All Films

Clone

2002 • 52 min • United States of America

Explore the miraculous potential and frightening possibilities of genetic cloning as National Geographic’s cameras reveal the history, controversy, and cutting-edge developments of a scientific breakthrough capable of literally changing the destiny of the human race.

Nobody Knows

2002 • 3 min

Nobody Knows is a short poetic video that eloquently hints at a few inner thoughts of a solitary young woman. Shot in 2 toy camera formats, the Lomographic 35mm Supersampler and the Intel Play Digital Movie Creator, Nobody Knows embraces alternative photography in both the celluloid and the digital realms.

8colors Hitomi Shimatani CLIPS+LIVE

2002 • 55 min • Japan

Documentary style film featuring interviews with Hitomi Shimatani which intertwine with her first eight music videos and live clips.

The Voynich Mystery

2002 • 59 min • United Kingdom

This documentary explores the authenticity of the Voynich Manuscript, a mysterious book that contains over 200 pages of indecipherable text and drawings that are difficult to identify.

Autópsia II

2002 • 60 min • Brazil

Filmtagebuch 2002

2002 • 15 min

The All-American Alphabet

2002 • 3 min

Politically engaged animation commenting on American hegemony.

The Scythe

2002 • 2 min

2002, 2 min, sound

Between Heaven and Earth

2002 • 44 min

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is building temples across the world. In Between Heaven and Earth religious scholars of various faiths discuss the importance of temple worship from the time of Adam and Eve to modern main and provide a broad insight into the concept and need for temples.

Flight

2002 • 3 min

2002, 3min, sound

Every Child is Born a Poet

2002 • 60 min • United States of America

Before acclaimed author Piri Thomas could write his famous novel "Down These Mean Streets", he had to live on them. This biopic shows how his childhood in Spanish Harlem, a six-year prison stint and other key events shaped his artistic development. The film combines rarely seen footage, still photos and mixed-media images to illustrate Thomas's life and an influential career that focused on revealing the injustices of poverty and racism.

Shepherd’s Poem

2002 • 14 min

A "birthday boy's" poetic yearnings on paper translate into a quest for perfection."

Just a Woman

2002 • 30 min • France, Iran

Tehran, October, 2000. One year ago, Morvarid lived as a man. Since her operation, she lives her femininity shielded from glances, between the four walls of her apartment. For the first time, she is covered with a chador and gets ready to go out as a woman: we are to follow her metamorphosis. How, in a country as Iran, can one have the will to be a woman?

amaurosis

2002 • 28 min

Amaurosis is an experimental documentary about Nguyen Duc Dat, a blind, American Asian guitarist living in Little Saigon, California. Dat was a 'triple outcast': blind, Amerasian and an impoverished orphan. Beyond their disabilities, this community of Vietnamese-Americans is oppressed on many levels: language and cultural differences, immigrant and lower income status, and societal misunderstanding and alienation. AMAUROSIS strives to present the life of one member from this unique community and promote his rich contributions.

Pubic Hair Ban

2002 • 7 min

"To make Pubic hair ban, whose title refers to the Japanese censorship that in the past decade prohibited showing pubic hair in videos, Oriol Sánchez left for months a coil of super 8 gay porn exposed to the sun inside a rusty can with water and various chemicals. The degradation of celluloid randomly affected his images, which appear out of focus, veiled, hidden. The important thing about these examples is that the intervention of the artists censoring the sexual explicitness of some images from a filmic genre , the pornographic, characterized precisely by facilitating the extreme visibility of sex. "

Attack From the Far East

2002 • 31 min • Japan

Jessica Simpson: Dream Chaser

2002 • 49 min • United States of America

For fans of superstar Jessica Simpson, Dream Chaser is a dream come true. This video combines exclusive interview footage with behind-the-scenes clips of her electrifying videos and footage of her first tour in 2001.

Rolling In My Ears

2002 • 8 min

An elegant study of light, color, geometry, and perspective.

The Chosen Family

2002 • 13 min

Interviews of a young woman and her various ex-girlfriends are interspersed throughout this astute and comic depiction of a lesbian’s return home for a family wedding.

Kalkito 2

2002 • 7 min

In Kalkito we see three people who have been filmed to be two-dimensional like a transfer. A naked male teacher whips a naked female teacher until she is docile while a second naked female teacher, who is reversed in the fame, directs the action. Kalkito, as are other films in this series, is not meant to portray sexual excitement. They show bodies fading away.

Cathode Aurora

2002 • 5 min

Early video piece inspired by Nam June Paik, in which video feedback effects generate the illusion of the Aurora Borealis.

Patsy Cline - Remembering Patsy

2002 • 52 min

Patsy Cline died in a plane crash on March 5, 1963. Now, her musical legacy lives on in "Remembering Patsy." This heartfelt celebration features 17 great Patsy Cline song clips, and 10 rare television appearances, recently discovered and never before seen on home video. You'll meet Patsy through her intimate home movies, her personal letters, as read by Arista recording artist Michelle Wright, and the fond reminiscences of Patsy's husband, Charlie Dick, and Willie Nelson, Loretta Lynn, George Jones, Mel Tillis, Roy Clark, Eddy Arnold, Bill Anderson and Jan Howard. A new generation of stars, including Trisha Yearwood, k.d. lang, Ronna Reeves, Lisa Stewart, and Marsha Thornton, add insight into Patsy's influence and proof positive that Patsy Cline does live on in her music.

Lasso

2002 • 4 min • Finland

A girl discovers a young man playing with a lasso in the living room.

Columbine: Understanding Why

2002 • 45 min

Why did Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murder a dozen students and one teacher—and then kill themselves—at Columbine High School? In this A&E Special, the renowned Threat Assessment Group comes to Littleton, Colorado, to perform a psychiatric autopsy to better understand why Harris and Klebold killed. Armed with that information, TAG hopes to educate parents, teachers, and students on how to see the warning signs of impending violence and intervene appropriately to stop such tragedies before they take place somewhere else.