All Films

Car Craze

2003 • 12 min • Netherlands

An environmental inspector gets stranded in a forgotten town dominated by monstrous cars. His short stay in a motel doesn't give him a moment's rest. He discovers that cars evolve into parasitic life forms, entrancing mankind and extracting vital juices from the earth.

Two Rivers

2003 • 45 min • United States of America

Commissioned by the arts organization Minetta Brook, Two Rivers was inspired by Henry Hudson’s failed 1609 quest to discover a trade route between North America and China. Hutton observes the bustling industry of the Hudson from atop a ship’s deck. "A poetic, comparative portrait of the Hudson River and Yangtze River that speaks to the rise of China in relation to the decline of a post-industrial American region."

Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, Part I

2003 • 30 min

Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest has five parts. The series was finished in 2007 and shown as whole in the Venice Biennale the same year. Yang Fudong uses myths, individual memories and experiences as means to study identity and how it may be formed. In his films the spectator can sense the contradictions in the present and past China. Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, Part 1, was filmed on the Yellow Mountain. The mountain has a significant status in the traditional Chinese painting. The scenery, the not so clear motives of each character in the film combined with the music creates an almost poetic atmosphere.

The Exiled Bird

2003 • 60 min

Video (color)

Flux

2003 • 5 min

The spaces between memory and perception, dream and waking reveal themselves on the film surface. Glimpses, impressions, momentary clarity shifts to obscurity and afterimage. This is a film about film, a film that is process-oriented and takes its time. Finding a language without speech, communication is possible by other means.

Fragrant Portals, Bright Particulars and the Edge of Space

2003 • 12 min

“A companion of sorts to WHAT THE WATER SAID. An attempt to assess the potentials, possibilities and pitfalls of finding meaning in – or assigning human meaning to – the natural world; by way of Wallace Stevens. ‘The Idea of Order at Key West’ and ‘Of Mere Being’ translated into Ogham (the 5th-century ‘tree alphabet’ derived from a notational system used by shepherds to record notes on their wooden staffs), and carved a letter at a time into a piece of semi-transparent flexible wood (black leader).” (DG)

Lovebomb/Ai No Bakudan

2003 • 58 min

Once we accept love is not the root of all friendly cultural exchange, the revelation cannot be avoided that when strategizing coexistence in a global context, love is not the answer. From Helen of Troy (love of sex) to the Christian Crusades (love of religion) to Nazism (love of the fatherland) to Operation Infinite Justice (love of freedom), societies have placed love at the heart of conflict and conquest—all of which concealed larger cultural agendas in a cloak of opaque righteousness.

Mercado do Bolhão

2003 • 40 min

A documentary of everyday life in Bolhão's market, in Porto.

Moyngo el sueño de Maragareum

2003 • 44 min

A Txicão shaman tells the story of how his tribe learned the rituals they perform; his story is illustrated with footage of the ceremonies, rituals, celebrations being talked about.

En modell

2003 • 4 min • Sweden

Black and white animation based on Munch's art of work. The image changes gradually and resembles at one point The Scream.

Consume

2003 • 12 min • United States of America

Inspired by the novel Flicker by Theodore Roszak, this film was intended to explore the images captured in the flickering light of multiple projector beams. By utilizing superimpositions within the camera, one could experience the pulsating light and explore hidden imagery through use of the "Sally Rand" that Roszak refers to.

Draft 9

2003 • 28 min

The craft of montage is alive and well in Leventhal’s work. Delicate and harrowing juxtapositions of skinned animals, the tattooed arm of a Holocaust survivor eating bagels in a coffee shop, and neon flowers on a disco floor. In her work emerges something that is extraordinarily immediate, both fresh and painful, hard to watch and yet impossible not to watch. - Genevieve Yue

Eloise is leaving...

2003 • 7 min • France

It's the story of a little girl who decides to leave childhood behind the evening that the Christmas tree is decorated. After all, her childhood has been stolen from her.

shiva

2003 • 8 min

Based on improvised material from several performances with BLIND.

Scheherazade

2003 • 42 min

The Scheherazade Ballet with the Bolshoi Ballet with Nina Ananiashvili.

See that girl

2003 • 15 min

Zuse Strip

2003 • 8 min

A piece of movie film has survived the forthcoming Ice Age and is discovered by Venusian scientists--5000 years from now... This work is a correspondence of two information fragments of different origins and times that met by accident. Cinema transforms into a three-dimensional landscape--utilizing data that is based on an archaeological misinterpretation. Zuse Strip is named after Konrad Zuse’s first digital computer. It used discarded 35mm movie film from the German UFA as a medium to read and write 8-bit binary code data with a hole-punch system. The work was inspired by Lev Manovich's text “Cinema by Numbers”, as well as “The Deciphering of Linear B" by linguist/archaeologist John Chadwick.

Les semeurs de peste

2003 • 60 min

In 1630, a plague epidemic ravages the city of Milan. In a climate of suspicion and terror, two men are accused of spreading the disease in the city. Interrogated and tortured, they are forced to expose the story of an imaginary crime. Then, before dying, they invent the story of the Sowers of Plague.

Lost Images

2003 • 29 min • Netherlands

Everyone remembers the harrowing footage of the Srebrenica massacre shot by Zoran Petrovic, the only cameraman to capture the events on film. But this week's fascinating documentary shows that the very worst of his pictures never reached our TV screens. Key scenes from Petrovic's rushes were 'lost' or blacked over, presumably to prevent reprisals. We unearth the lost images, and the completed jigsaw is even more heinous than the already blood-spattered picture. Amazingly, Petrovic has never been interviewed by the War Crimes Tribunal about what he saw. For the first time, his incriminating material is available for scrutiny.

The Remote Controller

2003 • 9 min • United States of America

Using found footage sourced from educational films in the Prelinger Archives, this work explores the subject of experimentation in human body and machine interfaces in the 20th century. The film edits together the different ways we have controlled our environment - through technology, magic and theatrical devices. As the world of communications brings people together, power still exists by pushing a button and pulling the puppet strings.

Rhythm of Life

2003 • 17 min • South Korea

A young man in despair goes to stay at the house of his friend's girlfriend.

The Bozy

2003 • 19 min • South Korea

Head of a radical anarchist group that fights against dictatorship, and breaks into a base for the purpose of destroying the main facilities of the government and meets Mi-joo, once a colleague and lover of the same group.

Where are we...

2003 • 15 min • South Korea

A police officer arrives at the scene and catches a strange woman.

Valencia

2003 • 10 min

'FROM' 2001 (4 films) *A series of 4 travel films made between 1998 and 2001 according to an identical principle of scrolling all the filmed images, captured in precipitation and slowed down.