All Films

Flushing

2004 • 4 min

Shot at the Flushing Mall in Queens, New York, "Flushing" is tour of a mall that doesn't live up to the glossy standards of typical American consumer palaces, but is thereby, perhaps a better place to understand the yearnings for fantasy via retailing.

根本はるみ

2004 • 60 min • Japan

2004 release

Water Crystals In Motion - Messages From Water

2004 • 40 min

This amazing 40-minute video lets you see how water "listens" to music and "reads" printed words. You'll actually see the frozen water crystals forming.

Soul Purpose

2004 • 60 min

Soul Purpose is the 17th release from the acclaimed producers at Teton Gravity Research. After winning Powder Magazine's "Movie of the Year" award for last year's release, High Life, TGR stepped out further than ever before with trips to the far off reaches of the planet including Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Alaska, and Canada. This film captures the best of big mountain skiing and snowboarding while still focusing on skiing's freestyle movement. Shot entirely on 16mm film, Soul Purpose will take the viewer deep into the minds and abilities of the athletes, pushing further than any film has done before.

Just to Get a Rep

2004 • 55 min

More than thirty years ago, the youth of New York's neglected neighborhoods started a revolution by spray-painting their names on subway trains. The energy and freedom of this expression has inspired generations of youth throughout the world, yet the established authorities and institutions continually deny its merit. Working against the powers of the media, the police, and the art world, aerosol artists have developed a unique worldwide culture based on respect, camaraderie and a shared struggle to re-claim and re-create their environments. Just to Get a Rep rigorously examines the love-hate relationship between graffiti and hip-hop. Hear the true story of aerosol art as told by New York's pioneers as well as today's innovators from all over the world. Written by Anonymous

The Optimistic Futurist

2004 • 25 min

Leonard Maltin meets with author Ray Bradbury to talk about Walt and his creations. Bradbury discusses Disney’s optimism, his vision, and his achievements in television and parks.

Shock Act

2004 • 19 min

Vernon Phelps, an out-of-work actor living with his father in a squalid Brooklyn apartment, lands a job simulating electrocution for a prison research experiment.

Kyutai Panic Adventure Returns!

2004 • 9 min • Japan

A special screened at an event named Odaiba Boken-Oh, featuring characters from Dragon Ball Z, One Piece and Kochira Katsushikaku Kameari Kouenmae Hashutsujo.

The Emotional World of Farm Animals

2004 • 52 min

A documentary for viewers of all ages about the thinking and feeling side of animals that are all too often viewed as food. Jeffrey Masson leads viewers through the personal journey he underwent while writing The Pig Who Sang to the Moon. It brings Masson to animal sanctuaries around the country where caregivers and the animals themselves tell their harrowing stories of rescue and escape. Masson delves into the rich ancestry of these curious and intelligent animals and interviews top experts in animal behavior who offer scientific perspectives on these amazing creatures.

Mike Portnoy: Progressive Drum Concepts

2004 • 60 min

Dream Theater's drummer covers drum set assembly, double-bass techniques, odd time signatures, grooves & phrasing, & more. Portnoy, with John Myung on bass and Derek Sherinian on keyboard, plays various examples from Dream Theater Songs.

Mika and Seijun

2004 • 14 min • Japan

A short story about a lesbian couple.

Ceaușescu's Kids

2004 • 47 min

A documentary about the Romanian Communist orphanages and their aftermath.

The Pier

2004 • 3 min

Student Thesis of 2004 Ringling College of Art and Design Computer Animation alumnus Jason Bennett.

Ice Island

2004 • 58 min

In one of the most inhospitable places on Earth , Antarctica, a daring team of explorers and scientists leads to the absolute limits of the technology available and the same common sense . They immersed in water that has far surpassed the limits of freezing for mankind , explore under huge masses of ice and reach the most remote places where the hope of a emergency rescue is almost a fairy tale and everything to gain this race against time to be the first humans to document the largest iceberg in history.

L’Afrique orpheline

2004 • 60 min • France

Documentary about AJEP, a organization that helps children who lost their parents in fight against AIDS, in Burkina Faso.

Secrets of Pearl Harbor

2004 • 44 min • United States of America

Dennis Haysbert dives 160 feet beneath the waves in Discovery Channel's world premiere special. High Definition footage of secret sunken ships reveal the truth about the history of WWII

Notre-Dame de Boschaud

2004 • 28 min

Experimental, Super 8

Cyclone

2004 • 30 min

Growing up on the tough streets of New York City can be hard on a young teenager. Miguel is on of those kids. Given one last chance at redemption, he tries to rise above his surroundings. When a heat wave hits the city, Coney Island is the only place for Miguel and his friends to cool off, but will a love at first sight send him over the edge and strait to jail?

Mars 3D

2004 • 20 min

This short documents NASA's launch of Spirit and Opportunities, two rovers sent to land on Mars and gain insight into Earth's closest neighbor. The mission aims to answer "Has there ever been or could there ever be life on Mars?"

Finally, Spring Has Come

2004 • 2 min • Japan

"This film is one of my recently series work, 'Re-interpretation for the private films' which has been cited from old home movies. The original home movie was shot in the Palace Sans Souci in early spring, 1931 by an unknown Japanese amateur cineaste. I got this film unexpectedly. But if not, this film had never remained in film history. When we saw this film carefully, we could be found out the sensibility and aesthetics of the Japanese of pre-war days.Accurate operation of camera, delicacy, moderation and a bit of sadness. And we could also notice that he had been seeing a scene of Japan in a foreign country."

The Birth of the Lightsaber

2004 • 16 min

The Birth of the Lightsaber is a Video Documentary included in the 2004 DVD of the Star Wars original trilogy. It revealed the concept of the Lightsaber and how it was designed to appear realistic on the silver screen.

Dreaming of the dream of the dream

2004 • 2 min

Dreaming of the dream of the dream is a 16mm projection consisting of images of waves that come and go continuously. The artist has assembled extracts of cartoons in which water is visible (the sea, bubbles, a stream, waves, etc.). Somewhat nostalgic, these extracts can recall either childhood cartoons or paintings by Hokusai. The continuous movement of the waves echoes the presentation of the film which also loops: a metaphor of life, a cyclical and continuous movement which nevertheless cannot be altered. The more the film is shown, the more the images become worn. The images progressively disappear with the scratches on the print. In fact, the work itself has a limited lifespan since the artist insists that the film should never be copied and that it should be shown until the images have entirely disappeared.

The Newtown Insanity Massacre

2004 • 50 min

Neustadt: A small town on the Baltic Sea. One day the sun emits radioactive rays. As a result, there are riots in various parts of the city. Quite a few people go insane and brutally kill each other. The bloody massacre begins ...

The Big Swell

2004 • 52 min • United States of America

Three big wave surfers and their friends share their passion for the giant winter swell rising from the North Pacific and coming to land in California.