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Plitvice - Land of Falling Lakes

Plitvice - Land of Falling Lakes

2004 • 53 min • Austria
The Tale of 1001 waterfalls takes place day and night right in the heart of Croatia. For here lying hidden among rough karst mountains is a “Natural Wonder World” – the Plitvice Lakes, one of the oldest Nationalparks in Europe. The Plitvice Lakes are embedded in a grandiose karst region. The film follows the course of the water taking it’s wondrous paths through the limestone. Rain and snow seep through the porous layers, cavities and caves to disappear from the surface but once in the depths these small water veins collect to mighty torrents.
Love for Dogs

Love for Dogs

2004 • 23 min • Malaysia
A frustrated con-man is on the verge of befriending an equally lonely mute salesgirl.
There Was Once a Champion

There Was Once a Champion

2004 • 58 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina
The life of the former boxing champion, Marijan Beneš, is interesting from the very beginning, more precisely from his first fights in the Boxing Club "Slavija" from Banja Luka, through the amateur title of European champion in 1979, and further, through several championship belt defenses, to the fight for the title of world champion. The story of the boxing legend of the town on the Vrbas is permeated through this documentary. This achievement was awarded the prestigious "Silver Pine" award in 2004.
The Little Night Symphony

The Little Night Symphony

2004 • 10 min • Russia
The history of the creation of a single piece of music.
Cinegael Paradiso

Cinegael Paradiso

2004 • 53 min • United States of America
Cinegael is an independent cinema set up by filmmaker Bob Quinn in the 1970's, in which his son, the director Robert Quinn, lived as a child. The film focuses on the contribution the cinema made to the cultural life of the community, but also to the Irish film industry itself, acting as a home for, and catalyst to, radical ideas and attitudes within the film industry at the time.
A Place (Playground)

A Place (Playground)

2004 • 10 min • Bulgaria
A Place (Playground) (2004) by Krassimir Terziev focuses on one of the playgrounds situated in a typical working-class neighborhood, built in 1983 in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The environment recorded on video is characteristic of a concoction of preplanned hillocks that are cut across by canals and ponds which are linked by curved footbridges. Terziev highlights the architectural ensemble characteristic of prop-like tanks, rockets, military airplanes and canons—all arranged as if on a battlefield. The metal items painted in the same colors—yellow, red and blue—were manufactured from the materials used in the production of military equipment. Importantly, the film turns to the environment as metaphor, as it documents everyday activities in a space packed with residents who are unaware of the changing ideologies behind their urban surroundings, as communist ideology gradually gives way to capitalist consumerism.
Conversas com Glícínia

Conversas com Glícínia

2004 • 55 min • Portugal
A documentary about the actress Glicínia Quartin on her 80th birthday. Her family, the anarcho-syndicalism, readings at his parents' house, prisons, experimental theaters, surrealists, the encounter with José Ernesto de Sousa on the unfolding of Cinema Novo with “Dom Roberto”, Italy, fantasy, Beckett, Genet, Vitor Garcia, the encounter with Luís Miguel Cintra - a life in motion.
Hector the Attention Deficit Super Red Cordial Kid

Hector the Attention Deficit Super Red Cordial Kid

2004 • 6 min
In times of danger, those who know his name call to "Hector - the Attention Deficit Super Red Cordial Kid"
Mario Makes a Movie

Mario Makes a Movie

2004 • 12 min • United States of America
Mario, a "developmentally disabled" man learns how to use a movie camera.
Optical Action

Optical Action

2004 • 4 min
Found Super 8 footage is the basis of this flicker film which has been hand treated with ink and bleach. Every other frame has been coloured with a black marker pen to create the flicker and cracked mosaic effect.
Black Sun

Black Sun

2004 • 3 min • Italy
"By composing the rhythmic scores of the images of Black Sun I pursued “a beauty of power”, as the poet Pierre-Jean Jouve writes, rather than a beauty of harmony, drawing light sculptures that unfold over time and are engraved in the night of the retina according to optical-luministic scores regulated by the laws of an inner metric..." Arcangelo Mazzoleni, Work diaries, 2003
Fig.4

Fig.4

2004 • 5 min • France
Bodies and movements recomposed from thousands of pornographics images.
Operation Alien Intelligence

Operation Alien Intelligence

2004 • 13 min • Finland
Three young schoolboys run their own UFO observatory, and this night they seem to have found something really interesting.
The Infinite Ocean: the Philosophy of the Vedas

The Infinite Ocean: the Philosophy of the Vedas

2004 • 27 min
The Vedas are a large corpus of texts originating in Ancient India. Philosophies and sects that developed in the Indian subcontinent have taken differing positions on the Vedas.
Des câlins dans les cuisines

Des câlins dans les cuisines

2004 • 8 min • France
Stan and Léa stopped living together a few months ago. However, Léa asks Stan to spend one last night together like a Proustian madeleine.
The Trophy

The Trophy

2004 • 28 min • Latvia
The film is based on an interpretation of the fairy tale theme that takes place after the "happy ending," when the noble knight defeats the dragon and frees the princess from his clutches. But what if the knight is unable to fall in love with his rescued princess and instead wallows in contemplative joy over his heroic deed, finding fulfillment in the slain dragon's hide—his trophy? At the same time, his new wife struggles with sexual dissatisfaction and, despite everything, continues to love her husband until the witches conjure up large silicone breasts for her and everything turns upside down...
Someone Has to Do It

Someone Has to Do It

2004 • 42 min • Uruguay
A documentary about five gravediggers' stories, and at the same time it goes through the different areas of the Montevideo North Cemetery. It's a view over lives' stories, aspirations, frustrations and feelings of those who do that as ungraceful as necessary duty, those who at the same time live and make their livings with death.
Bus Stop

Bus Stop

2004 • 3 min • United Kingdom
Made at the Royal College of Art in the last year of my MA using Photoshop mainly. I'd been watching cartoons and silent comedy shorts from the 20's and felt like doing some character animation.
Samba em Copacabana

Samba em Copacabana

2004 • 15 min • Brazil
Musical documentary about Alfredinho's Bip Bip, featuring Cristina Buarque and Elton Medeiros.
A Knight in Bludhaven

A Knight in Bludhaven

2004 • 21 min • United States of America
Nightwing finds a city of his own to clean up, taking steps to find his own path, independent from Batman.
Gary Hill: I Believe It Is an Image

Gary Hill: I Believe It Is an Image

2004 • 58 min • Germany, United States of America
In this program video artist Gary Hill uses a number of his pieces to investigate otherness and ambiguity, dislocation of the senses, the boundary between words and comprehension, the physicality of text, and figurative interactivity.
The Quick and the Dead

The Quick and the Dead

2004 • 4 min • Canada
Animation based on a video clip from the Iraq war.
Wodka: Nationalprodukt Nr.1

Wodka: Nationalprodukt Nr.1

2004 • 60 min
The whole world is confident that bears walk the streets in Russia, and the entire population from young to old is drinking vodka from morning to evening. In fairness, we note that Russian people themselves recognize the reputation of inveterate drunkards and are proud of it somewhere. Russian Russian documentarian Alexey Khanyutin made an attempt to analyze the role of vodka in the life of a Russian person.
Kostya Tszyu. To Be First!

Kostya Tszyu. To Be First!

2004 • 52 min • Russia
“To get up, you have to fall down,” the legendary boxer Kostya Tszyu understood this from his own experience. During his career in professional boxing at the time of filming, he suffered one defeat. But it turned out to be more important than all his victories.