All Films

Out Yonder — Teeth

2003 • 14 min • United States of America

On a quiet winter morning, Austin, son of David Lynch, breaks his silence and decides to talk about his troubling functional incapacitation.

Hard Good Life

2003 • 43 min • Taiwan

An elderly man cooks himself some noodles and eats them straight from the pot while watching TV by himself. He dozes off at his job as a security guard. Alone since the death of his wife, the father’s daily life is filmed by his daughter. While turning her gaze on ordinary things like garbage, keys, puppies, flies and lizards, we can almost sense the strong smells of summer and the sound of thunder at night. Suddenly, the father turns and waves to us. The father-daughter bond is expressed here in very few words.

Yo

2003 • 3 min • Canada

John Weldon dissects the nature of personal space, community, and crime and punishment in this macabre whimsy. Employing the simplest of animation styles to enhance a mock Zen spirituality, Weldon and composer Chris Crilly debate the Old Testament notion of "punishment fitting the crime." A film without words.

Six and Seven-Eighths

2003 • 9 min

Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.

No

2003 • 43 min

Academy of arts students and professors return from a trip without driver. Group guide tells about the one week lasting drama to driver's relatives. Film about the challenges in extreme situation, tolerance for art and illness.

Jet

2003 • 6 min • Austria

Dynamic recycling of treated and degraded video, structured to a track by electronic sound artists Radian.

Kiki and Tiger

2003 • 55 min

1997. Tiger, a Serb living in Germany is best friends with an illegal Albanian refugee, Kiki. A natural hustler, Kiki sweet-talks his way into odd jobs and women's hearts. The bond between the two men appears unbreakable, but the combination of Tiger's malicious father, who despises Albanians, and Kiki's new German girlfriend conspires to draw them apart. Then fate steps in and Kiki is deported, but the final straw comes when Tiger's father threatens to send Tiger to fight in the Balkans.

A Family Undertaking

2003 • 57 min • United States of America

Before the Civil War, preparing the dead for burial and funeral rites generally fell to friends and family members of the deceased. The 20th century saw the rise of the professional undertaker, a trend that changed American attitudes toward death and distanced grievers from their loved ones. This eye-opening film uncovers a growing movement advocating a return to a more traditional, personal approach to honoring the dead.

Amelia

2003 • 60 min • Canada

The multi-award-winning dance film Amelia (2002), directed and choreographed by Edouard Lock and performed by the acclaimed dance company La La La Human Steps, explores the use of point technique using extended intertwining solos, complex partnering sequences and extreme speed to generate powerful performances with unexpected moments of tender emotion and serenity.

U2: An Unforgettable Journey

2003 • 60 min

Starting as four plucky teenagers at a Dublin school and finishing as arguably the world's greatest rock band, music gods U2 have charted an unforgettable journey indeed, as this absorbing -- and unauthorized -- documentary demonstrates. The comprehensive collection of interviews and newsreel footage recounts the story of Bono, the Edge, Adam and Larry as they climb from obscurity to arena-shaking superstardom.

Zona Cero

2003 • 27 min

In the middle of a devastated area, a man carries his sick son looking for a doctor. The man faces indifference and abuse from people but his faith makes him resist.

Cave

2003 • 10 min

Cave, engages with elements of the science fiction genre and a futuristic setting accompanied by a Brian Eno soundtrack. Again, in this film, a moment of dramatic suspense occurs when the female protagonist, a laboratory worker of some kind who has followed the sound of an explosion to a cave interior where three men are surreally, soundlessly, drilling, is spotted by one of the men. He stops, throws his flashlight on her and looks in her direction

Structural Filmwaste. Dissolution 1

2003 • 4 min • Austria

Structural Filmwaste. Dissolution 2 is the continuation of investigations into the fragmentation of time and images through video. It also represents an attempt to reveal the material nature of this vehicle of illusions. Depictions of a film strip (with sprocket holes, frame lines, splices, etc.) were reduced to horizontal and vertical lines with a resolution comparable to that of video. The image itself comprises two different temporal structures which are interlaced in the alternation between the half images.

The Prince of Peace

2003 • 29 min

Relive the Christmas story in this fascinating 3D animation spectacular. See the story unfold as Mary and Joseph are visited by angels while Herod plots to erase any competition to his throne. The birth of baby Jesus in that Bethlehem stable changed the world, and to this very day, men, women and children kneel to worship the One who is called the Prince of Peace.

Nicola's First Orgasm

2003 • 6 min

“We cannot abstain from watching the revelation of a being that would be an object neither for herself nor for any other gaze and yet which would effect, in the mystery of her own invisibility, the condensation of all objectivity.” Aryan Kaganof plays with the contradiction and relationship between the vulnerable, private realm and the voyeuristic, objectified domain in a film about a young woman's sexual initiation.

Radiohead: Homework: An Unauthorized Documentary

2003 • 50 min

With much of the band's private life shrouded in mystery, 'Radiohead: Homework' uncovers the making of this legendary act and what it took for them to become one of the biggest rock acts on the planet.

Radio Waves

2003 • 40 min

Here’s the Pitch: Let’s not fight the conventional surf video format, but embrace it — combining the world’s best surfers and the world’s best spots with tough, driving tunes. Hollywood Connection: {{{Rocky}}} V: At first you’re thinking, “Not another one!”, but somehow you find yourself sticking around to see how it all turns out. Best Actor: Shane Dorian. With so many good surfers — a certain 44 to be exact — it’s hard to claim one as the absolute best, but Dorian consistently pops up and out around the world, letting us know he’s still here and in championship form. Supporting Cast: Kelly, AI, Gavin, Cory, Bruce, Wardo, Occy, Taj, Joel, and Fanning. Score: Queens of the Stone Age, BT and the Roots, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, Galactic, etc…

Masters of the Pillow

2003 • 58 min

Traces the making of UC-Davis professor Darrell Hamamoto's first-ever Asian American porn movie ("Skin on Skin") from planning to production. Hou interviews filmmakers Justin Lin ("Better Luck Tomorrow") and Eric Byler ("Charlotte Sometimes"), professor Elaine Kim and playwright David Henry Hwang to get at whether Asian America truly needs its own "porno practices" as a way of decolonizing the community's collective sexual imaginations and confronting how sexuality and masculinity are treated in the Asian American community.

Dear Frances (in memoriam)

2003 • 18 min

“Suddenly and sadly my dear friend Frances died. At that moment of loss I needed to hold on to her. The film is just that.” – Stephen Dwoskin.

Michael Palin and the Ladies Who Loved Matisse

2003 • 58 min

Michael Palin visits the Baltimore apartment gallery of Etta and Claribel Cone, wealthy American sisters who amassed one of the world's finest collections of modern French art.

The Catacombs

2003 • 60 min

A video by James Fotopoulos

Running With The Bulls

2003 • 41 min

Adam and Adrian travel across country in search for meaning...

Seabiscuit: The Lost Documentary

2003 • 50 min • United States of America

Made in 1939 by Seabiscuit's owner Charles Howard. This inspirational film chronicles Seabiscuit's life from birth, through training, and the legendary match race with War Admiral.

Der letzte Coiffeur vor der Wettsteinbrücke

2003 • 60 min

A documentary about Charly Hottiger, senior citizen and hairdresser in Basel, Switzerland.