All Films

Dance, Voldo, Dance

2002 • 4 min

Dance, Voldo, Dance is a machinima-based music video produced in 2002 by Chris Brandt. The video, created using the fighting game Soulcalibur, features two players both controlling the character Voldo, using existing in-game animation to have the characters perform a synchronized dance to the song "Hot in Herre" by musician Nelly. The result of over a week's full-time preparation and training, the video was conceived after Brandt noticed the character's animations and attacks could be triggered in sync with the beat of a song, and the reactions of onlookers to such a display. While several groups demonstrated interest in showcasing the video, complications arose from the copyright holders whose works were involved in creation.

Tanyabi's Lake

2002 • 60 min • India

Tanyabi, a pretty damsel, lived in Chakma village on the bank of rivulet Chengi. She was deeply in love with a poor young man, Punang chan. But, her parents get her married to a rich old man in a distant village. The river Chengi, was so grief-stricken, that it changed its course by nearly one kilometre and the old dried up course was gradually filled up the grieving Tanyabi’s tears and thus a lake was formed, where she drowned herself to death. The Chakmas sing of it as a folk tale even today.

Jardim das Vulvas

2002 • 5 min • Brazil

Brazilian short film

Death and the Children

2002 • 5 min

Single-channel video, 4' 54"

Basmati

2002 • 7 min • Italy

It's a frenzied narration about non existing shapes conceived in sequence loop, where being astonished is not a so unusual reaction.

Spilling Golden Moon

2002 • 9 min

One shot from inside a moving car and the other showing a vague image of a boy and girl playing in a cluster of light spots spinning around like a galaxy. Accompanied by short monologues, cheap keyboard music and even the soundtrack of a scene from an old Japanese movie.

Tech Suppork

2002 • 3 min

Porky Pig decides to call tech support so he can fix his computer.

The Magic of Christmas at Walt Disney World

2002 • 25 min

Holiday DVD from Walt Disney World with updated footage.

Gordorak The Fleshmaker vs. Zombies

2002 • 13 min • France

In Gordorak the Fleshmaker vs. Zombies, a guy massacres zombies that cross his path.

1000 Degrees

2002 • 9 min • Russia

An experimental musical film celebrating the art of blacksmithing.

Always smile

2002 • 5 min

Short animation by Tomoyasu Murata.

Populi

2002 • 9 min

A 35mm film composed almost entirely within an old Mitchell camera over the course of 14 months. Since it's so easy to lose where you're at and what your doing when shooting improvisational stop-motion, it was shot to sound map made from Holst's "Mars, Bringer of War," in order to give the visuals long-form structure. It was designed to run silently as a loop on large-scale exterior video panels of Seahawks Stadium in Seattle. The credits occur in the middle because of the loop design, with the first frames interlaced with the last, so it could silently cycle on and on through the night.

Restoring Harry Smith’s Mahagonny

2002 • 6 min

2002, 6 min, 35mm. From the director of technical operations at Cineric.

Mondo Gabber

2002 • 50 min

A low budget independent film about the clash between two different cultural movements in Brescia in the early 2010s, the Glam vs. the Gabber

Thriller

2002 • 7 min

Thriller opens with the scene of a house in a forest (reminiscent of Tarkovsky) in which a young man in farm clothes bearing a suffering demeanour tends sheep and a young woman in vampiric goth-garb gathers bracken for a fire. They do not look at one another. The soundtrack hums eerily. The young woman looks up towards an upstairs window of the house. Cut to an interior where a younger girl lies daydreaming on her bed. The man enters the house, turns the handle of her door. Cut to a close-up of her porcelain face wide-eyed in terror. The suspense dissipates as he turns away without opening the door. Cut to the girl as she lies back down on her bed, an enigmatic smile on her face. (Some critics have read her expression as relief, perhaps at some averted abuse, but her expression could also be read as triumph.)

Warning Examples for Our Day

2002 • 37 min • United States of America

Before crossing the Jordan River, the Israelites are faced with a subtle threat to their integrity. Association with the neighboring Moabites leads some to give into temptation and wrong conduct. Their actions and attitude serve as a warning example for us today.

Small Wars

2002 • 5 min • United States of America

With a style that mirrors documentary photography, Lê depicts Vietnam War reenactors staging theatrical battles in the forests of Virginia and soldiers at the Twentynine Palms, California, military base training for the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — warlike activities without the mortal dangers of war.

Jeepers Reaper

2002 • 29 min • United States of America

In this slasher parody, five friends find their weekend plans in shambles when a masked murderer shows up to spoil their movie watching fun. Who is this kooky killer and why does he hate 80's romantic comedies?

Ten Minutes After

2002 • 11 min

Hungarian director Istvan Szabo with "Ten minutes after" tells the family drama of a wife who is about to celebrate her husband's 40th birthday. Ten minutes later... the idyllic family atmosphere has completely changed.

Livermore

2002 • 60 min

When Rachel Raney and David Murray set out to create a film on suburban sprawl and the rise of “McTowns,” they never imagined the stories they’d find. The result is Livemore, part documentary, part fairytale, part mystery, and mostly comedy: a portrait of a formerly bucolic suburb threatened by rapid growth and change and the handful of eccentric old-timers struggling to hold on to what makes their piece of small-town America unique.

The Rat Pack's Las Vegas

2002 • 50 min

Join Frank, Dino, Sammy, Joey and Peter in the "Rat Pack's Las Vegas." This unique program traces the history of the Rat Pack, beginning with Frank Sinatra's solo stint as a Vegas headliner when his movie and recording careers crumbled, to his famous "summits" with the rest of the pack at the fabled Sands "A Place in the Sun" Hotel, to the triumphant on-location filming of the Pack's "Ocean's 11" (which showcased as many stars as could make it to Vegas during the filming). The program features rare footage of the Pack in action at the Sands' Copa Room as well as rare stills of John F. Kennedy and other Kennedy Era luminaries. The program also offers frank discussions of the racism that dominated Las Vegas in the 1950's - and Frank Sinatra's heroic efforts to end it for his good friend Sammy Davis Jr.

The Real James Bond's Gadgets

2002 • 60 min

A look at the special technical gadget of Secret Agent 007 James Bonds movies. Some of them are real.

Arica Lynn Schneider and Samuel Holley Murders

2002 • 47 min

On Thursday, jurors in Rensselaer County Court left behind no doubt who they believe was responsible for the massacre. They found Mosley, 41, of Averill Park, guilty of first-degree murder for the brutal killings of 18-year-old Arica Lynn Schneider and Samuel "Frost" Holley, 27, in January 2002.

Habit

2002 • 53 min • United States of America

HABIT is an autobiographical documentary that follows the current history of the AIDS epidemic along several trajectories. The organizing structure is built around the daily routine of the videomaker -- a veteran AIDS activist in the U.S., and a person who has been living with AIDS for over ten years. As the videomaker moves through his day, attending to mundane errands, eating, taking pills, having conversations with friends (some who have diseases like AIDS and Breast Cancer, and others who are healthy), memories of a recent trip to South Africa reoccur and interrupt the routine. In South Africa, the videomaker meets people with AIDS, fighting to get access to the same life saving drugs that he depends on to survive. It is estimated that there are over four million people infected with HIV in South Africa. The vast majority of people with AIDS in Africa do not have access to medical treatment.