All Films

Winter Film 2008

A non-redemptive constellation of religious belief, torture, and meaningless form.

The doors of perception, electronic style. Tina Frank’s Chronomops opens doors to truly different dimensions: different than digital art’s reductionist studies so common today, different than the serially laid out minimalist images, and different than the omnipresent filtering and layering experiments. Chronomops opens up a shimmering, colorful space that is simultaneously an excess of color, frenzy of perception, and pop carousel. An abstract architecture of vertical color bars is set in endless rotation, whereby the modules and building blocks fly around themselves—and the entire system likewise rotates. The forced movement forms a digital maelstrom whose suction pulls the observer deep into it.

A liebestod from the secret life of slugs.

Zeitguised made a piece in six acts for the opening exhibition at the Zirkel Gallery. It entails six imaginations of disoriented systems that take a catastrophic turn, including the evolution of educational plant-body-machine models and liquid building materials.

Temporary Tattoos applied to 35mm for eternity. An energetic conjuring of Manitoban spirits.

Chronicles the building and dedication of the first-ever United States Navy monument in Normandy, France. Dozens of interviews with Navy D-Day veterans are included. New England region Emmy Awards for writing and photography. Airing on American Public Television. —Tim Gray

Samuel is an actor and lives in Paris. The town hall of Forbach offers to give him the city's medal of honor. For Samuel, it is also an opportunity to reconnect with his mother and his brother and to rejoice with them.

Reel 1 – the walls of Trastevere in a myriad of transitory stop frame sequences shot on a clockwork Bolex with a 25mm macro lens - peeling stucco, graffiti, torn posters, street signs, from the Terme di Caracalla to the bridge over the Tiber; glimpses of ‘FILM STUDIO 80’ and lingering out takes from ‘Toni with smoke’ and a fight scene filmed in a dark alley outside Rome prison long ago (see Eros Erosion clip Il Racconto di Lisabetta, the murder of Lorenzo played by Philippe Barbut and Toni Dominici) Reel II – L’Isle sur Serein with Rameau - late afternoon, early autumn. Close up of apple blossom and the turning pages of an old French history book reflected through a macro lens in the bevel edge of a mirror with a worm eaten frame and a very dirty window pane, framed with flash frames of gravestones and autumn leaves in the Forêt d’Hervaux; accompanied by Rameau harpsichord music from Steve Farrer’s record collection and the slowed dripping of a tap.

Explore NASA's development from its founding in 1958 to its preparation for a moon landing. Originally released in 1968, this film is more than an account of hardware evolution. Tracing back to the birth of American space exploration, it recounts the unshakable optimism of a time when space seemed to offer unlimited opportunities.

Young Arabs takes viewers inside an elite preparatory school in heart of Cairo, Egypt. The film offers a quiet encounter with a collection of students as they reflect on God, America, terrorism, marriage, the Middle East, and more.

A look at the aftermath and investigation behind the massive 1999 Tulia, Texas drug bust, which resulted in the arrest of 46 people, 39 of whom were African American.

An abstract animated piece that explores the relationship between love and death, sex and life.

This student work captures the fluidity and vibrancy of the artist's own family in conversation through a unique sketch and watercolour animation style.

Director Donegan recasts herself as Warhol superstar Viva from his 1967 film "Nude Restaurant".

"Take the path >>>>Still Life>>>> Hezraellah >>>>> of a curfew>>>>> exonerating affection" – Edson Barrus

When captain Archer and the crew of the Enterprise tests a new drive, they were transferred into a parallel universe. There they make acquaintance with the Red Empire, which consists of cybernetic lifeforms who plan to eliminate all biological life, even in the normal universe.

In this documentary from the BBC, Barry Jennings, who is often used by conspiracy theorists as a key witness to WTC7, refutes their beliefs and sets the record straight.

In Walbrzych (Waldenburg), in the Lower Silesian coal area, the mines are closed. Lukasz and his friend Jacek are now mining the coal on their own. For years. Like hundreds of other coal woodpeckers, they illegally dig for the black gold outside the city gates. The police are always on their heels, but they keep going.

The life of a garden after dark.

A poetic and dreamy visit of the French Cinémathèque's collection of devices.

The motif of this movie is an introduction manual for filming sent to an absolute beginner by the processing laboratory. For me, the cause of failure in filmmaking, explained by the manual, was the very important technical skill of making film images. It’s like coming across unknown delicious tastes when I don’t follow the recipe.