All Films

Comma, Pregnant Pause

2004 • 26 min

In this short film commissioned for the 2004–05 Carnegie International, two people dressed as cell phones have a strange, disjointed conversation.

This is my heart

2004 • 2 min

In the subway of Berlin, an african woman get into the subway holding in her hand a red shard, she shouts « This is my heart ». These words induce silence during the remainder of the voyage. And one wonders: where do we us keep our prejudices? Selected for the New York Film Festival 2006.

Keel

2004 • 11 min

Two teenagers explore a shed where they find a small boat and decide to make an imaginary “journey” . In a moment of intimacy, one of the two decide to express their feelings , causing surprise and confusion in the other.

John Szarkowski on Ansel Adams: Speaking of Art

2004 • 39 min

During his nearly three-decade tenure as Director of the Department of Photography (1962-1991) at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, John Szarkowski recast the world's thinking about the art of photography. In this lecture on Ansel Adams, Szarkowski tackles the deeper significance of Adams' work beyond his enduring popularity as an environmental pioneer and rhapsodist of the American West.

John Szarkowski on Eugène Atget: Speaking of Art

2004 • 37 min

In this lecture, Szarkowski clearly relishes the chance to praise the photographer he confesses is first among equals, Eugène Atget. "I think that Atget is the single most inexhaustibly interesting of all photographers so far," says Szarkowski. "More interesting than Stieglitz or Weston or Cartier-Bresson; even more interesting than Walker Evans, who was his greatest student."

It's a Wonderful Red Green Christmas

2004 • 25 min

It's that time of year again: Christmas, when you spend money you don't have to buy family members, who you don't like to be around anyway, things they don't need, can't use and will get rid of in a garage sale before summer. So this year, do something different. Spend the holidays at Possum Lodge! It's really the ideal place for an old-fashioned Christmas. The guys are going to organize a Santa Claus Parade, Harold's going to attempt to lead a chorus of carols, and I'm going to demonstrate how to make your own animated lawn decorations. Plus, we'll give the husbands some advice on how to minimize serious marital repercussions from inappropriate gift choices. (In other words, we'll tell you what not to buy your wife.) Happy Holidays! Red

Scene For New Heritage 1

2004 • 4 min

In the first instalment of David Maljković’s breakout film trilogy, Scene for a New Heritage (2004–06), a trio of ‘heritage-seekers’ in the year 2045 attempt to make sense of sculptor Vojin Bakić’s scalloped, steel-panelled monument in the Croatian mountains of Petrova Gora.

Close to the Sea

2004 • 23 min

10-channel video installation. Sound by Jin Wang. A concert is being staged at the seaside. Accompanied by various musical instruments, the love story of a young couple is unfolded on the same location. The videos set on the centre display two scenarios taking place simultaneously: one shows a young couple riding a horse along the sea and the other a pair of lovers struggling for survival from a ship accident. The other eight screens deliver at the same time the performance of diverse instruments, a trumpet and a cello played on the rocks, for example. The background music, which is hallucinatory, dreamlike and even uncoordinated, reflects the conflicts between ideals and reality. The young lovers, despite the threat of death, continue with their discussion of ideal, faith and anticipation.

Un chant d'amour

2004 • 60 min

In the video "Un chant d'amour" the artist and two other male characters sustain a suggestive exchange of smoke and intensity through a wall that separates them. The allusion to Jean Genet is direct and yet sinuous.

Rainbow Pride

2004 • 56 min

In 1977, San Franciscan Gilbert Baker designed and made the first gay pride rainbow flag. This is a profile of the flag's creation and its history since then.

Ritualis

2004 • 8 min

Experimental short film made for the metal band Rostrum.

The Waves

2004 • 8 min

Always welcoming a visit to the coast, images and sounds were gathered at Red Rock, Ocean and Pacifica beaches and then sent through the generations. Artifacts are introduced and amplified in the process. Spending time with Woolf as the waves crash on the shore, appreciating her sense of scale.

