All Films

Safety Smart Science with Bill Nye the Science Guy: Electricity

2008 • 25 min

Bill Nye the Science Guy is charged up and ready to show kids how to be Safety Smart around electricity. Learn the shocking truth about conductors and insulators and why electricity can be dangerous if you become part of the circuit.

Get Up and Go: The Making of 'The Rutles'

2008 • 33 min

Short documentary about the making of the film 'The Rutles: All You Need is Cash'.

Glamour Reel Docs: Dreamland

2008 • 17 min

Tommy Hilfiger Dreaming Perfume campaign - Coney Island, the playland of New York City, documents the preservation of the lifestyle, joys and history of this iconic Brooklyn neighborhood.

Justine Clarke: Songs to Make You Smile

2008 • 43 min

Listen to Justine as she journeys through a musical landscape as joyous and as diverse as I Like To Sing - this time incorporating the western swing of 'Mrs. Knife and Mr. Fork', the ACDC rocks sounds of 'Jelly Jelly Jelly' and the James Taylor-esque lullaby 'Creatures Of The Rain And Sun'...

Through the Eyes of Yuja: A road movie by Anaïs & Olivier Spiro

2008 • 48 min

With more than 120 performances a year, Yuja Wang lives a nomadic lifestyle. Travelling the world, two extra small trolley suitcases carry the essentials for a two week trip: dresses, shoes, iPad, iPod, and Smartphone. The 27-year-old Yuja leads a new generation of pianists who can comfortably play anything thanks to phenomenal technique and healthy self-confidence. Even so, she stands squarely in the tradition of great piano virtuosi, offering much more than just technical wizardry alone...

Crepitus

2008 • 5 min

The title refers to two eponymous words. The first describes the pathological symptom of abnormal contact between two internal surfaces, such as broken bones.

Lottie Dottie Chicken

2008 • 30 min • Brazil

Galinha Pintadinha, (English translation: The Dappled Chicken) known also as "Lottie Dottie Chicken" is a Brazilian project for children's music, created by Juliano Prado and Marcos Luporini. The songs are originally in Portuguese and are getting millions of downloads on YouTube. Some of the songs have been already translated into Spanish and English.

The Burden of Virginity

2008 • 32 min • Uzbekistan

The Burden of Virginity explores the deeply rooted traditions surrounding virginity in Uzbekistan, focusing on the expectations placed on brides to remain "pure" until their wedding day. The film follows the story of a young Uzbek woman who faces public humiliation and familial rejection after failing to prove her virginity. Her ordeal leads her to contemplate suicide, highlighting the extreme pressures imposed by societal customs.

Kokkuri-san

2008 • 60 min • Japan

A group of Japanese girls forget the number-one rule for avoiding demonic possessions and foolishly use an Ouija board in a house where a murder was committed. Now they've got the spirit and the spirit is definitely out to get them!

The Happening: A Day for Night

2008 • 7 min

This making-of is an interesting, candid look at how the director operates during a typical day during principal photography.

Four Questions for a Rabbi

2008 • 12 min

When Stacey Ross unexpectedly died in 2007, her friends contacted filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt to complete a project she had only just begun. The result is FOUR QUESTIONS FOR A RABBI, a film that touches upon issues of identity, persecution and mortality.

Virtuous

2008 • 37 min

The combination of spectacular downhill descents with breathtaking scenery spanning from the Swiss Alps to the Liguirian coasts, grants VIRTUOUS aesthetics which have been untapped by bike film makers until now. Megavalence winner René Wildhaber or UCI World Cup Rider Samuel Zbinden show how to get busy off the race track. Riders: René Wildhaber, Samuel Zbinden, David Kretz, Vinzenz Guntern, Sacha Robert, Adrian Fischer…. Music: Band Of Horses, Camera Obscura, As Friends Rust, The Herbaliser and many more…

