All Films

Wings of Gold

2005 • 60 min

It’s aviation on the edge at 600 mph with Wings of Gold, the thrilling video magazine that transports you to the exciting world of aircraft carrier flight ops. Join the elite corps of pilots in the cockpit of an F-14 Tomcat engaged in a high-altitude duel with a Libyan MiG. Marvel at the handling of the FA-18 Hornet, E-2C Hawkeye, AV-8B Harrier, and more., before joining the US Navy’s Blue Angels in a stunning demonstration of precision flying prowess.

Same Day Nice Biscotts

2005 • 5 min • United States of America

Part of The Biscotts Series Luther Price, 2005–08

Thunder from Above

2005 • 60 min

As a fighter pilot there are only two types of aircraft...fighters and targets. You're flying fighters which have never been beaten in real air to air combat. You’re now holding “Zulu” alert cocked and ready in the Middle East scrambling after intruders trying to penetrate your airspace. Is this another drill or the beginning of another Desert Storm! You are slammed into the ejection seat by gut-wrenching “G” forces as you push your aircraft to the edge while going head to head with real enemy MiGs over the skies of Iraq. You're in the cockpit and down on the deck during a low-level bombing run to deliver the knockout punch against freedom's enemies. Brief with pilots as they discuss tactics, missions, and weapons and deploy their fire power around the clock and around the world to defend freedom. You'll get an incredible view of a high performance air show seen from inside the cockpit!

Nûr Cosmos Spiritus/Nûr Version 1

2005 • 3 min • France

An approach to the different beliefs and representations of God assimilated to light. Light being associated with Spirit in the Coran. The issue of God being represented in human shape is solved by the assimilation of God with the light of the Cosmos.

The Road to 9/11

2005 • 60 min

Starting with the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I and the remodeling of the Middle East by the West, this film looks at the historical influences in modern Islamic terrorism and specifically the attack on America of 9/11.

In Search of History: Scourge of the Black Death

2005 • 50 min • United States of America

Some people believe it was sent by God to punish the sins of the world. First recognized in 542 AD, the plague swept from Egypt through Asia Minor and Europe on a path of destruction, killing more than 100 million in countless outbreaks and plunging the world into the Dark Ages. Today, much is known about this ancient scourge, and modern medicine is largely able to contain it. But its origins remain unclear, and there is always the threat that a new, disease-resistant strain could once again prove to be a major threat to mankind. THE SCOURGE OF THE BLACK DEATH is a comprehensive look at the deadliest disease to ever strike mankind. Historians trace its incredible, apocalyptic spread and detail the sweeping changes it forced.

Terra

2005 • 5 min

Filmmaker Alan Pakarnyk uses radiant splashes of colour and simple composition in a seemingly random kaleidoscope of motion to depict nature at work. Sweeping the viewer through a whirlwind cycle of the seasons, the film crashes violently from one image to the next in a tour de force of beauty and destruction. Pakarnyk's imagery accelerates beyond traditional linear time-lapse techniques to become fodder for the relentless demolition process that is Nature in all its grandeur and power.

Memoir

2005 • 6 min • United States of America

The text for this video is based on a mix of personal experience and local lore. I relate my negative childhood feelings about communes to my experience at the Rainbow Gathering. This led to my short lived interest in capitalist aesthetics and media. I began to read "The Futurist Manifesto", books by Ayn Rand, and "Dianetics". I also became involved with online dating through the "Village Voice" personals. I’d spend $25 for the opportunity to send around 10 messages or 20 winks. I went on a few dates, but nothing long term came of it. I became depressed and imagined a stand-in to introduce myself and tell amusing anecdotes, like I often found myself trying to do while on dates. This video was the imagined component for a signage style installation in a corporate lobby, as if I were the founder of the company.

The 9 Tuesdays

2005 • 27 min • Belgium

The banality of suffering as time goes by. A mourning song, the intimate diary of sorrow.

