All Films

John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies

2004 • 60 min • United States of America

Chronicles the work of cult director John Carpenter through interviews with him and his associates, with emphases on the earlier work.

Balikbayan

2004 • 5 min • Philippines, United States of America

A migrant worker sends her mother back home bringing a taste of a 'better life' at all cost.

The Matrix Revolutions: Neo Realism - Evolution of Bullet Time

2004 • 12 min

A featurette about the special effects of The Matrix Trilogy

Visceral Poetry

2004 • 4 min • Brazil

Poetry. Food of pure-souled beings.

Nyrölä 3

2004 • 54 min • Finland

Summer night, fraying country idyll, motorcycle gang and a murder.

The Clash: The Last Testament - The Making of London Calling

2004 • 33 min • United Kingdom

The documentary tells the story of the making of The Clash's 'London Calling' album and included in a special 25th Anniversary edition re-release of the original album. Directed by Don Letts and including interviews with Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Topper Headon and othey key figures, this also includes previously unreleased home footage of The Clash recording London Calling in Wessex Studios.

Making a 'Splash'

2004 • 24 min

Retrospective documentary on the making of the hit comedy Splash (1984).

Poetry and Truth

2004 • 13 min • Austria

Discarded takes from advertising films are presented almost untouched, as documents that unwittingly offer valuable and humorous insights into the human condition.

Auf den Spuren Winnetous

2004 • 50 min • Germany

After more than 40 years, this film takes Pierre Brice and Ralf Wolter back to the original locations of the legendary Karl May films. In impressive images, locations such as the Plitvice Lakes, the Mali Alan rock massif, the Zrmanja plateau, the Krka waterfalls and other filming locations are visited.

Making It Stick: The Makeup Effects of Stuck on You

2004 • 9 min

We find notes from the Farrellys, Damon, Kinnear, Thomas, Wessler and special make-up designer Tony Gardner. The latter participant dominates the show as he lets us know about the design of the conjoined rig, the various challenges and its execution. We also learn about general issues and the way the actors related to each other.

Moving Vast Amounts Of Water To A Barren Place

2004 • 8 min

Short film.

Desantnik Styopochkin

2004 • 26 min

The boy Styopochkin always obeyed his mother. He did not think about what he would become in the future - his mother will tell him, the boy thought. And so it turned out - he entered some prestigious university. But one day he saw paratroopers in the sky! From that moment the guy's path is one - to be in the army. Styopochkin escapes from the university and by all rights and wrongs gets into the paratroopers to realize his dream... However, Styopochkin's army entourage - San Sanych and Kuzya - are old brats who are just a little bit away from demobilization. Very quickly they realize that Styopochkin can‘t do anythinf himself himself can, but tries hard. Therefore, his coworkers even undertake to help him, including for reasons of their own safety. After all, as San Sanych says: "either he kills us, or we will make him a real paratrooper"....

George's Date

2004 • 2 min • South Africa

A particularly malleable young man gets ready for his romantic evening.

笑ビ! バカリズム~フルーツ~

2004 • 52 min • Japan

Se Podes Olhar Vê. Se Podes Ver Repara

2004 • 40 min • Portugal

How would you react if you couldn't see? In rehearsing the theatrical adaptation of "Blindness", by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, the company "O Bando" made the experience. The actors lived 24 hours blindfolded in an abandoned hospital. How would you react if you could see again?

Ronnie Barker: A BAFTA Tribute

2004 • 60 min

A BAFTA tribute to Ronnie Barker

Man with Cockerel

2004 • 6 min • India

In Man with Cockerel the viewer's reverie is jolted by a montage of asynchronous sounds which struggle to attain verisimilitude and connect with the chimeric procession of events injected in the interstices left by the splintering pixels of the dissolving man. Sensory relief is afforded at the end of the loop, by the long silent lapping of waves on an empty screen.

Peter Tatchell: Just Who Does He Think He Is?

2004 • 60 min

Profile of the life, work and ethos behind one of Britain's most controversial and prolific human rights campaigner: gay UK activist Peter Tatchell.

Channel 9 Salutes Bert Newton

2004 • 23 min

Bert graced our screens for close on 50 years. Bert's career began in 1957 when he was 18 years old, he teamed up with Graham Kennedy on Channel 9 "In Melbourne Tonight". He has 4 Gold Logies to his name. In 1988, he was inducted into the Logies "Hall of Fame". This special presentation delves deep into the archives of Bert Newton's 27 years at Channel 9.

Highway

2004 • 8 min

When a young couple's car breaks down on a country road, they must learn to walk together.

La mesa servida

2004 • 15 min • Mexico

Carlos has an empty belly and tries to dominate nature by obeying it. The only two pigs in his village are seductive meat. He already has the table set, without knowing that the pig affection will tell him what the pantheons are full of.

The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase

2004 • 30 min

This thirty-minute documentary follows the Wachowski sisters and the film's crew through production on the film's famed highway chase sequence. We get interviews with the visual effects supervisors, the stunt coordinators and even are taken through aspects of pre-production and planning for the scene. Then the documentary moves into production, the scariest aspect of which is certainly Carrie Anne-Moss trying to learn to ride a motorcycle good enough to do so safely without helmet for the scene. We also watch as the stretch of freeway used in the film is being built.

Words in Progress

2004 • 52 min • France

Documentary featuring footage from six decades of Cannes Film Festivals.

Eddie Cochran & Friends: C'mon Everybody

2004 • 55 min • United Kingdom, United States of America