All Films

Scene 32

2009 • 5 min • India, United States of America

Scene 32 maps the terrain that lies between a beloved place and the things that represent it. The salt fields of Central Kutch are examined through High Definition video and hand processed 16mm film to become another thing altogether: neither a specific location in India nor its representation but a rebuilt world of precipices and gullies, untouchable textures and unfathomable scale.

Plastic and Glass

2009 • 9 min

In a recycling factory in the north of France the machines dance, the workers join in song, and the truckdrivers almost do a ballet. The film shows the process of recycling by impressive machines and by hand. We hear the noise that accompagnies this process. Slowly the factory noise be- comes a rhythm and a truckdriver starts to sing a song for his love. He wants to build an island with the materials at hand, where they can be together to ‘sort things out ‘. In this crossover between documentary and musical it is the filmmakers aim to merge image and sound in such a way that the one cannot exist without the other. Inspired by the recordings of Alan Lomax and the films of Jacques Tati, the result is a sculptural and informative documentary and at the same time a musical film with a sticky song .

575 Castro St.

2009 • 8 min • United States of America

Images set to a tape recording that slain San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk made in November 1977 to be played in case he was killed.

Bargain!

2009 • 7 min • Australia

When shy, dorky Linda finds herself alone with her sister's hunky boyfriend Matt, she decides to make the most of situation and convinces him to take his clothes off for money. Little does Matt know that Linda is not as stupid as she looks.

This Close or This Far

2009 • 14 min • United States of America

An honest boxer tries to win back the heart of a pretty, grieving girl whose wants and needs fall outside his simple world of good, soulful boxing.

After the Rainbow

2009 • 6 min

Through a re-imagining of the initial sequence of the film The Wizard of Oz (1939), the fantasy world of cinema and the reality of Judy Garland’s complex life collide. Instead of taking Dorothy to Oz, the twister transports a young, hopeful Garland into the future where she encounters her disillusioned adult self.

The Real Place

2009 • 5 min

Puccini's famous aria from the opera Tosca, Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore ("I lived for art, I lived for love") provides a fitting summation of playwright John Murrell's life and work. Since the age of 13 Murrell has peopled his life with the creations of his own imaginings. "In opera and in Shakespeare, in locations that were both natural and supernatural, I have escaped the limitations of my own mind," he says. Born in Lubbock, Texas, John Murrell became a playwright in, of all places, an Alberta high school.

Il caso Amicizia

2009 • 52 min • Italy

A look at the ufo contacts in Pescara region of Italy

Alfred

2009 • 4 min • Sweden

Going out for a lemonade with Dad is not a bad idea, especially if you happen to invent dynamite afterwards. A short and almost true story about Alfred Nobel.

Hush Baby

2009 • 4 min • Singapore

A curious baby is protected from an environment of temptation.

The Machine Stops

2009 • 7 min

Two people live in a dark technological utopia/dystopia - "the Machine". Kuno and Vashti, have differing opinions about the world which they live in and their interaction and conflict as their society comes to a sudden collapse. The story raises themes of man's role in the midst of a technology-dependent built environment that are seemingly more relevant today than when the original short story was published in 1909.

Inventurers: Edward Leedskalnin

2009 • 57 min • Latvia

A trip through the mystical Coral Castle and the big question - did some regular, unschooled man during the first part of 20th century in Florida seriously discover the secret of levitation and understand the principles by which the Pyramids were built? Or was the Coral Castle, which became the inspiration for Billy Idol's "Sweet Sixteen", created merely as a commemoration for a lost love?

Sparrows

2009 • 12 min • Germany

A man and a woman meet in a bar. They walk through the night without any reason. At dawn they separate again. A long take.

Sunshine Sparkling in My Eyes

2009 • 10 min • France

Raphaël is seventeen years old and in love. It is the story of an awakening, the painful explosion of the adolescence.

Missing

2009 • 12 min • Netherlands

A 7-year old girl is taken to school by her mother. Today is the day that the young girl will go on a school trip with her class. In everything we feel that bringing her daughter to school isn’t a very ordinary occasion for the mother.

Fabelaktige Fiff og Fam

2009 • 28 min • Norway

A feelgood documentary about two friends of 90 years who have known each other since they were five. A nice story about being much older on the outside than the inside.

Monstera Deliciosa

2009 • 1 min • France

A lamplighter is fascinated by the dance of an appearance in the tropical greenhouse where he works.

Shelter in Place

2009 • 47 min

A compelling portrait of a poor and mainly African-American community living in the shadow of the Texan oil industry. With the ongoing release of millions of tons of toxic pollutants into the air from poorly regulated oil refineries and petro-chemical plants, residents are told to "Shelter in Place" by staying in their homes and taping up their windows and doors. Communities living on the fence-line of Texan industry are usually low income and powerless to protest. This film is an intimate portrait of a community battling against environmental pollution and unfettered corporate power.

Circle

2009 • 19 min

Damu(10year old boy) , leaves his home to buy Jagarry .On the way he meets his friend Manya . They stop at a Bioscopewallah. Damu realizes that he is not having enough money and he decides to earn some quick money . This greed takes him to play a game . After the game Damu goes to the shop . But he walk back with tearful eyes.........

Temps mort

2009 • 18 min • France

An exchange of video messages between an artist and an inmate, a surprising and intimate portrait from behind prison walls.

Ruin

2009 • 51 min • Israel

Three teenage murderers escape to a secluded ruin where they must deal with the huge gap between the ideological romance that had planned the act and the dark reality which suddenly engulfs them.

A Kádár-korszak demokratikus ellenzéke

2009 • 51 min

A documentary about the Democratic Opposition of socialist Hungary.

The Breakwater

2009 • 16 min • Latvia

Seagulls and sea, a breakwater and otherwise nothing but wasteland and cold wind. On the concrete, a chic handbag, scattered high heels and long legs in a tight miniskirt. Vika, a famous model, lies shivering on the cold ground after a heavy night drinking, left behind by a guy in a convertible. Little Mika finds her: she also dreams of becoming a model and Vika is her idol.

1x1

2009 • 52 min • Latvia

Since Latvia regained independence in 1991, only a small number of all those who emigrated during the 1940s returned, though many of them had been waiting for the occupation to end. This is about the first generation of Latvian émigrés - those who came back, and those who chose to stay in the West.