All Films

Actresstress

2004 • 4 min • Italy

A first work saturated in mixed techniques which echo radically through the darkness of Italian independent cinema. Actressstress begins using the two parts of the same camera and adopting an out-of-phase technique, immediately notable for its specularity. These first two minutes highlight themselves for the calm that passes through them. With some rapid progressive editing by the video artist Elisabetta Saiu, the work unfolds a double graphic treatment of the film (coloring the layer which was the emulsion was partially removed and drawing geometric shapes on the other) at an intermittent period. The photographic figure which Drago emphasizes is notable with its skillful framing and planning the luminous surrounding space.

Khoa

2004 • 20 min

Khoa has two lives. Paralyzed since she was born, she is both a bread saleswoman and a champion of relay races in a wheelchair. Her name, 'Khoa', means victory.

Good Times

2004 • 33 min

Abu Dis is an Arab village situated in the shadow of Mount of Olives. After the second Palestinian Intifada, the Israeli government decided to build a 2-meter wall right in the middle of the village that divided Abu Dis into two sides. But now the wall is no longer a dividing border as it was intended. Everybody is climbing over it in order to get to Jerusalem. This situation reflects the general chaos of the conflict in which well-defined rules don't exist. The directors followed the day to day life that surrounds the wall through three main protagonists.

William Hodges: The Art of Exploration

2004 • 36 min

The painter William Hodges is increasingly seen as a key figure in eighteenth-century British art and in its relationships with the wider world. In an age of colonial expansion, Hodges accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage to the Pacific from 1772 to 1775. His vivid paintings of Tahiti, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands were the first such images widely seen in Europe. In the early 1780s, Hodges travelled extensively in northern India, and once again his paintings of landscapes and monuments were a revelation for audiences at home. This film reviews Hodges’ career and his complex and beautiful art. The contributors include Geoff Quilley, curator of the Greenwich exhibition, author and anthropologist Nicholas Thomas, and the eminent broadcaster Sir David Attenborough, who enthuses about the artist he believes is “the most unjustly neglected British painter of the eighteenth century.”

Sevdah: The Bridge That Survived

2004 • 59 min • United Kingdom

At the height of the Bosnian war a musical sensation was created drawing together musicians from all ethnic groups to create when all around was destruction bridges between peoples' souls.

Tooryanse

2004 • 7 min

Short animation by Tomoyasu Murata.

Alphabet

2004 • 5 min • Russia

Mysterious! Unbelievable ～Fear Contagion～

2004 • 60 min • Japan

This is the latest in a popular ghost documentary series that boasts an overwhelming number of submissions from the general public. Included are episode 1, "Suicide Ghosts," in which a photograph taken at the scene of a friend's suicide causes numerous horrors, and three other episodes related to ghost photography. It also introduces a number of ghost photos that have been submitted.

Miyuki Tachihara: Supernatural Series 3

2004 • 60 min • Japan

This is the third volume of a video series that includes everything about the amazing psychic, Miyuki Tachihara, who is very active on TV and other media. Unprecedented horrors you have never seen before will attack you....

The Finite

2004 • 8 min • Canada

Old home-movies and astronomy imagery entwine along a common and inescapable course towards their end.

Grandson's Summer

2004 • 10 min

In 1970s Okinawa, Yuji invites his friends to go to a mountain, which is forbidden by the elders. There are rumors that there are unexploded bombs from the war, bones of the dead, and other unexplainable horrors in that area. When they set foot into the forbidden place, they begin to experience the horrors it contains.

Unparalleled 4: The Lost Season

2004 • 45 min

Unparalleled 4: The Lost Season is the fourth film in Unparalleled Productions' award winning series of Freeheel films. A different kind of ski film born of a different group of skiers, The Lost Season follows Lorenzo Worsted, Max Mancini, Scott Schield, Ben Dolenc, Mark Sanders, and Ty Dayberry along with rising stars Hilary Larkin, Seth Steffen, Cody Smith, and Decker Jory. Through their talent and enthusiasm for freeheel skiing we see not only possibility, but a zeal for life that affects us all and provides an appreciation for times passed and an awareness for the speed with which we each lose our own season.

First Fun With French

2004 • 40 min

This programme based on the book 'First 100 Words In French' by Usborne Publishing is a beginner's guide to the French language for young children. Follow Isabelle and her family as they go about their day. Isabelle's family do not speak English so she will translate everything for you. To add to the fun there is a little yellow duck to find in every scene.

Nishapur Train Disaster

2004 • 46 min

Documentary about Iran's deadliest train disaster.

Quack Off

2004 • 2 min • United States of America

Animated short about ducks.

Smart Daughter

2004 • 14 min • Russia

The tale of a little girl who defended the honor of her father, shamed the King and put the greedy uncle in his place.

How the Tiger Cub Was Looking for Stripes

2004 • 10 min • Russia

Based on the fairy tale by the English writer Donald Bisset "About a tiger cub whose stripes disappeared". The story is about a tiger cub who was born without stripes, but because of this did not become a stranger either to his own mother or to the world around him.

Cheetahs: Fast Track to Freedom

2004 • 50 min • United Kingdom

For two years Simon King takes on the role of mother to two male cheetah cubs, Toki and Sambu, orphaned when their mother was killed by a lion

Clay Shards Bind Clay

2004 • 8 min • Canada

Video VII of Cartmell's unfinished series Shipwreck Theory. Part of Shipwreck Theory I (The Reading)

The Diva Mummy

2004 • 52 min • New Zealand

Scientists perform an autopsy on the best preserved mummy ever discovered: that of a Han aristocrat named Lady Dai. More than 2000 years after her death her flesh is still resilient and the blood in her veins is still red. What can she tell us about life in ancient China?

The Boy Mechanic San Diego

2004 • 21 min

The Boy Mechanic was commissioned in 1996 by the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego for the exhibition “Re: Public; Listening to San Diego." For this initial phase of the project I conducted 30 hours of videotaped interviews with San Diego lesbian bar patrons who took me to current and former sites of the bars in that town. The result was a 30-minute video about the history of lesbian bars in San Diego.

Deshilando condenas, bordando libertades

2004 • 35 min

A set of shocking testimonies of indigenous women accused of drug trafficking and imprisoned in the Santa María Ixcotel prison, Oaxaca.

Dodge Ram

2004 • 5 min

A double-screen video of a Dodge Ram four-wheeler; and a man in a strange mask, who tries to build a wall from liquid tar.

Kashikokimono

2004 • 9 min • Japan

Since the early days, Hayakawa's works have been established by hand-drawn moving images and digitally processed reproduction and proliferation, and the precision of this process has been accelerating in proportion to the evolution of video equipment. The balance between the organic nature of the vital movement that stimulates the fundamental part of human perception and the abstractness of the work's composition is pleasant. His challenge to always keep an eye on the cutting edge of video technology seems to be exploring a new animation language, and shows us the possibilities of images that can only be achieved through animation. (Koji Yamamura, January 2010)