All Films

The Science of Singularity

2004 • 7 min • Canada

Video IV of Cartmell's unfinished series Shipwreck Theory. Part of Shipwreck Theory II (The Writing)

Perpetual Motion in the Land of Milk and Honey

2004 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Al and Al's grandfather is a retired engineer and inventor. The film simulates his lifelong endeavour to create a perpetual motion device and supply free power for the people. During a telephone call with the Lamb of God, Britney Spears sabotages the project and sets in motion her own drive for infinity. The conflict produces a series of alchemical events which have only one consequence, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Fenêtres

2004 • 9 min

WINDOWS : Intermediate states.

La femme seule

2004 • 23 min

The Woman Alone is based on the story of Akosse Legba, a young Togolese woman who has been a victim of modern slavery in France. The film centers on her memories from her childhood in Togo and her arrival in France. Through her memories we discover the path of someone who always considered herself a woman alone.

The Presence of the Past - Madagascar, Music, and Devotion

2004 • 54 min • United States of America

People throughout Madagascar maintain a strong reverential connection to their ancestors, whose spirits may be called upon to enter into the present to resolve problems and to heal illness. Music performance provides a vital means of communicating with these ancestral spirits, thus of evoking the past and the power emergent in it. This project results from intensive ethnographic research that Ron Emoff performed on the east coast of Madagascar from 1993 through 1995. Dr. Emoff's fieldwork focused upon connections between musical performance, spirit possession, ways of recollecting the past, constructions of power, and perceptions of the colonial era in Madagascar.

The Gift

2004 • 4 min

Short film by experimental filmmaker Jiang Zhi.

Read

2004 • 42 min

Single channel audiovisual work—synonymous with the art steering sensorial experience around nature and its many manifestations, the objects are reconstructed as the 3D sculptures accentuated by the cinematic screenings and dramatised by the sounds to underline the interplay of reality and fiction.

Atreyee

2004 • 21 min

Atreyee, a young Bengali woman leaves Calcutta in search of a new life in Bombay. She finds paying guest accommodation in the suburbs. In a series of still photographs, the film records her establishing daily routines. Eventually, she travels home to Calcutta. Marriage is an option to lonely and disinterested modern life.

The Experience of the Place II

2004 • 13 min • Portugal

The artist is captured by a fixed camera while moving on her knees around her atelier. Almeida explores the space and its limits, as well as the things in it, thus creating a dialogue between the artist's body and the place where she develops her craft.

Diccionario-Presencias

2004 • 3 min

Diana Aisenberg's exploration of "presences."

A Shivalik Monsoon

2004 • 25 min

An intimate look at the rather distinct identify of the Shivaliks as a mountain range in their own right. This documentary centers around the breeding of the beautiful Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi), perhaps the most beautiful bird to be found in India. Filmed in a variety of situations in the forest and at the nest, we have used a new technique of remotely-operated cameras to ensure that the birds were not disturbed at the nest. One such cigar-shaped Flycam camera was located 22 feet up in a tree, on a set of boom poles, and operated from an even greater distance. This film has some first-time and rare footage. Shot over four months in the summer months.

Bad cop, Bad cop

2004 • 19 min

Two cops, Sparks and Pikowski, thrown off the force after a mission gone wrong, are reassigned to a new and risky case: To track down and arrest a dangerous domestic terrorist.

Los dibujos de Bruno Kulczewski

2004 • 37 min

In 1985, various newborn children craniums were found on Queilén, in the Chiloé island. Investigation led researchers to believe it to be a new case of Augusto Pinochet dictatorship crime, but according to forensic investigation, the remains were buried during the 50s or 60s. After two decades, the investigation is started again.

Glamour Girls

2004 • 7 min • Netherlands

Three women in heavy make-up find themselves in an empty flat.

Bésame mucho

2004 • 48 min

A film full of stories of kissed lives, where intimate stories, first experiences, and opinions about the LGBT world are reflected, seen through people of different ages, lesbians, gays, and transsexuals, who wanted to get in front of the camera to tell us their particular vision about homosexuality and homophobia.

Stone and Tablet

2004 • 5 min

The shadow of a human being, passes over timeless and indifferent objects at three frames per second.

Fick mich? Fick dich!

2004 • 7 min

A career woman gets fired by her arrogant, misogynistic boss and her self pity quickly turns to revenge and a shocking surprise for the audience.

The Future is Behind You

2004 • 21 min

A fictional story composed from an anonymous family archive of 1930s Europe with two sisters who play, race, fight, kiss, and grow up together under the shadow of oncoming history. There are at least three levels of research: 1) the home movie in which a family poses for the camera, preternaturally happy; 2) the historical moment which remains as text trace, undermining the image and serving as covert motive; 3) the development of gender identities—the innocent freedom of the elder transformed into socially bruised ‘bride,’ the irrepressibility of the younger moving from tomboy to awkward, diffident adult. At once biography and fiction, history and psychology, The Future is Behind You excavates gestures to get at the heart of narrative; it seeks a bridge between private and public histories. Music by John Zorn, arranged and performed for the movie by Sylvie Courvoisier and Mark Feldman.

Ancient Aztec Empire

2004 • 19 min

Who were the Aztecs and how did they live? What happened to them and what did they leave behind? In this riveting program, viewers travel from present-day Mexico City to over 500 years into the past to learn about the amazing Aztec Empire. The Aztecs were a warlike people with their own religion, language and cultural rituals. Archaeological excavations that reveal remains of grand Aztec temples and statues provide a starting point for an exploration of this wealthy and highly organized society. Through colorful historical recreations and vivid graphic illustrations, students can easily imagine the Aztec island-city of Tenochtitlan and what everyday life may have been like for Aztec people.

Ancient Maya

2004 • 23 min

The ancient Maya were a highly organized civilization of hundreds of small city-states that developed in what is now Mexico and Central America. One of the earliest civilizations to settle in the Americas, the Maya built great cities dominated by huge stone pyramids that were designed to inspire awe among the people. In this program, students will follow archeologists into the ancient tomb of Lord Pacal, King of Palenque and learn the critical role of the king as both the leader of the city-state and a religious icon believed to be descended from the gods. The Maya were masters of astronomy, studying the stars and planets to create a calendar and determine the best times for planting and conducting sacred rituals. Discover their beautiful art and architecture, the detailed written language of glyphs and the value of corn and cacao in the society of the ancient Maya.

Illuminated

2004 • 6 min

he video Illuminated (2002/2004) [...] consists of a series of night shots in which, for just a brief moment at a time, the beam of a flashlight falls on bulky rubbish piled up on the side of the road, an object, perhaps a piece of Styrofoam, a carton or a couple of cups

The Seven Churches of Revelation Rediscovered

2004 • 38 min

Host David Nunn takes US to Turkey for a firsthand visit of the seven cities to which the messages of the risen Christ were addressed in Revelation chapters 2-3. Their significance is explained in detail, and viewers will gain many insights from David's enthusiastic commentary along the way.

Merry Nightmare Christmas

2004 • 9 min

Christmas Eve, the snow falls copiously, covering everything with its white mantle. A boy and two girls are watching television in the cozy warmth of their home. Someone rings at the door, but. IT'S SANTA CLAUS!! It's just a shame that he's armed with a sharp cutlass.

Turn On

2004 • 3 min

To film Turn On, Paci returned to his birth city of Shkoder. The video opens with a series of close-ups of middle-aged Albanian men. Their faces are worn, weathered and tired. Assembled on public steps in the town square, they sit patiently as if in an interminable state of waiting. Time appears to stand still, save for a constant flow of electricity and bulbs of light symbolizing a city in transition to modernity.