All Films

7/7 Ripple Effect

2007 • 57 min

7/7 Ripple Effect is a 57-minute homemade film about 7 July 2005 London bombings, produced and narrated by John Hill. The film disputes the official account of events, a terrorist attack on public transport in Central London, by four suicide bombers later named as Hasib Hussain, Germaine Lindsay, Shehzad Tanweer and Mohammad Sidique Khan. Hill released the film under the pseudonym "Muad'Dib", the name of a character from the Dune books.

The Model

2007 • 4 min

A short film by Leigh Ledare

Vacuum

2007 • 17 min

Raedah Saadeh vacuums in the hills of Palestine. Two-channel video. Part of Sharjah Biennial 8.

Secrets of the Moon Landings

2007 • 48 min

The challenges and risks that defined the Apollo program.

The Telepathic Motion Picture of the Lost Tribes

2007 • 7 min

This is a work in progress by David Blair, a video set in an imaginary world of Japanese-colonized Manchuria in 1947.The general population has developed telepathy, and some people begin to produce telepathic motion pictures.

Mark Knopfler: Kill to Get Crimson - A Documentary

2007 • 19 min

In this short film Mark, Chuck, Guy Fletcher, Glen, Danny and all the band give the back-story behind the writing and recording of Mark’s fifth solo album. This album entered the Billboard charts at number 26 and peeked at number 9 in the UK, and went to top 5 in many other European countries.

Rosebud

2007 • 11 min

Experimental video by Peter Newman.

Fold - P.I.V. 8

2007 • 12 min

Experimental video by Peter Newman.

Pegasus Dance

2007 • 12 min • Spain

Pegasus Dance (made in collaboration with the Rotterdam riot police) shows the trucks of this security force performing a romantic performative dance.

Legendary Live Collection Of Hijokaidan - Vol.1 1981

2007 • 15 min • Japan

Performance of Japanese noise band Hijokaidan at 1981.1.4 At Studio Ahiru, Osaka.

Sasha

2007 • 5 min • Russia

Dragonflies

2007 • 8 min • Russia

Silverrose

2007 • 9 min

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Kodablood

2007 • 3 min

Experimental Super 8 short by Kenji Onishi.

Scary True Stories: Night 6 - Tatari

2007 • 60 min • Japan

10th installment in Broadway's "Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi" series.

Midas Touch

2007 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service public information film, which features a man, made completely of molten rock and fire talk to the audience against a smoky black background.

Coal Dust

2007 • 20 min • Russia

The film tells about the inhabitants of a small mining town in the Chelyabinsk region. Having devoted their lives to work for the benefit of the state, people themselves did not notice how they turned into coal dust for it.

History of One Disease

2007 • 20 min • Ukraine

Many people know about the infamous experiments performed on Jewish children by the SS doctor Mengele. But only a few are familiar with the fact that something similar happened in Kyiv in 1896 in the children's clinic of nervous diseases of Dr. Ivan Alekseevich Sikorsky.

Gernika bonbardaketa

2007 • 56 min

Documentary about the bombing of Gernika carried out by Nazi aviation in support of Franco's troops. Contains testimonies from survivors and unpublished color images.

He Could Have Been the First. Drama of the Cosmonaut Nelyubov

2007 • 44 min • Russia

The film is dedicated to the dramatic fate of cosmonaut Grigory Nelyubov. He was the second understudy of Yuri Gagarin, had a certificate of cosmonaut number 3. But he never flew into space. Moreover, after the forced separation from the cosmonaut corps, Nelyubov's life was tragically cut short.

Hit Me Baby

2007 • 6 min • United Kingdom

With Britney Spears in the news again with her new memoir, we jump back in time to the days of her infamous head-shaving shenanigans. Hit Me Baby is the earliest of Maclean's work included in either programme, but it already shows an interest in dissecting pop culture's cannibalistic desire to both exploit and destroy the means by which it sustains itself – often women.

The Village Photographer

2007 • 40 min • Russia

"Back to square one" - this saying fully correlates with the fate of the talented village photographer, poet and philosopher Nikolai Viktorovich Zykov.

Kuygorozh

2007 • 13 min • Russia

The Moksha fairy tale "Kuygorozh" takes viewers to Mordovia. The main character is an unclean named Kuygorozh, a hybrid of an owl and a snake, one of the strangest characters in folk legends. A workaholic, he constantly demands work from his employers and does everything for them. Of course, every lazy person dreams of such an assistant. There are two of them in the film – an old Man and an Old Woman. Having obtained an egg with a Kuygor, they began to live a new life, but the joy of greedy idlers was short-lived.

The True Story of a Fanman

2007 • 5 min • Russia

A story about a person who had lived a life that was of no use to anybody whatsoever. Even the moment of fame that fell to his lot changed practically nothing in his life. Simultaneously the authors work out the theme of the crowds that create «inflated» idols for themselves.