All Films

Code Yellow: Hospital at Ground Zero

2002 • 41 min • United States of America

CODE YELLOW: HOSPITAL AT GROUND ZERO is a feature documentary, produced in association with NYU Downtown Hospital, narrated by Brian Dennehy, and written by Dennis Watlington and Dr. Antonio Dejar, which tells the story of the remarkable medical response of the hospital closest to Ground Zero on 9/11.

Making of Chicago

2002 • 28 min

TV Special celebrating the Oscar winning film 'Chicago' directed by Rob Marshall and interviews included the stars of the film - Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, John C.Reilly and Rob Marshall illustrated with clips from 'Chicago'. The presenter and interviewer was Mariella Frostrup and the program was shown on Channel 4 and Film 4 in early 2003 when the film was generally released in the U.K.

Spaghetti 8

2002 • 2 min • Canada

Super 8 gunplay - explosive scratching, amazing stunts and fabulous outfits - experimental artgak at its finest!

Remains

2002 • 12 min

Everything threatens to crack and yet this devouring march happened long ago in the past. There is no moaning in the room next door, the wind has stopped blowing on the stairs, the air particles throw themselves against each other, but it’s only void against void.

Alan Jackson: Let It Be Christmas

2002 • 43 min

In this one-hour special, Alan and Denise Jackson share stories and memories of Christmas holidays spent with their family. Jackson also takes the stage at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville for a special concert of songs from his latest Arista album, Let It Be Christmas, with some help from Denise and their three daughters. Backed up by Nashville's Belmont University Choir and W.O. Smith Children's Choir, Jackson performs holiday classics including "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," "Winter Wonderland," "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town," "The Christmas Song," "Silent Night," "Jingle Bells," "O' Come All Ye Faithful" and "Away in a Manger." He also performs a new self-penned song, "Let It Be Christmas."

Sergio Leone - C'era una volta il sogno americano

2002 • 48 min • Italy

Short documentary about the great italian director.

A Tom Tom Chaser

2002 • 11 min

A Tom Tom Chaser is Jacobs' 2002 poetic riff on the transformation of his classic film Tom Tom the Piper's Son from chemical to electronic form during the telecine process.

Jump the Gut

2002 • 1 min • United Kingdom

2D tries to jump over Russel on a bike.

Opus Incertum

2002 • 3 min

"Opus Incertum, is a tribute to Dalí's concrete irrationality. Part of video-sound improvisations (mixes of film fragments, television commercials, educational or scientific videos, fragments of his own works ...) and the resulting ephemeral accidents, revelations that establish disturbing analogies, in an open process on chance. Around this base I tried to construct, or rather to re-construct, the narrative, in accordance with the critical paranoid-process. The result of this experiment is the materialization in images of delusional associations, sometimes unpleasant, enigmatic or eschatological. Opus incertum is an unfinished work, testimony of the collaborative work, between the year 2000-2002, with Javier Otaduy ".

Grasp

2002 • 17 min

'Grasp' is a darkly humorous mystery peppered with some truly surreal visuals. Two hard-boiled detectives and an oddball pathologist investigate a severed hand found in a laundromat - and the results aren't pretty...

Manual

2002 • 10 min • Germany, United Kingdom

Combining close-ups of redundant technology gleaned from 60s US sci-fi television series with a female voice of a 40s Hollywood melodrama, Manual makes absolute detachment clash with magnified emotion. When its record of the minutae of endless buttons, switches and control panels Manual reduces the notion of any manageability of life to a sheer absurdity.

Invasion of the Hottie Snatchers

2002 • 60 min • United States of America

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the forest…think again! A group of girls search for their lost friend as they film the journey that takes them deep into the forbidden forest of the Bare Wench. Battling extra-terrestrial beings, the girls must band together-surviving only with a few clothes, their good looks and their very big…brains. It is a Close Encounters of the sexy kind!

