All Films

Ballchewer

2002 • 1 min • United States of America

Part of Adam Sandler’s informal “Meatball Series,” Ballchewer (2002) was shot during the making of Punch-Drunk Love. The short shows Luis Guzmán playing chess with Sandler’s pit bull, Meatball, while Emily Watson brings them beers.

Junji Inagawa's Short Horror Cinema: Horror of Truth

2002 • 48 min • Japan

This is the second in a new series of short horror-cinema films depicting contemporary fears, with Junji Inagawa as the storyteller. In addition to "Someone is Watching," in which Yumiko attempts suicide and is suddenly attacked by a series of mysterious events, the film includes four other stories: "Heartbreak Trip," "Mortuary," and "Soul on the Lake.

Tornado

2002 • 3 min

A tornado is a spinning cyclone of nature. It stampedes like an angry bull through a tranquil pasture of blue violets and upright blades of grass. A tornado kills with abandon but has no will. Lynne Sachs’ TORNADO is a poetic piece shot from the perspective of Brooklyn, where much of the paper and soot from the burning towers fell on September 11. Sachs’ fingers obsessively handle these singed fragments of resumes, architectural drawings and calendars, normally banal office material that takes on a new, haunting meaning.

Repossessed

2002 • 8 min

A real estate agent shows a house to a woman who is more than she seems.

Sex & Zen Vol.4

2002 • 40 min

The slutty Sambo received the news that Hao wanted to smuggle the counterfeit goods into the country at night. Hu went to inform Sister Jiang to get people to seal the boat, but he came up empty-handed. Hu was angry and continued to investigate, and finally found out where Hao's thieves' nest was. Zhu immediately went to inform the customs. Because of the previous experience, Sister Jiang asked Zhu to use sex as a trade before she would send troops...

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Drunken Angel'

2002 • 31 min • Japan

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Drunken Angel" (1948).

Desire to Kill

2002 • 32 min • Japan, Portugal

On a rainy night, while her husband is away, a man appears. It is the young assassin. Rie is frightened, desperate to protect her son and triying to convince the man to leave. But ... he closes himself in a room. A suspense story with great tension.

Seasons...

2002 • 16 min • United States of America

Brakhage's frame-by-frame hand carvings and etchings directly into the film emulsion, sometimes photographically combined with paint, are illuminated by Solomon's optical printing; this footage was then edited by Solomon into a four part 'seasonal cycle'. This film can be considered to be part of a larger, 'umbrella' work by Brakhage entitled «...» . Seasons... is inspired by the colors and textures found in the woodcuts of Hokusai and Hiroshige, and the playful sense of forms dancing in space from the film works of Robert Breer and Len Lye.

Martirio

2002 • 15 min

A deranged and domineering father threatens the romance between a trapeze artist and the nurse of her disabled twin-sister in this stylish, mysterious film.

WWE Divas: Undressed

2002 • 45 min • United States of America

It doesn't get any better than this! A superstar studded extravaganza from The World in the heart of Times Square. This is what the networks thought was too hot for TV, but now you'll see it all! Who will the coveted WWE Golden Thong Award? Then get a close, personal look at whats hidden in the Divas top drawers and under their clothes. Sometimes naughty but always nice! You'll agree in or out of the ring the Divas are at their best when they're undressed!

Entice

2002 • 36 min • Japan

A promotional video shot in Australia introducing actresses Asumi and Hitomi Miwa.

One Moment

2002 • 10 min

Poetic, affectionate, lyrical, and elegy for actor Rudolf Hrusinsky composed of a wordless montage of slowed film footage spanning Hrusinsky’s entire career that embodies the human experience: toil, rest, education, romantic love, rejection, desire, aging, frailty. A recurring interstitial black screen with the words “ten minutes” becomes a constant reinforcement of transience, a career and life distilled to the precious few minutes of the film, a reflection of its brevity.

Anolit

2002 • 25 min • Norway

A circling roadmovie told from the back seat of a styled BMW.

