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A physical viewing experience investigating the frontiers of narrative.
9'
Austria
IFFR 2007
Short: As Long As It Takes
Programme 2007In 'Short: As Long As It Takes'
(SHIFT)
New performance by Optical Machines in which homemade equipment is used to built up an abstract play of light. The soundtrack is created in an interactive play with the intensity of light.
25'
Netherlands
IFFR 2007
19: Victoria Texas
This short, moving film is a memorial to an unspeakable tragedy.
4'
USA
IFFR 2007
A mains nues (Met blote handen)
Freely inspired by a text of Joseph Noiret and choreographed by his daughter Michèle, Met blote handen is a filmic poem of outstanding beauty.
30'
Belgium
IFFR 2007
According to...
A short film about a series of tragic events in the southern United States.
8'
USA
IFFR 2007
The Adventures of John and John
Cheerful animation about two quibbling friends and their Brain Reading Machine.
7'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2007
Agatha
Unconventional narrative using digital effects about a murder during a living-room party.
8'
Netherlands
IFFR 2007
Agitated Screams of Maggots
Animation made for the unclassifiable band Dir En Grey, about the fascination with violence and metamorphoses.
4'
Japan
IFFR 2007
All You Need for a Film...
A statement.
2'
Netherlands
IFFR 2007
Along Came the Rain
A small yet intimate portrait of an old married couple and the difficult life in the countryside of Chile.
14'
Chile
IFFR 2007
American Parade
Riding shot past visitors forced to camp in the street at the annual Rose Parade in Pasadena suggests approaching doom.
17'
USA
IFFR 2007
Amin
Sensitive drama about power and injustice, in which a father and son are in danger of being mangled by the police.
8'
France
IFFR 2007
Ananiyashi
Food and femininity. Funny, strange and maybe even a little shocking. Surrealism, but then not with respectable things.
26'
Japan
IFFR 2007
And Thereafter II
Why do Korean women still marry American GIs en masse while this turns them into outcasts in their own country?
56'
South Korea
IFFR 2007
And We All Shine On
The pirate radio of the Beyond sings like the night wind through the leaves in the trees. We sing along and in the wake of confusion we dance and shine.
7'
USA
IFFR 2007
Andrey
Poetic, attractive homage to maestro Tarkovsky. With archive material; images he shot in 1965 in an Armenian monastery.
15'
Armenia
IFFR 2007
Anthem
A song to honour the cinema god.
5'
USA
IFFR 2007
L'après-midi d'un faune
A church visit with coloured spectacles.
9'
Germany
IFFR 2007
August Story
Attractive film version of a book. A song of four seasons. The film follows a girl in Hong Kong between her uncle’s dressmaking shop and her studies; between young and youth. Adulthood will come later.
63'
Hong Kong
IFFR 2007
Baby
A mother holds her baby. She shows no emotion when the baby cries.
2'
Netherlands
IFFR 2007
Ballad of Maria Lassig
A tribute to the famous painter and founder of the Austrian Experimental Animation Studio at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
8'
Austria
IFFR 2007
Beautiful World
Typographical film about the negative sides of popularisation and globalisation, but also about the attractive aspects.
20'
Netherlands
IFFR 2007
Bedroom Dancing
In March 2006 a man was arrested and fined for masturbating in his own home. This fiction film has been described as Singapore’s most sexually explicit film.
20'
Singapore
IFFR 2007
Before Dawn
Prize-winning documentary fiction in one shot, about people in a wheat field.
13'
Hungary
IFFR 2007
Beseda
Pure poetry on Super8.
15'
Czech Republic
IFFR 2007
The Big Stick / An Old Reel
This film intercuts two Charlie Chaplin shorts centring on policemen with newsreel footage of police crowd control and street fighting.
17'
USA
IFFR 2007
Bilder von der Verteidigung eines Hofes
Short fiction film about the defence of a farmstead.
11'
Germany
IFFR 2007
birth/mother
Intimate and unvarnished diary film. The film maker managed to combine bearing a child and filming and films her own grandmother more naked than a pornographic model.
43'
Japan
IFFR 2007
Birthday Suit - with scars and defects
A video diary.
13'
Canada
IFFR 2007
Black and White Trypps Number Three
A sound storm from Lightning Bolt.
12'
USA
IFFR 2007
Black Angel
The ghost appears.
10'
Czech Republic
IFFR 2007
Black
Classic collage animation technique has new life blown into it.
6'
Czech Republic
IFFR 2007
Blasted!!! The Gonzo Patriots of Hunter S. Thompson
A playful, sketchy documentary around aficionados of the recently-deceased well-known writer Hunter S. Thompson. They are all too eager to have his ashes distributed by cannon shots, until Johnny Depp took the honours.
