All Films

Stethoscope

2001 • 16 min • United States of America

4 young partygoers stumble across a sight unlike any they’ve seen before: a ritual feeding of sex zombies, who thrive on both flesh and sexual pleasure.

Le Cri

2001 • 5 min • France

short film

Gobo the Elephant

2001 • 17 min • Russia

A mystical detective about the everyday life of Moscow police chasing a bloodthirsty killer elephant. Gobo, offended by fate, walks around Moscow apartments and crushes innocent citizens. Petrovka 38 has a difficult task to catch the criminal, because this is already the thirty-ninety-thousandth case in a week!

Bullenblut 2

2001 • 60 min • Switzerland

After years of absence, the Yakuza Gang around Max and Jay Jay are finally up to mischief again. And it would be all right for the naughty homies if the Deliquentes Clan could keep their hands off the big deal. The police, who are known not to shy away from losses, are getting closer and closer to resolving the case through the clever investigation by special agent Joe Miller ... But in this world, where violence is preferred over prudence, the barometer stands for death - and that's exactly what we're going to see. Bullenblut 2 is supposed to reveal how things really go on Winterthur's streets, nothing more and nothing less.

Light

2001 • 6 min • France

A journey through a magic tree that lives on my planet.

The Long Count (I Shook Up The World)

2001 • 1 min

In 'The Long Count (I Shook Up the World)," a tiny video monitor, which plays and replays in a continuous loop the third round of the 1964 match between Sonny Liston and Cassius Clay. Characteristically, the three-minute sequence has been Pfeifferized: the figures of Liston and Clay have been removed from the sequence as completely as current technology allows, serendipitously leaving a pair of ghostlike, barely discernible presences that flicker across the surface of the crowd like wind moving over water.

Nerves of Steel

2001 • 20 min

Set to the sultry sounds of a samba, this is the tale of a gay private detective hired by a desperate woman in search of her man. Hustlers, bath houses, jealousy and betrayal; all set to music you can dance to.

The Long Count III (Thrilla in Manila)

2001 • 1 min

The Long Count III (Thrilla in Manila) is the third in a series of works based on the three best-known fights in Muhammad Ali’s career between 1964 and 1975. It addresses the last rounds of the final boxing match between longtime rivals Ali and Joe Frazier, held in Manila on October 1, 1975 and ultimately won by Ali. The subtitle - Ali’s promotional slogan - indicates the subject of this work. Pfeiffer has effaced the figures of the boxers from the ring by digitally copy-pasting sections of background over them. However, they remain as blurred contours, a ghostly presence, and the ropes surrounding the ring occasionally move as one of the invisible fighters leans against them. The soundtrack was extracted from interviews with the boxers who participated in the three fights; Pfeiffer has edited out the words, and only sounds like stammering and breathing remain.

Gossamer Conglomerate

2001 • 4 min • United States of America

Gossamer Conglomerate consists of hand-manipulated material, optically printed under closely controlled and monitored lighting situations. The film explores the delicate nature of film by placing the fluttering colors of "fresh" film materials upon a colorless base of film destroyed by the molecular breakdown associated with "vinegar syndrome." The film represents the life cycle of film and its rebirth as a new and personal work and is suggestive of a butterfly's flight from the darkness of the chrysalis.

The Long Count II (Rumble In The Jungle)

2001 • 15 min

The Long Count (Rumble In The Jungle), is the second of three works in which the artist has painstakingly removed Muhammad Ali from the boxer’s most famous bouts. This piece continues his investigation of racial identity through his use of popular iconography, namely athletes and movie stars, across various media.

The Light Touch Dust Nebula

2001 • 5 min • United States of America

The Light Touch Dust Nebula is a hand-painted film, optically printed with carefully controlled temperature and lighting. Thermotropic (temperature sensitive) liquid crystal paint applied to decayed film changes from red to blue with heat. In-camera optical effects expose the contrast between the two extremes. This film exposes the warmth of light and its birth to form and motion in cinema.

Munkphilm

2001 • 5 min • United States of America

Munkphilm explores meditation and inspiration in the cinematic medium. Carefully timed, animated fades set a rhythm that is interrupted and overlapped by moments of luminescence. These moments come and go, but in the end we are left with the original breath

In the House of Equal and Opposite Reaction

2001 • 4 min

In The House of Equal and Opposite Reaction was a gift that I was reluctant to accept and even more reluctant to share until I did so accidentally, calming somewhat my mind and the minds of my unwitting audience. The majority of the footage was filmed from my rooftop on September 11th, 2001 with my super-8 camera, which was already loaded with film from my home movies (my dog, Myairo, whom I filmed in my home over a month prior.)

Cyberslut

2001 • 9 min

Musings of a self proclaimed cyberslut on the attractions of his ongoing habit of meeting men thru cyberspace from his first "speedy 1200 baud modem" to the present day.

Ascension

2001 • 6 min

Short 16mm film by Glen Fogel comprised of heavily altered footage of winners' faces on The Price is RIght

The Space in Between (Airport Architecture)

2001 • 15 min

". . . Nevertheless, Fogel pushes these pictures of escalators and suitcase-toting travelers deeply into lyrical, Rorschach-symmetrical abstraction. In the course of moving from video to film, the images become flattened into painterly icons and patterns; their contrast has been increased, and the colors shifted into gemlike purples, greens and blues. Edited with a primal shape-based rhythm, Airport Architecture was created for a live musical accompaniment by Greta Cohn and James Hoff." —Ed Halter

Control Sequences

2001 • 6 min

"Super 8 images of a cellophane-covered male body floating in water are blown up into two separate movies—one video, the other 16mm—which screen simultaneously as superimpositions upon one another, further altered through colored gels placed in front of the projectors. The overlapped projections create an uncanny 3D effect, while the claustrophobic shots of the man's open mouth attempting to breath through clinging cellophane and roiling water, and the film's respiratory soundtrack, unveils a thanatos within its eros." —Ed Halter

Anodyne

2001 • 3 min • United States of America

Mixing old tech with new, these lyrical abstractions explore red-gold color fields created with photograms (direct exposure of film without cameras), then animated through 16mm rephotography and digital manipulation. Soothing and melancholy, Wills works in the aleatory-painterly tradition of Brakhage, but with sound: the tracks consist of classical music, spoken word, and altered bits of everyday noises. Floral images link her work to Victorian embroidery and other womanly parlor arts. (Ed Halte)

Ballast

2001 • 2 min • Netherlands

Plastic bags behind a driving car

You Don't Want to Do That

2001 • 39 min

Jeremy Clarkson presents humorous clips of vintage public service films and gives his commentary on them.

Shattered Lives: The Dean Olds Story

2001 • 55 min

Dean Olds and his wife Suzanne appeared to have it all -- a nice home, a 30-year marriage, and three grown children. Then on December 28, 1993, Suzanne was found beaten to death in the driveway of her home. Over the next three years, Dean's double life would be exposed, and he would end up penniless and alone.

Glutinosity

2001 • 29 min

Glutinosity, 2001, depicts a stage resembling the context of a riot and social masses as politic actors: uniformed crowd pulls and pushes the bodies of another group which seems to be glued together, presenting a single multifarious human mass. These strength and counter strength create a choreography around the density of the crowd and the weight of the crowded bodies.

Surface Tension

2001 • 3 min

snow, water, christmas lights, and shopping malls

Ghosts Along the Ompompanoosuc

2001 • 4 min • United States of America

A spectral love story shot on Super 8 film. Dedicated to the great photographer and haunter of ruins Clarence John Lauglin