All Films

Tokyo Blade: Live in London

2005 • 60 min

Rockers Tokyo Blade saturate London's Camden Palace Theatre with their trademark heavy-metal guitar riffs in this 1985 concert. Founded by guitarist Andy Boulton, the band gained international cult status in the mid-1980s with albums such as "Tokyo Blade/Midnight Rendevous," "Night of the Blade" and "Warrior of the Rising Son." They perform hits including "Dirty Faced Angels," "Lightning Strikes," "Black Hearts & Jaded Spades" and "Love Struck."

Panzer III: Medium Tank

2005 • 57 min • United States of America

Meet the Panzer III medium tank, one of Germany's showpiece weapons in World War II, often appearing in newsreel footage documenting early Nazi victories in Europe. Though it could easily hold its own against the Allied forces' tanks, the Panzer III met its match on the Eastern Front against the Russian T-34. By the end of the war, it had been shifted to secondary fronts and was often used as a command tank rather than on the main battlefield.

Motown: The Early Years

2005 • 41 min

Are You Ready For A Brand-New Beat? The gritty urban environment, the burgeoning pride and drive of black Americans, and blues, soul and gospel influences combined to form the music coming out of Detroit in the early 1960s. The sounds of early Motown were hopeful and soulful and, above all, made you want to dance.

In The Beginning Was The Word

2005 • 18 min

Three stories that take place in a bar, on a carnival day, complement each other and merge into a back and forth lyrical and humorous, which seeks to weave a reflection on the concept of truth and our search for explanations of an everyday phenomenon who nevertheless are far from fully understanding, like the invention of the wheel, or the way of life of other cultures.

Alla kan... inte ta körkort

2005 • 29 min • Sweden

A documentary about some people who together have taken hundreds of driving lessons.

Brainman

2005 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Daniel Tammet has autism. He is also a savant. He can perform mind-boggling mathematical calculations at breakneck speeds. But unlike other savants, who can perform similar feats, Tammet can describe how he does it. He speaks seven languages and is even devising his own language. Now scientists are asking whether his exceptional abilities are the key to unlock the secrets of autism. This documentary follows Daniel as he travels to America to meet the scientists who are convinced he may hold the key to unlocking similar abilities in everyone. He is challenged to learn Icelandic, one of the world’s hardest languages, in just one week. Will Daniel do it? And what can we learn from this prodigious talent?

Grey

2005 • 8 min • Bulgaria

Summer, bus stop, ordinary people, indifference... RAGE!

Stationary Music

2005 • 15 min • United Kingdom

In Stationary Music Jayne Parker finds an external shape for an internal process - Katharina Wolpe playing her father's 1925 Sonata.

Montaña de luz

2005 • 53 min

The Cuban documentary Montaña de Luz-produced by ICAIC (Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos)-follows Cuban doctors working in collaboration with the communities throughout Latin America and Africa.The doctors work for no pay in areas of the world where there is either no medical care available or where the few local doctors are unable to meet the enomorus need, such as the AIDS epidemic in Namibia and flood victims in Haiti.

Children of Rome Open City

2005 • 53 min

A look at the making of Roberto Rossellini's neorealism classic, Rome, Open City.

Another Place and Yet the Same

2005 • 35 min • Russia

It is my endeavor to stop time for a moment and to look through a different prism at things which have been around us for so long, forgotten and unnoticeable by us for so long. Forest, lake, meadow, sky... twilight... moon.

Gallery Dogs

2005 • 3 min • Peru

2005 Peruvian experimental short

Blind Alley Augury

2005 • 3 min

A direct record with on-screen edition in which beings, objects, light, shadow, and color are portrayed in a program, as if they were part of an ecosystem.


The Girl Who Lost Her Head

2005 • 21 min

Out of the Closet

2005 • 13 min

Despite often being deemed the most liberal society in the Middle East, Lebanese law still condemns and criminalizes homosexuals, often arbitrarily arresting and abusing innocent civilians. This documentary features interviews with gay citizens who have suffered rejection from their families and been ignored by the law. It features an interview with oneof the founders of Lebanon's first LGBT rights organization, Helem.

Sketch Film #1

2005 • 3 min • United States of America

Sketch Film #1 (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2005, 3 min., super 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, USA) As a painter carries a sketchbook and practices drawing, I carried a Super 8 camera and shot frame by frame, as an everyday exercise to make animations of lines and shapes found in the public space. The entire film was edited in camera and hand-processed afterwards.

Red Bull 5X

2005 • 42 min

A new pick-up game for surfing. Andy Irons, Mick Fanning, Bruce Irons, Jamie O'Brien, Ian Walsh, Ben Dunn, Beau Emerton, Alex Gray.

Aim

2005 • 3 min

Western-found footage, manipulated to the point of being unable to convey a plot: an armed robbery is prevented through the camera, which brings one figure into a grotesque conflict. The armed confrontation gets stuck in a pounding staccato, while the public - although enbedded in the narration - remains disinformed.

Shadows Choose Their Horrors

2005 • 31 min

Shadows Choose Their Horrors is the dark and melodic diary of a necromancer living on the edge between the mortal world and the realm of lost souls. Sinister forces surround Madame G (Winsome Brown) as she tries to bond with her favorite undead. Using magic and ritual to give them new life and pleasures, Madame G is shocked by the devastating outcome. This camp and experimental reworking of early silent horror was inspired by both the un-staged Aaron Copland ballet Grohg, and the film that stirred the young Copland to write his ballet, Nosferatu.

Oil and Water

2005 • 26 min

Superimposing images and layering psychological inquiry with poetry, Oil and Water is an experimental environmental film, attempting to sway the heart in ways reason and science cannot.

Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the Korean People's Army

2005 • 60 min

This is a documentary film about the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Army of North Korea.

Motion Studies: Gravity

2005 • 3 min

Gravity was shot on a quiet fall afternoon and provides empirical evidence of the instantaneous propagation of gravity and our world's drag on foreign bodies. Set against the tragic transmissions of Soviet cosmonauts, it's a short study of humanity's persistent self-sacrifice for the sake of scientific 'progress'.

Urban Inuk

2005 • 47 min • Canada

Qallunajatut (Urban Inuk) follows the lives of three Inuit in Montreal over the course of one hot and humid summer.Only two generations ago Inuit lived in small, nomadic hunting camps scattered across the vast Arctic landscape. Since the 1950s, this traditional lifestyle has undergone an astonishing transition from Stone Age to Information Age, as Inuit first relocated (often by force) to government-run settlements, and, more recently, beyond the settlement into southern cities.

A Little House on a Tree

2005 • 6 min • Croatia

An animated film about loyalty and friendship that are able to overcome all trials. The unusual friendship between a boy and a tree forms an even more peculiar tree house, which seems to have grown up with the tree.