All Films

Christmas Tree Stand

2006 • 40 min

Personalised instruments are used to transform loops of pure black and white frames into an immersive riot of perceptual phenomenon in colour, motion and sound. Bruce will employ four adapted 16mm projectors, the motors modified, brass grids retro-fitted between lens and gate. A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors. You’re met with a white strobing circle pulsing on screen and slowly transformed as additional, overlapping projectors create strange halo’s and spheres, odd 3D expansions and contractions. As more projectors are added the image is shredded under a beating grid, color and form thrumming in front of your eyes until, as the last projector dims and you’re left in the dark, crazy blue tendrils follow your gaze, after-images burned on the retina like a delicate coda to Bruce’s performances. -Kill Your Timid Notion festival

Barely Dead

2006 • 50 min

BARELY DEAD is a film about an underground culture that has grown beyond ethnicity, economic and social boundaries - a culture brought together by a shared love for rollerblading." And why that culture is going to be the next great anti-establishment movement for the 21st century.

Zoshchenko and Olesha: A Double Portrait in the Interior of the Epoch

2006 • 52 min • Russia

About two of the most popular writers of Soviet Russia in the 20s, who largely determined the image of Russian literature of the twentieth century. About their lives, joys, dramas and genuine tragedies.

Lefties: A Lot Of Balls

2006 • 59 min

News on Sunday was a left-wing tabloid that launched to great fanfare in 1987 and went bankrupt just eight weeks later. It was one of the boldest business ventures ever attempted by the far left and it was a disaster. A group who met through a tiny left-wing faction called Big Flame were convinced it was possible to market a left-wing mass-circulation newspaper. They were led by ex-Ford worker Alan Hayling (now head of BBC Documentaries) under the editorial leadership of John Pilger, who walked out before the paper had even launched.

Chic: Le Freak - Live

2006 • 60 min

The great funk/disco superstars Chic present this glorious live performance from 2004! This DVD features performances of such classics as Le Freak, Dance, Dance, Dance, Everybody Dance, Good Times, We Are Family and lots more! 1. Everybody Dance 2. Dance, Dance, Dance 3. I Want Your Love 4. Medley: I m Coming Out / Upside Down / He s The Greatest Dancer / We Are Family 5. At Last I Am Free 6. I m Thinking Of You 7. Meet The Band / Jam With Chic 8. Forbidden Lover 9. Le Freak 10. Good Times

Subway to Sally: Nackt

2006 • 59 min • Germany

Recoreded live at the Berliner Passionskirche

National Geographic: Lost Treasures of Afghanistan

2006 • 52 min • Afghanistan

During the last three decades, war and terrorism have devastated much of Afghanistan's rich cultural past. Two giant Buddha statues were blown up by the Taliban, gold and priceless archaeological artifacts disappeared, artworks were destroyed, historic films were burned. But many courageous Afghan people were determined to save their heritage. Join National Geographic as it highlights the efforts of heroic Afghans who have refused to allow their culture to be destroyed. Marvel at the priceless treasures that have re-emerged, and listen to the stories of people who risked death to defy extremists threatening to obliterate Afghanistan's past, and of others with deep roots in the country who can finally come home now that the conflict has subsided.

A As In Alpha Gain

2006 • 7 min

Re-works an old alphabet film to explore one girl's acquisition of language in the age of digital reproduction and manipulation. With elephants and giraffes.

Catchball with Nicole

2006 • 59 min • Japan

One day, a foreigner named Nicole visits Yuji. He introduces himself as a friend of Yuji’s sister, Naomi, from her study abroad days and says he has come from Canada to see her. While Yuji is puzzled by the unexpected visitor, Naomi returns home. She is delighted to reunite with Nicole, but suddenly, Nicole confesses his love to her…

São Paulo_Citytellers

2006 • 48 min • Brazil, Italy

In the mega-city São Paulo, with its eighteen million inhabitants, survival is a question of skilfully exploiting the rules - for all layers of the population. This committed documentary illustrates a lifestyle that seems far away and in the future but is an everyday reality.

