All Films

Cake + Steak

2004 • 20 min

Cake and Steak excavates ‘girl training’ in the legacy of home movies and post-war American suburban culture. Constructed as a series of achronological ‘chapters’ in which Edenic images of adolescent twirlers, basement parties, and ‘dress-up’ are challenged by a sound montage composed of horror movie music, old TV shows, laugh tracks, and machine noise of our modern Arcadias, Cake and Steak is conceived for single-screen and loop projection.

Arquitectura 3: Puente

2004 • 5 min

Super-8mm short by Juan Bufill, part of his architecture series.

Periwinkle Around the World

2004 • 10 min • United States of America

Television pilot by Aaron Springer.

The Sex of Self-Hatred

2004 • 9 min

It's 1903, and Otto Weininger, Vienna's most infamous self-hating Jew has decided to kill himself in a room containing Beethoven's deathbed. He has just published his first book Sex and Character, and has yet to witness an acknowledgment of his self-assured genius. Haunted by the damning statements within his own book, he holds a gun to his head, and takes a leap towards the great unknown.

Reality Check

2004 • 20 min

Coincidence brings two women together in an inadvertently romantic situation.

Louise, son père, ses mères, son frère et ses sœurs

2004 • 56 min • France

It is dinnertime with much noise and fun. An unusual family is sitting around the table. Louise's relatives: her father, her two mothers, her stepmother, her brothers and sisters. Françoise and Gérard have been in love for 44 years. They have three children. Sybille and Sylviane have been in love for 23 years. They wanted to have a child so they asked their friend Françoise to "lend" them Gérard, her husband. And she said ok.

Mothers, Fathers, and Other Strangers

2004 • 17 min

A hapless donor breaks into a sperm bank at night, desperate to withdraw his samples. He is confronted by a woman who's equally desperate to protect them. Neither saw love coming.

Back in the Hood: Gang War 2

2004 • 53 min • United States of America

Marc Levin returns to Little Rock, Arkansas to examine how things have changed in the small town's gang banging scene.

Soft Ticket

2004 • 8 min

Same formal approach as with the War Comics– but this time to Baseball Cards– with a completely different emotional result.

Narciso Rap

2004 • 18 min • Brazil

Narcissus, a black boy from the periphery, gets a magic lamp and asks the genie to be seen white by white people and black by black people.

Sexjunkie

2004 • 9 min

Directed by Julia Ostertag.

Andaluz

2004 • 6 min

A traveler’s love letter to Andalucía, this animated film is an homage to the culture, landscape, and architecture of southern Spain.

Christian

2004 • 35 min

The Son of God Visits a tough British high School disguised as a fourteen year-old... and sparks soon fly. The King Of The Jews meets The Lord Of The Flies.

Nine Innings from Ground Zero

2004 • 60 min • United States of America

Short, well-made documentary showing how the NY Yankees vs. AZ Diamondbacks world series games, just a month after 9-11, provided welcome relief from the uncertainty New Yorkers, and the nation, felt about how to proceed with their lives. The Yankees, during the series, came to symbolize and re-strengthen everything that was, and is, New York... and America.

Páramo

2004 • 17 min • Peru

Based on the story "Andare verso il popolo", by Alberto Moravia, this 17-minute satire is about a young upper-class city woman, who handles a totally mythologized discourse of the "good Indian" and the Andes, who come to the mountains to face a totally different reality.

Border

2004 • 27 min

In 2002, Laura Waddington spent months in the fields around Sangatte Red Cross camp, France with Afghan and Iraqi refugees, who were trying to cross the channel tunnel to England. Filmed at night with a small video camera, the figures lit only by the distant car headlights on the motorways, Border is a personal account of the refugees' plight and the police violence that followed the camp's closure.

Little Angels: The Brightest Christmas

2004 • 42 min

Enchanting story about five hip and hilarious children, who just happen to be Little Angels, who live to help children in need. In this very special Christmas story, a little boy named Daniel is left in charge of his younger brother and sister whilst their father goes out and looks for work.

Basis-PH

2004 • 5 min • Austria

2004 short by Dietmar Brehm

Motion of Light

2004 • 9 min • Canada

Mouvement de lumière (Motion of light), which is comprised of noise music and lines hand-painted directly onto the film, attempts to break free of a visual and sound-based order through abstraction, thereby initiating a process centred on inner sensation. A radical proposition of power inherent in film. Music by Olivier Borzeix.

Tawidgutom

2004 • 3 min • Philippines

TAWIDGUTOM is an experimental love poem composed of images that recur and repeat themselves.

Operation Anaconda: The Battle of Roberts' Ridge

2004 • 48 min

An Army Ranger quick reaction force attempts to rescue a patrol pinned down on a mountaintop in southeast Afghanistan. They have no idea that within twelve hours five of them will lie dead in the mountain snow after an intense and deadly battle.

Verano del ángel

2004 • 43 min

Day of Miracles

2004 • 56 min

"Day Of Miracles" is the Documentary about the "True-Life-Survivors" of the event at the New York Twin-Towers on September 11, 2001. The "Stars" are the actual survivors of 9/11: Sujo Jon was in Tower One when the first plane crashed just above his head. He was able to lead a group of people down the staircase while the exterior of the building peeled like a banana. He then found out that his pregnant wife was in Tower Two. Janelle prayed for God to help her and the next day she was the only one alive and was discovered standing up asleep, amidst the rubble! Tom & Deena Burnett had a vision that he was going to die young and for the White House. He was one of the brave men that downed the plane in Pennsylvania.

Shalom Y'all

2004 • 59 min

Traveling in a vintage Cadillac, filmmaker Brian Bain, a third generation Jew from New Orleans, sets out on a 4200-mile road trip though the American South. Traveling through Delta flatlands, small towns in Mississippi, suburban subdivisions, Texas ranches, and sprawling Sunbelt metropolises what he uncovers is the unique and diverse history of Southern Jews. Along the way, Bain woos his future wife, herself a southern Jew, and discusses Jewish participation in the Civil Rights Movement.