All Films

The Crawlspace

2006 • 55 min • United States of America

Mike wakes up to find that he is trapped and it soon becomes blatantly obvious that there is no way out. A phone rings and the games begin. The captor calls himself "The Director" as he claims to be directing a reality show in which your life is truly in danger. The show will last 3 days, and Mike will be given several random tasks to complete. If Mike is alive at the end of the third day, he will be free. But as the first task ensues, Mike realizes surviving might take more than he has.

Stravinsky: Pulcinella

2006 • 42 min

Sir Neville Marriner conducts the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields chamber orchestra and Sheldon Schwartz dances the title role in this 1980 production of Stravinski's one-act ballet, choreographed by Heinz Spoerli. The story centers on Naples man-about-town Pulcinella (Schwartz), who woos all the local maidens and fakes his own death to escape an army of angry suitors. This production also stars dancers Amanda Bennett and Loya Molloy.

The Wars

2006 • 30 min • Netherlands

In The Wars photographer Oscar van Alphen combines an adapted version of Georges Bataille's text 'Madame Edwarda' with images drawn from his archive. 'Madame Edwarda' is a story with no beginning nor an end. A male first-person narrator and a prostitute encounter in Paris by night. It's a story about lust, power, anxiety, desire, and humiliation. Van Alphen uses Bataille's text as a metaphor for the perversity of social structures, for the uncontrollability of political and economic power, and the effects of these on human dignity. He juxtaposes pictures from the decaying and almost deserted industrial regions in Northern France and of the 1968 student rebellion in Paris, with the pornographic text from the first years of World War II.

Amancay

2006 • 18 min • Switzerland, Argentina

A film about the return of a woman to a house where a drama took place – the return to her memories, her fears and her intimacy.

Scoring the Silence

2006 • 16 min • United States of America

Documentary featuring an interview with Howard Shore, composer of the score of the film "The Silence of the Lamb" (1991).

Hummus Curry

2006 • 58 min • India, Israel

For many years now, traveling to India has been a rite of passage in Israeli life. We hear so much about the Israelis in India that we sometimes forget there are actually Indians living ...

Super-Herói Fora de Série

2006 • 20 min • Brazil

Marcelo Osíres Carvalho is a 30-year-old boy, shy and without any social life. His great hobby is comic books, but Marcelo ends up getting too involved with this fantastic universe and decides to transform into a superhero to fight crime. What seemed like a simple daydream ends up working and the new hero ends up being recognized by the whole city. And, just like in the world of comics, reality also saves mysteries and revelations for the last pages.

Between Worlds

2006 • 54 min • Switzerland

The revealing life story of Güli Dogan conveys impressively and in exemplary pictures the long and difficult path of a successful integration. Between the Worlds is the portrait of a woman who is very well integrated professionally and socially in Switzerland, but who is emotionally strongly connected to her village, which hardly exists anymore.

La cosa nuestra

2006 • 16 min • Spain

La Cosa Nuestra is a journey to the most hidden and surreal face of the bovid-bullfighting universe. Fun and tremendous, operating in iconographic cannibalism. It is a work that shows another reading of the national holiday, demystifying it. Confronts the Spanish bullfighting culture with the visions and uses of the bull in other civilizations. This video creation immerses itself in the aesthetic, ritual and cultural universe of the world of bullfighting, rebuilding it critically, but at the same time with healthy irony.

Spring

2006 • 4 min • United States of America

The scattering of Steve Lacy’s ashes at Long Island, NY on March 21, 2006.

The Shack

2006 • 22 min • United States of America

Two murderous hillbillies underestimate the stabbing ability of a girl camping with friends at night.

