All Films

Loretta Lynn: In Concert with the Edmonton Symphony

2005 • 48 min

Country-music legend Loretta Lynn performs several favorites, backed up by the Edmonton Symphony in this concert, recorded in November, 1978. Among the songs included in Loretta Lynn: Prime Concerts - In Concert with Edmonton Symphony are "Coal Miner's Daughter," "Out of My Head and Back in My Bed," and more.

The Long Blondes: Cake Shop - NYC - Jun 22 2005

2005 • 24 min

The Long Blondes live in New York City, filmed and officially released on DVDr by Punkcast. Features the songs Lust In The Movies, Swallow Tattoo, Autonomy Boy, Big Infatuation, Once And Never Again, Appropriation (By Any Other Name), Gidddy Stratoshpheres, Seperated By Motorways and Darts.

Chicha City

2005 • 47 min • Peru

This documentary narrates the different stages through which the Peruvian cumbia genre has passed. The story is told by the leading musicians of this movement, such as Jaime Moreyra and Julio Simeón from the group Los Shapis, Edilberto Cuestas from Los Ecos, Jorge Rodríguez from Los Mirlos, “Tito” Caycho from Los Destellos and Rossy War, among others equally outstanding. Their testimonies are commented on by specialists who observe the Peruvian cumbia as a sociocultural phenomenon such as Carlos Iván Degregori, Gonzalo Portocarrero, Rodrigo Montoya and Teófilo Altamirano

Fallujah. La strage nascosta

2005 • 27 min • Italy

A horrific record of reckless acts by the US to the citizens of Fallujah.

Daughter

2005 • 1 min

Short film by Liang Yue.

1000 Years of Karakami Art

2005 • 49 min • Japan

Karakami is a decorative Japanese paper used to ornament interior sliding doors during the Edo period. Woodblock-printed motifs, such as cherry blossoms and dragons, are said to have inspired several prominent European artists in the 19th century. This program examines the history of karakami through the work of a family in Kyoto that has preserved this traditional art form for nearly 400 years.

Ballon

2005 • 2 min • Japan

12 red balls spring from the ground into the air. They fall down, come to a stop and fade away to show the beautity of gravity's rhythm

The Pond: Big Mouth Bass

2005 • 32 min • United States of America

A Big Mouth Bass, living in the pond, sucks down toys because she doesn't like the noise when the creatures are playing. But then, she disappears. Now the Pond creatures have to make a choice: Celebrate or rescue her? More biblically-based, character-building lessons from the entertaining Life at the Pond Christian videos for kids (and kids at heart).

Pontmain - Quand la Vierge Marie écrit dans le ciel

2005 • 45 min • France

Pictures Of Finland: Wonderland Suomi

2005 • 47 min • Finland

Photographs of Finland with music masterpieces.

Baby Faith: God Made Families

2005 • 28 min • United States of America

This Is The 5th Episode Of Baby Faith.

Key Matters: Preparing for Children's Time Alone

2005 • 20 min

The Aid Association for Lutherans provides information on safety for your children when they are alone at home.

What Are You Anyways?

2005 • 11 min • Canada

Jeff Chiba talks about his early life in white-bred Kelowna, BC, Canada.

Holiday Home Invasion

2005 • 60 min

A team of decorators, carpenters, and chefs invade a home and transform it with an outrageous holiday theme that could make the neighbors gasp!

The Family Who Vanished

2005 • 47 min

Mr Chohan, his wife, her mother and their two baby sons were lured into a trap and the brutally murdered, covered up as a tragic disappearance in an attempt to hijack their £5million family business - intended to be re-purposed, to cover a drug ring by criminals.

sisyphus

2005 • 4 min

'Sisyphus' is a silent 16mm film shot on a Bolex exploring a journey that never ends. I made this film at renowned experimental filmmaker Phil Hoffman's Film Farm workshop in Mount Forest, Ontario. Originally, I wanted to create a simple statement about overcoming depression. The ultra short narrative in 'Sisyphus' uses heartbreak as a metaphor for depression, since depression is just that - being heartbroken about life. The creative process and the practice of handmaking films speaks to treating life as a work in progress, thereby positively embracing the permanence of Sisyphus in my life. The lush, organic imagery in 'Sisyphus' was created by hand-processing 16mm black and white footage in a bucket and hand-tinting and toning individual pieces of film.

Memory of a Square

2005 • 17 min

Memory of a Square is a double-screen projection video installation. One screen shows a series of eleven episodes narrating the history of a fictional family over three generations in their domestic environment. The second shows documentary film footage and photographs, taken from various sources between 1930 and 1980, of everyday and political activity in Taksim Square in central Istanbul.

Pink Houses

2005 • 51 min

The story of John Schenck and Robert Loyd, two men who have experienced Stonewall and Vietnam. However, their biggest battles have taken place in the small town they call home. They now are gay rights activists living in the rural town of Conway, Arkansas. They have organized a mock wedding on the Capitol steps in Little Rock, lead the first Conway Gay Pride Parade, and survived harassment from bigoted locals, including one who dumped 6,000 pounds of manure on John and Robert's yard. While John and Robert have orchestrated many protests and demonstrations, their most persuasive activism is the strength of their loving thirty year relationship

Small Town Secrets

2005 • 9 min

A highly textured film that travels back to the early 1980s, Small Town Secrets documents a woman’s exploration of her childhood growing up with two closeted gay parents in a small, midwestern town. By weaving together a collection of home movies and conversations with her parents recorded via web cam, Small Town Secrets remembers why keeping it a secret felt like the only option.

Ideology

2005 • 5 min

Shattering taboos about the politically correct and debunking dominant social constructions Ideology takes a sudden turn into the dichotomy and the contradictions of love beyond ideological commitment.

Rock Adio

2005 • 28 min

Skate video by Adio Skaters Alex Chalmers, Anthony Schultz, Bam Margera, Brian Brown, Brian Sumner, Casey Rigney, Chris Roberts, Danny Montoya, Ed Selego, Ernie Torres, Jeremy Wray, Joey Brezinski, Jose Rojo, Kenny Anderson, Nate Broussard, Nick Dompierre, Richie Belton, Ryan Bobier, Sean Eaton, Shaun White, Steve Nesser, Tony Hawk, Trace Saylor

L'Incudine Delle Forze

2005 • 5 min

Short by Mauro Leone.

Latent Sorrow

2005 • 3 min

Moving Painting #7 to reach coexistent point where abstract and figure are equally fused.

Recruiting

2005 • 9 min

An unexpected proposal for a gay everyman. What is identity, and what is its price? What could be a very low-key pick-up scene soon morphs into a bazaar revelation and proposition. An absurd story that takes the standard right wing notion of the "homosexual agenda" and turns it on its head - but is not far from the truth.