All Films

Nightingale

2002 • 14 min • United States of America

Nightingale is a film that uses a love affair to examine the way we recreate our own histories; continuously fictionalising our past and forever altering the events within them.

The Witches

2002 • 6 min • United Kingdom

In 1590, the reigning monarch King James VI of Scotland was in danger of being toppled from his throne; due to the blight of witchcraft. In North Berwick, three fishwives – Margaret, Ina and Sandra – have good reason to believe that they might be targets of the King’s witch hunt and so set about devising a plan to save themselves from the fearful witch-dooking apparatus.

Village Cadre

2002 • 60 min

Look at impoverished mountain village government officials. Shot over the course of four years, it reveals the tension and complexity that comes with the job of village cadre.

Katiffa Xina

2002 • 7 min

A Film by Oriol Sanchez

Walking the West

2002 • 57 min

A New Zealander and an Irishman quit their jobs, cash in their savings and walk 2,626 miles from Mexico to Canada along one of the longest and most challenging foot trails in the world, the Pacific Crest Trail. Their route takes them through some of the most spectacular scenery in North America, including California’s deserts, the high mountain passes of the Sierra Nevada, the Cascade Mountains and the lush forests of Oregon and Washington States. Walking at a challenging pace of 21 miles a day for 4.5 months, they must cross the Canadian border before the approaching winter storms. The ordeal forced one of them to quit just 60 miles before the finish. An amusingly poignant tale about two novice hikers search for adventure and enlightenment on the Pacific Crest Trail.

Maestro or Mephisto: The Real Georg Solti

2002 • 59 min • United Kingdom

This film tells the story of one of the greatest and most controversial conductors of the 20th Century. The Hungarian-born Georg Solti had huge drive, energy and ambition. A combination of willpower and extraordinary talent took him to the peak of musical power and prestige. This film includes remarkably candid interviews which Solti talked with great honesty about his life, challenges and achievements. It also includes new interviews with some of the artists and musicians who worked closely with him.

Algonquin Park, Early March

2002 • 4 min

The sublime, seductive landscape in Algonquin Park, Early March 2002 takes shape through a slow zooming out of the camera, starting with a monochromatic white screen (in fact a pure projection of light) and only revealing the full picture at the end. Location, subject, and especially the viewer’s position (a cliff high above a lake), evoke the effects of C. D. Friedrich’s Romantic painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818. The sequence of revelations moves from the pure abstraction of the film’s beginning to the actual scenery and culminates in the final scene of a group of skaters on a small, distant oblong of ice. Even as the movement of the skaters disrupts the contemplation of the motionless landscape, their position off-center reminds us of the background in Pieter Brueghel’s Hunters in the Snow, 1565.

Rotting Artist

2002 • 4 min

People try it on in the Croxley bunkers, and when the head of the household shoves his bendy cane brush right up the chimney we would do well to run to the other side of the road and watch it appear out the top for the lucky sight of it.

The reason why I do not eat meat I

2002 • 5 min

This film is about the reason why I haven’t eaten meat since I was in middle teenage. The themes are “the person who has tied up with a rope and dragged by a dog walking with two legs, the position of the person and a dog being swapped” and ”sex”.

Fantôme

2002 • 21 min • France

Xavier Baert works on the visual outline of the body. He creates cinematographic body states which according to the French filmmaker, only cinema can invent. Ghost plays on projection and light phenomenon, on the double exposure of a body on another. The narration which is essential through a slow temporal flood comes within a progression which plays on the working drawing and fading. A ‘ghostly’ fading as it is more a question of the appearance of a body without substance through shadow effects and light loops. The image cast in negative adds to this ethereal space the sensation of unreal space, which however, forms one body with the presence of this shadow in perpetual movement. Fantome reminds us that cinema’s main rights are ‘recording bodies.

Pink Eyed Pet

2002 • 3 min • Canada

Sometimes topical treatments aren't enough to cure love's infections.

Hello Performance!

