All Films

Un vaso de soda

2009 • 10 min • Argentina

A boy grabs a woman's handbag in a Buenos Aires street. To escape from the police, he hides in an aging woman's house. During the hours he has to spend there, the relationship between the two changes

Lavender Mist Film/Pollock Film 1

2009 • 1 min

70mm film leader rubbed with Jimson Weed Trumpet flowers, spraypainted, dripped and splattered with nail polish, sprayed with lavender mist air freshener, 2009, 46 seconds 70mm film transferred to digital video

A Hole in the Water

2009 • 58 min • Greece

This is a documentary that looks the story of the pharaonic road project in the heart of Thessaloniki, the "needs" that were imposed on the city, how the state tried to mislead everyone to materialize, and the responsibility we have in road projects for our "convenience" and at the expense of public spaces, air and quality of life in the end.

Keep Out

2009 • 12 min

Debut documentary of Tatyana Kononenko dealing with the issues of memory and history.

Elfmädchen

2009 • 17 min • United States of America, Puerto Rico

elfmädchen is an abstract portrait poem painting pretty film for an ugly world. It's about a mod gal living in Soma, San Francisco and her vivid narcoleptic dreams. Her story is told visually with stop-motion animation, rich sound and minimal voiceover but no dialogue. Each dream sequence vignette flows in & out of reality until any lines are completely blurred.

Close at Hand

2009 • 5 min

A hallucinatory depiction of physical intimacy shot on Super 8 film.

Rukoushetki

2009 • 15 min

THE HOUR OF PRAYER is a short tale about attachment and death. It is based on the artist's own experiences. Via the events surrounding the death of a dog, it tells the story of death entering a house and the process of dealing with grief. These events begin in New York during a winter storm in January and end in Benin, West Africa, eleven months later. The first part of The Hour of Prayer retells a classical tale, in which the words and events explain each other and form a chronological progression. As the narrator speaks, words for time are prominent and images and sounds record the changes of season in various landscapes. The Hour of Prayer is made up of original material shot at the time of the events and of reconstructed situations.

Women of the Impressionist Movement

2009 • 44 min

“Impressionism is female”: we understand this when we consider Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès and Marie Bracquemond, four outstanding artists who developed distinct Impressionist subjects and manners of painting. All four knew each other, were regulars in the contemporary artist circles of Paris and, above all, shared a common fate: they were talented women in a world ruled by men. The documentary by Rudij Bergmann, an expert on impressionalism, which was filmed in France and the United States tells the story of the four women, placing their works at the centre of reflection on aesthetic, historical but also social matters. Set against the backdrop of Paris in the late 19th century, it reveals a new dimension of this fascinating and revolutionary period of art.

Japan's Scariest Story Series "Inn"

2009 • 55 min • Japan

This is the third “Inn” version in the series, which consists of image drama and real drama by selecting horror stories from the most familiar places, such as schools, hospitals, and inns. Sakiko and Chie, office workers at the same company, go to a certain inn one day...

No. 2

2009 • 1 min

16mm, silent

NO. 4 - Organic Bridge

2009 • 4 min

Fourth Series of Hand Made Film. 16mm Kodak 250D Negative.

No. 5

2009 • 2 min

Stan Brakhage and Len Lye inspired handmade film. Painted color markers and spray paints.

Insect Yakuza Mitsudango Conflict Vol. 2

2009 • 30 min

The city that never sleeps, where insects gather, is now beginning to shake violently.The stirring of a family of martial-arts insectivores, ----, which gathers together half-breed insects who do not belong to a gang and starts a war.There was always a shadow... It is Ginko, the bewitching queen bee of the wasp family.Ginko's scheming, which does not choose any means. There is no righteousness, chivalry, humanity, or love.The wasp family expands using the honey dumplings that drive the insects crazy as a source of funds.The wings of the beautiful lady swallowtail butterfly stain the moonlight with fresh blood, and our chivalrous cumulonimbus...we call him "Mushizashi-ki" Hitoshi's white blade of divine speed cleaves away the swarming insects! The war over the honey dumplings and the course of Mitsuki and Kyoko's love... now heads for a fierce climax!

Boys of Summer

2009 • 13 min • United States of America

A pop music essay that is both sweet and serious about stereotypical male and juvenile fun. Tongue-in-cheek objectifying is mixed with cryptic symbols of longing and desire along with a brief history of a fraternal order.

Language of Memory

2009 • 3 min

Language of Memory is a hand-processed, optically printed film composed of rayographs of my grandmother’s still negatives from the early 1900s, strips of her old lace casting abstract patterns on high contrast film, and the overlapping gestures of sewing and splicing film, related techniques historically attributed to women. It is both homage to my grandmother’s creative influence and a deconstruction of memory through fragmentation and the accretion of associations surfacing from the tactile processes of the film’s making.

Game of Change: Documenting the 1963 Mississippi State vs. Loyola (IL) Basketball Game

2009 • 60 min

Loyola (Illinois) faces Mississippi State in a 1963 men's basketball tournament regional semifinal. Mississippi State, an all-white team, sneaks out of town in the middle of the night despite protests from the governor and state police of Mississippi. The film details how MSU coach Babe McCarthy, MSU President Dean Colvard, and Athletics Director Wade Walker risked their personal safety and jeopardized their jobs by sneaking the MSU team out of Mississippi during the night so it could play Loyola, despite protests from the governor and state police officials, threats from the community, and a pending court injunction.

The Botanist

2009 • 31 min • United States of America

Two brothers Tom and Rich find a secret trap door in Tom's closet which leads to a dangerous mad scientist's lab who's experiment went wrong and turned him into a dangerous monster and now he's after Tom and Rich. Now they must fight for Survival!.

The Night Time Creamer

2009 • 4 min

An interview with a pervert

I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze

2009 • 33 min

I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze takes form as installation and a video filmed at the Alhambra Palace Hotel in Ramallah, Palestine. The project charts the historical context and aftermath of a concert that never happened. In 2009 Leonard Cohen was scheduled to perform in Israel. Because of increasing pressure from pro-Palestinian voices to dissuade Cohen from performing in Israel, a parallel event in Palestine was organized. Amid protests and claims that the latter concert was a token show of solidarity and a hollow attempt to appease demonstrators, the concert was boycotted and eventually canceled. This story engages Cohen’s personal grappling with art and politics and the ethical dilemmas faced by performers under the conditions of a boycott.

The Mushroom Man

2009 • 7 min

A stop-motion animated film.

Red Dwarf: The Making of Back to Earth Part 2

2009 • 48 min

The second part of the documentary about the making of the Red Dwarf mini-series 'Back to Earth'.

天安門事件２０年　中国・民主化の行方

2009 • 26 min

Not Our Darkness

2009 • 25 min

30 years from the formation of Solidarity, 20 years from the introduction of democracy in Poland, there is widespread concern that the Gdansk Shipyard will be irrevocably destroyed through urban re-development. Using fragments of archive film from the popular struggle in the Poland, together with footage of the current destruction of the Gdansk Shipyard, Not Our Darkness is a poetic exploration of how memory, time and place interweave to form ‘image-constellations’; and how urban re-development threatens to obliterate the traces of past struggles.

Diccionario-Grito y Escucha

2009 • 8 min

Reflections in the Dictionary series.