All Films

Husker Century: Pioneer Spirit 1890 - 1940

2004 • 60 min • United States of America

Explore the colorful and exciting history of University of Nebraska football in the first of a three-part documentary series. "Husker Century: Pioneer Spirit 1890 - 1940." With vintage game films, personal interviews and rousing tunes of the times, this program illustrates how the early days of Nebraska football parallel the history of the state and nation. Fans will learn how sons of immigrants found a common language on rough-and-tumble football teams led by hard driving coaches such as "Jumbo" Stiehm, "Bill" Jones and "Bummy" Booth. A must for sports trivia buffs, this program catches the spirit of the early years of Nebraska football.

Winnie the Pooh: ABC's

2004 • 30 min

It's the first day of autumn and Christopher Robin has written a book of rhymes about all of his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood; but when the pages of the book scatter in the wind, everyone must help put it back together. Now if Pooh can only remember how to rhyme, it just may save the day!

Concorde Alpha-Delta: An Intrepid Journey

2004 • 45 min

One of the greatest aeronautical achievements of all time, the supersonic Concorde passenger jet flies at twice the speed of sound. This documentary chronicles the history of the Concorde from the plane's controversial development process to its limited use shuttling wealthy passengers on trans-Atlantic flights and the events that led to its decommission. Despite its problems, the Concorde remains a shining symbol of technological accomplishment.

Punk Drunk Love: The Images of Mick Rock

2004 • 60 min • United Kingdom

The iconic imagery of photographer Mick Rock -- an artist who built his reputation snapping shots of some of the most ostentatious musical celebrities of the 1970s -- takes center stage in this retrospective tribute. Famous faces include Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Alice Cooper, Freddie Mercury, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Ian Hunter, Andy Warhol, Syd Barrett, Marianne Faithfull, Brian Eno and Tim Curry.

Artists of the 20th Century: Salvador Dali

2004 • 50 min • United States of America

Get to know Spanish Surrealist master Salvador Dali in this volume, part of a series exploring some of the most important artists of the 20th century. Learn about Dali's meteoric rise through the art world as a result of his visionary approach to art, and his subsequent difficulties as he was criticized for making art for the sake of money. A figure as colorful and unique as his paintings, Dali created art that's survived the march of time.

Just Before the Storm

2004 • 17 min • France, South Korea

Three friends lounge around on pillows after having lunched on the terrace. One of them leaves staggering. It is a matter of expectation and temporal perception.

True Story

2004 • 3 min

An elderly lady remembers a tragic childhood moment. A tale about innocence and acceptance. True Story screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006.

Artists of the 20th Century: Man Ray

2004 • 50 min • United States of America

An indefatigable experimenter who participated in the Cubist, Dadaist and Surrealist art movements, Man Ray (1890-1976) created a new photographic art that emphasized chance effects and juxtapositions. Ray used solarization, grain enlargement and cameraless prints (called "Rayographs") -- made by placing objects directly on photographic paper and exposing them to light.

Last Man Standing

2004 • 56 min

What were the politics that launched George W. Bush to national office? Did they become a blueprint for Washington? Award-winning filmmaker Paul Stekler asks these questions as he takes his camera to Texas for a lively behind-the-scenes look at a pair of 2002 elections (for state representative and governor). Prominent Texans such as Bush strategist Karl Rove and former governor Ann Richards also shed light on the changing political landscape.

The Art of Travel

2004 • 49 min • United Kingdom

In The Art of Travel, Alain de Botton sweeps us away on a journey into the world of travel, opens up our mind to new pleasures and possibilities, and enriches our experience of travel and life. Alain sets out on four separate journeys: a Mediterranean cruise, a city break in Amsterdam, a fly-drive holiday around former East Germany and a holiday at home in a caravan park in Kent. On each of his journeys, he reflects on the strange business of going travelling and has encounters, some poignant, others hilarious, with fellow holiday makers. He mixes his own thoughts together with those of famous artists and writers: Vermeer, Edward Hopper, and John Ruskin among others. The result is a beguiling and beautiful film that modestly suggests how we could learn to be happier on our journeys

In This House

2004 • 30 min

A documentary crew digs up a letter from a Lebanese socialist resistance fighter.

Feast Of Fools

2004 • 5 min

A Claymation animated short that took over 1 year to make. The film covers the exploits of a group of crazed cannibal clowns. They love to throw pies and then eat whomever gets smacked by them.

The Cat Empire: On The Attack

2004 • 59 min • Australia

On the Attack is a DVD of live recordings and videos of Australian band, The Cat Empire.

Oscar

2004 • 56 min

A fascinating ride with taxi-driver, urban artist and social-visionary Oscar Brahim as he challenges Argentinean contemporary consumerism and politics with his graffiti-style transformations of advertising billboards in Buenos Aires.

La Conquista del K2

2004 • 49 min

Ortem

2004 • 20 min

The main topic of the video work Ortem is the metro's traffic system, which creates a specific space and perception situation via its underground architecture. The film as an abstract essay focuses on phenomena like: speed, perception, architecture, memory and examines the two dimensional and anonymous aspect of everyday life and experience. The discourse about the representation of areas and places meets real architecture. The cinematic reflection of the social and cultural dispositives of urban spaces plumbs the intersections, which have designed it.

Chasmic Dance

2004 • 6 min • Canada

A visual metaphor for creative process as a sustained state of flux, whereby the deconstruction and reconfiguration of source material manifest themselves as a series of rapid abstract movements. Alluding to the cosmic dance of Shiva, the film is an expression of primal rhythmic energy, moving dialectically but without sublimation. Regeneration ignites destruction, and transformation invites mutation, through clashes of opposing modes such as video/film, surface/depth, and light/darkness.

Eyewitness In Iraq

2004 • 50 min

If a picture paints a thousand words, what will photographs from the Second Gulf War show us? This special focuses on the embedded photographers who traveled with fighting units on the cutting edge of the armored spear slicing into Iraq. The war was thereto be captured in all its raw truth by any photographer with the guts to step out and shoot the picture. In collaboration with the Associated Press, we view never-before-seen photos that portray the horror, struggle, and endurance of mankind.

Two Days to Zero

2004 • 23 min • United States of America

Part of a feature length narrative compressed 3 differnt times into 3 separate films of diminishing duration until the synoptic is synopsized (The Two Minutes to Zero Trilogy). A crime story told 3 different ways concerning the events of a two month period leading up to, and immediately following a bank robbery. The imagery has all been appropriated (the fancy, art world sanctioned term for stealing) from 4 issues of an early 1960's comic book version of the then popular, American TV show "77 Sunset Strip".

Precarious Garden

2004 • 13 min

A stereoscopic view of a suburban backyard.

Al Jarreau – Leverkusen Jazzstage 2004

2004 • 57 min

01. save me 02. my old friend 03. trouble in paradise 04. distracted 05. wait for the magic 06. cold duck 07. this time 08. lost & found 09. step by step 10. breakin' away 11. i will be here for you 12. boogie down 13. take five 14. spain

An Ambiguous Funeral

2004 • 12 min • Japan

This film is based on a decomposed footage entitled "the president of the hospital's funeral" which was made by anonymous cineaste in Kyoto, 1937.

Alvorada

2004 • 5 min • Brazil

An experimental essay about violence.

What Babies Want

2004 • 57 min

Research is now showing that the way babies are welcomed into the world has a profound impact on their later aptitude to make compassionate and meaningful connection with others as they grow. This film, narrated by Noah Wyle ("E.R."), explores the consciousness of infants, through cutting edge science, ancient cultures and traditional customs, making a strong case for ensuring that babies have every opportunity to bond with their parents at birth.