Codehunters

2006 • 9 min • United Kingdom

In 2005, Ben Hibon, with Stateless Films and Blinkink, created an animation for MTV Asia's weekly film show called MTV Screen. After a very good response, MTV Asia commissioned his company to produce a short film on the back of it. “As I was creating concepts drawings,” explains Ben Hibon, “MTV Asia was starting to plan their annual Music Awards. They then came up with the idea of ‘launching’ our project by using it to brand the show; posters, banners, trophy design and intro/bumper animations. So the brief changed from ‘short film’ to ‘branding package’ for the MTV Awards show.” It formed into a seven-minute prologue / intro animation to the world of ‘Codehunters’, an on-going MTV/BLINKINK project launched around the MTV Asia Awards 2006 in Bangkok.

Portrait #2: Trojan

2006 • 5 min • United States of America

The Trojan Nuclear Power Plant, with its 499-foot tall cooling tower that loomed over its otherwise bucolic Columbia river setting, is the only commercial nuclear power plant ever built in the state of Oregon, at the cost of $450 million in the 1970's economy (almost 3 trillion dollars in today’s money). [...] "Portrait #2: Trojan" is a sublime representation of the surrounding environment leading dramatically up to the moment of demolition. Sam Coomes’ flawless score provides stunning sonic context for the happy ending of the Oregon nuclear skyline. The film is an effective prescription in prevention of politically-triggered anxiety and depression in post-modern Cascadia.

Zone of Initial Dilution

2006 • 31 min

A study of the changing Chinese landscape around the Three Gorges Dam project, where the world’s biggest hydraulic dam is being constructed. In anticipation of its completion in 2008, this film focuses on the small towns on the Yangtze River - some have already been abandoned or are in ruins, others are full of life - and tries to determine the consequences for the landscape and the population when the lake fills with water.

Confini d'Europa 2: Rio de Onor

2006 • 54 min • Italy

Tony vs. Paul

2006 • 5 min

A stop motion battle between two friends turned enemies.

Self-Portrait

2006 • 2 min • Brazil

Experimental video shot on Mini DV

Introduction to Filmmaking

2006 • 30 min • Croatia

We live with films every day, and it seems nothing easier than answering the question: what is a film? Obviously, a film is, first and foremost, a document, a testimony of the world that surrounds us. The rich expressional possibilities of film are based on the imperfection of the human eye, its sluggishness, so thanks to the stroboscopic effect we can animate a still image. Film is therefore a kinetic image, or a moving image. It can make the invisible visible, bring the distant closer, enlarge the small, speed up the slow, slow down the fast, and return the end to the beginning. The technological basis of film: light, film tape, camera, projector, film screen. Expressive possibilities of film: scientific, documentary, communicative, artistic. Basic film genres: differences among films.

Hitmusik: Konsten att sätta rytm till revolt

2006 • 28 min • Sweden

Documentary about feminism in music and the challenges it has faced through the years from the '70s to present day.

Life You

2006 • 4 min • Lithuania

Animated short.

She is an Izmir girl

2006 • 19 min • Turkey

At the most beautiful age, Elif Bitgen started savoring her newfound freedom.

Wolfster Part 1: The Curse of the Emo-Vamp

2006 • 44 min

Dave has had what some might call a bad day. His best friend forced him to go on a date with a girl that doesn't quite seem to be his taste. Not to mention that a Vampire has just moved into town. The Vamp decides that he wants a pet Werewolf, choosing Dave. Fortunately for Dave, the Emo Vamp began reading his bad poetry halfway through the spell, letting Dave keep his free-will and control his transformations. Another side-effect? Dave knows he's in a movie now. So, Dave is going to have to learn how to control his new powers, get used to the camera that's always following him, and defeat the Emo Vamp to save his date. All while constantly punching through the Fourth Wall into your living room.

A.k.a. Nikki S. Lee

2006 • 60 min

The jet set life of artist Nikki S. Lee.

Every Good Marriage Begins with Tears

2006 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Two Bangladeshi girls born and raised in London have weddings arranged for them against their will by their family. Shahanara, the rebel of the family, banished from the family in her teens for being "too Western", has to swap her pink hot pants for a sari as she goes off to the airport to meet her new Bangladeshi husband. Her sister Hushnara is the opposite of Shahanara; a devout Muslim who agrees to marry so she doesn't upset her parents.