All Films

Patina

2001 • 8 min

The title of the film - Patina - suggests many meanings around the phenomenon of "surface" that function in this hand painted film. Taking footage from a distant past and reworking it through paint and montage, creating veils thorough which only glimpses of the photographed images can be seen - becomes not a metaphor for but a visceral expression of the effects of time. The goal of the work is not to be excessively "poignant" or "nostalgic" about the past but rather to celebrate the vibrancy of seeing (and painting) it anew. The process of transforming photography into paint is particularly significant for me as I have been painting on paper and canvas for the past several years and this is my first completed film from this period. - Peter Herwitz

Ithaka

2001 • 19 min • Canada

In verlan Ithaka is Kathaï. Just think about this for 2 secs. That's all I ask you... just 2 secs, you think about this.

Light Shards

2001 • 6 min

Experimental Super 8 film from 2001 by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill

De glömda emigranterna

2001 • 29 min

Eskil Holmgren (87 years old) and Vera Hultgren-Lundquist (84 years old) are second-generation immigrants. In Oberá in Argentina's northern province of Misiones, there is a large colony of Swedish descendants who have preserved both language and traditions for almost a hundred years. But soon only the names remain that remind of the Swedish families who, in the hope of a better life, left everything and emigrated to the other side of the world.

Terra Incognita

2001 • 5 min

This collaborative work is a fusion of imaginary and music expressing an ever-changing flux and paradox in perceived space and location and involving notions of navigation, geometry, and mapping.The animated imagery derives from hand painting and etching on 35 mm clear and black motion picture film. While digitizing, the film was physically bent, twisted, rotated and treated to a number of hands-on manipulations. The images then underwent further visual transformation in digital post production.The music was largely an intuitive process. the basic sound sources including thumb piano, pygmy pipe and gamelan metallophone tones, were digitally transformed and then contrapuntally layered, inter-cut, diced and threaded into a pulsating «spider web» design suggested by a visual imagery.

Punk Rawk Show Vol. 2

2001 • 60 min

Documentary with interviews, appearences and videos by Blink 182, Guttermouth, MxPx, Dance Hall Crashers, Supertones.

Fetisch 2

2001 • 12 min

Sequel to the 1998 amateur splatter film "Fetisch: The Killer Portait", where the murderer's body is taken by two scientists who conduct experiments on him.

Touched by an Angel

2001 • 12 min • Netherlands

When a woman puts on one of her hats to hide her bald head, memories of a painful period suddenly re-surface into reality. She and the viewer are pulled into a journey full of fear, doubt and hope. This autobiographical, animated portrait draws on fable and real-life experience to evoke intimately the far-reaching effects of a serious illness in progress. The film mixes drawings, photographs, models, objects and paintings.

O, Where Oblivion Dwell

2001 • 8 min • Spain

An audiovisual account of the construction of James Lee Byars's "The Gold Sphere" in October 1992 and its destruction on 8 June 1994. The whole process is visualized in images while Miguel is heard in a voiceover reciting "Granada", a poem published in the catalogue "Plus Ultra" as a presentation of Bryan's work, blended in with a musical collage of "Una granaína" and "Media granaína".

Index1/Stained

2001 • 10 min

Slipknot - Live at Alpine Valley Music Theatre 2001

2001 • 60 min

01 People = Shit 02 Liberate 03 Eeyore 04 Disasterpiece 05 Purity 06 Eyeless 07 New Abortion 08 The Heretic Anthem 09 Spit It Out 10 Wait and Bleed 11 (sic) 12 Surfacing

Nous ne sommes pas au monde

2001 • 10 min

Wandering Cambodian peasants, stripped of their land, decide to camp out in front of the National Assembly so as not to disappear, not to forget, to honour the damned and the disappeared. Rimbaud was right. Screening accompanied by a performance sung by the filmmaker.

Stopline

2001 • 6 min

Znelka

2001 • 2 min

Nazi homosexual concentration camp transportation train guard shares a smoke.

World War II: A History of WWII (Part 2)

2001 • 54 min

This documentary begins with the story of the prelude to World War II, and goes on to analyze such events as the Treaty of Versailles, the League of Nations, rise of the dictators, the spread of fascism in Italy, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, the Spanish Civil War, the Munich Agreement, Hitler's March into Czechoslovakia, the Blitzkrieg and invasion of Poland, the fall of Norway, and more.

À Margem

2001 • 15 min

On vacation, a couple and their son arrive at a chalet next to a lake. Each member of the family quickly goes off to his own activity. The father, the mother and the son occupy three distinct territories: the lake, the shore, and the chalet.

A Clouded Sky

2001 • 13 min

Siddarth, a 20 something gay guy wants to commit Suicide due to rejection of his sexuality from society.His best friend tries to stop him.

Allons-Y Alonzo: Souvenirs of a Landscape

2001 • 27 min

In 1998 a 260-kilometer stretch of the Loire River—and its adjoining parklands, vineyards, chateaux, churches, abbeys and prehistoric sites—from Sully-sur-Loire to Chalonnes, was nominated by the government of France as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Focusing on dynamic and ephemeral dimensions of the cultural landscape, Strickland adopted the shorthand of “microcinema” to portray a collection of local characters and environmental transitions that would lend animate perspective to the Loire Valley World Heritage web site. Adding the glimpses together in a 27 minute movie, Allons-y Alonzo reflects a filmmaker’s quest to glean the senses of a place and to register its Genius Loci. The web site with Strickland’s video was produced as a design prototype for UNESCO World Heritage Centre.

Wish

2001 • 17 min

A meeting of minds. A simple kiss. A simple wish. A young Glaswegian care worker, Fraser falls in love with an elderly Japanese lady, Miss Kaori, who he helps to look after. She tells him stories about when she was young and he pictures himself with her in Japan. In reality, Fraser's feelings towards Kaori become sullied by the merciless taunting of local kids and the fact that Fraser already has a girlfriend his own age.

Owy

2001 • 2 min

Animation by a Japanese artist.

Fortress Australia: The Secret Bid for the Atomic Bomb

2001 • 54 min

This documentary explores one of the most extraordinary chapters in Australia's history - the attempts by successive Australian governments to fortress the nation with atomic weapons.

That's Life

2001 • 43 min

The lives and words of five young, worried students in Tehran in 2001. They have gone through a period of struggle and are now struggling to find themselves and their belongings.

phex

2001 • 47 min • France

With Morgane Bébin and Isabelle Claus. A dance film where the choreographed combat resonates with the film's subject matter.

Myth Makers 51: David Brierley

2001 • 50 min • United Kingdom

At first glance, David Brierley would seem an unlikely choice to take over from John Leeson as the voice of K9. As one of Britain’s dedicated character actors David had built a career in television, theatre, radio and commercials that paid a living and still allowed him to walk down the street unnoticed. He was happy – he didn’t really want to be K9’s voice! Perhaps it was the wealth of experience that David could bring to K9, his ability to give K9 more depth, that appealed to Christopher Barry and John Nathan-Turner when they were casting for Creature from the Pit. Whatever their reasons – they wanted David. In this Myth Makers, Nicholas Briggs finds out why David finally took the job and the challenges and rewards he found. And why did he leave after only one season?