All Films

Me

2003 • 4 min

"This is a five minute piece about me, the twit gone drank : a vehicle for the dissemination of my own confusion and pomp, full of the irony : a centreless web of desires and beliefs, dim : all muddleup. I find myself confabulating more and more and it is the me that makes me sick and convinces the self that severe psychotic disturbance, intellectual perversion and the lookatmesyndome has swept me off of my stupid little feet. Dysphonic, insecure and wearing only dirty pajama bottoms. (oh dear what can the matter be.)" – Andrew Kötting

Grotesque

2003 • 8 min • Canada

A devil makes a violent attempt to change himself into a heavenly creature. His evil process backfires when he is confronted with the creatures from within.

The Mullet Uncut

2003 • 55 min

A documentary on the 1980's famous hairstyle called 'The mullet'. Hilariously written and creative beyond the sense of the word. The Mullet Uncut delves into the shady world of the mullet and exposes these people for what they really are ...mullets. A cross country trip with filmmakers Mark Maiocco and Michael Reinwald take you into the bizzare world of mullet hunting. You'll meet former mullets pro mullets, anti mullets and mullets. With a surprise appearence by the vandals, this movie is sure to be a hit.

Locke's Way

2003 • 21 min • Canada

In one breath and, because he walks fast from one room to another, breathlessly, he tells a life story in an occasionally hesitant tone. He regards it as a way to knowledge, with many bends and side turns and with steep treacherous slopes. That way is metaphorical, but also certainly literal.

Sea Storm

2003 • 12 min

Short film from James Fotopoulos

Romance

2003 • 30 min

Bearing similarities to instant messaging as well as Arthurian Romances, Romance is an investigation into language, the durational aesthetics of the structuralist film, and the fluid boundary between participation and spectatorship.

Ocher

2003 • 3 min

Abrupt and unstable touches on a rich ocher and raw surface in a construction site on a windy day. The images invite everyone to physically feel the ocher substance.

A Band Called The Aquabats!: A Sweaty History of Rad-ness!

2003 • 21 min • United States of America

A documentary featurette on the band.

Body Double 18

2003 • 3 min

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of David Lynch's Mullholland Drive

Five Starcle Men: Live + Dead

2003 • 49 min

Footage of Five Starcle Men live at Mondo Video and a memorial transmission show for Glen Hobbs at the Mondo Video Parking lot.

O Resto é Silêncio

2003 • 22 min

If Only

2003 • 8 min

"And so the intoxicated camera operator shoots the moon slipping through the barren trees. The rabbit hole's light shadow appears and he obliges, head first, no looking back. His cranium (like yours) is packed with illusions, but down the rabbit hole they treasure the same just so long as they're custom fabricated, hand tooled and conscious. Down this hole, stalking the unforeseen non-translatable is all. Join in here." (FW)

1945-1998

2003 • 14 min • Japan

"2053" - This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe. "This piece of work is a bird's eye view of the history by scaling down a month length of time into one second. No letter is used for equal messaging to all viewers without language barrier. The blinking light, sound and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many experiments each country have conducted. I created this work for the means of an interface to the people who are yet to know of the extremely grave, but present problem of the world."

Ergon

2003 • 18 min

In a setting close to hell, tiny, fragile men try to control the unleashed elements.

Market This!: Queer Radicals Respond to Gay Assimilation

2003 • 28 min • United States of America

While global capitalism is a defining feature of our times, many engage in an anti-capitalist resistance. MARKET THIS! is a timely documentary that explores the desire for radical politics and culture in the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Two-Spirited and Transgender community. The documentary began in 1999 after the Queeruption gathering in New York City. During workshops and caucuses and through discussion and entertainment, participants came together to explore ways that this community can sustain and validate itself without supporting a system that actively exploits poor people, women, People of Color, g/b/l/TS/t people. This video takes the dialogue from Queeruption one step further. MARKET THIS! considers both the successes as well as the problems which resulted most visibly (and ironically) from a lack of involvement and presence of People of Color and Transgender people.

Poster Girl

2003 • 5 min

As if trapped inside a nightmare, the main protagonist of Poster Girl is haunted by disturbing visions, thoughts and fantasies, which the viewer is privy to. She is joined at various points in the video by another woman, whose role in the narrative remains unclear – is she meant to function as a guardian or a demon? The video further complicates the matter by representing both women as simultaneously wounded and wounding, inviting and threatening, vulnerable and menacing. What results is a compelling, albeit disconcerting, glimpse into the tumultuous inner life of an adult woman.

Mala Leche

2003 • 47 min

A sequel to Leche, this film follows members of the same family now living in California's agricultural Central Valley. Through economic struggles and familial growing pains, the family relies on traditional values to navigate a complex environment of immigrant working life and cultural alienation.

Allahu Akbar

2003 • 6 min • Iraq, United States of America

Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the confrontation between tradition and modernity by drawing inspiration from geometric motives of Islamic art. The artist offers a re-interpretation of these motifs through computer animation. By turning the shapes in different direction, new images are generated, freeing them from their fixed state. Traditional spiritual values feed the present and open up to a modern perspective.

Le kiosque et la guerre

2003 • 52 min

Calais: The Last Border

2003 • 59 min • France, United Kingdom

A stark portrait of a town in decline. Brilliant juxstaposition between the scoff faced English day trippers searching for cheap booze, and the cold, snivelling asylum seekers existing on the streets. Thrown into the mix are two English ex pats, trying to make money against the odds.

Unseen + Untold: National Lampoon's Animal House

2003 • 60 min

On 25th anniversary of one of the greatest comedies, the filmmakers and casts tell about their work on the cult classic: Animal House

Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Life With Jesus

2003 • 50 min • United States of America

Whales of Atlantis: In Search of Moby Dick

2003 • 52 min • France, United States of America

Dive into the dark waves of the Atlantic to make contact with the Giants of the Sea.

Streamside Day

2003 • 26 min • United States of America, France

Streamside Day, explores the formative role of ideological and semiotic systems in establishing social rituals and traditions. Huyghe's exhibition includes five murals, concealed behind five supplementary walls, which are revealed when the walls begin to slowly move through the gallery to configure a pavilion in which a short fiction film is projected. When the film ends, the walls retract to their original positions along the perimeter of the space, restoring the gallery to its pristine condition. After opening with scenes from an Edenic landscape, Huyghe's film traces the formation of a burgeoning community hypothetically located in the Hudson Valley. The first of two sections limns a mythic kernel that is then instantiated in scenes from a typical inaugural celebration devised to forge communal identity.