Cotton Candy

2002 • 56 min • United States of America

Gehr uses a mini-digital recorder to look back on the Machine Age in the form of San Francisco's soon-to-be-shuttered Musee Mecanique. For slightly more than an hour, Cotton Candy documents this venerable collection of coin-operated mechanical toys—including an entire circus—mainly in close-up, isolating particular details as he alternates between ambient and post-dubbed (or no) sound. By treating the Musee's cast of synchronized figures as puppets, the artist is making a show—but is it his or theirs? Gehr's selective take on the arcade renders it all the more spooky. There's a sense in which Cotton Candy is a gloss on the moment in The Rules of the Game when the music-box-collecting viscount unveils his latest and most elaborate acquisition. (It also brings to mind the climax of A.I.: The DV of the future tenderly regards the more human machine of the past.) (J. Hoberman, The Village Voice)

Osmose

2002 • 4 min

At the edge of a lake, a couple makes love. A Peeping Tom spies on them.

One Piece: Dream Soccer King!

2002 • 5 min • Japan

At a huge pillar stadium, the Grand Line Cup Final is being held. The "Straw Hat Pirate Team"(Luffy, Zoro, Usopp, Sanji, and Chopper) are having a tie breaker shoot out against the "Villian All Star Team"(Buggy, Bon Clay, Jango, Hatchan, and a soccer like head player named Odacchi). Everyone of them gets a turn in kicking the ball to the goal. While Coby is taking the goalie position, and isn't doing too good in blocking the goal. One after another, the game eventually comes to a sudden death match. Which team will win the Grand Line Cup?

Bicho

2002 • 6 min • Spain

Rainer Variations

2002 • 41 min

"For me Rainer Variations is a hybrid: a weave of impressionistic portrait, found footage construction, and video sampler. Aside from formal issues, Yvonne Rainer’s knotty process of thinking, her unique brand of humor, and her engaging presence are the things that were foremost in my mind as I worked on the tape. What I hope will emerge from this process is an interrogative portrait of an artist for whom I have great respect and affection." --Charles Atlas

Momentum: Under the Influence

2001 • 45 min

Momentum Under the Influence is a surf movie distributed by Steelhouse Distribution and produced by Poor Specimen. It features all the best surfers in the world under 23 that surf places like Mentawai Islands, Australia, South Africa, France, Timor Island, Indonesia, Mexico, Hawaii and California. Surfers include CJ Hobgood, Damien Hobgood, Paul Roach Dan Malloy, David Rastovich, Mick Fanning, Taj Burrow, Joel Parkinson, Ben Bourgois, Bruce Irons, Andy Irons, and Dean Morrison.

Hawkwind: Night of the Hawks

2001 • 57 min

Recorded: Earth Ritual Tour, Ipswich, 9 March 1984 Tracks: "Ghost Dance"; "Watching The Grass Grow"; "Dream Worker"; "Ejection"; "Uncle Sam's On Mars"; "Martian Disco Stomp" [aka "The Iron Dream"]; "Brainstorm"; "Sonic Attack"; "The Island" [aka "Dust Of Time"]; "Brainstorm"; "Psi Power"; "Silver Machine" Personnel: Dave Brock – Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals; Harvey Bainbridge – Bass, Vocals; Huw Lloyd-Langton – Lead Guitar, Vocals; Dead Fred Reeves – Keyboards, violin; Nik Turner – Vocals, Sax; Clive Deamer – Drums Released: Jettisoundz, JE123 [VHS Tape]; Visionary, VISDVD005 [DVD]

Meditations on Revolution Part III: Soledad

2001 • 14 min

Shots of streets and subways in New York, Mexico, and San Cristobal de las Casas are intertwined with images of revolutionary figures of the past.

Kabah 211 días

2001 • 60 min

Documentary from mexican pop band Kabah.

Meditations on Revolution Part IV: Greenville, MS

2001 • 29 min

Captures the discipline of a boxer preparing for a fight.

Urbandale

2001 • 7 min • United States of America

Filmed at Urbandale Plaza in the eastern suburbs of Buffalo N.Y., "Urbandale" is a study of America's suburban sprawl stripped to its barest essentials and void of unnecessary contemporary cultural influence. The film, rendered in text, focuses on the repetitive motion of foodstuffs being cooked in the lobby of a discount department store. Says Arcangel, "I composed Urbandale by creating my own software and using ASCII (text) as the only means of display [...] I have 'frozen' a certain time and aesthetic in computer culture [...] The soundtrack for Urbandale was also composed by myself and recorded with 12 electric guitars".