All Films

Cutting

2004 • 6 min

This narrative restraint appears perhaps most clearly in Wangechi Mutu’s video Cutting, in which the artist enters the frame and proceeds to rhythmically hack away at a log in an expansive desert landscape before finally laying down her machete and leaving the frame.

20th Century Masters: The Best of the Moody Blues

2004 • 23 min

Universal Music's The Best of the Moody Blues: The DVD Collection helped inaugurate the video version of the company's 20th Century Masters series. 1: Your Wildest Dreams 2: I Know You're Out There Somewhere 3: The Other Side Of Life 4: Running Out Of Love 5: No More Lies

Hedi Slimane: My Life

2004 • 42 min

2004 documentary following Hedi Slimane as he navigates through Paris, Berlin, and Tokyo, chronicling his childhood, career, and future.

N Judah 5:30

2004 • 3 min • United States of America

A melancholy train ride filled with small, rich moments.

Why I Hate the 60s: The Decade That Was Too Good to Be True

2004 • 59 min

The myth of the 60s was created before the decade was out. But what we have lived with ever since is a mirage, a mass hallucination, a fantasy. Why I Hate the Sixties examines the truth behind the myth. It suggests that we were living on borrowed time - we partied as Britain lost an empire and slid into unchecked industrial decline. Archive footage and contributors of all political stripes build the case against the decade where dreams turned to nightmares.

The Life of an Agent

2004 • 54 min

The Life of an Agent, Police Training in the Kádár Era (Gabor Zsigmond Papp, 2004), uses a series of films shot by the Hungarian Interior Ministry between 1958 and 1988 and screened for generations after generations of secret police agents thus taught about methods designed to protect the state socialist regime: secret searches of homes, operational monitoring of enemy persons, the installation of audio surveillance equipment, and the organization of networks of informers. The film, which works exclusively with secret police material, sheds significant light on the mechanisms of the maintenance of power despite all the paranoia and the battle waged against its own citizens.

yui horie CLIPS 1

2004 • 59 min • Japan

Clip collection DVD "CLIPS 1" collects all the promotion videos with Yui Horie who continues to have overwhelming popularity among young voice actors!

Quietus: To the New World

2004 • 22 min

An eerie, apocalyptic look at our planet thousands of years in the future. All life is extinct. Various remnants of our cities are still standing. Amidst all of this are two alien visitors who roam the planet, studying it, collecting samples, recording data. Something cataclysmic must have happened to render the planet lifeless, and soon the aliens discover the cause – a gigantic crater the size of Texas. During the survey, a faint S.O.S signal is detected by the aliens, and they follow it to a massive underground chamber containing hundreds of pods. Within each pod is a human fetus, in perfect hibernation. Apparently, knowing our planet would be rendered lifeless, we created the chamber with the hope that one day alien visitors would discover it. In the end, the aliens harvest the pods to their ships…and return to their planet to give human existence a re-birth.

Discoveries... America: Ohio

2004 • 50 min • United States of America

Ohio is the Midwest's eastern gateway, a vast land originally controlled by the Iroquois Indians. An important rail link, Ohio is bordered by the Allegheny Mountains to the east and the farmlands of the Great Plains to the west. A century ago, Ohio's most famous residents, Orville and Wilber Wright, were two bicycle mechanics who ended up leaving their mark in aviation.

A Slippery Tale

2004 • 7 min

They say that love is blind and there must be some truth in it, because in this comic tale, a good-looking frog falls for the velvety skin of an imitation lady-frog that graces a pair of slippers belonging to the farmer's wife. But their happiness is short-lived, because real frogs can't really fall in love with imitation frogs... can they?

Turning

2004 • 9 min • Canada

Throughout the journey, meanings that symbols once held for us shift and change as black and white blend to form grey. We see ourselves reflected in the world around us and the world around us envelops us. Things that were once threatening become comforting arms of solace while things that were once sanctuaries threaten to drown us. Water has the power to cleanse as well as the power to drown while the forest is both protective and foreboding.

The Elves and the Shoemaker

2004 • 10 min

Retold and illustrated by Jim LaMarche; Narrated by Patrick Stewart A pair of elves secretly create and amazing pair of shoes for a poor by kindly shoemaker.

Rockt das Brot

2004 • 59 min

Digital Aberration

2004 • 3 min

Every cheap visual effect in the editing package and a sound track made with free software from a corn-flakes packet.

We are winning don't forget

2004 • 7 min

We are many. We are uniforms. We smile in the picture. But We are NOT happy

Aïcha

2004 • 13 min

Aunt

2004 • 60 min • China

Zhang Ming went back to hometown to visit his aunt.

Lightning: Nature Strikes Back

2004 • 60 min

It is five times hotter than the sun and turns sand to glass in an instant. It can shoot 80 kilometres up above storm clouds. And it may even have provided the original spark that created life itself. This pacy, stylish documentary reveals the full power of lightning, why it is so dangerous, and what scientists are doing to protect us. Statistically, you are most likely to be struck in Florida, playing golf on a Sunday in July. Hear victims tell touching stories of the real experience, and why they feel it has changed them forever. View cockpit footage of NASA pilots flying through active lightning storms and find out why some scientists think the pollution in big cities could be 'baiting' lightning on an incredible scale. The more we learn about this maverick force of nature, it seems, the more we have to fear...

Credit Role

2004 • 8 min

Two small-time actors debate the merits of watching the credits at the end of a Hollywood flick. They discover that with the right attitude, the uninspired crawl of anonymous names can be transformed into a life-affirming parade of comradeship. Who knew that credits could be so cathartic?

60 Seconds

2004 • 1 min • Germany

A found-footage film in which time ticks away on the watches of the film industry. They do not just function as dramatic signs for expectation and suspense, but also as icons for the limitation of film (and its shelf life).

Mr. Connery Goes to Hollywood

2004 • 9 min • United States of America

A brief overview of Sean Connery's life and career, with comments from the man himself.

Goannai Shimasu Another World e

2004 • 16 min • Japan

An unnamed salaryman complains about Japanese tax rates. He is overheard by a mysterious stranger who traps him in a version of his everyday life in which there are no taxes. Part of a series of animated short films produced to educate young people about taxation.

Bridge Visitor (Legend-Trip)

2004 • 19 min

Legend Trip, a teenager’s story about exploring a haunted site at night, reconstitutes a childhood memory of Mike Kelley’s. It retraces, step by step (initiation – completion – retrospection), an invocation of Satan and a divination using the melted remains of plastic garbage bags that were burned during a ritual and in which shapes and faces appear.

Rotten Shaolin Zombies

2004 • 23 min • Canada

AN EPIC TALE OF BROTHERLY LOVE, BAD SUSHI & ASS-KICKING ZOMBIES... Two brothers, the best of friends, devout martial artists, inseparable. One fateful sushi dinner would forever change the nature of their relationship and send them on a crash course to death and destruction. Thinking his dear brother has been killed by the toxic venom of the dirty lungfish that tore out his eye, Lone Brother trudges through life, wondering how he will ever be able to continue on all alone. Little does he know his brother has returned to walk the earth as the undead, pissed off and craving human flesh. The stage is set for an epic battle where brother must face brother, zombie versus the living, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance!