All Films

Luminous

2001 • 4 min • Canada

An homage to the majestic effects of light projected through celluloid. Luminous captures the projected image in its altered form; reflecting back into the projection booth, after passing through the glass and onto the screen, bleeding, breaking and flickering on the surfaces of spinning reels, old posters and the machinery itself.

Magic Ferry

2001 • 1 min

It could be an ordinary trip on the Staten Island ferry. But shot with single frames, with a few colors added and with just 30 seconds of running time, it becomes a trip on a magic ferry…

Tsukiji

2001 • 43 min • Japan

Tsukiji is a “city symphony” film of sorts, dedicated to the largest fish-market in the world, and one of the last surviving proletarian spaces in Tokyo. A film about cutting in a double sense, it harkens back to a moment of intersection of modernism and social realism, evoking the ghost of the left-wing Japanese novelist of the 1920s and 30s, Takiji Kobayashi, author of Kani kosen (The Factory Ship) and an early victim of Japanese fascism. —Allan Sekula

Ephemeral Epiphany

2001 • 5 min

The title written in Chinese means the way to reach true knowledge. I tried to depict my own realization of the circle of life in this animation, the destined suffering since the birth, the paralyzed salvation after the death and the voidness of meaning. The only way to escape from the circle of life is to see it and to realize it, although the realization evaporates in a moment. I wanted to see it to show it. Software:Adobe After Effects, Phototshop, Boris FX, Avid Xpress, Protools.Hardware:IBM

A Monster's Calling

2001 • 5 min • Canada

A Monster's Calling is a humorous animated film about the nature of personal anxieties, and body image. An "under-the-bed" monster wanders through a slumbering household, wreaking typical monster havoc. First a little girl, then an older brother, and finally the teenaged big sister. It's surprising, to both the monster and to us, what frightens each of them. A film without words.

Our Icarus

2001 • 9 min

Directed by Johanna Vaude.

Ptkho

2001 • 7 min • France

An escape from a dream back to earth, phenomenally ringing sound poetry. All of this happens whilst waiting for the miracle to pass away. PTKHO is a dreamy riddle, a reflective experiment by Mahine Rouhi.

Train Pieces

2001 • 8 min

Overnight from Rome Termini to Messina, the train to Siracusa. Celestino is sleeping. From Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Berlin Zoo, "branches cut against the sky like paint strokes". Sounds, rhythms, machine landscape, smell of steel... I am obsessed by trains. On a train I am someone else. I am in another language. I am in the land of escape. Accompanied by that particular sound of steel reflected off sheet marble of thirties Roman buildings with the train approaching Roma Termini + a CD of Scanner, "aranciata, birra, coca... aranciata, birra, coca..." - A.T.

Russell Watson: The Voice Live

2001 • 53 min

Recorded live at Leeds Millennium Square, 25th May, 2001. Joined by special guests " Melanie C " and " Lulu ".

Bahador

2001 • 26 min

In a faraway land, lives a community of little mice tyrannized by a cruel king with an insatiable appetite. Bahador, a mouse like no other, forcibly collects, under the king's orders, the peasants' provisions. Very quickly, Bahador discovers how hungry these poor little mice are... Touched by their misfortune, he disobeys. But unmasked by the soldiers, he is taken prisoner... Will he then be brave enough to face the great steward?

La véritable histoire du Titanic

2001 • 5 min • France

The Ladies Sing The Blues

2001 • 60 min

See the "Ladies" who created an art form and sang their way into legend... Once in a lifetime, complete performances by the great American blues and jazz divas. Sixteen selections include Bessie Smith in her only film appearance, Lena Horne, Billy Holiday with an all-star band, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan and more.

Wot the Ancient Sod

2001 • 17 min

Effects of the sun move through the turning autumn leaves - the drama of ceaseless interactions of light and life. Forces are in transition, decaying into the earth, the ground, the sod.

The Flickering of the Minds Eye

2001 • 10 min

This film is made up of hand painted and batik sections of film that I then step printed on an optical printer. I also used fingers, potatoes, sponges to print textures and patterns. The film was then cut into a rhythmic pattern that may play a few tricks on your brain.

Breaking Up Really Sucks

2001 • 10 min • United States of America

This short film chronicles a lesbian relationship up until its demise.

Rati

2001 • 8 min

"This work was inspired by images of people on the internet. Around 2000, online chatrooms started to become popular. However, most people would just want to show their bodies or look at women’s breasts and genitals. Phoebe Man created a walking vagina to question whether women are just pieces of meat. In the video, Rati lives like an ordinary woman, she would go to the library to read, and menstruate each month. With her look, even if she were doing something ordinary, it would look absurd. The work attempts to challenge gender stereotypes, and looks at women’s social and cultural images in a deconstructive manner, to open up an imaginative space." - timesartscenter.org

Assassination: Colonial Style – Patrice Lumumba, an African Tragedy

2001 • 52 min

Patrice Lumumba – the first Prime Minister of the newly independent African state, The Congo. To fellow Africans he was a hero – the man who had won his country’s independence from the Belgians. But for the secret services of the western powers he was a threat. It was at the height of the Cold War, when the superpowers of both East and Western blocs were competing for spheres of influence in the New Africa. Congo was vital to Western interests because of it’s vast mineral resources. The West believed Lumumba was pro-soviet and would open the door to communist control of this mineral rich region. CIA agent Larry Devlin received 100,000 dollars from the Agency along with telegraphed instructions to make the “elimination of Lumumba” the “priority goal” of his covert action.

Potatoes, Potatoes

2001 • 4 min • Croatia

The production of cultural meaning, and of value, takes on a number of associations in "Krumpira Krumpira" ("Potatoes, Potatoes"), from 2001. The film pictures the artist selling cakes - a substitute for the standard plebeian foodstuff, bread - in the middle of a deserted, snowy forest landscape.

To the Suburbs

2001 • 3 min • Japan

Composing images of destruction of huge housing projects by film techniques like panorama, multiple exposure etc. With field sounds.

Silence

2001 • 12 min

‘An idea of white’, according to the rather cryptic description.

Le Château de Turing

2001 • 17 min

What characterizes the Turing machine is first of all its universality: the borders between the cognitive modes of man, animal and machine are abolished. Among all the possible Turing machines, the one Pierre Huyghe presents contains three methods of data processing: human, alive and artificial. Here, the spectator is himself a calculating being, leading his investigation under the retroactive control of the Hal computer - which, in addition, directs computing processes that culminate in generating and exposing visual art works.

Gestrandet

2001 • 15 min

I booked a holiday in Tunisia: one week in a 3-star hotel, and spent the entire time there. The film subjects everything to my own point of view: the architecture, the beach with its umbrellas, tourists who are both present and absent, the sort of biding that such hotels tend to be, and the sea.

Vacation Massacre

2001 • 40 min

Three young men encounter a killer while on a hunting trip in the woods.

Clinic

2001 • 7 min • Germany

"I spent some time in hospital, laying in bed and looking out at the view of the hospital's garden." —Milena Gierke