All Films

Free Your Mind

2003 • 46 min • United States of America

Video #14″Free Your Mind showcases the talents of three individuals in pursuit of personal freedom Take a ride with Dan Drehobl Rob Welsh and Darrell Stanton as they get a lift from some familiar faces who understand the liberation that is skateboarding As Da Clown says “Everyone does their own thing that’s what makes the world go round” Open up your funky mind and you can fly” Dan Drehobl, Darrell Stanton, Rob Welsh

Scrolls to Screen: A Brief History of Anime

2003 • 22 min • United States of America

A short documentary on Japanese animation featured on the DVD for The Animatrix (2003).

The Detective Who Can Say No

2003 • 8 min

Shinji Aoyama’s short film follows an unlikely pair of detectives—played by Susumu Terajima and filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa—as they navigate a quirky case with deadpan seriousness. Mixing parody with genre tropes, the film riffs on the idea of “The Detective Who Can Say No,” echoing the satirical spirit of its title while playfully undermining the conventions of Japanese cop dramas. Made for the omnibus film "Deka Matsuri"

Lasting Love

2003 • 60 min

A one hour documentary debuting on PBS that looks at the "secrets" of creating a loving, lasting relationship. This is a show not only about love, it's about hope. Features couples are celebrity couples like the Hestons as well as regular couples and homosexual couples.

Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror

2003 • 50 min

A critical documentary about the war on terror since 9-11.

The Master: Chang Cheh Documentary

2003 • 17 min

One of the greatest, prolific and most influential action directors in history Chang Cheh! Documentary about the Shaw Brother's most prolific director.

Blue Everyday: Manami Honjo in 'The Blue Blanket'

2003 • 38 min • Japan

The 'making of' film for 'The Blue Blanket' features exclusive behind-the-scenes footage. This feature is packed with authentic scenes, closely following lead actress Manami Honjo to reveal the film's backstage moments and the cast's true personalities.

The Alchemists of Sound

2003 • 58 min • United Kingdom

A documentary about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, responsible for creating some of the most memorable television and radio music in British popular culture, including "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and Doctor Who (1963).

CODENAME NABI Mission 1: The Rouge of Killing

2003 • 60 min • Japan

Navi, an assassin who had her parents killed when she was young and was raised by an organization to become a killing machine. Although Navi grew into a beautiful woman, she lost her humanity and continued to commit brutal murders as ordered. However, during the assassination plot of a prominent Korean yakuza boss, Ra Jeong-nam, a romance blossoms between her and a man she meets during the mission...

Father's Day

2003 • 13 min • Japan

Two girls and their partners want to visit their father to celebrate Father's Day. However, instead of happy meeting, they will be forced to experience inexplicable things.

Rain

2003 • 4 min • Canada

The epilogue of the 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

Merci!

2003 • 8 min

A Bodhisattva saving people on a Belgian tram. Along with yawning and the flu, few things are as contagious as laughter.

Spring Story

2003 • 57 min • Japan

Making-of Demon Hunting

2003 • 20 min • Japan

Behind-the-scenes footage of Satoshi Torao's film Demon Hunting.

Lingerie Soldier Papillon Rose

2003 • 24 min • Japan

Tsubomi is a savvy and horny school girl who works at a lingerie club, a gentlemen’s bar where scantily clad young women serve drinks to the patrons. She is useless at her job but is blackmailing her boss so she won’t get fired. One day she runs into a gorgeous young man who she takes to bed. She meets into a perverted talking cat with a butterfly on its forehead, who recruits her to be a magical soldier. She has to fight off a dominatrix elf woman called Beene, a minion of Regina Apis, a matriarch bent on chaos and forming her new Dynasty. Tsubomi is learning of her powers when she is rescued by an oddly familiar masked man, known only as Dandelion. The plot of this anime is completely farcical and parodies the magical girl genre and Sailor Moon in particular.

Jump London

2003 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Having developed from a childhood game, Free Running has been given global recognition due to a series of adverts for Toyota, Nike and the BBC to name a few. The recognised creator of the discipline, which involves running and jumping over buildings and any other obstacles, comes to London with several others to run, skip and jump across many of the famous landmarks of the city

Sore Ike! Anpanman: Kaiketsu Naganegiman to Doremi Hime

2003 • 20 min • Japan

Emergence

2003 • 12 min

Pet Stories

2003 • 40 min

A retrospective look at the making of the 1966 Beach Boys album, "Pet Sounds".

Burnout

2003 • 20 min

A metropolis awash in electrical overdrive crashes in the heat of summer and sends a Bronxite into the clutches of a waterworld further north. It is there that we witness the cooling fogs and diving mammals of maritime yore and sail free in winds of a nautical nature. A nature that fills the summer sky with twinkling tidbits and the tummy with protein rich denizens of Neptune’s soup. A tour of the towering turrets of tomorrow land and the spatial splendor of yesterday’s yearnings captured on both chemical and electrical media.

Kiskisan

2003 • 60 min • Philippines

Jojo grew in the house of his wicked Lola Susana who never taught him to be a rightful person. He became an image of his grandmother--- deceitful, arrogant and very greedy. He intentionally destroys the lives of his brothers and his sister without knowing that his own actions leads to his own downfall.

Love Takes

2003 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Love Takes charts the places that love takes us and leaves us as we fall in and out of love over a lifetime. The film combines documentary footage with digital design to explore what we talk about when we talk about love.

My Hollywood Adventure with Aileen Quinn

2003 • 12 min

This short documentary hosted by Aileen Quinn recounts her experiences making "Annie" (1982).

HorrorTales.666

2003 • 60 min • United States of America

A routine burglary turns into a nightmare when a thief stumbles upon a horror author’s secret files. Initially amused, he begins reading the upcoming novel's stories right off the computer screen... but these aren't just fiction. With every chapter, the lines between the page and reality blur, dragging the burglar into a terrifying, inescapable saga. He found the stories. Now, will the stories find him?