All Films

Electric City: Far from Normal

2008 • 26 min

Dennis Neal Vaughn's autobiographical short film, "Electric City" - Far From Normal, tells his personal life story of a man's journey from rural Central Illinois and a town named Normal to begin a new life in San Francisco. The short film deals with his coming to terms with his AIDS diagnosis and how he must adapt to changes and grow from the experience.

Scenic National Parks: Grand Teton

2008 • 50 min

Marvel at monumental mountains rising sharply above flowered meadows. See pine forests and glistening glacial lakes. Witness breathtaking vistas amidst a precisely balanced ecosystem. Teton Range Monumental Mountains. Breathtaking Wildlife and Vistas. Jackson Hole. Geological Formations. Challenging Rock Climbing. Discover Park Secrets and Private Places. Extra Features: Circle of Life – Wildlife of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. The Story of National Elk Refuge.

Maam Kumba

2008 • 26 min • Belgium, Senegal

Maam Kumba Bang is the spirit of the waters of the island of Saint Louis. Its mysterious and mythical presence governs the city and river and the collective imagination has built up a vivid picture around it. But only a few people can say that they have met this divinity. The film, through some accounts, re-evokes this ancient legend which continues to live.

Burgoo! Legendary Stew of the South

2008 • 56 min • United States of America

A stew prepared by farmers and hunters, burgoo dates to the pioneer days of the Kentucky frontier. The origin of its name is unclear, and ingredients vary regionally, but the passion for burgoo is reflected in the title given to the chefs: “Burgoo Kings”. Loyal stew masters rigorously maintain recipes and cooking traditions across generations. And with making burgoo comes a lot of leg-pulling, tall tales, and fellowship around the pot.

Back to the Basics: The Story of Luckenbach, Texas

2008 • 20 min

Journey to Luckenbach, Texas, the place "where everybody's somebody." The documentary film Back to the Basics traces the history of Luckenbach from a one horse crossroads to its iconic status as a cultural mecca with its unique country flavor and distinct musical legacy.

The Drunken Concubine

2008 • 13 min • Taiwan

Hockeyhjärtan

2008 • 59 min

A swedish hockeydocumentary

The Pit Bull

2008 • 1 min • Brazil

Against the backdrop of Ipanema beach, one of the most beautiful and popular in the world, two apparently so different people have something in common!

Astro Black: Armageddon in Effect

2008 • 6 min

An episode in Soda_Jerk's multi-channel digital-video installation cycle entitled "Astro Black". This episode considers the politics implicit in Public Enemy’s claim that we’re already living [in] armaged-don. It begins with the discovery of an ancient stone crosshairs at an archeological site in Egypt. Sixty years later a giant alien mothership emerges from a mena-cing cloud over New York City, hijacking President Ron-ald Reagan’s TV statement in order to transmit a pirate broadcast from Chuck D, Flavor Flav and Sun Ra. Like Sun Ra’s mantra that ‘it’s after the end of the world’, Public Enemy invoke armageddon to insist upon the critical moment in which we already live.

Short Message.

2008 • 1 min • Netherlands

Short animation, whereby a strange man harasses a man who is trying to use the toilet. The soundtrack is ripped from a soup commercial (1991 NL) and used to comically bizarre effect.

David Ogilvy: Original Mad Man

2008 • 60 min

Documentary about pioneering British advertising executive and self-proclaimed genius, David Ogilvy, who led a revolution in advertising, feeding dreams and shaping aspirations with famous campaigns, slogans and jingles. He started what eventually would become conglomerate Ogilvy and Mather in 1948 and the film reveals the extremes and eccentricities of the man through interviews with those who knew him and worked with him, including his widow and son and authors Peter Mayle and Fay Weldon.

Steini's Inferno

2008 • 19 min

With Steini, a concept conceived in the spirit of Sturm und Drang, a new musical movement has begun. The band Steini, led by the romantic loser Steini and the guitar wielding Golden Boy, has emerged on the scene on a cosmic mission to immunize the listeners from cooties with songs from the depths of doomed love and divine redemption.

Kuripuri・kuripura

2008 • 6 min • Japan

A short film by Taku Furukawa.

People Like Us

2008 • 8 min • United States of America

Following the passage of an ordinance outlawing the feeding the homeless in public parks, Orlando's community was left with one question: Is food a right, or a privilege?

Dust

2008 • 10 min • South Korea

Dust and vulnerable film material are not usually friends. In Dust, the photographed images of dusty spots and the actual surface of the film become one layered image. A film that becomes richer in structure every time it is run through the film projector.

Adventures of Raydee Ayshun

2008 • 1 min

An animation I made on an Amiga 500 computer with 1mb of memory in the early 90's and recorded to VHS tape

Vampire Blob - Silent Fangs of Horror

2008 • 40 min

Beware, O viewers! For upon you has fallen the curse of Vampire Blob!! Fear, for what you see here, the corruption of a politician's daughter, the death of an Opium addict, the fall of a rich socialite and a chicken tender, may HAUNT YOU FOREVER!!!

GOA – 20 Years of Psychedelic Trance

2008 • 50 min

DVD with unseen footage, interviews and music from different festivals - created by Psynema (El Geko / BuzzT). A travel through the history of psytrance. DVD production: Psynema Was sold with the book GOA – 20 Years of Psychedelic Trance by Tom Rom and Pascal Querner

A Blanket Area

2008 • 9 min

I saw at day time and I listen at night time.

Sick Around the World

2008 • 56 min

Given the problems facing the U.S. health care system, Frontline looks at other leading capitalist democracies to see how their health care systems operate and whether those systems could be adapted for reform in the United States.

The Mating Season - 1. Strange Dream

2008 • 18 min

'Mysterious Women', Where is she going? I'm waking up from a dream....

The Bird

2008 • 16 min • South Korea

Tension. Just before the moment that a bird flies away when one person come up to the bird.

Filmmembrana

2008 • 7 min • Italy

A film envelopes the image. The shift between two phases of existence. Reality of the image wrapped up in film is deformed to re-form. New. Hisses. Sounds. Breath and viscera. The membrane breaks. Clots of pure spirit.

Kayuputih

2008 • 3 min • Italy

All images depict various types of visual noise that sometimes refer to biological organisms.