All Films

A Heart and Other Small Shapes

2006 • 30 min

This short deadpan narrative is a glimpse into the lives of two children and three adults maximizing dysfunction. Regular people keep secrets and act out intimate wants. Ultimately, this piece examines the awkwardness and specificity of human desire.

Even Kids Started Small

2006 • 30 min • Israel

School starts at 8am. Teachers and students awaiting to learn what's next on the syllabus. "What will we learn today?" Something slightly different, this time taught by the students. The teachers, our hard working educators, will sit back, and might even learn something - Learn discipline. So come on everybody, let's all embrace the new curriculum. Perhaps we'll begin to enjoy it.

Gravity

2006 • 6 min • Belgium

The cinematic kiss is probably one of the most archetypical images to be found in film history. It is usually a reassuring and sometimes climactic element in a movie's storyline. Not in Nicolas Provost's 'Gravity' though: with stroboscopic effects, more than a dozen kissing scenes, most from stereotypical 1950s romantic dramas, are edited together and superimposed. Narrative is subverted as the kissing is isolated from its context entirely; the action slows down and flickers back and forth. Every now and then, shots from different films overlap and match; protagonists merge and diverge again a few seconds later. The sugary and dramatic soundtrack of romantic film music contrasts with the deconstructed images; together, they form a dazzling 6-minute vertigo where love becomes a passionate battle.

Batuque, the Soul of a People

2006 • 52 min • Cape Verde, France, Portugal

In 1462, the first African slaves were settled on the island of Cape Verde brought by the Portuguese colons. It is supposed that they were the first inhabitants of the archipelagos. They carried with them the rhythms and the seeds of what became the BATUQUE: a music form, performed mostly by women, both singers and dancers. The singers, repeat very strong lyrics, sitting in a circle and beating the rhythms with their hands on a piece of cloth between their legs. While one woman performs a very sensual dance with her hips in the middle of the circle. During the colonial era, it has been strongly forbidden but it remained alive in clandestinity. The group Raiz de Tambarina, one of the oldest groups of Batuque on Santiago island, is composed of ordinary people, saleswomen, fish merchants, drivers... Through their every day life and performances we discover Cape Verde today and their passion for the Batuque.

Lax Readings

2006 • 13 min • Germany

The space of a voice gives what is said its real meaning. In it you can feel what is actually behind the words. A voice can be like a landscape. Nobody we met on our cinematic paths made this more noticeable than Robert Lax. His incomparable serenity hovers over every thought. You can enter this space by listening to him read his poetry, a quarter hour of which is gathered in LAX READINGS.

It's My Turn Now

2006 • 7 min • Sweden

A little story about a person who decided to give up.

Memo

2006 • 4 min • United States of America

A world-weary corporate drone experiences an overload of terrifying proportions.

Chop Off

2006 • 5 min • New Zealand

Three Axemen. Three tall wooden posts. An epic battle between young and old.

2010

2006 • 29 min • Sweden

The film follows alcoholic Leja, who has grown isolated. But things change when she meets Lukas.

The Seeds

2006 • 28 min • Poland

A family on the border of Siberia and Kazachstan struggles to deal with a trauma that happened in their past.

Naive Story

2006 • 8 min • Serbia and Montenegro

A love story spiced with mild irony. Each of us keeps a deep "naive" view of the world that wants to convey to the real world, but this is often not possible because of the dynamic rhythm of life that is imposed on us. This is the story of the search for a "lost paradise" and finding it in a place no one expected.

The league of the imperfects

2006 • 30 min • Argentina

A group of frustrated try to change their negative image before society, but the presence of Max Toranzo is their main obstacle.

Eddy's Gone

2006 • 28 min • Croatia

The film, made in the comic-esthetics itself, deals with the life and work of Edvin Biukovic - Eddy, one of the most acclaimed Croatian comic-strip artists. Although he drew Star Wars episodes in the U.S., in Croatia he was almost anonymous. He died in his early thirties. Eddy's Gone is also a story about the comic-strip culture in Croatia.

Flower Beloved

2006 • 7 min • Sweden

A young woman is sitting in an apartment waiting for the phone to ring. The longer time passes, the more upset she becomes.

Woman and Gramophone

2006 • 4 min • Sweden

A woman, a gramophone and the strange melodies of life.

Papiņš

2006 • 20 min • Latvia

A story about how a young man filmed a story about fishermen.

Jimmy B. Good

2006 • 11 min • United States of America

In one wild and crazy day, a 17 year-old boy's attempts at masturbation are met with misfortune.

NRBQ: Live in Performance

2006 • 59 min

In November 1999, after a two-night extravaganza in New York City celebrating their thirtieth anniversary, NRBQ played to a packed house of loyal fans in Connecticut Public Television's Hartford studio.

Twist

2006 • 11 min • France, Switzerland

Four men dance in the set of a beach bar off season. This film puts in parallel an episode of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars and a choreographed digest of the history of the Twist.

Hinter dem Glück

2006 • 20 min • Germany

The Bearded Lady Also Sells The Candy Floss

2006 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Documentary about the music of Billy Childish and his bands, The Musicians Of The British Empire, and Wild Billy Childish & The Chatham Singers

West Coast Québec

2006 • 14 min • Canada

Pillar

2006 • 15 min • Belgium

A father faces his darkest hours after the dead of his son.

I Thought of You Often

2006 • 5 min • Canada

Translated from a self-reflexive Chinese saying, Yun Lam Li's I thought of you often, this film is a visual poem about the meaning of aging within a culture that is not one's own.