2002 • 13 min • Canada

From May 2001 to February 2002, transsexual performance artist Mirha-Soleil Ross appeared pregnant every time she was in public. This video features Mirha-Soleil performing pregnancy by the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco and an audio recording of her mother speaking about the ups and downs of having a baby. Created as a part of Mirha-Soleil Ross' performance art cycle: The Pregnancy Project. The Pregnancy Project explores some transsexual women's relationship to the personal and institutional aspects of motherhood and hopes to foster community discussion around controversial reproductive technologies.

The Whirlwind

2002 • 6 min • Canada

"Over and over I am mesmerized by Jeanne Moreau's presence in cinema. Enigmatic, gutsy, provocative, she defines the true female avant-garde artist." - Lise Beaudry

Dahiet Al Bareed, District of the Post Office

2002 • 7 min • Palestinian Territory, United Kingdom

One slow, hot afternoon in a neighbourhood built to be a utopian suburb for employees of the Palestinian Post Office; now becomes a lawless no-man’s-land between occupied East Jerusalem and Ramallah.

Commune by the Great Wall

2002 • 12 min

Selected for the Venice Biennale. A short documentary made on the "Commune by the Great Wall": a contemporary architectural museum of private houses designed by 12 Asian artists. (Cinematography: Andre Kawazudi.)

The French

2002 • 13 min

Adventure of a Japanese boy who wanders in France where the violence of a strange environment and strange language penetrate his mind and he starts to have incoherent illusions. What happens to the boy between illusions printed in him and tyrannically cruel reality? The work was animated with 6,000 wood block prints to express the gaps and shakes of megalomaniac illusions.

A Taste of Blood

2002 • 19 min

Video album by Kettle Cadaver

Crépitation

2002 • 4 min • Spain

This video, created for ‘Crépitation’, a song included in Ápeiron’s (a band from Orense) album Todo sigue intacto recorded for Barcelona music company Foehn Records, depicts rural Galicia in 2002, mixing bucolic images of green landscapes, clean rivers, free-ranging animals… with others of drastically contrasting ‘progress’.

Colour Stream

2002 • 4 min

Flowing lights and colours are the focus of this abstract film shot with super-8 through a close-up lens. Helliwell`s homemade electronics provide the rhythmic soundtrack.

One + One

2002 • 27 min

A powerful film about serodiscordant couples (of mixed HIV status) living with HIV and AIDS. John and Noel are in a panic. The condom broke during sex, and John happens to have AIDS. Joanne breaks down when the counselor asks about her HIV-positive husband Robert. In their six-year marriage, Joanne has been tested twice a year, each time more stressful than the last. One + One takes an unflinching look at the lives of these two couples of mixed HIV status--one straight, one gay--as they navigate the physical and emotional minefield inherent in every serodiscordant relationship.

Black Taboo Series - Moxi Town

2002 • 10 min

Short film by Shi Qing.

Meerkats: Part of the Team

2002 • 48 min

Documentary-maker Simon King follows a family of meerkats in the Tswalu National Park in South Africa, winning their trust and using modern filming techniques to capture their secret lives, including their constant struggle to find food and potentially deadly encounters with snakes, scorpions and cheetahs.

Racing Through Time: The History of Grand Prix Racing

2002 • 55 min • United States of America

Racing Through Time is an exceptional series entailing the sensational beginnings of much loved global sport. From the grease and glamour, to the danger and thrills, this is an action-packed, fact filled tour of the world of motor racing, featuring in-depth stories on the legends of motor racing, the high performance machines, the men behind the wheel, and the circuits that have made history.

Tiger Day

2002 • 19 min

An investigation and study of the Yi ethnic minority's "Tiger Day" ceremony that applies the holistic principles of anthropological human research, while looking for the sociocultural causes of drug dependence behavior for local ethnic groups. The film establishes another methodology different from scientific methodology, that is, to defeat the addiction of human biology with the power of culture. "Tiger Day" changed the traditional characteristics of simple description and interpretation, and was involved in exploring the direct application purpose of the film and putting it into practice, thus opening up a new direction for film and television anthropology. Nominated for a Special Award at the 16th Belfast Public Health Conference Film Festival in 2005.