All Films

Candle

2007 • 8 min • Japan

Lee Zo

2007 • 10 min • Japan

There were three people who killed merely over differences in religion. One day the three believers who lost a mosque and icons through war no longer understood who belonged to which religion, and lost their reasons to fight. At that time, one statue rose in the center of town. Although the town thought it had regained peace by building the statue unrelated to any nation…

Dancers

2007 • 51 min • Egypt

They are between 17 and 40 years old, coming from all over Egypt, young girls, wives, mothers, they dance for a living. They are the dancers of Cairo among the popular class. At the hairdresser, in the “hotel” for dancers or at home, at weddings, nightclubs, on and backstage, the film follows them and tries to show the depth of a struggle under the make-up and the dance. A reality far from the cliché of belly dancing.

Heat Shot 1

2007 • 12 min

“Heat Shot 1” includes the process of deconstruction burning 10 years ago` s photos and negative films when I learned and made photography at first time and also reveals the process of reconstruction making a new piece, “Heat Shot” after 10 years later. It is about the process of deconstruction and reconstruction of an artist` s personal memory and life and also a question for representing images between emotional memory and material process by the strategy of repetition and difference.

Hit Stitch - Heat Shot 2

2007 • 11 min

“Heat Shot 1,2 “ is a pair work and also independent pieces. Both are originally made by film but sometimes they have been shown through various projections such as video version with sound and two or triple projections with improvisational sound performance. Especially, “Heat Shot 2” was shown with triple projections composed of one loop projection of just stitch image and two versions of print image in this January, 38th Rotterdam film festival. It is a trial to expand film medium mixed with performance and improvisational sound.

The People's Advocate: The Life & Times of Charles R. Garry

2007 • 59 min

During the late 1960s, when Charles R. Garry gained prominence as one of the top criminal defense attorneys in the United States, his clientele read like a who's who of the leadership of the Black liberation and anti-Vietnam war movements.

Psycho Pussy Slaughter

2007 • 10 min

The Egyptian Goddess Sekhmet is brought back from her long slumber on the wine of the Nile. She is defeated, shortly after sacrificing several felines and females in her bloody revenant rituals.

How to Conduct a Love Affair

2007 • 8 min

An unexpected letter leads to an unanticipated encounter. Some windows open easily; other shadows remain locked rooms. Have a cup of tea dear. I’ll trade you a stitch from the past for a leaf from the future. This is a Valentine and a fragment: for the one who mends my rips; from the next film in the Byrd project.

Nervous Lantern at Kill Your Timid Notion Festival

2007 • 48 min

This event was part of Arika’s Kill Your Timid Notion festival in 2007 at Dundee Contemporary Arts.

The Biscuit Day

2007 • 12 min

Price created his “Biscotts/Biscuits” series by re-editing the same bits of footage from 13 prints of a 1970s documentary about a nursing home. The film itself is aged, worn and faded, doubling the existential intensity of its subject, while his use of multiple copies generates a brutal Musique concrète through variation and repetition.

Suffering Biscuits

2007 • 20 min

Price created his “Biscotts/Biscuits” series by re-editing the same bits of footage from 13 prints of a 1970s documentary about a nursing home. The film itself is aged, worn and faded, doubling the existential intensity of its subject, while his use of multiple copies generates a brutal Musique concrète through variation and repetition.

Crazy Rock

2007 • 4 min

With sparse landscapes and disjointed characters Crazy Rock explores the routine both in narrative and in emotion.

Octopus Volcano

2007 • 50 min

Deep in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea lies the volcanic island of Stromboli. Erupting every 20 minutes, it is one of the world's most active volcanoes. Life on the surface is tough when the volcano is spewing molten lava. Beneath the surface, a healthy population of common octopus thrives. Scientists are trying to discover what allows the octopus to survive in such a hostile environment.

Janiceps

2007 • 7 min • France

Cinematographic Siamese. The music, immaterial by nature, becomes the concrete bond that links the projected films. Twins rejoined, creatures with two faces, as Janus.

Ghost Cat: Saving the Clouded Leopard

2007 • 26 min

Deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia is an elusive and endangered member of the panther family that is threatened by poachers, development, and natural habitat changes. The fate of this exotic, python-patterned, clouded leopard may rest in the hands of a small cadre of scientists, activists, and veterinarians determined to help it stave off extinction. Three daring women comb the forests of Thailand for evidence of the elusive "ghost cat." They infiltrate a notorious smuggler's paradise and black market of exotic animals, determined to save the stunning creature.

White Snake

2007 • 6 min • China

Under the influence of Caroline Leaf, White Snake employs sand to retell the famous Chinese folk story in an innovative way: the faithful love is replaced by human cruelty; the eternal memory is substituted by a fractured sense of time

Ghost Encounters: The Queen Mary

2007 • 52 min

Join world renouned ghost investigator Peter James and best selling author, journalist, television/radio personality Fiona Horne as they bring guest stars aboard the Queen Mary to experience the realities of ghosts! This is the REAL THING!

Before the New Millennium

2007 • 27 min • Canada

Based on performances by the notorious lesbian art collective Kiss & Tell, this video captures digitally processed moments hidden for over a decade, recalling historic queer and art-world attitudes towards sexuality and censorship of the 1990’s. The provocative styles of Persimmon Blackbridge, Lizard Jones and Susan Stewart come together in simple lust stories and in letters to their mothers.

The NuWest Steambath

2007 • 12 min • Canada

The NuWest Steambath is a historical short-documentary, first screened at Vancouver’s Queer Film Festival, which investigates the life of The NuWest Steambath, the Vancouver region’s first suburban gay sauna, through the account of its owner, Dennis.

Vinterriket ‎– Kontemplative Antagonismen Des Augenblicks

2007 • 58 min

Kontemplative Antagonismen Des Augenblicks DVD contains 40 minutes of exclusive music and exclusive video material

Song for the City with Music In It's Bones

2007 • 13 min • Canada, United States of America

A personal travel log of the timeless search for meaning, purpose, and belonging in a foreign place; by way of the sounds and melodies that shape its soul. A Super-8 scrap book of impressions formed on frosty early morning commutes on Chicago's El Train, tangled with recordings of underground street buskers, retired café intellectuals, street preachers, and daily commuters compose the verses for the Song for the City with Music in its Bones.

dry idea

2007 • 2 min • Canada

Lubricants are an essential part of modern machinery.

Bending Space: Georges Rousse And The Durham Project

2007 • 58 min

Bending Space: Georges Rousse and the Durham Project captures the genius of French photographer and installation artist Georges Rousse and follows the artist and two hundred volunteers during a September 2006 public art residency in Durham. The film includes interviews with Rousse, project coordinators and volunteers, and people on the street as they visit the installations.

The Bond

2007 • 6 min

"How could you raise a transsexual child and not know it?" In this honest and compassionate documentary, the father of a transgender child shares his family's story - what it was like when his child came out, how their relationship has changed, and how their bond continues to get stronger. Made by a father for trans individuals and their parents, this film offers hopeful answers to the questions parents face when a child, of any age, comes out.