All Films

Civilization

2008 • 4 min

Civilization is a multi-layered tableau of interconnecting images that illustrates a contemporary, satirical take on the concepts of eternal punishment and celestial reward. More than 300 individual channels of looped video are blended into an expansive landscape that continuously scrolls upward, from the depths of hell to the gates of heaven.

Classic Albums: John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band

2008 • 52 min

A documentary about the making of John Lennon's seminal solo debut album, "Plastic Ono Band," featuring historical analysis and playbacks of the original multi-track session tapes. Includes interviews with the musicians and personnel involved with the recording sessions as well as Lennon's widow Yoko Ono and other associates of the Lennons.

Senko

2008 • 35 min • Japan

A Japanese family is confronted with the mother's disease. The profoundly symbolistic images of this short film show us how Yù and his father perceive the possibility of the death and how it affectsa young boy and his vision of life.

Radio Dazed

2008 • 2 min • United States of America

Ben and Gwen are tired of Shag Carpet, the band Grandpa Max listens to. So Ben transforms into Upgrade to control the Rust Bucket radio, trying to listen the music they want.

Chocolate

2008 • 20 min • Japan

The Saint & the Hanged Man

2008 • 58 min • United Kingdom

A look at a case from 1307 Hereford in which a Catholic holy court convened to decide whether or not a dead English bishop should be made a saint following several alleged miracles, the most notable being the resurrection of a hanged man.

Le Nu à la terrasse

2008 • 26 min

A short film co-created by Eric Rohmer.

6=0 Homeostética

2008 • 52 min • Portugal

Documentary about the not-likely-legendary Portuguese art group from the 1980's.

Dreams Do Come True: A Nightmare

2008 • 8 min

Accused of stealing food, a peasant (Debbie D) is sentenced to death by hanging.

The Sherman Brothers: The Aristocrats of Disney Songs

2008 • 5 min

Comments from composers Richard and Robert Sherman.

Humble Beauty: Skid Row Artists

2008 • 58 min • United States of America

A story about talented homeless and formerly homeless fine arts painters in the worst section of Los Angeles known as Skid Row. People will create art no matter how humble the circumstances.

Tokyo Gore Police Short Film Collection

2008 • 46 min

This collection of short films inspired by the movie Tokyo Gore Police (2008), where there is twice as much blood and gore. Yoshihiro Nishimura does not disappoint, giving us insights into the gory plot and dedicated to the personal story of Yoshio Komatsu. All interspersed with a nice commercial on how to keep the memory of deceased loved ones alive.

Eternal Blue 平田弥里

2008 • 60 min • Japan

2008 release

Mompelaar

2008 • 20 min • Netherlands

Mompelaar is a man who lives with his ever present and overbearing mother; he appears to be entirely introverted and have a speech impediment that sees him entirely incomprehensible. He heads out into the woods and finds himself at the place where several brutal murders appear to have occurred. He tidies up a bit and carries on, coming across a group out for a nature talk which descends quickly into horror and religion.

Walter Tull: Forgotten Hero

2008 • 60 min

The story of Walter Tull, a pioneering black British footballer and the first black officer in the British army, who died heroically in WWI and is virtually unheard of today.

The Hidden Side of Persepolis

2008 • 30 min • France

This 2007 behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of PERSEPOLIS features interviews with codirectors Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud as they undertake the complex process of adapting Satrapi’s graphic novel into a film.

Double Decade

2008 • 53 min

Double Decade marks Mack Dawg Productions’ 20th anniversary of filmaking. It is with great pride that we present this epic snowboarding film. Double Decade is a look into the past, and a look into the future of freestyle snowboarding. This movie is so ill it can only be rated S for Sick. Mack Dawg Productions, 20 years deep and still loving it. Damn, times flies when you’re having fun.

Michelle

2008 • 16 min

A drug addict named Michelle's daily life consists of selling her body to be able to afford her addiction.

Spectral Delivery

2008 • 14 min

A volume of illustrated horrors arrives to stimulate the chatter of those who behold its weighty extravagance. The locales shift from plate to plate as nutritious foods for thought telegraph their nifty nutrients to the very core of our convoluted coils. The dishes arrive in a variety of spices and places so just sit back, savor the variety, and help deposit what is digested in a bowl of your choice (hopefully of porcelain perfection with maybe a splash of yellow effervescence!).

Atrium of the Omni-Orb

2008 • 6 min

A quickie side trip to the Virginia Film Festival highlights some nice, fall foliage and a few fleeting faces as the camera probes a sculptural artifact or two before abruptly shutting down.

Panic! at the Disco: In the Days

2008 • 21 min

Panic! at the Disco documentary from the Live in Chicago DVD.

Metal Gear Saga: Vol. 2

2008 • 30 min • Japan

Metal Gear Saga Vol. 2 narrates the fictional events of the Metal Gear storyline beginning with Metal Gear Solid 3 and up to the events leading to Metal Gear Solid 4. The documentary centers around an undisclosed narrator (voiced by Masane Tsukuyama in Japanese and Guy Perryman in English) attempting to track Solid Snake down and narrates the history surrounding him, his father Big Boss (Naked Snake) and his brothers Liquid Snake and Solidus Snake.

Scary True Stories: Night 11 - Dark Web

2008 • 60 min • Japan

16th installment in Broadway's "Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi" series.

Dogged Pursuit

2008 • 2 min • United States of America

While Ben, Gwen and Max are walking, a robber steals a woman's purse. Ben uses the Omnitrix to transform into Wildmutt and chase the robber.