All Films

Homo Sapiens

2007 • 7 min • Sweden

No action, no scenario, except for the man in silence. Bob Hansson reads his poem to music by Flesh Quartet and pictures by Jesper Klevenås.

Little Bird’s Diary

2007 • 26 min • Latvia

Over the years, eighty-year-old Irina Pilke, nicknamed the Little Bird, has depicted the events of her life as sketches in diaries. The pages reveal the experiences of World War II, love and separation, and a subtly ironic view on the events in the Soviet Union and among its society. The Little Bird looks at the world from the viewpoint of a small creature rather than from a perspective of power and politics which may be the reason her life story seems so incredibly heartwarming, familiar, and true to the tiniest detail.

Play

2007 • 11 min

A night at the theatre goes awry in this comedy of manners where the audience IS the show.

A Peste da Janice

2007 • 15 min

The history of Virginia and Janice. Two 8 year olds starting a new school year. Janice, the daughter of the school cleaning lady, is a victim of the prejudice of all girl, excpet Virginia, with who she begins to sketch out a relationship. Virginia manages, for example, to reconcile the relationship with the class and the secret friendship with Janice. But when you get caught up in the gang's cruel jokes with Janice, you have to take sides: you must make it clear, after all, where you stand.

Part Time Heroes

2007 • 33 min • Austria

In the experimental short film PART TIME HEROES film artists Mara Mattuschka and Chris Haring stage a ballet of vanities with retro flair. The search for fame elevator goes up and down and egos bust and boom. Each character is isolated in an anachronistic, film-star dressing room, left alone, subjected to sinister fittings. The golden room with the greatest striptease talent who constantly undresses yet is never naked... The film checks these beings, isolated through their hero competition, into the lonely heart hotel where they eavesdrop on one another through thin walls.

Yves Klein: The Blue Revolution

2007 • 52 min • France

Director Francois Levy-Kuentz's film uses previously unreleased archival material, such as Klein's personal films, to capture the artist's astonishing career, from its beginning in 1954 to his death in 1962. In those eight short years, Klein turned the modern art world upside down.

Lovedol: Lovely Idol - Is It a Hot Spring?

2007 • 28 min • Japan

Lovedol, or Lovely Idol, is a girl group consisting of two generations of idols. The 3rd Generation is about to make its debut, but to their surprise, they have been delayed! The vague reason is only that "they lack something." The manager, and the 3rd Gen. girls too, must find the answer. OVA for the Lovedol series.

Leaving the Village

2007 • 5 min • Nepal

Animated short Nepalese 2D film 'LEAVING THE VILLAGE' (Gaun Chhodda) depicting the impact of domestic violence in the lives of Nepalese people.

How Did a Lily Arise

2007 • 6 min • Serbia

The story on tragic love told in nature's reflection.

Shooting Days

2007 • 27 min • Israel

A personal video dairy: a coming of age story about being a teenager and figuring out your sexual identity.

Safari

2007 • 7 min

This wordless, hallucinatory nature documentary is not precisely natural, nor exactly a documentary. Following the travails of a cockroach through a studio-constructed tropical paradise, its extreme close-ups present a world in which bizarre plants and animals engage in a constant dance of eat and be eaten.

Theatre of Souls

2007 • 9 min • United Kingdom

The performance is over and Lucy stands outside the stage entrance waiting for the taxi to take her home, but something evil inside the theater has other plans for her and she soon ends up in a real nightmare.

Gravida

2007 • 24 min

A woman's desire for companionship prevents her from being completely honest with her potential lover.

Pound

2007 • 2 min • United States of America

How to greet with cred.

Love The Dogs

2007 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A short film about dog racing.

Retaliation

2007 • 4 min • Sweden

Based on a scene from Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring, this piece is a revolt and a homage, finding new meaning in a fictional action. A woman takes on a traditionally male role in trying her raw strength and getting rid of her frustration by hitting and breaking something. (FilmForm)

Feng

2007 • 8 min • Australia, Singapore

Two people from two countries who once shared a common experience.

Die Kunsttäter

2007 • 6 min

74 and 94 escape an art installation.

Veterinarian

2007 • 17 min • Latvia

A veterinarian routinely goes on house calls to treat sick animals. He is able to save most, but one time he arrives too late. The animal dies, and that breaks the veterinarian's heart. One night the animals that he has treated come to him in a dream. He receives love and forgiveness. When Veterinarian wakes up, his heart has healed.

My Croatian Nose

2007 • 13 min • Sweden

About Richard's nose and the father it came from.

Beauty Now

2007 • 4 min • Ireland

This satirical view of our contemporary attitude about beauty is presented in the style of a 1950’s informational film.

Foley Room: Found Footage

2007 • 24 min

A behind-the-scenes special included with some pressings of Amon Tobin's 2007 CD Foley Room.

Sleep Lines

2007 • 7 min • Canada

On a sunny afternoon between dreaming and waking a couple come together and move apart in the interior world of their home. A hand-processed black-and-white queer experimental film exploring the tension between intimacy and separateness.

Merely a Smell

2007 • 10 min • France, Lebanon

In four long takes, like a haiku in black and white, we enter the rubble of a country following the 2006 Israeli-Lebanese conflict. Without ever looking death in the face, the absence of life shows itself over the course of clues appearing in the no man’s land of a battered Beirut. In silent, frozen time, the film subtly refers to the spectator’s imagination in alluding to death.