All Films

The Real Sleeping Beauty

2007 • 47 min • United Kingdom

A medical miracle is chronicled in this documentary about a woman who shocks experts when she awakens from a 20-year coma with the power of speech.

Terminus

2007 • 8 min • Canada

After inadvertently offending a strange entity that accosts him on his way to work, a 1970s businessman quickly finds himself in the midst if a bizarre predicament.

Mash SF

2007 • 55 min • United States of America

Mash is a testament to the efficacy of the frame, wheels, cockpit, and drive-train that carry us through SF's labyrinth of lanes, alleys, and everything in between. This video recognizes those who have inspired us with their unique presence in the streets, who have created an accelerated style of riding bikes built for the track but tailored for daily abuse. The synthesis of this video sprang from a desire to show the world how these locals take ownership of San Franciscos dense landscape and display an incredible amount of focus, fluidity, and grace in the process.

Otakus

2007 • 8 min • Argentina

Two fans about Japan animation fight against each other to demonstrate who knows best about it.

Zorro: Return to the Future

2007 • 60 min • United Kingdom

When Diego de la Vega puts on his black mask and cape for the first time, he becomes Zorro, ready to fight crime and protect the innocent! This modern-day Zorro fights crime on the Tornado-Z, a very cool purple motorcycle unlike any other, and instead of a sword, is armed with the Weapon Z, which shoots lasers from both ends!

Cum grano salis (Studio Drum)

2007 • 6 min • Slovenia

6 young directors from 6 countries in 3 days in front of the Golden Drum participants created, shot and edited each their own short film on a topic »Cum grano salis«. The topic was revealed to each director only 6 hours before the shooting begins. They all have the same working conditions, the same technical equipment and two actors available. That's the way they can equally demonstrate their creative fantasy and professional ingenuity.

Voodoo Bayou

2007 • 12 min • Mexico

Voodoo Bayou is the eccentric story of the Voodoo doll, which after being bitten by an electrified mosquito, came to life and decided to escape from his master, an angry witchdoctor who has lost everything.

Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video

2007 • 53 min

Dreamworlds 3 examines the stories contemporary music videos tell about girls and women, and encourages viewers to consider how these narratives shape individual and cultural attitudes about sexuality. Illustrated with hundreds of up-to-date images, Dreamworlds 3 offers a unique and powerful tool for understanding both the continuing influence of music videos and how pop culture more generally filters the identities of young men and women through a dangerously narrow set of myths about sexuality and gender. In doing so, it inspires viewers to reflect critically on images that they might otherwise take for granted.

John Dored's Island

2007 • 45 min • Latvia

John Dored was the first Latvian cinematographer to train with the famous Pathé, actively film on the front lines of WWI, and the only foreigner who filmed Lenin’s funeral, illegally. After emigrating to the U.S.A. he worked as a correspondent for Paramount News for 25 years and continued reporting from war zones. The film is based on the correspondence and journals of Dored and his wife Elizabeth – a portrait of a stellar career and of fate, love, life and death.

James May: My Sisters' Top Toys

2007 • 60 min • United Kingdom

James May celebrates the toys that made his childhood hell as he opens the lid on his sisters' toy box. Sandwiched between elder sister Jane and younger one Sarah, many of their favourites he couldn't understand - or stand the sight of - or see the point of.

Hezurbeltzak, a Common Grave

2007 • 5 min • Spain

The Basque word hezurbeltzak does not appear in dictionaries. It is a non-existing word used to describe socially invisible groups. Its literal translation would be "black bones".

Passageways

2007 • 28 min • United States of America

A film by Paul Clipson.

Dugong

2007 • 18 min

A loner and his dog return home on the day of his brother's wedding to repair the past, but he learns in order to make amends he must leave a piece of himself behind.

Stella and the Storks

2007 • 21 min • Germany

Five year old Stella wants to give her mum a new brother, but where can she get a baby?! Can she get one from the tooth-fairy or the stork? With her best friend Luna she hatches a plan to surprise her mum with a baby.

Do Not Bend

2007 • 7 min • Canada

Sometimes even a monster home in the suburbs isn't big enough to contain the baggage of one complicated couple. Newlyweds Catye and Jason have it all: looks, excellent jobs, and a great big mortgage they can handle no sweat. There's only one hitch: they haven't consummated their marriage. "Do Not Bend" is the story of what happens when two people try to replace reality with a fantasy that is the opposite of their wildest dreams.

A Stem

2007 • 15 min • Brazil

Clarisse notices a small green leaf growing out of her right arm.

Lost Utopia

2007 • 5 min • Japan

The story of Adam and Eve with jazzy music. Short experimental animation without words.

On the Road Again: 'Two-Lane Blacktop' Revisited

2007 • 43 min • United States of America

A retrospective documentary on the making of Monte Hellman's 1971 film TWO-LANE BLACKTOP.

A Different Kind of Gun

2007 • 15 min • United States of America

"The reason why they kill people is because they do not have any education," a Sudanese boy says about the bloody conflict in his fatherland. Shortly before, we see images of a bombed school. In this film, the youngest and most innocent generation of Sudanese explains how it deals with the war that is tearing the country apart. Will the orphaned children avenge their murdered parents, or will they forgive the killers and start working on a new life? At any rate, these children's dreams for the future are anything but violent. One of them wants to learn English to be able to liberate his country, another wants to study to "be something," a third wants to become president to bring total peace, and yet another simply wants to be like her grandmother. Despite all the atrocities they have witnessed, the children mainly want to rebuild things, to put an end to the destruction.

The World as a Collection

2007 • 13 min • Netherlands

An obsessive collector (Erik Fens) creates his own scrapbook world. The film presents analyses of the collecting impulse based on Freudian theorie and Buddhism.

Dead End Drive

2007 • 23 min

Lost and out of gas while trying to find a rave party, a group of friends soon realize they took the wrong turn...and they pay for it with their lives. True horror awaits anyone that finds themselves lost on Dead End Drive.

Rabbit on the Moon

2007 • 40 min • Japan

Sanae is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her mother and six-year-old sister. She has not recently been able to be open with her fisherman grandfather. Sanae is awoken by the sound of hard rain one night. As she dozes, the rain changes into the flow of the river and she finds herself lying in a fishing boat when she opens her eyes. She hears, from far away, the strains of a harmonica which her grandpa loves... Next morning Sanae is informed that her grandfather has passed away. Frictions are revealed between Sanae and those around her. In her confused state, she runs out of the house leaving for the river where her grandpa's boat is moored...

Forest

2007 • 11 min • India

"In this work, a library of books stands improbably in a clearing in the forest, symbolising ‘a library of knowledge.’ A lion enters, becoming the guardian of this knowledge but also, representing a mythical, other-worldly creature of the imaginary. The lion is driven away as the library is set on fire. Finally, a young lion returns to the city that emerges from the ashes of the scene. Flowers rise from the burnt ground. In this visionary and poetic video artwork the ‘hidden atrocities’ that take place in this animated painting are suggested rather than explained. It becomes a statement about a collective destruction of the environment, and of generational knowledge and wisdom passed through centuries and across cultures for which we must all atone."

Complete Garbage

2007 • 32 min • Norway

The Pink Umbrella Man has a cabin possessed when Bob Booze and his friends are driving up. Meanwhile detectivesMr. Dick and Mr. Head put themselves on the task of solving the mystery. 31 minutes of bugs, guts, breeze, pizza, subways, hats and other stuff.