All Films

Dzaomalaza

2009 • 50 min • Madagascar

First instalment of the dzaomalaza films whose action is located in the north of Madagascar.

Don't Go Home with Satan

2009 • 4 min

"Don't Go Home With Satan is the first part of my experimental short animation series based on my dreams. Video is based on a song I heard on my dream. When waking up I could not recall it anymore. Several months later it suddenly came to me again. I found a skull from the forest, perhaps a fox, mice had eaten some of it. I turned it around and saw something creepy, like face of a devil, and as walking back to a house I start humming the song from my dream; 'Don't go home with Satan, he will eat your children'. Skull became a character and I build the story around it."

Chromatic Cocktail Extra Fizzy

2009 • 9 min • United States of America

“Motion/color/light studies shot in my studio” — Kerry Laitala ”The vibrant, abstract spirals of Kerry Laitala’s experiments with chromavision leap off the screen in pulsating 3-D.” — Kathy Geritz and Irina Leimbacher

The Capitol of the Multiverse

2009 • 8 min

A neoclassical form breathes and mutates, overlooking a shifting horizon. “… Rows of columns breathing outward, like a great stone butterfly opening its wings. It seems like we are looking at a capitol, to paraphrase St. Augustine, which is like the center of a circle, which is centered everywhere.” David Finkelstein, Film Threat

Sutinnit

2009 • 1 min

An animated poem about tinnitus.

Talking House

2009 • 2 min

It's warm inside. We should talk about it.

Dr Lim Hock Siew

2009 • 22 min

Dr Lim, a leftist medical doctor and activist, recounts his experiences as a political detainee from 1963 to 1982 during then prime minister Lee Kuan Yew's rule.

La Guerrilla Verde

2009 • 16 min • Argentina

A submissive and somewhat foolish journalist grows tired of the abuse from his boss, the director of the news program where he works. Seeking revenge, he forms The Green Guerrilla, which will spread the fear their attacks provoke throughout the country.

Kumiko, Johnnie Walker & the Cute

2009 • 50 min

In Tokyo, a man named Johnnie Walker—a Jewish Japanese citizen—stages street provocations with his Irish wolfhound, seeking recognition in a society that marginalizes him. Meanwhile, the filmmaker traces the legacy of Kumiko Muraoka, muse of Chris Marker’s The Koumiko Mystery (1964), from Tokyo to Paris. Blending biography, fiction, and essay, the film explores identity, narration, and the politics of cuteness in a world shaped by memory, power, and performance.

The Frighten Factor

2009 • 17 min • United Kingdom

What exactly is Doctor Who's 'Frighten Factor'? A diverse panel of experts try to answer the question.

Sonnet 132

2009 • 24 min • Ukraine

A dramatic and touching love story between a Ukrainian boy and a Russified girl, set in the mid-1960s during the Khrushchev Thaw. Based on Stepan Vasylchenko's short story "The Moscow Horsefly."

Drawing!!

2009 • 2 min • Japan

Abstract short film by Kojirou Shishido.

From my goats

2009 • 3 min

A palestinian shepherd takes care of his goats.

Dialtone

2009 • 45 min

A mysterious phone. A missing lawyer. An abandoned warehouse. They all help tell a story about Greg Pleasant, a Seattle lawyer who's held back from leading the dynamic life Christ wants him to live because he fears man's opinion of him more than God's. After Greg loses the control he believes he has over his life, an odd client tells him about an old phone that calls back into the past. When faced with the ultimate wake up call, how will he answer? How will you?

Countryside 35x45

2009 • 43 min • Russia

The country is exchanging old Soviet passports for new Russian passports. A provincial travel photographer travels to remote Siberian villages and takes rural residents for passport photographs in 35x45 mm format. Due to the fact that a large number of people are becoming his clients, thanks to close observations of everyday rural life, the film turns into a complex poetic canvas, telling about the attitude of people living in the Russian outback at the junction of two cultures - Soviet and modern.

Shit!

2009 • 5 min • Ukraine

A story about a sad incident that have made lighter one’s unbearable being.

Torture Made in USA

2009 • 47 min • France

Acclaimed journalist and filmmaker Robin Marie-Monique investigative film explores the events and the machinations of key policy leaders that led the US to adapt the systematic use of torture on in Afghanistan, Guantanamo and Iraq in the name of "war on terror". Mixing stunning archival footage and on the ground detective work, the film includes exclusive interviews with several key witnesses.

Photograph of Jesus

2009 • 7 min • United Kingdom

An employee of a photo archive describes some of the most unusual requests for photographs he has had to deal with (such as a photograph of Jesus), as the impossible images are brought to life through animation.

Unseen Tears: The Native American Boarding School Experience in Western New York

2009 • 30 min

Unseen Tears documents the effects of Native American boarding (residential) schools in western New York and Ontario. The documentary focuses on communites effected by the Thomas Indian School and the Mohawk Institute.

Twilight Spirit

2009 • 5 min • United States of America

A collaboration with Chicago’s Judson Claiborne that captures the desert hallucinations of David Morehouse, former CIA spy and author of Psychic Warriors.

San Martin. El Combate de San Lorenzo

2009 • 48 min • Argentina

Damián Canduci's performance and Juan Carlos Gené's narration revive this moment in Argentine history, when the Horse Grenadier Regiment begins its performance in the fight for independence. A special dedicated to the first combat fought by San Martín in American territory, the one that inaugurated him as a patriot leader.

Rudy Maxa's World Exotic Places: Turkey

2009 • 56 min • Turkey, United States of America

Join veteran travel writer and TV show host Rudy Maxa as he explores Turkey, a land of stark beauty that sits at the crossroads where Europe and Asia -- and two of the world's great religious faiths -- meet. Maxa guides you through the mysteries of Istanbul's Grand Bazaar and then into the delights of a bona fide Turkish bath. Next, he hops on a boat to explore the many Roman ruins along Turkey's southern Turquoise Coast.

Dracula vs the Ninja on the Moon

2009 • 46 min • United Kingdom

A British Ninja is sent to the moon to take out Dracula who has been living there for years with his moon man slave

A Life Alone

2009 • 5 min • United States of America

For 63 years, Tom Rose and his wife, Mary, built a life together on his family farm on Canaanville Road. Then last year Mary passed away, leaving Rose to face the future alone, surrounded by a lifetime of memories.