All Films

Sarah Brightman: Harem - A Desert Fantasy

2004 • 59 min

Sarah Brightman's Harem tracks are brought to life in this collection of music videos, inter-woven with interviews from the artist herself. This Special is filmed in many exotic locals including Egypt and Morocco, bringing to life Sarah's desert fantasy before your very eyes.

The Making of Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

2004 • 16 min • Japan

This making of segment offers a lot of interview comments with the crew behind it, although does so in a rather rapid fashion. The most interesting element of this is probably learning a bit more behind how the movie was created from an animation standpoint, in particular the insight around animating the robots.

Memories of Memories

2004 • 29 min • Japan

Memories (1995) making-of featurette, includes introductions to the creative genius behind the shows and looks at Otomo’s previous works, such as Akira. It also includes snippets from interviews with Otomo, Koji Morimoto, and Tensai Okamura.

Our Time

2004 • 3 min • United States of America

A bored boy decides to go out and have some fun, but what to wear?

Who Killed Brown Owl?

2004 • 9 min • United Kingdom

The perfect English arcadia gives way to varying kinds of misfortune, disruption and violence. With more than a passing reference to the 'narrative' paintings by masters such as Bruegel, this single-take 9-minute short is about a lazy Sunday afternoon that goes horribly wrong.

Stuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen

2004 • 13 min

Comments from the Farrellys, Thomas, Wessler, Damon, Kinnear, and actors Ray “Rocket” Valliere, Wen Yan Shih, Lawyer Milloy and Tom Brady. They chat about the origins of the film and its slow path to the screen, casting, the story and character development, disabilities in the film, and their use of athletes in cameos.

When Rated X Ruled the World

2004 • 50 min

When _____ Ruled the World looks at pop culture phenomenona and explores why and how the subject of the show so effectively captured the imagination of the populace. Take a trip down memory lane and explore the zeitgeist of yesterday.

Children Lose Nothing

2004 • 5 min • Lithuania

A miniature movie, kids inhabit the landscape and communicate through the river, the sky, the air.

Iván Z

2004 • 52 min

An investigative documentary about Basque filmmaker and artist Iván Zulueta. Caught up in heroin addiction and many personal problems, Zulueta vanished from the scene. This film focuses on the lost and wasted years of the director.

A falta de pan

2004 • 11 min • Spain

A short by Martín Rosete.

平田弥里 Spoony

2004 • 45 min • Japan

2004 release

I Am Stamos

2004 • 18 min

A dark comedy about a character actor whose wish to be a leading man comes true when he magically begins to photograph as John Stamos, provoking the unholy wrath of Stamos.

Russ Meyer: King of Sexploitation

2004 • 60 min

Documentary about the late cult film-maker, Russ Meyer, with a penchant for strong, curvaceous women.

Celibacy

2004 • 39 min • United States of America

The argument basically is that in the mix of sex education that now goes on in schools throughout the western world, about how to have safe sex, one crucially important issue has clearly been overlooked, namely what about those people who don't want to engage in sexual relations yet? This programme brings real knowledge and understanding to this hotly debated issue.

No Memory Woman

2004 • 32 min • Japan

One day, when Mami (Yoko Mitsuya) wakes up in a strange room ... Beside her is a strange man, Yu (Ryosuke Watabe). Eventually Mami and Yu fell in love. Her younger sister Sato (Nahana) is worried about Mami who has lost contact. Sato consults with her boyfriend. However, Sato's boyfriend was Yu.

Making of Zebraman

2004 • 45 min

A documentary on the making of “Zebraman” directed by Takashi Miike.

Avant Premiere

2004 • 13 min • Argentina

Ana wants to become another woman, even if it means reaching an unimagined extreme.

One Piece: Take Aim! The Pirate Baseball King

2004 • 5 min • Japan

At a huge baseball stadium ship it's the Pirate Baseball King playoffs. Hosted by Bon Clay/Mr. 2 & Buggy the Clown. The Straw Hat Pirates are now up showing off their skills in baseball. All 7 of them are up against the Arlong Pirates (This includes Arlong, Momoo, Chuu, Kuroobi, Hacchi, and several Skypiea characters for backup on both teams). This is unlike any ordinary baseball game, as Arlong's team uses iron spiked balls instead of regular baseballs to make Luffy and his team lose. After one strike out to another, it becomes 3-0 for the final inning. Will Luffy's team be able to defeat Arlong's team?

Laughing Matters

2004 • 60 min • United States of America

Four women who are lesbian comedians perform and, offstage, talk about their lives: parents and childhood, coming out, becoming comics, the arc of their careers, and its rewards. Marga Gómez is Cuban-Puerto Rican, from New York City. She mines cultural differences, her hobby horse, and National Coming Out Day. Kate Clinton, lapsed Catholic, gets laughs there and from the comedy of the sex act. Karen Williams, African-American from Berkeley, talks about aging and about the need to tell her story. Suzanne Westenhoefer inherits her grandfather's humor, and she jokes about Martha Stewart and airport security. Each is serious about the power of humor to reveal what's at her core.

Mouse Heaven

2004 • 10 min • United States of America

A short film featuring various vintage Mickey Mouse toys.

The Visit

2004 • 15 min • Philippines

Raya Martin's award-winning short film Bakasyon is about a young girl who goes to the province to take care of her grandma, where she discovers strange and mysterious things about her lola's identity. The 15-minute film won the Ishmael Bernal Award for Young Cinema at the Cinemanila in 2004.

Maki Horikita: Horikita Shinkaron Photo Shoot

2004 • 40 min • Japan

Documentary on the photo session for the 2004 photobook "Horikita Shinkaron"

The Reunion

2004 • 16 min • United States of America

This is the true story about a man who suffered from HIV, named Tom. After suffering a stroke while on a jog, his last wish is to have his four best friends come together and celebrate their good times without the knowledge of his death.

The Infiltrators

2004 • 45 min • United States of America

Empress Zarina rules the country of Feminia using her Imperial Guard Corp Clones as her army. All males are slaves except for those who have joined the resistance, made up mostly of a woman who hates the policies of the Empress. Amanda (Debbie D) Sharpe and Michelle (Laura Giglio) use plastic surgery to make themselves look like two of the Imperial Clones so that they can infiltrate the enemy and learn their secrets. But they must defeat General Kala (Pamela Sutch) and Captain Zara (Barbara Joyce) in order for their mission to be successful.