All Films

Hips Play

2005 • 5 min • Japan

An experimental animated short film by Yoriko Mizushiri.

Haruwo

2005 • 30 min • Japan

In a violent post-apocalyptic Japan, a reckless juvenile delinquent named Haruwo takes on the Yakuza, but their new bouncer may be more than he can handle...

Here's a Piano I Prepared Earlier

2005 • 49 min

This documentary takes a look at how intrepid 1960s musicians like Cornelius Cardew, Gavin Bryars and John Cage changed the sound of music by stuffing pianos with hay or leaving the choice of notes up to the rolling of the dice.

Out of Place

2005 • 20 min • Chile

An intense exploration of representation and territory, of questions about memory and identity. Once again, Aravena's gazes are divided between personal experience - represented here by family memories - and historical and political questions, which significantly broadens the images' field of significance. Using video resources to emphasize perceptions, associate content and expand her reflections on underlying issues, the artist multiplies her points of view using sophisticated language games.

Les jouets

2005 • 9 min • Canada

A man and his toys make for an uneasy ballad.

Poulet-Poulet

2005 • 9 min

Hitch Cock

2005 • 10 min

What if Jimmy Stewart peered out of his Rear Window and saw two men making out? The sight unwinds our hero’s tightly-wound 1950s world.

2005.1 Sandy River Water

2005 • 7 min

Only through pictures, only through eyes, and eye movement.

Trip

2005 • 5 min • Japan

By the maker of Yellow Night. Also an exercise in the storyless and meaningless description of a drawn journey through the subconscious. Hallucination as a cheerful firework display. Made with style and skill, because nonchalance obviously has to be conquered. (IFFR)

Mysterious! Unbelievable: Horror! The Buried Photograph

2005 • 60 min • Japan

The exhibition introduces more than a dozen carefully selected and startling photos from among the ghost photos submitted by ordinary users, and from these, further investigations and interviews are conducted on those that have been known to have been taken!

Possession

2005 • 48 min • Japan

Yumiko, who is devoted to her bedridden husband, suffers from severe pain, ringing ears, and auditory hallucinations. At the request of a friend, she gets a brain scan. She worries about her future as condition gradually worsens. 60 years earlier, intense fighting has begun to take place in Okinawa. A Japanese soldier hides in a bunker with a woman, her son, and her sister. The two stories become increasingly linked as time goes on...

Bread, Painting, Accordion

2005 • 8 min

This short profile of Agnès Varda’s longtime bakery and accordion shop was shot by the filmmaker in 2005.

Exquisite Tension

2005 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Two figures, a black female and a white male, get their hair braided together.

Unissez-vous, il n'est jamais trop tard !

2005 • 5 min • France

A man is trying to find himself at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. There he meets a woman who is trying to find a place for a very special grave.

Les corps d'amour de Pasolini

2005 • 34 min • France

An ode to the life, thought and cinema of Pasolini, brought to life in a video overlay and embodied by two young men.

Smell the Glove

2005 • 39 min

SFBF productions' monster straight-to-video release; SMELL THE GLOVE promises to smash your eye sockets with more hair metal and white lines than you'll know what to do with. Filmed on Grenade's massive 04/05world tour, SMELL THE GLOVE will ask the question "on what day did the lord create the Grenerds and why couldn't she have taken that day off." Look for a mind punishing part from the one and only Danny Kass, as well as amazing breakthrough performances from Pat Moore, and the ones they call Sketchy-D and Quiet Wyatt.

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2005 • 40 min • Japan

2005 release

The Dance Project

2005 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A documentary that explores the experience of dance in the free party community of Sheffield.

The Eye

2005 • 26 min

In this interview, illustrated with these works and with other key installations including Socle du Monde and Corps étranger, Mona Hatoum explores the diverse sources of her work and her engagement with a wide range of often surprising materials. The artist talks vividly about the centrality of the body to her installations, and the ways in which her work employs changes of scale, intimations of restriction and constraint, and contradictory ideas of attraction and repulsion.

Rain, the Little Girl, and My Letter

2005 • 6 min • Japan

Katari, a young girl who dreams of becoming a novelist, writes a love letter to a boy at her school. Unwittingly, she is creating a "short story" that will move a little girl's heart.

Bakvissen

2005 • 11 min

Documentary about the life of an 11-year-old girl. She spends a lot of time on her hobby, synchronized swimming. The rest of her time she spends on school, shopping and playing with friends.

Immolation: Bringing Down The World

2005 • 45 min • United Kingdom

Live At The Heineken Music Hall - Amsterdam / Holland - 18th Of April, 2003

The Italian Man who went to Malta.

2005 • 1 min

An Italian man stays at a hotel in Malta and has various miscommunications with the staff.

Psycho Office

2005 • 23 min • Germany

Working in the office makes everyone go insane.