58'
USA
IFFR 2007
Bliss
Cloudbursts and a fall to earth.
4'
USA
IFFR 2007
Bomb
Wonderfully acted white-trash drama with adolescents in love.
14'
USA
IFFR 2007
Boy with Accordion
A manipulation of the present.
5'
Czech Republic
IFFR 2007
Buog
A little boy is beaten out of the house and meets a toy comrade in a deserted lighthouse dwelling. Exciting.
33'
Philippines
IFFR 2007
Burger und Ther
Weird video clip, with artists Ther and Burger.
3'
Czech Republic
IFFR 2007
Buutvrij
Beautiful portrayal of the role that fantasy can play in gruesome events.
6'
Netherlands
IFFR 2007
By the Suez Canal
Short film poem. A woman walks along a military fence. The historic waterway remains out of reach.
2'
Philippines
IFFR 2007
Capitalism: Child Labor
The industry and production of many nations.
14'
USA
IFFR 2007
Capsular
A quest to the border of the personification of Fortress Europe: the enclave of Ceuta in Morocco.
24'
Belgium
IFFR 2007
Careless Reef
One last dive to the coral reef in the Red Sea.
8'
Netherlands
IFFR 2007
Casa
Saïd goes to the big city, Casablanca. It’s so different from what he had expected.
18'
France
IFFR 2007
Ce que je vous dois
Painful, yet oh so beautiful and familiar fiction about an old man who is only tolerated by his family.
27'
France
IFFR 2007
Cell
Concentrated montage of fragments from films with only flickering cathode-ray tubes, without images.
4'
Germany
IFFR 2007
Child's Teasing
…
14'
Czech Republic
IFFR 2007
Children of the Shadows
Black & white animation made with charcoal drawings and a bass guitar is somewhere between manga and the Brothers Grimm.
18'
Japan
IFFR 2007
Christmas Tree Stand (Part 1)
30'
USA
IFFR 2007
Civic Life
The two ‘desperate optimists’ Lawlor and Molloy film various spots and communities in long takes..
72'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2007
Civil Status
…
29'
Russia
IFFR 2007
Collector
Paintings come to life.
8'
Czech Republic
IFFR 2007
Conte de quartier
Expressive animation about adventures in the big city that bring people closer together.
15'
France
IFFR 2007
Copacabana
Nuestra Señora de Copacabana, the colourful festival from Buenos Aires’ immigrant community, the Bolivians, is celebrated with hundreds of groups singing and dancing. Rejtman uses it as a starting point for a beautifully filmed documentary essay.
54'
Argentina
IFFR 2007
Crossings
A stunning abstract play of lines around the border between Mexico and the US.
5'
USA
IFFR 2007
Daydream
Poetic images of a changing city and the perception of its inhabitants, filmed in daring single takes in Cinemascope. An ambitious film made in Liverpool with the help of 150 Liverpudlians.
29'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2007
Dead Horse Point
Fascinating North American landscape film questions the mythology of the Western in a visual way.
19'
Canada
IFFR 2007
Dear Miss Mistress
A refined music video made up of photos and text fragments.
4'
Germany
IFFR 2007
Deep Space One
Triptych in which the camera travels through landscapes, rooms and walls without stopping.
17'
USA
IFFR 2007
Le défunt
Nothing but good about the dead - unless there’s a camera nearby.
8'
Morocco
IFFR 2007
The Delaware Project
A young woman can’t make any contact with the world around her. The world changes at high speed.
15'
Canada
IFFR 2007
The Dike of Transience
A struggle with Beethoven and floodwaters in a Hungarian village.
13'
Hungary
IFFR 2007
Disconnected
Will he call? Will she pick up the phone? A combination of old and new animation techniques.
3'
USA
IFFR 2007
Do Not Erase
Annie, heart-rendingly natural, records a video diary for her 19-year-old son in Iraq.
29'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2007
Don't Say Farewell Again
The lover has been deserted, the city offers no comfort for uninhibited sorrow.
15'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2007
Dormir au chaud
Subtle drama about the faith that an elderly lady gives an unknown young homeless woman.
27'
Belgium
IFFR 2007
Drake
Small-scale family drama against the background of a beautiful setting sun.
5'
Austria
IFFR 2007
Dream'sdreams
A dreamt video world of abstract pictures and sound.
13'
Austria
IFFR 2007
Drive-Thru
A trail of destruction in the Sunshine State after a powerful tropical storm.
20'
USA
IFFR 2007
A Drop of Water
The Turkish-French Lale gets mangled between two cultures and has to leave her own country.
