2008 Movies

Beautifully shot on three cameras during Faxed Head's improbable 1995 tour of Japan, From Coalinga To Osaka documents the pride of Coalinga, CA in all their self-handicapped, brain-damaged glory. Live footage of the self-proclaimed “desk metal” quartet is inte...

Documentary short included with the DVD extras of All About Eve.

For this project Ligon originally intended to re-create the last scene of a 1903 silent film adaptation of the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin from 1852. In the film, white actors in blackface played the principal roles. Tom, the film's protagonist and a slave, dies i...

The protagonist Ketill Larsen is a 71-year-old man living in a desolate house on a hill with a view of a shopping mall on the outskirts of Reykjavik. Each day, with a bag filled with his own works, he hitchhikes to the city center where he writes poems and mak...

Accused of stealing food, a peasant (Debbie D) is sentenced to death by hanging.

A darkly comic look at the life of an actress and the types of Middle Eastern roles available to her in a post-9/11 culture. Sarita is up for the coveted role of an Iraqi rape victim’s ghost in a new film. No one's seen the script or knows whether it's a serio...

Bang Your Head Festival 2005 is a live DVD released by White Lion on December 5, 2008.The main feature is White Lion's return concert at the 2005 Bang Your Head Festival in Germany. The DVD also includes a full length interview with Mike Tramp, a slide show, a...

A couple lives at the margins of empires. A montage of water, medicine, fire, ice. Sky's Black Out!

Meckseper's parodic high-octane video 0% Down (2008) engages the politics of consumerism that undeniably extend to the automotive industry. Meckseper edited the most militaristic and aggressive sequences of campaigns produced by various manufacturers—including...

Documentary short on the real-life origins behind the fictional movie All About Eve, with audio of the "real Eve."

The British singer and songwriter MIKA surely knows how to make a great show. The “Live at the Wiltern” concert performance is a solid proof of that.

Real and well-known American cop land, with its howling police cars, uniforms, ambulances and crowded streets, turns into a perfect cinematic scenery questioning the boundaries of reality and fiction, but also narrative codes of cinema.

In a small city, Lino Cruz and his wife live happily without imagining that their happiness would end at the hands of a violent gang. In his despair, Lino tracks down the thugs responsible for his wife's murder.

Lili wakes her sister Victoria and insists that they both leave the house.

Set in the French speaking Swiss town Chatel, this movie follows the story of an orange shark eating the townsfolk and a poor kid who only wanted a friend. The shark was summoned by a cult of soccer fans who leave it offerings like Toblerone bars, clocks, and...

Short film directed by Al Mukadam.

An orphanage runs into trouble due to a strict disciplinarian and corrupt administrator. But a new teacher changes it all by proving that children can be controlled and nurtured through love and care.

As the winning artist of the 2008 Film London Jarman Award, Luke Fowler was commissioned to produce four short films for 3 Minute Wonder, Channel 4s shorts strand. The four films premiered on Channel 4 over four consecutive nights in April 2009. Entitled, Anna...