Strange Fruit

2002 • 57 min • United States of America

In 1937, after seeing a photo depicting the lynching of a black man in the south, Bronx-born high school teacher Abel Meeropol wrote a poem entitled "Strange Fruit" that begins with the words: "Southern trees bear a strange fruit / Blood on the leaves and blood at the root." He set the poem to music and a few years later convinced Billy holiday to record it in a legendary heartbreaking performance. Intertwining jazz genealogy, biography, performance footage, and the history of lynching, director Joel Katz fashions a fascinating discovery of the lost story behind a true American classic. Written by Excerpted from Coolidge Corner Theatre Program Update

Burkina Faso

2002 • 11 min

Ouagadougou, September 2001: Adamà is a boy who is forced to leave school and work as a newsboy in order to pay for his sick mother's medical treatment. Two weeks after the attacks, Adamà sees a man who looks very similar to Osama bin Laden and decides to capture him with the help of his friends, in order to claim a $25 million bounty. Idrissa Ouédraogo's short for 11′09″01 September 11.

Naming Prairie

2002 • 7 min • United States of America

Two jewish lesbians hold a naming ceremony for their baby in a melding of old customs and new ideas.

Twick or Tweety

2002 • 4 min

Sylvester finally ate Tweety at Halloween night, but there are nightmares that haunt him.

Histoire d'eaux

2002 • 12 min

A group of Indian illegal immigrants are unloaded from a truck in the Lazio countryside. Among them, a young man and an old man. The latter, exhausted, stops under a tree and asks the young man to bring him some water. Narada – the young man – goes down to the valley, where he comes across a girl on her scooter who has broken down.

Marie and Jack: A Hardcore Love Story

2002 • 27 min • United States of America

Marie Silva and Jack Bravo are a married couple who also happen to make porn films for a living. This documentary examines what a marriage involving a couple whose jobs it is to have sex with other people is like, what the pressures are and the differences between their professional lives and their personal lives.

VILLA KUJOYAMA mars-juillet 2000

2002 • 35 min

A documentary on the activities of artists residing in the Villa Kujoyama French residence in Kyoto as part of a cultural exchange program.

The War of 1987

2002 • 2 min

A self portrait in copy and paste.

Art City 3 A Ruling Passion

2002 • 58 min

Many artists use the pain, exhilaration and resolution of private desires to express themselves. Art City: A Ruling Passion focuses on intense personalities who’ve used their art to explore the emotional impact of psychological truths. Everything that Louise Bourgeois creates - whether in marble, fabric or bronze - comes from memory. Michael Ray Charles investigates the marketing of black memorabilia, using early American advertising imagery. Elizabeth Peyton reinvents portraiture, using her friends as subjects, as well as pop culture royalty. Ed Ruscha’s literary landscapes burst from the physical world "right outside the window." The comic spirit of Lari Pittman contrasts with his graphic declarations. In a landmark house, Richmond Burton remembers his dreams to build "psychic fields" of abstraction. The arrays of featureless faces by David Deutsch are stimulated by sub-conscious sensations.

Berlin Beshert

2002 • 30 min

This short film follows the ironic dating misadventures of Dahlia (30) and her lesbian sister Leah (29) in their search for their beshert ('soul mate' in Yiddish) in today's Berlin. The story challenges clichés and stereotypes about Jewish culture and identity in modern day Berlin from a variety of perspectives.

Descenso

2002 • 1 min

Film made with analog 35mm photo camera framed vertically. The sound that arises is caused by the image extending over the optical sound track. The content focuses on the descent made from a building in the Plaza de España in Madrid, honoring the great Spanish filmmaker Iván Zulueta. — AP

The Blue Rose

2002 • 25 min • Netherlands

Hans is an imaginative young boy whose life is forever changed by a summer job as a postman. During his responsible task, delivering a registered letter to the wealthy Nathalie de Laat, the boy falls in love with her. He chases the girl and spies on her villa. But shy as he is, Hans is not able to communicate normally with the girl. This will change when he starts sending her daily anonymous love letters in the form of a fairy tale. Nathalie's interest is aroused, but how will Hans make himself known as the sender?