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Listen

2004 • 3 min • Canada

A daughter's "coming out" to her mother falls on deaf ears. Sometimes people just don't want to listen.

Lead Role: Father

2004 • 15 min

A film director holds auditions for the role of “The Dad” when his real-life father appears to read the part. Past and present intertwine seamlessly and roles reverse, until the secret their estrangement is revealed.

Coming Out at Work Is Hard to Do

2004 • 4 min

When you're in the closet at work, "coming out" is always a drama. But no one expects it to be like the jaw-dropping experience recounted in this short, sharp and funny tale. Coming out at work is indeed hard to do.

The Living Forest

2004 • 12 min

Living Forest explains the food forest system in use in an area near the river Amônia; a consortium in which everyone participates to provide better food for the entire community. Using forest management, the Ashaninka Indians turn degraded land into a place for communal cultivation. Banana trees are grown for food and also as fertilizer for other crops, including plants that are used for building materials. The video also shows how the Ashaninka are able to attract more wild game with the fruit that they grow, as well as keeping honeybees and turtles for food. By conducting studies of plants and animals they are continually finding ways to improve their system. Through communal, sustainable cultivation of the forest, these Indians protect their land and plan to feed themselves well into the future.

Wet Sand: Voices from L.A.

2004 • 57 min

Filmmaker Dai Sil Kim-Gibson explores the aftermath of the 1992 LA Civil Unrest in her film WET SAND.

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Hanayome-san-hen

2004 • 35 min

The directors include TBS drama stalwart Akio Yoshida, Toshiaki Hirano, the chief director of "Say Hello to Black Jack," Hirohisa Sasaki of "Screaming Lips," Kôsuke Suzuki of "Eko Eko Azarak," and Noboru Iguchi, whose new work "Love Larva" is a hot topic. These young talents of horror films have gathered to bring this project to life. The cast features Maki Sakai, Harumi Inoue, and Arthur Kuroda, among others.

Zavra: A Passer in Kapsiki Land

2004 • 40 min • Cameroon

Kapsiki are split by colonial boundaries and a mountain chain. Through a passer’s every day life, Zavra’s, we understand how go-between are important for this community.

The Hooley Dooleys: Super Dooper

2004 • 45 min

The Hooley Dooleys: Super Dooper

Martin

2004 • 5 min

Martin is a portrait of sheep shearer and farmer Martin Denton.

Hausnummer 15

2004 • 8 min

The life of the young Maren is suddenly turned upside down when her boyfriend doesn't seem to know her anymore and therefore won't let her into their shared apartment. To make matters worse, he has apparently suddenly turned gay. But this is only the beginning of a bizarre development in Maren's settlement.

A Book

2004 • 4 min • Japan

The camera examines an old book about cinema through a small hole similar to a camera obscura. The camera repeats a zoom in/out, analogous to the movement of turning pages, but the text remains illegible. (S.K.)

T:o:u:c:h::o:f::e:v:i:l

2004 • 5 min • France

"A combination of Paul Sharits and Orson Welles in a crime drama that takes place in a series of rapidly changing images and illusive movements that create misleading expectations of the scene's climax."

Tabula Rasa

2004 • 8 min • Spain

"Revisiting footage he shot more than ten years ago in an American high school, Vincent Grenier combines deftly manipulated and layered images with oblique commentaries delivered by students and instructors. The socializing process of education is made visible in the architecture, surfaces and colours of the school, 'in the ambiguous quality of appearances so assiduously cultivated by institutions' (Grenier)." - Images Festival, 2005

On All Floors

2004 • 4 min

A dark comedy which tells the story of five people who are trapped in a falling elevator. Believing they have only a few minutes left to live, the lift's occupants start to confess their deepest, darkest secrets.

Kim and Cookie

2004 • 2 min

Two gay boys meet over cocktails to discuss last night's dates.

Pool with Two Figures

2004 • 6 min

Desire peaks and thoughts race as a man watches as another man swims naked in a pool.

Dans le soleil

2004 • 8 min

In the sun, a man says that he likes to look at us, to contemplate us, to admire us stare at us, captivate us... He also tells us many other very disturbing things.

Born Queer: Dear Doctors

2004 • 5 min

A 5 minute, black & white, intersex, experimental, spoken-word, video-art piece.

Brilliant Garden

2004 • 20 min • Japan

Walking socially empty spaces.

Night Ranger: Best Of The Videos

2004 • 21 min

Running 21 minutes, this DVD contains the videos for five of Night Ranger's first six chart singles, including the group's two Top Ten hits, "Sister Christian" and "Sentimental Street." The clips are each little films that, in the typical fashion of music videos, have something to do with the songs that serve as their soundtracks and allow plenty of space for the group members, particularly singer/bassist Jack Blades, to shake their curls and emote in performance.

Granny Queer - The Late Bloomers

2004 • 6 min • Australia

Granny Queer and her voluptuous girlfriend Sharlene are enjoying a nice wee Saturday morning lie-in when Granny sees that Sharlene's bloomers have gone missing from the line. Granny suspects their mysterious new neighbour Mr. Wit has something to do with it, and she's determined to get to the bottom of the matter.

Tchissète, The Mirror of the Tuareg

2004 • 52 min • Belgium

In his first feature-length documentary, filmmaker Sébastien Wielemans heads into the Sahel Desert in Niger and immerses himself in the world of the Tuareg, a traditional nomadic people. Wielemans does not travel along with the different tribes, but focuses his inquisitive camera on a small store in the desert. On a micro level, this meeting place constitutes a socio-economic gauge of the Tuareg's living conditions and manners. At the same time, it is the reflection of some tribesmen's underlying desire to abandon their wandering existence. Owing to a combination of stills that momentarily freeze a couple of tribesman and loosely shot images of meetings, anticipated or not, Tchissète, le miroir Tuareg transcends the common ethnographic documentary. With philosophical reflections on the influence of his camera lens on both subjects and filmmakers, the young director explores the cinematic language.

The Multiple Selves of Hannah Maynard

2004 • 12 min

A glimpse into the unique, eccentric mind of a pioneering Canadian photographer, Hannah Maynard (1834-1918). Born in England, Maynard immigrated with her family to Vancouver Island in 1862, where she set up her own portrait studio. After the sudden death of her youngest daughter, she produced a troubling series of experimental images that reflected her haunted state - an attempt to contact her beloved daughter's spirit.

Djaay Diap

2004 • 6 min • Senegal

Dakar. A city drainage canal is the backdrop for a fierce card game between a group of young people who, to the frenetic rhythm of a djembe, play...