All Films

24

2004 • 10 min

The title "24" refers to 24 fps, which is the normal speed of film threading. The initial plan attempted to show the relationship between numbers, color, and melody, but thinking this was beyond the scope of the project. only numbers were left Numbers form groups, and within 16mm moves at the speed of "24"

Strap ‘Em Down! The World of Drag Kings

2004 • 4 min

A Hi-8 video documentary short on Lesbian Gender Bending culture by Swordfish Productions, Berkeley

Axis of Justice: Concert Series Volume 1

2004 • 44 min

1 Airplane Skit - Ahmed Ahmed 2 President Evil (Iraq Poem) - Knowledge 3 Speak on It - Knowledge & Serj Tankian 4 Until the End - Tom Morello, The Nightwatchman 5 The Road I Must Travel - Tom Morello, The Nightwatchman, Serj Tankian, Pete Yorn, Brad Wilk, Jonny Polonsky 6 Piano Impovisation - Serj Tankian 7 Charades - Serj Tankian 8 Free Jam - Flea, Brad Wilk, Serj Tankian 9 Chimes of Freedom - Flea, Brad Wilk, Tom Morello, Pete Yorn, Serj Tankian 10 Alice in My Fantasies - Flea, Brad Wilk, Tom Morello, Pete Yorn, Serj Tankian 11 Where the Streets Have No Name - Flea, Brad Wilk, Tom Morello, Pete Yorn, Tim Walker, Serj Tankian, Maynard James Keenan, Jonny Polonsky

Talkville

2004 • 28 min

On march 27, 2004, I captured the images of Itaewon, Gwang-wha-moon, and Nam-san.

Seed

2004 • 8 min • United States of America

""Seed" is my senior film made at the Savannah College of Art & Design. I wanted to do this in live action but it was going to cost too much money. So I bought a DVX100, some paint and sculpy, and made this instead." -Bennett Cain

Chapter Two Which Treats of the First Sally

2004 • 15 min

Her father receives a letter and leaves. The Next day the rest of the family leaves. Present – one day, walking in the street she remembers ‘the letter’ in a flash, and begins to look for the house they had left.

Riderless

2004 • 10 min

Single-channel video, color, sound, 2004. A reckless meander of words, Riderless explores a few lines from Elm, by Sylvia Plath. Special thanks to Jen Zereski. “Exceptional” Ioannis Mookas, Senses of Cinema, March 2004.

The Unconscious

2004 • 11 min

A father hides his relationship with a male lover from his daughter.

Blue Grey

2004 • 23 min • France, Syrian Arab Republic

Back at the place of his childhood in northern Mesopotamia, the author learns that this entire region will be engulfed in the waters of the largest dam built on the Euphrates in Syria. The filmmaker went there to capture the last images of the valley and daily life in the villages, which he had known well and where he had often returned to work, as part of archaeological missions. It thus testifies to a splendor doomed to be, forever, hidden from view.

Fire-blown Bamboo

2004 • 2 min • Japan

Short animated film by Tomoyasu Murata.

Mariko Takahashi's Fitness Video for Being Appraised as an 'Ex-fat Girl'

2004 • 4 min

Mariko Takahashi's Fitness Video for Being Appraised as an "Ex-fat Girl" is a short film by renowned art director and commercial film director Nagi Noda who created spots for Nike and Coca-Cola and starring Mariko Takahashi, a California born model.

Blanc X

2004 • 4 min

A girl brushes her teeth with a very special brush. Daily use of your sextoy recommended - for a perfect smile ! The transformation of the daily routine looks behind the codes of mainstream porn.

Human No More

2004 • 17 min • United States of America

A private detective consumed by an irreconcilable murder case descends into his caustic underworld one last time. There he must face the blind eye of Heaven, the hunger of Hell, and the relentless ambiguity of his own humanity.

Playground of Power

2004 • 57 min

Documentary (2005) Join us at Byron Drag way as we watch unbelievable Power Wheel Stands that leave you in total awe! With up to $25,000 and a lifetime of bragging rights at stake, these drivers will do whatever it takes to launch their vehicles to the NEXT level of POWER WHEEL STANDING!

