All Films

The House Where We Grew Up

2006 • 16 min

This time capsule was shot shortly after the release of Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo (2006) by one of Marc's old friends, Travis Winkler.

Marriage

2006 • 15 min • Germany, Brazil

It is the story of a regular day when mother makes money working in the city and father work in the fields to keep their seven children.

The Uruguayans

2006 • 52 min • Brazil, Uruguay

A woman who moved from the city to the countryside, a small farmer, a successful lawyer, an Italian immigrant, a forest ranger and a student tell us their stories. This film is part of a project called “The Latin Americans”, which is about national identities in countries throughout the continent.

The Drawer of Memory

2006 • 7 min • Taiwan

The story is about an old women with a drawer on her body. This drawer is full of the memory of her passed husband. She puts things into the drawer every day to look for the shadow of him.

blueprints on a winter pond

2006 • 8 min

A short film by William Basinski & James Elaine.

You're Going to Die!

2006 • 6 min

"You’re Going to Die!" is a children’s story exploring one simple idea ad nauseum bonum. This video treatment by Dennis Palazzolo adapts prose by Timothy Furstnau using original footage and clips lifted from famous movies, and features the close-mic’d muttering voiceover of artist Vito Acconci.

Tong Tong und die Rache der Faustgiganten

2006 • 8 min • Germany

Master Fu instructs his student Tong Tong to hunt down the outcast villain Power Chow. Power Chow is using his abilities to wipe out several lives across the country. Tong Tong is initially reluctant to use deadly powers himself, but once he sets out on his journey and makes acquaintance with Power Chow's creatures of the night in the Ghost Forest, nothing can stop him!

Together We Win: The Fight to Organize Starbucks

2006 • 15 min

A short documentary about the IWW/IU660 Starbucks Workers Union and its struggles and victories during a two-year labor campaign.

Funkorogashi

2006 • 4 min

Dog leavings become a growing problem for Tokyo and its residents.

Lockdown: Gangland

2006 • 50 min • United States of America

Lockdown plunges head-first into the gritty underworld of some of America's most fearsome prisons. Three thrilling hours provide an unprecedented immersion into life in the "big house": vicious gang leaders, a "prison pretty" newbie, and a gangster turned rat. In this world of absolutes, predators stalk their next prey, gang commanders order hits from isolation, and inmates are armed with deadly weapons. But the prisons are striking back. Institutional weapons of choice include state of the art surveillance and old school isolation. Officers are armed to the hilt with steel batons and pepper spray. Our cameras are there, in the middle of this real-life war zone, where only the strong - and the devious - survive.

Sync Up Element

2006 • 23 min

'This is about the dreamlike images I saw while having epilepsy seizures, as they quite often happened in the past years.' (Stom Sogo)

Meltdown: In the Shadow of Nepal’s Lost Glaciers

2006 • 50 min • United Kingdom

This documentary follows an expedition taken by the United Nations to observe the increasingly rapid glacial melt forming at the base of the Himalayas.

Kajko i Kokosz

2006 • 16 min

The Maximum Marmora Phenomenon

2006 • 33 min • Canada

Set in the rural town of Marmora; the home of Punkfest, arsenic poisoning, radioactive pollution, and visions of the Virgin Mary.

The current morality

2006 • 19 min

What does 35 years of a perfect marriage sound like to you? Do you really believe that love is eternal? What do you prefer, dressing saints or undressing drunks? How much does money buy? And what if I like people of the same sex? Where are we going to end up? What is the age of deserving? Are you there to choose or to be chosen? Have you ever thought that what you do is not right? Did you know that it is fashionable to be loyal rather than faithful? And are you a good catch? And what will they say when they find out? Is all this in bad taste? Have you already seen under the table?

Attack of the Giant Vegetable Monsters

2006 • 7 min

A meteor lands on top of a farm growing vegetables for the consumption of a nearby city. The strange radiation makes the once harmless vegetables come to life and wreak an unholy revenge of the citizens of the town. A marvelous piece of animation in the spirit of the B movies of the fifties by Ken Turner with more than a twist in its tale. Marvelously evil!

A Most Unlikely Hero

2006 • 58 min

Captain Bruce Yamashita just wanted to serve his country; because of his race and ethnicity, the U.S. Marine Corps denied him the chance. Instead of giving in to discrimination, he took a stand for fairness and justice, uncovering evidence that rocked the Corps. A MOST UNLIKELY HERO presents Bruce’s story as a model of courage and commitment in contemporary America.

New Penelope

2006 • 25 min • Tajikistan

Economic depression and political chaos force Tajik men to become migrant labourers, working in unsafe conditions and with inconsistent pay. Tajik women attempt to keep their families alive, and, in some cases, enter polygamous marriages to feed themselves and their families. Often, these women relate to Penelope, the wife of the mythical hero Odysseus, who waits many years for her husband to return.

Alienosaurus di Ladang Tebu

2006 • 10 min • Indonesia

After the events of September 30, 1965, a village in Bantul was frequently visited by flying saucers. While walking in a sugarcane field after seeing a flying saucer, an elementary school boy meets a small dinosaur. The incident was the beginning of the appearance of other dinosaurs in the village.

Neil Hamburger In Australia

2006 • 14 min • Australia

New documentary short examining the Neil Hamburger phenomenon Down Under, with rare archival footage of Neil in triumph... and defeat.

Tree

2006 • 6 min • Canada

Personifying Mother Earth, she walks through her domain. She observes her environment and what has happened to it. She weeps. She feels violated. Not only has man damaged her but they continue to damage each other. She sighs. She will visit and start again sometime soon.

L'incantesimo di Gilbert

2006 • 15 min • Italy

A young little orphan loses herself in the Woods of Vain Things. In her journey, she finds an old log cabin: it is soon revealed to be the dwelling of Gilbert, the prize-builder, victim of a strange spell.

The Flesh and Bone

2006 • 10 min

She’s overweight and big-boned. How will that affect her chances for marriage and employment? The world is nothing but worries. Should she lose weight or get surgery to shave her bones down to look more petite? Or maybe even replace all of teeth like TV celebrities do? In response to these appalling questions, she must explain herself earnestly and painfully, yet she refuses to give up on her body so easily. In a society where a woman’s life is determined by her body, perhaps she feels that it is only when she treasures her body that she may attain happiness. One of the shorts in the omnibus animated film If You Were Me: Anima Vision produced by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea. (Kim Joon-yang)

We Will Fight Again

2006 • 54 min • Serbia and Montenegro

Petar Božović, the legendary actor, masterfully speaks the poem of the great and genius poet Matija Bećković: We will fight again.