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Hausnummer 15

2004 • 8 min

The life of the young Maren is suddenly turned upside down when her boyfriend doesn't seem to know her anymore and therefore won't let her into their shared apartment. To make matters worse, he has apparently suddenly turned gay. But this is only the beginning of a bizarre development in Maren's settlement.

A Book

2004 • 4 min • Japan

The camera examines an old book about cinema through a small hole similar to a camera obscura. The camera repeats a zoom in/out, analogous to the movement of turning pages, but the text remains illegible. (S.K.)

T:o:u:c:h::o:f::e:v:i:l

2004 • 5 min • France

"A combination of Paul Sharits and Orson Welles in a crime drama that takes place in a series of rapidly changing images and illusive movements that create misleading expectations of the scene's climax."

Tabula Rasa

2004 • 8 min • Spain

"Revisiting footage he shot more than ten years ago in an American high school, Vincent Grenier combines deftly manipulated and layered images with oblique commentaries delivered by students and instructors. The socializing process of education is made visible in the architecture, surfaces and colours of the school, 'in the ambiguous quality of appearances so assiduously cultivated by institutions' (Grenier)." - Images Festival, 2005

On All Floors

2004 • 4 min

A dark comedy which tells the story of five people who are trapped in a falling elevator. Believing they have only a few minutes left to live, the lift's occupants start to confess their deepest, darkest secrets.

Kim and Cookie

2004 • 2 min

Two gay boys meet over cocktails to discuss last night's dates.

Pool with Two Figures

2004 • 6 min

Desire peaks and thoughts race as a man watches as another man swims naked in a pool.

Dans le soleil

2004 • 8 min

In the sun, a man says that he likes to look at us, to contemplate us, to admire us stare at us, captivate us... He also tells us many other very disturbing things.

Born Queer: Dear Doctors

2004 • 5 min

A 5 minute, black & white, intersex, experimental, spoken-word, video-art piece.

Brilliant Garden

2004 • 20 min • Japan

Walking socially empty spaces.

Night Ranger: Best Of The Videos

2004 • 21 min

Running 21 minutes, this DVD contains the videos for five of Night Ranger's first six chart singles, including the group's two Top Ten hits, "Sister Christian" and "Sentimental Street." The clips are each little films that, in the typical fashion of music videos, have something to do with the songs that serve as their soundtracks and allow plenty of space for the group members, particularly singer/bassist Jack Blades, to shake their curls and emote in performance.

Granny Queer - The Late Bloomers

2004 • 6 min • Australia

Granny Queer and her voluptuous girlfriend Sharlene are enjoying a nice wee Saturday morning lie-in when Granny sees that Sharlene's bloomers have gone missing from the line. Granny suspects their mysterious new neighbour Mr. Wit has something to do with it, and she's determined to get to the bottom of the matter.

Tchissète, The Mirror of the Tuareg

2004 • 52 min • Belgium

In his first feature-length documentary, filmmaker Sébastien Wielemans heads into the Sahel Desert in Niger and immerses himself in the world of the Tuareg, a traditional nomadic people. Wielemans does not travel along with the different tribes, but focuses his inquisitive camera on a small store in the desert. On a micro level, this meeting place constitutes a socio-economic gauge of the Tuareg's living conditions and manners. At the same time, it is the reflection of some tribesmen's underlying desire to abandon their wandering existence. Owing to a combination of stills that momentarily freeze a couple of tribesman and loosely shot images of meetings, anticipated or not, Tchissète, le miroir Tuareg transcends the common ethnographic documentary. With philosophical reflections on the influence of his camera lens on both subjects and filmmakers, the young director explores the cinematic language.

The Multiple Selves of Hannah Maynard

2004 • 12 min

A glimpse into the unique, eccentric mind of a pioneering Canadian photographer, Hannah Maynard (1834-1918). Born in England, Maynard immigrated with her family to Vancouver Island in 1862, where she set up her own portrait studio. After the sudden death of her youngest daughter, she produced a troubling series of experimental images that reflected her haunted state - an attempt to contact her beloved daughter's spirit.

Djaay Diap

2004 • 6 min • Senegal

Dakar. A city drainage canal is the backdrop for a fierce card game between a group of young people who, to the frenetic rhythm of a djembe, play...

In Search of the Hamat'sa: A Tale of Headhunting

2004 • 33 min • United States of America

The Hamat'sa (or "Cannibal Dance") is the most important-and highly represented-ceremony of the Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) people of British Columbia. This film traces the history of anthropological depictions of the dance and, through the return of archival materials to a First Nations community, presents some of the ways in which diverse attitudes toward this history inform current performances of the Hamat'sa. With a secondary focus on the filmmaker's fieldwork experience, the film also attends specifically to the ethics of ethnographic representation and to the renegotiation of relationships between anthropologists and their research partners.

Making of Capitalist Manifesto

2004 • 14 min • South Korea

Footage from the making/screening of Kim Gok & Kim Sun's Capitalist Manifesto

Cannonball Run Europe: Chasing the Cannonball 2003

2004 • 53 min

CHASING THE CANNONBALL gives you exclusive coverage of the most extreme road race anywhere--Cannonball Run Europe! This funny, all-access pass takes a look at the lawless world of street racing and the wacky characters who people it.

Helpline!

2004 • 5 min • Netherlands

Calling a helpline sometimes causes more problems than it solves. This witty experimental animation shows a person calling a helpline after not noticing porn on the internet. Solo-production by visual Artist Joli(e).

Dir en grey - TOUR04 THE CODE OF VULGAR[ism]

2004 • 1 min

DISC 1 : DVD TOUR04 THE CODE OF VULGAR[ism] 2004.04.25-26 Zepp Tokyo 1. G.D.S. 2. CHILD PREY 3. THE IIID EMPIRE 4. INCREASE BLUE 5. Mr.NEWSMAN 6. audience KILLER LOOP 7. DRAIN AWAY 8. MARMALADE CHAINSAW 9. Machiavellism 10. RED…[em] 11. AMBER 12. SAJOU NO UTA 13. ASU NAKI KOUFUKU, KOE NAKI ASU 14. NEW AGE CULTURE 15. OBSCURE 16. FUKAI 17. SHOKUBENI 18. Hydra 19. Ugly 20. KASUMI 21. THE FINAL 22. SAKU 23. HADES 24. The Domestic Fucker Family 25. BYOU「」SHIN 26. JESSICA 27. я TO THE CORE 28. umbrella DISC 2 : DVD BONUS FOOTAGE

Other People's Pictures

2004 • 54 min

Nine obsessive collectors share an unlikely addiction: snapshots that have been abandoned or lost by their original owners and are now for sale. Ready to pay hundreds of dollars for a single picture, they hunt for the images that feed their fantasies and quiet the voices in their heads. See what they find and learn why they want it in this surprising look at the little-known world of vintage snapshot collecting.

I Will Go Down In One Day

2004 • 27 min

Short film by Kazushi Ozawa.

A Beautiful Life

2004 • 30 min • Russia

A fugitive prisoner wanders into a distant hunting winter quarters, almost frozen in the taiga. A kind old hunter accepts him according to the Northern tradition: whoever the person is, he will first be fed, warmed, and only then asked where he is from and why. According to the same custom, everything that a traveler needs is left in the winter quarters: matches, dry firewood, salt, bread, cigarettes. But the villain did not appreciate the kindness of the hunter, stole his gun from him and the old man paid for the kindness with his life. Based on the story by V. Shukshin.

England's Greatest Goals

2004 • 45 min

A collection of 60 of England's greatest goals.