All Films

The Art of Fugue

2001 • 19 min

Early experimental animation by Takashi Ishida

Hangyodon in the Emperor's New Clothes

2001 • 10 min • Japan

Hangyodon recreates the story of The Emperor's New Clothes.

Children of the Secret State

2001 • 50 min

Children of the Secret State follows Ahn Chol, a 29-year-old North Korean man who escaped from the country in 1997 by swimming across a river to China after his parents died of starvation. Chol has slipped back into North Korea several times since 1997 with a hidden camera to reveal a side of the communist nation that its government tries to hide from the outside world. In the documentary, viewers are exposed to many gruesome realities, including a food supply only available on the black market and small children fending for themselves to survive, scooping up spilled rice and corn.

Sullivan's Banks

2001 • 38 min • Germany

Emigholz presents the buildings of the great American architect Louis Sullivan (1856–1924). “In everything that men do they leave an indelible imprint of their minds. If this suggestion be followed out, it will become surprisingly clear how each and every building reveals itself naked to the eye; how its every aspect, to the smallest detail, to the lightest move of the hand, reveals the workings of the mind of the man who made it, and who is responsible to us for it.”

Never Again

2001 • 56 min • Colombia

A documentary about the struggles of Colombian peasants in the province of Chocó who are caught in the middle of an armed conflict between the military, guerrillas and other paramilitary groups.

Slaughtered Pigtails

2001 • 3 min

A woman is chased across a field by an unseen assailant.

Andy Williams: Best of Christmas

2001 • 60 min

Christmas just isn't Christmas without Andy Williams. To millions around the world, Andy Williams always arrived just before Santa. This Christmas collection features 24 of the greatest songs of the holiday season, including "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year," "White Christmas," "It's a Holiday Season," "Silver Bells," "I'll Be Home for Christmas," "Jingle Bells," "The Christmas Song," "Ave Maria," "Mary's Boy Child," "Silent Night" and "O Holy Night." Andy is joined by the entire Williams clan and the Osmond Brothers.

Koala's Song

2001 • 3 min • France

Film by Sébastien Ronceray.

Cinema Lesson

2001 • 16 min

Presented here is a 2001 "cinema lesson" from the Cannes Film Festival, featuring Wong and film theorist and producer Gilles Ciment.

An Unfinished Symphony

2001 • 60 min • United States of America

An emotional, poetic, and lyrical journey back in time to reflect on the highly contested Vietnam War.

Å se en båt med seil

2001 • 11 min • Norway

A weathered face, an old man skiing in Rondane ... Neapolitan song, music over the snow - memories of childhood summers, a boat ... The landscape is snowy now - a boat here ... In the snow?

Lovesong 4

2001 • 3 min

A natural companion piece to Lovesong 3, this (also hand-painted) work counterbalances the rhythmic irregularities and, one might say, temporal despairs with a steadiness of beat, creating an absolute progression of formal feeling and meaning. The sense of line drawings, and consequent pictorial representation has given way to shape-in-space composed of only four colors: Lavender, Purple, Green, and Turquoise. Their dance with the darkness suggests an inter-action of bodies. At end there's a flare to a field of white within which a very tiny shape (almost like lips) pulses and finally flickers out.

Nazareth 2000

2001 • 55 min • Netherlands, Palestinian Territory

Returning to his native city just months before the new millennium, filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad captures the daily, idiosyncratic beats of Nazareth - a city both Christians and Muslims consider one of the most sacred in the world. Set against the background of the riots surrounding a square that both the municipality and the Muslim community lay claim to, Abu-Assad allows his story to unfold through the eyes of two cynical, funny and wise gas station attendants who have been working at the service station for decades. Their comments on the political and social conditions of their city paint both a tragic and subtle image of its inhabitants.

That's Life: Vittorio De Sica

2001 • 55 min • Italy

Documentary about the life and career of Italian film director Vittorio De Sica.

