All Films

Regatta (Part II)

2009 • 3 min

The Yukou Paper

2009 • 50 min • China

As a kind of traditional handmade paper in the area of Ninghua in western Fujian Province, Yukou paper is named after its soft and delicate quality as well as white and jade-like color. It is the best of handmade papers and needs to go through several complicated and elaborate processes. In a small village deep in the Wuyi Mountains, Xikeng, there were once more than five hundred paper mills, but now only one remains, still struggling to survive. The film crew focused their camera on the paper maker Hu Lanshan's family, quietly recording the process of making Yukou paper, the joys and sorrows of the paper maker’s family, and the changes of the whole era...

Gadi Lohardaga Mail

2009 • 27 min

Gadi Lohardaga Mail is a documentation of people’s memories about a passenger train that ran on the now defunct narrow-gauge tracks till January 2004.

Mr. India

2009 • 46 min • India

The life and achievements of HIV-positive bodybuilder K. Pradipkumar, who won the Mr Manipur title in 2007 and several other laurels in other competitions at national levels.

Powers of Three

2009 • 33 min

Set against the backdrop of Ireland's primal landscape, 'Powers of Three' presents the extraordinary tale of Tom Lowe, Fergal Smith and Mickey Smith risking all to extend the meaning of courage, commitment and artistry in one of the most brutal locations on earth. Both in the water and out, Powers of Three journeys beyond the traditional clichés of the surf film genre to penetrate the unflinching minds of three Artists united across the long dark winter by their shared big wave obsession.

Exposure Adjustment on a Sunset

2009 • 39 min

Video of a full sunset altered so that the brightness level remains constant from beginning to end.

Letter From Moldova

2009 • 28 min

Inspired by Chris Marker’s Letter from Siberia, this journey to Moldova is narrated through ten letters that reflect on the collapse of the Soviet Union, the contradictory nature of the current power of the communist party, and the uneasy proximity between post-colonialism and nationalism.

Dai Henwood - Dai Another Day

2009 • 59 min • New Zealand

Over two nights in September 2009, Dai Henwood performed to a packed SKYCITY Theatre in Auckland to record the best of his stand-up for this DVD. With more than a decade of comedy experience under his belt, Dai nailed it and you are holding the result in your hands.

Three Sisters And Andrey

2009 • 14 min • Bulgaria

Time has passed, but nothing has changed in the home of Prozorovs. Andrey takes care of his sisters as usually. With the help of a number of innovative technical devices he succeeds in maintaining their physical and psychic health. Everything is about to change when a mosquito appears in the November sky.

Bloom

2009 • 8 min

"An elf of dandelion takes off her bloom after her boyfriend, who has transformed into down a bit earlier. But there are monsters outside, and they take aim at her. In the outer world with no one to depend on, she grows up bravely."

Bohemia: The Life of a New York City Poet

2009 • 40 min

This documentary film displayed the personalities of many poets in New York City through their deep poetry and revealing interviews. Their poems are truly the stories of the streets of New York City. If the sidewalks can talk this is what they would say.

Vita Nova

2009 • 26 min • Belgium

In Mythologies (1957), Roland Barthes first presented his renowned critical analysis of the cover of a 1955 issue of Paris Match—the iconic image of a young African cadet saluting the French flag. What haunts this famous analysis? When Belgian artist Vincent Meesen went in search of the then-cadet for his film Vita Nova (2009), he found an old African who had forgotten almost all of the French national anthem. As Meessen’s investigation reveals, Barthes himself “forgot” to mention the history of his own family’s relation to colonialism, particularly the history of his grandfather, Captain Louis-Gustave Binger, who “gave” Côte d'Ivoire to France. The film launches a critical and moving account of the specters that haunted one of France’s most enlightened cultural critics, and have yet to be fully acknowledged today.

Promise

2009 • 2 min • Japan

A short film by Taku Furukawa.

Petit Manga

2009 • 6 min • Japan

A short film by Taku Furukawa.

Woodpecker

2009 • 2 min • Japan

A short film by Taku Furukawa.

Um Lugar Para Beijar

2009 • 28 min

A documentary that benefits from the direct participation of STD/AIDS prevention agents from the Rainbow Citizenship project, of the Municipal Health Secretariat, who work with their peers, the gay public, in various regions of São Paulo. By providing a greater knowledge of the gay universe in the city, the documentary favors the debate, the reflection on the situation of vulnerability of men who have sex with men, enables a greater understanding of reality and contributes to a better confrontation of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the city of São Paulo.

Quando a Chuva Chegar

2009 • 15 min

A couple, after 7 years together, finally buy a spacious and central apartment. After a few months they want to sell it at any price. They suspect that the new home causes deep upheavals in their routine, because of the unusual events that happen there.

Popped

2009 • 3 min • Canada

An unsuspecting boy encounters mysterious monsters that want to pop his balloons to transform him into one of them

Lukrezia

2009 • 4 min • Germany

According to legend, Roman noblewoman Lucretia committed suicide to restore her honour after being raped. For centuries, this story has served as a pretext for male painters to fabricate erotic and pornographic images. Goldt revisits this female symbol and adds her own perspective that challenges the historical mimesis of women.

The Collagist

2009 • 2 min

Animation based on the Collages of Marc Bell.

Homem Trator

2009 • 6 min • Brazil

Produced in 2009 by friends João Luiz Vital, Alex Sandro Grafit and Nenen Mofado, this short film was a moment of relaxation among several friends. Based on the comic books of the Brazilian superheroes: Tractor Man and Shirley.

Me Not Me

2009 • 23 min

Short film by Jeanne Dunning.

The Comma for Newtown

2009 • 4 min

I visited with my camera to Gija-chon that was my uncle's house been for a long time after the phone number deleted. The break time for changing and destory or developement and loss. The space for Gija-chon and Eunpyung Newtown project. I prefer the breath than any word.

The Mating Season - 2. A Weird Animal

2009 • 22 min

This animal can darken or lighten its body color, and is not easily visible to the human eye because of its adeptness at camouflaging its form. When the male reaches the mating season, it decorates the surrounding area with beautifully shining jewels and stones of various color to lure the female, whom is attracted to shining light, and makes secretive and hallucinatory the place in which the mating will take place.