All Films

Adama

2008 • 55 min

Follow four agriculturalists in mythological Moshav Nahalal for a year as they work and complete a cycle of crops. ADAMA ("Farmers") introduces us to the Nahalal elders, who work until their dying day as they deal with inter-personal conflicts and the conflicts between man and land.

Cornelis

2008 • 4 min • Japan

An animated short film by Ayaka Nakata.

No. 1

2008 • 5 min

This is my 1st 16mm hand painted film. Projected with Eiki 16mm film projector on the wall and than shot with DVcam.

swimming

2008 • 5 min • Japan

An animated short film by Shiho Hirayama.

The Jet Stream and Us

2008 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Documentary tracing how human understanding of the jet stream - a ribbon of fast moving air high in the atmosphere - has grown. It has been responsible for bewildering effect on bomber pilots during the Second World War, turbocharging modern transatlantic flyers, the infamous 1987 hurricane and devastating floods. Scientists believe this powerful weather phenomenon is now changing its pattern of behaviour and could have an even bigger impact on our climate and the way we live our lives. Interviewees include Sir Brian Hoskins, University of Reading and Kirsty McCabe from the BBC Weather Centre.

Alice in Wonderland

2008 • 60 min

Original Israeli musical adaptation of Alice in Wonderland.

Diskuskastarens dröm

2008 • 59 min

Stefan Fernholm would throw the discus farther than anyone else and win glory and money and Olympic gold, and he was prepared to sacrifice everything to reach his goal. At the age of 37, he died at the kitchen table in Västerås.

Pickin' & Trimmin'

2008 • 23 min

At a North Carolina barbershop, the atmosphere is laid back, the conversation free, and the music a cut above the rest. An engagingly genuine slice of old time Americana.

Riot Grrrl Alchemy Film

2008 • 6 min

16mm b&w and color film neg danced on with sneakers, sprayed with cherry tomatoes, rubbed with cinnamon butter buns, strawberries and candy bars – based on lyrics from Sleater Kinney, Bikini Kill and Le Tigre – food fight on the table performances by Ariel West & Jwest, shot on superbowl Sunday by Peter West who was kind of drunk.

Crowning Glory

2008 • 5 min • United States of America

Parallel feelings of pride and rebellion. Attempting to resuscitate political icons by remaking themwith my own psychic-punk aesthetic to regain personal ownership.

Sutura

2008 • 28 min • Senegal

Documentary commissioned by the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life at Brandeis University on sexual abuse and justice in Senegal, in collaboration with the Senegalese Women Lawyers Association and the West African Research Center in Dakar.

Knitting a Frame

2008 • 5 min

The ball of wool seen at the sitter's feet loops over the single-frame release of a 16mm Bolex camera and back to the knitting. For every stitch that is knitted, an exposure is made, creating a structural relationship between production of fabric and a frame.

City Reflections: Vancouver 1907 - 2007

2008 • 53 min

On May 7, 1907, Seattle filmmaker William Harbeck captured street scenes in Vancouver, Canada on movie film. Shot from the front of a moving B.C. Electric Railway streetcar, this is the earliest known surviving film footage of the city. See the residents of 1907 going to work, shopping, cycling. See Vancouver landmarks like the first Hotel Vancouver, the Carnegie Library, the Hudson's Bay store. One hundred years later in 2007, we take a trip down the same streets and note a century of change. Compare the same street scenes recorded 100 years apart. Presented by the Vancouver Historical Society.

The Road to Passchendaele

2008 • 45 min • Canada

A documentary that goes behind-the-scenes of Paul Gross's Passchendaele (2008).

Roy Buchanan: Live from Austin, TX

2008 • 52 min • United States of America

This performance, captured on the ACL stage on November 15, 1976, shows Roy Buchanan in his prime at the age of 37. Indeed, it may well be the best high-quality audio/video recording of his complete performance known to exist.

The Polls Don't Lie: The Making of "You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown"

2008 • 12 min

This featurette will explore the political leanings (or lack thereof) of its producers, as well as the way in which they set out to create a politically-themed piece within the realm of Peanuts.

Miss Tibet in Exile

2008 • 41 min

Miss Tibet in Exile is a documentary film about the making of Miss Tibet beauty pageant in India and the winning girl's subsequent participation in the Miss Earth beauty pageant in the Philippines. The film portrays various behind the scene activities of the pageant's organizer Lobsang Wangyal and it also features several notable Tibetan personalities expressing their views on the beauty pageant.

Sobre la educación

2008 • 4 min

The horse monument is painted white.

Gnist

2008 • 7 min

At the request of a seductive lady, an ex-contract killer decides to go back to his old ways for one final mission that almost goes according to plan.

Laitue

2008 • 9 min

Laitue is a hand drawn film that describes a short journey of loss and reunification. Two people are separated by space and time but nevertheless coincide in a series of moments which form a choreography of anticipation and unrest

Nach dem Feuer I

2008 • 3 min • Germany

HF509 - Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl

Minotaur

2008 • 60 min

The masks we wear end up using us. A different character to each of the people in his life, a stranger to himself, Jorge Torregrossa constantly faces the loss of his own identity. A mysterious voice on the phone warns him that an irrevocable event is approaching in his destiny, meanwhile Torregrossa runs through the labyrinth of his existence, looking for a way out before it is too late.

migration (empire)

2008 • 24 min

In a series of vignettes, wild North American migratory animals have been relocated from their natural habitats to inhabit vacant motel rooms. Whether it is a beaver swimming in a bathtub or a deer scavenging for food in a mini fridge, the animals engage with the constructed environments according to their wild instincts. These interactions, accompanied by footage of the built-up landscape, further exacerbate the palpable tension between the natural environment and the mythologized idea of America.

Waking The Cadaver - The Muse, Nashville, USA

2008 • 41 min

Bootleg Footage from 2008 Tour (2008.07.13) with Catalepsy, Waking The Cadaver, Rose Funeral and Left To Vanish Tracklist: I) Always Unprotected II) Raped, Pillaged and Gutted III) Chased Through the Woods by a Rapist IV) Authority Through Intimidation V) Type A Secretor VI) Tire Iron Embludgeonment VII) Pigtails Are for Face Fucking VIII) I Know the Insides of Women IX) Blood Splattered Satisfaction Encore) Connoisseurs of Death