All Films

Sonic Syndicate: Only Inhuman

2007 • 51 min

Only Inhuman is the second studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band Sonic Syndicate.Released May 18, 2007 in Europe and on May 22, 2007, in North America. It's also the first album the band released through their new label, Nuclear Blast, as well as the first to feature vocalist Roland Johansson and drummer John Bengtsson as full-time members.

Notions of Freedom

2007 • 16 min • United States of America

Ulysses Jenkins charts the history of jazz—what he calls “the first true American art form"—from its beginnings in New Orleans and the American South to the classic work of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington and through the major innovations of Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, and Miles Davis. Also included are clips of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, explicitly linking the development of jazz to the Civil Rights Movement. Motion-capture animated figures are seen dancing, superimposed, over the archival footage of the musicians. Wearing colorful costumes, they perform Jenkins’ original choreography. The dancers exert a powerful influence over the historical documentation as their movements extend across the decades and, finally, into the future.

Cartoon

2007 • 2 min • Canada

A car commercial send up in which Bambi meets Nissan. The question is: who’s who?

When the Cricket Sings

2007 • 9 min • China

The video offers a nocturnal glimpse of Shanghai street life, depicting one of the typical neighbourhoods disappearing under the city’s urban development. The improvised sound track is a duet orchestrated for the ancient Chinese instrument the guzheng1 and for the cricket that sings only at night.

Perversion of Justice

2007 • 30 min

In this poignant 30 minute documentary, we meet Hamedah Hasan and her three daughters, a family caught in the web of our nation's federal sentencing guidelines and drug conspiracy laws. Hamedah fled from an abusive relationship and found refuge at the home of her cousin, who was selling drugs. When her cousin was arrested, prosecutors also charged Hamedah as a conspirator in the drug-selling operation. What happened next shocked Hamedah, bewildered her attorneys and outraged even the Bush-appointed federal judge who sentenced her, calling this "the most grotesque perversion of justice I can think of."

Doce e salgado

2007 • 7 min • Brazil

Two teenagers, high school friends, discover desire.

In the Spectacle

2007 • 17 min

Giant Nails' Kidnapping

2007 • 23 min • Brazil

On the night of the premiere of his film "Embodimento of Evil", Zé do Caixão is accidentally kidnapped by two fans and they all embark on a crazy journey through the early hours of São Paulo.

Accidental Morning

2007 • 10 min

Trying to get out of work so they can go to a party, two video store employees make up a fake religious holiday called “National Mourning Day.” Their boss believes them, but takes the holiday a little too seriously.

Days and Nights

2007 • 12 min

A man's last night of freedom. We watch as he desperately tries to sort out his affairs before imprisonment. Short film shot in Edinburgh in 2007.

My Mother, Story of an Immigration

2007 • 15 min • France

This is a story of her mother who left Algeria in 1956 to reunite with her husband in Paris. The story of an immigrant mother. It also is the story of three generations of women: her mother's, Zehira; her daughters'; her granddaughters'.

One Voice, One Vote

2007 • 13 min • France

Some people are interested in politics, others are not. We asked Martine and Arnaud to talk about their political involvement.

Children’s Game #2: Ricochets

2007 • 5 min • Morocco

The bay is peaceful, framed by low hills in the distance. Three boys stand thigh-deep in the brown water, trousers rolled up. The biggest, on the left, is proficient in the art of stone-skimming: sending flat pebbles spinning over the water in such a way that they bounce off the surface as many times as possible before sinking. The middle boy feeds him stones from a stockpile inside his t-shirt, while the smallest looks on laughing. The skimmer throws quickly, intently, without thinking, without assessing his stone. Some stones sink at the second bounce; some skip a long way. It’s all the same to him, he must keep throwing.

Letting Go

2007 • 4 min

A father struggles with his son's growing independence in this heartfelt short film about a boy who decides to put away his security blanket.

100 Years of Silence: The Germans in Namibia

2007 • 38 min • Denmark

In four years, from 1904-1908, tens of thousands of Herero people of Namibia were killed by the German Empire. The experience of one family is described by a descendant, a 23-year-old Herero woman named Georgina. She has a fair complexion and a green tinge to her eyes. Georgina is aware of the fact that her great-grandmother was raped by a German soldier and now wants to confront the demons of her own genetic past.

Frog Jesus

2007 • 2 min

A nostalgic voyage takes a darker turn, exploring the naiveté of mankind through the eyes of a young boy.

Anthony Flower: The Life and Art of a Country Painter

2007 • 50 min • Canada

In 1817, at age 25, Anthony Flower left London, England on one of his father’s trading ships bound for Canada. He would never return to claim his inheritance. Using Anthony Flower’s art, archival material and interviews with researchers, historians, curators and the people of Queens County, New Brunswick, the mystery of his life is revealed.

A plus E

2007 • 6 min • Bulgaria

What would it be if two garments fall in love with each other on the clothesline, instead of their owners?

brb

2007 • 17 min

A halting, repetitive, fantastical conversation between two infatuated gay men.

Une girafe sous la pluie

2007 • 12 min • Belgium, France

Whatever Suits You

2007 • 7 min

Parallels the process of transforming a suit into a dress with all the physical, mental, and emotional processes of changing genders. The tattered fabric, stitched and sewn together, becomes a visual metaphor for the realization and creation of a newly formed gender identity. Part autobiography, part documentary, part testimonial, the film sheds light on what it means to be transgender.

First Day of Work

2007 • 9 min • Brazil

A young woman's first day of work in a supermarket in the Brazil countryside.

My Atomic Beloved

2007 • 18 min • Iran

Twelve hours before an atomic bomb hits the ground of Tehran, a boy rushes through the house of a girl while remembering their moments together.

End Time

2007 • 14 min • Germany

His seemingly hopeless situation and abysmal hatred turns the nameless nobody into a human time bomb.