Surda Checkpoint

2005 • 30 min

The road between between Surda and Ramallah is used by over 60,000 residents of 35 villages as well as by thousands who commute between Ramallah and Birzeit University in the West Bank.It is here that one of the early checkpoints was set up by the Israeli army in March 2001.The film observes various stages in the life of this checkpoint, its growth from a mound of earth placed across the road to a series of cement barriers that have to be squeezed through, to its removal in July 2003. Using only observational footage and very few captions, Surda Checkpoint allows us to take in to daily experience of what it means to have one’s life disrupted, one’s path obstructed, one’s schedule delayed by hours of waiting.

Dog's Life

2005 • 12 min • Hungary

My Dying Bride: Sinamorata (Bonus Material)

2005 • 43 min

Music Videos: The Prize Of Beauty. The Blue Lotus. Music Videos Made By Fans: My Wine In Silence. My Hope, The Destroyer. Live Video Cuts: The Dreadful Hours. The Raven And The Rose. She Is The Dark.

Psychics IV : Sally Degener-Porter/ De Appel, Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, Amsterdam

2005 • 20 min • Netherlands

A series of psychic readings of spaces, commissioned by the artist in an attempt at connecting with the past of domestic or exhibition spaces, despite the limitations of rational discourse. The video is not edited, respecting the actual duration of the performance. In this particular case, the psychic is looking at the past of the De Appel building, which used to accommodate the Jewish bank Lippmann, Rosenthal & Co.

Oulad l’Viêt-Nam (Les Enfants du Viêtnam)

2005 • 14 min

Between 1947 and 1954, hundreds of Moroccans deserted the French army in Indochina to join the Viet Minh, out of anti-colonial solidarity and a refusal to serve a cause that was not their own. "Oulad l'Viêt Nam" is a series of portraits, made between Casablanca and Sidi Yahia: men and women with extraordinary destinies in their very ordinary lives, speaking in Moroccan, Vietnamese or French.

Interval

2005 • 11 min • Japan

The memories of my elementary school days came back to me with the warmth of my precious hometown. I tried to recall memories from my old school days.

One-Night Stand: Kevin Brennan

2005 • 28 min

Stand up special

Carnet Perçu

2005 • 20 min

Like flipped pages, look... The images look at each other... To look is to keep twice... The layered images can be kept… Two paths in a memory, like ants on a tree…

Felony Fights 1: Sick and Twisted Games

2005 • 47 min

The original Felony Fights! No rules, No judges, Anything goes! See skulls cracked, eyes split, mouths busted, and heads stomped in this felonious display of SAVAGERY! You won’t believe what happens when two gangster chicks take on one guy! Sick and twisted games at its best.

Avalon

2005 • 3 min • United States of America

Avalon is a real-time animation made to demonstrate the possibilities of Bill Etra's prototype digital video synthesizer that he, at the time, called "The New Machine". Set to Django Reinhardt's "Avalon".

Kiran Over Mongolia- Becoming an Eagle Master

2005 • 53 min

Kuma, a young Kazak man, retraces the steps of his grandfather who was formerly eagle master back to the remote mountainous region of his family's origin. There, in extreme western Mongolia, he fulfills his dream of trapping and training his own eagle. Under the tutelage of a local eagle master named Khairatkhan, Kuma learns not only the ways of hunting with eagles, but also the ways of his own people.

Eagles Over Auschwitz

2005 • 26 min

Eagles Over Auschwitz is the compelling story of the historic flyover of Auschwitz-Birkenau by three Israeli F-15s. Meet Yitzhak Cohen, a survivor of the camp, and Al Weber, an American Jewish aviator who flew over Auschwitz on a bombing mission with the 15th Army Air Force on September 13, 1944. Hear their personal reflections of that time and watch with the officers of the IDF as the F-15s fly over the camp.

Stopping Circle

2005 • 2 min

Short film by Shizuko Tabata

Los orígenes del silencio

2005 • 17 min • Guatemala

Electric Blanket Temple Altar

2005 • 6 min

Digital video, color, sound