All Films

Nature on Rails

2004 • 60 min • Brazil

Know in full all about the particularities of this rail ride that has been enchanting thousands of passengers for over a century. In this trip it is difficult to distinguish who plays the main role: whether the Railway or the Nature. The Paranaguá - Curitiba Railroad is one of the largest engineering works in the world, with 110 km (68 mi) of tracks including 13 tunnels, 30 bridges and several wide span viaducts. In the course of the trip, what is easily perceived is the beauty of the scenery when crossing the Serra do Mar, considered a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO.

Antonin Dvorak: Deo Gratias

2004 • 56 min

A documentary that portrays the famous Czech composer as a man of strong character, sensitivity, education and Christian faith, as a patriot and a man whose talent took him from a very modest family background to the highest peak of fame. How was it that a musician unknown until the age of 33 became adored all over Europe, was invited to the USA to help create a national American music, was awarded doctorates and honorary memberships from top international orchestras? Where did Dvořák draw the strength from to preserve his own identity and not succumb to contemporary fashion?

Boop-oop-a-doop

2004 • 5 min

Issues of sampling etc are combined with analogue video synthesizers/digital manipulation to unlock the invisible tie between the past and the present. -SH

Behind the Scenes: Making of Halo 2

2004 • 53 min • United States of America

Behind the Scenes: Making of Halo 2 is a short film documenting Bungie's production and development of the game Halo 2. It was released with the Limited Collector's Edition of the game.

Schizo (Redux)

2004 • 22 min • Austria

In this film, Swiss artist Christoph Draeger layers Gus Van Sant’s “Psycho” remake and Alfred Hitchcock’s original version completely over one another.

Self-Contained

2004 • 2 min

A woman lying on a hardwood floor covered in plastic wrap.

Salaryman Man

2004 • 2 min • Japan

A group of businessmen working together to stop evil

Score

2004 • 5 min

"Animation based on an extreme close up of an image taken by Nasa's Hubble telescope, depicting the deepest we can see into space. By zooming into the picture, I have tried to extract further information out of something that to me is an image of the defintite limitation of our knowledge of the world."

Trique-trique

2004 • 14 min

Antônio dreams of having a bicycle. His toys are improvised, and he needs to use his creativity to have fun. One day, a group of children arrive at his home with a broken bicycle, and his routine changes.

Autorretrato Livia Duclerc

2004 • 1 min

This film was produced during the FILMWORKS - Technical Course in Cinematographic Direction at the International Academy of Cinema (AIC).

Fraternidade

2004 • 3 min

Icologia

2004 • 26 min

Wise and very popular in Pirenópolis, Seu Ico leads us through the mysteries and wonders of the cerrado, in this sensitive film by Ângelo Lima, rescuing the importance of the popular saber as a fundamental condition for the preservation of the Brazilian cerrado.

Oxygen

2004 • 10 min

Unnoticed by her classmates, a young woman commits suicide during her French class. Adam smokes a cigarette; chats with a friend; a riot erupts. Jesse is injured in a skating accident; Adam offers medical assistance. A woman fires a gun. Amanda asks Jesse for help; a suave student offers his services. Later in the parking lot, Jesse shows Adam his little friend.

You're Still Young

2004 • 11 min

A despondent and sexually confused 16 year-old girl approaches a crossroads in her life and her path is altered when she meets a mysterious stranger in a diner who knows too much about her and takes an interest in her future.

Ethiopia through Egyptian Eyes

2004 • 30 min

A documentary by Atteyat Al Abnoudi.

Eden

2004 • 6 min • France

The incessant exploration of the borders of our world banishes us further and further from its centre, just as the discovery of how our physical exterior functions has shifted its centre from the heart to the brain. The video entitled (Eden) plays with visual collusions, the representations of various different cultures reminiscences of our dreams, our myths, our desires, yearnings and anxieties.

Bambi's Beastly Buddies

2004 • 15 min

"In Bambi's Beastly Buddies, Bambi and skunk embody innocence, vulnerability and love. I lit Bambi on fire to a refrain from Beethoven's Ode to Joy, on the morning of May 11, 2004, when I read that Nick Berg, an American telecommunications contractor, was beheaded by Islamic militants on live video. I felt Bambi's incineration symbolized the times we live in." — Ellen Cantor

I Am Sad

2004 • 5 min

The video I am sad is part of a series of works on "digital translations of reality".

Wobbl And Bob

2004 • 60 min

The two main characters, Weebl and Bob, are best friends, but are easily prone to harassing and insulting each other though these insults are mainly directed at Bob. Both characters are egg-shaped creatures with wide mouths that split their heads in half (like the Canadians from South Park), and move by rolling, hopping or swaying back and forth. They just mutter and 'talk' in a way that they seem to understand between the two of them. Weebl is the larger of the two, during the series it is revealed that Bob's small stature is due to a cheese overdose in the 1980s.

The Binding of Isaac

2004 • 6 min

An animated take on the bible story, focusing on choices and repercussions

Foci Coincide

2004 • 20 min

picking up change in the kung fu theatre

2004 • 1 min • Ireland, United Kingdom

Cigarette on newspaper.

A Woman Reported

2004 • 5 min

In the brief moments before a hate crime occurs, a young woman imagines her escape.

20 minutes with Melik Tutuncu

2004 • 20 min

Melik Tutuncu, Chicago-based architect of Turkish origin, talks about his grand-mother, Safiye Behar, a Jewish marxist feminist who had a 30 year-long affair with Mustapha Kemal Atatürk and influenced many of the reforms he was implementing in the 1920's, which founded modern Turkey.