All Films

Nooma Breathe 014

2006 • 14 min • United States of America

With everything that we've got going on every day, how many of us ever think about our breathing, about the meaning of breathing? Yet, for thousands of years, people have understood that our physical breath is a picture of a deeper spiritual reality. In the Bible, the word for "breath" is the same as the word for "spirit." There's an inherent dilemma at the core of what makes us human. We've all been created in the image of God and possess immense power and strength. And at the same time, our lives are incredibly vulnerable and fragile. Maybe if we had more insight into the meaning of breathing, we would better understand how God created us as human beings.

A Thousand and One Monica

2006 • 47 min • Italy

There is no shortage of words to define the actress, screenwriter and director Monica Vitti: Intense, beautiful, sensual, eclectic, intelligent, muse... She was a shining star during the golden age of Italian cinema. She is a legendary figure who served as example for generations of young filmmakers. Monica Vitti’s story is the story of Italian cinema; her life is inextricably linked to the medium. This documentary shows the sheer physicality of her acting; her visceral style which demanded that everything, personality defects included, was integrated into her unique performances.

Straight Boys

2006 • 14 min

Ben has erotic feelings for his roommate. Currently they are the best of friends but his roommate seems oblivious to the sexual nature of Ben's feelings. Should he just be honest with him?

Tales of the Peony Lantern

2006 • 57 min • Japan

Syo and Han, colleagues, are out enjoying a relaxing day fishing, when they happen upon Mayumi and Misako, a very attractive young woman and her mother. Mayumi suddently faints, and the two men rush over to help. Her mother explains that she is very ill and only has months to live. Han invites them back to his place to rest. Mayumi and Han clearly are attracted to each other, and after a specific request from Misako, they sleep together. Things are about to take a turn from intriguing to weird, and even frightening, as Mayumi and her mother are not what they seem. A classic Pink love/horror story!

Nooma Lump 010

2006 • 11 min • United States of America

A lot of us have done things in our lives that we're ashamed of. Some are small things, and some of us have really big and devastating things. Some of us even have things that people close to us don't know about. Personal junk that we keep to ourselves so we don't have to deal with it. Because we don't know how to deal with it, do we? We're afraid that if we try it's just going to make everything worse. But no matter how big our junk is, no matter how much what we've done has impacted the way other people feel about us or how we feel about ourselves, it hasn't changed how God feels about us. God loves us, he always has and always will, and there's nothing we can do to change that.

The Umbrella Assassin

2006 • 48 min • United Kingdom

Georgi Markov's death by poisoned umbrella in 1978 remains unsolved, but it is thought the Bulgarian dissident writer was silenced by the KGB.

007 Stage Dedication

2006 • 2 min

Original archival footage of the opening of the Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, England.

Poets at the Living Theater

2006 • 3 min

With Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Ray Bremser, Le Roi Jones, Peter Orlovsky, this film takes place in the Living Theater, 1958.

Pyrats

2006 • 1 min • France

Animated short film about a group of pirates.

Cinémathèque Française

2006 • 6 min

Jonas Mekas films the inside of the Cinematheque Française. Especially while running. Part of the cycle of the First 40.

Sci Fi Inside: Stargate SG-1 200th Episode

2006 • 41 min

The 200th episode of the venerated sci-fi series is discussed during this special.

Summer Stock: Get Happy!

2006 • 17 min • United States of America

Discussion of the making of the film Summer Stock (1950).

Phoenix: Earthkeepers

2006 • 7 min • Japan

In a future Earth where cities have been buried by global warming and the environment essential for humanity has been devastated, a lonely hero named Kai lives without any friends to connect with. One day, guided by the “Phoenix”, he ventures into the desolate landscapes of what was once a thriving planet. What fate awaits Kai when he encounters a girl in this barren world?

Who Is Ferris Bueller?

2006 • 9 min • United States of America

A short documentary that looks at the qualities that define the title character in the classic film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," told through interview clips and film footage.

To Barbara Rubin with Love

2006 • 7 min

This is a mini-portrait of one of the legendary figures of the 60s who should be credited for the discovery of the Velvet Underground, for saving Bob Dylan's mind after the motorcycle crash, for her pioneering sound/image installations, for keeping the New York Sixties' art community together, for one of the key works of erotic cinema Christmas on Earth, and etc. and etc.

Brothers, Let Us Be Merry

2006 • 1 min • Austria

As part of the 2006 Mozart Year, 28 Austrian filmmakers, including Ulrich Seidl, were commissioned to create a minute-long film featuring Mozart's music. Seidl decided on the slaves' chorus from Zaide: "Brothers, let us be merry and bravely defy adversity" rings out while two dimly-lit men give themselves over to purposeless pleasure. They masturbate mechanically and monotonously. Paper towels stand ready next to them, as if waiting for consummation, the climax. Nietzsche claimed that all pleasure seeks to be eternal; Brothers, Let Us Be Merry depicts the hangover left by this unfulfilled utopia.

Scars

2006 • 47 min

Scars is a recreation of a series of interviews done over about a year with Chris, a man with a violent, dangerous past who, now with wife and child, talks about his regret for the pain he has caused to his victims, how his personality was molded by his violent father, and his fears for his young son. Jason Isaacs stars as Chris, and is interviewed by Leo Regan (as himself).

Moki, Sanna & Tonie

2006 • 57 min

Moki Cherry, Susanne "Sanna" Beckman and Tonie Roos, women who have lived close to successful men, while at the same time being independent in their various artistry. Moki was the widow of the jazz musician Don Cherry, Sanna is the daughter of the founder of Beckman's School of Design, Anders Beckman. Tonie lives with photographer Georg Oddner and is the daughter of Malmö architect Totte Roos. The friendship between the three artists has been lifelong.

The Fourth Sex

2006 • 27 min • Italy

Initially produced for the Surreal Sit-Com "The Fourth Sex" starring Claudio Santamaria in the role of Jesus that on the night of his 34th birthday goes to visit his new neighbors.

The Small Ones

2006 • 3 min

During World War II, the United States Army hired Lynne Sachs’ cousin, Sandor Lenard, to reconstruct the bones, small and large, of dead American soldiers. This short anti-war cine-poem is composed of highly abstracted battle imagery and children at a birthday party.

Postmortem Bliss

2006 • 11 min • United States of America

The over-medicated, addicted, and misdiagnosed generation of today.

Casket Climber Insect God

2006 • 3 min

After death, Teeth Man spends time around his casket with a monstrous insect and other horrid creatures before transforming into one himself.

Dangerous Love

2006 • 45 min

After a photoshoot in a secluded, forested area, all five band members are told to rest in the house they are staying at. Xiah, who desperately wants to play football, drags Max outside to play with him. Both get hurt and are rescued by a mysterious girl, who provides a place for them to heal from their injuries. However, they soon discover that she will not let them leave. Back at the main house, Micky is in his own world, extremely worried about his lost band-mates. Hero, after reading a fanfiction about his supposed romantic relationship with U-Know, becomes anxious about why U-Know is suddenly being extremely nice to him.

Lady's Pedigree: The Making of Lady and the Tramp

2006 • 52 min

A documentary on the making of Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp created for the 2006 Platinum DVD.