All Films

Inside a Beautiful Mind

2002 • 23 min

"Behind-the-scenes" documentary on the making of and public reaction to the Ron Howard/Brian Grazer film "A Beautiful Mind." Featuring rare interviews with Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connally and mathematician John Nash.

R.e.m.

2002 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A documentary on the band

Things They Said Today

2002 • 36 min • United Kingdom

A documentary on the making of the Beatles' 1964 film "A Hard Day's Night," featuring director Richard Lester, music producer George Martin, screenwriter Alun Owen, and cinematographer Gilbert Taylor.

The Star Dreamer

2002 • 52 min • Denmark

The Russian filmmaker, Pavel Klusjantsev, has had an extraordinary influence on an entire genre of films. Throughout his career at the film studio in St. Petersburg, Klushantsev pioneered and invented legendary techniques for filming the planets, stars and weightnessless - long before anyone else. He went on to redefine the science fiction genre and influence the way Hollywood made their science fiction films, including the Academy Award-winning Visual Effects Master, Robert Skotak, a man who spent years trying to track Klushantsev down

The Seasons Alter

2002 • 5 min • United Kingdom

The world is burning up, icecaps melt, floods drown the landscape and people starve. These images are from a Shakespearean speech that dates from the seventeenth century. Climate change today has twisted the seasons beyond recognition, and the Bard's words describing a 'mazed world' are more relevant now than ever before. 'The Seasons Alter' is a vivid short film that uses Shakespearean poetry in the mouths of a modern family to illustrate the most pressing environmental challenge of our time.

Star Wars vs. Star Trek: The Rivalry Continues

2002 • 50 min • United States of America

For years, STAR WARS fan have squared off against STAR TREK fans over which space fantasy is the better choice. As a result, both franchises have been embroiled in a continuing battle for merchandise sales, publicity and box-office receipts. The science-fiction genre has never seen anything like it and, as these fictional universes continue to expand, the competition seems to be never ending. Star Wars vs. Star Trek: The Rivalry Continues compares the space opera worlds of George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry for a one-of-a-kind intergalactic documentary.

Pandora Hong Kong Leg

2002 • 15 min

Mayuko suffers from severe athlete's foot. She visits a mysterious Chinese man, Zhou, in search of a secret medicine she heard about. He leads her to an abandoned theater, where she places her foot in a box. A young man hiding in the box begins to lick her foot. "Saliva is the cure for all diseases." Eventually, the day of her final treatment arrives. However, Mayuko, who has already gotten used to having her feet licked, does not want to stop the treatment. The Chinese man says to her, "There is a medicine for athlete's foot."

Bloody Dawn

2002 • 15 min

A young girl on the way to her garden, where she is already expecting her boyfriend. But it's not there yet. She tries in vain to reach him until he tells her that he will probably be a little later. It slowly gets dark and a killer enters the garden. Shortly afterwards the girl notices the killer and locks the door. A bloody and exciting hunt begins...

Open Fire

2002 • 5 min • China

The gambling between two men leads to shooting and killing.

Big Croc Diaries: Special Edition

2002 • 60 min

The day-to-day operations of caring for more than 150 crocodiles at Australia Zoo challenge Steve and Terri.

Face A / Face B

2002 • 10 min

Face A / Face B is an autobiographical journey spanning from the artist’s childhood to the present, in the context of the Lebanese civil war. The video includes photographs, voice, melodies and historical data, in a story that explores aspects such as the nature of memory, the human voice and identity. Through a cassette tape that he and his brother recorded to send to a third brother who was living in Russia, the work questions the meaning of the past and shows that collective and personal histories are inseparable and intertwined. Private and collective memories mingle in a collection of voices that bring together personal memory, political critique and philosophical reflection.

Making 'The Misfits'

2002 • 54 min

A behind-the-scenes and in-depth look at the making of John Huston's The Misfits (1961).

The Smiths: These Things Take Time

2002 • 48 min • United Kingdom

A documentary about The Smiths.

Did you leave us, Blake?

2002 • 8 min • Norway

Short documentary

Psicotaxi

2002 • 3 min

Fresnadillo wheel an impromptu consultation with Alejandro Jodorowsky, while driving in a taxi in the streets of Paris.

Salò: Yesterday and Today

2002 • 33 min • France

A thirty-three-minute documentary featuring interviews with director Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette, and Pasolini friend Ninetto Davoli.

Afterthoughts

2002 • 11 min • United States of America

A 2002 video piece featuring director Bob Rafelson, cinematographer László Kovács, and actor Bruce Dern discussing style and process of the film The King of Marvin Gardens (1972).

Caribs' Leap

2002 • 10 min

Caribs’ Leap / Western Deep comprises two complementary films that are shown together as a three-screen, synchronised colour video projection. The films were originally commissioned for the Documenta 11 exhibition in Kassel, Germany in 2002. They were then screened in London by Artangel in the former Lumiere Cinema on St Martins Lane in the autumn of that same year.

Children of Salò

2002 • 19 min • France

For the Time Being

2002 • 10 min • Netherlands

The opening segment for a planned larger documentary by Johan van der Keuken. Unfortunately, this is all that was completed before his death. These are small portraits of people he met during his travels.

Dadá

2002 • 20 min • Brazil

Dílson, Dadá and Denis live in the El Vidigal quarter of Rio de Janeiro, and the three friends share an interest in acting. We learn about their life experiences, about their dreams, hopes and desires. From an economic standpoint they, like many other Brazilians, can only dream about certain things.

Foucault Who?

2002 • 15 min

Several characters visit a gay bar before it opens for 'Foucault Night'.

Ruthie and Connie: Every Room in the House

2002 • 56 min

They're Jewish, they're grandmothers, and they're lesbians. But they're also so much more, as you'll find out in Deborah Dickson's powerful and intimate documentary. Ruth Berman and Connie Kurtz first met in Brooklyn in 1959, both young married women raising their young children. Becoming fast friends, they soon both moved with their families near Coney Island, where they became active community leaders. Then, in 1974, something incredible happened - they fell in love.

Bunnies

2002 • 1 min • Germany

A frenetic short about weird mechanical future-bunnies racing through traffic to get to the theater in time to see “Every Bunny Needs Some Bunny.”