All Films

The Intimate Stars

2004 • 35 min • Japan

I see the particles of three primary colours when I close my eyes. I named them 'stars', then observed and filmed them. I looked for my own place among the unconsciousness inside my body and the unconsciousness outside my body.

Ed Sullivan's Rock 'n' Roll Classics: The British Invasion

2004 • 42 min • United States of America

On Sunday nights throughout the '50s and '60s, Ed Sullivan brought pop culture into America's living rooms with the most influential show of its kind. If you made it there, you had it made because for the first time, the entire county was at home watching. During the course of the show's run, many of the early rock and roll legends were featured in career-defining performances. These cultural milestones have been compiled for Ed Sullivan's Rock 'n' Roll Classics, along with archival footage and narration for insight on the artists, their eras, and their classic appearances. Now seen with half a century of hindsight , it's clear Ed Sullivan was right--his was a really big show

Allegory

2004 • 3 min • Austria

This was supposed to be a trial film for the artist to test her defective camera. In Allegory, Friedl vom Gröller stands in the foreground of the scene, anxiously looking into the camera. A circle of women behind her gradually lends the film movement, as their initial earnestness gives way and they traverse the film frame, cheerfully talking. Allegory contrasts Gröller´s melancholy with the cheerfulness of her students. (Christa Benzer)

Kaponga Island

2004 • 27 min

A series of abrupt vignettes and transitional montages paint a torrid portrait of a tropical isle in the grip of terror. Linda Martinez stars in this latest atrocity from studio 8 in the San Francisco Art Institute and her co-stars don’t find her too hot to handle! She plays a travel agent booking honeymoon holidays to a sex-infested island haunted by lascivious cadavers and voodoo hi-jinks. Lots of color and rubberized hot action!

Með mann á bakinu

2004 • 19 min

Icelandic short film about people who carry other people on their backs.

Rouge, blanc, verre

2004 • 9 min • Germany

A film sketch featuring glasses on a red and white checked tablecloth.

Greenwell Barn

2004 • 7 min

A tour of an old barn narrated by the farmer, Arnold Cole, who has known it for over 50 years. Redundant barn spaces and features serve to prompt the story of changes in farming practice. From milking by hand through the coming of electricity to developments in baling and feeding methods, the transformation from farming as a way of life to farming as agribusiness is charted.

Capea

2004 • 3 min • Spain

Riff

2004 • 18 min

The origin of the word riff is unknown. In music it is used to represent a repeated phrase. It has been suggested that a riff is a refrain : …recognition places one in many, many in one place, removed and removed again, categorically policed… In front of our eyes they are clearing the streets for the record. Voices become refrains that defy political violence.

Comma, Pregnant Pause

2004 • 26 min

In this short film commissioned for the 2004–05 Carnegie International, two people dressed as cell phones have a strange, disjointed conversation.

This is my heart

2004 • 2 min

In the subway of Berlin, an african woman get into the subway holding in her hand a red shard, she shouts « This is my heart ». These words induce silence during the remainder of the voyage. And one wonders: where do we us keep our prejudices? Selected for the New York Film Festival 2006.

Keel

2004 • 11 min

Two teenagers explore a shed where they find a small boat and decide to make an imaginary “journey” . In a moment of intimacy, one of the two decide to express their feelings , causing surprise and confusion in the other.

John Szarkowski on Ansel Adams: Speaking of Art

2004 • 39 min

During his nearly three-decade tenure as Director of the Department of Photography (1962-1991) at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, John Szarkowski recast the world's thinking about the art of photography. In this lecture on Ansel Adams, Szarkowski tackles the deeper significance of Adams' work beyond his enduring popularity as an environmental pioneer and rhapsodist of the American West.

