All Films

In Search of the Hamat'sa: A Tale of Headhunting

2004 • 33 min • United States of America

The Hamat'sa (or "Cannibal Dance") is the most important-and highly represented-ceremony of the Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) people of British Columbia. This film traces the history of anthropological depictions of the dance and, through the return of archival materials to a First Nations community, presents some of the ways in which diverse attitudes toward this history inform current performances of the Hamat'sa. With a secondary focus on the filmmaker's fieldwork experience, the film also attends specifically to the ethics of ethnographic representation and to the renegotiation of relationships between anthropologists and their research partners.

Making of Capitalist Manifesto

2004 • 14 min • South Korea

Footage from the making/screening of Kim Gok & Kim Sun's Capitalist Manifesto

Cannonball Run Europe: Chasing the Cannonball 2003

2004 • 53 min

CHASING THE CANNONBALL gives you exclusive coverage of the most extreme road race anywhere--Cannonball Run Europe! This funny, all-access pass takes a look at the lawless world of street racing and the wacky characters who people it.

Helpline!

2004 • 5 min • Netherlands

Calling a helpline sometimes causes more problems than it solves. This witty experimental animation shows a person calling a helpline after not noticing porn on the internet. Solo-production by visual Artist Joli(e).

Dir en grey - TOUR04 THE CODE OF VULGAR[ism]

2004 • 1 min

DISC 1 : DVD TOUR04 THE CODE OF VULGAR[ism] 2004.04.25-26 Zepp Tokyo 1. G.D.S. 2. CHILD PREY 3. THE IIID EMPIRE 4. INCREASE BLUE 5. Mr.NEWSMAN 6. audience KILLER LOOP 7. DRAIN AWAY 8. MARMALADE CHAINSAW 9. Machiavellism 10. RED…[em] 11. AMBER 12. SAJOU NO UTA 13. ASU NAKI KOUFUKU, KOE NAKI ASU 14. NEW AGE CULTURE 15. OBSCURE 16. FUKAI 17. SHOKUBENI 18. Hydra 19. Ugly 20. KASUMI 21. THE FINAL 22. SAKU 23. HADES 24. The Domestic Fucker Family 25. BYOU「」SHIN 26. JESSICA 27. я TO THE CORE 28. umbrella DISC 2 : DVD BONUS FOOTAGE

Other People's Pictures

2004 • 54 min

Nine obsessive collectors share an unlikely addiction: snapshots that have been abandoned or lost by their original owners and are now for sale. Ready to pay hundreds of dollars for a single picture, they hunt for the images that feed their fantasies and quiet the voices in their heads. See what they find and learn why they want it in this surprising look at the little-known world of vintage snapshot collecting.

I Will Go Down In One Day

2004 • 27 min

Short film by Kazushi Ozawa.

A Beautiful Life

2004 • 30 min • Russia

A fugitive prisoner wanders into a distant hunting winter quarters, almost frozen in the taiga. A kind old hunter accepts him according to the Northern tradition: whoever the person is, he will first be fed, warmed, and only then asked where he is from and why. According to the same custom, everything that a traveler needs is left in the winter quarters: matches, dry firewood, salt, bread, cigarettes. But the villain did not appreciate the kindness of the hunter, stole his gun from him and the old man paid for the kindness with his life. Based on the story by V. Shukshin.

England's Greatest Goals

2004 • 45 min

A collection of 60 of England's greatest goals.

24

2004 • 10 min

The title "24" refers to 24 fps, which is the normal speed of film threading. The initial plan attempted to show the relationship between numbers, color, and melody, but thinking this was beyond the scope of the project. only numbers were left Numbers form groups, and within 16mm moves at the speed of "24"

Strap ‘Em Down! The World of Drag Kings

2004 • 4 min

A Hi-8 video documentary short on Lesbian Gender Bending culture by Swordfish Productions, Berkeley

