All Films

Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began

2008 • 59 min

Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began

Tunnelrat

2008 • 20 min

Two enemy soldiers get locked up in a tunnel below the World War I front. Sharing the same fate, they need each other to survive.

Inside Shabby Road: The Music of 'The Rutles'

2008 • 25 min

Short documentary on the music of the 'prefab four', The Rutles. Shabby Road is where the band recorded most of their music, and it is the name of an album by The Rutles, released on 26 September 1969, their last recorded album, but not last released (Let It Rot). Tracks 9-17 form a medley sometimes noted as one song called "The Shabby Road Medley". Tracks 14-16 are sometimes noted as one song called "The Bronze Blunders Medley". On the cover, Stig is depicted without trousers. This was one of the key "clues" which inspired the 'Stig is dead' conspiracy theory, which still lasts today in some circles. Stig later referenced these theories on his life album, Stig is not a wax replica please stop asking.

The Mighty Boosh: A Journey Through Time and Space

2008 • 57 min • United Kingdom

Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt tell the story behind The Mighty Boosh in their own words. They visit locations key to their past, including the comedy club where they first performed and the studio where the radio show was recorded, which is now an organic supermarket. Featuring interviews with Stewart Lee, Danny Wallace, Lee Mack, Steve Coogan, Russell Brand, Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, Jo Whiley, Lenny Henry, Kasabian and The Horrors as well as never before seen photos and home movies from the boys themselves.

Souvenirs and Evocations

2008 • 7 min • France

A short program in which the participants describe how they fell in love with cinema.

A Walk

2008 • 5 min

Throughout her work, Aurand frequently makes her camera and her images felt as an active, moving body—spinning, rushing, departing, returning, expanding, contracting, hanging upside down. In A Walk, her film goes walking. The camera occupies a snowy Swiss setting, as Aurand creates a material, tonal landscape that is both nebulous, serene, and wonderfully energetic.

A Charman Event

2008 • 5 min

Eric Charman is the life of the party, and not only because he's usually the person organizing it.

The Gay Dad

2008 • 10 min

Paul, married and a father of two, finally conjures up the courage to explore his sexuality, and comes to a realisation that he has been keeping this secret dormant for many years, if not all of his life. Love blossoms with a Dutch man on his quest for liberation. This short film was taken from a feature film shot in 2008 called 'Dutch Courage' -- the film has been successful on my channels, so I felt it warranted a shorter version, concentrating on the gay love story.

Starz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen

2008 • 60 min • United States of America

Why do movie audiences find men in skirts and women in pants anything but a drag? Discover the playful history of the most daring cross-sexual performances in Hollywood history, from Some Like it Hot to Big Momma's House.

Skinnskatteberg

2008 • 28 min • Sweden

Dawn in the Swedish woods. A small group of people work in an otherwise quiet forest. A piano is placed in the moss and sinks down. An organ and amplifier is placed just next to it. The choir finds its position in between the pine trees.

“List of Curses” Told by High School Girls in Shibuya

2008 • 58 min • Japan

This is the first installment of the popular "“List of Curses” Told by High School Girls in Shibuya" series, in which high school girls are actually interviewed on the streets of Shibuya and tell their stories.

Orchestrated Mayhem: The Making of Invisible Target

2008 • 25 min • Hong Kong

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Benny Chan's Invisible Target (2007) including interviews with the major stars of the film and the production crew.

Garrett's Gift

2008 • 19 min

A young boy's creative mind gets him into trouble, until he begins to apply that creativity to life-changing inventions, including the traffic signal.

Entitled

2008 • 7 min

Entitled, a correspondence with historical still life painters. Super-8 transferred to digital video “Smith has developed a lyrical visual practice, weaving in and out of the independent film world and occasionally gracing the art world with breathtaking film installations that upend traditional forms of narrative filmmaking.” BOMB

Tiya's Dream

2008 • 12 min • Ethiopia, France

In Ethiopia, in a small country school, children have a lesson on the Millennium Development Goals. But one of the pupils, Tiya, is distracted, she doesn’t listen. She is staring at the window. Outside, some children are playing rugby... Abderrahmane Sissako's contribution to 8 (2008).

Safety First: The Rise of Women!

2008 • 50 min • United States of America

A safety training film for women who work in high-rise office buildings.

Ang Ibang Mga Pamilya

2008 • 15 min • Philippines

A mother mourns the loss of her only son alone.

Gore Store 2

2008 • 27 min • Switzerland

After the creators/masterminds of the company DARK DIMESIONS noticed that they had opened a lucrative business through their snuff and torture videos disguised as normal horror films, the murder really began. Even high politicians and influential mafios came back to their services of making people disappear. But chance wants it that among those who have been killed by them are the daughter of a mafia running boy and the son of a policeman and those affected do not want to leave this unpunished...

WOTAN Assembly

2008 • 9 min • United Kingdom

WOTAN Assembly is a BBC documentary looking at the retrieval and remaking of the Doctor Who serial The War Machines.

In Sickness and in Wealth

2008 • 56 min

What are the connections between healthy bodies and healthy bank accounts and skin color? How do social policies and the way we organize work and society affect health? Solutions lie not in more pills but in more equality.

Vous désirez ?

2008 • 12 min

In 2008, Caroline Loeb made her directorial debut with the short film Vous-désirez?, produced as part of the X-plicit films collection.

Milagrez

2008 • 15 min • Brazil

Documentary on "Antonio das Mortes", Glauber Rocha's 1969 film.

Hideo Kojima's Gene

2008 • 36 min • Japan

Short documentary on the making of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, included with the Limited Edition

Evolution of the Apes

2008 • 24 min • United States of America

This documentary examines the creative origins of the 'Planet of the Apes' franchise, from Pierre Boulle's original novel and Rod Serling's adapted screenplay to the first film's production at Twentieth Century Fox.