All Films

O Segredo

2008 • 25 min • Portugal

António Dias Lourenço, a communist, remembers the years of incarceration in the fort of Peniche, during the fascist dictatorship in Portugal, focusing on the episode of his evasion in 1954.

Two Scoops

2008 • 2 min

Hand-drawn illustrations animate this touching personal story about the "Sixties Scoop” of Aboriginal children into the Canadian child-welfare system.

Kurt and Ove's Car Repair

2008 • 9 min • Sweden

Much has changed in the world since the 1960s, but at Kurt & Ove's car repair it seems as if time has been standing still.

I am Ziggy

2008 • 14 min • Sweden

Jag är Ziggy (I am Ziggy) is a documentary about having a thousand talents and one handicap. Ziggy was born 17 years ago as Maria Wigren. She was already as a kid different and more sensitive than other children and was given the diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome. She was bullied, depressed and tried to commit suicide multiple times. But out of the victim Maria, Ziggy was born. Ziggy refuses Asperger's. Ziggy refuses to be a victim. Ziggy faces life with flannel shirts, wigs and a great sense of humor. Follow her stubborn struggle to understand the world and become a part of it.

Capa de Chuva

2008 • 13 min • Brazil

A man comes to home and brings gifts to his family. Among the presents is a raincoat that he gives to his son. The strange situation and events that follow will mark the family forever.

Stories of Change

2008 • 55 min

Stories of Change is a 2008 documentary film by BRAC Pathways of Women Empowerment. The documentary focuses on the lives of five women aging from 16 to 60, coming from different walks of life, from different professions, religions and regions of Bangladesh.

Covert Hypnosis in Politics

2008 • 7 min

This video is a mashup depiction of Senator John F. Kennedy (D-MA) and Vice President Richard Nixon (R-CA) delivering their introduction speeches at the first televised presidential debate (1960) in U.S. history. The candidates’ images are overlaid, moving together in a hypnotic manner. By recontextualizing this early use of technology in politics, we are able to consider the electoral process in a new way.

The Xtacles - Operation: Mountain Punch

2008 • 11 min

Paralyzed by a lack of leadership, The Xtacles struggle with the decision to decide about future decisions. Meanwhile, terrorists are systematically destroying the Rocky Mountains. Evil President Stan has no choice but to call on the Xtacles to stop the destruction of America's Favorite Mountain Range

Lisa för ögat

2008 • 8 min • Sweden

Two strips in a photo booth lead to complications, and maybe something more.

Candle in the wind

2008 • 7 min

Refraction Series

2008 • 8 min

Refraction Series offers an experimental approach to optics, using simple materials and techniques to generate a range of images of pure light and color in motion. The film is inspired by the ideas of early scientists who investigated the nature of light and visual perception, particularly the experiments and writings of the tenth-century Arab mathematician/scientist Ibn al-Haytham and the English mathematician/scientist Isaac Newton.

World War

2008 • 3 min

A war between 2 robots fight for the fate of the world while a bomb ticks away ready to explode

The Edmund Fitzgerald Controversy

2008 • 60 min

The Edmund Fitzgerald is arguably the most famous shipwreck story told around the Great Lakes. Yet the question remains: What really happened?

The Big Movie

2008 • 42 min

A group of outsiders, misfits, and weirdos meet and begin an unforgettable adventure, overcoming their differences and discovering how to coexist. The Big Movie is a collaborative effort by the 3DMM community, that's essentially a sketch comedy made out of joke movies. Someone comes up with a premise, like "If the Knight looks at someone, they fly up into the ceiling", and everyone comes up with variations on it. The Big Movie takes about twelve different premises and compiles, overlaps, intertwines, and otherwise serves them up hot and fast.

Old September Biscuits

2008 • 11 min

OVER A DECADE NOW , I FOUND A STACK OF PRINTS...3 16MM PRINTS...FROM THIS DOCUMENTARY FILM...TITLED ...'OLD BLACK AND ALIVE'...THEY WERE ALL IN MANY DIFFERENT CONDITIONS...AND FROM THE LOOKS OF THE PRINTS , YOU CAN SEE THAT TOO...A LOT OF AGE AND DECAY...VINEGAR...THAT PINKISH / PURPLE...THAT SAYS DESEASE...'DEATH OF THE RIBBON'...BUT NOT THE DEATH OF FILM...WITH THIS FOUND FOOTAGE , I FOUND MORE THAN 13 MULTIPLE REELS OF FILM...I FOUND A LOST HOPE...A LOST WISH...AND AN APOLOGY..."THE BISCUITS'...RESORECT. WHAT IS NOW DUST AND BONES...AND WITH THE COLLABORATION OF PROCESS...THROUGH FILM MAKING...WE ARCHIVE THESE LIVES...AND GIVE THESE PERSONS A SITUATION ...TO PROJECT BACK TO US...SO WE MIGHT NOT FORGET SOME OF THE GREATER THINGS LIFE AND DEATH...HOPE ..LOSS...EMPTYNESS...SORRY...REGRET...AND FORGIVENESS...LUTHER

The Advocate Presents: Gay Marriage in California

2008 • 29 min

"The Advocate" was on hand to cover the highs and lows of the first few days of gay marriage in California.

Trans-Mission

2008 • 43 min

A film that portrays the Kafkaesque struggle of the protagonist, a female to male transsexual, as he tries to obtain identity documents that would allow him to normally function in Polish society.

sprkelles

2008 • 3 min

FUK YOUtube :P

Bruce McClure at Kill Your Timid Notion Festival - 1st Set

2008 • 26 min

This event was part of Arika’s Kill Your Timid Notion Tour in 2008, preserved as part of their archive.

PeePee

2008 • 2 min • Spain

Bubbly and soapy friend

Ashen Light ‎– The New Era Of Black Metal: Live In Moscow

2008 • 33 min

Live In Moscow (23.02.07, Club Relax)

Confessions of a Str8 Drag King

2008 • 60 min • Canada

“Confessions of a Str8 Drag King” is a one-hour documentary that explores the exotic world of femme identity and drag performance. “Confessions” chronicles the experience of “hetero-queer” straight girl Jessica Barrett as she develops her alter-egos, Lulu LeMoan and Lawrence Orlando. Under the tutelage of “drag daddy” Edward Malaprop and with the support of Stilettos and Strap-Ons Burlesque troupe Jessica learns to morph from hyper-feminine to ultra-masculine at the drop of a hat.

The Grimbones

2008 • 2 min • Poland

The Grimbones is a minimalist animation made with nails, a rubber band and a simple grid drawing. The text read out by a little girl is a description of the situation unfolding on the screen. The precise language of description is enhanced with philosophical arguments pertaining to the way the world functions.

Portland, Oregon 1931

2008 • 10 min • Japan

In 1931, the Japanese-Americans enjoyed a spring sports day, conforming to the custom of the mother country. J. Tanaka who was a hotel manager in Portland city recorded the event while chasing his daughter. For him, the every event of Japanese-American people was the important topic that he should have recorded. We can see a lost happy time in this film. However I felt any film might disappear to the history.