All Films

-30°

2003 • 28 min • Sweden

A visit to Tärnaby in Sweden when it's bitter cold.

I Swam in the Sea Last Week

2003 • 2 min • Lebanon

A symbolic and poetic video evoking a changing situation through female body swimming in the sea.

The Thought That Counts

2003 • 5 min • Sweden

His seventh birthday, a day when all he wants to think about is playing, eating cake and opening presents. His day, not his father’s day.

Triple Axxxel

2003 • 4 min • Canada

Ice-skating and gender. A pornographic collage of figure-skating footage.

Tracks

2003 • 2 min • United States of America

Evoking the awe of the African Savannah at sunset, wild animals gather in a moody landscape for a last drink before nightfall. With the aid of a unique combination of fluid sand animation and backlit collages

Océano

2003 • 16 min • Argentina

This Wednesday at two o'clock in the morning the world will succumb under the waters.

Straight A's!

2003 • 45 min • Croatia, Netherlands

Lidija is 37, she was born in a small town on the Croatian coast. At the age of 19 she left for Amsterdam, where she was promised a waitressing job, but she ended up in the Red Light District. After 15 years, she returns to her hometown to turn a new page and become a mother. In the film she speaks up for the first time about leaving and returning to a conservative community, everything she experienced in between and describes Amsterdam’s windows, porn sets, Playboy covers.

Making of New York RH Avenue

2003 • 60 min

Making of New York RH Avenue & Collage of Our Life, starring actor and idol Ryoko Hirosue.

Axon

2003 • 16 min • United States of America

A FILM BY ALEX ROSSING

Ana's Poems

2003 • 28 min • Croatia

Ana’s Poems is a story about the folk poet Ana Šebalj from the village of Komletinci near Vinkovci and her best friend Mandica. These two "little girls trapped in the bodies of old women", as they were described by a film critic, in their lonely lives only have each other and the remarkable vitality of spirit.

Eilert Forever

2003 • 29 min • Sweden

Follows Elvis impersonator Eilert Pilarm on his last tour before retiring. Eilert has been obsessed with Elvis since he was a teenager and it has become a bigger and bigger part of his identity.

Love Cube

2003 • 2 min • Italy

The Birthday Party

2003 • 14 min

It's Tiffany's twenty-first birthday, and she's having a party with her closest friends. There's lots of drinking and kissing, and as the party progresses, various couples pair off, including Tiffany's boyfriend Drew with someone else. Her closest friend, Beth, hears strange noises from time to time, and finally goes to investigate. Tiffany and Drew follow with a flashlight. What sort of party will this turn out to be, and will Tiffany find true love?

Problema

2003 • 8 min • Brazil

What happens when two friends meet.

Pullin' the Devil by the Tail

2003 • 7 min • Ireland

A black goat talks to three old Irish folk-punks as they're walking home one night, and they freak out and kill it. The Devil turns up and claims it was his goat. He challenges them to play him a good song. If he likes it, he'll let them go. If he doesn't...

Vertical

2003 • 4 min • Canada

To the sound of a ramshackle brass band, a world slides towards ruin, carrying with it houses, birds, idols, balloons and whatever is left of reason. Theodore Ushev's Vertical combines expressionistic graphics with a scathing black humour and sense of the absurd.

Fairy Secter Tentoh Battle 7

2003 • 25 min • Japan

Tentos who came to play in the sea? !! Before that, the Antry Corps suddenly appears, the tents who suddenly become a battlefield on a peaceful beach, and the shadows and lights that stare at them.

Latent

2003 • 3 min

Peter Miller/R.Todd collaboration: Super8 text and image poetry. 2003

Summer In 1945

2003 • 20 min

One day, Hwa Young (Lee Seong Yeon, 3-iron) receives a mysterious parcel labeled "So Hwa 20 Years". In it, she finds an official death notice and some personal belongings of a Japanese soldier. A photo displaying the deceased soldier and a woman catches her attention. The woman on the photo looks just like her! Terrified, Hwa Young throws out the package, but a few days later, the same package reappears.

Nyancos: Hello! Our Brilliant Future

2003 • 25 min • Japan

Nyancos are UFO-riding cat women from space. They are whimsical, charming, and love all things beautiful and artistic as they watch worlds blossom. The OVA contains no dialogue, only background music.

Palace of the Winds

2003 • 58 min • India

Vipin Vijay's Palace of the Winds is a poetic essay about that "Holy Little Box," the radio, conceived of as a ghostly transmitter of Indian cultural artifacts.

Buscando el azul

2003 • 43 min • Peru

A warm and human portrait of Victor Churay and is narrated in the artist's own voice. The film traces the artist's personal and family history. Most of the documentary is filmed in natural settings of his Pucaurquillo

Old Man

2003 • 14 min

The plot of the film reveals a typical situation during Soviet stagnation. An old man and war veteran who is respected in the village prepares to pass onto another world and is making a coffin for himself. No one cares about him in the village, but there is they care about Luis Corvalan, who lives far across the ocean. By order of the Communist Party, the villagers hold a rally for the release of Luis Corvalan.

Sympathy

2003 • 5 min

The three-woman strong artists' collaboration The Icelandic Love Corporation's animation guides the viewer to friendship through the world's perils and paranoia. Narrated in the grey hues of a 1970s Czech cartoon, the forces of good and evil battle it out in a mythical universe as Hieronymus Bosch-style creatures meet Icelandic elves to a drum-solo frenzy. And at the end, we receive the hard won advice on how to stay (or become) sympathetic.