All Films

Amateur Radio Today

2003 • 9 min • United States of America

Short Subject vieo produced by Dave Bell and Amateur Radio outlining Ham Radio and its role in emergency communications in the years after the 9/11 Attacks on the U.S.A.

Bitch & Butch

2003 • 45 min • Sweden

Is it possible to make feminist porn? We follow the collaboration and discussions behind the scenes of the film Selma & Sofie, produced by Swedens first all female film crew. Sara and Camilla - who play the leading parts - come from a small place in the North of Sweden, and have never done anything like this before.

Roses Sing on New Snow

2003 • 7 min • Canada

Maylin cooks mouth-watering meals at her father's restaurant in Chinatown, but her father and brothers take all the credit. When a dignitary from China arrives for a sumptuous banquet, Maylin's father serves him her special dish, Roses Sing on New Snow. The visitor is so impressed that he demands the recipe! After her brothers fail miserably at recreating it, the father must call for his daughter. Maylin demonstrates as the dignitary follows every step. After tasting his own cooking, the man realizes he cannot duplicate the dish. The chef is the most important ingredient of all! Maylin finally receives the credit she deserves for her inspired fusion of Old and New World cuisine.

Wet Tiles

2003 • 8 min • United Arab Emirates

A young woman who is seemingly being prepared for an arranged marriage. The use of dramatic camera angles, changes of film exposure and camera focus, all serve to express her inner state of agitation, but the story is more implied than spelled out.

Muka

2003 • 4 min • Poland

Colorful Polish avant-garde animation that follows liquid cats through an explosive background of color including an aquarium.

Metropolitan Express

2003 • 29 min • Russia

In a small town there are no mysteries, lively events or attractions, apart from the smooth tracks of the railway, which hide real life and fairytale emotions beyond the horizon. The train to the capital, which passes through the town every day, seems to Katya and Oxana to be part of a different world, full of wonder. One day an unexpected message from the Moscow express alters the routine life of the two friends.

Iii

2003 • 9 min • Poland

Polish avant-garde animation that presents Escheresque geometric confounding to a heavy ego bass.

Nothing to Say

2003 • 9 min

The Brazilian upper class portrayed by an artist in a critical mood.

Tokyo Scanner

2003 • 17 min • Japan

Twenty-minute aerial overview of various Tokyo highlights, with continuous zooms from sweeping panoramas down to individual people on the street.

The Man Without Qualities

2003 • 8 min • Sweden

An animated short about a regular guy follows an anonymous everyman from his birth to his grave. It is also a play on pictorial conventions; all the images in the film were made from sampled or homemade pictograms.

Britton, South Dakota

2003 • 9 min • United States of America

Ivan Besse managed the Strand movie theater manager in Britton, South Dakota during the Depression. Besse owned a 16mm camera and used it to shoot people at their various activities around town during the day. He screened the local footage before feature films and newsreels as a lure to entice paying customers into the theater.

J.B. Lenoir at Home

2003 • 20 min • United States of America

J. B. Lenoir (1929 - 1967) was an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, active in the Chicago blues scene in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1965 the Swedish/American couple Rönnog and Steve Seaberg visited J.B. at his home on the South Side of Chicago and recorded 30 minutes of music and conversation. Parts of the film was used in "Soul of a Man" (2003).

Sweet Dreams

2003 • 5 min • Uruguay

A little boy is having trouble falling asleep because there are monsters in his bedroom

Bug

2003 • 14 min • France

Our Sleeping Beauty is now a prostitute and her three protective fairies are Drag-Queens... Metamorphosed into a top-model, will she escape from the dreadful virus that hangs over her?

The 911 Song

2003 • 5 min

THIS IS A TRIBUTE I MADE FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER.I MADE AND SONG THE SONG. I USED MY BIG STUFF CARTOON CARTER. THIS SEEN IS ALL SO IN THE MOVE[ FROGGY REVALUATION] WHICH WILL BE UPLOADED SOON IN ABOUT 9 PARTS LOOK FOR IT.

And the Pig Was Born

2003 • 23 min • France, United States of America

« Made for the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris exposition VOILA (Summer 2000), from ‘found’ footage taken from hundreds of unfinished films stored in Anthology's basement. A tour-de-force montage film with the spirit of Vigo and Buñuel hovering over it. Made before Godard's Origins of the 21st Century, Ziz's film provokes interesting comparisons. Both deal with images of the 20th century. But while Godard's film could be described as a poster, Ziz's film is a poem. I don't have to tell you which one I prefer...- » (Jonas Mekas)

Wounded

2003 • 16 min • Portugal

Nourished by grief, silence drains the life of a couple who have lost their child. The mother refuses to speak, transforming their home into a place of mourning where memories poison her relationship with her husband.

Body Double 16

2003 • 6 min

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and Ken Russell's Women In Love

The Happy Cow

2003 • 29 min • Finland

The Happy Cow ”is a documentary about the love and concern of a human being for animals. At the same time, it is a story about a person's great sacrifices and the stubborn struggle to maintain a lifestyle and culture that are irrevocably about to disappear. Rune has chosen to stay out of EU regulations. He refuses to fill out forms and refuses to mark his cows with yellow plastic markings in their ears. Therefore, he cannot even deliver his milk to the dairy. Some of the milk is given to the calves, but most of it ends up in the manure pile. Thousands of litres of milk are thrown away every year.

Sabrina: Remote Possibilities

2003 • 2 min • United States of America

While doing some late night channel surfing, Sabrina discovers that her remote control can change her physical appearance in various ways.

Join the Resistance, Fall in Love

2003 • 17 min • United States of America

"On the upper left screen we watch a white bourgeois couple joylessly preparing for work: getting dressed, brushing their teeth, and eating breakfast. In the lower right corner we watch an interracial hipster couple—an Asian woman and white man—calling in sick and having sex. The alienation between the bourgeois couple is formally stressed by them being split into two frames while the interracial couple are framed together." (Quoted from Chris Robé's 'Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerrillas, and Digital Ninjas,' pg. 363)

Dear Juliet

2003 • 24 min • Latvia

An ironic reportage about Shakespeare’s Juliet who has turned from a symbol of love into a victim of mass culture. The film was shot during a day in the backyard of the Cappelletti house in Verona.

3 Am

2003 • 22 min • United States of America

A lonely cremation attendant steals a kiss from a beautiful, young body. She wants it back.

Firefly

2003 • 12 min • Latvia

Otis, a young firefly, is in trouble. He wants a girlfriend and he can't get his light to shine as bright as the others.