All Films

Disturbed: Indestructible in Germany

2008 • 28 min

Indestructible in Germany is a live DVD by American rock band Disturbed. The DVD contains six live tracks from Disturbed's performance at Rock Am Ring in Nürburgring, Germany, recorded on June 7, 2008. Set List: 1. Perfect Insanity 2. Liberate 3. Stupify 4. Ten Thousand Fists 5. The Game 6. Down with the Sickness

Get Lucky

2008 • 45 min • Norway

Field Productions is proud to present Get Lucky. A Norwegian ski movie that includes every aspect in modern extreme skiing: Park/BC/Big mountain and Urban. We have gathered many of the best athletes on the planet to give you the most exciting and varied ski movie possible. Filmed in HD with heli, cranes, dollys, cable and follow cams. "Get Lucky" and the behind the scenes documentary will give you a detailed insight in our whole season, describing how the luck treated us from time to time.

The First World War 1914-1918

2008 • 60 min

This informative documentary tells the story of World War 1 and what was thought to be The War to End All Wars , a conflict with dramatic events, entangled alliances, and innovations such as planes, tanks, and telecommunications being used on the battlefield. All of this took place against the backdrop of dramatic industrial and social changes throughout the world.

Plot Point

2008 • 15 min

Real and well-known American cop land, with its howling police cars, uniforms, ambulances and crowded streets, turns into a perfect cinematic scenery questioning the boundaries of reality and fiction, but also narrative codes of cinema.

Dolce Vita Africana

2008 • 60 min • France, United Kingdom

A documentary portrait of the African photographer Malick Sidibe, and a journey through Malian history inspired by his iconic images. Sidibe's snapshots from the late 50s through to the early 70s capture the carefree spirit of a youth asserting their freedom from colonialism in the early days of Malian independence - until a coup ushered in decades of austere military dictatorship. So this is a film not only about art, but also about a culture reflected through a camera lens, in a country that today is one of the poorest in the world.

Desert Heart

2008 • 57 min • Australia

After 40 years in exile, Yulparitja elders take Daniel Walbidi, their most promising young artist, back to the desert heartland they left behind. In the remote Aboriginal community of Bidyadanga a new art movement has emerged. At its helm is a young Aboriginal man who is well on the way to international fame and possible fortune. Daniel Walbidi paints the desert country that his parents walked out of 40 years ago. Now, with the rock holes, sandhills and salt lakes of their country revitalized through the creation of the paintings, they are determined to go back and show Daniel their desert country for the first time.

Holly and Hal Moose: Our Uplifting Christmas Adventure

2008 • 50 min

Holly and Hal Moose travel to the North Pole together to find Santa Claus.

Sled Heads 4

2008 • 45 min

Join award-winning film director, Thomas Opre, as he continues his quest to ride with and film the most dynamic snowmachiners in the world. The Sled Heads 4 snowmobile video will take you to: the Yukon with world record, sled distance jump holder, Ross Mercer; Revelstoke to capture intense POW with Cody Borchers; British Columbia to hang with X Games silver medalist Brett Turcotte; Norway with freestyle rider Aleksaander Noordgaard; to chopper footage of extreme back-country hill climber Randy Swenson; to Boondocker's Jared Sessions technical riding in Idaho; Colorado to catch Miss Extreme Kristy Martin in the powder; to Fernie, BC, to ride with our Be Extreme Contest winner Shawn Dinner. An intense mixture of incredible backcountry riding and sled documentary, Sled Heads 4 is one of those snowmobile videos that offers something for everyone!

Mommy, Mommy

2008 • 44 min

Examines the challenges faced by a lesbian couple on their quest to become parents. Mommy Mommy is a documentary about a lesbian couple’s struggle to have a child. Set in Quebec, the first province to legalize same-sex adoption, Mommy Mommy chronicles one couple’s dream to adopt and have a family despite local prejudices and a homophobic provincial bureaucracy in the wake of the controversial legislation to recognize gay marriage in Canada.

Pope Benedict XVI: A Love Affair with the Truth

2008 • 56 min

Delve into the history of Pope Benedict XVI, from his childhood in Bavaria to his service as a priest, bishop and cardinal. In addition to highlighting Pope Benedict's successes, this documentary examines his relationship with Pope John Paul II. Blessed with incredible intelligence and a compassionate heart, Pope Benedict XVI has worked hard to defend traditional Catholic values around the world.

