All Films

The Brainwashers

2003 • 12 min • Canada

A man is taken to the doctor's office, but it's not for an ordinary checkup. A huge syringe is thrust into his head. Out of the syringe oozes a sticky yellowish liquid that magically turns into two sinister-looking men. These are the opening images of this chilling animation film, in which two chimney sweeps clear all the memories out of their victim's brain. Fearsome puppets inhabit a world of strange objects. What goes on in a man's head?

Infinitamente Maio

2003 • 19 min • Brazil

A short story of love, betrayal, revenge, sex, death and mistreated hearts: Raul comes home to find his wife, Assyria, having sex with another man. He begins for him a spiral of depressive and violent feelings that only seem to pause in the brief moments of leaving the house, attracting the attention of Amanda, a saleswoman. a flower shop.

Chaplin Today: The Circus

2003 • 26 min • France

This documentary is featured on the Warner Bros. Chaplin Collection DVD for "The Circus," released in 2004.

Gathering Storm

2003 • 6 min • Canada

A hauntingly beautiful film about the world's flight into chaos. Rimmer has taken McLaren's camera-less technique to new heights. He paints directly on clear 35mm leader, using odd materials such as household cleaners, varnish, inks and sometimes fish scales and ferns. He feeds the loops through a film editing machine, overlays them with music and records the result with a mini DV camera. A production of the National Film Board of Canada.

American Seoul

2003 • 9 min • United States of America

American Seoul is a short film written and produced by Grace Rowe and directed by Jason Moore. The story follows a Korean punk rocker as she navigates through the city of Los Angeles, while encountering different Asian American women along the way: an aspiring actress dealing with stereotyping in Hollywood, a wannabe rapper who dreams of being a superstar, and a whitewashed debutante looking for directions.

The Last Night

2003 • 16 min • Canada

When a French speaking Canadian couple hire a Russian speaking male prostitute for a ménage-à-trois to spice up their sex lives, the results are not as they expected.

A Slight Fever

2003 • 18 min • Belgium

22-year-old Alexander is studying at a music college and arrives to his last rehearsal before the final competition. With the help of his teacher, he seeks to remember the reasons he chose his particular instrument—the cello—and his memory reverts to a day in his youth when he gave his last concert as a young chorister.

Islet

2003 • 7 min • Canada

For an Inuit fisherman, technology means absurdity. Floating out on a block of ice, he doesn't have any other choice to grab onto some flying fish to save himself.

Jim's Winter

2003 • 12 min • Denmark, Sweden

Once upon a time there was a grasshopper named Jim. He woke up in the middle of winter and had forgotten everything. Next to him lay his violin and lots of something white and cold. Of course it was snow, but what would he want it for?

The Not So Golden Calf: Commandments 1-2

2003 • 27 min • United States of America

The award-winning Kids' Ten Commandments series includes great Bible lessons for kids! This 5-DVD K*10*C collection features state-of-the-art animation and inspirational music the entire family will enjoy. Through the adventures of Seth, an 11-year old boy, these captivating stories bring God's Ten Commandments to life for children ages 6-11. Each of the five Bible videos teaches children how to apply the Ten Commandments to their daily lives. Featuring acclaimed Hollywood talent that includes Peter Strauss as Moses and other famous voices such as Tom Bosley, Jodi Benson, and Paul Winfield, your children will delight in learning about our great and awesome God!

The Undergrad

2003 • 39 min

The Undergrad is a sexy, gender transgressive parody of the 1967 classic “The Graduate.” This playful celebration of gender and sexual liberation highlights the intersections of deviance, desire, love, and social acceptance. The film follows Ben, who is lost at the brink of adulthood and mystified by his growing desires as he finds himself creating a new life of secrecy, submission, confusion, and budding self-confidence.

