All Films

Jeff Garcia: Livin' the Dream

2008 • 58 min

Famed Latino comedian and voiceover artist, Jeff Garcia, comes to you from San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino with his signature improv style. He comments on his family, unreliable cars, white people, marriage and his run-ins with the law

Roma

2008 • 1 min • Spain

Made with stop motion technique, this film is the documentation of a 3-day walk in the city of Rome and Ostia Antica.

Sugar Coated Film

2008 • 10 min

The film is an asian filmmaker's commentary on Western experimental film history and a recitation of personal memories.

Junji Inagawa: Mysterious Night Tales - Hidden Curse Edition

2008 • 60 min • Japan

The first part of the monumental DVD of Junji Inagawa, a storyteller of horror stories who has reached his 60th birthday.

狙われた巨乳家庭教師 性のマン2マン授業

2008 • 60 min

The Curious World of Frinton-on-Sea

2008 • 40 min

Frinton-on-Sea is a town that doesn't like change. The shops, the sea front and even the people haven't changed for decades. So when Network Rail announced it was going to automate the town's manually operated level-crossing gates, there was a call to arms. Filmmaker Marc Isaacs meets the people who have decided to grow old in England's most conservative seaside resort.

Muhammad Ali: Made in Miami

2008 • 55 min • United States of America

Documentary chronicles the many ways in which the city of Miami helped transform little-known Olympic boxing into world-renowned, three-time heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali. Archival footage and interviews explore how the Fifth Street Gym along with the city's civil rights movement and vibrant African American community helped shape both the career and personal values of one of boxing's most outspoken figures.

Perfecto

2008 • 56 min

Among Mallorca's fragrant almond groves, famed nightclubs and speedo-sporting Eurotourists, limestone cliffs rise straight from the sea like sentinels, their steep pockets beckoning to climbers the world over. A fall means splashing into 80 degree water, drying off and trying again - from the bottom. Some call it climbing in its purest form. Others call it a hell of a way to spend a few weeks. Last season, a small group of climbers traveled to those sea cliffs to learn the intricacies of deep water soloing and to try, unrehearsed, some of the hardest - and most aesthetic - routes in the world. Directed and produced by Mike Call, Perfecto captures the beauty, adrenaline and purity of the Mallorca experience.

Idyll

2008 • 6 min

An attack of imagined nostalgia for childhood. The applied do-it-yourself bas-relief print technique ensures a coloured image.

Hockey Model

2008 • 13 min

Linn is a model who started playing hockey at the age of ten. Now she plays with a bunch of guys. But it is difficult to combine the model job with hockey.

Martyrs vs Censorship

2008 • 9 min • France

After being delayed for a few months because of a 18+ rating due to its extreme violence, the French horror thriller Martyrs was finally released a few months later in the local theaters, with a 16+ rating with warning. This video was shot in June 2008, during a manifestation organised to protest against the first rating decision.

Le cinéma chinois, hier et aujourd'hui

2008 • 59 min • France

BlackStreetBoyz

2008 • 30 min • United States of America

The fast and furious comedy stylings of Alfred and Seymour, the multi-talented duo behind BlackStreetBoyz.

Kranked 7: The Cackle Factor

2008 • 52 min • Canada

Inspired by old hipster slang for the insane asylum (the cackle factory), the film trips with stunning footage cut to a post-industrial explosion of funk, rock, reggae, hip-hop and punk. As the world spirals into madness, seemingly at war with itself, the best mountain bikers are judged against it.

New Emissions of Light and Sound

2008 • 36 min

New Emissions of Light and Sound is a DVD collaboration between the sometimes-introverted world-renowned DJ Sasha and a bunch of Surfers that managed to snag themselves a nod for both Best Core Film and Best Editing from the 2007 X-Dance Film Festival; Movie of the Year, and a win for Best Cinematography from the 2006 Surfer Poll Awards for their previous film, Secret Machine.

16-18-4

2008 • 3 min • Japan

This film was shot with a still camera with 16 lenses, which takes a series of 16 pictures within 1.5 seconds, fitting onto two normal frame areas. The film shows the sense of the event at Tokyo Racecourse, when it was holding the biggest race of the year, Japanese Derby (Tokyo Yushun). The excitement of each race lasts 2 minutes and 30 seconds.

Outdoor Education

2008 • 32 min • Canada

"Voleurz Outdoor Education" is a full-length action sports film brought to you for free by the Voleurz family. Featuring skiing, snowboarding and skateboarding filmed on the westcoast of Canada. For more information please visit Voleurz.com

American Outrage

2008 • 56 min

This documentary follows the story of elderly Native American sisters Mary Dann and Carrie Dann as they fight the U.S. government's attempts to seize their horses, which graze on land granted to the Western Shoshone Nation in an 1863 treaty. Filmmakers Beth Gage and George Gage chronicle the spirit and fire of these grandmothers, who confront bureaucrats, gold mining companies and others as they push their case all the way to the Supreme Court.

Raw

2008 • 25 min

Director Anneloek Sollart closely follows Tom and his mother. Since he was five years old, Tom has only eaten raw food. Uncooked, unheated food. His mother wants him to. She believes in the raw food diet, which she says is the healthiest lifestyle.

Nooma Corner 023

2008 • 11 min • United States of America

Why is it that often when we get what we want, we still feel empty? We work so hard to succeed, but our lives just end up becoming more about us. Can success turn on us? Can we get caught up in a smaller world where our lives are all about the things that we want? Or is there another way to live? Where life is about more than just us. Where we see people in need and we do something about it. Where our world is expanding because we are sharing our success. And maybe in attempting to save someone else from their suffering, we find out that we are actually the ones being saved.

Burning Car

2008 • 10 min

Burning Car is a film work by Superflex in which a car is being set on fire. The empty car starts to burn, the cabin is filled with smoke and fire, car-paint is bobbling, tires explodes. Towards the end the car is burned out completely.

À l'instant

2008 • 5 min • France

Winter, fog, outside. The outline of eyes, sometimes we could ride those trails.

Haino Keiji, Kawabata Makoto, Yoshida Tatsuya ‎- Ichi To Ichi Ga Kasanatte Shimaumade

2008 • 57 min

Recorded on August 18, 2008 at After Beat, Tokyo.

In Search of the Secret Formula

2008 • 10 min • United States of America

Coca-Cola's first home-bottled short film follows a scientist and his assistant on their journey to discover “what makes a Coke a Coke”, an exploration of the process of bottling Coke and some of the countries that sell Coke products.