All Films

Narciso Rap

2004 • 18 min • Brazil

Narcissus, a black boy from the periphery, gets a magic lamp and asks the genie to be seen white by white people and black by black people.

Sexjunkie

2004 • 9 min

Directed by Julia Ostertag.

Andaluz

2004 • 6 min

A traveler’s love letter to Andalucía, this animated film is an homage to the culture, landscape, and architecture of southern Spain.

Christian

2004 • 35 min

The Son of God Visits a tough British high School disguised as a fourteen year-old... and sparks soon fly. The King Of The Jews meets The Lord Of The Flies.

Nine Innings from Ground Zero

2004 • 60 min • United States of America

Short, well-made documentary showing how the NY Yankees vs. AZ Diamondbacks world series games, just a month after 9-11, provided welcome relief from the uncertainty New Yorkers, and the nation, felt about how to proceed with their lives. The Yankees, during the series, came to symbolize and re-strengthen everything that was, and is, New York... and America.

Páramo

2004 • 17 min • Peru

Based on the story "Andare verso il popolo", by Alberto Moravia, this 17-minute satire is about a young upper-class city woman, who handles a totally mythologized discourse of the "good Indian" and the Andes, who come to the mountains to face a totally different reality.

Border

2004 • 27 min

In 2002, Laura Waddington spent months in the fields around Sangatte Red Cross camp, France with Afghan and Iraqi refugees, who were trying to cross the channel tunnel to England. Filmed at night with a small video camera, the figures lit only by the distant car headlights on the motorways, Border is a personal account of the refugees' plight and the police violence that followed the camp's closure.

Little Angels: The Brightest Christmas

2004 • 42 min

Enchanting story about five hip and hilarious children, who just happen to be Little Angels, who live to help children in need. In this very special Christmas story, a little boy named Daniel is left in charge of his younger brother and sister whilst their father goes out and looks for work.

Basis-PH

2004 • 5 min • Austria

2004 short by Dietmar Brehm

Motion of Light

2004 • 9 min • Canada

Mouvement de lumière (Motion of light), which is comprised of noise music and lines hand-painted directly onto the film, attempts to break free of a visual and sound-based order through abstraction, thereby initiating a process centred on inner sensation. A radical proposition of power inherent in film. Music by Olivier Borzeix.

Tawidgutom

2004 • 3 min • Philippines

TAWIDGUTOM is an experimental love poem composed of images that recur and repeat themselves.

Operation Anaconda: The Battle of Roberts' Ridge

2004 • 48 min

An Army Ranger quick reaction force attempts to rescue a patrol pinned down on a mountaintop in southeast Afghanistan. They have no idea that within twelve hours five of them will lie dead in the mountain snow after an intense and deadly battle.

Verano del ángel

2004 • 43 min

Day of Miracles

2004 • 56 min

"Day Of Miracles" is the Documentary about the "True-Life-Survivors" of the event at the New York Twin-Towers on September 11, 2001. The "Stars" are the actual survivors of 9/11: Sujo Jon was in Tower One when the first plane crashed just above his head. He was able to lead a group of people down the staircase while the exterior of the building peeled like a banana. He then found out that his pregnant wife was in Tower Two. Janelle prayed for God to help her and the next day she was the only one alive and was discovered standing up asleep, amidst the rubble! Tom & Deena Burnett had a vision that he was going to die young and for the White House. He was one of the brave men that downed the plane in Pennsylvania.

Shalom Y'all

2004 • 59 min

Traveling in a vintage Cadillac, filmmaker Brian Bain, a third generation Jew from New Orleans, sets out on a 4200-mile road trip though the American South. Traveling through Delta flatlands, small towns in Mississippi, suburban subdivisions, Texas ranches, and sprawling Sunbelt metropolises what he uncovers is the unique and diverse history of Southern Jews. Along the way, Bain woos his future wife, herself a southern Jew, and discusses Jewish participation in the Civil Rights Movement.

Cutting

2004 • 6 min

This narrative restraint appears perhaps most clearly in Wangechi Mutu’s video Cutting, in which the artist enters the frame and proceeds to rhythmically hack away at a log in an expansive desert landscape before finally laying down her machete and leaving the frame.

20th Century Masters: The Best of the Moody Blues

2004 • 23 min

Universal Music's The Best of the Moody Blues: The DVD Collection helped inaugurate the video version of the company's 20th Century Masters series. 1: Your Wildest Dreams 2: I Know You're Out There Somewhere 3: The Other Side Of Life 4: Running Out Of Love 5: No More Lies

Hedi Slimane: My Life

2004 • 42 min

2004 documentary following Hedi Slimane as he navigates through Paris, Berlin, and Tokyo, chronicling his childhood, career, and future.

N Judah 5:30

2004 • 3 min • United States of America

A melancholy train ride filled with small, rich moments.

Why I Hate the 60s: The Decade That Was Too Good to Be True

2004 • 59 min

The myth of the 60s was created before the decade was out. But what we have lived with ever since is a mirage, a mass hallucination, a fantasy. Why I Hate the Sixties examines the truth behind the myth. It suggests that we were living on borrowed time - we partied as Britain lost an empire and slid into unchecked industrial decline. Archive footage and contributors of all political stripes build the case against the decade where dreams turned to nightmares.

The Life of an Agent

2004 • 54 min

The Life of an Agent, Police Training in the Kádár Era (Gabor Zsigmond Papp, 2004), uses a series of films shot by the Hungarian Interior Ministry between 1958 and 1988 and screened for generations after generations of secret police agents thus taught about methods designed to protect the state socialist regime: secret searches of homes, operational monitoring of enemy persons, the installation of audio surveillance equipment, and the organization of networks of informers. The film, which works exclusively with secret police material, sheds significant light on the mechanisms of the maintenance of power despite all the paranoia and the battle waged against its own citizens.

yui horie CLIPS 1

2004 • 59 min • Japan

Clip collection DVD "CLIPS 1" collects all the promotion videos with Yui Horie who continues to have overwhelming popularity among young voice actors!

Quietus: To the New World

2004 • 22 min

An eerie, apocalyptic look at our planet thousands of years in the future. All life is extinct. Various remnants of our cities are still standing. Amidst all of this are two alien visitors who roam the planet, studying it, collecting samples, recording data. Something cataclysmic must have happened to render the planet lifeless, and soon the aliens discover the cause – a gigantic crater the size of Texas. During the survey, a faint S.O.S signal is detected by the aliens, and they follow it to a massive underground chamber containing hundreds of pods. Within each pod is a human fetus, in perfect hibernation. Apparently, knowing our planet would be rendered lifeless, we created the chamber with the hope that one day alien visitors would discover it. In the end, the aliens harvest the pods to their ships…and return to their planet to give human existence a re-birth.

Discoveries... America: Ohio

2004 • 50 min • United States of America

Ohio is the Midwest's eastern gateway, a vast land originally controlled by the Iroquois Indians. An important rail link, Ohio is bordered by the Allegheny Mountains to the east and the farmlands of the Great Plains to the west. A century ago, Ohio's most famous residents, Orville and Wilber Wright, were two bicycle mechanics who ended up leaving their mark in aviation.