All Films

Single Write Female

2009 • 5 min

Documentary about the career of one-time Doctor Who writer Barbara Clegg.

Límites: 1ª persona

2009 • 8 min • Spain, Morocco

About someone who once loved a woman in a desert with a camera.

Cacophony: Live in Los Angeles 1988

2009 • 60 min

Rare footage of Jason Becker and Marty Friedman's Cacophony captured live in L.A on 10th February 1988.

My Best Friend

2009 • 28 min • Sweden

At a closed facility for young people a strong friendship grows between Olga and Felicia.

Night Scene New York

2009 • 10 min

Chance observations of New York's Chinatown, commissioned by the Museum of Chinese in the Americas. “A sleepwalker’s circumnavigation of one of the less homogenized parts of the city.”–Jem Cohen

Cinema Korea

2009 • 50 min • South Korea

Academy Award-nominated director Christine Choy brings together interviews with actors and directors, archival footage of classic Korean films and accounts of defining historical events to give a fully rounded view of Korean film culture. Interviewees include Im Kwon-taek, Kim Ki-duk, Jang Dong-gun, Jeon Ji-hyun, Lee Byung-hun, Kwak Kyung-taek, Bang Eun-jin.

Gently

2009 • 15 min

Two lads, two trannies and two high-class hookers in a Soho rickshaw. Fasten your seat-belts it's gonna be a bumpy night.

Excerpt From THE SKY SOCIALIST Stratified

2009 • 20 min

Digitally remixed elements from Ken Jacobs' 1960s film The Sky Socialist

The Dead Dance

2009 • 20 min • Japan

A video installation that Takashi Ito exhibited in January 2009 in Kyoto.

Treasure in Heaven: The John Tanner Story

2009 • 20 min • United States of America

As the director of such films as "The Touch of the Master's Hand", "Praise to the Man" and "Gordon B. Hinckley: A Giant Among Men", T.C. Christensen has touched the hearts of millions of Latter-day Saints with his exemplary filmmaking. Now he shares the incredible true story of a man who had everything he wanted, but discovered something greater in sacrificing all for the building of the Kingdom. "Treasure in Heaven" is the true story of John Tanner, a wealthy New York landowner and convert to the Church who in 1834 sold his properties to assist the Church. He freely gave all he had, giving us an example of generosity and consecration in serving the Lord.

Gravity Is Tops

2009 • 20 min

A stereo-photo of an ocean wave slowly turns and churns. The hidden forces of Cinema conspire with an instant of history to produce actions that never were or could be. 3D for everyone (one eye will do). Regarding the title, one hears on all sides (doing battle) that “God is great”. I donʼt get it, seeing that no one is listening or watching or doing anything about what happens here. However, gravity surely exists, if only for now, until the universe dissipates further, and it clearly decides much—if not everything—that happens. Gravity is the result of momentum, Earth a flung ball issuing from The Big Bang, every species of life a mad effort to regain the once-totality, dismemberment of which made us possible. I donʼt suggest praying to gravity for what you want for your birthday but it is very palpable in this movie.

Scary True Stories: Night 14 - Mysterious Disappearance

2009 • 60 min • Japan

19th installment in Broadway's "Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi" series.

Here Come The Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized

2009 • 60 min

Here Come The Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized" is an animated collaboration between the band and four filmmakers: Guilherme Marcondes, Julia Pott, Peter Sluszka and Santa Maria. The Los Angeles Times describes it as "a tumbling series of visuals with four distinct aesthetic styles. Peter Sluszka's ultra-slow motion capture of exploding mushrooms and elegantly disseminating seed pods … Julia Pott's line art of wolves and foxes hovering in geometric constellations … Guilherme Marcondes' renderings of skeletons caught among leafless branches and verdant human arms that unfurl like ferns… Santa Maria provides context…with cosmic, computer-generated vistas, cartoons of splintering bones.

Asia's Titanic

2009 • 46 min • Philippines

The passenger ship Doña Paz collided with an oil tanker in the Philippines. 4,000 passengers died in the tragedy. Just five days before Christmas in 1987, the passenger ship Doña Paz collided with an oil tanker off Mindoro Island in the Philippines. 4,000 passengers died in the tragedy. It was the world's worst peacetime maritime disaster. Through dramatic first hand accounts from survivors and rescuers, transcripts from the Philippine congressional inquiry into the tragedy, archival footage and photos and a re-enactment of the collision, dissect the unfolding tragedy of Doña Paz.

Plato's Atlantis

2009 • 17 min

Under the direction of Nick Knight and with support from IMG, SHOWstudio.com streamed Alexander McQueen's Spring/Summer 2010 presentation, Plato's Atlantis, live from Paris.

Nekketsu Uchuujin

2009 • 2 min • Japan

A short in which a student named Ai meets an alien with a time machine. Ai also appears in the short "Kobe to Watashi".

Bangkok Blues

2009 • 20 min

Louis and his girlfriend Fern are on the rocks. He finds some secret messages she left hidden in the pages of his books. Louis drags his best friend Ananda over to Fern's apartment to confront her. He doesn't want to keep finding these messages years after they have broken up. But that is precisely why she left them there. A short film about preserving old memories, originally appearing as part of the omnibus film Sawasdee Bangkok.

Barbara Steele in Conversation

2009 • 29 min

A documentary revolving around an extended interview with Barbara Steele, in which she recounts the many facets of her career.

The Police Box

2009 • 7 min

A girl writes love letters to a policeman and puts them in a police box on his beat. One day a jealous boy sees her tampering with the box and decides to play a trick on the two.

Celebrity Casino

2009 • 7 min

A trip to Las Vegas and a hike down a red carpet of star trodden footprints highlights this glimpse of glamorous glitz as flash bulbs pop to ignite titans of tinseltown as they rub shoulders with brethren of lower voltage.

Mr Foley

2009 • 5 min • Ireland

A man wakes up in a hospital bed and has his head bandages unwrapped to find he is not alone in the room as it seems there is now no noise unless it is provided by a pair of Foley artists and a small musical troupe providing a score.

Bell Witch of Leith

2009 • 4 min

An experiment in style over substance. It attempts to present the actual medium of film as the focus as opposed to the bland subject matter. The film looks to gain the viewers interest by drawing attention to the fact they are watching a film. It is a comment on the quick cutting and style prevalent in popular film.

Fourplay - Live in Cape Town

2009 • 58 min

The world's top contemporary jazz ensemble performs live in South Africa, blending their smooth jazz signature sound with large doses of pop, R&B and African beats.

John Mortimer: A Life in Words

2009 • 59 min

Documentary examining the thoughts and observations of writer, raconteur and national treasure, Sir John Mortimer.