19'
France
IFFR 2007
Egos nus
A 45 minutes meeting condensed in 3 minutes and 35 seconds.
4'
France
IFFR 2007
Elefant
Dreamy young man stands face to face with his dream one morning. About love. But for what and who?
19'
Singapore
IFFR 2007
elesyn 15.625
Abstract video that uses elementary building blocks of the signal to achieve a beautiful synthesis of image and sound.
10'
Austria
IFFR 2007
Eletrodoméstica
If the housekeeping of this Brazilian family remains punctual, everyone will come into their own.
22'
Brazil
IFFR 2007
Ema/Emaki 2
A whirlwind of light and sound. Made as a layered animation film and as a work of art to hang on the wall.
7'
Japan
IFFR 2007
En attendant Ben Gourion
During a forced stay in Bethlehem, the filmmaker records the life of her niece near the wall.
30'
France
IFFR 2007
En el cielo como en la tierra
Modest story about two boys who build an intimate bond through a similar past.
20'
Mexico
IFFR 2007
End Note
Three women reflect on their years at school in the beautiful experimental short after Beckett.
18'
India
IFFR 2007
Enjaulado
Confusing horror about a man pursued by traumas who is locked in his own world.
32'
Brazil
IFFR 2007
Die Entnazifizierung des MH
A precise reconstruction of the train of thought with which Martin Heidegger tried to defend his Nazi past.
19'
USA
IFFR 2007
Establishing Shots
Beautifully photographed everyday locations in a poetic approach to the concept of the establishing shot.
12'
Canada
IFFR 2007
Euthanasia
Teenage pathos in grotesque drama about a run-over cat.
17'
USA
IFFR 2007
Eva reste au placard les nuits de pleine lune
Like a werewolf back to front, Michel throws off his handicap at full moon.
29'
Belgium
IFFR 2007
Excuse Me Brother
A praying mantis is dissected; a conversation unfolds above this precise task.
7'
Germany
IFFR 2007
Exit
The choreography of the movements of the crowd, led by the rhythm of automatic doors.
2'
Norway
IFFR 2007
Le fil des coups
Modest drama about a troubled woman, who works for a children’s helpline.
17'
France
IFFR 2007
Film for Invisible Ink, case no.71: BASE-PLUS-FOG
We search for focus, the evidence is thin, but like breath on a mirror it speaks of life and provides a compass for the way home.
10'
USA
IFFR 2007
Film Noir
Virtuoso animation that pays homage to the film noir.
4'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2007
The Flag
An oppressive video work about the indoctrination of young people in Turkey.
8'
Turkey
IFFR 2007
Flighty
Colourful, fresh animation about butterflies looking for a partner.
2'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2007
Fly from the Dead
Sadism or a good deed? The life of a fly is taken and given back.
9'
France
IFFR 2007
Folding Unfolding Time
In a projection in the windows of the CBK we see how Pavlou plays with the concept of ‘now’ and ‘then’.
15'
Norway
IFFR 2007
Forgetting Betty
Betty celebrates her 96th birthday with her grandson.
10'
USA
IFFR 2007
Friday Night Saturday Morning
Small-scale romantic story about two lovers who are at opposite ends of the world.
15'
Brazil
IFFR 2007
La frontière désaffectée
A derelict railway line around Paris is a refuge for many.
23'
France
IFFR 2007
The General Returns from One Place to Another
Trouble in paradise and the theatre of operations. What is more discomforting the beauty at hand or the rumble just out of view?
11'
USA
IFFR 2007
Girl with Dog
Sober yet gripping story about a homeless girl and a dog who seeks her company.
19'
Canada
IFFR 2007
God Provides
A documentary shot soon after ‘Katrina’ with fictional elements in which the protagonists think that God had a hand in the misery as well as the offering hope.
9'
USA
IFFR 2007
Golden Kitchen
Every day 30,000 meals are prepared and handed out in the soup kitchen.
5'
Belgium
IFFR 2007
Graceland
A man and a woman leave Bangkok, but it doesn’t seem clear or important where to.
17'
Thailand
IFFR 2007
The Gray Zone
A disconcerting film poem.
5'
Czech Republic
IFFR 2007
Green Vinyl
A mother gives her daughter a box of old gramophone records. She’s not allowed to listen to the green record. If she does it will have disastrous consequences.
16'
Brazil
IFFR 2007
Greene Street
A measure of fleeting qualities in a Manhattan interior thirty years ago, the passage of time held in place, the light of another day.