Hostage: The Bachar Tapes (English Version)

2001 • 17 min

Hostage: The Bachar Tapes (English Version) is an experimental documentary about "The Western Hostage Crisis." The crisis refers to the abduction and detention of Westerners in Lebanon in the 80s and early 90s by "Islamic militants." This episode directly and indirectly consumed Lebanese, U.S., French, and British political and public life, and precipitated a number of high-profile political scandals like the Iran-Contra affair in the U.S. This period is examined through the testimony of Souheil Bachar, who was the only Arab to have been detained with the American hostages kidnapped in Beirut in the 1980s. In 1999, Bachar collaborated with The Atlas Group to produce 53 videotapes about his captivity. Tapes #17 and #31 are the only two tapes Bachar makes available outside of Lebanon. In the tapes, Bachar addresses the cultural, textual, and sexual aspects of his detention with the Americans.

Angel Beach

2001 • 18 min • United States of America

Collection of 3d stills of people on the beach reprocessed for cinema

The Song-Catcher

2001 • 11 min

An old man is obsessed by the haunting memory of his beloved who has passed on. He chases and collects butterflies while life slowly passes him by. The butterfly symbolizes his past happiness. Its erratic flight mimics the tragic tale of passionate love as the story flits between past and present, dream and reality. Set to the music of Gluck, The Song-Catcher shows an old man tormented by his dreams and consumed by sadness until his final release into eternity. Reminiscent of the world of Edgar Allan Poe, Philippe Vaucher's charcoal drawings capture the mournful landscapes of a tormented soul. In this hauntingly beautiful animated film, life melds into death in a sensuous celebration of love eternal. A film without words.

The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs

2001 • 17 min • Lebanon, United Kingdom

"The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs is a three-part video project: Missing Lebanese Wars (in three parts), Secrets in the Open Sea and Miraculous Beginnings (in two parts). The work investigates the possibilities and limits of writing a history of the Lebanese wars (1975-1991). All parts are short fake documentaries, hysterical symptoms of sorts that present imaginary events conctructed out of innocent and everyday material. The tapes document fantastic situations that beset a number of individuals during the civil wars. The tapes do not document what happened, but what can be imagined, what can be said, what can be taken for granted, what can appear as rational, sayable, and thinkable about the wars."

Transfixed

2001 • 2 min

"Transfixed" is a meditative film that celebrates the beauty found within the small details of existence. "'Transfixed' evokes the boundless joy of the vicarious unlimited experience of childhood, while at the same time reminding us of life's accelerated velocity and transitory nature." - Antimatter Underground Film Festival, 2002

Visit Nicaragua

2001 • 30 min • Nicaragua

Looking for a few reasons why you should visit Nicaragua? Considering the country's two incredible coastlines, almost 20 volcanoes, lively colonial cities, abundant wildlife, rich culture, and delicious food, it won't be hard to convince you to put “visiting Nicaragua” at the top of your travel bucket list! Nicaragua, set between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, is a Central American nation known for its dramatic terrain of lakes, volcanoes and beaches. Vast Lake Managua and the iconic stratovolcano Momotombo sit north of the capital Managua. To its south is Granada, noted for its Spanish colonial architecture and an archipelago of navigable islets rich in tropical bird life.

Vi är The Ark

2001 • 34 min • Sweden

Intimate documentary following the rock band The Ark on tour.

Wendigo Blues

2001 • 18 min

A Tribal Police Officer is convinced something evil has come to his Reservation.

The Mousochist

2001 • 4 min • United States of America

A mouse tosses away the strawberry he's eating for a huge piece of cheese, which is baiting a trap. He spends a lot of time licking the cheese and sort of avoiding it, before the trap finally does its job. But that doesn't stop the severed head from enjoying the cheese.

Forbidden Fruit

2001 • 30 min • Germany

Filmed in Zimbabwe, the film depicts the romantic relationship between two women, and the aftermath of the discovery of their relationship