All Films

Teenage Daydream: It’s Only Rock and Roll

2002 • 2 min

"In Rock and Roll Alex masochistically undulates in front of a bloody Kurt Cobain poster, slashed scars reaming her pretty, defiant face (surely enacted in thousands of suburban homes nightly)." - Charlie Finch via ArtNet

Sexual Economy of Risk

2002 • 44 min

Experimental investigations and transformations of porn, including self as porn-mechanism. 'The Sexual Economy of Risk' partly visualizes reflections of Slavoj Zizek (from On Belief): '...the passage from animal copulation to properly human sexuality affects the human animal in such a way that it causes the human animal's radical self-withdrawal, so that the zero-level of human sexuality is not the 'straight' sexual intercourse, but the solitary act of masturbation sustained by fantasizing ---the passage from this self-immersion to involvement with an Other, to finding pleasure in the Other's body is by no means 'natural', it involved a series of traumatic cuts, leaps and inventive improvistaions...' -Slavoj Zizek.

Hallowed

2002 • 11 min

Hallowed portrays a mystical voyage made back in time by an unconscious woman in the throes of a cataleptic state. She finds herself in Plato's cave where flickering flames incite a prehistoric cinematic reverie evoking an experience of magical proportions.

Icarus of Pittsburgh

2002 • 9 min

Archie McNally is known as the greatest Pittsburgh Steelers fan ever because of his daring exploits during the 1979 AFC Championship game when – using a suit of his own construction – he attempted to fly to heaven to visit his dead father.

The Living of Jogimara

2002 • 39 min

In early 2002 17 construction workers from Jogimara, Dhading were killed by the Nepali army while building a runway in another district--Kalikot. They were branded 'terrorists' by the state, and their families did not get their dead bodies or any compensation. Some families have conducted last rites for their loved ones; other wait, hoping their relatives will return.

Is Fighting Our Machine

2002 • 4 min

We experienced in the past an era when life was full of revolution and fighting, when class struggle dominated society. In modern-day China, we rarely witness such battles, but the struggle continues. In the commercial society we now live in, money has become the dictator ruling people's lives. It has become fashionable to pursue wealth. Desire leads us into a new battle, a whirlpool from which it is impossible to escape. And in this endless struggle puts a heavy burden on our emotions.

Midwest

2002 • 12 min

"Made during an artist residency project in Omaha, Nebraska, ‘Midwest’ captures aspects of the daily lives of the town’s residents. Passing from day to night, the film shows groups of people loitering on the street and sitting in a café, while images of run-down houses and cars suggest a neglected urban environment. Within this record of ordinary life, the artist brings out the melancholic side of a community which seems to be both drifting along and waiting for something to happen. Nashashibi is interested in how people use the space around them. The film is a companion to ‘Midwest Field’, which shows how the town’s residents spend their time in the green spaces outside the city." - NationalGalleries.org

Forgiven: Edmund Kemper's Story

2002 • 33 min • United States of America

Extremely rare documentary about Edmund Kemper.

The Monongahala Mongoloid

2002 • 9 min • United States of America

A bloodthirsty teenage girl and her mentally disadvantaged mother terrorize a rural boardinghouse in Pennsylvania.

So Near Yet So Far

2002 • 58 min

Opening with the harrowing 2000 press footage of Palestinian boy Mohamad al-Durra’s death in his father’s arms, Eliane Raheb’s film becomes both witness and participant. Her camera travels through Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt, tracing the lives of countless “young Mohamads” - children forced to grow up too soon in a world shaped by the intifada. As the journey unfolds, the filmmaker’s quest becomes deeply personal, prompting her to reflect on her place within the Arab world and to question her relationship with Palestine.

Piktori

2002 • 3 min

"Piktori” describes how the end of the dictatorship in Albania brought about a situation where freedom and anarchy were mixed together. Among the kiosks that started to appear with signs like ”Fruits & Vegetables” and ”Bicycle repair” were also signs that said ”Painter”. In these small kiosks were produced at the same time paintings in oil, copies of work of art, slogans and false documents starting from birth certificates and ending with death certificates. Paci asks questions about the role of the artist in society, the relationship of the handcraft work and the artistic action, the difficulty today of defining the artist as such.