5'
USA
IFFR 2007
La guerra sin fin (I'm Very Happy)
The city is bombed, but by the side of the swimming pool, old friends can be seen together. ‘I’m very happy!’
8'
Venezuela
IFFR 2007
Guest of Honor
How an encounter with a hooved animal can turn life upside down.
6'
Mexico
IFFR 2007
Hallo
The most common word in telephone traffic leads us through the history of the phone.
6'
Germany
IFFR 2007
Hase und Glück
A subtle story about the love-hate relationship of two Russian brothers in Berlin.
20'
Germany
IFFR 2007
Her Mona
A Song Contest.
7'
Germany
IFFR 2007
Herzog and the Monsters
Imaginative, graphic animation about little Herzog and the monster letters.
4'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2007
L'heure du passage
A fresh look at a worn philosophical concept: the Cave of Plato.
6'
Netherlands
IFFR 2007
Hinterland
Beautifully shot rite de passage of a young boy who finds an injured horse during a walk in the mountains.
28'
France
IFFR 2007
His Eye Is on the Sparrow
Master collagist Conner creates a setting for the Soul Stirrers’ 1946 gospel rendition of His Eye on the Sparrow.
4'
USA
IFFR 2007
Holzstücke
A wooden structure awaits an impossible equilibrium. …
6'
Germany
IFFR 2007
Ieri
Attractive portrait of two lovers who have two realign their political position after an attack.
13'
Italy
IFFR 2007
In Solitude, a Camera-Eye
The nocturnal eye of the camera looks out over a quiet street in the suburban America. It is also a night in Malaysia. With silent fireworks. A camera poem.
4'
Malaysia
IFFR 2007
In the Wake of a Deadad
In the Wake of a Deadad is both a shrine to the memory of Kötting's father, an exploration of the basics of patriarchy, and the secular exorcism of a difficult relationship.
60'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2007
In the Wind
A visually stunning short film.
9'
Czech Republic
IFFR 2007
Induction
Disconcerting, mysterious family drama in which an intruder demands the leading role.
10'
Belgium
IFFR 2007
Infinity
A short artist’s film in which the makers, after an ultimate exertion, leave their tracks.
6'
Switzerland
IFFR 2007
int.16/54//son01/30x1
Fantastic abstract building blocks with a happy end.
6'
Austria
IFFR 2007
Interview
Lou Castel is interviewed. An impressive demonstration of power play.
9'
Germany
IFFR 2007
Into the Rowanberries 2000
A choreography of movement.
7'
Czech Republic
IFFR 2007
IV
A woman does her very best to describe a film still as completely as possible.
9'
Germany
IFFR 2007
Josef Bozek
A hypnotic short film by a young talent.
13'
Czech Republic
IFFR 2007
Just Like the Movies
9/11 had already been filmed before it happened.
21'
Austria
IFFR 2007
Justice to Insult
An invalid man looks for resistance and challenges a fellow citizen to a psychological battle.
14'
Brazil
IFFR 2007
Kawaii
Kawaii is Japanese for nice or good looking or both. The three people in this film, a couple for one day and their taxi driver, have had their time of kawaii. They go out of town , but why?
28'
Taiwan
IFFR 2007
Die Kneipe
Lyrical portrayal of delirium.
10'
Germany
IFFR 2007
Kyldex 1 Projections
A film project, originally designed for the Kyldex 1 show at the Hamburg opera in 1973.
11'
Hungary
IFFR 2007
A Lapse of Memory
In a layered story about an old man in the deserted palace in Brighton, reality and fiction get mixed up.
26'
Netherlands
IFFR 2007
Lauberhornrennen im Sommer
Hyper-realistic experience of ski descent at top speed. Satire on sports reporting.
5'
Switzerland
IFFR 2007
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe
A controversial homage to painting.
4'
Czech Republic
IFFR 2007
Le dernier cri
In the near future of Erwin Olaf, the apartment is perfect; the hostess pretty as a picture and a guest is the tops.
3'
Netherlands
IFFR 2007
Licking Curator's Ass
A curator gets what he is asking for.
2'
Czech Republic
IFFR 2007
Life Projections
A video wants to be a film, as the world’s second biggest oil spill just happened in the heart of the filmmaker.
5'
Philippines
IFFR 2007
Light Work I
Symbols of science, industry, medicine and madness.
8'
USA
IFFR 2007
The Little Cotton Girl
Meta-docu thriller in photo stills about a dead girl who appeared in the 1970s in the public toilets of Recife.
7'
Brazil
IFFR 2007
Long Live Philippine Cinema!
Yes, a cinema to be proud of, yet the cheer is full of irony. The history of Filipino film isn’t treated with so much respect.
