All Films

Orifice Visit

2008 • 8 min

A modest young woman visits a fertility specialist and questions the physician's "bedside manner." Anna struggles to understand her and her husband's inability to create a baby (though no physical conditions prevent them from making one). Anna questions her fruitless relationship and wonders if she is a potentially closeted lesbian married to a potentially closeted gay man. Simultaneously, all of the very pregnant ladies in the waiting room beg the question of just who is getting them pregnant.

cats spirt spsit spit

2008 • 1 min

FUK YOUTube:P

male

2008 • 1 min

FUCK YOUtube (in male voice)

Oshokuji no Jikan 2

2008 • 60 min • Japan

The virtual dinner series from Japan's K-Network aims to offer lonely guys lessons in dinner date etiquette in the privacy of their homes... or Mom's basement, as the case may be. Features a variety of everyday-type attractive women enjoying a meal and making small talk at the camera, er, at the viewer. The view is face-to-face, as if you were really sharing a tabletop with the sweet young thing. Fortunately you won't have to pick up the check later, but unfortunately she won't be inviting you up for coffee even more later. You win some, you lose some.

Dinosaurs: Return to Life?

2008 • 45 min

Scientists discuss the possibility of reverse-engineering the DNA of modern birds to recreate dinosaur species, instead of cloning fragments of dinosaur DNA extracted from amber and other ancient fossils.

LoopLoop

2008 • 5 min • Canada

Using animation, sounds warping and time shifts this video runs forwards and backwards looking for forgotten details, mimicking the way memories are replayed in the mind

Tomorrow Everything Will Be Better

2008 • 8 min

Alvaro is gay, but he has a girlfriend to disguise it. The idea of her discovering his lack of desire makes him anxious. The next day, at the neighborhood swimming pool, playing soccer with his friends...

Changing Sexes: Male to Female

2008 • 50 min

Transsexuals struggle to define themselves in the most fundamental way. Is this a psychological disorder or a biological anomaly? Find out how it feels to be trapped in the wrong body and discover what pushes men to transform themselves into women.

Belonging

2008 • 6 min • Canada

Toronto's diverse culture and heritage are explored through a couple's belongings, juxtaposed with the neighborhood in which they live.

Hong Yi - Documenting Viewpoints

2008 • 55 min • Taiwan

[The name "Hong Yi" not only represents a local "art" style that has attracted much attention in Taiwan in recent years, but also allows us to witness from a life course that belongs to the "anomalous" features of contemporary society. ]

Afghan Girls Can Kick

2008 • 50 min

When the Taliban took power, men tried to outlaw Afghan women’s basic liberties entirely, forcing them to go through life veiled, usually indoors, excluded from education, employment and sports. Afghan Girls Can Kick follows a group of teenagers who rebelled against great opposition to secure themselves the opportunity to play football.

Out in Manhattan

2008 • 58 min

A documentary encompassing gay life in New York City. The ultimate goal for this film is to exhibit the historical culture culture of New York City's gay lifestyle and expose how the unknown modern gay life has evolved.

Lossless #3

2008 • 10 min

The keyframes — reference frames that define the starting and ending points of smooth transitions — from a digital version of John Ford's 1956 Western "The Searchers" have been removed, resulting in a fluid movement, "unanchored from the original photographic print," per provided information. Horseback riders slide along the landscape, trailing pixilated fragments of themselves, as if leaving traces of their presence on the scene. A man turns his head and his lips run along his face as if smeared with make-up, blocky clouds slide across the sky, and splashy cubes are kicked up when the riders cross a river.

Many Buddhas

2008 • 18 min • Australia

Lossless #4

2008 • 15 min

The picture has been removed from Ernie Gehr's Serene Velocity, leaving only the vectors that describe apparent movement within the frame. Here, a black void is filled with a grid of white dots from which white lines are anchored and shift about hypnotically. This is the digital medium, stripped down to its skeleton and exposing the formal qualities of the film. It is much like encountering not a foreign language, but an inhuman language; a language meant for machines, though created by humans.

Giant Grizzlies

2008 • 50 min

Join an award-winning wildlife cinematographer and a native Alaskan on a dangerous expedition through the Last Frontier’s grizzly territories.

When Worlds Collude

2008 • 13 min

“An experimental film structured as a kind of specialized playground in which highly representational images are freed from their duties to refer to things outside of themselves. The images run free in their new lightness making unforeseeable, promiscuous connections with each other and developing an inexplicable, non-parsable plot line that runs along with all the urgency of any good thriller. When worlds collude, something outside of description is always just about to happen.” (FW)

You Are Not Alone

2008 • 45 min

Wei-Chong has just graduated from college. The boss of a movie studio admires his talent and invites him to make a ghost movie in advance of writing that script. In order to get this chance, Wei-Chong forces himself to accept this job. As the beginning of writing, there are more and more strange phenomena happened in Wei-Chong's life. It seems that all the things are related to a picture. Although Wei-Chong felt afraid of these phenomena, he wrote it into his script. He became more and more nervous. Therefore, his girl friend, Shu-Way decided to find out the truth. What the hell is going on in this story?

A Place in the City

2008 • 30 min • South Africa

Butterfly

2008 • 11 min

In Butterfly, Seoungho Cho pursues an associative connection between a Buddhist drumming ritual and the pulsing drum solo in Iron Butterfly's famous psychedelic rock song "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida." Cho's mesmerizing documentation of the Buddhist ritual furthers the association by framing the drummer so that his movements resemble those of a butterfly beating its wings in air. The unexpected intermixing of the meditative drumming and Iron Butterfly's iconic hard rock classic adds introspective depth to a visually minimalist video.

A Handful of Earth

2008 • 52 min

The story of Palestinian families from the village of Tiret Haifa (now Tiret al Karmel) who fled or were driven out of their land in 1948 and have since been scattered among the West Bank, Syria and Jordan.

Dream is Crouching

2008 • 28 min • Japan

The main character finds a ticket and a small box in "a room in an apartment" on the boundary between dream and reality. I wake up after sleeping, and when I fall asleep again, I'm on the "Sannokan Railway". A ticket transports him to the city of fantasy, "Sannohako Peninsula". Products of the past and scenery seen somewhere. The main character is led to a nostalgic place where he saw someone at the Hyakushiki Ryokan "Soran no Ma", which overlooks the sea. Full of sorrow and full of hope that they might be able to get it back. Through the journey, the man faces his deep sorrow.

Another Trick on Broadway

2008 • 3 min

Scenes of life on Broadway.

China Alley

2008 • 11 min

Beneath China Alley in Fresno, CA.