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Glinka

Glinka

2008 • 12 min • Russia
My grandfather and grandmother were left alone in their old age. My grandmother grew a vegetable garden, went after the cattle. My grandfather also did not sit idle, he made dishes out of clay for people (noble clay in those places!): bowls-plates, pitchers-makhotki, mugs-bowls, krynki and pots. And somehow it happened by itself – one of the pots came to life, oh, and the ruddy son came out!
Machine With Wishbone

Machine With Wishbone

2008 • 8 min
Machine with Wishbone is an entirely live action movie shot without special effects, featuring the work of internationally celebrated artist Arthur Ganson. Using innovative camera choreography, photo sculpture, and kinetic sculpture, Machine with Wishbone tells the tale of a stoic mechanical wishbone on its journey through a world of snoring beds, paper birds, and places you have to see to believe.
Fysiek Stand-Up door Nico van der Knaap

Fysiek Stand-Up door Nico van der Knaap

2008 • 7 min
Fragments from a stand-up comedy set by the Dutch comedian Nico van der Knaap, recorded live in Toomler in January 2008.
White Horse

White Horse

2008 • 18 min • Ukraine, United States of America
White Horse is a short documentary by filmmakers Maryann DeLeo and Christophe Bisson that features a man (Maxym Surkov) returning to his Ukraine home for the first time in twenty years. Evacuated from the city of Prypiat, Ukraine in 1986 due to the Chornobyl disaster, he has not returned since then.
Julius Shulman: Desert Modern

Julius Shulman: Desert Modern

2008 • 28 min • United States of America
Julius Shulman: Desert Modern focuses on Shulman's remarkable 70-year documentation of the renowned Mid-Century Modern architecture of the Palm Springs area/ Shulman, at the age of 97, describes with humor and insight his artistic intentions and the back-story to some of his most legendary photographs. He is joined by noted architectural historian Alan Hess and Michael Stern, co-authors of the book, "Julius Shulman: Palm Springs". Stern is also curator of the "Julius Shulman: Palm Springs" exhibition which originated at the Palm Springs Art Museum in February 2008. The flm showcases Shulman's inspired photography of the architecture of Richard Neutra, Albert Frey, John Lautner, E. Stewart Williams, Palmer and Krisel and William Cody, among others. E. Stewart Williams' Frank Sinatra House is featured, as well as Richard Neutra's Kaufmann House, one of the most famous homes in America, largely due to Shulman's iconic 1947 photograph.
Kk2678

Kk2678

2008 • 16 min • Latvia
He lives and works in a world that contains only him, or so he thinks. Each day is spent exactly in the same way, stamping boxes, not asking where they come from or where they go. But an unexpected guest’s sudden arrival leads to a dangerous discovery – perhaps outside of his small world there is something more?
Chelsea Hotel Room 207

Chelsea Hotel Room 207

2008 • 8 min • United States of America
Crack induced euphoria amplifies a sexually charged environment. The cameraman is implicitly involved in the activities of two men in tightie-whities (one black/one white). Described by viewers as both horrific and so full of humanity. This work is not what-it-seems, or is it?
The Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa

The Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa

2008 • 59 min • India
VOLUME ZERO is an hour-long documentary on the work and the ideas of Charles Correa, one of the world’s most important architects. It deals with his childhood, architectural training, formative years and the paradigm underlying his large and complex oeuvre spanning over five decades – as well as his pivotal role in addressing issues of urbanization in the Developing World. It uses first person narration by the filmmaker, combined with extended excerpts of interviews with Correa, live action, stills, diagrams, animation and archival footage to open up the thought processes that generate architectural space and form.
Festival of the Sacrifice

Festival of the Sacrifice

2008 • 6 min • Turkey
A family celebrating Eid al-Adha is terrorized by an assailant who has a very different idea of sacrifice.
Journey to the East

Journey to the East

2008 • 2 min
The Journey to the West becomes a Journey to the East. Monkey, Pigsy, and Sandy travel across China to Beijing. Using magical powers to fight off various monsters and demons, they channel all sorts of Olympic sports in their passage to Bird's Nest stadium, lighting the flame.
Between the Folds

Between the Folds

2008 • 56 min • United States of America
Depicts a cast of fine artists and eccentric scientists (from MIT and NASA) who have devoted their lives to the unlikely medium of modern origami. Through their determination to reinterpret the world in paper, they arouse a fascinating mix of sensibilities towards art, form, expressiveness, creativity and meaning
Booker Pittman

Booker Pittman

2008 • 15 min • Brazil
The life of jazz clarinetist Booker Pittman.
The End of Salò

The End of Salò

2008 • 39 min • Italy
Documentary about the making of the film Salò by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Intruders: Abductees Speak Out!

Intruders: Abductees Speak Out!

2008 • 48 min • Canada
Intruders: Abductees Speak Out! presents an intimate portrait of self-proclaimed alien abductees who are coping with the daily turmoil of being regularly taken by entities not from this world. Are they simply mistaken or disturbed? Or are they - as some experts contend - unwitting participants in an ominous alien agenda?
Measure Twice, Cut Once

Measure Twice, Cut Once

2008 • 40 min • United States of America
Measure Twice, Cut Once is a fun-filled building adventure that is centered around a tree fort building project, featuring six young men (ages 16 and under) tackling the adventure of constructing their own tree fort, and in the process teaching important carpentry skills.
Garuda

Garuda

2008 • 1 min • France
A child chases after his dream.
Chicha, esperanza y dolor

Chicha, esperanza y dolor

2008 • 52 min • Argentina
"Chicha, Hope and Pain" addresses the emblematic figure of Chicha Mariani, founder of the "Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo." It is structured in two phases: that of hope, that of the young journalist Juan Martín Ramos Padilla, who wrote Chicha's biography; and that of pain, that of a woman who fought for 42 years of her life, not only to recover her stolen granddaughter, but also to restore justice and dignity.
Valli baar

Valli baar

2008 • 50 min • Estonia
All towns in the world have legendary bars and drinking places. Tiny Valli Bar in Tallinn links different times and people and the film is a portrait of Estonian drinking scene. Shooting months turned out jolly, but also dramatic. One of the participants was kicked out of home, two died soon after the filming. Drinking was definitely part in all that. We are not against or for drinking, we just want to see and understand it (if this is possible all together).
Fragile Planet

Fragile Planet

2008 • 25 min
Leave Planet Earth behind as you fly to the farthest reaches of the Universe. Float up through Earth’s atmosphere, and gain an astronaut’s view of your home — the only planet currently known to support life. Then travel to the Moon, Mars, and even beyond the Milky Way to search for habitats that might support extraterrestrial life.
Waiting Room

Waiting Room

2008 • 9 min • United States of America
Three people trapped in a church by an unseen force from outside.
With My Own Hands

With My Own Hands

2008 • 15 min
In a huge abandoned shed, a woman inflicts the most various tortures on a man in order to get answers.
West Point

West Point

2008 • 57 min • France
West Point is a 'film noir', a story of family and emigration. It's La Cabo da Rocha, Portugal, the western-most point of the European continent. Opposite the USA, it's a metaphor of Ellis Island. It's the street dances and it's the part of what has been forgotten that Alexander and his sister Jeanne must accept in order to break free from the original crime, the feeling of abandonment and the color of wheat.
Le sorelle Diabolike

Le sorelle Diabolike

2008 • 52 min • Italy
Documentary about the creators of Diabolik.
Good Trip

Good Trip

2008 • 12 min • Uruguay
Sandra works at a toll booth. Her life and work are very ordinary and boring. A call will break her routine and she would have to make a decision that could change her life.