6'
Philippines
IFFR 2007
The Long Overtone
A unique cine-poem in five movements in which animation, music and movement emerge from city scenes.
18'
Portugal
IFFR 2007
Luna-Luna-Luna
The female body as a landscape.
5'
Czech Republic
IFFR 2007
Man in Love
The film maker took an afternoon off as assistant on another film and apparently thoughtlessly shot an apparently silly joke.
4'
Malaysia
IFFR 2007
man.road.river.
A man goes out for a walk. An uninterrupted journey through depths of field and the shallows of a river.
9'
Brazil
IFFR 2007
Maria Callas
Homage to an idol.
1'
Czech Republic
IFFR 2007
Matahari
About melancholy in cheerful and colourful wrapping. Dressed up as the sun yet still not wanting to shine.
7'
Malaysia
IFFR 2007
Un matin de fin mars
In one take, the maker portrays the inability of someone to come to terms with his own death.
12'
France
IFFR 2007
Melody Z
Melancholy portrait of two moths in hypermodern Shanghai.
20'
China
IFFR 2007
Men Understand Each Other
A man gets a call from a friend seeking comfort when his wife hasn't arrived back home.
10'
Iran
IFFR 2007
Michigan
Subtle ménage à trois in an outer suburb which the three young protagonists would like to leave.
17'
Belgium
IFFR 2007
Mirror World
Armed with misplaced subtitles and weapons of self-reflection Child seizes on first the Indian color-swashbuckler Aan, creating a double edged tribute to its heroine Naima.
12'
USA
IFFR 2007
Monologue #1
Inner monologue of a girl, alone on the beach.
10'
South Korea
IFFR 2007
More Than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda
Imitation of Jane. Anorexia, Activism, Aerobics. Words from decades ago ring true as history repeats, and the U.S. engages in destructive folly on foreign soil while we settle in for the long stretch.
20'
USA
IFFR 2007
Musaic
Refined Rotterdam urban collage, made with the eyes and above all the ears of a Syrian inhabitant.
22'
Netherlands
IFFR 2007
My Demon Brother
X’ho follows in the footsteps of the famous cult film maker Kenneth Anger in order to shock the authorities in Singapore with diabolical eroticism.
20'
Singapore
IFFR 2007
My Own Private Satellite
In a lifeless outer suburb, the inhabitants live out their routine. Played by the inhabitants themselves.
9'
Germany
IFFR 2007
My Prince
Stimulating diary-like film about the sadomasochistic fantasies of the female film maker. The true story of a kidnapper is interwoven with her personal fascinations.
15'
Japan
IFFR 2007
N12°13.062'/WOO1°32.619'Extended
A metaphor for urban development in Africa.
9'
Belgium
IFFR 2007
Nasija
Stoning for adultery is a normal punishment for women in some African countries.
11'
Spain
IFFR 2007
Neo-B
Abstract film in the tradition of Stan Brakhage.
5'
Czech Republic
IFFR 2007
Nethergate
30'
USA
IFFR 2007
New Left Note
Levine’s incessant, chaotic outpouring of political energy seems less geared to a naive notion of bettering the world than to a perpetual pressure to keep it from getting worse.
26'
USA
IFFR 2007
New York Zéro Zéro
An apocalyptic short film takes us along through the deserted streets of New York after the inhabitants have fled.
21'
France
IFFR 2007
Night Shots
Little more than moving air.
3'
Czech Republic
IFFR 2007
Noise
With the aid of old flip-book techniques, the photographs of Muybridge and more relive the era before the invention of cinema.
10'
Japan
IFFR 2007
Note to Coleen
The willing portrait sitters who pay curbside artists to sketch quick commissions find themselves immortalized on film.
5'
USA
IFFR 2007
Note to Pati
Images of winter, children playing in snow, trees, a bird flying through branches.
8'
USA
IFFR 2007
Notes After a Long Silence
A cacophony, a cloudburst of a film. Theory with a beat.
15'
USA
IFFR 2007
The Notwist - One with the Freaks
Idiosyncratic computer animation about freedom.
5'
Germany
IFFR 2007
O.T.
Morning for mother is an imaginative quest.
12'
Germany
IFFR 2007
Oldeastside
Filmmaker friend demolishes the masterpiece Batang West Side by Lav Diaz. Diaz looked at it and approved.
5'
Philippines
IFFR 2007
One in a Million
Two faces of the same city at the same time: Cairo by night.
12'
Egypt
IFFR 2007
One Leaf
From a leaf in someone’s hand, the whole world gets flooded.
