All Films

Reflextion

2003 • 5 min

A woman returns, after a long time, to an empty house to confront her memories.

Dreaming of Tibet

2003 • 60 min

This earnest documentary profiles the global community of Tibetan exiles and the Dalai Lama's dramatic 1958 march to freedom with his followers. Interviews with exiles in Los Angeles and Nepal illustrate their struggles to preserve Tibetan culture.

This Wonderful Life

2003 • 14 min • United States of America

An animated short film that tells the melancholic but beautiful story about a woman who finds an orphaned baby by the river.

20 Cans of Chunky Beef Soup

2003 • 49 min

Documentary tells the story of Maxim Vakhmin, a veritable alleycat of a man. Revered as both an angel and a devil, Maxim (once known as a successful artist in his native Russia) is losing friends and finding new ones as a homeless person in the USA.

Bernard Allison: Kentucky Fried Blues

2003 • 58 min

Critics seldom agree upon anything so much as they do with Bernard Allison. The son of the blues legend Luther Allison is regarded as one of the most important and creative representatives of 21st century blues. This live concert was recorded in August 1999 at the W.C. Handy Festival in Henderson, Kentucky.

Twisted Eyes

2003 • 11 min • Austria

Experimental found footage film based on ALEXIS SORBAS.

Cape Cod

2003 • 3 min • Argentina, Switzerland

Short. A remote house in the Cape Cod area, october 1962…

Sembene

2003 • 12 min • France

A short portrait of director Ousmane Sembène.

Utama – Every Name in History is I

2003 • 23 min

Essay film about mythology and the history of Singapore.

Anomalies of the Unconscious

2003 • 12 min

"This is the second film of the Anomalies Cycle. It is a hand Painted and manipulated film. I also used the technique of bleaching and batiking of the film emulsion. The footage was then step printed on a J-K Optical Printer. Although similar in style to The Flickering of the Minds Eye I began to experiment more with other colors and different textures such as dried leaves and flowers, hair, insect parts, and a variety of different types of inks and paints. The sound track for this film was preformed by NEGATIVLAND."

An Index of Metals

2003 • 49 min • Italy

Shortly before his death, Romitelli together with his friend Paolo Pachini and the poetess Kenka Lèkovich, resurrected the dream of a total scenic art (a furnace of sensations, they called it, an_ initiation rite_) in the manner of the Futurists: rhythms and gleams of light striking metals (for the video part), poems in iron and chrome singing of fusion with matter (Kenka Lekovich), acoustic/electric music highly amplified, filtered, spatialised, in as artificial a manner as possible. An Index of Metals bears vigorous witness to this determination to go beyond: sizzling orchestration, electric and psychedelic; a voice which plays on effects, murmurs with reverb, cackles into a megaphone, screams like a pop star; and an electric guitar score of a kind that no ‘serious’ composer has ever written, sliding across an infinite range of tones with a lightness of touch and blurring of contours.

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