Axis of Justice: Concert Series Volume 1

2004 • 44 min

1 Airplane Skit - Ahmed Ahmed 2 President Evil (Iraq Poem) - Knowledge 3 Speak on It - Knowledge & Serj Tankian 4 Until the End - Tom Morello, The Nightwatchman 5 The Road I Must Travel - Tom Morello, The Nightwatchman, Serj Tankian, Pete Yorn, Brad Wilk, Jonny Polonsky 6 Piano Impovisation - Serj Tankian 7 Charades - Serj Tankian 8 Free Jam - Flea, Brad Wilk, Serj Tankian 9 Chimes of Freedom - Flea, Brad Wilk, Tom Morello, Pete Yorn, Serj Tankian 10 Alice in My Fantasies - Flea, Brad Wilk, Tom Morello, Pete Yorn, Serj Tankian 11 Where the Streets Have No Name - Flea, Brad Wilk, Tom Morello, Pete Yorn, Tim Walker, Serj Tankian, Maynard James Keenan, Jonny Polonsky

Talkville

2004 • 28 min

On march 27, 2004, I captured the images of Itaewon, Gwang-wha-moon, and Nam-san.

Seed

2004 • 8 min • United States of America

""Seed" is my senior film made at the Savannah College of Art & Design. I wanted to do this in live action but it was going to cost too much money. So I bought a DVX100, some paint and sculpy, and made this instead." -Bennett Cain

Chapter Two Which Treats of the First Sally

2004 • 15 min

Her father receives a letter and leaves. The Next day the rest of the family leaves. Present – one day, walking in the street she remembers ‘the letter’ in a flash, and begins to look for the house they had left.

Riderless

2004 • 10 min

Single-channel video, color, sound, 2004. A reckless meander of words, Riderless explores a few lines from Elm, by Sylvia Plath. Special thanks to Jen Zereski. “Exceptional” Ioannis Mookas, Senses of Cinema, March 2004.

The Unconscious

2004 • 11 min

A father hides his relationship with a male lover from his daughter.

Blue Grey

2004 • 23 min • France, Syrian Arab Republic

Back at the place of his childhood in northern Mesopotamia, the author learns that this entire region will be engulfed in the waters of the largest dam built on the Euphrates in Syria. The filmmaker went there to capture the last images of the valley and daily life in the villages, which he had known well and where he had often returned to work, as part of archaeological missions. It thus testifies to a splendor doomed to be, forever, hidden from view.

Fire-blown Bamboo

2004 • 2 min • Japan

Short animated film by Tomoyasu Murata.

Mariko Takahashi's Fitness Video for Being Appraised as an 'Ex-fat Girl'

2004 • 4 min

Mariko Takahashi's Fitness Video for Being Appraised as an "Ex-fat Girl" is a short film by renowned art director and commercial film director Nagi Noda who created spots for Nike and Coca-Cola and starring Mariko Takahashi, a California born model.

Blanc X

2004 • 4 min

A girl brushes her teeth with a very special brush. Daily use of your sextoy recommended - for a perfect smile ! The transformation of the daily routine looks behind the codes of mainstream porn.

Human No More

2004 • 17 min • United States of America

A private detective consumed by an irreconcilable murder case descends into his caustic underworld one last time. There he must face the blind eye of Heaven, the hunger of Hell, and the relentless ambiguity of his own humanity.

Playground of Power

2004 • 57 min

Documentary (2005) Join us at Byron Drag way as we watch unbelievable Power Wheel Stands that leave you in total awe! With up to $25,000 and a lifetime of bragging rights at stake, these drivers will do whatever it takes to launch their vehicles to the NEXT level of POWER WHEEL STANDING!

Koboïbus, anneaux de nacre en Nouvelle-Guinée

2004 • 26 min • France

Even today, large mother-of-pearl rings are still being crafted in some villages in Papua New Guinea in the strictest respect of techniques inherited from ancestors. In the Koboibus region, the manufacture of these rings is a long-term activity. Its production requires the carrying of heavy bivalve shells during a three-day long inland trek from the islands of Mushu to their destination. Once there, they will be patiently sawn with the braided cord, perforated and polished until they reach the desired shape, conjuring up both feminine forms and the Calao bird. This "ancestral currency" is intended to be used in ceremonies and processions but can also be used to buy animals and as a dowry. An essential part of the social functioning of villages like Yabomnu or Kuabila, each ring has its own history which also conveys the memory and beliefs of the peoples of New Guinea.