Celine Dion: That's Just The Woman In Me

2008 • 44 min • United States of America

Five-time Grammy Award winner and multi-platinum recording artist Celine Dion stars in a one-hour primetime special, CELINE DION: THAT'S JUST THE WOMAN IN ME. This pop music superstar returns to CBS with her first concert since completing her five year musical extravaganza in Las Vegas. She also performs two special duets with Grammy award nominee Josh Groban and Grammy award winner will.i.am. Taped before a live audience at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, Celine performs some of her greatest hits including "Because You Loved Me," "My Heart Will Go On" and "Taking Chances" off her current album, The Prayer. Amid the intimately set concert, Celine Dion also engages the audience in conversation about her past, present and future in response to questions from guests. 44 mins (w/o commercial breaks)

121280 Ritual

2008 • 16 min

Shot in 1980 and finished in 2008, 121280 Ritual uses heavy breathing, incantatory chanting, and repetition to ritualize the pregnant body.

Speaking Freely Volume 4: Chalmers Johnson

2008 • 52 min

Author of Blowback, The Sorrows of Empire, and Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, Chalmers Johnson has literally written the book on the concept of American hegemony. A former naval officer and consultant to the C.I.A., he now serves as professor emeritus of UC San Diego. As co-founder and president of the Japan Policy Research Institute, Mr. Johnson also continues to promote public education about Asia's role in the international community. In this exclusive interview, you will find out why the practice of empire building is, by no means, a thing of the past. As the United States continues to expand its military force around the globe, the consequences are being suffered by each and every one of us.

Sleeping on Dark Waters

2008 • 53 min

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Ming-liang Tsai’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone.

Rumi: The Dance of Love

2008 • 59 min • Turkey

A dramatised documentary about the life of Rumi, a Persian mystical poet whose images of universal love and divine mystery continue to be celebrated more than 700 years after his death.

Dialogue

2008 • 4 min • Canada

From the starting point of the alphabet as a series of abstract symbols, a visual representation of the spoken word, this film explores the acoustic and visual rhythm of type. Working directly onto the surface of 16 mm and 35 mm film stock using letterpress, Poirier utilises an aleatoric approach to animation, generating intuitive compositions governed by elements of chance and surprise. The typographic forms, once translated as a soundtrack, vary from the harmonious to the discordant.

Destiny in Alice

2008 • 27 min

In the Heart of Australia, one of the harshest places on the planet, the town of Alice Springs has become a haven for lesbians, confronting the challenges of loving across racial and cultural gaps.

Summer Bay Slaughter

2008 • 15 min

A three-part series of dubbed black comedy shorts by Mr. Doodleburger.

Extra Action

2008 • 57 min • United States of America

Photographer Richard Kern asks his models to "roll around and do something interesting for a few minutes". Extra Action documents 60 of these innocent amateur incidents set to an original musical score by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.

Choir

2008 • 40 min

Conceived as a manifesto for the label, Choir is an audiovisual experiment, that takes the shape of an installation and live media event, as well as a limited edition video work. The image and sound is a superposition of source material selected by the artists and overlayered in order to produce a ghostly image an "hypnotic tantric metal experience" as some of the irst viewers of the piece told. Choir is an hypnotic journey into the imaginary of this two artists.The sound is asynchronous and comes from different selection creating an amalgam of sources and inluences. This release presents the Ghostly Choir of the inluences and imaginary background of these two artist.

Loving Loretta

2008 • 22 min

A small-town waitress finds the courage to accept her true desires in this film about longing and loving - Loretta.

Speaking Freely Volume 5: Hugo Chavez

2008 • 52 min

In this special volume of the series, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaks to members of the international press corps about the advantages of socialism over capitalism and explains why true democracy cannot exist under the latter. Noting that the American empire's practice of privatization, foreign intervention, and violence is not conducive to a humanistic society, Chavez instead offers that the healthiest government is one in which all of its citizens play a role in its construction and development-that the ultimate voice is the voice of the people and that Venezuela will always be committed to maintaining that ideal. Taped on location in Caracas, this briefing is one that will never be shown on American network news and one that should be viewed by anyone who is intrigued by this controversial world leader.