All Films

The Last Ten Minutes of Existence

2000 • 11 min

This is a film that I had planed on making for more than two years before I began to shoot it. The Idea was to shoot an entire 400 ft. magazine of film from start to finish without stopping.

Stad (AMS)

2000 • 9 min

A thriller without a storyline. A boat sails at night through the canals of The Hague and observes people and buildings. Who did what?

The Morphology of Desire

2000 • 5 min

In The Morphology of Desire, Robert Arnold digitally morphs romance novel illustrations into one another to create the illusion of cinematic motion. Using covers from 1960s and 1970s romance novels he has collected, Arnold constructs a lascivious vignette that explores how gender and desire are portrayed in popular culture. According to Arnold, the narrative is “about a couple representing a popular culture romantic ideal, caught at an ambiguous point of either turning to face their desire or turning away from it, never able to fully escape from it or fully realize it.”

Spitting

2000 • 2 min • Austria

A young man spitting cherry pits, with an off-screen accomplice, attempts to hit the camera´s lens with one of them. Various moods become apparent on the way to a certain goal: effort, failure, then finally success. A happy, lighthearted film.

Ladies Room

2000 • 13 min • China

At the turn of the century, China experienced drastic transformations in its socioeconomic structure and political system, which brought forth the acceptance of many concepts that had previously been opposed. These included making quick money, "selling" your body, and accepting hidden pornography. Using an inconspicuous hidden camera over the course of several days, Cui Xiuwen artfully captures how nightclub women act during this time – including dressing up, counting money, speaking to family members, and negotiating deals inside the ladies' room at one of the most popular nightclubs in Beijing.

Scratch

2000 • 2 min • Canada, Netherlands

Animation scratched directly on film.

Prowler

2000 • 3 min

Woods glow dark. Mud goes night. Cube knife eye. Achtung light.

Lebanon, Message From A Holy Land

2000 • 36 min

Directed by Bahij Hojeij, “Lebanon, Message from a Holy Land” visits Lebanon’s many ancient Christian holy sites. The documentary focuses especially on the Qadisha Valley, home to several historical monastaries and very old Christian churches.

Frankly Caroline

2000 • 9 min

A self-conscious counterpoint to FRANK FILM, FRANKLY CAROLINE focuses on Caroline Mouris and her story, but also examines the collaborative process and the creative roadblocks that always arise in a working relationship.

Slow Death

2000 • 16 min • United States of America

"A vaporous, stop-motion continuum of barely legible images dynamized by a pulsating electronic soundtrack. Although he draws on a bunch of avant-garde classics from Ernie Gehr’s Reverberation to Brakhage’s hand-painted films, Sogo’s voice is assured and all his own." (Amy Taubin)

Melts Into Air

2000 • 3 min

ALL THAT'S SOLID (and) MELTS INTO AIR are each separate films shot at an exhibition of the urban landscape artist Tyree Suyton in Cambridge at Harvard. I was struck by the redemptive critical and visionary character of his work which struck me as similar to G.M. Hopkins or Clarence Smith. Coincidentally as I was shooting these films I went to a screening of Charles Burnett and asked him what film he would like to make but couldn't get the money for. He replied, "a feature narrative about Tyree Suyton." So I put together four of the films from Spring 2000 into a four-film work called "4 For Charles Burnett - All That's Solid Melts Into Air". They are: ALL THAT'S SOLID, LIGHT LICK, TOSCANINI'S EUROPEAN SIDEWALK CAFE, and MELTS INTO AIR.

For Abramovic Love Cocteau

2000 • 4 min

Inspired in part by a performance by Marina Abramovic and Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus. I eat an onion with a woman, then we kiss. The footage is played backwards and starts with kissing and crying before the onion emerges.

Hand to Mouth

2000 • 6 min

Wearing different wigs, I am fed water filled helium balloons.

Una furtiva lagrima

2000 • 3 min

A music video for opera singer Izzy.

Marco Antonio Barrera vs. Erik Morales I

2000 • 50 min

Érik Morales vs Marco Antonio Barrera I, was a professional boxing match between the three-division and reigning WBO Super Bantamweight world champion Marco Antonio Barrera and reigning WBC Super Bantamweight world champion Erik Morales. It took place on February 19, 2000, at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Soliloquy (Clint), 1971-2000

2000 • 7 min

Breitz’s ‘Soliloquy Trilogy’ (2000), expands her previous investigations of the imaginary relations between the star and the fan.

Quad God

2000 • 33 min

A 2000 film made by Tritin Films

Pink Film

2000 • 2 min

Three girls embark on an oneiric journey in search of a role model. After hearing Darwin's advice, the girls dissatisfaction leads to a rebellion.

Ying and Bai

2000 • 50 min

The Documentary record the life of a panda, Ying, and his Trainer, Bai, in their small residential room inside China Wuhan Acrobatic Troupe. They both share a life behind bars where the outside world is out of reach and only accessible through a television.

Equalibrium

2000 • 4 min

One of the layers of this piece consists of an image of a Sufi like spinning dancer in a white lab coat. This out-take from an earlier film, Phonogramme, had somehow become splattered with a kind of mould that formed small flower like shapes in the frame. It is combined with a loop of hand-painted film which deteriorates slowly each time the loop repeats. The accidental misspelling of the title was retained as a piece of word play.

Beside the Sea

2000 • 58 min

Because of difficulties where they live in the north east of China, a husband and wife go back to their hometown in Shandong Province and settle in their hometown by the sea with three children. With no land of their own, they have to face the sea, and start their life again.

Ultimate Guide: The Human Body

2000 • 50 min

All you ever wanted to know about the most amazing machine on the planet - the human body. (Discovery School)

News Brief

2000 • 2 min

Short film by performance artist Weng Fen from the Wen Pulin Chinese Avant-Garde Art Archive.

Neighborhood Committee

2000 • 49 min

The lowest administrative body in Chinese cities is the neighborhood committee; the staff are retired old ladies, known as the "Little Foot Detective Team." Community security, cleaning, posting slogans, catching thieves, and issuing government documents are all the responsibility of the neighborhood committee. The neighborhood committee for this film is located on the south bank of the Emperor's Garden in Beijing, where all the people living here are now. The film began shooting in 1999, when the Chinese government celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. The neighborhood committees were busy cleaning up their domains and collecting fees.