All Films

Aventura: The Love & Hate Concert: Sold Out at the United Palace

2005 • 60 min

Hailing from the Bronx, the Dominican-American boy-band Aventura skillfully flavors its traditional bachata base with elements of hip-hop, rock, R&B, and reggaeton for a sound that bursts with contemporary pop savvy. Recorded live at the United Palace Theatre in New York's Washington Heights, this program captures Aventura in a sold-out concert performance interspersed with backstage interviews and behind-the-scenes footage.

Extraordinary People: The Boy with the Incredible Brain

2005 • 60 min

This is the breathtaking story of Daniel Tammet. A twenty-something with extraordinary mental abilities, Daniel is one of the world's few savants. He can do calculations to 100 decimal places in his head, and learn a language in a week.

Per sempre

2005 • 52 min

Per Sempre (Forever) examines the reasons that spur certain women to choose a religious life within a monastic community. The film starts with the fundamental question that prompts the film director to confront this reality: how is it possible, today, for a woman to make an extreme and permanent choice, one that will last forever?

The Birthday Massacre - Blue

2005 • 25 min

Features: "Blue" video, The making of Blue, Video Kid, Violet, Nevermind, Photo Gallery.

Nooma Sunday 004

2005 • 12 min

Why do we do the things we do? Why do we go to church or give money away? Because we're supposed to or because we think God needs it? Do we honestly put on our best clothes for an hour once a week, stand and sit at all the right times, and sing all the appropriate songs for God's sake, or because it'll make us look better to the world around us? We're tired of all the empty rituals and routines. And so is God. God hates it when we call ourselves Christians but ignore all the things he really cares about. He hates it when we go through hollow religious routines out of some feeling of duty or obligation. God doesn't want the meaningless rituals. God wants our hearts.

Chico Buarque - Estação Derradeira

2005 • 57 min

Kustom Kamera Kommandos

2005 • 2 min • United States of America

Making an obvious nod to Kenneth Anger's "Kustom Kar Kommandos", the film portrays a man gently cleaning and manipulating his camera.

Thrasher - King of the Road 2005

2005 • 56 min

Cops, Priests, Grandmothers & Kwik-E-Mart clerks all agree... KOTR is bananas. Time for a trip down memory lane. 2005 was a good year for KOTR, featuring high level trickery and top shelf hijinx.

About Sofía

2005 • 10 min • Spain

A 12 year-old girl remembers a bedtime story her father told her.

Principle 3

2005 • 3 min

Jinx

2005 • 8 min

The Funeral

2005 • 2 min

Short animation by Saori Shiroki.

Zeppelintribune

2005 • 5 min

A couple of turkish artists in Germany visit the Reichsparteitagsgelände.

Baby Faith: God Made Babies

2005 • 28 min • United States of America

The story of Moses is told in this animated presentation, hosted by Jodi Benson (Disney's "The Little Mermaid"), which helps parents nurture love, learning, and faith in small children by stimulating language and cognitive skills.

George Kuchar: An Interview

2005 • 46 min

Since the 1980s, Kuchar has been creating brilliantly edited, hilarious, and often diaristic tapes made with dime-store props and not-so-special effects, using friends as actors and the "pageant that is life" for his studio. In this interview, Kuchar, in a generous, gregarious mood despite the Manhattan summer humidity, discusses his life and the full range of his work from the early collaborative films to his most recent tapes. Conversational anecdotes, frank and witty, provide insight into Kuchar's working methods, as well as the work itself and its reception in various quarters.

Emilio's Eyes

2005 • 15 min

In Mexico, Emilio meets David and they have a one night stand. Emilio then follows David to Puerto Vallarta. In his pursuit of love will he overlook what's right in front of him?

Evocação de Barahona Fernandes

2005 • 22 min • Portugal

"Evocação de Barahona Fernandes" is a short documentary directed by José Barahona, focusing on his grandfather, the esteemed Portuguese psychiatrist Barahona Fernandes. The film delves into Fernandes's influential anthropological-medical model and its significant contributions to the field of psychopathology. Through intimate storytelling, the documentary offers a personal perspective on Fernandes's legacy, highlighting his profound impact on understanding mental health and the human psyche.

Audioslave: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival

2005 • 50 min

“Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2005 captures Audioslave’s high-voltage performance at the iconic Montreux Jazz Festival. Recorded live at the Miles Davis Hall in Switzerland, this concert features a powerful mix of songs from their second album Out of Exile, plus acoustic and electrifying covers spanning Soundgarden, Rage Against the Machine, and Temple of the Dog.”

杉ゆかり Baby Doll~かわいい誘惑~

2005 • 45 min • Japan

2005 release

Robert Burns: The Man and His Legend

2005 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Welcome to the extraordinary world of Robert Burns, Scotland's National Poet. Presented by Iain Cuthbertson, this unique video tells the story of the tortured genius whose poverty and passion gave birth to some of literature's greatest works.

Os waslala

2005 • 14 min • Nicaragua

The Waslala live in northern Nicaragua, a persecuted and overlooked people, Sandinista peasants repeatedly expelled by the army from an island in Lake Cocibolca. Pagán depicts three Waslala, carefully capturing through their gestures and voices the almost suicidal composure of those who have nothing to lose yet everything at stake.

Soldier Boy

2005 • 1 min

7-second short film about a couple who are separated during World War II

Mandarin Ducks

2005 • 36 min

Mandarin Ducks could be defined as a "black comedy" in which the artists comment on the neo-liberal climate of Western society at the beginning of the 21st century. In a succession of tableau-like scenes, we follow the twists and turns in the relations of ten individuals gathered in an apartment on a warm Sunday evening. In a stylized and fragmentary story that unfolds via monologues and dialogues charged with repressed hostility or unconcealed jealousy and bitterness, the artists explore the areas of tension between people, in particular those domains where social and political conflicts find their reflection in the personal.

Original Pride: The Satyrs Motorcycle Club

2005 • 56 min

The Satyrs Motorcycle Club was formed in 1954. As such it is one of the oldest gay motorcycle clubs in the world.