All Films

Laughing and carefree, the children in Sous un ciel burlesque are playing catch. With a few strokes of Pierre Sylvestre's pen, their innocent game turns into the diabolical dance of adults playing war. When humanity chooses weapons over laughter...

The underlying chessboard image is derived from modified TV test pattern apparatus distorted by audio signals from a sinewave generator; filmed off a monitor with super 8, then coloured in with black ink and coated with household bleach. After initial editing on film it was compiled into positive, negative and split screen in a 1-2-4-2-1 sequence. The 4 track electronic music made with Helliwell's homemade circuits, also follows this symmetrical order.

This is a poetic, romantic, yet bittersweet journey about searching for one's presence in the digital age, where anyone has the capability to share their own stories of love and loneliness within it.

The love lives of an 8-year-old girl, a 20-something lesbian, and a 40-something accountant are told from the point of view of two subatomic particles (or "Quarks") called Strange and Charmed.

The story of a lesbian couple's move away from Israel and the problems they wish to leave behind. Joelle lived in Tel-Aviv for eleven years but tired of a city wrapped in violence. Sigal, hiding her true sexual identity from her family, needed to distance herself to be able to have a more complete life with her partner. Together they travel through Greece in search of a new home.The couple record each other throughout their travels, producing a video diary, each expressing her feelings as she observes the other. Their unfurling journey pushes them to question the very heart of their search, including essential dilemmas such as: “Where do I belong?” “What is home?” and “How can we be part of our families when we are different from them?”

2003, D8 B&W and colour. Sound and mute 30min.

The lack of clean drinking water in Karakalpakya from the view of the well builders. A well made on request yields spoiled unpotable water. A good well with potable water is then ruined by a bulldozer.

Men and women of law enforcement recount their experiences being “out” on the beat.

For Australian documentary filmmaker John Darling, the tragic events of 12 October 2002 compelled him to re-establish his links with Bali that spanned some 30 years. John had lived, researched and made films in Bali for 17 years from the 1970s to the 1990s, and THE HEALING OF BALI is his observation of the Balinese response to the bombings and the aftermath. His film presents an intimate insight into traditional and modern Balinese methods of grieving and healing. Among those who tell their own stories in the film are Haji Bambang, one of the heroes of the night of the bombings. Many people died in Haji's arms on the night as he worked tirelessly with a group of friends to save the victims or respectfully cover the dead with white cloth.

Tender Bodies is a 3D computer animation that uses the logic of computer games to collapse and reconstruct narrative space. Narrative scenes are connected through a constantly shifting environment of bridges and tunnels. The inhabitants of this landscape are genetically or cosmetically altered. They like to eat and go to parties and experiment on things they don’t understand. The narrative in the animation involves a number of characters. Kisser is a carnivore that enjoys the act of seduction and consumption. Other is a stranger that is chased down and sold for experimentation since it is too unusual to eat. Faun is a botched genetic experiment, a gene spliced attempt to make a unicorn that resulted in a world-weary solitary figure. These characters live in a wordless environment. They have limited interaction with each other and try to avoid interaction completely. However sometimes the three-dimensional space collapses upon itself and they find themselves face to face.

Toontown was a home for Toons everywhere, but when Scrooge McDuck was going to see his employee Gyro Gearloose, he found a robot and of course he thought he could sell it to Toons.

A couple eating at a restaurant. When I left the store and tried to go to the amusement park, I suddenly hit a passerby with a car. However, the two run away without stopping the car. I continued to drive while having a casual conversation, but I lost my way, perhaps because I was upset by the hit-and-run. On the way, they put a hitchhiking man in the car. A self-proclaimed novelist, he tells the story of "the story of the biggest fat in the world" and disappears into the deep forest.

A fictionalized look at activism in America circa 1994. David Wojnarowicz fights AIDS while teenage lesbian Sarah Rosenberg fights to save the television show My So Called Life from cancellation.

Teckademics, the import tuning company that brought you Mischief, the #1 selling street racing title, goes inside the fast-growing world of street trucks. With chapters on dragging, off-road, mud driving, extreme truck launching, trophy trucks, monster trucks, bling-bling show stoppers rollin' on dubs, stupid stunts, crazy audio systems, hopping, bagged and dragged body dropped machines, hot truck chicks, the people behind the mayhem, racing, truck shows, and the 2002 SEMA show, all set to a fast-paced soundtrack from Lobster Records

Experimental short by Maki Satake.

Created by using 16mm blank film and black pigment, which has been manually rubbed into a layer of transparent silicone. In projection, it becomes a rapid and infinitely complex hypnagogic vision. Frame by frame, this film shows 17,000 of these different black and white images through the rapid speed of the projector. Black surface meets white surface, fabricated by the projection lamp.

Librium takes you to locations like Hawaii, California, Australia and also less covered spots like Samoa and Florida. This video is more than just great footage edited together with awesome tunes... It is artfully crafted to help remind us that surfing... Jamie OBrien, Mikala Jones, Mark Healy

No-one could care less about tectonic plates, no more than they could about the 1940s; the same goes for the melting of the north and south poles & all that crap... But a Blockhaus gradually sinking into the sand is always amusing to see...

“Cockroach is a handmade, cameraless animated film constructed with basic materials found around the home - newspaper, ink and Kool-Aid. Using cockroaches as a metaphor for language, it chronicles the pervasiveness and endurance of these primordial creatures. Text by Christian Cotroneo ("It's a bug's life in downtown Toronto," originally printed in the Toronto Star) is used to create the soundtrack.”

EveryDay life of a Chinese Country Village

WATER WATER revisits the bathroom location of a previous film WHITE LIGHT (1996). It is based around a set of antinomies that operate at various levels, from between frames to between the two halves of the film. The black and white first part is composed of individually filmed frames (animation) which form shots of interlaced contrary motion that nevertheless can be read as sequences of individual frames, and/or in which alternate frames are lit in contrasting ways so as to emulate negative-positive juxtapositions. In the colour second half, dissolves replace cuts, light softens and contrast decreases. Continuity, by way of isomorphic features in the room, replaces the discontinuities of part one.

A salt-of-the-earth Prince Edward Islander talks about the way things were, the way things are, and the way he sees it all.

Offers a rare view into the rich textures of African fingerstyle guitar music. It was recorded by the famous cultural anthropologist Gerhard Kubik between 1966 and 1993. These are audio-visual field recordings from isolated African villages to the gardens of Europe, presenting some of the legends of this style: Mwenda Jean Bosco, Faustino Okello, Pierre Gwa , Daniel Kachamba and others.

From the Lido to Venice via the Canal Grande: reflections on the lagoon, architecture, facades of churches and secular buildings, under the warm sunset of a winter afternoon. Cinema as accelerated painting. By train until the exploration of the tiny daily life, under an incandescent light. The journey stops between the trees of Bois d'Arcy.