13'
Japan
IFFR 2007
An Open Letter to All the Terrorists of the World
As short as a commercial and sad as a poem. As funny as a short film by Khavn. Not political. Or is it?
1'
Philippines
IFFR 2007
Our drawing
Short film that was edited in the camera.
5'
Czech Republic
IFFR 2007
Outwardly from Earth's Center
In this film, we see how the inhabitants battle for their lives when it becomes apparent that their island is being swallowed up by the forces of nature.
25'
Sweden
IFFR 2007
Over mijn lippen
Special documentary shaping the way stutterers express themselves.
14'
Netherlands
IFFR 2007
Paraíso
A poetic evocation of Colombia, inspired by the rebellious Nadaismo literary movement of the sixties.
55'
Colombia
IFFR 2007
Passage
Beautifully filmed, endless and aimless journey by a Brazilian walker.
16'
Brazil
IFFR 2007
Le passeur
A dark fairytale with Denis Lavant as a visitor on a white horse - not exactly a prince.
17'
France
IFFR 2007
Patterns of Transcendence
A young Thai film maker portrays an old Hindu folktale in today’s America. About the dream in the dream.
49'
Thailand
IFFR 2007
Percussie VI
Video graphics - the ultimate pictorial art.
3'
Netherlands
IFFR 2007
La petite mort
Visual translation of the French expression referring to a very specific emotion.
1'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2007
The Plight of the Angelenos
Tongue-in-cheek study of the nature of the inhabitants of Los Angeles who are born to entertain.
16'
USA
IFFR 2007
Portrait #2: Trojan
A breathtakingly short film about the destruction of a grim monster.
5'
USA
IFFR 2007
Portrait As...
A wayward portrait of film maker Stephen Dwoskin.
7'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2007
Poster
A sign by the motorway to Kiev causes quite a commotion. A fictional film based on a dramatic event.
32'
Russia
IFFR 2007
Pram Room
Fascinating photo film.
14'
Czech Republic
IFFR 2007
Prelude of Silence
In a psychiatric institution in Armenia, power relations are clear.
8'
Netherlands
IFFR 2007
Les profondeurs
Natural, subtle drama about a day at the waterside with a threatening mood.
16'
France
IFFR 2007
The Projection Has Begun
Using a fictional fragment from the life of Don Quixote, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben talks about the six most beautiful minutes in the history of cinema.
7'
France
IFFR 2007
Projector Placements
75'
USA
IFFR 2007
Proximity
Beautiful sliding motions on the horizontal plane of an empty landscape.
4'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2007
Purple Grey
Animation about a vivid imagination that can be a seductive but debilitating distraction from life.
7'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2007
Pushcarts of Eternity Street
…
10'
USA
IFFR 2007
Pyramids
Part five from the series Hotel Diaries came about in Smith’s hotel room in Rotterdam while he was a jury member at the Festival in 2006.
6'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2007
Qualities of Stone
A monument to transience, recorded in stone and on film.
11'
USA
IFFR 2007
Rack and slide
30'
USA
IFFR 2007
Rambling from the Sea
Filmmaker moved to the Philippine island of Guimaras for a major oil disaster. He found a major storyteller. Without teeth and without stopping.
4'
Philippines
IFFR 2007
Regarding the Pain of Susan Sontag (Notes on Camp)
In this work, Reinke goes looking for the essence of Susan Sontag’s photographs.
4'
Canada
IFFR 2007
Repeter alba negra
The shell game, a double play with reality.
7'
Germany
IFFR 2007
Ride of the Mergansers
The first trip out of the nest isn’t that easy for a merganser duck.
11'
USA
IFFR 2007
Rodeo
Life as a film hero looks as if it’s accessible for two kids with a boring job.
9'
Germany
IFFR 2007
The Saddest Boy in the World
Super stylised funny satire about the sad Timothy who makes a radical decision on his ninth birthday.
13'
Canada
IFFR 2007
Sahara Mojave
A little trip to Hollywood via North Africa, circa 1900.
12'
USA
IFFR 2007
Santa Claus Parade
Toronto’s great annual Christmas Parade, seen from the end of the long and wide University Avenue. Filmed for eight hours at four frames a second.
3'
Canada
IFFR 2007
Santos Palace
Sultry courtship display of a waitress and customer in a café.
15'
Belgium
IFFR 2007
Sao Paulo_Citytellers
A committed documentary look at the mega-city São Paulo, where life is about improvising - for everyone.
48'
Italy
IFFR 2007
Schoolplein
Documentary, made from one camera angle, about teenagers who fill a school yard.
25'
Netherlands
IFFR 2007
Security
Supermarket security officer trips up because he adopts a vulnerable attitude.
