All Films

Memorandum on Happiness

2004 • 45 min

This is a documentary about sweetness and hurt, pursuit and loss. It is a bluebird's song of comrades and their joy, tinged with melancholy premonition-a song that comes from afar as though to rub shoulders with life directly, only to pass on. A story of two marriages, one lesbian and one gay. The parallel structure lays bare the complexity of queer love, but also the cruelty inherent to love itself. Domestic violence, faithfully captured by the camera, threads its way like a deep silent river, cutting out its course and leaving a path of marks and scars. The survivor is like a child who cannot explain, but can only remember.

Panorama Roma

2004 • 24 min

The Panorama series started in 2004 with Rome. The first site of the project is Piazza del Popolo, a natural stage set in continuous motion where the camera has been set up, like the minute hand of a clock, to complete a 360° revolution over the course of an hour. The result is an extra–ordinary temporal flux, whereby 8 hours of film have been accelerated to a 1:20 ratio, resulting in 24 minutes of time–lapse video. The camera’s eye gradually discovers the site’s hidden identity, encountering strange narcoleptic beings who sleep, stare, act and inhabit the architecture and send mysterious signals while oblivious pedestrians flash precipitously by. The performers move through a parallel temporal landscape in which they experience the dimension of permanence. This flux is charged with visions and omens in which other possibilities of life take form.

Lamp

2004 • 1 min • Netherlands

A short animated film with a lamp and spiders.

You Fake

2004 • 7 min

What do real women do in bed? After a bad one-night stand, Morgan looks for solace from her best friend only to be confronted with self-righteousness. Their disagreement results in a high-stakes bet to find out how many dykes fake it.

Se gaeui mello

2004 • 43 min • South Korea

In an afternoon of summer, only two female customers are in the cafe. One is having a cake, the other is drinking a coffee. A woman staff is taking view the space with boresome. All three women are looking on invisible time with different point of view simultaneously, and a young chap is strolling about the street near the cafe, and then coming back to the building after passing by around the cafe. (SIFF2004)

Lights Out

2004 • 4 min

A little stuffed dog who defends his girl from a scary monster in the dead of the night.

The Green Line

2004 • 18 min • Belgium, Israel, Jordan, Palestinian Territory

In The Green Line, for which the axiom was ‘sometimes the political is poetic, sometimes the poetic is political’, Alÿs walks holding a punctured can of dribbling green paint along the contested width of the so-called Green Line established between Israel and its neighbours following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. In formal terms, The Green Line is a reenactment of an earlier work, The Leak (1996), in which the artist took a can dribbling blue paint for a walk and installed the empty container in the gallery. By recontextualising The Leak in geopolitical terms, Alÿs relocates the tensions in the work from those formal ideas of action and painting to questions of maps and territories and who has the right to live where.

With Diva

2004 • 8 min

A pakistanese emigrant lives in Spain and struggles to be himself in the poetry of the night and the reality of day ight.

Mischief: Hyper Street Racing - Type A

2004 • 56 min

Ready to get slammed by a wall of street racing stunts cars explosions clowning and never-seen-before caught-on-tape chaos? Are you sure you want to enter into the madness that is HypeR Street Racing? Just remember that once you enter there is no way out. Be prepared to get hooked on the HypeR debauchery. We have only one motto at HypeR Street Racing..."Rock It "Til The Wheels Fall Off!"This movie is not for the faint of heart. We don't spend a lot of time on boring car features endless bling bling show footage or anything you might have watched before or have seen for yourself. HypeR Street Racing is a bunch of guys who race and clown. We are the pranksters of the street racing world.

Preghiera n.2 - Serba il mio tempo

2004 • 20 min

Bästa knattefilmerna 4

2004 • 53 min • Switzerland

A compilation of animated short films for children, produced by Kanal Films and Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet during the 1980's.

The Bobsy Boys

2004 • 6 min

The story of a gay couple who have together brought up a son. Now one of them is dying of cancer.

Gettysburg History & Hauntings with Mark Nesbitt

2004 • 21 min

An exploration of the ghostly tales and history of the Battle of Gettysburg with the acclaimed author of the Ghosts of Gettysburg, series of books, Mark Nesbitt.

Con Sabor a Cuchufli

2004 • 3 min • Chile

The journey of a father who takes his son to see the sea.

Nouvel Arsch

2004 • 5 min • Germany

A short stylistic exercise about a Prenzelberg resident who, in search of his girlfriend's birth control pill, is confronted in an obstacle course with the technical (children's carts) and human (the brats themselves) excesses of his childbearing district neighbors.

The Element of Light

2004 • 5 min

A direct-on-film piece

Room Service for Bombed Buildings

2004 • 17 min • Serbia and Montenegro

Six years after Belgrade was bombed by NATO forces, some buildings still remain destroyed. A team of cleaning ladies enters the ruins of the serbian Ministry of Defense wishing to put a bit of order in the chaos.

Tinica

2004 • 8 min • Turkey

A young man on a mountaintop improvising empty tin cans into a drum set. Overlooking the suburbs of Batman, a Turkish city near Iraq, he abruptly stops playing and kicks the cans down the hillside—a rebellious gesture as familiar to rock and roll as it is to performance art.

Danginlee Power Station

2004 • 15 min

Filmed a power plant for 20 hours in 100 angles.

Bombshell: Iraqi Secret Videos and Artifacts from a Fallen Regime

2004 • 15 min

This video is compiled from several appropriated clips from VCD's(Video Compact Discs) that are sold in Baghdad.Iraqi-American filmmaker Usama Alshaibi...makes some striking juxtapositions with his work "Bombshell: Iraqi Secret Videos and Artifacts from a Fallen Regime," which split-screens a smiling Saddam Hussein birthday party and underground torture videos as well as images of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Hussein in 1983. "'Bombshell' is saying many things at once," explains Alshaibi, who lived in Iraq as a child and just recently visited his homeland. "I'm just showing the history of Iraq: the U.S. intervention, but also keep in mind that Saddam was the United States' main guy, we helped him produce chemical weapons, so it's the schizophrenia of war and Iraq as a symbol of many things."

Taipei-durÉe

2004 • 12 min

JACK, PAK, and KI (Camera) spend two days and one night together in a building owned by JACK's father on the second floor in Taipei, to commemorate the Chinese New Year. The resulting film is a personal record of everyday life inspired by Jonas Mekas' diary films. The selection of sound was made first, followed by the corresponding image, resulting in the presentation of independent sounds and images rather than sound supporting the images.

Little People, Big Effects

2004 • 11 min • United States of America

A wonderful look at the practical special effects used in the film Darby O'Gill and the Little People.

Wonokromo

2004 • 6 min • Italy

Wonokromo is a research about visual noise divided into two sections.

Guns & Mothers

2004 • 53 min

Two advocacy groups, The Million Moms and the Second Amendment Sisters, are diametrically opposed on gun control, but they agree on one point: mothers will and should have a voice in determining gun control policy in America. Guns & Mothers explores the grassroots beliefs of both movements by focusing on two different women, living in two different Americas.