Aldo Rossi: Il Teatro del Mondo

2004 • 45 min

The Teatro del Mondo is one the most famous works by the italian architect Aldo Rossi. This surprising floating theatre sailed, in 1979, from Venice to Dubrovnik becoming a legendary event in history of architecture. The man and the architect trough the words of some of his best friends and fans.

Rain Making

2004 • 6 min

Against a background of chants and prayers, the image of a minaret, emerging from amongst satellite-clad roof terraces, is repeated in a swift staccato montage. Accelerated clouds cross the sky behind it, and gradually envelop and overlap the sacred building.

Dalai Lama: Discourse on the Heart Sutra

2004 • 58 min • Japan

The Heart Sutra is the shortest and the most popular sutra in Buddhism and is regarded as a summation of the wisdom of Buddha. It expresses perfectly the insight attained by non-attachment, the doctrine of emptiness. In Buddhism, reciting Buddha-name and sutra has great merit and virtues and it is one of the effective ways in the cultivation of the Buddhist Way. The Heart Sutra reveals the entire secret of truth of the universe and life. Many Buddhists around the world recite The Heart Sutra daily. Although some may have incredible responses and benefits from it, they may not really and fully understand what it is.

The Cure: Making The Cure

2004 • 19 min • United Kingdom

The Last Day of World War I

2004 • 45 min

Discover why more soldiers died on the final day of the 'Great War' than on D-Day.

Troy: The Passion of Helen

2004 • 41 min

Legend has it that Helen's legendary beauty and sexual allure led to the destruction of Troy. This film presents a different portrait of the woman whose face famously launched a thousand ships. Scholars such as Camille Paglia and Arianna Huffington examine Helen as a woman and as a sexual being.

Fair Creature

2004 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Made in collaboration with the whole Gibb family from Saltcoats, an intimate self-portrait of their life within an Ayrshire housing scheme, edited from their own multiple cinematography and inter generational point of view. McIntosh spent a full year in collaboration with them as part of the Pixelcurious resource which facilitated one to one working relationships between artists and mothers using a local nursery.

Malaqueerche: Queer Punk Rock Show

2004 • 27 min

Two gangs. One town. The final showdown.This outrageous escapade that is MALAQUEERCHE: QUEER PUNK ROCK SHOW takes you through a twisted campy world ripe with deceit, sex, car chases and rock and roll. The Mohawks and The Mullets, two queer gangs in pursuit of Punk Rock Stardom. Each will do whatever it takes to succeed including bombing tires with butt plug roadblocks, taking hostages, and planting dirty deed doin’ two timin’ spies. Along the way, they enlist the help of the Fags, the Drags, and the Hags who witness the final showdown amidst a sea of flying condoms, fat bottom go go dancers and the loudest punk rock show this side of Japanese Rockabilly. Dress up in yer best double drag, grab yer favorite shimmering fag bat and climb into yer homo hot rod to experience the ride of yer life.

A Stroll Thro Ulysses

2004 • 23 min

Jame Joyce once said of Ulysses, that if Dublin City would disappear from the earth tomorrow, it could be recreated from the pages of his book. This Unique short documentary will take anyone willing to dive into its pages on a geographical tour of the exact locations of Ulysses. One hundred years after the 16th of June 1904 we walk with Bloom through the landscape of the greatest book ever penned.

China, the dragon's ascent. Family values

2004 • 58 min

This program captures a transitional phase of Chinese history in which many parents are struggling to instill Confucian values and their own received wisdom about life into their children ... who must weigh filial obedience, social obligations, and acceptance of established gender roles against a yearning for personal space and independence.

Carriage

2004 • 18 min

30 Years of Sisterhood: Women in the 1970s Women's Liberation Movement in Japan

2004 • 57 min

The film is based on the stories of 12 women who lived the Women's Liberation movement in Japan in the 1970s. The Women's Liberation influenced countless individual lives, and those who met the Women's Liberation realized the importance of living their own lives honestly with their own senses and thoughts, not influenced by some traditional values and norms.