of Ángel and Toño; a couple who have to face a terrible situation: Ángel's death.

Bo Ko

2006 • 7 min • Sweden

Autobiographical documentary about a bullied boy's childhood.

Time Stop

2006 • 3 min

A straight 8 film by Taiyo Kikaku

Truth

2006 • 3 min • Japan

An experimental animated short film by Yoriko Mizushiri.