All Films

Praise

2005 • 24 min

Do I Look Fat?

2005 • 58 min

A look at gay men, their body images and eating disorders.

NightRise

2005 • 12 min

A ripe lad embarks on a raw correspondence with his mirrored image, and thus: the dialogue is "fleshed out" to its full potential.

Alright Love

2005 • 14 min • Germany

Boy meets girl in the escalator of a Berlin metro station. The boy decides to give love a chance and runs after the girl but she is nowhere to be found. Then the city of Berlin starts giving him signs where to go.

Hick Trek 2: The Next Aggravation!

2005 • 35 min

Captain Damn-Puke ReTard, Number 2, Mister Beta and crew take on the evil Frunobulax and his army of shape shifting dogs! Can this be the end of the Redneck Federation? Will the R.S.S. Bovine be destroyed by the Phydeaux III (Fido 3)?

Okinawa: The Final Battle

2005 • 50 min

OKINAWA: THE FINAL BATTLE is a riveting look at one of the most storied engagements in military history. Soldiers who were there, including USMC General Victor Krulak and Colonel Joseph Alexander (author of Utmost Savagery) recall the extraordinary circumstances that made Okinawa unique. The Japanese defenders, in an all-or-nothing attempt to stop the Americans, employed guerilla tactics, bolstered their defense with women, and sent wave after wave of Kamikaze planes at the attackers. Dramatic footage some of it unseen for decades captures the chaos and destruction of this ultimate battle, and military historians probe its lasting legacy. OKINAWA: THE FINAL BATTLE is a gripping portrait of one of the most important engagements in military history.

Shangri-La

2005 • 40 min

Patty Chang examines the idea of Shangri-La, the mythical hamlet of James Hilton’s 1933 novel Lost Horizon, which has come to represent a romanticized, exotic paradise in the English-speaking world. Chang’s video installation documents and explores her journey to an imaginary place—and to a town recently named Shangri-La by the Chinese government to exploit its touristic potential.

I Told Them My Camera Was On

2005 • 25 min

The video is a narrative game reconstructing Lai's own video diaries (1990-2003) and found footage. It plays with the thin line between remembering and fabricating, recording and staging, documentary and story... It shows 13 women's stories as a network of acquaintances, each in an isolated moment of her life. Questions on the practice of auto-ethnography are raised via "the politics of the everyday."

Two Women and a Man

2005 • 17 min • Israel

Justine Frank was a Jewish Belgian painter and writer close to the Surrealists — an artist the world truly needed. Roee Rosen found her. He was also, via the mysterious Johanna Führer-Ha’sfari, involved with the translation of Frank’s magnum opus, Sueur douce (Sweet Sweat).

Fragments For Eye Drift

2005 • 9 min

A film about seeing. A cut up of fragments from personal diary films intercut with WWII archive footage of the fire bombing of Dresden and Hamburg from the air and the ground (...) The ruins of Dresden's Frauenkirche and cranes are silhouetted against the sky. My daughter Ra as a child runs past the apple tree in Gran's garden in winter. Summer fruit ripens on an Umbrian hillside. Darren is sleeping. Dark streets of Perugia. The train to Siracusa the year after Mum died. The train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Berlin the year Derek and my mentor and curator Manfred Salzgeber died. Ten years on. With friends with HIV. Music from Simon Fisher Turner.

emptyspiel I

2005 • 10 min

The video is cut ups of faces in the light of a dream machine. Contrast and brightness to the maximum, what is revealed are the edges of the film frame filtered by the attenuate changes of light and frame frequency. This was always a test.

Maynard Ferguson: Live - At the Top

2005 • 60 min

Maynard Ferguson with his orchestra performs his most memorable songs and he amazes the fans with his stratospheric trumpet playing. Songs include: MacArthur Park, Chameleon, La Fiest, I Can't Get Started, Gospel John, and Got the Spirit.

IN LOVING MEMORY: Testimonials of Death Row Inmates regarding Life

2005 • 47 min • United States of America

In this film, people facing death or lives of extreme privation share their warmest memories and describe the good deeds they’ve done while living under the most difficult of circumstances imaginable. This intimate portrait offers a window, through their words only, into the inner lives of men and women living in maximum-security penitentiaries across the United States, most of whom are incarcerated on Death Row.

Le tombeau d’Aphrodite, Version 7

2005 • 11 min

Erotic and « sleepy » dreams...

Parres II

2005 • 3 min

Parres is a small town on the outskirts of Mexico City, halfway to Cuernavaca. It is a town in passing that has left immutable and imperceptible traces on the highway. Parres II is a bucolic self portrait that implements the use of rain that covers the screen, activating the monochrome outside the traditional frame of painting. The series is composed of three videos.

Nea Pintea... Model

2005 • 12 min • Romania

The story of Marin Pintea (now 82), former model at the Bucharest Art Academy – a story of a very particular conception about art and about one’s own existence. Beyond this, a film about the failed ‘immortality’ attempts of each of us, about time and death

Rastafaride 5 - Pull Up

2005 • 28 min

WW Productions 5th full-length ski film.

Early Morning

2005 • 2 min

The low winter light creates chiaroscuros in the bathroom, before the sun moves away from the horizon. Reflections and shadows on a decomposing mirror.

Curupira

2005 • 13 min

Clara is a ten-year-old girl who lives in a farm with her brutal uncle Epaminondas. One night, during a hunt, one of the employees disappears, and nobody suspects it may be the work of the Curupira, a mythological entity who protects the forests.

Heaven Our Eternal Home: Biblical Images of the Great Beyond

2005 • 60 min • United States of America

The George Gallup Institue reports that 70% of all americans believe in Heaven and 53% believe in a Hell. The Bible's view of the afterlife is embraced by more people living today than by any other generation in history. This program examines the histories of both places and how them came to be.

Evergreen

2005 • 15 min

‘This film looks at the nature of viewing nature and the problems we have created for ourselves in defining useful space: the contemporary act of viewing "landscape" requires an effort of wilful ignorance of our own position as present and influential, and what it takes to get to the point of being in a position to view it.’ (Robert Todd)

Monster Farm 5: Circus Caravan OVA - Kessei!! Orcoro Circus

2005 • 9 min • Japan

The Orcoro Circus is a band of people who have come together to bring joy to people's faces. Julio, a young boy in the Orcoro circus, wants to be a professional and famous Monster Breeder. One day after a performance a mysterious beautiful girl with special powers by the name of Nayuta came to force her way into the circus troop.

Tailor Thin-as-a-Thread

2005 • 13 min • Poland

In the town of Trajdarajda, lives Krawiec Niteczka. One day he finds out from a Gypsy woman that he will become the king. He sets off to meet his fate. Along the way, he meets Scarecrow and now they are wandering together. In the end, they come to the city, which is still raining. Princess promises her hand and kingdom to those who manage to remedy misfortune. Tailor Niteczka sees that it is because of the high castle tower, which spire torn and holds a huge cloud over the city is still raining. He orders to bring all the ladders, takes the needle and thread, climbs up to the sky and sutures the hole in the cloud. From here the sun shines over the city again, and as a reward, Krawiec Niteczka marries the princess and becomes king.

The Debt of Dictators

2005 • 43 min