All Films

One of the Last

2008 • 12 min

Mauro is a 78-year-old Italian farmer who loves his life. He picks olives, grapes, cherries. He wonders why anybody would want to do anything else.

Aquarium

2008 • 5 min • France

16mm film. no other info available.

David Huggins: Experienced

2008 • 7 min • United States of America

David Huggins: Experienced Short Film, U.S.A. Directed by Jeremy Vaeni

A 70mm Film Wearing Thick Heavy Black Liquid Eyeliner That Gets Smeary

2008 • 1 min

70mm film leader lined with liquid black eyeliner, doused with Jello Vodka shots and rubbed with body glitter.

Rothkofilm

2008 • 7 min

This is not a short documentary on Rothko, but rather my reflection on his canvasses, that become so deeply assimilated with the screen, frames of film, the frame line. A film excavated from two books. A silent film that should be a sound film. The rhythms, the inter-pulsations of the frames of film make me think of a sound I do not know.

National Geographic Inside: On the Run

2008 • 50 min

When fugitives are on the run and have evaded all attempts at capture, there's only one bounty hunting team to call: Leonard Padilla - "The Godfather of Bail," and his partner Rob Dick.

Zwischenzeit

2008 • 9 min • Germany

When a thought turns into reality, when conceived images start to exist, this is when fiction becomes reality. A handcar on the tracks of the metropolis. Infinite, without any destination.

The Making of 'The Last Emperor'

2008 • 45 min

THE LAST EMPEROR swept the technical Oscars in 1988. This forty-five-minute documentary features new interviews with cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, editor Gabriella Cristiana, costume designer James Acheson, and art director Gianni Silvestri.

The Souls of Black Girls

2008 • 52 min • United States of America

A provocative news documentary that questions whether or not women of color are suffering from a self-image disorder

Penetrations

2008 • 49 min • Spain

An examination of cultural psychology of domination and submission as how they relate to labour, race, gender and class.

Prince Charles' Other Mistress

2008 • 47 min

Prince Charles' Other Mistress tells the fascinating, largely unknown and ultimately tragic story about his intense relationship with Australian heiress Dale "Kanga" Tryon.

Film Quartet/Polyframe

2008 • 13 min

FILM QUARTET / POLYFRAME is conceived as a small cinematographic bomb attempting to question the established definition of frame as the minimum unit of (cinematographic) time by dynamiting it in four fragments. A step further in the so-called sub-genre practice of found footage film – recycled material – is also put forward for consideration in this project. The appropriationism applied in this work makes use of material found in Hollywood cinema (Singin’in the rain, Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952); Pink Panther; Buster Keaton; etc., the first avant-garde period (Un chien andalou, Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí, 1929) and American experimental film (Wavelength, Michael Snow, 1966-1967). Such method makes possible, therefore, to maintain image ecology while it provides an analysis of the history of cinema. — AP

Parallax

2008 • 6 min • Netherlands

Christopher Becks’ video, Parallax, is converted from richly colored 16mm footage. He addresses the practice of landscape/travel films by presenting scenes that seem to connote wandering, and searching for something.

E lei si scordò

2008 • 10 min

A Brief Summer’s Tale

2008 • 7 min

There is more than one way to get 'lost' in the woods.

Peek-A-Boo

2008 • 8 min

A hell of a lot more of you through a keyhole!!

Bathers

2008 • 46 min

The film follows a summer season in the lives of a group of retired Greek men and women who are regular visitors at various Greek spa towns. Life around Greek spa towns moves slowly with rhythms that are reminiscent of times past. Within this listless atmosphere, people feel free to do and say things they would never be allowed in their respective normal social circles. A sense of freedom and lightness is in the air. Instead of being amongst elderly people, one often gets the feeling of being around a group of teenagers in a summer camp. This joyful atmosphere often alternates with reflections on the past or on death.

Knockout!

2008 • 52 min

Knockout! takes you inside the ring with Joe Oppedisano, as he photographs every high impact sexually charged move of perfectly sculpted MMA fighters, street fighters, and the toughest athletes. Expect Oppedisano to bring Testosterone, his best-selling homoerotic photobook, to life with interviews, super erotic situations, and extended wrestling scenes. Oppedisano's gritty style only begins to describe Knockout! This hyper masculine film also features fresh tracks from up and coming artists like Logo TV's NewNowNext favorite Cazwell and was shot by Tony Sellaris at the world famous Gleason's Gym in New York.

Naica: Secrets Of The Crystal Cave

2008 • 50 min

In 2008, a team of international scientists explore a Mexican cave filled with giant crystals. In one of the deadliest environments on earth, without specialized suits and equipment, the scientists would die in minutes. Can they unlock the secrets of the huge crystals, despite the challenges?

K (Acugher/Acimi)

2008 • 10 min • France

K (Acugher/Acimi) (K Pourquoi? Pourquoi?) is the last film of the 'K' series. Each frame of film was placed individually in the printer; the film consists in fact of individual frames, developed one by one (rather than a conventional camera roll), and placed at random on the printing stock. The question posed by the film is: how can one describe the position of the Algerian administration vis-a-vis Kabylie, which has been completely abandoned by central government? It's like a game of poker, is it not ... with the only possible response one of desolation and incomprehension. An original composition by Mr. Djamel Tareb will form the musical sound-track for the film.

Colossal Squid

2008 • 44 min

The colossal squid, the largest known invertebrate to roam the oceans, has long been a mystery, mostly because no living specimens had been available for study. In 2007, however, an astonished fishing crew in Antarctica made the catch of their lives. Racing against the clock to preserve the enormous creature, scientists eagerly study the fierce predator.

Muragens - Crônicas de um Muro

2008 • 12 min • Brazil

A wall in the street tells stories.

Valvert

2008 • 52 min

Valvert is a psychiatric hospital in Marseille, founded in the mid-seventies in a spirit of freedom and openness. The film observes daily life there, painting a portrait of the place through interviews with employees and scenes from the patients’ lives. In an atmosphere resolutely opposed to the standard institutional system, the liberty at Valvert reveals various facets of ordinary madness.

The Phantom of the Cinema

2008 • 11 min

When the film 'the phantom of the cinema' breaks, the light behind the screen is turned on and the audience is witness to the struggles of a cinema-owner, the lavatory attendant and the technician. In an attempt to start the screening again they tumble through their chambers behind the screen.