All Films

Dream Again

2003 • 45 min • Italy

Two best friends Andy and Tom drive to a nearby lake to celebrate the end of Andy's long-term relationship and his newly won freedom with alcohol. Once at the lake, the two friends discover an abandoned hut in the vicinity that they want to take a closer look at. When they reach the hut, however, the two quickly realize that it would have been better to avoid this dark place.

Two Minutes After Midnight

2003 • 11 min

A young man strikes out while trying to pick up a hunk in a gay club. Later in the men's room he meets an angel who gives him the ability to change into the person of one's dreams. Unfortunately we don't all have the same dreams...

A Blink

2003 • 8 min • Japan

I used photographs and video tapes taken by my father during my childhood. Although this is a window into my father's vision, this was also my vision then and now. (Maki Satake)

Release System

2003 • 5 min

A stuttering double video projection of a landscape of the body, carnal desire rendered inhuman through surveillance destabilized by one video frame constantly disrupting another.

Night Lights

2003 • 8 min

An artificial constellation sparkles in a variation of micro-movements that interfere with a luminescent macro-mass which is also in movement. Visual dissonance, phase shift, and divergence of light sources emerge.

Faust

2003 • 4 min • Argentina

Fausto Papetti is an overwhelmed fellow and tired of living until he receives the visit of Mephisto, who allows him to know the libations of sin and delirium.

Engolervilha

2003 • 8 min • Brazil

The sordid, the putrid and the fetid. The bizarre, the eschatological and the grotesque. Peas, urine and chickens.

Honey

2003 • 10 min

This video appears to be a humorous stylistic reference to spy films. All the clichés – tension, eroticism, grave, cigarette-smoking men and atmospheric music – are present. The woman wears fishnet hose and a fur coat with her military uniform. This ambiguity of seduction and deceit is not only the earmark of espionage, but possibly also a metaphor for the present ambivalent situation in China.

Twelve Violent Deaths of Contemporary Artists: Vol. One

2003 • 5 min

The filmmaker interviewed a selection of victims (Teresa Margolles, Ximena Cuevas, Miguel Calderón, Tayana Pimentel and Kurt Hollander) about the way in which they would want to die or be murdered. Each victim then performed his/her own death on video.

Sacred Steel: The Steel Guitar Tradition of the House of God Churches

2003 • 52 min

A documentary about steel guitar players at House of God churches across America (and abroad).

Rumors

2003 • 6 min

This short animation begins with a mysterious man lying unconscious on the ground in the middle of a bustling metropolis. A crowd of passers-by forms around him, each person attempting to guess what is going on. While the crowd's babbling feeds the rumour mill, it never occurs to any of the onlookers—not the scientist, or the cop, or the businessman, or the punk, or the old lady—to just go and help the poor guy. Rumors is a wickedly funny and biting social satire from the Groupe Kiwistiti, a Quebec-based auteur animation group.

Lacan's Assumption

2003 • 12 min

video transferred to DVD, colour, sound, 12' 07" 20Fr (edition of 12 + 3 APs)

Blooming Ink Tale

2003 • 10 min • Japan

The beautifully crafted Blooming Ink Tale is created by painstakingly re-painting a white room, which tells the story of lovers' fantasies in human prints.

Sex & Asparagus

2003 • 14 min

At a restaurant, we eavesdrop on the conversations of several pairs of people and one threesome. A man tells his date straight up what he wants and she replies with a devastating critique. A woman tells her mate that she wants a vibrator to spice up her life; he's defensive. A woman complains to a friend that her most recent date had too much foreplay. Two women talk to a guy who's a writer: one is his girlfriend and she suggests he drink less. Her friend listens. Two men talk about one's recent brush with homosexuality. When the evening ends, will there be any re-pairings?

INXS - The Years 1979-1997

2003 • 43 min

The Years 1979–1997 is a greatest hits compilation released by Australian rock band INXS on 10 December 2002

Polka Time

2003 • 40 min

Polka Time is a zippy cultural documentary about the Gibbon Polka Fest in tiny rural Gibbon, Minnesota. join the throngs for a rousing romp through the ballrooms, twirly skirts, and a passel of concertina virtuosos.

Pine Pong

2003 • 4 min • France

Sporting musical graphic fresco, on the theme of coloring to the rescue of the moral order.

Arches National Park: Windows in Stone

2003 • 28 min

Explore the breathtaking scenery of Arches National Park; from the sculpted spans of the Window Section to the weathered sandstone of the Fiery Furnace. Learn about the area's 300-million-year geologic history and how these amazing formations came to be.

L’Invitation au Voyage

2003 • 33 min • Canada

the fishing boats are out in the water the fish are caught. brought into shore the men haul the catch off the boat. the boat once again goes out to catch and the cycle continues. for centuries this pattern has repeated it's cycle like the tides which roll in and out a story which draws its energy from the sun the moon draws the tides the men work and die and it continues take a moment stretch your eyes and imagine just imagine all stories are true. (CB)

The Dickies – An Evening With The Dickies

2003 • 52 min

Filmed At Wedgwood Rooms, Portsmouth 16 July 2002

Would You Die For Ireland?

2003 • 13 min • Ireland

Artist John Byrne asks passers by on the streets of Dublin, Cork and Belfast if they would make the ultimate sacrifice for their country.

The Journey of Butterfly: The Legacy

2003 • 60 min

The American Boy choir made a trip to Terezin Concentration Camp in 1991 to deepen their understanding of a work they performed there called I Never Saw Another Butterfly, using texts from the children's writings from Terezin. Ten years later, the boys--now men in their 20's--are reunited with the survivors they met earlier. They engage in thought-provoking discussion on the nature of music and Holocaust and the effect the earlier experience has had on their lives.

Companion

2003 • 50 min • China

Documentary about an old lady and her pig.

Lunch Break on the Xerox Machine

2003 • 3 min • United States of America

For 3 months, every day at 1pm I would hide in the copy room at work and lay my face on the xerox machine. The result: an animation of my face eating my fist.