13'
Germany
IFFR 2007
Das Sein und das Nichts
Deconstruction of music played by the Klangforum Wien is accompanied visually by a deconstructed image; what you see is what you hear.
10'
Austria
IFFR 2007
Sewing Room
Short animation film as a fragile miniature.
5'
Singapore
IFFR 2007
Short Film Marathon - Part 1
Allow yourself to be surprised by a whole (or half a) day of short films from the programme Short: As Long As It Takes. Look for details on our website.
360'
IFFR 2007
Short Film Marathon - Part 2
Allow yourself to be surprised by a whole (or half a) day of short films from the programme Short: As Long As It Takes. Look for details on our website.
360'
IFFR 2007
Short Visit
A short journey to the city becomes a journey into another world.
8'
Morocco
IFFR 2007
Les signes
A young mother and her two sons wait for the return of the father. He left 10 years ago to go to sea and has not been seen since. A story about hope.
32'
France
IFFR 2007
Silence is Golden
Cheerful and aggressive animation about war with the neighbours. By the winner of the Tiger Award for Shorts 2006.
14'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2007
Skin Film 2
Parts of filmmaker’s skin are stuck on film stock that will be illuminated by the projector into an intimate play of light.
11'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2007
Sleeping Beauty
Ironically described as the fairytale of a beautiful princess. Warm reality shows the life of a girl who will never be called a princess.
40'
Thailand
IFFR 2007
Soledad al fin del mundo
In one of the least populated regions of the world, a few men lead lives of total solitude, spending months on end alone.
54'
Italy
IFFR 2007
Solo
Cinematographic, choreographic and musical poem.
30'
Belgium
IFFR 2007
Somebody
An intimate moment.
4'
Czech Republic
IFFR 2007
Son's
An old mother in rural Korea is waiting for her son to visit.
18'
South Korea
IFFR 2007
Song and Solitude
No words can describe the dark beauty of Song and Solitude. A comprehensive symphony of wonder.
21'
USA
IFFR 2007
Sonst wer wie Du
An interview on the edge of a field turns into an uneasy game.
9'
Germany
IFFR 2007
South of Ten
Attractive ode to the human urge to survive after Katrina.
10'
USA
IFFR 2007
Stranger Comes to Town
Visitors, you are now entering the land of the free. The World of Warcraft and the Department of Homeland Security face-off when a stranger comes to town.
28'
USA
IFFR 2007
The Suburban Train
Timeless, meticulous documentary that observes people in the famous Moscow underground.
18'
Poland
IFFR 2007
Sunrise 5 AM
A beautiful early work of a contemporary Swedish video art star.
10'
Sweden
IFFR 2007
Superman
An early performance experiment.
7'
USA
IFFR 2007
The Surging Sea of Humanity
A stereograph of the crowd at the opening of the US Centennial Exposition of 1893 turns into a movie, into an enormous rugged 3-D landscape.
11'
USA
IFFR 2007
SWAY
Journey through the world of the New York subway, with music as the main thread and the length of an average subway journey.
32'
USA
IFFR 2007
Sympathy
If you can clap, then join in clapping!
4'
Switzerland
IFFR 2007
Tell Me Something
One day a man changes into a dog. What can his family and neighbours do?
23'
Lebanon
IFFR 2007
Thaipoosam
In the black & white of classic photos. With enchantingly sung music. Evocation of a religious Hindu festival in Malaysia. An Islamic country. A country that is surprised by such a festival.
4'
Malaysia
IFFR 2007
Their Helicopter
A Georgian family fits out unusual accommodation for guests high in the mountains, recorded with beautiful imagery.
22'
Georgia
IFFR 2007
Ther
An encounter between a young man and an old woman.
8'
Czech Republic
IFFR 2007
This, and This
Measuring the contrasts of nuance and starker relations, the state of things, the entire world lies in the difference between this, and this.
10'
USA
IFFR 2007
Three Graces
Fascinating animation film in which the tracks are followed from the first sound recordings of the human voice.
15'
Germany
IFFR 2007
Tinnitus
Slightly autobiographical, stylised animation about a man tormented by a ringing phone.
5'
USA
IFFR 2007
TNO Rijswijk 1998
What does a cat hear? We can find out in the lab.
6'
Netherlands
IFFR 2007
Toi, Waguih
Intimate, personal documentary portrait of the film maker’s father who was imprisoned in the 1980s in Egypt.
28'
France
IFFR 2007
Het topje van de Mont Blanc
Two unknown mountain climbers take the top of Mont Blanc back to where it was found.
