All Films

Natasha

2001 • 10 min

"Conceived and rendered with partner Josh Rechnitz, a story about a neglected housewife who falls in love with a vacuum cleaner."

Micro Garden

2001 • 4 min • United States of America

Red and ephemeral blue and purple plant shapes half-curled against a tan ground, which begins to flash white cracks in dried mud patterns. A flush of watery blues (in this hand-painted step-printed film) brightens the plant-skein into a veriety (sic) of greens mixed into all other colors-all darkening into smeared mud-blacks with microscopic beseeming black "splatters" (where mud-like cracks used to be.) The turquoise blues, red and tans resolve into a flare of red at end.

Transworld - Starting Point 3

2001 • 33 min

The third installment in the instructional skateboarding series.

Creased Robe Smile

2001 • 4 min

Directed by Lewis Klahr

All God's Children

2001 • 26 min

Shows how the Black Church has embraced African-American lesbians and gay men as dedicated members of its spiritual family. Prominent religious, intellectual and political leaders, family members, and activists speak out about the role of the church and the importance of a commitment to equal rights and social justice for all people, including lesbians and gay men.

Skyscraper

2001 • 8 min • United States of America

Reminiscing about Shades six years on.

World War II: Snipers

2001 • 50 min • United States of America

Sniping proved an important factor in the static trench warfare of World War One. But after the war armies let the skill languish has mechanized combat units came into their own. World War Two thrust snipers back into prominence as the Russian, German, British, American and Japansese armies trained new sniper forces in diverse ways to address their own specific battlefield requirements. Snipers effectively sewed fear and confusion among enemy forces but also suspicion in friendly forces since they worked alone outside the normal operation of infantry units.

Memory

2001 • 4 min • Japan

Short animated film by Tomoyasu Murata.

Virgin Night

2001 • 27 min • Japan

Tonight, Yuzuru and Azumi are having a critically important date—if they don't become more intimate by the end of it, their relationship may be in trouble. Both of them are conscious about this pressing matter, but while overwhelmed with nervousness and insecurities, they question each other's intentions.

Artémis

2001 • 13 min • France

In the Greek mythology, Artémis is known as the goddess of the night, the huntress, the goddess of fruitfulness, the Lady of the beasts, the woodland goddess, the guardian of the frontiers... In the movie of Valérie Morignat, she is an ambiguous apparition, constantly emerging from the music of Costin Miereanu as an allegory of desire.

Yaamini

2001 • 60 min • India

Kicking On

2001 • 13 min

When the toughest player on an amateur team decides to follow his heart and act on his feelings of same sex attraction both he and his mates are challenged to overcome their homophobia.

Vögel am Checkpoint Charlie

2001 • 3 min • Germany

HF808 - Super 8 (Black & White) film by Helga Fanderl

Occam's Thread

2001 • 7 min • United States of America

This is a hand painted, step printed work which views Occam's economical vision of life (The Razor's Edge') as something more thread-like: a staggered black line, growing steadily more solid, albeit often tangled trails vertically across the film surface, insinuating itself (it's life as it were) through a series of various paint shapes, some of which seem as if about to destroy it, bury it in black patches or cut into it: finally the line as if severed in glare of white leader, ending in multicolored paint patch.

Så nära får ingen gå - ett år med Kent

2001 • 60 min • Sweden

A documentary filmed 2000-2001 about Swedish rock band Kent as they play at sold out halls in Sweden and at the Roskilde Festival's biggest stage, but also at small clubs around Europe. They visit their hometown of Eskilstuna, meeting devoted fans with occasional festivities in the hotel room.

Flugzeuge II

2001 • 3 min • Germany

Short film by Helga Fanderl

De Colores

2001 • 28 min

Coming out in Hispanic families is explored from the points of view of those coming out as well as from the points of view of their fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers.

Body Double 17

2001 • 16 min

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

Vermilion Pleasure Night Volume 5

2001 • 55 min • Japan

Often sexy, sometimes profane-but always provocative-Vermilion Pleasure Night is a variety show that stands out even by the offbeat standards of Japanese late night television-required viewing for the Japanophile, the college student, and the urban hipster!

Ken Burns Give You Something

2001 • 3 min

"Redeems (?) the whitest man in America, Ken Burns, by making him scat, riff and syncopate more than all the hours of his multi-PBS JAZZ series ever attempted. The void of the PBS drone is regenerated in a cut and slice Shiva dance of creation." — Kyle Henry, Cinematexas, September 2002

Split

2001 • 9 min

Dimitri Lurie 2001

Test Tape Fat Chance John Cage

2001 • 12 min

Seven screens show videos of as many places in Bruce Nauman's studio during the summer of 2000. He filmed these slices of night life with an infrared camera and processed them during editing. But one person is conspicuous by his absence: the artist. From time to time, only a cat wanders between the workbenches. Test Tape Chance John Cage is an incursion into a place dedicated to creation. It highlights the silence, sleep and inactivity at the heart of the creative process.

Not To Talk About All Of Her Old Age

2001 • 51 min

Aoyama Shinji’s Film History—and simultaneously a chronicle of modern Japanese history—layers together images of present-day landscapes, newsreels, and photographs of Emperor Shōwa as well as of Kōtoku Shūsui and Sugako Kanno, who were executed in the High Treason Incident, with readings of texts by Nakano Shigeharu (Five-Shao of Sake, Shinagawa Station in the Rain) and Natsume Sōseki (Recollections).

Pic-Pic, André et leurs amis

2001 • 49 min • Belgium

The adventures of Picpic and André are told through seven crazy short films. Pic Pic is a magical and helpful pig, while André is a bad horse. Coboy is his best enemy.