All Films

Sakura Petals: The Samurai

2002 • 40 min • Japan, United States of America

In 'Sakura Petals: The Samurai' we leave to the South and we stop in Kurashiki, one of the few cities in Japan that was not bombed during the WW2, preserving its original architecture. Further we visit Okayama, with its reconstructed Crow Castle and the beautiful garden, one of the top three gardens in Japan. We go later to Nagasaki and visit the Memorial Park and its beautiful row of Buddhist temples, and to Hagi where is the best preserved samurai quarter and traditional houses. We end up the tour in the holy island of Miya Jima full of roaming deers, where is one of the most important Shinto shrines in Japan, watching in the night the tide covering the famous floating Tori.

George in Hollywood

2002 • 3 min

George is the filmmaker’s old, trustee and motheaten cuddly toy. He plays the lead in a small film in an equally motheaten Hollywood, that will make everyone happy, even if it is full of sarcasm.

Under Strange Skies

2002 • 57 min • Portugal

During the Second World War, Lisbon was a corridor for refugees going from Hitler's occupied territories to America. This film tells two parallel stories about exile and accommodation. Through a narrated memoir and photographs, the tale of a German Jewish family that decided to stay in Portugal is recounted. The larger, more sociological account of the others who used Lisbon's escape route is skillfully told as well, using beautifully shot historic footage and written memoirs by some of the era's leading intellectuals, including Heinrich Mann and Alfred Döblin. This film evokes a desperate, intensely romantic period of exile, despair, and, ultimately, freedom.

The Silence is in Motion

2002 • 3 min • France

nseparable barriers limit the vital space of human activities. Pedestrians emerge from static lines, isolated in the outline of their bodies, only to disappear once more when they encounter the next boundary. Underpinned by an electronic soundscape, Le silence est en marche questions spatial and social conditioning.

Vapir

2002 • 22 min

Perception: There is no alternative to smoking. There is no natural way to support quitting. Reality: A new technology has emerged. A device known only as "The VAPIR" is changing lives. How does it work? Can it free your mind? What is The VAPIR?

Light Lick: Born Under a Bad Sign

2002 • 12 min • United States of America

Super 8mm / color / silent / 18fps

Covered Girls

2002 • 20 min

A look at the lives of Muslim-American teenage girls living in post-9/11 New York City.

Oil Wells: Sturgeon Road & 97th Street

2002 • 3 min • Canada

Christina Battle’s Oil Wells: Sturgeon Road & 97th Street (2003) hand-manipulates 16mm footage of oil fields on the Canadian prairies, simultaneously managing to recall Cécile Fontaine’s delicacy of emulsion-layering technique, pay visual homage to Pat O’Neill’s early 7362 (1967), and evoke with marvellous understatement the grand prize at the heart of the imperialist resource wars. [senses of cinema “Been Underground So Long, It Looks Like Up to Me: New York Underground Film Festival 2004” [Ioannis Mookas (review of programme: ‘patriot games’ – nyuff 2004)]

Redefinitions: Hip Hop Roots and Future

2002 • 38 min

'Redefinitions' shines light on the foundation of Hip Hop culture, and the players who plan to take it to the next level. Features special performances by Blackalicious, Dead Prez, Toni Blackman, Liberty and Slum Village.

Person'na

2002 • 16 min • Belgium

A very intense, fairytalelike, macabre animated film. Jennifer Debauche: `Thrubbing jello, thrubbing flesh: buffet of hurling bodies. Enter through the window in the pantheon of hysterical virgins waiting for redemption in their prettiest skin.'

Devil May Cry Sound DVD Book - The Sacred Heart

2002 • 57 min

Animated retelling of the Devil May Cry video game set to the soundtrack.

Replay (Bis)

2002 • 9 min

Photographs from: FAI (Arab Image Foundation) – Anouchian / Collection M. Yammine. and Joreige family, and La guerre du Liban (Images et chronologies), published by Dar Al-Massira, Beirut – 1978 The starting point of Replay (bis) is the idea of rupture in a time and place that are undefined. The story, which might have been a real experience or might have been a dream, is repeated in various forms. The images appear as reminiscences of the past, as well as attempts to reconstruct a narrative. These attempts make room for one final long shot: A view of Beirut today, at the time of the dusk prayer. It is as if this last image – inducing contemplation, had become my ultimate way of relating the story.

