All Films

Massacre at Virginia Tech

2008 • 59 min

One year on from the April 16th 2007 massacre at Virgina Tech, this documentary looks at what drove Seung-Hui Cho to shoot dead 32 people.

Agnès Tells a Sad and Happy Story

2008 • 17 min • France

Director Agnès Varda gathers some of her collaborators from JACQUOT DE NANTES to discuss their experiences making the film, as well as show Varda wove her grief over the loss of her husband, Jacques Demy, into other projects.

East Side Story

2008 • 14 min • Croatia

Documentary about homophobia and facism in Serbia. A two screen film.

Fanboy

2008 • 8 min

Two kids in superhero costumes purchase their favorite drink and end up creating an ice monster.

We Are All Rwandans

2008 • 25 min

Debs Paterson's documentary short on the kidnapping of Nyange school students following the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

This Smell of Sex

2008 • 26 min • France, Lebanon

Archival footage of prim young girls alternates with darkened shots of men and women discussing their formative experiences and their fantasies. Their words and the visual representations create a highly poetic erotic tension.

Denied

2008 • 5 min • France

Five minutes of romance before tragedy.

My Heart Laid Bare

2008 • 7 min

Inspired to Boccaccio's Decameron, the story takes place in the Roman suburbs between the Port of Fiumicino and Ostia: it is about the end of love.

La Curiosa Conquista del Ampere

2008 • 11 min • Mexico

A young man dies by electrocution, but his body remains alive for a few days.

N.O.Body

2008 • 15 min

The film restages a photograph of the ‘bearded lady’ Annie Jones (1865 – 1902). She lived in the USA and was one of the most famous bearded ladies of her time. She toured throughout the USA and all over Europe, first with the Barnum Circus and then later with her own show. The photograph of Annie Jones crosses through two contexts of difference. It travelled from the freak show in the Barnum Circus, where she was presented as a ‘wonder’ or a ‚freak‘ (for a fee), to the medical theater, where she was shown in Hirschfeld’s book as a potential ‘patient.’

Early Experiments

2008 • 22 min • United States of America

A 16mm film experiment conducted in 1967 and 1968 in Philadelphia which feature small parts of the Alphabet and the Grandmother.

Open Surgery

2008 • 4 min • Netherlands

Open Surgery is a short animation film about an open heart surgery where death comes to play his part. The animation was made as the second year student film (2008) of my study, 3D computer animation and visual effects, at Utrecht School of the Arts.

The Morning Ritual

2008 • 10 min • India, United States of America

"The Morning Ritual" mixes fiction with the reality of India's largest metropolis - Mumbai. Iqbal Sheikh, 7 plays himself - Iqbal. A new law will not allow Iqbal to perform his morning ritual where he usually does because of the plush condos that have been erected by the sea. His quest to do his morning ritual takes him to the city's new public toilets, to a brush with the dangerous toilet mafia and to a place he has never been before - the other Mumbai.

Happy Land

2008 • 50 min • Croatia

A "road movie" to the past: two buses, two journeys, two final destinations, two opposing ideologies. The first bus carrying "the victors" on their way to commemorate and celebrate Tito's birthday at his birthplace, the second transporting the elderly and "defeated", as well as some young idealists, to the place of the World War II massacre at Bleiburg. But to the filmmaker Goran Devic, an outsider and observer, it was much more than that: "I was struck by the dramatic and emotional "sameness" of what was going on around me."

The Grand Inquisitor

2008 • 22 min • United States of America

A young woman (Dashe) discovers a cache of used books that she believes holds clues to the solution of decades-old crimes. When the authorities dismiss her, she takes matters into her own hands, ringing the doorbell of Hazel Reedy (Hunt), a lonely recluse who may or may not be the widow of America's most notorious serial killer. Their cross-generational confrontation, played out in real time, leads to an unexpected and shocking conclusion.

The Path to Nazi Genocide

2008 • 38 min

This 38-minute film introduces the history of the Holocaust. It begins by looking back at the major changes from 1918 to 1933 that created the political climate for the birth and rise of the Nazi Party in Germany. It explores the basis for the party’s support among ordinary Germans and the military, government, and business establishment before and after Hitler was appointed chancellor in January 1933.

The Journalist, the Record Collector and the Caretaker

2008 • 12 min • Sweden

Journalist Anders wants to do a story on a record collector of LPs, as his wife Molly is a big fan of them. What could go wrong? And what's the deal with the caretaker who comes between them?

Women's Rebellion

2008 • 58 min

The documentary chronicles women's experiences of discovering, dreaming, acting and rebelling together, namely the early years of the formation of a feminist movement in Turkey.

Nation on Film

2008 • 39 min

A history of the documentary film production company British Transport Films.

Codswallop

2008 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Codswallop is a short animated film based on a series of stream-of-consciousness illustrations by Greg McLeod which were sent on postcards to his son.

What I Was Yesterday

2008 • 3 min • Mexico

An animated adventure through time and space.

Miracles of Evolution

2008 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Miracles of Evolution is a fake BBC film trailer featuring flying penguins made in 2008 as an April Fools' Day hoax. The film was advertised as compelling evidence for Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. It was largely set on King George Island, 75 miles from mainland Antarctica.

Raw Love

2008 • 15 min • Argentina

A portrait of the last days of high school. Two friends spend all day long together, but this will inevitably come to an end. A beautiful sincere story of mixed emotions and secrets that dare not speak loud.

The Soul of Godzilla: Ishiro Honda

2008 • 7 min • United States of America

A brief biography of film director Ishiro Honda.