USA, Animation, 2002, DV, Color, 00:03:00
An animated film depicting the final minutes of the OJ Simpson criminal trial.... more info
USA, Documentary, 2002, DV, Color, 00:06:00
What begins as a routing eye exam turns into a troubling dramatization of attitudes towards minorities in the United States.... more info
USA, Documentary, 2002, DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:14:00
Playfully updating the 1950's school documentary, "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" offers up political and social satire regarding the current state of reproductive rights in a fast-paced spoonful. Found-footage, animation and original images are interwoven into a collage containing the fictional stories of a conservative politician, a young couple, and a fundamentalist activist (portrayed by Survival Research Laboratories founder Mark Pauline) along with the decline in amphibian populations and the insidious creeping erosion of reproductive rights in the United States. All linked together through a Chinese dry cleaner. from website ... more info
USA, Documentary, 2001, 16mm, Color, Optical Stereo, 00:11:50
All Phil Rios wanted to be was an artist. His life, however, took another direction. The story of Phil Rios, a Vietnam and Gulf War veteran, and his attempt to cope with the memory of an unspeakable US military operation conducted in the Kuwaiti desert during the first Gulf War. Right Road Lost begins with a dreamlike image—the figure of Phil Rios descending a dark, heavily wooded hillside. In voiceover, we hear him reciting from Dante’s Inferno: “Midway on our life’s journey, I found myself in dark woods, the right road lost. To tell about those woods is hard—so tangled and rough and savage…” Phil Rios was born in Sacramento, California into a Mexican-American family of eleven childre... more info
USA, Animation, 1998, 16mm, Color, 00:03:00
An animated mini-documentary looks at the secrets and fashions of our most fabulous obsession bowling.... more info
USA, Documentary, 2002, Super 8mm & DV, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:00
San Francisco legends Samir and Nabil Kishek worked for over two years from their storefront, the Pride Superette, on their quest to build the world's largest rubber band ball.... more info
USA, Documentary, 1999, 16mm, Color, Optical Monaural, 00:06:30
A construction in picture and sound of my mother, this is a personal film created as a gift for her. I did not grow up with her, and the phone has been our primary contact. She has been mentally ill and eating disordered all of her adult life. Using underwater scenes, a score by my brother, projection of archival video onto moving surfaces, and taped phone calls with my mother and father, this is my attempt to be heard by my mother in telling her story for her. ... more info
USA, Documentary, 2001, 16mm, other, Optical Stereo, 00:12:45
Can ear-splitting improvisational noise be considered "Christian music"? North Carolina musician Scotty Irving certainly thinks so. He builds instruments out of hockey masks and crutches, bangs the ground with hammers, and in his one-man act Clang Quartet generally cranks it up for the Lord. Armor of God is a short documentary film that uses Irving's arresting performance to peer into his motivations for venturing so far out on musical and theological limbs.... more info
USA, Documentary, 2004, DVCAM/DVD, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:08:30
"Outsider artist" Gary Crom produces art from bones, hair, teeth and dried rats. ... more info
Netherlands, Experimental, 2002, 35mm, Color, Dolby Digital, 00:12:00
An experimental film in one shot about the way music takes hold of the musician. The film shows an extreme close up of the musician's face while he is playing Le Grand Tango, a piece written by Astor Piazzolla for Mstislav Rostropovitch. The piece is ten minutes long, which just fits on the 305 meters of the 35mm filmcassette.... more info