All Films

Gladys, A Cuban Mother

2002 • 11 min

A mother tells her son that her greatest loves have been women. She recounts the story of raising two daughters left behind after the death of their mother, one of Gladys’ former lovers. Shot clandestinely in Havana in 2001, Gladys, A Cuban Mother depicts the poignant experience of a lesbian mother living in a machismo society.

Bar Talk

2002 • 8 min

A humorous look at what women are REALLY saying when they lock eyes across a crowded bar. Find out why some lesbians are too cool for words.

Adagio

2002 • 4 min

A four minute film, in which the landscape is inhabited by the imagination. It uses the medium of moving paint to suggest the thought processes of the viewer contemplating Nature.

The Ragged Ones

2002 • 30 min

The Basotho live in Lesotho, a kingdom of high mountains surrounded by South Africa. Afflicted by famine, poverty and AIDS, they carry on making a science out of their witchcraft beliefs.

Kashou no Tsuki: Aki Kyougen

2002 • 60 min • Japan

When he was young, Arimasa Tsuchimikado rescued an injured cat and wished for it to become human. The cat, Kagetsu, is actually a member of the shape-shifting Kouga tribe and comes to live with Arimasa.

Finow - child labour in Berlin

2002 • 8 min

The giant business "Finow" works successfully in Berlin, Germany. But what does this success cover?

Undrinkable Water

2002 • 20 min

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

The Day the Towers Fell

2002 • 44 min

Documentary tells the gripping personal stories of September 11th that have never been told and accompanied by images never before seen.

Syunsoku 4

2002 • 3 min

Experimental short by Akira Mizuyoshi.

Border

2002 • 8 min • Japan

A woman in black dances with single-minded intensity before a grave. Eventually her steps lead her away from the grave and along the US military base fence strung across the island. A video shot almost by feel, as Yamashiro attempts to pin down the true nature of the doubt and disease she harbours in everyday life, Border ends on the beach at Henoko in Nago, a location rocked by controversy over construction of a new American base.

The White Winged

2002 • 14 min • Iran

Iranian claymation. In the middle of spring, a pair of majestic white herons enjoys the abundance and tranquility of spring. Until autumn arrives and circumstances lead the birds to a hidden swamp, where fresh food and warmth abound, but sometimes the price of comfort turns out to be freedom itself.

The Looney Plunger (The 1300 Meter Loop)

2002 • 2 min • Italy

1300 meters, blue, sky and sea. During the fall, strange feeling of suspension: the screen is monochrome, no activity or direction is perceptible. We come to desire the irruption of an action. At the end, we realize that we have never stopped falling.

Mourning The Ancient

2002 • 47 min

The first and only film released by Mourning the Ancient, who as a brand define themselves as a fearless magazine for the true underground.

One

2002 • 10 min

First film in Nick Peterson's "communication" series. A young man's longing provokes him to commit an anti-social act against the object of his desire.

Natural Snow Buildings - Live At The Pop In Paris France 18.12.2002

2002 • 30 min

A live performance by the French drone duo Natural Snow Buildings.

Three Sisters

2002 • 52 min • Russia

The main character is a poet, a guitarist, and even a fighter of the Airborne Forces! It's hard for a woman's heart to resist such a nice guy. Therefore, treatment in the garrison hospital, after an unsuccessful parachute fall, turns out to be a happy, albeit short-lived affair for the private guard. With three charming nurses at once...

Volto telato

2002 • 3 min

This digital video arose from the idea of trying to transfer to film all the photographic images I had created with the so-called “photo-finish” technique. While in the process of completing it, I used single frame digital animation to shoot the faces and their sudden transformations when subjected to the photo-finish technique, transferring them, then imparting motion to them in a single animated sequence on the computer. This agitation, torn from photographic fixity [is] subjected, in turn, to distortion by its intersection with objects texture-mapped with those same faces. The passage from motionless quiet to paroxysmal interference; the animating startle of Bach’s cello.

Shapes Of Movement

2002 • 6 min

A short history of gymnastics.

Fucked

2002 • 3 min • United States of America

"McQuilkin presents a sex-tape, of a sort. Her face is tightly framed by the camera, she applies make-up while in the midst of the experience described by the title, so hyper-focused on her image that she cannot let go." - CA Belgium

John Vaccaro and The Ridiculous

2002 • 16 min

A 2002 interview with John Vaccaro, founder of the Playhouse of the Ridiculous, recalling the actors’ walkout during rehearsals of The Conquest of the Universe, and his friendship with Charles Ludlam. The Theater of the Ridiculous was a radical theater genre that embodied queer, the word and the act, and set the embers of Gay Liberation aflame.

Baby Scanner

2002 • 4 min • Italy

Baby Scanner is aimed at a more adult audience and deals with a theme that is very much felt by educators: the behavior of "adults" in sports, observed and reproduced by children.

Myth Makers 52: Yee Jee Tso

2002 • 55 min • United States of America

Yes Jee Tso was cast in the role of Change Lee for the 1996 Doctor Who movie, alongside Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann as the seventh and eighth Doctor respectively. In this Myth Makers, shot on board the cruise ship Fascination while on the 2001 Sci-Fi Sea Cruise, Yee Jee reveals how he nearly lost the part by being late for his casting session. As an avid writer and director himself, he also gives a detailed account of the experience of shooting Doctor Who in Vancouver, Canada! What was it like working with two Doctors? Was Geoffrey Sax a good Director? These and many other questions are answered in this rare interview.

nszra

2002 • 5 min • France

A few dozen images slide over each other. Transparency plays with skin textures. Sensuality shifts from red to white.

spidery

2002 • 9 min

For spidery, mixing original shot material with colored filters, shown through a prism of water and cut crystal, to elongate and splinter the angular animal grace of the arachnidan limbs and elegant web, giving the appearance of a spider trapped in a microscopic pool or suspended within the actual projector lens. The music box soundtrack of Stockhausen's Zodiac rhymes the anthropomorphic notion of the plucked web as a sensitive stringed instrument.