All Films

Mongolia is perceived as one of the most isolated, inaccessible locations in the world. In 1997 it proved a suitably challenging environment for an event billed as the world's greatest adventure challenge - the Camel Trophy. Forty competitors from 20 nations gathered in the modern capital of Ulaanbaatar for the start of Camel '97. From there they took their Land Rover Discoverys over existing roads and tracks through a country of extremes - from the sub-zero temperatures of the northern mountains to the heat of the Gobi desert. After circumnavigating a country three times the size of France, the event finished in the ancient capital of Karakorum, home of Mongolia's largest Buddhist monastery. Along the way, the teams visited eight competition sites and also competed in mountain biking, kayaking, 4x4 driving and orienteering awards.

Ironic movie imbued with humanistic over-excitement about the contacts with extraterrestrial civilizations. The film’s name Kobrin took from Hegel’s «Philosophy of Religion», but in his film work Kobrin granted the ability to speak to the «kitchen» philosopher – Semen Semenovitch.

A family that tries to explain the internet and fails trying.

One of a collection of experimental shorts shot on VHS, miniDV or created in the computer, where the results were edited and manipulated by filmmaker Walter Ungerer with various computer software programs.

Film in memory of the workers of the Lille company Massey-Ferguson, who manufactured tractors and combines, and closed its doors in 1984.

Documentary about Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez, aka "Carlos the Jackal", international terrorist.

Story of St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne and the challenge to treat patients with limited finance. The documentary enters the world of financial administrators, doctors and nurses as they plan to save money. The hospital is faced with reducing the number of operations, closing wards and justifying every expenditure.

This four-channel video installation was shot inside the abandoned headquarters of the defunct East German secret police—unofficially called Stasi City— a few years after the reunification of Germany. Images of the labyrinth of abandoned corridors, interrogation rooms, and open and closed doors are accompanied by a soundtrack of the clanging, buzzing, and clicking sounds that would have been emitted by surveillance equipment when police occupied the building. Stasi City is an imprint of the haunting memories embedded in architecture.

Black Wednesday occurred in the United Kingdom on 16 September 1992, when John Major's Conservative government was forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) after it was unable to keep the pound above its agreed lower limit in the ERM.

Reflections on growing older. Gay men of different ages ponder what it means to get older in a culture that youth obsessed.

Film is about communication. Kobrin pays homage to Vasili Nalimov, to his work and life. Nalimov was a mathematician and philosopher, but was also an eccentric anarchist with mystic tendencies who spent eighteen years in a concentration camp. Nalimov’s philosophy relies on probabilistic methods in the natural and social sciences and applies them to the study of language and consciousness.

A journey along country roads on a bright day.

A very personal lecture on filmmaker and friend Jim Davis.

“Presents scenes from the life of William Heirens, dubbed the “Lipstick Killer” .. Trainor imagines Heirens’s private moments through a series of dreamlike vignettes. Taking cues from a study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry in 1946, Trainor depicts the juvenile Heirens’s pathological obsessions and behavioral abnormalities—his penchant for stealing women’s underwear, his compulsion to break into apartments and defecate in them .. “I got interested in a process of rote, uncritical tracing, where my drawings would get bent out of shape without much attempt to control them...I like Sharpie pens because the thick line, though unforgiving, goes down quickly; I can draw lots of pictures quickly. I stopped being concerned about their awkwardness.” These strategies, he explained, allowed the violent disturbances of Heirens’s psyche to be articulated through trembling visual designs, a fitting marriage of style and subject." - Light Industry

Relaring motherhood with death rather that life, infanticide is an extreme act and an excruciating mirror

An experimental videotape addressing issues of surveillance and technology that allow us to see where we normally cannot. Highlights several narratives revolving around video surveilliance -- not to reiterate the conventional privacy argument, but rather to engage the desire to watch surveillance materials, and society's insatiable voyeurism.

Based on a play by Wole Soyinka, The Strong Breed, SO BE IT offers an emotionally searing allegory of present-day Africa's bloody internecine convulsions.

Garden gnomes seem so happy, good-natured in your home. But a spaceship lands on Earth and makes the garden gnomes naughty.

Skin and flesh erupt as memories penetrate and distort the surface and the film emulsion is also ripped open.

"It was a night of passion, a passion so intense it makes you miserable..."

Explores and questions non-Native perceptions of Indians by asking pointedly: “What were you expecting, anyway? Sitting Bull? Chief Joseph… saying ‘the earth and I are one?’”

Set to a drumtrack by David Shaw, Phi-Brite is a short experimental animated film shot completely off a Lite-Brite - the well known light-peg art toy. Colorful abstract shapes move to a funky drumbeat you can dance to.

Expanding on Partially Buried, Partially Buried Continued focuses on the mingling of past and present by reflecting on the photographic medium. The video reexamines slide films taken during the Korean War by Green’s father; photographs taken in Korea in Kwangju on May 18, 1980, during the democratic uprising and brutal state-sponsored response; and photographs taken by the artist in Kwangju and Seoul during a residency in 1997. Using the works of Robert Smithson and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha as touchstones, Green reflects on memory, memorials, and remembrance, while exploring the complexities of how we find ourselves entangled in relationships to countries, nationalities, and specific moments in time. (Video Data Bank)

"By bicycle (A vélo) may be an imaginary life in Ukraine, among forests and river and plane noises above our heads, riding a bike. Cinema is a reel of desire." (the8fest)