The End of Extinction: Cloning the Tasmanian Tiger

2002 • 50 min

Scientists try to resurrect the extinct thylacine.

Coffee Break

2002 • 7 min

All that Uncle Sam wanted was to drink his coffee and watch some wrestling while on break, but no, two dickheads want to watch Dawson's Creek! So what does he do? Yes, he kills them and bunch of other people.

العودة إلى الجذور المرئية

2002 • 15 min

Lebanese filmmaker begins to confront the echoes of a war she did not live through but cannot escape. Through the excavation of inherited objects, the film becomes a quiet reflection on memory, identity, and the emotional weight of what we choose to remember or forget.

Myth Makers 65: Bob May

2002 • 51 min • United Kingdom

Bob May entered the entertainment business at an early age working with his grandfather Chic Johnson on the American classic Hellzapoppin’ comedy show. Since then he hasn’t looked back, his CV is endless… including roles in nine Jerry Lewis films, plus Jailhouse Rock, 77 Sunset Strip, Time Tunnell… the list goes on and on! But it’s his role as the Robot in Lost in Space that Myth Makers are focusing on, and in this engrossing interview by Nicholas Briggs, Bob regales us with an hour of fascinating stories behind one of the most loved and successful science fiction TV series ever made – it even knocked Star Trek off the ratings when it first aired!

Hurby. April 1944

2002 • 19 min • Ukraine

A documentary about the largest battle of the UPA with the NKVD and other parts of the Soviet Union near the villages of Antonivtsi and Gurba in Ternopil Oblast and Rivne Oblast.

Plovdiv

2002 • 4 min • Estonia

According to pop culture mythology, Paris Hilton “invented” the selfie in 2006. In factual terms, Uber and its rideshare model was officially launched in 2010. Mare Tralla’s video precedes - and reflects - both of these cultural landmarks that have since become nouns. In this piece, no words are needed: a woman rides in the backseat, entranced by pulsing rhythms. Through a double-layered image - or perhaps an altered state of mind - we follow the movements of a fleeting moment inside a car.

i hate video

2002 • 8 min

A documentary of sorts on the making of the video Metronome, here is the frustrated, anguished, entirely pissed off truth that Sony, JVC, Panasonic, and Apple Macintosh don't want you to see.

Actor's Lines

2002 • 6 min

A scene showing a soldier who, having committed a mistake, was being corrected by his senior, from the film, The New Guard Under Neon Lights, was taken out and re-edited; parts of the scene are repeated and some dialogue and movements are slowed down, but the entire scene with the complete dialogue has been retained in the video clip.

F.F.F. (Short Version)

2002 • 25 min

A colourful feature about young criminals (Ominato Masao, Tachibana Kaoru, Tatesawa Sadoru), sex scenes and their bitter ends. Onishi again is using almost no dialogue, that does not make it easy to watch this film, but it makes so much sense. While killing and suffering or seldom enjoying nice and peaceful moments, what should they talk about?

95% Equal

2002 • 2 min

The work part of Ochoa's research about genetics that she has been investigating since 1994. Her video, filmed in the city of Bogota, Colombia, shows a ballet dancer in a tutu, spinning and shifting on tiptoes at a Tudor's style house. The image of the performer and the image of the performer and the image of a pink pig wearing a tulle is juxtaposed from the toes of the dancer and the pig's feet, merging the features of both characters. At the end of Ochoa's video appears a statistical sentence printing on the screen "95% of porcine chromosomes correspond to human chromosomes."

Un autre jour sur la plage

2002 • 20 min

We met Rashid during the summer of 2002. Like so many others, he waits, sitting on the sand, his eyes fixed on the horizon where the lights of the English coast shine. Like every evening, he hopes to cross to the other side. But, on the beach at Sangatte, only the days pass, and these men continue to wait, on the threshold of a new life.

Deliquescence

2002 • 9 min

"Deliquescence" offers a double layer of marine flowers and aquatic erotics, with Richard Sylvarnes on electronic shadows. A Bradley Eros' original olfactory cinema with perfume scents.

Vitia Hurov Is Leaving for Italy

2002 • 11 min • Ukraine

A playful student film depicts the farewell of a young man named Vitia as he leaves for Italy. It’s unclear what in this story is true and what is not — the filmmaker manages to speak about serious things in a seemingly lighthearted way.