Island Trader

Preservation of the Song A short drama looking at how a queer couple struggles with differing approaches to queer activism in the context of the AIDS crisis.

Cars “I don’t drive, but I know people who’ll drive 100 metres to go to the shops. Our society is obsessed with the car, with coming and going, getting somewhere. I used very intricate matting, some shaped like knives. I wanted the cars to slice each other in two, creating a kind of hurdy gurdy atmosphere…an abstract rushing to and fro, going nowhere. The first half of the film is silent. The second half, a grainy dupe of the same images, has sound and is far more urgent and aggressive.” (Paul Winkler)

Window “A woman stands ironing near a window. You never actually see the ironing, but you experience the repetition and the boredom. You see her from a multiplicity of viewpoints. Finally she opens the bloody window for a breath of fresh air.” (Paul Winkler) [Made for Oberhausen Film Festival, which invited a number of filmmakers to make a three-minute film on the theme of a window.]

One Step Beyond Before there was Momentum, Taylor Steele released ONE STEP BEYOND (1991). This was the follow-up to his high school project Seaside, filmed entirely at Seaside in Cardiff...so the natural progression was to go "one step beyond." The film features his first section-based edits and his first full section with a young Kelly Slater. Also of note are sections with Tom Curren, Brad Gerlach and Johnny Boy Gomes, as well as a classic wipeouts compilation.

Play. Pause. Kill Julie is a loner. She spends her Saturday off at home trying to write a new screenplay. She keeps receiving messages from H - someone she might be interested in. Julie finally succumbs to H's charm and invites H over... After all, we all need some contact now and then, right?

Drifting: Rob Machado Ch... Family man. Style master. Traveler. Artist. Filmmaker. Loyal friend. Deep thinker. Musician. Weirdo. Afro. Surfer. Rob Machado is many things. And this 1996 biopic touches on them all. A goofyfoot classic.

Chiri Chiri is an Indian Malayalam language movie whivh tells a tale of friendship. The film is said to be a light-hearted entertainer revolving around a group of youngsters, a wedding, and a troublemaking colleague from their school days who shows up unexpectedly years later to cause more problems.

Richie Ashburn: A Baseba... Richie Ashburn, also known as Whitey for his famously blond hair, was one of the most consistent hitters in Baseball history, winning the batting title twice. He was also an incomparable fielder. He later went on to become the broadcast voice of the Phillies and is one of the most beloved sports figures in Philadelphia sports history.

Los Angeles: Capital of ... In the United States, 300,000 minors are victims of sex trafficking. Los Angeles is the hub of underage prostitution in the country. In the streets of East Hollywood, in apartments, but also in motels, groups of girls work as prostitutes under the control of their pimps. Many have been kidnapped, drugged or raped before they were forced to sell their bodies. Every girl is thought to bring in between $ 100,000 and $ 200,000 a year but the trafficking of girls is less risky for the criminals than that of arms or drugs. We follow the specialized brigade tasked with stopping the pimps, see how they dismantles pimping networks, traps sex offenders and organize rescue operations for underage prostitutes. We also meet Tika, a 38-year-old forced into prostitution as teenager who now works as an activist helping young victims.

Arumi, Night is Blue In the midst of chaos in her family and relationship with her boyfriend, Arumi realized that Juna, her colleague, was able to heal her sadness. They spent that blue night, which would define their future relationship.