All Films

The Evil Society

2005 • 33 min

Two FBI agents must track down a missing girl who was abducted by an ancient old alien and his brainwashed human minions.

Odds and Ends

2005 • 4 min

'Odds and Ends' invades the space of a shopping center – big, loud, pink. It is a meditation on consumerism and a narrative about individuals caught up in a process that mostly exceeds their will and control. Sometimes shot from above, there are a series of memorable images piled one after the other in a sequence that is joyful and critically distanced at the same time.

UFO: Unidentified Following Object

2005 • 14 min

Monk Jeonil, a nun of a small temple, witnesses a UFO while practicing meditation in a mountain hermitage.

Rest In Eternalism

2005 • 35 min

Aiming to a tranquil yet raw energy. All of the footage was fixed using a tripod and the result was a series of inorganic objects that appear one after the other.

theEYE: Liliane Lijn

2005 • 26 min

Science and Surrealism, ancient myths, Buddhism and feminism are among the frameworks of ideas important to Liliane Lijn’s art. In Paris at the end of the 1950s, in Greece and New York, and in England since 1966, she has worked with light, energy and movement, with archetypal shapes and unconventional materials to produce an art that is clear, complex and strikingly beautiful. Many of Liliane Lijn’s key drawings and sculptures are featured in this profile, which was filmed alongside an important reassessment of her work at the Mead Gallery. The Poem Machines and Koans of the 1960s and 1970s are considered as well as the ambitious “goddess” figures of more recent years.

theEYE: Ian Hamilton Finlay

2005 • 26 min

From previously barren moorland in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, Ian Hamilton Finlay has created a unique garden as an encompassing work of art. Little Sparta is a magical combination of culture and horticulture, poetry and planting, philosophy and myth. Ian Hamilton Finlay began his work at Little Sparta in the mid-1960s. With friends and collaborators, around a group of old farm buildings he has fashioned landscapes, streams, bridges, glades, lanes, bowers and more. Everywhere there are inscriptions and sculptures reflecting the artist’s preoccupations: the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, pre-Socratic philosophy, garden history, World War Two, the sea and fishing fleets, time and mortality.

The Life and Times of El Nino

2005 • 59 min • United Kingdom

It has been linked to famines, epidemics, even the fall of empires. This program follows El Niño’s deadly path through human history and the progress science has made in understanding the once-mysterious phenomenon. The effects of El Niño are presented in detail, including an 1878 outbreak of yellow fever in Tennessee, a concurrent drought that ravaged much of China, and more recent calamities that have brought the true nature of this climatic occurrence to light. Focusing on high-tech advances in meteorology, the video outlines El Niño’s significance in the global warming debate and illustrates the use of computer models that can predict its next appearance.

Mysterious! Unbelievable: Astonishing! Cursed Photograph

2005 • 60 min • Japan

More than a dozen stunning photos carefully selected from ghost photos submitted by ordinary users! All newly submitted! You can't take your eyes off of the barrage of terrifying experiences any longer!

Bruly Bouabré's Alphabet

2005 • 17 min • France, Germany

The story of Ivory Coast artist, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, who created four hundred pictograms, based on one-syllable words in his language, Bété, to help people in the Bété community learn to read more quickly.

Frida Against the Background of Frida

2005 • 39 min • Russia

The internal dialogue of two Frida Kahlo, a romantic passionate painting of nature and a lonely woman full of skepticism. The film is an attempt with individual strokes (in the spirit of Frida's own technique) to sketch on the screen a portrait of one of the most incredible personalities of the 20th century.

Devil Fish

2005 • 19 min

"Various masked figures guide the viewer through a hellish landscape of sight and sound."

Stars and Thorns

2005 • 18 min • Russia

A film about the musical group "Pan Quartet"

[ah-MIG-dah-la]

2005 • 33 min • United States of America

[ah-MIG-dah-la] (2003)

Matt 5:29-30

2005 • 21 min

Matt 5:29-30 is a video installation piece which also involves damaged polaroids and drawings.

Teruo -kio-

2005 • 20 min

Soju, a natural disaster scholar, was living in a house with Teruo, an all-purpose automaton he created, when a mysterious man Domon, and an agents start pursuing him.

The Star That Ought To Guide You

2005 • 3 min • Canada

Mike often introduced himself as a “filmmaker whose films nobody ever sees.” So... I didn't see this one. I can't write the movie overview. Sorry 'bout that.

The Rolling Stones

2005 • 58 min

Seventeen Clips

Magie blanche

2005 • 4 min

Magie blanche recounts moments in a young girl’s day, on her 13th birthday, a Friday the 13th… This film was produced as part of the 2nd Montreal Super 8 Festival, whose very simple rule was to shoot a single 50’ reel, with no post-editing. Special effects and editing were therefore created in camera, as the film was being shot.

Le Tombeau d'Aphrodite (Version 5)

2005 • 15 min

Starting from waste from the pornographic film industry of the seventies of the last century which I first sent to rot in a basin of water before passing the film through a Truca-JK type optical printer. MTK Workshop, The tomb of Aphrodite was transformed not into gold but into a profane epiphany of colors to illuminate our silver nights with colored lights.

The Class

2005 • 17 min

The Class is a video work in which Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook lectures corpses about death in what seems to be a kind of classroom. It was filmed in an actual hospital morgue in Chiang Mai, with unclaimed dead bodies playing the role of the six "students" in the class. The work is a performance in which the artist tries to understand death by lecturing the dead about death, with the lecture offering various definitions of death from different perspectives. Araya at times talks directly to the cadavers, encouraging them to share their own views and experiences, and communicating with them in the same way she would with living people. This attitude demonstrates her attempt to confront something that society has overlooked as well as social taboos and cultural discrimination, and the religious and cultural values that involve death.

Flof

2005 • 1 min • Croatia

A one-minute, computer generated animation with variations on a stick figure jumping from a diving board.

Bass Man

2005 • 60 min • United States of America

Takahiro Omori came to the U.S. from Japan in 1992 with the goal of becoming a professional bass fisherman. Bass Man finds Takahiro during the 2001 season, the year that began his rise to superstardom against all odds in a sport that’s on its way to becoming the next NASCAR. Takahiro looks to two icons of the sport, Rick Clunn and Jay Yelas, to try and unlock the secrets of their successes and becomes torn between their opposing philosophies on life, God and fishing. Bass Man is an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at this wildly popular and sometimes bizarre sport- the icons, the fans, the history, and the professional fishermen, some forging careers the likes of rock stars, others just struggling to survive.

Blockbuster History

2005 • 22 min • Canada

With the screen split into four, clips of films and interviews with ordinary people, the film evokes the media story of Aurore Gagnon, the tragic heroine of a cult Quebec film.

Seaborne Invasion

2005 • 54 min

From the Emmy award winners of Battlefield and Weapons of war, this film tells the story of America's response from the attack on Pearl Harbor. An industrial giant has awoken. In three and a half years, the might of America's industry and its immense reserves of materials and manpower will roll back the empire of Hirohito to the very shores of Japan itself.