All Films

1959: The Year that Changed Jazz

2009 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Archive performances and interviews explore the influence of the four major jazz albums made in 1959 by Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Charles Mingus and Ornette Coleman.

The Adventures of a Plumber in Outer Space

2009 • 42 min • United Kingdom

A madcap science fiction comedy which is an affectionate homage to the British 'Confessions' films of the 1970's. Plumber Robin Evans gets transported to a distant planet by Queen Azzizaz, who wants him as her mate. Sergeant Zucker and Mrs Zucker also get transported to the planet, by mistake.

Model/Photographer

2009 • 6 min • United States of America

An award-winning glimpse at an amateur photographer, a young aspiring model, and the history between them.

Louis Theroux: A Place for Paedophiles

2009 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Louis has gained access to Coalinga Mental Hospital in California, which houses more than 500 of the most disturbed criminals in America, convicted paedophiles. Most have already served lengthy prison sentences, but have been deemed unsafe for release. Instead, they have been sent here for an indefinite time. Spending time with those undergoing treatment, Louis wrestles with whether he can ever allow himself to believe men whose whole history is defined by deception and deceit.

Dreams from the Woods

2009 • 8 min • Sweden

A shadow play about love and sorrow, featuring a girl, her bird friend and Death.

Idoru

2009 • 22 min

70's trash movie queen Soledad Miranda wakes up from the dead, to find herself not in heaven but trapped in a film - the vision of a devoted fan. As her interaction with the "Auteur" reveals the extent of his obsession, she takes drastic steps to escape his reality.

Crime Abyss Blue Physical Remorse

2009 • 11 min • Portugal

Crime Blue Abyss Physical Remorse is inspired by the life and works of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. This controversial 20th century painter defied the world avant-garde of his time: “I don’t follow schools. I am an impressionist, cubist, futurist, abstractionist. A melting pot. The real tradition is not to try and relive the past – which is impossible to achieve – but rather something that sets up a follow-through, as happens with parents and children. A child and his father are never alike.” The film follows Amadeo’s motto. It crosses pictorial fiction – suggested by the emblematic picture “The Procession”, painted in Paris in 1913 – with Portuguese contemporary reality.

Max par Marcel: Lola Montès

2009 • 33 min • France

In a series of four documentaries, Marcel Ophuls pays tribute to his father Max, and in this last one discusses his role as an assistant director on "Lola Montès".

Aime-moi

2009 • 14 min • France

Clarisse's life is nothing fancy: she wears herself out waiting tables in a lousy Parisian bistro. One busy day at work, a stranger's going to turn her life upside down by declaring his love...

Silhouette

2009 • 9 min • Japan

Color short film shot in 8mm

Neverland

2009 • 52 min • Canada, Switzerland, Japan, United States of America

Neverland is a state of mind, a mountain pushed up from the ground by imagination. Anyone can go but most people have trouble with the simple directions: Follow your dreams. This winter Absinthe dropped down the rabbit hole to explore this elusive place and brought back some mind bending tales and a pocketful of surprises.

Kelly Deerdale: Naturist

2009 • 17 min • United States of America

Kelly Deerdale, Hawaii's wild child or an innocent girl caught up in a lifestyle she doesn't understand? In either case, she forces former Hawaii Skinnydipper Jimmy Chow to re-examine his naturists beliefs.

Birthday

2009 • 6 min

A woman in a loveless marriage seeks to escape her mundane life through a bizarre ritual.

Panic Attack!

2009 • 5 min • Uruguay

Giant robots appear out of the mist and attack the city of Montevideo, Uruguay.

Uncertainty Principle

2009 • 7 min • United States of America

Dire warnings of immminent disaster have proven justified, as global destruction begins raining down from purple-hued skies. A Washington family struggles to cope with the advancing armageddon until a lone physicist proposes an unorthodox course of action.

Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition

2009 • 58 min • United States of America

In 1909, looking to shed its rough frontier past, the young city of Seattle decided to host a World’s Fair in the same grand spirit as those that preceded it in Chicago and St. Louis. Seattle welcomed the world to the University of Washington campus where visitors walked among palaces, saw new inventions that would change the world, and mined for mirth on the Paystreak - AYP’s Midway. Featuring thousands of historical images, rare archival footage, and contemporary interviews, the film explores the fair’s historical reverberations.

The Dead Man

2009 • 10 min • Uruguay

A rural worker suffers an accident and understands that in a few minutes he is going to die. In absolute solitude and surrounded by a natural environment indifferent to his tragedy, he will face, without drama, the fact that these are his last minutes of life and nothing he can do to modify that destiny. Based on a story by Horacio Quiroga.

Muse: The Making of The Resistance

2009 • 44 min • United Kingdom

Behind the scenes.

In

2009 • 11 min • United States of America

A woman is obsessed with a mysterious black box.

Reign of Death

2009 • 6 min • United Kingdom

In a 1930s vision of the future and gumshoe chases down a robotic murder suspect.

Beyond Melodrama: Kathryn Bigelow on Douglas Sirk

2009 • 13 min • France, Germany

Kathryn Bigelow talks about the work of film director Douglas Sirk.

Um Passeio Quotidiano

2009 • 20 min • Portugal

Documentary on the Maldoror tour of Portuguese alternative rock band Mão Morta.

The Place

2009 • 23 min

A promising high school kid is unjustly sent to the notorious juvenile prison of Iceland where he faces increasingly severe abuse from the head guard who is determined to brake his spirit.

Words! Words! Words!

2009 • 2 min • Canada

A poetic short about the satisfaction in unrequited love.