All Films

Witch's Feast

2003 • 35 min • United States of America

Pamela Sutch stars as an unfortunate business woman who is kidnapped by a witch (Laura Giglio) and prepared to be the witch’s evening meal! But not before she’s stripped of her clothes, prodded and fondled, and hung upside down by the ankles. And there’s one scene you have to see to believe!

Promises

2003 • 8 min

Promises is based on a selection of sixteen prints from a collection of vintage wedding photographs. The video pulses violently from one bouquet of red roses to another, focusing on their unifying similarities. Animating still photography into moving images, Promises zooms into the very centre of the images – single buds – in a nervous, flickering rhythm, as if it were searching for a message hidden deep under the surface. By mere means of editing, the meticulously arranged bouquets seem to explode in aggressive eruptions.

Brainy Baby: 123s

2003 • 45 min

Brainy Baby's 123's focuses on teaching your child: Numbers 1-20, Basic math skills, familiar objects, fun songs and music. The Brainy Baby Learning Library is the pioneer in infant development videos. It is the first video series that will help stimulate your child's cognitive development. This video includes Brainy Music which includes original songs, classical favorites from Mozart, Vivaldi & more! Give your child the power to excel by using the video series that's more than just a lot of pretty pictures. The educational content of Brainy Baby can help give your child a learning advantage! Babies love to watch and learn from other children at play! Brightly colored objects help develop cognitive skills and spatial reasoning. We combine fascinating animation with real life objects that babies recognize.

Cinepolis, the Film Capital

2003 • 23 min • Mexico

"Perhaps Cuevas' most chilling work, Cinepolis forecasts an image-driven invasion of everyday life, picture-perfect and unnoticed. This alien intrusion comes in the form of a fully branded consumerscape that cheerily foists fast food along with the fantasy. Irreverent and biting, Cuevas fights back with the only weapon available--images of the enemy, and the enemy’s images." --Steve Seid, Pacific Film Archive, 2004

Danzig: Archive de la Morte

2003 • 50 min

1. Dirty Black Summer 2. Dirty Black Summer (GD Performance) 3. Dirty Black Summer (Band Performance) 4. How The Gods Kill (R Version) 5. How The Gods Kill (Band Performance) 6. Sistinas (Unreleased) 7. Bodies (Camera 1 - Unreleased) 8. Bodies (Camera 2 - Unreleased) 9. It's Coming Down (MTV Version) 10. It's Coming Down (Box R Version) 11. It's Coming Down (Totally Uncensored) 12. Mother '93 (Live) 13. Left Hand Black (Live)

Sans Titre

2003 • 9 min • France

File

2003 • 9 min • United States of America

Scraps of color and pattern slide across the screen in a stop and start progression that frustrates all sense of spatiality and depth. David Schafer's delirious soundtrack adds to the disorientation.

Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War

2003 • 4 min

On October 11, 2001, in Times Square, New York City, an ad hoc group of artists named Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War silently demonstrated for peace at a time when the nation was clamoring for war and sacrificing its own civil liberties.

My Name is Adolf Hitler

2003 • 8 min

Tamy Ben-Tor, an Israeli-born, Brooklyn-based artist, ridicules Hitler in song, wig and moustache. The performance is bonkers, the subject matter brutal; a catchy ditty about genocide and women's bottoms, set to gestures for certain lyrics (a bit like 'Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes'). It is ridiculousL ridicule weaponised as a tool for critique.

Kranky Klaus

2003 • 26 min • Austria, France, United Kingdom

Recording of the annual Christmas folklore street ritual Krampus in Austria, in which people dressed up as hairy monsters scare the wits out of the population. The accompanying metal soundtrack by The Melvins provides a curious American perspective.

Lost

2003 • 16 min

A young man decides to commit suicide when his life suddenly changes. As death starts kicking in, he flashes back to times in his life that cause him to want to live -- is it too late?

The Wife in the Window

2003 • 30 min

A photographer who is confined to his home while recovering from an injury spies on his neighbors and discovers an ongoing affair. Edited from Wife in Apt C.