Schlittschuhlaufen

2002 • 3 min • Germany

Modern Navigation

2002 • 13 min

"The other Gehr installation, Modern Navigation, is a two-screen piece that shows people looking at fish in an aquarium. It is dark and mysterious, and seemed to me to be a witty and even slightly ironic comment on museum-going and art viewing in museums, which interpretation Gehr confirms was part of his intent. It's a good idea to see it from different positions, including from different upper-level locations at the top of the ramp." - Fred Camper

Die Derben Drei

2002 • 30 min • Germany

A short film about three young kids pursuing a bloody battle against each other in their yard.

Zijkfijergijok

2002 • 3 min • Austria

Electronic exorcism? Computerized global burning? Digital dance of death? In the beginning reMI's video zijkfijergijok makes a textual reference to eschatology and other finalities. Excerpts of collages from an old folio apparently a religious book of instruction or lamentations supply the background which is evenly overlapped by violently chaotic grids. Everything is reduced to fractions of seconds and dissected or shredded to the scale of subliminal levels of perception.

Line of Fire: Cambrai 1917

2002 • 48 min

At Cambrai in November 1917, a tank force of over three hundred tanks punched a hole four miles deep into the German lines in the space of a single morning, an advance comparable in size to that made at Passchendale in four months. But the Germans counter-attacked and the result of the battle was a virtual draw, with the front lines shifting slightly. However, the battle of Cambrai marked a major turning point in the course of the war - and military history as a whole.The era of trench warfare was coming to an end and technology was beginning to reign supreme on the battlefields of Europe.

Biocrisis

2002 • 33 min

Virus outbreak turns inhabitants of a small Swedish town into zombies.

Snow Flukes

2002 • 2 min • United States of America

“In the evening when little Kay was at home and half undressed, he crept up onto the chair by the window and peeped out of the little hole. A few snowflakes were falling, and one of these, the biggest, remained on the edge of the window box. It grew bigger and bigger, till it became the figure of a woman dressed in the finest white gauze, which, appeared to be made of millions of starry flakes. She was delicately lovely, but all ice- glittering, dazzling ice.” -Stan Brakhage from Film Biographies (quoting from the Hans Christian Anderson Story “The Snow Queen”)

Dancing to Architecture - A Motion Picture About TINA

2002 • 24 min

Dancing to Architecture was the first open source documentary of its kind and is to date the only existing motion picture account of the phenomenal This Is Not Art festivals (TINA) - held in Newcastle, Australia every year in October. Filmed in 2002, Dancing to Architecture is essential for anyone who wants to gain an impression of what the TINA festival is like. It is rapid, chaotic, anarchic and urgent. It is dramatic, electric, technical, and socially relevant. It is Australia’s biggest event for communications, new media arts, music and activism. If you are expecting this film to tell you what This Is Not Art is, then we suggest you stop and go look at their website instead:

Moose Mountain Two

2002 • 5 min

Inspired by foreign landscapes and the Rocky Mountains, the films 'Moose Mountain' and 'Moose Mountain Two' include animation, hand processing, and hand painted film.

Jan-Michael Vincent Is My Muse

2002 • 7 min • United States of America

Through crude animations, still photos and clips from old movies, the film maker tells us of his life-lone fascination with the actor Jan-Michael Vincent.

Life on Christopher Street

2002 • 28 min

This short film focuses on urban gay youth and their lives on the most popular gay strip in the world. It is an exposé on a rising subculture of Black and Latino gay youth representing the Hip-Hop generation. The people portrayed maintain the aggressive hyper masculine image and attitude represented in the Hip-Hop culture, yet they are gay, thus contradicting the stereotypical image of homosexuals. Through the eyes of these males, known as homo thugs, we see gay rappers, Blood gang members, pimps, and prostitutes in their struggle to maintain dignity as gay minorities.

Alma Carioca - Um Choro de Menino

2002 • 6 min • Brazil

The story of a boy who lives in the port area of Rio de Janeiro in the 1920s and witnesses the emergence of Choro, when he meets the great pioneers of this purely carioca style.