All Films

Hoover

2008 • 17 min • Macedonia

What happens when the boring everyday life of an old woman and the exciting fun of four young girls become intertwined?

Grand Central

2008 • 51 min

On February 1, 1913, more than 150,000 people eagerly rushed to Grand Central Terminal to gaze at New York City's newest landmark. A marvel of engineering, architecture, and vision, the new Beaux Arts structure on 42nd street housed an underground electric train station that would revolutionize the way people traveled and transform midtown Manhattan.

Mon Ami Charly

2008 • 8 min • France

A ten-year-old girl disobeys her mother to join her friend Charly.

Here Be Dragons

2008 • 40 min

Most people fully accept paranormal and pseudoscientific claims without critique as they are promoted by the mass media. Here Be Dragons offers a toolbox for recognizing and understanding the dangers of pseudoscience, and appreciation for the reality-based benefits offered by real science.

X-Mess Detritus

2008 • 1 min

Produced for Glass Eye Pix as part of their 2008 Creepy Christmas Online Film Festival, in which each short was inspired by the inhabitants of a Christmas diorama advent calendar. Each filmmaker was assigned a specific date and given the props that were used in that window to use in their short. This is the eighteenth film in the series.

Minor Revelations

2008 • 55 min • France

"The choice of each period is intimate, as each period awakens a particular emotion in me. This emotion reflects what is around me, not everyone is able to recognise it -- that is the risk I take. I think that this is good enough reason to make a film that will make visible small yet revealing things in differeent ways. I believe in tropisms and that is what interests me in this film." -- Marie Vermillard [taken from London Film Festival 2006 catalogue]

Pocoyo & the Space Circus

2008 • 25 min

Join Pocoyo and his friends on a new fun-filled circus adventure! One day a group of curious aliens arrive in Pocoyo's world. Pocoyo soon realizes that these new friends are not just any aliens; in fact, they are circus aliens! Their new friends treat Pocoyo and the gang to a free day at the circus, where Pocoyo and his friends must work together to help save the show! Will they do it? Find out in Pocoyo & the Space Circus!

Communicate

2008 • 2 min • South Korea, United States of America

By covering the whole history of communication and media, Communicate shows how humankind has been interacting with one another to reach the true answer of life which is illustrated as a red ball. Winner of the Grand Prize Asia Digital Art Awards 2009

Seoul Women Happiness

2008 • 15 min • Germany, South Korea

In fall 2007 the Women's Film Festival Seoul issued a call that did not promise, like the pirate queen Madame X, "gold, love, and adventure," but something as tempting as the opportunity to film a 15-minute short in Korea, which, assembled as one of six parts of an omnibus production, would open the 10th festival in 2008. I signaled my acceptance and voilà: SEOUL WOMEN HAPPINESS.

SVEN Ch II

2008 • 10 min • United States of America

Sven reminisces about an old friend.

She'll Never Know

2008 • 48 min • Israel

Jukebox musical TV special starring the hosts of Arutz Hayeladim, celebrating the songs of Danny Sanderson. Roni wants to invite Alon to be her date for the graduation party. Yet, Alon is distracted because everywhere he goes, he sees strangers sing songs in public.

The Necktie

2008 • 12 min • Canada

A solitary man works in a tall office building. The only moment in his drab life that's out of the ordinary each year seems to be opening the birthday card and gift from his mother. Usually it's a tie, but one year it's an accordion. It goes into the closet with his many ties. A year or two later, he discovers what happens to the papers he processes every day. His discovery sends him first to the building's top floor, then to his closet.

Remembrance

2008 • 12 min • China

Jia Zhangke’s short for Modern Weekly’s special tenth anniversary issue.

Bill Burr: Why Do I Do This?

2008 • 55 min • United States of America

One of America's fastest-rising comedians, Bill Burr wields his razor-sharp wit with rare skill. In this brand-new stand-up performance, Bill takes aim at the stuff that drives us crazy, political correctness gone haywire, and girlfriends, or as he calls them: relentless psycho robots. A keenly observant social commentator, Bill Burr is also one of the funniest voices in comedy today.

900 Metres Below

2008 • 29 min • Sweden

In vast mountain landscapes, high-rise buildings rise. They are empty. The mine eats slowly under them. It rattles in the houses at night when the ore is mined. In one of these demolition houses settles a woman who in her loneliness begins to hear voices. The voices come from a book. It is the voices of the miners that speak. She makes the voices and the former tenants a part of her everyday life. Until one day ...

Transmission 37: Crosstown Traffic

2008 • 4 min

A short film set in the universe of “The Signal” (2007).

Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'

2008 • 29 min

Director Curtis Hanson and his cast and crew discuss the arduous but rewarding process of creating a modern classic.

Ribbon of Sand

2008 • 26 min

At once exaltation and elegy, this documentary profiles the natural history of North Carolina's Outer Banks, a seascape of transitory barrier islands doomed to disappear.

Sueur

2008 • 45 min • France

Director Abdellatif Kechiche’s reedit of Rym’s belly-dancing sequence in THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN, a visual and aural interpretation of that film’s passionate climax.

Joseito

2008 • 25 min • Japan

A sunny summer's day, the trembling insides of a girl are painted by Dazai Osamu's hidden masterpiece, "School Girl," a "Kaku Nime" production.

Mateo's Night

2008 • 4 min • Mexico

The world of dreams keeps Mateo locked up, will he be able to wake up?

Louis C.K.: Chewed Up

2008 • 60 min • United States of America

Profane, vulgar and obscenely funny, Louis C.K. insists on telling the truth, whether you like it or not! Join the Emmy Award-winning stand-up comic and TV star (Lucky Louie) as he shares his thoughts on the stuff everyone thinks about -- male bodily fluids, the joys of being white, the difference between women and girls -- but never has the nerve to say. It's Louis C.K. at his risk-taking best: fearless, honest and totally outrageous! Nominated for the 2009 Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special

In the Ocean, on Land

2008 • 5 min • United States of America

Panasonic PV-GS83 in a plastic bag thrown in the ocean.

Jailbait

2008 • 24 min • Australia

The world’s most notorious jackass, Matt Pritchard of Dirty Sanchez fame, has been unceremoniously tossed into prison on a trumped-up indecent exposure charge. And life on the inside is less kind than you’d think for the mad Welshman who’s made a name for himself self-inflicting bodily harm and inserting assorted objects into places where the sun don’t shine. Like Paris Hilton before him, Pritch has become the ultimate Subservient Celebrity – and now you’re calling the shots.