All Films

Story Time

2005 • 32 min

Story Time is a fun and easy way to reinforce early reading skills, develop ASL vocabulary, and foster a love for reading. This DVD features six original stories that incorporate signs for bugs, family members, activities, animals, vehicles, feelings, colors, fruits, and more.

Found footage

2005 • 8 min

Poverty, Demolition and Waterlooplein 1962/1964

Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School

2005 • 60 min

Using interviews with Shulamit, her family, teachers, and other students, the film allows the members of this community to tell their own stories. What emerges is a potent and inspiring story of Jewish pluralism and a community navigating the cross-currents of Jewish tradition and social change. Beyond the struggle to create a supportive environment for gay and lesbian students and teachers at the school, this is the story of a community wrestling with the very definition of pluralism and diversity in a Jewish context.

Migration

2005 • 5 min

…a late summer prairie storm as heard from above – someplace between this atmosphere and the next…

Nostalgia (April 2001 to Present)

2005 • 3 min

In a colour fest of broken emulsions, the artist reconvenes a suite of feel good 50s adverts for a better life. A young boy on a bicycle, a blonde smiler on a tricycle, two men at a clothesline, the crisp border of neighborhood lawns appearing as if no one had ever set foot on them. The world is blank and the first line I lay across it is perfect, and then the second marks an intersection and the town is born. Everything recognizable as a picture arrives via drawings, stills, which are gathered here in a restless, teeming movement. Animation but not Saturday morning cartoons. [Mike Hoolboom, 2007]

Supermoine

2005 • 3 min

The Trip to Vezelay

2005 • 30 min • France

After the death of his father, Pierre and his friends Marie and Bénaïd, travel to Vézelay to Georges Bataille's tomb. There, they are get in touch with a priest, who seems to distinguish tourists from mystics, those who come for God and those who come for the writer.

IXIR: Journals of Lapping Waters

2005 • 17 min

A five part alchemical observation / video installation. 3 channels. Video by Lu(x)z / Music composed by Masa and Dok.

Ictus

2005 • 19 min • Spain

Joaquim Jorda's short

Era Uma Vez um Arrastão

2005 • 20 min • Portugal

Documentary on the media coverage of a beach rampage that occurred in Praia de Carcavelos (Portugal) on 10 June 2005

Looking Up

2005 • 3 min

2005, 00:03:07

Reviens et prends-moi

2005 • 14 min

Between Paris and Syria, the Orient remains an ordinary place filled with literature, myth, and the pulse of love. A love film without lovers, based on a poem by Constantin Cavafy.

The Suitor

2005 • 7 min

Cindy Kwok is 20, Cantonese, and still lives at home. While she loves and respects her parents, she desperately wants the freedom to be herself and love who she chooses. Cindy's relationship with her white boyfriend Brett, is tested when her parents arrange a suitor from Hong Kong. A bouncy comedy about cross cultural relationships, THE SUITOR explores Cindy's first steps towards independence.

Face to Face with the Polar Bear

2005 • 52 min • France

Filmmaker Jerome Bouvier spent a year in Spitzberg following the incredible destiny of a polar bear family in a rapidly changing environment. Casting brother and sister twin cubs, this tale focuses on their education and reveals their individual characters.

Lou-Lou Lives Here

2005 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Why shouldn't a young girl walk home alone? This dark little tale plays on our anxieties about girls walking through the countryside alone but this little girl has a powerful secret.

La escalera

2005 • 47 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

Double Negative

2005 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Double Negative offers a reflexive take on the rather spurious effect of 'video negative'. The piece was made by re-videoing the live output from the camera as it was displayed on a monitor, creating feedback. In using the negative video effect, a flicker of alternating positive and negative imagery is produced and various fluctuating microtonal elements in the picture plane are revealed.

Principle 1

2005 • 3 min

Principle 2

2005 • 1 min

Principle 4

2005 • 4 min

Principle 12

2005 • 10 min

Firefighter George and Amazing Airplanes

2005 • 43 min

Firefighter George and Amazing Airplanes

Portrait of a Young Woman

2005 • 3 min • Germany

A second frame is added to the picture of portrait of a young woman in such a way that the vertical colored patterns can move in a tight formation, precisely and synchronously, there is no space between them. What is then consummated in harmony with an acoustic guitar is a kind of Doctrine of Affects for the female body, conveyed by means of colors and their vitally switching values to create an organic form. At some point red suddenly breaks out of the grid, threatening to overpower everything else. Remaining the same and changing at the same time. (Marc Ries)

Slant

2005 • 8 min • Germany

Both fundamental values of the source image in SLANT, two red stripes and a bright white foundation which supports them, expose only themselves for some time, accompanied by impassioned polyphonic singing. The steles change slowly, the field opens up, the planes of color shift imperceptibly and re-divide, forming different combinations that then, without interruptions or cuts, break up and enter into new figurations. The title does not refer to an appearance, it seems as if the "slope" or "bias" were only a self-reference. (Marc Ries)