No Border (Aspettavo Che Scendesse La Sera)

2008 • 24 min

Paris, an open city. Commemorations abound: ruins, winds, tides. Young Iraqi, Afghan or Iranian immigrants wandering the streets, between soup kitchens and improvised campsites. People who, by leaving their lands, plunge public order and bourgeois society into crisis. An emancipation movement becomes deeply melancholic, elegiac: redefining the notion of revolution for a new notion of History.

Tower of Power: Montreux Groove 2008

2008 • 49 min

Tower of Power live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 2008.

Gramercy Stories

2008 • 52 min

An inspiring look inside a unique residence in Manhattan that is providing a safe home for 25 gay and transgender teenagers for have experienced violence at home and on the streets. Told from their candid, often witty perspective, the film follows these courageous kids as they strive to remake their lives.

Migration

2008 • 18 min • United States of America, India

The images in migration (empire) are underscored by the constant sound of running or dripping water. Aitken portrays the wild animals in the sterility of the motel rooms as sublime creatures in a diffuse, bright light. Their fur, feathers or eyes are shown in detailed close-ups. In migration (empire) a dynamic is generated that is at once meditative and powerful – and utterly entrancing. Language(s)

Trophy

2008 • 10 min

A teenager's routine visit to her father's vacation home turns steamy when she finds herself unexpectedly attracted to her father's fiancée.

Say It With A Sign: Vol. 1

2008 • 30 min

Using modified sign language perfect for little hands, parents can learn to communicate with their babies and toddlers well before they learn how to speak. THe introductory volume of this exciting instructional program uses dynamic visual presentations, sound effects, colorful animation and repetitive lessons to teach parents and children 44 basic signs for food, animals, parts of the body and more.

Dennis Swanberg: Hug Your Momma!

2008 • 48 min

A tribute to all moms. Recorded live at First Baptist Lavaca.

Autogrill Verghereto

2008 • 3 min • United Kingdom

2008 Nicky Hamlyn short experimental work

New Hefei

2008 • 10 min • China, Austria

New Hefei was done in the winter of 2007/2008 during a stay in China for several months through a series of photographs and prepared in the spring of 2008 in the provincial capital Hefei in black and white on 16mm shot. Hefei has an extreme economy growth rate and is one of the fastest-growing mega cities of the new China. The conglomerates from private and state-dominated industry dominated the economic growth and repeated this in the Chinese provincial city. Currently the process of urban transformation has been completed here, as in other urban centers in China. The presentation of new urban areas is an important issue in contemporary Taiwanese and Chinese films.

A Saga das Candangas Invisíveis

2008 • 15 min

Less than four years to build a city. Thousands of workers. And their story…

The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly

2008 • 4 min

An intoxicating flower; a metaphorical insect; a longing reach across the centuries. The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly is a philosophical search drenched in luminous colours and sparkling light. The film was shot on colour reversal, entirely hand-processed and re-printed on the optical printer. "Having grown the exquisite tulip, I feel deeply under its spell--an affliction shared by an artist from another time and place, yet the dilemma we faced was shared: to fall for such a luxurious and temporary beauty raised a fear (a reminder--a fly) of the transience of life" - CP

Yesterday

2008 • 13 min • Indonesia

A reflective biography fragment of three friends reminiscing about their college days through the ten years of the ongoing Reformation era in Indonesia.

Car Wash

2008 • 6 min • United States of America, Canada

In the spring of 2008, car wash workers throughout Los Angeles formed the Carwash Workers Organizing Committee of the United Steelworkers (USW), a precursor to eventual plans to unionize the informal workers of a multi-million dollar industry rampant with exploitation. Most of these workers are undocumented migrants from Central America whose aspirations have led them to washing cars in the city of angels. This experimental documentary, shot on Super 8 film, journeys into a city defined by as much by cars as it is immigrant labor to offer a quiet commentary on the relationship between class, place, and work.

Alfie is Go!

2008 • 10 min

Alfie Carrington dreams of building a flying saucer. He is not a scientist. He is a dishwasher. He has no financing. He funds his dream by entering karaoke contests. Far fetched? Maybe. But he currently holds two patents and has gotten the attention of NASA.