All Films

A Feast of Friends

2003 • 11 min

An homage to the director’s closest friend, Gérard Goffre, long time HIV positive, who killed himself on a winter morning in 2003.

PjVidz #1: Color Vision

2003 • 30 min

Chocofus gets a mysterious video tape in the mail from his cool pals and then somethinng awesome suprise!

Blue Decoding

2003 • 3 min

Abstract images above the screen can easily bring the audience into a state of immersion. This is because the audience begins to translate the abstract images on screen into their own meaning, as in a process of decoding.

Sun

2003 • 6 min • Austria

SUN – which is not necessarily typical for the genre – consists of nothing more than a dozen static shots with little or no movement. The main subject of both the video and the song's lyrics are identical. But this is not immediately obvious: In a slow reverse zoom the white glare filling the picture is gradually revealed to be the sun's ball of light surrounded by a green-ish yellow blaze.

Nos parents sont gays et c'est pas triste

2003 • 30 min

Teenagers who live in same-sex families talk about their experiences. Together, they question the parental model, their own sexual identity and the consequences of the absence of a father. This is the first French-language documentary to give voice to children raised by gay couples.

Point of Order

2003 • 6 min

Gnursk and Biff are father and son practitioners of the ancient Bastroonk faith; a faith with several "peculiar" practices. The duo confront society, workplace safety, school dress code and the Supreme Court over the limits of religious freedoms and tolerance.

Dear, Sweet Emma

2003 • 5 min

Emma has a dark side.

Porcupine Tree - MHZ

2003 • 28 min

Porcupine Tree live on MHZ TV, Washington DC in 2003

The Adventures of Twitch and Scummy

2003 • 40 min

Jeremy Stenberg is Twitch. Colin Morrison is Scummy. Together these over-the edge, off-the-charts freestyle stars of moto take you on a trip you will never forget. Huge air, huge attitude and a never say die approach to life makes this one of the best a most outrageous moto vids ever made. Other featured riders include: Mike Metzger, Beau Manley, Ronnie Faisst, Brian Deegan, Doug Parsons and Seth Enslow.

Hold Your Breath and Cross Your Fingers: The Story of 'Dark Passage'

2003 • 11 min • United States of America

Bogart was interested in this project because it offered a chance to work with his new bride. The studio wasn't convinced, but the result speaks for itself.

Switch Center

2003 • 12 min

Says Beckmann of her film: "SWITCH CENTER is a tribute to the futuristic architecture of the Soviet postwar period, and a reaction to seeing it transitioned to shopping malls or global corporate office structures. I was invited by Balazs Bela Studio in Budapest to produce a short experimental film in Hungary. I was the first American artist to be invited by this famous film collective after the fall of Soviet power". She would also describe the film as an homage to Fernand Léger's Ballet Mécanique.

Basic Tsukamoto

2003 • 53 min • Japan

Interview with world renown cult director Shinya Tsukamoto. This interview will tell you how and when he started creating his own world of cinema exactly the way he thought it should look. Also he is an accomplished actor appearing in many films directed by other directors like Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer). The interview includes very rare footage of never released films like "10000 Channels" his TV commercials and rare footage of live shows at the Kaijyu Theater in Tokyo System.

Zythum

2003 • 4 min • France

This Existence Is Material

2003 • 10 min

A counter-archive of the past in which public images and private lives, the Old World and the New, collide. The film reflects on how boundaries between genders and generations are shaped by vision and language, by technology and warfare.

In the Beginning Was the Eye

2003 • 45 min • Austria, Luxembourg

No other adjective fits this little and delicious essay on Alpine landscapes and tourists that rest thereabout from the year‘s commotion. Bady Minck works with disposable material — old pictures and postcards — and builds with it a monument to touristic kitsch, using all digital technology available as if it were a rejuvenating system for memories. The result is hypnotic and absurdly beautiful, at the same time as it reveals to us that towns and cities also have a soul. (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente 04/04) This film takes us on a time-travel using images of an iconic mountain found on postcards. The historic imprint of political realities and human fates are rendered visible onto the idealized landscapes. The post cards where written by travellers who witnessed the same place at different times.

Half-Laughing

2003 • 11 min

A lesbian with a buzz cut returns home for a family funeral and must deal with her homophobic mother.

3 Lieder

2003 • 7 min • Germany

3 miniature silent films with music after songs by Robert Schumann and poems by Heinrich Heine

Playboy Exposed: Truth or Dare Party

2003 • 55 min

Six SEXY girlfriends get WILD playing an EROTIC game of Truth or Dare. Body shots, lap dances, skinny dipping, and that’s just the beginning. The dares get more DARING as the night goes on!

Nervous Ken

2003 • 21 min

In NERVOUS KEN, experimental film legend Ken Jacobs is "interviewed" by my urbane 12-year old M.C., Emma Bernstein. Envisioning an exploration of the nature of listening (of apprehending or not, remembering or not, and creating meaning) and of the repetitions & variations of verbal expression and its accompanying often-emphatic physical gesturing as a basis for making visual music, I, as filmmaker turned "media artist", employ the full range of temporal manipulation available within my concurrent digital set-up, exploiting unique corners which differentiate DV from 16mm, though including frequent references to themes & techniques from Jacobs' own work within the arcanum of film. The "musical score" is derived through permutations of the sync track. This was the first released section from the ongoing series, premiering March 2004 at the Museum of Modern Art.

Girls Gone Wild: Beach Babes

2003 • 23 min • United States of America

Mixing together sun, sand, and a severe dearth of clothing, Mantra Films delivers Girls Gone Wild: Beach Babes, another in its long line of adults-only titles.

Tex Avery: A Crazy World

2003 • 41 min • France

French documentary of the life and work of pioneering animation director Tex Avery.

The Pink Mirror

2003 • 35 min • India

Award-winning Indian film drama. Said to be the first Indian film to comprehensively focus on Indian trans people, with the entire story revolving around two trans women and a gay teenager's attempts to seduce a man - Samir. The film explores the taboo subject of trans people in India, which is still much misunderstood and ridiculed.

Secrets of Mexuality

2003 • 6 min

A dense and highly detailed film exploring sexuality in the specific realms of Mexican wrestling and kitsch paintings through rapid-fire transformations. Much of the film is hand scratched frame by frame, hand painted (over collage animation). This film was made as a commission by the Mexican Composer Felipe Waller and screened live in Europe and Mexico with live accompaniment by the Dutch group 'Martin Altena Ensemble'.

Honto Ni Atta! Noroi No Video 10

2003 • 55 min • Japan

10th entry in the popular "Honto ni Atta. Noroi no Video" series. A video of the fire brigade training and a figure jumping from the roof of the building behind you...