Baobao and Beibei

2003 • 30 min

Baobao and Beibei are twins and live in Nanjing. When they were three-and-a-half years old, their parents were laid off. To secure their the children's future, their parents choose for Baobao and Beibei to be gymnast, because the school sports coach had praised them. In order to train sports stars, amateur sports schools conduct cruel training on young children. Parents also have to obey the coach’s request and force their children to practice exercises. They believe that sports are a fair competition, and, as long as they are hard-hearted and push their children to the top, they will have bright prospects. Baobao and Beibei spent their childhood training like this. Their ideal is to participate in the Olympics, win gold medals for their country, and buy a house for their parents.

The Man Who Stole My Mother's Face

2003 • 60 min • Australia

A daughter's search for justice for her mother following a traumatic sexual assault.

Horizontal Silence

2003 • 9 min

With its stationary camera shots, tight focus, and almost uniformly black and white images, Seoungho Cho's Horizontal Silence is an experiment in minimalist limitation. A window-like aperture, created by severe digital cropping, fragments all that the lens observes, bodies and architecture alike, lending the images of streetlife and cityscapes the air of surveillance footage. The elegance of the work's understatement is only heightened by the brief moments when it blossoms into color and noise.

Gene Vincent at Town Hall Party

2003 • 48 min • Germany

To date, we've seen the same footage of Gene Vincent and other early stars of rock 'n roll over and over again. It seemed as though there wasn't much...and we'd seen it all. But then Bear Family did an exclusive deal for the rights to the old Town Hall Party show, California's largest country music barn dance. On this DVD, we see Gene with the Blue Caps filmed Oct. 25th, 1958, as well as July 25th and Nov. 7th, 1959. He sings Be-Bop-A-Lula, High Blood Pressure, Rip It Up, Dance to The Bop, You Win Again, For Your Precious Love, Rocky Road Blues, Pretty Pearly, Be-Bop-A-Lula, High School Confidential, Over the Rainbow, Roll Over Beethoven and She She Little Sheila.

Toast'ems

2003 • 5 min

Like sucking powdered Kool-Aid straight out of the packet, this bad acid-laced concentrate of TV promos and bumpers sets off a demented flashback to Tom Jones, Sage Stallone, and the cast of Star Trek.

Miriam's Christmas Gnome

2003 • 6 min • Estonia

A Christmas gnome visits Miriam.

Beatrice Cenci (On a Painting by Carravaggio)

2003 • 6 min

In 2003 Chase had been directing his SF Film Workshop since 1998. He suggested that his students that year edit their own version of Beatrice using the original footage from the film. The results became ON A PAINTING BY CARAVAGGIO (2003).

BB King Live at The Apollo

2003 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Recorded live in 1991 at the Apollo Theatre, Manchester, UK

The Secret World of Mormonism

2003 • 42 min • United States of America

The errors and inconsistencies of LDS (Mormon) theology and practice, from an evangelical Christian perspective.

Id

2003 • 10 min • Austria

Mimi Minus on the escalator of horror. Mara Mattuschka´s alter ego once again sets off on a tour de force of physical renunciation. First she goes into a tumble when the ground is pulled out from under her feet. Caught in a weightless space, she undergoes a strange metamorphosis. Mimi´s body is subjected to unnatural forces and gradually deforms, her skin ruptures and - as if the human shell were only an intermediate stage in the process of evolution - is shed like a cocoon; a reptilian monster emerges.

Mirror

2003 • 8 min • Germany

A woman, a man, guests at an evening party. Settings, which are gradually abandoned; the remains of an event, gazes that have lost their object.

Muzhchini

2003 • 4 min

“MUZHCHINI”, when pronounced by emphasizing every letter, means “mature men” in Russian. It is a catchphrase of Yevgeniy Yufit, the father of the Russian necrorealist movement and the hero of the film. This word well describes his attitude towards and interest in specific elements of Russian masculinity, which have been among the several themes of his own films. The second protagonist is Yuri Zverlin, an artist from St. Petersburg and star of Yufit’s feature “Killed by Lightning”; the third, an anonymous “Lenfilm” filmmaker. We were on a trip to the sacred monastery of lake Seliger; it all started inside its ecological pyramid, built without single nail supposedly maintaining the equilibrium of the region. It has no effect on us…