All Films

Undressing Vanessa

2007 • 23 min • Australia

A deconstruction of Australia's most unorthodox drag-queen, Vanessa Wagner

Dave Burleigh: Nobody's Keeping You Here

2007 • 43 min

Comedian and Impressionist Dave Burleigh's star is on the rise. His uncanny ability to impersonate just about anyone landed him the starring role as Charlie Sheen in "Not Another Celebrity Movie.

Recomposition

2007 • 5 min • Canada

A short visual study of repeating layers, dissolving forms reemerge and return.

Extase

2007 • 10 min

Two men making love. The question of the embrace (which encompasses the caress, the look, the kiss, the penetration, the speed of movement, the expression of ecstasy…) give to the film a scenario of examples of editing (disconnection, links, rhythm, interlaced films, alternate editing…). A sometimes figurative logic (make love, to be loving, to enjoy), choreographic (to caress, to interlace, to kiss, to lick, to penetrate), and cinematographic ( to link, to bring together, to move, to embrace…:to mount)

Natural Family Values: A Community Divided

2007 • 47 min

Kanab, Utah, a small, western town founded by Mormon polygamists, is now the scene of a city divided. The people are split between a religious majority, struggling to assert its conservative identity, and a vocal minority determined to make their home in a community afraid of change. Fearing a threat to their way of life, the mayor and city council unanimously approve a resolution. This defines the kind of families they would like to see move in as 'one man, one woman' with a 'full quiver' of children. Natural Family Values is an intimate portrait of a community at odds with itself, and what happens when democracy and theocracy clash.

Speaking Up 2

2007 • 30 min

Using the same interview techniques applied in her highly successful Speaking Up (2005), Tammy Cheung turns her attention from Hong Kong to Mainland China. In Speaking Up II, she interviews around two dozen students from a well-respected primary school in Jiangxu (near Shanghai). They are asked to express their views on different topics such as personal issues, family, gender, society, and more. Presented in a skilfully edited montage and intertwined with footage of their daily lives at school, their answers highlight the changing face of today’s China.

3 Parts for Today

2007 • 13 min

Subtitled "The Refusenik," "The Zealot," and "The Father," this video takes us on a journey where Germans, Turks, Israelis, Palestinians, fathers, grandmothers, daughters, and animals are together for 13 minutes.

9 minutes of Kaunaus

2007 • 6 min

Inside a Lithuanian synagogue, young Domas Darguzs regales the filmmaker with a whispered, wide-eyed account of mythical events, while the film cross-cuts to images of a goat farm. Kid brother of a Isreali soldier, Domas’ stories are part fantasy, part hopeful ruminations of a courageous, young mind interrupted only by an impatient adult.

Recitation

2007 • 2 min

The Grandmother recites the Mourners' Kaddish over her granddaughter.

Memo.

2007 • 36 min

Evan Williams' first feature film! Only 100 copies of the DVD exist!

The Eucharist for Little Children

2007 • 20 min

Through this film children will begin to understand the Real Presence of our Lord in the Eucharist. They will encounter Jesus in the solemnity of the Mass, the quiet of adoration, and the splendor of a Corpus Christi procession. Children will also experience the Lord through the traditional beauty of the Church, the sacred music and the vibrant spirit of host Jennifer Naimo, who brings her Broadway talent to this ministry to little children.

Great American Desert

2007 • 17 min

The camera observes a scrubby Arizona Desert, seasonally occupied by recreational vehicle dwellers. Other elements emerge in juxtaposition, including contemporary recordings of military procedures and an account of the men who carried out the Hiroshima bombing.

Des nuages aux fêlures de la terre

2007 • 18 min • France

Short film by Philippe Cote.

Pas à pas

2007 • 18 min • France

"Pas à pas" is a diptych made from two films shot in Super 8 during walks in the Pays de Caux (Haute-Normandie). The title refers to both the transport mode and shooting mode during this process, which are closely associated. The landscape of "Pas à pas" is not built from a point of view, but from two perspective lines projected on the screen ; two images that encounter creates a new direction.

Playing Up

2007 • 4 min

Naturally decayed found Super-8 footage of children's and adult's games has been cut up with scissors and spliced back together to reveal new rhythms and connections. Soundtrack: Tape loop, keyboard and ring modulator, homemade Hellitron generators.

Brave Father

2007 • 48 min • China

In China, many parents are sacrificing everything to see their children graduate successfully from a university in order to obtain highly-paid jobs. Han Peiyin has sold off all the family’s home valuables and now works in Xi’an to make the money for his son, Shengli, to attend a university. For years, Han, carried a notebook in which he recorded all of his loans - mostly small amounts such as 10 or 20 RMB. Han is convinced that knowledge has the power to change destinies, and expects his son to be successful.

miler

2007 • 17 min

A 3D film by Björn Speidel

Tramix

2007 • 4 min

Experimental short based on The Matrix.

Alaska's White Pass & Yukon

2007 • 39 min

Travel to Alaska to visit one of the most incredible railroads in the world, Alaska's White Pass & Yukon Route. Built in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush, this railroad travels through some of the most spectacular scenery found anywhere. Start your journey in early May in the beautiful town of Skagway and climb 3,000 feet to the summit of White Pass, moving among mountains, glaciers, gorges, waterfalls, and lingering snow.

God Provides

2007 • 9 min • Canada

Shot in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and bound by elements of fiction, this unexpected documentary short is a glimpse into faith-based sentiment and inexplicable loss. While a man searches for his kitchen appliances in the bushes, elsewhere a grinning preacher takes souvenir snapshots for his congregation, and a woman with a disability journeys to a quieter place.

The Grates: Til Death Do Us Party (Live At The Forum)

2007 • 55 min

Set against the winter wonderland backdrop of falling snow, ice-laden fir trees, super-sized penguins and assorted woodland creatures, The Grates bring to life the magic of their ARIA, AMP and J Award-nominated gold debut album, Gravity Won't Get You High - ably assisted by a 6ft panda playing a mean banjo!

Emission Admission

2007 • 3 min

In this animated short film an eco-friendly couple in the early stages of courtship "come clean" on some of their idiosyncrasies and discover that they are perfect for each other. Part of the mobiDOCS: Confessions in a Digital Age series.

Lombard

2007 • 1 min

A quick defamiliarization of a familiar San Francisco landmark.

Base Camp Moon

2007 • 60 min • United States of America

It has been more than 30 years since NASA put men on the moon and brought them back. Now, plans are underway to return astronauts to the lunar surface. And this time, it doesn’t appear they will be leaving anytime soon.