Koboïbus, anneaux de nacre en Nouvelle-Guinée

2004 • 26 min • France

Even today, large mother-of-pearl rings are still being crafted in some villages in Papua New Guinea in the strictest respect of techniques inherited from ancestors. In the Koboibus region, the manufacture of these rings is a long-term activity. Its production requires the carrying of heavy bivalve shells during a three-day long inland trek from the islands of Mushu to their destination. Once there, they will be patiently sawn with the braided cord, perforated and polished until they reach the desired shape, conjuring up both feminine forms and the Calao bird. This "ancestral currency" is intended to be used in ceremonies and processions but can also be used to buy animals and as a dowry. An essential part of the social functioning of villages like Yabomnu or Kuabila, each ring has its own history which also conveys the memory and beliefs of the peoples of New Guinea.

Actresstress

2004 • 4 min • Italy

A first work saturated in mixed techniques which echo radically through the darkness of Italian independent cinema. Actressstress begins using the two parts of the same camera and adopting an out-of-phase technique, immediately notable for its specularity. These first two minutes highlight themselves for the calm that passes through them. With some rapid progressive editing by the video artist Elisabetta Saiu, the work unfolds a double graphic treatment of the film (coloring the layer which was the emulsion was partially removed and drawing geometric shapes on the other) at an intermittent period. The photographic figure which Drago emphasizes is notable with its skillful framing and planning the luminous surrounding space.

Khoa

2004 • 20 min

Khoa has two lives. Paralyzed since she was born, she is both a bread saleswoman and a champion of relay races in a wheelchair. Her name, 'Khoa', means victory.

Good Times

2004 • 33 min

Abu Dis is an Arab village situated in the shadow of Mount of Olives. After the second Palestinian Intifada, the Israeli government decided to build a 2-meter wall right in the middle of the village that divided Abu Dis into two sides. But now the wall is no longer a dividing border as it was intended. Everybody is climbing over it in order to get to Jerusalem. This situation reflects the general chaos of the conflict in which well-defined rules don't exist. The directors followed the day to day life that surrounds the wall through three main protagonists.

William Hodges: The Art of Exploration

2004 • 36 min

The painter William Hodges is increasingly seen as a key figure in eighteenth-century British art and in its relationships with the wider world. In an age of colonial expansion, Hodges accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage to the Pacific from 1772 to 1775. His vivid paintings of Tahiti, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands were the first such images widely seen in Europe. In the early 1780s, Hodges travelled extensively in northern India, and once again his paintings of landscapes and monuments were a revelation for audiences at home. This film reviews Hodges’ career and his complex and beautiful art. The contributors include Geoff Quilley, curator of the Greenwich exhibition, author and anthropologist Nicholas Thomas, and the eminent broadcaster Sir David Attenborough, who enthuses about the artist he believes is “the most unjustly neglected British painter of the eighteenth century.”

Sevdah: The Bridge That Survived

2004 • 59 min • United Kingdom

At the height of the Bosnian war a musical sensation was created drawing together musicians from all ethnic groups to create when all around was destruction bridges between peoples' souls.

Tooryanse

2004 • 7 min

Short animation by Tomoyasu Murata.

Alphabet

2004 • 5 min • Russia

Mysterious! Unbelievable ～Fear Contagion～

2004 • 60 min • Japan

This is the latest in a popular ghost documentary series that boasts an overwhelming number of submissions from the general public. Included are episode 1, "Suicide Ghosts," in which a photograph taken at the scene of a friend's suicide causes numerous horrors, and three other episodes related to ghost photography. It also introduces a number of ghost photos that have been submitted.

Miyuki Tachihara: Supernatural Series 3

2004 • 60 min • Japan

This is the third volume of a video series that includes everything about the amazing psychic, Miyuki Tachihara, who is very active on TV and other media. Unprecedented horrors you have never seen before will attack you....