All Films

Secret of Tamaki Hiroshi “SPIRIT”

2004 • 31 min • Japan

A behind the scenes look at 'SPIRIT' (2004), featuring Tamaki Hiroshi.

眞鍋かをり KaoRemiX

2004 • 40 min • Japan

2004 release

Beach Angels ビーチエンジェルズ 大城美和 in パラオ

2004 • 40 min • Japan

2004 release

Crâne iatmul - La Mort n'en saura rien

2004 • 26 min

For the Latmul of Papua-New-Guinea, the head is all the being substance. Therefore they conserve their cranes of their ancestors, which after being cleaned and modeled are painted like the dead.

Hawkwind: Chaos

2004 • 59 min

This footage was filmed in Preston, England during their celebrated Chaos tour in 1986.

Besieged - The Ned Kelly Story

2004 • 53 min

The rise of terrorism and the persistence of social liberation movements highlight the question: what is the right way to respond to a corrupt government, oppression and injustice? The exploits of Ned Kelly, Australian icon and notorious outlaw, raise the same question. Thought a hero by some and a terrorist by others, this documentary sets out to examine the man and the issues and to tell the historically accurate story...Was Ned Kelly an outlaw, a freedom fighter or simply a murderer?

Francis Xavier and the Samurai’s Lost Treasure

2004 • 30 min

Young Francis Xavier had everything going for him. A champion at sports and studies, he was ready to win the whole world for himself. Then one day his best friend, Ignatius of Loyola, showed him that true champions are of far more heroic breed – those who risk all to win the world for God. Francis became a Jesuit missionary and set off to the farthest reaches of the world. He saved pearl divers, stood off pirates, and quested with a mysterious samurai warrior in search for a hidden treasure. FRANCIS XAVIER AND THE SAMURAI’S LOST TREASURE captures the true spirit of a daring man who braved the pearl coasts and jungles of India, and the forbidding castles of Japan, in amazing adventures of courage and faith.

Marillion: Brave The Movie

2004 • 50 min

Released as a cinematic follow-up to their critically acclaimed though mostly overlooked concept masterpiece, BRAVE, this film explores the album's general thematic thrust through the direction of Richard Stanley.

Kelly Slater & The Young Guns

2004 • 22 min

In late April 2004 Kelly Slater and five of the world's best up and coming surfers travelled to Indonesia for 10 days on board the Komodo in search of perfect waves. Along for the ride were some of he leading surfing cinematographers to document this trip.

St. Ignatius Church Exposure: Lenten Light Conversions

2004 • 2 min

Lynn Marie Kirby’s Lenten Light Conversions is a “hybrid” work, created first by exposing raw film to light inside St. Ignatius during the forty days between Lent and Easter, then edited on digital video. --Michelle Hyun

Freestyle

2004 • 26 min

Elena Elmoznino’s short doc Freestyle has such an irresistible subject matter — it’s about “canine freestyle,” a sport in which dogs and their owners dance competitively — that all she really needed to do was point her camera at these prancing duos and let the footage speak for itself. But what makes Elmoznino’s film a true delight as well as an award winner (it nabbed Best Short Doc at Slamdance 2004) is its sure storytelling sense and the compassionate humor with which it depicts its subjects.

Black Sabbath: Live at the Beat Club

2004 • 18 min

On May 25 and September 26, 1970, as promotion for their first two studio albums, Black Sabbath made ​​two appearances in the city of Bremen, Germany, for the music program Beat-Club, performing the songs Paranoid, Black Sabbath, Iron Man and Blue Suede Shoes. The performances were officially released on DVD as part of the Black Box set in 2004.

Butterfly of Love

2004 • 4 min • Belgium

By subjecting fragments from the film 'Rashomon' by Akira Kurosawa to the mirror effect, Provost creates a hallucinating scene of a woman's reverse chrysalis into an imploding butterfly. Papillon d'amour produces skewed reflections upon love, its lyrical monstrosities and wounded act of dissappearance.

Here to Remember

2004 • 30 min

Join celebrities and noteworthy faces in the LGBT community as they come together to commemorate the lives of friends and loved ones lost to AIDS.

Crush.Fukk.Create: Requiem for Generation Armageddon

2004 • 40 min

Crush.Fukk.Create: Requiem for Generation Armageddon is the first live DVD by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth Live Pandemonium - Live At Party San Festival 2003.

The Great Art of Knowing

2004 • 37 min • United States of America

"This chapter of my ongoing exploration of the Byrd library finds its name and shape within a single volume from that collection: Athanasius Kircher's 17th century encyclopedia, THE GREAT ART OF KNOWING. Herein find tangled texts and crossed destinies, filled with figures at once buried deep and tossed high by History, lined with traces of a hidden romance. Love finds purchase between tightly shelved volumes. In the spaces between the letters. In the lines themselves. An antinomian cinema seems possible. A gentle iconoclasm? The image is always backwards in a mirror. The story unfolds slowly. The fourth film from the Byrd project." - David Gatten

Postcard from Sun City, Arizona

2004 • 3 min

Joshua Oppenheimer sets images of life in a retirement community in Arizona (as seen through television commercials) to a talk radio interview with a female convict extolling the benefits of her time on Sherriff Joe Arpaio's chain gang. It is two different kinds of sale jobs working at cross-purposes. Oppenheimer takes the luster off the idealistic advertising images through video distortion and electronic interference and cuts-up both the video and audio tracks until the weird poetry of the chain gang prisoner's lessons in life and death gives the commercial presentation a creepy disconnection from any kind of living ideal. It follows A BRIEF HISTORY OF PARADISE AS TOLD BY THE COCKROACHES and MARKET UPDATE as another sharp jab at consumerism as an illusory promise.

Ebullition

2004 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Colors and bubbles bustle energetically via oil, ink and clear acetate.

Let Me Count the Ways: 10...9…8…7…6

2004 • 22 min

The title simultaneously references the countdown to the dropping of the bomb and suggests anticipation. Minus 10 juxtaposes footage of the artist’s father in Los Alamos and on the way to Tinian Island with an interview with a woman in Japanese about the bombing. Minus 9 aligns an American nurse’s eyewitness account of the bombing and its aftermath with aerial landscape shots blocked by a blinking blue circle which could represent a mutant sun, an eye, planet Earth, an afterimage, or the inverted “rising sun” of Japanese national symbolism. Minus 8 and Minus 7 show excerpts from a documentary, The Growth of Plants overlaid by running text describing radiation-induced botanical mutations. Minus 6 explores current American war policies and ethics contrasted against the histrionics of Adolf Hitler; as the dictator gesticulates on-screen, women’s voices recite a diatribe by Goebbels.

Kashtanka

2004 • 21 min • Russia

The film is dedicated to the adventures and reflections of a small dog named Kashtanka.

Harry’s Passion

2004 • 54 min

Collaboration with Grandpa’s Ghost.

Gender Equality

2004 • 3 min • South Korea

A pictogram of a woman in a toilet comes out to the outside world and reproduces herself. She tries to enter all male-oriented pictograms such as exit signs, elevator signboards and traffic lights.

Altitude Zero

2004 • 5 min • United States of America

a feminist palimpsest of cinematic representation

Primary

2004 • 3 min

Impressions of a day in primary colours, applied to the eyes via paint, ink and clear leader.