All Films

Rip It Up!

2001 • 50 min

It is criticized that the resident card, which has been implemented since 1968, is in fact only a fascistic system of state power to classify and control the people. Fingerprinting is the most essential part of the control process, and the work explains that only after completing the humiliating fingerprinting process can you enjoy your rights and duties as a 'citizen'. The director is a person who has participated in the opposition to fingerprinting since May 2000. The movement of the work follows Lee's struggle leading up to the administrative lawsuit, intersecting the arguments of the government and the logic of opponents of the resident card.

Screamday - Ihre Schreie verstummen

2001 • 50 min

German splatter movie

A Silent Cinema

2001 • 29 min • Syrian Arab Republic

Meyar Al Roumi returns to his native Damascus, eager to start making films, but he is censored. He draws inspiration from it to paint a portrait of the Syrian filmmakers most affected by censorship.

Lovesong 3

2001 • 9 min

Three qualities of hand- painted imagery inter-weave throughout this film: (1) a mash of thick lines delineating colored shapes, (2) thin black lines, like drawings, which most suggest recognizable body-parts, and (3) globs of pure color at inter-play with each other. An irregularity of rhythm (produced by repetition of frames 2, 3 and 4 times) creates the sense of a driving force propelling the inter-weave of these essentially abstract displays: three-fourths of the way through the rhythmic intensity falters, 'breaks down' as it were, almost becomes a mockery of its earlier sexual regularity. Instead of variety midst regular beat, the forms suggest some loose variance. Two formal factors seem to 'save the day,' as it were: (1) an increase of beseeming textures, and (2) interruptive white flashes; and these create a meaningful (rhythmically and tonally coherent) ending.

Vidéo Esquisse: Berlin

2001 • 2 min

Short film by Valérie Pavia.

Vidéo Esquisse: Pigalle

2001 • 2 min

Short film by Valérie Pavia.

About Dream...

2001 • 8 min

Four impressions of dreams.

December 7th / The Fleet That Came To Stay

2001 • 60 min

Brigadier General Stanley M. Ulanoff, a widely decorated military historian who served with the Counterintelligence Corps in Europe during World War II, introduces this gripping documentary film. At 7:55 AM on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, which FDR called "a date which will live in infamy," the Japanese began an air attack that devastated the Pacific fleet and took the lives of 2,343 servicemen. Lt. Cmdr. John Ford skillfully blends historic action with studio shots in this Oscar-winning look at the day's events. Also included is The Fleet That Came to Stay, concerning the invasion of Okinawa.

Chips In The Sight

2001 • 7 min

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

The Gasmask: Twice As Good

2001 • 29 min

Mars (Marcel Gornik) gets his report card and finds out that he has to repeat the 8th grade for the second time. To avoid further trouble from his parents, he runs away into the forest. There he finds a gas mask that soon causes him serious problems…

Cube

2001 • 12 min

Perceptaul transformation of material space: Visual expressions about how we understand and percept our real space perceptually.

10 Years Self-portrait

2001 • 2 min

This project, 10 Years Self-Portrait, started July 1, 1999. The process of this project involves taking one photograph of my face every morning as soon as l wake up. The image changes a bit by a bit as days go by.

Miss Edmonton Teenburger 1983 in: It's Party Time!

2001 • 17 min

Watch in awe as Miss Edmonton TeenBurger 1983 graces the screen in her first featurette, "IT'S PARTY TIME!". A story as layered as her hair, as ethereal as her style. A pop explosion of Ukranian delight that will leave you bedazzled. Are you ready?

Plate #15-18

2001 • 7 min

Experimental short by Ryusuke Ito.

A White Room 1

2001 • 13 min

Experimental short by Jun Ohtani.

Sync Pic

2001 • 14 min

Experimental short by Jun'ichi Okuyama.

The Flower, the Bird and the Sun

2001 • 10 min • Iran

A sunflower growing in the shade of a wall has no sunlight. Bees and butterflies do not fly near it. Eventually, a bird advises the flower that it must grow above the wall in order to reach the sunlight. Animated using paint on glass.

Plan for a Spell

2001 • 15 min

In the aftermath of the Millenium Bug, and against a backdrop of conspiracy, cult behaviour and contagion, Adam Chodzko’s Plan for a Spell caught the spirit of a turbulent moment. Twenty years on, Chodzko’s newly remastered and reconfigured work is as cryptic and mercurial as ever but also resonates powerfully with these even weirder times.

Film-a-TO

2001 • 12 min

Short film by Ugo Nespolo.

Cybervenus FeiFei

2001 • 37 min • Japan

Short CG clips compiled to an artsy DVD experience. FeiFei is a "virtual idol", the clips are entirely computer generated, except for the longest story where FeiFei is placed in a natural environment.

Bad Ems

2001 • 11 min

A silent film-like, stop motion film made by the Russian theater collective AKHE.

Tisese: A Documentary on Three Mosuo Women

2001 • 56 min • China

Located in Yongning Township, Ninglang County, Lijiang Prefecture, Yunnan Province, the Mosuo are the only matrilineal society in China, where men do not marry, women do not marry, and people live with their mothers all their lives, without the marriage and family of mainstream society. The Mosuo people emphasize women over men, and there is no question of "men oppressing women" or "women oppressing men"; women and men are relaxed and at ease with their gender and sexuality, which is a rarity on earth....

Son of Psycho Meets a Gorilla

2001 • 39 min • United Kingdom

A mad doctor creates a gorilla that goes on a violent rampage across Blackpool. Meanwhile, a disfigured Gulf war veteran kidnaps his social worker. Also in the area are two escaped criminals who have travelled up north from London. They break into the house of an elderly woman, but little do they know, she's an electric-carving-knife-wielding maniac!

Apprentis Utopistes

2001 • 47 min

In March 2000, the Institut d'Études Politiques de Lille was occupied for ten days by the Comité des Sans Papiers de Lille, which had been fighting for four years for the regularisation of undocumented migrants. For ten long days and nights, this emblematic initiative transformed this nursery of republican aristocracy into a microcosm, an echo chamber where a dissonant polyphony resounds.