All Films

Laramie Inside Out

2004 • 56 min

A Laramie local travels back home to document how the Matthew Shepard tragedy has changed her home town.

Charlie Hunter Quintet - Right Now Live

2004 • 60 min

Recorded in winter of 2002 by 1k Studios when idiosyncratic guitarist Charlie Hunter was still working with his Quintet. Its semi-animated graphics format conveys more than a little of the whimsy and infectious spirit in the eight-string guitarist's music, even as the bios of the individual band members and production credits thoroughly cover the academic side of this project. The segment featuring Charlie solo is a great opportunity to see how he plays his custom-designed guitar. You have to marvel at what a self-deprecating musician this Bay-area native is, but never more so than on "Recess," where he refuses to show off or flaunt his technique in any way.

Useless Dog

2004 • 5 min • Ireland

An observation about an inept but lovable farm dog.

It's Not Over 'Till The Skinny Arab Lights The Fuse

2004 • 51 min

Twenty different songs, skits, and strange behavior filmed live. Includes guest appearances by Eyvind Kang and Benayshe-Ba-Equay.

Half a Life

2004 • 54 min

Kay Wishoth and Claudia Laszczak's 2005 video documentary profiles five Turkish gays and lesbians. When Ebru, a 22-year old lesbian, came out to her family, her mother had a nervous breakdown; she feels she cannot be an out lesbian as long as she lives in Turkey. Omer, who is very popular among the bear set, cruises in parks and on the internet, unbeknownst to his wife and child. Demet is a MTF trans-activist who has been arrested and tortured by the police repeatedly because of her gender identity. Engin lives with his parents, who believe he's straight, but sneaks out for days at a time to be with his boyfriend. Serder strives to be an out gay activist, but does so with extreme caution.

Primeiros Passos

2004 • 18 min

I'd Like to Know About Love

2004 • 11 min

Marina Confalone plays a slick psychic reader handling other people's problems with nonchalance in a parody of fortune telling shows. She gets a call from a gay person asking her advice in personal matters and her countenance is tested.

Film-film #02

2004 • 5 min

The piece of a film (8 mm/16 mm/35 mm) is piled up, and a contact print is made on a desk. The frame of the film of a standard which is different in the inside of a frame overlaps, comes and goes.

The Band Aid Story

2004 • 60 min

Documentary about Band Aid, the bold 1980s initiative to highlight the plight of starving Ethiopian children. We learn how Bob Geldof recruited artists to record the anthemic single Do They Know It's Christmas?

Nous, enfants d'homos

2004 • 47 min

In San Francisco, same-sex parenting is commonplace, and children of gays and lesbians have long since ceased to be isolated cases. From this point of view, this part of California is decades ahead of Europe. Lesbian mothers, pioneers of homoparenting, constitute the great majority of homosexual parents. Who are their children? How did they grow up? Does one feel like a child or a teenager like the others when one grows up in a family and social environment that is predominantly homosexual? The film gives a voice to young adults raised by homosexuals, who tell their stories with candor and humor.

eau de cinema

2004 • 2 min

“eau de cinema is an attempt to contain the uncontainable, to bottle the essence of poetic thought and accident, as a perfume of the creative act. It is also memory driven by an irrepressible mourning, the way scent is linked to both loss and longing. Like cinema, it is both material and immaterial, an apparatus and the experience of light and time. It is disappearance and the obsolescence, of not only technology and culture, but also hybrids and beautiful mutations coming alive. “ — BE

Conversation With My Mother

2004 • 7 min • Poland

A fictional telephone conversation between the filmmaker and his mother on her birthday. A performative reflection on the relationship between public and private spheres in which the maker turns his back to the camera, simultaneously shielding himself, and engages the viewer in the (im)possibility of bridging the gap between the man and his mother. Capturing the intimate conversation seems to be a way of keeping a personal memory alive while it merges with the viewer’s memory.

Space. Way Home

2004 • 45 min • Russia

The film tells about one day in the life of the participants of the 7th International Space Expedition - Hero of Russia Yuri Malenchenko, NASA astronaut Edward Lu and representative of the European Space Agency Pedro Duque. This day, October 28, 2003, is the day of their return to Earth after a six-month space watch.

長峰ゆか みどか~My Sweet Girl~

2004 • 40 min • Japan

2004 release

Workers Leaving the Factory (after Lumière)

2004 • 12 min

16mm film (black and white, silent)

Flushing

2004 • 4 min

Shot at the Flushing Mall in Queens, New York, "Flushing" is tour of a mall that doesn't live up to the glossy standards of typical American consumer palaces, but is thereby, perhaps a better place to understand the yearnings for fantasy via retailing.

根本はるみ

2004 • 60 min • Japan

2004 release

Water Crystals In Motion - Messages From Water

2004 • 40 min

This amazing 40-minute video lets you see how water "listens" to music and "reads" printed words. You'll actually see the frozen water crystals forming.

Soul Purpose

2004 • 60 min

Soul Purpose is the 17th release from the acclaimed producers at Teton Gravity Research. After winning Powder Magazine's "Movie of the Year" award for last year's release, High Life, TGR stepped out further than ever before with trips to the far off reaches of the planet including Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Alaska, and Canada. This film captures the best of big mountain skiing and snowboarding while still focusing on skiing's freestyle movement. Shot entirely on 16mm film, Soul Purpose will take the viewer deep into the minds and abilities of the athletes, pushing further than any film has done before.

Just to Get a Rep

2004 • 55 min

More than thirty years ago, the youth of New York's neglected neighborhoods started a revolution by spray-painting their names on subway trains. The energy and freedom of this expression has inspired generations of youth throughout the world, yet the established authorities and institutions continually deny its merit. Working against the powers of the media, the police, and the art world, aerosol artists have developed a unique worldwide culture based on respect, camaraderie and a shared struggle to re-claim and re-create their environments. Just to Get a Rep rigorously examines the love-hate relationship between graffiti and hip-hop. Hear the true story of aerosol art as told by New York's pioneers as well as today's innovators from all over the world. Written by Anonymous

The Optimistic Futurist

2004 • 25 min

Leonard Maltin meets with author Ray Bradbury to talk about Walt and his creations. Bradbury discusses Disney’s optimism, his vision, and his achievements in television and parks.

Shock Act

2004 • 19 min

Vernon Phelps, an out-of-work actor living with his father in a squalid Brooklyn apartment, lands a job simulating electrocution for a prison research experiment.

Kyutai Panic Adventure Returns!

2004 • 9 min • Japan

A special screened at an event named Odaiba Boken-Oh, featuring characters from Dragon Ball Z, One Piece and Kochira Katsushikaku Kameari Kouenmae Hashutsujo.

The Emotional World of Farm Animals

2004 • 52 min

A documentary for viewers of all ages about the thinking and feeling side of animals that are all too often viewed as food. Jeffrey Masson leads viewers through the personal journey he underwent while writing The Pig Who Sang to the Moon. It brings Masson to animal sanctuaries around the country where caregivers and the animals themselves tell their harrowing stories of rescue and escape. Masson delves into the rich ancestry of these curious and intelligent animals and interviews top experts in animal behavior who offer scientific perspectives on these amazing creatures.