7'
Netherlands
IFFR 2007
The Transit of Venus
The film is composed of two consecutive, partial, time-lapse records of the Transit of Venus an event which repeats its patterns every 243 years.
2'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2007
True Colours
Excellent drama about how good intentions can go wrong.
11'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2007
The Tube With a Hat
Father and son go to the city for a day to have a broken TV repaired. A subtle psychological drama about poverty, hope and love.
24'
Romania
IFFR 2007
Turn
A figure skater practices her figures.
3'
Switzerland
IFFR 2007
Under Twilight
Virtuoso found footage: visual material of bombardments edited into a symmetrical ballet.
5'
France
IFFR 2007
Untitled (revised)
Two shots. Two portraits. Two generations.
6'
USA
IFFR 2007
Untitled 1
Original performance for projector and guitar. The film material creates its own soundtrack.
15'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2007
Untitled 2
Moving particles swarm across the image, accompanied by an exactly matching soundtrack. Or is it the other way round: the soundtrack creates the image?
15'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2007
Untitled Compliment
30'
USA
IFFR 2007
Venus
Credible (fake?) portrait of pious Mexicans who worship the Virgin Mary.
20'
Mexico
IFFR 2007
A Very Small Trilogy of Loneliness
Delicate trilogy about one place and three people who have a relationship with each other. Or don’t they?
7'
Romania
IFFR 2007
Video Game
A unique Indian road movie.
30'
India
IFFR 2007
View of the Falls from the Canadian Side
An exciting film experiment in which the first Canadian film images ever made were restaged with an historic camera. The result is amazing.
7'
Canada
IFFR 2007
visibility of interim~
A dark architectural fantasy of virtual spaces created by using specialised software.
14'
Austria
IFFR 2007
Les volets
Production girl is confused by a discovery in a house. Subtle drama about mourning.
12'
Algeria
IFFR 2007
Waiting for Felipe
Documentary in one take about two waiting policemen.
7'
Netherlands
IFFR 2007
Warlock(ing)
In this early black and white, reel-to-reel video, small game traps are set to catch the rain.
9'
USA
IFFR 2007
Warlord
Convincing short about rebellious kids who form an army.
10'
USA
IFFR 2007
Waschdrang Mama
Men on celluloid are thoroughly processed.
2'
USA
IFFR 2007
We Will See Kazan in the Broken Microscope
A parallel world in the Russian city of Kazan.
20'
Russia
IFFR 2007
We Will Win
An attempt to solve the Arab-Israel conflict in eight minutes.
8'
Lebanon
IFFR 2007
What the Water Said, no. 4
Film stock was thrown in the ocean and these fragments came back.
5'
USA
IFFR 2007
When the Rain Ended
The muddy scene outside a shop on a tropical rain day.
7'
Philippines
IFFR 2007
Whirr
Perfect photo film in which a standard house turns out to be made up of precisely the same elements.
2'
Germany
IFFR 2007
Who by Water
Masterful reuse of archive material as we are familiar with from the maker of Decasia.
18'
USA
IFFR 2007
A Wondrous Film About Emma Brooks
Humorous neon animation by the Australian Woody Allen about the strange adventures of a girl called Emma.
17'
Australia
IFFR 2007
Yellow Snake
Two screens move at different speeds and in different positions around a body.
10'
Japan
IFFR 2007
Yesterday's Play
Nitpicking is one word for it in English. In Singapore they probably have a different word for it. Otherwise one will be invented after this film.
5'
Singapore
IFFR 2007
YLO: The Rap
An abstract clip made with an optical printer.
5'
Czech Republic
IFFR 2007
You Can Walk Too
When dogs walk on their back paws, there’ll be justice for women.
9'
Spain
IFFR 2007
You Don't Bring Me Flowers
A geography lesson. An idyll in need of rescue, the lustrous pages of the world at your fingertips divided in two.
8'
USA
IFFR 2007
Yours
A sentimental love song revisited in psychadelichrome.
3'
USA
IFFR 2007
Yoyogi Park
The Korean maker visually reveals her sceptical attitude to the Japanese history of occupation in East Asia.
11'
Netherlands
IFFR 2007
Zimmer, Gespräche
An encounter between a Stasi officer and his informer leads to a tense confrontation.
31'
Belgium
IFFR 2007
Zone of Initial Dilution
Fascinating documentary shows the great changes in the urban landscape around the future lake behind the gigantic Three Gorges Dam in China.
30'
France
IFFR 2007
Zoo
Hitchcock is not far away in this very intriguing short fiction by the Finnish artist Salla Tykka.
13'
Finland
IFFR 2007
Zwarte Manen
A miniature.
2'
Netherlands
IFFR 2007