All Films

The Tree That Remembers

2002 • 50 min • Canada

The 1992 suicide of a young Iranian refugee in a small Canadian town prompted filmmaker Masoud Raouf to examine his own past as a political prisoner in Iran who helped fight for democracy, only to be persecuted by the ayatollah's regime. Raouf's documentary features historical footage and interviews with veterans of the 1979 revolution, who watched with dismay as their homeland traded a despot for a religious dictatorship.

Confessions of a Sociopath

2002 • 41 min

Confessions of a Sociopath is an autobiographical film on digital video and Super 8 film, conceived as a real-life version of Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape. In this film, Joe Gibbons plays a fictionalized version of himself as he discovers a roomful of Super 8 footage from his own life, detailing events he can no longer recall. This footage shows his earlier film experiments, his descent into destructive behavior, and his “bottoming out” on drugs and alcohol. At a certain point, the films are replaced by random photos, police records, and psychiatric hospital records.

The Pigeon and the Onion Pie

2002 • 3 min • United States of America

An onion pie allows a pigeon to realize his dream of flying.

The Rise and Fall of the Krays

2002 • 60 min

2002 documentary exploring the bloody reign of London's gangland kingpins, Ronnie and Reggie Kray with interviews from those closest to them

The Dragonfly Storm

2002 • 15 min

Early Shahram Mokri short film, for which he won Best Director at the 2007 Noor Iranian Film Festival

Cave in the Snow

2002 • 52 min

Cave in the Snow

Why Re-Mix

2002 • 3 min • Japan

Skydance, rendezvous à Paris

2002 • 42 min

"Skydance" is a modern day fairy tale told with breathtaking visual images on the large format screen. Centered around a fictitious French Air Race the Aero Club de France Cup the viewer is taken on an incredible aerial tour of some of France's most impressive sites including the Alps the White Cliffs of the Channel baroque castles the Plateau of the Auvergne Chenonceau Chambord Mont St. Michel and the azure blue of the Mediterranean.

EuroGirls Fairy Tail Fantasies

2002 • 56 min

Sensual Fairy Tales.

Jim Breuer: Documentary Of The Heavy Metal Show

2002 • 50 min

50-minute documentary on "Jim Breuer: Heavy Metal Comedy".

Saru Getchu Movie: Ougon no Pipo Helmet - Ukki Battle

2002 • 21 min • Japan

One day, a strange monkey with a golden helmet drains out the insides of another monkey by kissing him. Hikaru, Spike's brother, goes out on an adventure to find this strange monkey. He soon befriends the monkeys and runs forward. But it isn't easy when every boss from the former games tries to block his path...

yacht dance

2002 • 3 min • Japan

Single 8 film by Masaharu Oki.

Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day

2002 • 4 min • United States of America

A brief short of Phil Solomon and Stan Brakhage going to the movies in the spring of 2002.

Traum A Dream

2002 • 7 min • Australia

By Traum a Dream (2002) the unintelligent memories have become distinctly more sinister. Samples of found footage suggesting memory and repression vie chaotically for attention with Dirk’s voice reciting repeated words and phrases, punctuated by splutters and coughs, as though attempting to wrest some meaning. This meaning comes at last with the final sentence dragged out phrase by phrase in the third person: “he began to remember what he didn’t want to remember, what had been taken from when before he knew a secret of before he knew himself”. Steven Ball

Shadowy Encounters

2002 • 14 min

The film "Shadowy Encounters" is an homage to the work of the Quay Brothers. The film is a synthesis of collaged moving and still images taken directly from the Quay Brothers' 35mm films and recontextualized in order to metaphorically and responsively capture and reframe the Quay's films' qualities. The resultant richly textured and layered imagery delves the labyrinthine and secret realms of the Quay Brothers' world.

Hungarian Folk Tales: The Dyer's Apprentice

2002 • 7 min

A penniless young boy dreams of marrying the king’s daughter, but he decides not to tell his dream to anyone, not even the king, until the dream comes true.

Mischief Teckademics

2002 • 47 min

“Mischief” is the first documentary to cover illegal street racing culture. This movie also features actual footage of hiding and escaping from the police. This 60+ minute movie features street racing in Washington DC, Philadelphia, and San Diego. “Mischief” also covers the 2002 Detroit Auto Show, import pro-drag crashes, and Jackass-style stunts. “Mischief” has been featured on MTV, MTV2, CMT, and Dateline on NBC. “Mischief” is the real deal and shows what is really happening in the fast-growing underground street racing culture.

Achtung

2002 • 14 min

Takes a close look at the surface of the human body. Photographed over the course of eight years, the film shows six men and one pregnant woman who… all exhibit their tattoos, piercings and scars. With spiritual concentration, a young man begins to actually pierce delicate parts of his body.

Tehran 1380

2002 • 44 min • Iran

Tehran is a wildly growing metropolis of concrete and neon that does not seem to fit into common urban planning or aesthetic standards. the population has quadrupled since 1980 to 12 million inhabitants. the approach of the Iranian filmmakers Solmaz Shahbazi and Tirdad Zolghadr to the city is neither guided by western ideals nor by homeland feelings. "Tehran 1380" describes a metropolis where modernity and tradition intermingle in a complex way and presents different points of view concerning the identity and future of the city.

Orbiting the Atom

2002 • 5 min

Electronically generated images, including Lissajous patterns from a modified television, were captured on Super-8 film and then treated by hand with coloured inks and bleach. Each of the five sections is closely matched by electronic music from Helliwell's customized circuits.

Ciao Bella Ciao

2002 • 7 min • France

"Ciao Bella Ciao" was produced in reaction to the score of the Front National in the first round of the French presidential elections in 2002. The montage is structured from shots of Marseille and its surroundings, where Laurence Rebouillon grew up. Ciao Bella Ciao was shot in Super 8 and kinescoped in 35mm, using tests of Super 8 negative film and rushes from her previous Super 8 films. This film evokes memories of a homosexual love breakup and draws up an observation of the recurring racism of the petty bourgeoisie of Marseille. The text scrolls in a voice-over, to an aria from the Marriage of Figaro played on the piano ...

Book of Genesis

2002 • 9 min • Japan

Onishi’s short Book Of Genesis (2002) shows us in an impressive way the connection between the sky and skylines, made of all that technical stuff human beings have created. We watch storms and lighting in a colourful composition, connected to your TV or radio and maybe there is a fight going on. And sometimes you’re just being manipulated. Which is great, and it’s part of every director’s craft. (Desistfilm, 2015)

Evokation of My Demon Sister

2002 • 5 min

Cantor reimagines Kenneth Anger’s Invokation of My Demon Brother (1969) as if it were a paean to Hindu goddess of destruction Kali instead of Lucifer. In Cantor's take, Anger's hypermasculine imagination of the occult is replaced by that of an ironic depiction of female "hysterics"; a romantic strings section sweeps over the Mick Jagger Moog soundtrack; and Anton LeVay and Bobby Beausoleil are replaced by Sissy Spacek in Carrie and Christine Noonan in Lindsey Anderson’s if….

Movimento Intrínseco

2002 • 3 min • Brazil

Experimental projects carried out during scientific initiation - 2002 / UFRJ