All Films

Newsprint #2

2003 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A performance for two projectionists using two 16mm projectors with freeze-frame. This performance version further animates the newspaper text by using intermittent projection, pausing and re-starting the film on its way through the projector. The pauses allow us to read chance fragments of the newspaper. In performing the work two identical prints are shown superimposed with a slight difference in image size, which varies throughout the performance. The projectionists attempt to bring the two films into synchronisation with each other by alternately freezing and running the films. During these brief periods of synchronisation something unexpected happens as a result of the slight misregistration of the two identical images and of their accompanying sounds.

Artist Statement

2003 • 4 min • Canada

A naked female figure faces the wall and hits it monotonously with towels. Formally the video refers to the photographic series showing prostitutes from the red light district in New Orleans made in 1912 by the American artist E.J. Bellocq. These photographed figures often turned away from the lens and had their faces blurred or veiled. Araya’s use of primary color also refers to her artistic beginnings as a painter.

Only Drowning Men Can See Me

2003 • 8 min

Experimental Short by Ronald V Bijleveld

Zeno's Paradox

2003 • 5 min • United States of America

An experimental digital video exploring the illusions of cinematic movement and depth as corollaries of Zeno's paradox: There is no motion because that which is moved must arrive at the middle of its course before it arrives at the end.

(Body) Part One

2003 • 5 min • Canada

This is a story of a child who was taken repeatedly to the hospital for various tests, one of which was catheterization. Woven throughout are two other stories - one, a training video for nurses demonstrating the procedure and the other, looking through the child's now adult eyes, as she encounters women who echo reminders of the original event. These various echoes trigger post trauma squeamishness and sexual tension that is strange and complex. Both medical ethics and the labels that limit our view of sexual identity are being questioned here.

Un pas

2003 • 2 min • Canada

With music by Mathieu Vanasse and uncompromising lyrics, Virginie Egger's Un pas uses a photomontage technique evoking glossy media images to illustrate the appalling fate of Africa, strangled not only by AIDS but by the greed of Western pharmaceutical companies.

Borrowed Time

2003 • 7 min

Borrowed Time, which Gorewitz refers to as "a video dirge for my father," combines highly personal subject matter (including a helicopter ride over an active volcano) and the artist's own music, all synthesized through wildly vivid and frenetic electronic image manipulation.

Constricted Light

2003 • 8 min

Constricted Light explores concepts of illumination, both literal and metaphorical. Gorewitz writes: "According to the Zohar, a source text of Kabalistic mysticism, we live in a world of indirect light."

Juana's Grammar

2003 • 9 min

"Created, directed, and edited by two of the most talented independent Latino filmmakers in Canada, Juana's Grammar is an ambitious exploration of diasporic identity that literally puts the body of a new generation of transfrontera women in this country on the cross-cultural epistemological battlefront. Structurally complex, technically daring, and with a wide emotional range, Awad and Lozano's striking experimental short draws freely upon a variety of global art traditions: from Chico Buarque's Brazilian compositions to Frida Kahlo's sketches to Heiner Müller's "Hamletmachine", without losing sight of their immediate social, political and cultural contexts." - Elena Feder

Beyond the Light

2003 • 4 min

The final part of a trilogy of films started in 1998, exploring the filming of projected light through distorting lenses. Shot and edited on Super-8, the film features a carefully constructed electronic soundtrack made with Helliwell's tone generators.

Incidence or Reflection

2003 • 1 min

Projecting the real on the imaginary. This single channel video installation explores notions of perception and reflection when juxtaposing the self and its empty image. A rhythmic mixture between stop-motion and cubism.

TransAmazon: A Gender Queer Journey

2003 • 41 min • United States of America

A documentary film about gender identity and the struggle for social change as seen through the eyes of one self-styled transgender warrior. As Joelle struggles to carve out a place for herself in the world, she urges viewers to see the common struggle of humanity and the interconnectedness of all life on the planet. Viewers watching the film will not only have their view of gender challenged, but their take on what it means to be one person fighting for change and freedom.

Blue Tuesday

2003 • 3 min

America’s favorite blond doll, shows what happens when memories get in the way of self-love and moving on.

Firepussy

2003 • 20 min

An erotic narrative that uses poetry, montage, and imagery to explore the mind of Maria, a volatile Latina poet/pyromaniac who returns to Mexico and her Mayan roots.

Spike

2003 • 4 min

Spikey has two mommies. A lighthearted look at the joys and anxieties of lesbian parenting.

Passage

2003 • 13 min

Nothing extraordinary. Just a ride on the S-Bahn (elevated train) through a small section of what used to be East Berlin. An anxious journey fraught with projections. A ride very much in the present, but due to history and family history, also a journey into and out of time.- Ernie "The GOAT" Gehr

Dreaming Awake

2003 • 6 min

Experimental short video which is a prayer of reconciliation juxtaposing dancers with disabilities with the narrator seated in his wheelchair.

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Akecha Dame-hen

2003 • 49 min

In this film, the charismatic figure of the horror world, Yô Takahashi, who laid the foundation of Japanese horror as the screenwriter for "Ring" and "Don't Look Up," finally makes his directorial debut in the horror genre. Joining him are Yudai Yamaguchi, known for "Battlefield Baseball," Kei Horie, who gained immense popularity as Gao Yellow in "Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger" and received acclaim overseas for his directorial debut "Growing Growing," and Toru Moriyama, a stalwart of TBS dramas. Together, these talented directors from the horror world ensure a film that is no less impressive than its predecessors!

K (Il est une fois)

2003 • 3 min

K, for Kabylie, is a chronicle in several parts. Chronicle of a fragmented childhood between two countries, memory shredded by separation and abandonment. Chronicle also of the return, of a country broken by the central power (the demonstrations of the region of Tizi Ouzou in particular made tens of deaths), loneliness of the women and the children who fight each day for their survival. This is my family trajectory but it is above all that of a country with "murderous power" as all Kabyle children and adults sing.

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Oharai wa Kikanai-hen

2003 • 40 min

The directors include Toshiaki Hirano, the chief director of the TBS drama "Say Hello to Black Jack," Hirohisa Sasaki of "Screaming Lips," Ryuta Miyake of Fuji TV's "Scary True Stories," and Keisuke Toyoshima of "Ghost vs. Alien," gathering the young talents of horror films. The cast features Maki Horikita, Mai Kitajima, and Kei Horie, among others.

The Hooley Dooleys: Wonderful

2003 • 45 min

The Hooley Dooleys: Wonderful

I Look Up to the Sky Now

2003 • 60 min

12 New York City LGBTQ youth create self portraits on film with the help of director Barbara M Bickart In this patchwork quilt vision of today's queer youth we touch on issues such as homophobia, racism, gender bias, age bias and many others.

Glory

2003 • 5 min

At a dance club our hero takes a break from the floor and goes into the washroom only to have a close encounter of the glory hole kind.

She's a Talker

2003 • 2 min

In this experimental film we see a series of NYC Gay men with their cats.