All Films

I Hear Your Scream

2008 • 11 min • Argentina, Paraguay

The man, the hill, the shack.

Cobra Mist

2008 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Construed in the time of running clouds, a panoramic and another examination of vacant buildings on the British shore (Orford Ness), a deserted place on Earth, place of non-specificity as a base for an open course of events that shape the sense, consisting in interaction between the image and the viewer.

A Hole in a Fence

2008 • 46 min • United States of America

The changing face of Red Hook -- a one-of-a-kind neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y. -- is the subject of this rich examination of city living by filmmaker D.W. Young. The documentary peeks in on an urban farm run by local kids; an uphill struggle to save a portion of the waterfront; the infamous arrival of an IKEA store; and more. The film was an official selection at the 2008 San Francisco International Documentary Film Festival.

Locks of Love: The Kindest Cut

2008 • 37 min • United States of America

This heartwarming film focuses on Kandice, Alexa and Amanda, three young girls who are all experiencing hair loss due to illness. Their embarrassment and insecurity have been curtailed, however, because of Locks of Love--a non-profit organization where employees painstakingly create custom-molded wigs that allow the girls to feel like themselves once again.

Nook & Cranny

2008 • 3 min

Nook & Cranny is a cosy little house, constructed of screens in the shape of furniture. The pieces of furniture, like the underlying background, have en ever-changing motif: films of waving flowers, grass, trees, a cloudy sky. The screen gradually fills up and culminates in a visual feast of green.

Baghdad Twist

2008 • 32 min • Canada

A visual memoir of one family's life in Iraq before escaping to a new home in Canada in the fall of 1970. Featuring a never-before-seen collection of archival images, home movies, and family photographs from Baghdad, the film pulls back the curtain on Iraq's once-thriving Jewish community, its perilous final years, and its remarkable ability to find solace in the shadow of fear.

The Man Who Crossed the Sahara

2008 • 53 min • Canada

A documentary about the Canadian documentary filmmaker Frank Cole.

Solitude Past

2008 • 7 min • Sweden

A lonely old woman moves to a retirement home.

Identität

2008 • 2 min • Germany

"Sometimes i don't know who i am." A short-film about an old fellow being confronted with other peoples' judgments about him and how he deals with stuff like that.

Attica

2008 • 3 min

Experimental film about Jazz.

Sidewalk

2008 • 30 min

Short film about a street in New York.

Two Times 4'33''

2008 • 9 min

Experimental film about John Cage's famous musical piece.

My Room

2008 • 23 min • Faeroe Islands

A single mother (Óluva Johannessen) is frustrated to see her son (Sámal H.Hansen) lonely and unhappy, so she decides to buy him a new computer that is so brilliantly designed that it can give her son everything he longs for. A computer that can give him love and deeper understanding.

Berlinmuren

2008 • 24 min

The tale of a Swedish woman, Eija-Riita Eklöf Berlinermauer, who is ‘objecto-sexual’ and has fallen in love with and married the Berlin Wall.

First They Came For

2008 • 5 min

Inspired by the poem by Reverend Martin Niemoller of the same name, First They Came for...is set in a not so distant future where a nondescript regime takes away innocent people while one man struggles between standing up for what is right and saving himself.

La Dolorosa

2008 • 12 min

The bride, the groom, the best man and a destructive passion. A wet dream turned into a nightmare. "La Dolorosa" is the second episode from "The Trilogy of Dream", an attempt by screenwriter/director Odilon Rocha to bring lyricism back to cinema.

Doctor Zodiac's Fantastic Odyssey

2008 • 10 min • Croatia

Due to professional and personal problems, Dr Zodiac loses himself to childhood obsession with circus and eventually escapes from humanity altogether.

Look at the Sun

2008 • 5 min • United States of America

Original Wholphin Short

The New Yorkist

2008 • 7 min

A megalomaniac undertakes a doomed enterprise in order to become enshrined in the annals of history

Out of the Poison Tree

2008 • 57 min

On the eve of the long-awaited Khmer Rouge trial, an American survivor of the genocide returns to Cambodia hoping to unlock the mystery of her father's disappearance in 1975. Thida Buth Mam's quest intersects with many silent voices: widows, survivors from remote villages, monks and even former perpetrators. Her search for the truth stirs up the fractured pieces of one family's nightmare, unearths an unimaginable heartbreak and ultimately shines light on a people's broken silence.

Hot Buttered Soul: The Movie

2008 • 56 min

The story of a free surfing dream that started with the evolution of the single fin surfboard. Starring Terry Fitzgerald and his extended surfing family enjoying classic waves over three and a half decades. The development and designs of HB surfboards built in the 70's stand the test of time when three originals are pulled out of the bag and taken to modern day Jeffreys Bay. Thirty years later those same boards draw lines and find speed like the day they were first launched. Cape St Francis is bigger than ever filmed providing a finale for an epic adventure through time.

Nauru 1973

2008 • 4 min • Nauru, Canada

Home movies shot on Nauru in 1973.

Sorry I'm Late

2008 • 3 min • United Kingdom

A stop motion short film shot with a stills camera in the ceiling pointing straight at the floor.

Tm

2008 • 2 min • Argentina

TM stands for “tuyo/mío” (“yours/mine” in Spanish): an idea related to found footage practice but also to the hypnotic rhythm of 35mm film frames cut in half by a 16mm film projector. What you hear is what you originally saw.