War at a Distance

2003 • 58 min • Germany

In 1991, when images of the Gulf War flooded the international media, it was virtually impossible to distinguish between real pictures and those generated on computer. This loss of bearings was to change forever our way of deciphering what we see. The image is no longer used only as testimony, but also as an indispensable link in a process of production and destruction. This is the central premise of "War at a Distance", which continues the deconstruction of claims to visual objectivity Harun Farocki developed in his earlier work. With the help of archival and original material, Farocki sets out in effect to define the relationship between military strategy and industrial production and sheds light on how the technology of war finds applications in everyday life.

Skipper Straad

2003 • 38 min • Greece

A seaman finds himself out of work and stranded in a distant port. He shares a cheap room. They take turns sleeping, some in the morning, some at night. Grief! When he will go back to sea? And there! The scent of woman drifts up to seduce him! He realizes he had shared his bed with a lady of the night.

The ABCs of Safety Part I

2003 • 40 min • United States of America

Safety 4 Kids is proud to present The ABC's of Safety featuring SeeMore the Safety Seal and Friends. High energy songs, fast paced video, expert safety advice, fun and lovable characters and just a touch of comic relief makes this video a fun and exciting way for children to learn important safety lessons.

Micro-wolf

2003 • 7 min • United States of America, France

To present the world's smallest wolf in New York, that's fine. But mind the little greedy one doesn't gobble up the Big Apple.

Bedjo van Derlaak

2003 • 10 min • Indonesia

Indonesia 1949.Dutch in 2nd agressor. One platoon Indonesia army guerilla on the mission. Ducth attack them and war began. Bedjo, one of Indonesia army guerilla be separate from that platoon. Bedjo found a small house in the middle oh jungle. He hear something from inside and found Maryam, a pregnant woman and Van Derlaak, dutch army. What will happen to them!?

Por Dentro de Uma Gota Dágua

2003 • 10 min • Brazil

Who was it that caught me inside a drop of water? Mario Quintana

Uto Ughi - Beethoven

2003 • 59 min

Uto Ughi recounts Ludwig van Beethoven, performing: Romance in F major for violin and orchestra, Op. 50, with I Filarmonici di Roma; the Kreutzer Sonata with R. Buchbinder; Sonata Op. 24 in F major with T. Vasary; Concerto in D major for violin and orchestra, Op. 61, with the MMF Orchestra and Maestro Mehta.

Lolita: Slave to Entertainment

2003 • 56 min • United States of America

The grassroots independent documentary about Miami's biggest performer, Lolita the killer whale on display at the Miami Seaquarium. Through rare interviews and undercover footage viewers are dragged into the dark secrets of the multi-billion-dollar marine theme park industry and the life of Lolita who's been caught in a net of lies for 3 decades.

The Last Customer

2003 • 23 min • Italy

A New York pharmacy and the feelings of the people who have run it, putting their heart and soul into it, for two generations: the Gardini family.

Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World

2003 • 56 min

A groundbreaking documentary on the internationally renowned painter, designated by ARTnews Magazine one of the world's top-ten living artists. This documentary was shot over a period of four years, from 1998 through 2002, Agnes Martin's ninetieth year. Interviews with Martin are inter-cut with shots at work in her studio in Taos, New Mexico, with photographs and archival footage, and with images of her work from over five decades. It is a venue for Martin to speak about her work, her working methods, her life as an artist, and her views about the creative process. She also discusses her film, "Gabriel" and reads from her poetry and lectures. In keeping with Martin's chosen life of solitude, she alone appears in the documentary.

Boat

2003 • 7 min • United States of America

A journey into night.

Honto ni Atta! Noroi No Video 9

2003 • 55 min • Japan

The 9th installment of the popular horror series, which introduces scary images posted by general posts, is re-released along with interviews with photographers. " Includes all 3 episodes of "Abandoned Village", "School Building" and "Apartment".

Dead Fetus

2003 • 59 min • Brazil

A gang of metalheads are brutally beating up and killing anyone they meet on the street. A local loser with a fetus attached to the side of his head decides he has had enough abuse and that he must learn martial arts and get his revenge.