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Lingchi - Echoes of a Historical Photograph

The whole piece is based on a photograph of an execution by dismemberment in China taken by the French military in the early 1900s. The film's purpose is not to search for evidence or to revisit a historical scene, but to revisit this form of punishment, giving it a fresh look and a fresh portrayal. The film also enlarges on the theme, taking this ancient practice as a metaphor to express the relations of a hegemonic, globalizing First World with a disempowered Third World.

No Sex Last Night (Double Blind)

No Sex Last Night, also known, as Double Blind is an autobiographical account of French artist Sophie CALLE, and an American photographer Greg SHEPARD on their road trip across America. Equipped with video cameras, the two artists recorded every moment of their journey from New York to California in SHEPARD's Cadillac. They started by driving through the Deep South and concluded in a Las Vegas drive through wedding chapel.

Modesty and Shame

This documentary is an autobiography of the director, Hervé GUIBERT. For GUIBERT, writing and filming himself constitute a form of oppositional discourse through which he negotiates both his own personal souvenirs and the souvenir of his social identity as a person living with AIDS that he will leave behind him. By putting his own body and identity dramatically on display as well as the way he remembers himself and wants to be remembered.

Life Without Death

"Life Without Death" is an intense personal account of filmmaker Frank COLE's Guinness Record crossing of the Sahara Desert by camel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. In the course of his journey, as he overcomes thirst, loneliness and getting lost, COLE is also forced to confront his own mortality. Striking images of his Saharan odyssey and flashbacks to his aging grandfather timelessly fuse with an evocative music score by Richard Horowitz to create an unsettling meditation on death and a powerful cry for life.

Torn Skin

This is a story of five fisherman fishing for sharks in the sea around Ireland, actually, it's not just a story, it's a real description of lives of these men who left behind their homes and everything else on land, and chose to live a life floating on the sea. During the exciting process of capturing sharks, and facing the lonely sea , fishermen return to the simplest form of existence. A film full of light and color, stylishly dealt with the relationshps between man, nature, and animal.

The Face of Death

It's a documentary about facing death. The film takes a look at death through the eyes of terminally ill patients staying in a hospice. Each of them has an individual way of looking at dying. Some plan their funerals in great detail; others feel sad for their children who are left on their own. Death is painful, confusing and scary, but it can also be forgiving, reassuring and full of love. The film follows her diaries capturing rare experiences and raw emotions. It also experiences death through humour. The film discovers death but also life.

Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom

Kazuo Nishii, 55, a photo critic, was the editor of the magazine, "Camera Mainichi". During his life, he constantly questioned the meaning of recording videos to photographers and to society. It was his last summer after being informed he had stomach cancer, he only had few months to live. It was then he asked Kawase, whom he admired as a filmmaker, to film him as the object of a documentary film. Kawase agreed. She aimed her camera at Nishii lying in the hospital bed, asked him questions ranging from the meaning of life to the meaning of pictures.

Dying at Grace

Five Patients dying in the Salvation Army Toronto Grace Health Center invite you to share their ultimate experience － a doorway through which we all must pass. The generosity of each of the patients, their families, friends and caregivers is remarkable. They have given a rare gift to the living. In the end, this intense, powerful look at death is life-affirming. "The most touching of all was the eighty-five year old woman, terrified by the prospect of dying, who watched the program through.

A Certain Kind of Death

A Certain Kind of Death lays bare a mysterious process that goes on all arund us: What happens to people who die with no next of kin? Filmmakers Blue Hadaegh and Grover Babcock present this dark milieu in surprisingly composed and beautiful scenes. We witness a variety of public employees handling the bodies, personal property and money of those who have died alone. As each life is revealed to us, each is also drawn inevitably toward the same vanishing point.