All Films

The Art of Travel

2004 • 49 min • United Kingdom

In The Art of Travel, Alain de Botton sweeps us away on a journey into the world of travel, opens up our mind to new pleasures and possibilities, and enriches our experience of travel and life. Alain sets out on four separate journeys: a Mediterranean cruise, a city break in Amsterdam, a fly-drive holiday around former East Germany and a holiday at home in a caravan park in Kent. On each of his journeys, he reflects on the strange business of going travelling and has encounters, some poignant, others hilarious, with fellow holiday makers. He mixes his own thoughts together with those of famous artists and writers: Vermeer, Edward Hopper, and John Ruskin among others. The result is a beguiling and beautiful film that modestly suggests how we could learn to be happier on our journeys

In This House

2004 • 30 min

A documentary crew digs up a letter from a Lebanese socialist resistance fighter.

Feast Of Fools

2004 • 5 min

A Claymation animated short that took over 1 year to make. The film covers the exploits of a group of crazed cannibal clowns. They love to throw pies and then eat whomever gets smacked by them.

The Cat Empire: On The Attack

2004 • 59 min • Australia

On the Attack is a DVD of live recordings and videos of Australian band, The Cat Empire.

Oscar

2004 • 56 min

A fascinating ride with taxi-driver, urban artist and social-visionary Oscar Brahim as he challenges Argentinean contemporary consumerism and politics with his graffiti-style transformations of advertising billboards in Buenos Aires.

La Conquista del K2

2004 • 49 min

Ortem

2004 • 20 min

The main topic of the video work Ortem is the metro's traffic system, which creates a specific space and perception situation via its underground architecture. The film as an abstract essay focuses on phenomena like: speed, perception, architecture, memory and examines the two dimensional and anonymous aspect of everyday life and experience. The discourse about the representation of areas and places meets real architecture. The cinematic reflection of the social and cultural dispositives of urban spaces plumbs the intersections, which have designed it.

Chasmic Dance

2004 • 6 min • Canada

A visual metaphor for creative process as a sustained state of flux, whereby the deconstruction and reconfiguration of source material manifest themselves as a series of rapid abstract movements. Alluding to the cosmic dance of Shiva, the film is an expression of primal rhythmic energy, moving dialectically but without sublimation. Regeneration ignites destruction, and transformation invites mutation, through clashes of opposing modes such as video/film, surface/depth, and light/darkness.

Eyewitness In Iraq

2004 • 50 min

If a picture paints a thousand words, what will photographs from the Second Gulf War show us? This special focuses on the embedded photographers who traveled with fighting units on the cutting edge of the armored spear slicing into Iraq. The war was thereto be captured in all its raw truth by any photographer with the guts to step out and shoot the picture. In collaboration with the Associated Press, we view never-before-seen photos that portray the horror, struggle, and endurance of mankind.

Two Days to Zero

2004 • 23 min • United States of America

Part of a feature length narrative compressed 3 differnt times into 3 separate films of diminishing duration until the synoptic is synopsized (The Two Minutes to Zero Trilogy). A crime story told 3 different ways concerning the events of a two month period leading up to, and immediately following a bank robbery. The imagery has all been appropriated (the fancy, art world sanctioned term for stealing) from 4 issues of an early 1960's comic book version of the then popular, American TV show "77 Sunset Strip".

Precarious Garden

2004 • 13 min

A stereoscopic view of a suburban backyard.

Al Jarreau – Leverkusen Jazzstage 2004

2004 • 57 min

01. save me 02. my old friend 03. trouble in paradise 04. distracted 05. wait for the magic 06. cold duck 07. this time 08. lost & found 09. step by step 10. breakin' away 11. i will be here for you 12. boogie down 13. take five 14. spain

An Ambiguous Funeral

2004 • 12 min • Japan

This film is based on a decomposed footage entitled "the president of the hospital's funeral" which was made by anonymous cineaste in Kyoto, 1937.

Alvorada

2004 • 5 min • Brazil

An experimental essay about violence.

What Babies Want

2004 • 57 min

Research is now showing that the way babies are welcomed into the world has a profound impact on their later aptitude to make compassionate and meaningful connection with others as they grow. This film, narrated by Noah Wyle ("E.R."), explores the consciousness of infants, through cutting edge science, ancient cultures and traditional customs, making a strong case for ensuring that babies have every opportunity to bond with their parents at birth.

Transubstantiation

2004 • 3 min

"real and essential presence" imply also a "substantial presence," or transubstantiation.

Surfacing

2004 • 11 min

Our busy comings and goings, on the move, working at life are pictured, but layers of images and scratched emulsion make viewing through the depths an effort. If we scratch the surface, however... Glimpses of other states suggest we can surface.

3 Nation: The Life and Legacy of Dale Earnhardt

2004 • 60 min

Behind the scenes making of the Dale Earnhardt movie "3"

In Search of the American Drug Lords: Barry and The Boys From Dallas To Mena

2004 • 55 min

This is the story of Barry Seal. Could the assassinations and scandals that rocked America in the 60's and 70's have been perpetrated by the same people who caused the cocaine epidemic that swept this nation during the 1980s? See the results of a three-year investigation into the life and times of one of the most famous CIA agents and successful drug smugglers in America's history - Barry Seal.

Let No One Put Asunder: The Legal Recognition of Same Sex Marriage in Canada

2004 • 45 min

A look at the issues surrounding gay marriage in Canada, political, religious and social as evidenced by three gay marriages that the film focuses on.

Hey - Przystanek Woodstock festival

2004 • 59 min

DVD is a record of the concert of the band "HEY" during Przystanek Woodstock festival in Kostrzyn in 2004. In addition, the record includes an interview with the band, photo gallery and trailers of other DVDs.

Etiopia 1936: alla conquista dell'impero

2004 • 45 min • Italy

By means of a chronological arrangement of historical video material from the Istituto Luce archives, it tells the story of Fascist Italy's ambitions in Africa and the role they played in shaping fascist ideology and the stance of the fascist regime in the Western world at the height of the age of colonialism and aggressive European expansionism.

Vad hände med rufflaren?

2004 • 57 min • Sweden

About the former director Ulf Berner with millions in tax debts during the 1970s.

The Mystery Of The Disorderly Warriors

2004 • 49 min

A king who offended the all-powerful Emperor, and then rebelled against him, but failed. How do these dramatic events in China's history link to the finding of 4000 buried terracotta warriors discovered in Jiangsu Province, China?