All Films

Chukhray. Ballad of a Soldier

2003 • 48 min

If Anyone Should Happen to Get In My Way

2003 • 3 min • Canada

This animation was shot from hi-con coloured Lomo photographs of a girl in various animal states, licking her wounds. A meditation on female anger.

Precious Little Tiny Love

2003 • 3 min • Canada

An ode by a socially conscious carnivore to creatures that get crunched.

SARS in Beijing

2003 • 14 min • China

Between April and June 2003, the brutal SARS epidemic had a deep impact on Chinese people's lives, especially in Beijing. Flocks of migrant labourers who had come to the capital to find work started straggling back to their hometown in the countryside to escape the illness. I spent a day in the crowd packed into Beijing West railway station, trying to capture an event that made many feel emotional disquiet, while forcing them to meditate on their life and situation. Because of everyone's panic, many people are eager to leave Beijing to escape the disaster. On May 8th, the author recorded what happened at the Beijing West Railway Station that day, revealing the various mentalities of the Chinese people in front of emergencies.

Europlex

2003 • 21 min • Switzerland

The fourth in Ursula Biemann's critically acclaimed series of video essays that investigates migration across borders, EUROPLEX, a collaboration with Angela Sanders, tracks the daily, sometimes illicit, border crossings between Morocco and Spain- a rare intersection of the first and third worlds.

Box Factory

2003 • 1 min • United States of America

Two guys can't get along at the box factory.

Echo of Bullets

2003 • 48 min

After a year and 10 months in power, the Macapagal – Arroyo regime has committed 967 cases of human rights violations in the Southern Tagalog Region. “Alingawngaw ng mga Punglo” discusses the grim human rights situation in the region. It seeks to let the voices of the victims be heard: their anguished cry for justice and call for lasting peace.

Dem Bones

2003 • 8 min • United States of America

No bones about it, this will be a real boost for those looking to inject a little humor and fun into basic facts about the human body.

Next

2003 • 4 min • Ukraine

A bright story with black humor and concise design about how life can change radically in seconds.

Two Hanks

2003 • 26 min

This piece is about placing two major recording artists on the same stage together after they have been dead for some time. Since Hank Snow and Hank Williams never performed together during their lifetimes this was a way to bring them together with their two songs, ‘Rambling Man’ and ‘I’ve Been Everywhere.’ The thereminist, Scott Marshall, takes the two songs to another place. Footage of the audience, which was built into the construction of the work, constitutes a component of the video.

Grande Anarca

2003 • 18 min • Italy

Short film by Alvis Renzini.

Kuhu lähed?

2003 • 10 min • Estonia

A spontaneous argument between a religious messenger and his drunken opponent, accidentally caught during a bus ride. Ten minutes of fiery philosophy about life during which the whole world is put into place, from creation to true sin.

Going Down

2003 • 5 min

The elevator doors close, and suddenly our neurotic friend finds himself trapped with a raging stranger. Running out of time and options, our victim makes a desperate offer that can't be refused.

Sunken B-17 Flying Fortress

2003 • 24 min • Croatia

Crew members of the American B-17 Flying Fortress bomber where hit in 1944 during an operation above enemy territory,and the closest airport where they could safely land was on the island of Vis in Croatia. But because of the severe damage to the aircraft it fell in the sea near the island of Vis. Pilot Emerson and the gunner Sterling survived the crash After 60 years Emerson and Sterling return to see the what was left of the plane they where in that night.

The Butterfly Woman

2003 • 10 min

A spectator, who is a puppet, applauds the magic tricks of the butterfly woman, with whom he is in love. Under the force of his applause, the strings holding him in place give way. Thus free, he runs to the butterfly woman in the hope of conquering her and freeing her from her fate.

Mountain Men and Holy Wars

2003 • 56 min

Under Shamil Basayev, Chechnya has resorted to kidnapping, terror and brutal guerrilla warfare to fight for its freedom. But his battle and tactics are not new. At the start of the 19th century, another Shamil, Imam Shamil, used hostage taking and militant Islam to fight for an independent Islamic Chechnya. He was decried as a terrorist by Russia, and loved as a hero by his people. We document his legacy and show how his guerrilla war is unlikely to stop until Chechnya is free. Essential viewing examining the roots of one of the world's bloodiest and most protracted wars.

Estratexa

2003 • 24 min

Burst

2003 • 5 min

A couple shares an intimate moment in their bedroom. His attempts to arouse her go seriously wrong, resulting in a series of emotional, physical and hydrological explosions.

Boy on the Lake

2003 • 26 min

In order to continue his studies and escape from hunger, the boy catches fish with a net. He asks the spirit of the lake to help him and give him fish, but soon loses consciousness from hunger and ... meets with his ancestors. Based on the work "Ogho kuyurduu turara" by Platon Alekseevich Oyunsky.

To Grandma's Igloo

2003 • 2 min • France

The beginning of a story about a little girl in red.

Miguel Mendez / Foot Village Live 2003

2003 • 20 min

A short documentary on a guerrilla performance by Foot Village & Miguel Mendez in Pomona, CA, in 2003

Far Away

2003 • 16 min

No new footage was taken, and everything was spliced ​​together from previously shot 8mm film. When I've been shooting 8mm for this long, I often forget what kind of memories I've taken. When I took it out and looked at it in a viewer, I saw my friend, who had already died, smiling happily. My friend, who I don't know if he's still alive, is also smiling. Even though I was supposed to be surrounded by humiliation every day, I was able to look happy as I posed for the camera. That's right, I thought, this is a running light. A flip book about life that you read just before you die.

Pencilman Meets Pencilgirl

2003 • 7 min

A 3D animated short by Sean Sanczel.

The Girl and the Horse

2003 • 3 min • United Kingdom

A small girl is crying because there is a hole in her stomach, suddenly a mysterious horse appears and things begin to change...