All Films

Since You've Been Gone

2002 • 30 min

Soon after Lynda Hart died on Dec. 31, 2000 from breast cancer; Stacey Foiles started writing letters to her beloved wife everyday. In July of 2001 she began this documentary as an extension of that dialogue. Using video, a medium at once grounded in the material world and allowing elusive access to fantasy and dreams, Since You've Been Gone chronicles the various universal stages of grief.

Barefeet

2002 • 7 min

An Indian lesbian attempts to come out to her family but she is unable to do so.

The Hooley Dooleys: Oopsadazee

2002 • 46 min

The Hooley Dooleys: Oopsadazee

Inside/Out

2002 • 12 min

When a pick-up in a NYC bar results in date-rape the young man who has been victimized must decide if he's going to take the chance again.

Floating Leaf

2002 • 1 min • Japan

The leaf is floating slowly in the dark with the song on the radio out of tune. (S.K.)

L'invasion des pholades géantes

2002 • 3 min

Nacht am Kanal

2002 • 2 min • Germany

short film by Helga Fanderl

El Nganga y los Árboles

2002 • 5 min • Equatorial Guinea, Spain

The world is a timeless and single organism, everything is animate, alive, inhabited by spirits you can talk to. This is how conscience is born and knowledge of the Sacred begins. The tropical jungle that runs along the Atlantic coast of Central Africa at Equatorial Guinea is the land of the ndowé, an ethnic group who understand the world as a set of invisible forces that interact with each other. According to the ndowé, there is an occult side to every element of reality and, for example, each plant has its own power, just as each person does. The nganga (witch doctor) is the mediator between the two realities, and the video show how he controls this whole universe of forces.

blinq

2002 • 7 min • Austria

In film and related audiovisual forms according to Michel Chion the relationship between sound and image is primarily vertical, and the former tends to play a secondary role. This same applies, though inversely, to music videos, in which the musical structure sets the rhythm of the editing and all motion in general, regardless of the freedom of the images themselves. blinq questions such audio-visual relationships in a radical way. Billy Roisz had 10 musicians from Austria, Germany and Japan produce short electronic sound files. These fragments, some lasting only a few seconds, were then transformed into visual patterns by means of feedback loops which function as electro-acoustic impulses and then further manipulated.

Married at the Mall

2002 • 47 min

Married at the Mall is a documentary that features an assortment of lovebirds who tie the knot at the Chapel of Love in the Mall of America. It's a story that answers the question: "Who would get married at a mall?" Minnesota filmmaker Melody Gilbert spent a year videotaping this documentary featuring quirky personalities, offbeat love stories and traditional bliss in an untraditional setting. Find out who gets married while everyone else is shopping. Vegas, shmegas!

Stupaform

2002 • 8 min • China

Shot throughout Asia over a nine-year period, Stupaform gathers into one moment the myriad manifestations of the Buddhist stupa, or pagoda. Stupaform oscillates between the inner and outer aspects of this symbol of transcendence, distilling an essence. The actual structures become electronic phenomena, apparitions of the stupa’s inner form. The sound of a Nepalese bell follows this vector; a physical reflection of an unstruck vibration. "McElwee goes to the essence of this type of building, showing us a glittering, shimmering, dissolving building seemingly woven of golden threads into a fluid temporal matrix. Sound and image are one." Ann-Sargent Wooster, artist, writer; program notes for NAP Biennial

Sweet Old Song

2002 • 57 min

National treasure Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong has been performing for most of his 91 years, ever since his father carved his first fiddle from a wooden crate. For two decades he has shared a life of creativity and feisty humor with artist Barbara Ward. Together they undertake a bittersweet journey to rediscover the past, and their place in it.

Video Quartet

2002 • 14 min

Video Quartet brings together more than 700 film clips linked by their focus on music or sound. The work consists of four synchronised videos which are projected onto four contiguous screens.

Baboon on the Moon

2002 • 6 min

A lonesome Baboon has been assigned to live on the moon and light it every evening. Once his daily duty is performed he takes out his trumpet, playing a sonata to the Earth he loves and misses.

Bob Hope and the Road to Success

2002 • 14 min • United States of America

Familiarize yourself with a brief background of Bob Hope's growth as an all-around entertainer beginning with vaudeville. He enjoyed being a performer and would do whatever was necessary to entertain the masses.

Faszination on the Nürburgring

2002 • 44 min • Germany

Learn more about the world-renown RUF automobiles in this informational video which gives a quick background on the company and shows a RUF CTR “Yellowbird” lapping on the Nürburgring.

Antonym Play

2002 • 13 min

Maleness and femaleness are not antonyms but indication of a fundamental human lack.

Monologue

2002 • 19 min

I am an actress who plays Martha, the main character of the play 'The Misunderstanding'. Even in my daily life, I constantly draw back Martha's lines and portray her. Following her feelings, I go to the sea that she craved and find a desert that resembles her. I feel her footsteps as I pass through the sea and the sun, the devastated desert and the burnt-out warehouse, where I meet her.

Naptime

2002 • 1 min

In Naptime, the visuals were made first, and then the music added at the end by Paul B. Davis.

Naphthalene

2002 • 10 min

A man. a schizophrenic, climbs an unknown mountain where he has no idea of where he is going, and the story starts. He scarcely talks to himself. He feels the bitterness of disillusionment and an unknowing sense of oppression about his sense of value.

Art-Usi

2002 • 11 min

Experimental short filmed between 1987 and 2002.

Empire

2002 • 24 min

Shown as a looped projection in a darkened room, Empire 2002 is a silent 16 mm film that is divided into six distinct sections: four sequences of varying lengths that explore objects and shapes, and two longer parts (each of around seven minutes) focusing on individual rooms.

My Older Brother

2002 • 32 min

The older dead brother of Assaf still lives in his mind.

The Pollyanna Collector

2002 • 11 min • United States of America

Film historian Stacia Martin discusses the product tie-ins that appeared with the release of Disney's 1960 Pollyanna.