All Films

Sushi Man

2003 • 20 min • Brazil

A psychoanalyst, a lawyer and a musician try to use dialogue and rationality to solve a love triangle at a dinner party, eating sushi and drizzled with a lot of sake.

Time of darkness

2003 • 47 min • Ukraine

The film is about one of the biggest tragedies of the Ukrainian people - the Holodomor of 1932-33.

Rompers

2003 • 3 min

Motohiko Odani has been celebrated for his meticulously crafted objects and visions of utopia and dystopia since the late 1990s. A main theme underlying his sculpture, photography, and video work is mutation of humans and animals. In his celluloid-colored video Rompers, a computer-graphic-enhanced mutant girl sings, idyllically, while eerie insects crawl around her. She is indifferent to them and seems to accept that she is becoming something other than herself. The work comments on the mutation of nature in an age of bioengineering while appropriating the innocent setting of the children’s TV program, Romper Room that originally aired in the United States in the 1950s. On the Japanese version that was shown during the late 1960s and the 1970s, toy bees and cute animals frolicked with children.

Sick Brain

2003 • 9 min

One of the earliest films of Alex Wesley

Un sueño para Gilda

2003 • 11 min • Uruguay

Gilda is a 22-year-old girl, an employee of a direct sales company, which sells superfluous products. She is exploited by her boss, but one day she rebels and has her own "Day of Fury".

I Want to Play

2003 • 1 min • Uruguay

A group of kids create a robot out of spare parts.

I Want to be Cared For

2003 • 1 min • Uruguay

A couple of kids start to beat up a ragged doll because it's not doing what it's told.

Ohio: 200 Years

2003 • 57 min • United States of America

Ohio represents us all. In its dramatic history and astonishing diversity, Ohio closely replicates the vast, complicated, and turbulent place called America. The film offers a snapshot of the state's colorful history along with insights into the Ohio of today: a mix of odd, funny moments and life-changing events.

Maculate Conception

2003 • 4 min

Maculate Conception, a video by Emmett Frisbee, 2003

Away

2003 • 13 min • United States of America

Away combines animation and video in the shape of a personal diary that explores the internal process that is implied when adapting to a new place -that which one doesn't belong to- and the ideas, feelings and conflicts that are created by the contact with this space.

Twisted Weekend III: Slacker Holocaust

2003 • 60 min • United States of America

In this third entry, a birthday party becomes deadly when a group of college friends use a mysterious Ouija board.

How to Make a Phantastik Film

2003 • 1 min

A satirical film featuring a housewife and her attempts at counterculture. A one minute film commissioned by the Images Festival in 2003 for their Minute Movies program. It was designed specifically for the experimental-film-lovin’ audience at the festival. It pokes a bit of fun at experimental filmmakers in general, and it actually demonstrates a valid but obscure technique. This technique took me almost two years to figure out, and I subsequently discovered that it was already known and was deliberately kept from me. It’s about sharing techniques instead of hoarding them, and having fun. It won Jury’s Choice and Audience Favorite at the CSIF $100 Film Festival, Best Film Overall at the Toronto One Minute Film and Video Festival and received Special Mention by the jury at The Festival International de Court Metrage in Lille.

Beijing Flipbook

2003 • 2 min • Canada

Short animated film by Marv Newland

Bibliomania

2003 • 58 min

A Documentary Film of the World's Largest Antiquarian Book Fair held at the Concourse in San Francisco, California, in February 2003.

The Double

2003 • 4 min • Italy

A young man meets his doppelganger.

Germany and the Secret Genocide

2003 • 57 min • United States of America

Using rare archival footage, the film chronicles the involvement of Turkey's economic and military ally, Germany, in the first genocide of the 20th century.

Henry Eats

2003 • 4 min

Henry continues to stare. The woods remain still. Time passes silently here.

Ganga Ma, A Pilgrimage to the Source

2003 • 58 min

"Ganga Ma: A Pilgrimage to the Source" is a documentary that takes viewers on a spiritual journey along the sacred Ganges River in India. Directed by Pepe Ozan, and co-directed by Melitta Tchaicovsky the film explores the river's significance in Indian culture and religion, and its role as a source of life, purification, and spiritual connection for millions of people.

Vanishing

2003 • 17 min • Serbia and Montenegro

The hero is the loneliest little girl in the world. She has no company. She is the only pupil at the school, as well as the last child in a beautiful ancient village. Only elderly people around her as well as an archaic kind of life. Her journey from her house to the school (the school only for her) reveals the real string of motions, colors, sounds, folk customs, habits, objects, buildings, faces… all that seems to be slowly fading to disappearance. The film is a metaphor for vanishing of a nation.

Mytra

2003 • 20 min • Belgium

The passage of the soul through the cycle of reincarnation.

Chanukah on Planet Matzah Ball

2003 • 36 min

Aliens set out to learn the true meaning of Chanukah when a menorah traveling through space lands on their planet.

Popkov

2003 • 10 min

Film is about an artist Viktor Efimovich Popkov.

Sigh

2003 • 9 min • United States of America

A CGI Animated short film by Bruce Monahan

Natureland

2003 • 14 min

Elevator music branches and flows in new directions. Unadorned concrete structures exude layer upon layer of natural scenery. These virtual vistas unfold in surges, accompanied by mutating Muzak. Natureland reflects the crucial process by which we navigate the nested realities of our programmed environment, embracing illusion and its mechanism, weaving dissonant strands of experience into a pattern that we can call "our world." "The expansion of consciousness, the creation of timelessness and the generation of new worlds embody beauty without boundaries in Van McElwee’s video art. His work is challenging; it compels us to experience, perceive, and ultimately to live more fully." T.L. Reid, Afterimage “Breathtaking,” David Finkelstein, Film Threat