John Szarkowski on Eugène Atget: Speaking of Art

2004 • 37 min

In this lecture, Szarkowski clearly relishes the chance to praise the photographer he confesses is first among equals, Eugène Atget. "I think that Atget is the single most inexhaustibly interesting of all photographers so far," says Szarkowski. "More interesting than Stieglitz or Weston or Cartier-Bresson; even more interesting than Walker Evans, who was his greatest student."

It's a Wonderful Red Green Christmas

2004 • 25 min

It's that time of year again: Christmas, when you spend money you don't have to buy family members, who you don't like to be around anyway, things they don't need, can't use and will get rid of in a garage sale before summer. So this year, do something different. Spend the holidays at Possum Lodge! It's really the ideal place for an old-fashioned Christmas. The guys are going to organize a Santa Claus Parade, Harold's going to attempt to lead a chorus of carols, and I'm going to demonstrate how to make your own animated lawn decorations. Plus, we'll give the husbands some advice on how to minimize serious marital repercussions from inappropriate gift choices. (In other words, we'll tell you what not to buy your wife.) Happy Holidays! Red

Scene For New Heritage 1

2004 • 4 min

In the first instalment of David Maljković’s breakout film trilogy, Scene for a New Heritage (2004–06), a trio of ‘heritage-seekers’ in the year 2045 attempt to make sense of sculptor Vojin Bakić’s scalloped, steel-panelled monument in the Croatian mountains of Petrova Gora.

Close to the Sea

2004 • 23 min

10-channel video installation. Sound by Jin Wang. A concert is being staged at the seaside. Accompanied by various musical instruments, the love story of a young couple is unfolded on the same location. The videos set on the centre display two scenarios taking place simultaneously: one shows a young couple riding a horse along the sea and the other a pair of lovers struggling for survival from a ship accident. The other eight screens deliver at the same time the performance of diverse instruments, a trumpet and a cello played on the rocks, for example. The background music, which is hallucinatory, dreamlike and even uncoordinated, reflects the conflicts between ideals and reality. The young lovers, despite the threat of death, continue with their discussion of ideal, faith and anticipation.

Un chant d'amour

2004 • 60 min

In the video "Un chant d'amour" the artist and two other male characters sustain a suggestive exchange of smoke and intensity through a wall that separates them. The allusion to Jean Genet is direct and yet sinuous.

Rainbow Pride

2004 • 56 min

In 1977, San Franciscan Gilbert Baker designed and made the first gay pride rainbow flag. This is a profile of the flag's creation and its history since then.

Ritualis

2004 • 8 min

Experimental short film made for the metal band Rostrum.

The Waves

2004 • 8 min

Always welcoming a visit to the coast, images and sounds were gathered at Red Rock, Ocean and Pacifica beaches and then sent through the generations. Artifacts are introduced and amplified in the process. Spending time with Woolf as the waves crash on the shore, appreciating her sense of scale.

Aldo Rossi: Il Teatro del Mondo

2004 • 45 min

The Teatro del Mondo is one the most famous works by the italian architect Aldo Rossi. This surprising floating theatre sailed, in 1979, from Venice to Dubrovnik becoming a legendary event in history of architecture. The man and the architect trough the words of some of his best friends and fans.

Rain Making

2004 • 6 min

Against a background of chants and prayers, the image of a minaret, emerging from amongst satellite-clad roof terraces, is repeated in a swift staccato montage. Accelerated clouds cross the sky behind it, and gradually envelop and overlap the sacred building.

Dalai Lama: Discourse on the Heart Sutra

2004 • 58 min • Japan

The Heart Sutra is the shortest and the most popular sutra in Buddhism and is regarded as a summation of the wisdom of Buddha. It expresses perfectly the insight attained by non-attachment, the doctrine of emptiness. In Buddhism, reciting Buddha-name and sutra has great merit and virtues and it is one of the effective ways in the cultivation of the Buddhist Way. The Heart Sutra reveals the entire secret of truth of the universe and life. Many Buddhists around the world recite The Heart Sutra daily. Although some may have incredible responses and benefits from it, they may not really and fully understand what it is.