En tus Brazos

2006 • 6 min • France

The greatest tango dancer of the 20's is stuck in a wheelchair after an accident. Thanks to his wife, he recovers the use of his legs, in time for one imaginary dance.

American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan

2006 • 52 min

French-Canadian filmmaker Jean-Daniel Lafond goes into the life of wanted terrorist David Belfield, an African American convert to Islam who was born in the United States and allegedly murdered Ali Akbar Tabatabai, a former Iranian ambassador loyal to the deposed Shah of Iran and an outspoken critic of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1980. Belfield, now known as Hassan Abdulrahman, fled to Iran following the murder and has remained there ever since. In this film, Belfield tries to explain and justify his terrorist activity. Lafond also puts forward several conspiracy theories as to who ordered Belfield to kill the former diplomat.

Alexander

2006 • 40 min • Latvia

A story about an extraordinary 11 year old boy and his community.

Three Screen Ray

2006 • 5 min • United States of America

A three screen projection comprised of imagery from COSMIC RAY (1961) and EVE-RAY-FOREVER (1965).

The Moon

2006 • 4 min • China

The Moon is a fundamental energy influence on human.

About a curfew

2006 • 9 min

about a curfew 2006, color, sound, 9'40

Trash Talking

2006 • 60 min • United States of America

A showcase of Paper Rad's individual and group creations in the form of Trash Talking, a show for kids with bizarre characters trying to find their place in the world.

Worlds Most Dangerous Drug

2006 • 52 min

Methamphetamine is one of the hardest drugs to quit. Its abuse is ravaging rural communities and cities alike. NGC correspondent Lisa Ling goes inside this global epidemic to find out what makes meth so addictive and destructive.

Mentiras

2006 • 13 min • Mexico, United Kingdom

Mentiras is a visually stunning but profoundly unsettling journey through the world’s largest city. Based on one man’s confession to human rights crimes committed with the backing of the Mexican government – it is the story of a troubled conscience and the rupturing of official lies.

Firefly

2006 • 4 min

A boy and a girl expose a quantity of film to a constellation of fireflies, making a cameraless portrait of bioluminescence. This is what the world might look like to a firefly, from birth to death. This film was not made with a lens. It is a self-portrait of fireflies.

J'aime la censure

2006 • 4 min

A commentary on censorship.

Astika

2006 • 8 min • Denmark

A portrait of Astika, who lives on an island in Denmark. He has lived in a run down farm house for 15 years and his project has been to let the land around him grow unchecked, but now he has been forced to move out by people who prefer more pristine neighbours.

Meth & Red: How to Throw a Party at the Playboy Mansion

2006 • 60 min

Everyone knows that Hef's the original playa. But when hip-hop multi-platinum megastars Redman and Method Man decide to jump the Playboy Mansion fence to throw a hot bootleg party for themselves and a few hundred of their closest friends, it's an outrageous never-before-seen look into Hef's world. The Dynamic Duo, Funk Doc and Mr. Meth explore the mansion grounds, referee a skins vs. skins tennis match, hot box chronic in the sauna, get down in the grotto, and instigate a Jell-O wrestling tournament between some of the ladies at the ultimate Playboy Mansion party. Watch old school meet new school in this freaky-deaky comedy! Hef's crib has never seen a party like this - and neither have you!

Judith Butler: Philosophical Encounters of the Third Kind

2006 • 53 min • France

Does gender = sexuality? How does the family define gender roles? What are the dangers when society coerces gender norms? What deep-seated social fears are unleashed by those who flout those prescribed roles? What is New Gender Politics? These are just a few of the topical issues explored in the film. In addition, Butler covers a wide range of subjects, broaching not only controversial gender issues-including transsexuality and intersexuality-but also 20th century Jewish philosophy, AIDS activism, criticism of state power and violence, gay marriage, and anti-Zionism.