All Films

The Luminous Undergrowth

2001 • 12 min • France

A stroll in the forest sharpens the senses ...

Fright Ride

2001 • 7 min • Netherlands

Short claymation. An orthodox Christian couple get more than they bargained for when they win tokens to the Frightride. Was also shown on Annecy 2002.

Steps Through The Forest

2001 • 5 min

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

Sweet Is the Day

2001 • 59 min

Sweet Is the Day: A Sacred Harp Family Portrait tells the story of the Woottens, one of the key singing families who have helped Sacred Harp music survive and flourish for more than 150 years. Producer/Folklorist Erin Kellen and Director Jim Carnes intertwine scenes of family gatherings, singing conventions, and farm life in the Sand Mountain region of northeast Alabama with family recollections and more than a dozen songs from the revered shape-note tradition. The video explores how Sacred Harp singing is about more than just music - it is a life-shaping force, reflected by tradition, deep spiritual belief, and the community that embraces it.

Target Rock

2001 • 22 min

Commissioned by Frederick Eberstadt

L'Attirance

2001 • 31 min

Produced in Istanbul, "L'Attirance" is an essay on an unsubdued desire that bathes in the silence of a presence. The immediate happiness of the skin, of the flesh.

Fighting Weapons for Development

2001 • 25 min • Netherlands

This documentary shows how a project aimed at curbing small arms and light weapons contributes to the establishment of peace and stability in Cambodia. It also shows the obstacles which are met during the implementation of the project, especially regarding the collection of weapons among the population in exchange for development projects, followed by the public destruction of these weapons.

besenbahn

2001 • 10 min

“Traversing homogenous suburbs and multiplexed freeways, Besenbahn clinically and elegantly fragments the notion of a ‘road movie’. Using time slice technology, this videographic experiment transcends time and place as it ruptures the geometries of movement and perception.” — Melbourne Film Festival

Bienvenue au Lycée Turgot

2001 • 51 min

An experimental anti-violence secondary school that is often fraught with tension. A chronicle filmed at the heart of the education system, in which the headmaster remains the boss that everyone respects.

Resonance of Moments II

2001 • 30 min

The trilogy "Resonanz von Augenblicken II" (resonance of moments II) is a compilation of scenes shot on S-8 in several european and westafrican sites, complemented with few TV quotes. Playful situations are shown—as intimate moments, or staged as a show. Behind their superficial ease, profound existential realms can be sensed that otherwise seem to be suppressed in everyday life.

Conundrum

2001 • 24 min • Italy

An experimental video in which earlier short films have been reworked and given new images and sounds. In a satirical-scientific way, well-known and obscure data are placed in a radically different context.

Nescia und Bruno

2001 • 3 min • Germany

HF522 - Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl

Spooks-a-Poppin' Trailer Show

2001 • 48 min

A 48-minute collection of ghost show promotional clips

Cyber Sentai Justy One ACT II

2001 • 60 min • Japan

The sequel to Cyber Sentai Justy One.

The Loom

2001 • 49 min • India

The fabric of the city emerged from the warp and weft of diverse threads, from the labour of migrant communities that made Bombay/Mumbai their own.

The Eye

2001 • 5 min • Russia

Material Incidents

2001 • 5 min

Material Incidents brings a layered look at the secrets of light's rituals and it’s loose associations with matter, temperature and the senses. Our eyes, our brain’s primary sensors, ultimate arbiters of our sense of reality, well being and even of security, are closely implicated in this shadowy drama where notions of solidity, joust with fluidity and the ephemeral.

Leila: The Orange Tree

2001 • 51 min • Palestinian Territory

A fascinating account of the beliefs and motives of notorious hijacker Leila Khaled. The charismatic freedom fighter talks candidly about her methods and the facts behind the simultaneous hijacking of three airliners in September 1971.

Slices of Time

2001 • 60 min • Slovenia

A wonderful example of a TV documentary that transcends the limitations of the TV screen. “Slices of Time” tells the story of two women born during the First World War who saw the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy collapse and a new state form: Yugoslavia. The two grandmothers of the author Zemira Alajbegović Pečovnik lived in different cultural and religious spheres – one in predominantly Muslim Bosnia, the other in Christian-influenced Slovenia – and yet were connected through their children and grandchildren. Global and personal history, childhood, love and wars intertwine.

Live and Be Happy

2001 • 31 min • Russia

Two people live in a small Siberian town: one is cheerful and cheerful, pleases his fellow countrymen with virtuoso accordion playing, the other is gloomy and withdrawn – builds a church in the middle of the town and talks about the imperfection of man.

Lauburu

2001 • 23 min

Guernika, year 1937. The city is savagely bombed from the air by a battalion of fascist troops. During the bombardment, Republican artillery shoots down an Italian plane. The pilot manages to parachute very close to a village inhabited by three women. Badly wounded on the ground, he is going to be finished off by one of them, Ikerne. This one, however, feels disturbed by the man's presence, and in a purely impulsive act she decides to take him to the house's barn. The presence of the man in the house reveals the lethargic desire of the three women. But it will also bring out the small conflicts and contradictions that the harsh survival conditions in the house have generated. The solution finds its way between desire for man and hatred for the enemy.

Sarcophagus

2001 • 26 min • Russia

The film is based on the story of the Oval Sarcophagus with Dionysian scenes from the antique collection of the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin. At various times, the owners of the sarcophagus were the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, the Italian Cardinal Marco Sittico Altemps, and finally, the Minister of Public Education of Russia, Count Sergei Uvarov, who purchased the sarcophagus for his "museum" in the Porechye estate near Moscow. The history of the sarcophagus is an occasion to reflect on the connection between epochs and cultures, the vicissitudes of fate, the mystery of life and death. Filming was carried out in various museums in Moscow, Rome, in the Porechye estate and the Hermitage.

Olivescapes

2001 • 17 min

12 people narrate their relationship with the olive tree. 6 The contour of the tree emerges from their storytelling. 

Stinky Monkey

2001 • 2 min • United States of America

David Lipson hints disturbingly at the potential for childhood cruelty in this technically ingenious encounter between a little girl and a monkey.