All Films

Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood & Corporate Power

2002 • 52 min • United States of America

Mickey Mouse Monopoly takes a close and critical look at the world these films create and the stories they tell about race, gender and class and reaches disturbing conclusions about the values propagated under the guise of innocence and fun. This daring new video insightfully analyzes Disney's cultural pedagogy, examines its corporate power, and explores its vast influence on our global culture. Including interviews with cultural critics, media scholars, child psychologists, kindergarten teachers, multicultural educators, college students and children, Mickey Mouse Monopoly will provoke audiences to confront comfortable assumptions about an American institution that is virtually synonymous with childhood pleasure.

Family Values

2002 • 25 min • United States of America

Meet Becky and Donna, a nice lesbian couple with a home in the suburbs, who run a family business cleaning up murder scenes.

Pieniä eroja

2002 • 59 min

"Pieniä Eroja" is a film about Salla - a 13-year-old girl who has a crush on her ex-teacher from the lower level of the comprehensive school, Tarsala. Starting the upper level herself, Salla dreams of Tarsala and eventually they become friends.

Salad Days (TGR)

2002 • 30 min • United States of America

Salad Days, noun: a time of youthful indiscretion and delinquency What really are the salad days? TGR answers with the tightest in jib style and culture. Check it: backcountry air, cliffs, rails, urban, pipe, and more. Witness skiing’s new generation experience the sessions they wish would last forever. These are the happy days, the salad days as they say, when the boys are green in judgment, cold in blood.

The Coma-Brutal Stoner Duel

2002 • 22 min • Germany

A short parody of Das komabrutale Duell directed by Heiko Fipper.

Mysterial Power

2002 • 53 min

A personal pursuit of knowledge through interactions with family, spirituality, and everyday life in Taiwan.

Dad's Clock

2002 • 7 min • Australia

A moving ode to his dying father, Dik Jarman seeks and finds resolution to the strained relationship they shared by examining his father's love of clocks—overcoming in the end the specter of his long-lost brother.

Tower Opera

2002 • 57 min

The idea of the current project was born during the making of the long documentary “Charbons Ardents” which dealt with the present-day struggle of a group of coal miners who had bought out their mine and become its sole owners. These miners accepted an offer put to them by the director Brendan Wheatley, to create an opera from the start of their adventure. The film will follow the creation of this new type of opera where two worlds, that of miners and artists come together to recreate the battle for Tower Colliery.

The Snake Boy

2002 • 60 min

A portrait of Coco, a Chinese gay jazz singer in today's Shanghai.

Cinetismo Luminoso

2002 • 3 min • Brazil

Experimental projects carried out during scientific initiation - 2002 / UFRJ

Colorblind

2002 • 14 min

Tum is colorblind. One day he meets a girl who change his sight.

A Film in Which There Did NOT Appear Sprocket Holes, Edge Lettering Without Dirt Particles

2002 • 6 min • Japan

A film with, reportedly, no sprocket holes or edge lettering present (without, of course, dirt particles also appearing).

The Advent of Light

2002 • 10 min • Hungary

Experimental collage animation that covers decades of art, culture, technology, etc.

The Jedi Hunter

2002 • 9 min

The Jedi Hunter is a parody of both the Star Wars universe and the TV show The Crocodile Hunter starring Steve Irwin. Join the now-Australian Boba Fett as he canvasses the galaxy, hunting Jedi wherever he goes... Crikey, there's some feisty ones out there!

EuroGirls: Sexual History I

2002 • 55 min

Now you're ready for the advanced course in everybody's favorite subject! It all began with the temptations that tantalized Adam and Eve and continued through the ages. Let the gorgeous Eurogirls be your guides as they take you on an erotic field trip of history's deepest passions and most sensual seductions.

Osmosis

2002 • 11 min

a highly personal document of architectural structures, nature & landscape, and the body’s intimacy fabricated from thirty years of collected material

Restoring The Aztecs

2002 • 8 min • United Kingdom

A look at the digital remastering process for the DVD of 'The Aztecs' including VidFIRE which restores much of the original video appearance to archive film recordings.

Minsk Girl

2002 • 7 min • Belarus, United Kingdom

Over 200 women smile into a Super 8 camera in Minsk. A portrait film with pop music and the Belarusian language as a soundtrack.

Lucky Bugger

2002 • 5 min

A moment in a boy’s life when he becomes aware of his own sexuality. In the dunes along a deserted beach he spies two men kissing. Although no words are spoken he agrees to keep their secret and wanders back to his parents.

Regard de Pierre

2002 • 6 min • France

Minor observations, confused and unconscious, run parallel to the perception of the whole. A sentence from Leibniz that defines my artistic trajectory.

Lowcraft - One of Us

2002 • 4 min

A short film by Dave McKean.

Barneys Christmas Star

2002 • 50 min

Tis the season to be jolly -- and to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzzaa! After decorating the caboose puts Barney and his friends in the holiday spirit, they trim the Christmas tree in the snow-covered park. But something's missing -- the shiny, gold star for the treetop! So it's "over the river and through the woods" to grandmother's attic to search for the missing star. Just imagine all the treasure they discover -- little drummer boys and an antique typewriter that's perfect for writing a letter to Santa. After reenacting the classic poem, "The Night Before Christmas" the children celebrate with friends and family as Barney places the Christmas star atop the tree!

Afterbang

2002 • 31 min

Afterbang is the story of a talented group of athletes that have a vision to portray the fun and creative side of snowboarding. In the ever-changing world of this sport it seems to have regressed into a not so changing slump of predictable and numbing films that are cut to the same mold year after year. Afterbang is a fresh and honest look at what snowboarding means to this group.

Prom Night in Kansas City

2002 • 54 min

An exploration of the consummate American coming-of-age ritual as it is observed in middle America.