All Films

Kneecam No. 1

2001 • 4 min • Germany

It is a short video produced by Matthias Fritsch in 2000 at the Fuckparade in Berlin.

So That People Applaud

2001 • 25 min • Russia

Billy Joel: In His Own Words

2001 • 52 min

The entertainer performs and takes audience questions at the University of Pennsylvania's Irvine Auditorium in Philadelphia.

The Paranormal Peter Sellers

2001 • 49 min • United Kingdom

This documentary revealed Peter Sellers obsession with the occult. Sellers was a highly superstitious man who consulted fortune tellers, clairvoyants and mediums to help him make key decisions in his life and work. Many of Sellers important decisions were influenced by Maurice Woodruff - a clairvoyant and astrologer based in London. Advice from the other side was taken on his marriage to Britt Ekland, accepting film roles such as Inspector Clouseau and dealing with his near fatal heart attack.

Sanzhyra

2001 • 15 min • Kyrgyz Republic, Russia

Lyrical tragicomedy. The eyes of the young hero, who will go through the rite of circumcision, shows the life of a Kyrgyz village on a holiday day.

Rolling movie

2001 • 3 min • Japan

Major Flake: Soggy Sale

2001 • 7 min • United States of America

Major Flake, a frenetic French cereal mascot, and his grim sidekick, Sparkles, must find a way to sell their rather unappealing Major Flake cereal before their boss, Sylvia Soggy, pulls the breakfast treat from store shelves.

The Making of Sexy Beast

2001 • 8 min • United States of America

A brief promotional featurette about the film including comments from most of the cast, as well as from director Jonathan Glazer.

Intoxicated By My Illness

2001 • 41 min

Intoxicated by My Illness (in which images photographed by several people are extensively superimposed) loosely and dreamily tracks a phase in Dwoskin's recent life that took him from medical examination to intensive care.

Family Portrait

2001 • 5 min

Short by Cosimo Terlizzi.

Holo Mai Pele

2001 • 54 min

This is the story of the Fire Goddess Pele and the dynamics of her relationship with her sister Hi’iaka. Six years ago, the renowned dance company Halau 'O Kekuhi began the ambitious undertaking of assembling and recreating the legend for modern audiences, translating it to the contemporary stage by combining the traditions of Hawaiian chant and hula with innovative elements of Western theater.

Blue Haven

2001 • 17 min • United States of America

Two skateboarders search for the perfect swimming pool to skate, but $40,000 and a sex change later, they find true love instead. Henry and Fakie live a joyous simple life combing the city for a Blue Haven pool to skate. If only Fakie could find the forty grand he needs to bankroll his sex change. Luckily Fate intrudes to lend a helping hand but neither Henry nor Fakie anticipate that every weird accident is usually followed up by increasingly weird accidents.

Candidature

2001 • 45 min • France

Jean, a young Parisian philosopher, travels to Angoulême to take part in a recruitment competition for the National Education. On the bus, he meets two other candidates, Pauline, an unscrupulous young woman, and Luc Dunoyer, a brilliant specialist of Descartes. The presence of the latter, who has never failed an exam, makes Jean lose all his means. But Dunoyer has fallen asleep on the bus.

Chirpy

2001 • 12 min • United States of America

Described by the director as his statement on modern pornography, the film follows the misadventures of a small yellow bird, which include the adult themes of hallucinogenic drugs and sexual intercourse with a horse.

Gandor: The Hunt for the Nirdala

2001 • 15 min • Yugoslavia

One man's battle for humanity! Bosko Drljic is a man that left he's job, way of living, and everything material behind, and gone in nature to hunt mystical creature Nirdala, witch represents all the evil in the world.

Rewriting the Script: A Love Letter to our Families

2001 • 46 min • Canada

Rewriting the Script features frank discussions with parents, siblings and extended family members of South Asian gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people. Poignant testimonies are shared not only about the coming out experience but how these families transformed themselves to include their queer children, changing the larger South Asian community in the process. The documentary speaks not only to experiences of South Asians (which includes people originating from the Indian subcontinent), but to other diasporic communities as well.

Transworld - Videoradio

2001 • 35 min • Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy

“Through seven countries in three weeks Transworld Skateboarding’s Videoradio follows Jamie Thomas Chad Muska Mark Appleyard Colt Cannon John Rattray Adrian Lopez Chris Cole Sammy Baptista and special guest Tom Penny along the Circa Footwear European Tour of June 2001 Beyond the daily barrage of demos interviews autographs and latenight street missions Videoradio goes deep inside the experience to explore a journey that captures the true essence of skateboarding friendship fun and life in the moment” Adrian Lopez, Chad Muska, Chris Cole, Colt Cannon, Jamie Thomas, John Rattray, Mark Appleyard, Sammy Baptista, Tom Penny

In the Company of Compañeros

2001 • 17 min • Italy

In the Company of Compañeros is an interview featurette with Franco Nero, Tomas Milian and composer Ennio Morricone

The Making Of The Katakuris

2001 • 30 min • Japan

In this contemporary documentary, the cast and the crew share their experiences of making the film.

National Geographic: Inside the Vatican

2001 • 50 min

Provides a behind-the-scenes look, with unprecedented access, into life inside the Vatican. With rare footage of secret archives, private chapels and papal quarters, the program explores the Vatican's long, powerful history, and the unique traditions and ceremonies that have survived for nearly 2000 years. Accounts from Vatican officiants, historians and devoted individuals who work closely with the Pope John Paul II provide privilieged insight into the inner workings of one of the richest wonders of the world.

Song of Sea

2001 • 4 min

Part of the “10 Poets 10 Directors” project funded by the Ministry of Culture.

The Passion of Joan of Arc

2001 • 12 min

The story of "Joan of Arc" is one of the most frequently told tales in cinema's hundred plus year history. This brand new version is a post-mortem/post- modern collaboration between the Great Dane Carl Dreyer and Marie Losier, who inserts herself into the 1928 film as God's greatest lover and France's most cherished martyr. A funny tragedy.

Ben Boyer and the Phenomenology of Automobile Marketing

2001 • 5 min

While sitting on the toilet one November morning, Ben Boyer receives a Jungian lesson on archetypal marketing.

All Water Has a Perfect Memory

2001 • 19 min

An experimental documentary about a family's loss of a child and the struggle between remembrance and forgetting. The film explores the cultural differences between a North American mother and a Mexican father in the face of death.