All Films

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.

Verirrte Eskimos

2003 • 31 min • Germany

A supposedly deaf-mute peddler, who roams the countryside as a dance vendor and day laborer, meets a single woman who keeps her desire for closeness at a distance with anonymous phone sex. The two emotional Eskimos attract and repel each other, lie to and desire each other, perform egg dances on frosty-thin ground, fight for affection and a goldfish always ready to break out.

Discrepant Sight

2003 • 7 min

How well can movies reproduce the reality we see? Cinema used to record and reproduce the movements of the scene using a camera (photograph), a device that records the scene in terms of perspective. Is it true? Isn't it possible that our way of seeing things, on the contrary, was created by photographs and movies, or by paintings based on perspective that existed before then? This film provokes the way of viewing films cultivated in this way.

Uso mis manos. Uso mis ideas

2003 • 55 min • Argentina

In 1973, a group of grassroots activists launched an adult literacy project in the Villa Obrera neighborhood, on the outskirts of Centenario, Neuquén province, drawing on Cuban experiences and those developed by Paulo Freire in the 1960s. This initiative was filmed by professional photographer Raúl Rodríguez, with the goal of creating a film that would be useful for other neighborhoods and also provide a testament to the work accomplished. Thirty years later, "I Use My Hands, I Use My Ideas" rescues these images and the testimonies of those who participated in the project, a precursor to national literacy campaigns. It was an experience that drew on popular support and aimed to transform the traditional concept of education, fostering a critical reading of reality.

Pretty Big Dig

2003 • 3 min • Canada

Three excavation vehicles move together with impressive grace to a contemporary classical score, gently inviting us to re-examine the way we view dance and technology.

Winterland: A Million Memories

2003 • 32 min

Documentary about the famed Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, California, with special focus on the many times the Grateful Dead played over the years.

The Eternal light Ramana Documentary

2003 • 58 min • India

The "Eternal Light" is a new 58 minute video chronicling the life of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi from His birth in 1879 to His mahasamadhi in April 1950. In addition to new video and photographs, this film contains high-quality footage from the film archive and many rare photographs of Bhagavan and the early ashram. Created in 2003, this is the first video produced entirely by Sri Ramanasramam in Tiruvannamalai, India. Both devotees and those for whom this is the first introduction to Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi will not be disappointed by this simple but moving story of one of the greatest sages mankind has ever known. Reproduced by the Society of Abidance in Truth with the kind permission of Sri Ramanasramam.

City of Ruins: The Halifax Explosion

2003 • 44 min

On the morning of December 6th 1917, the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia was a bustling, lively place. But in less than a second, Halifax became the center of a tragedy like no other in the history of this country.

Woe to Wit or Eisenstein and Meyerhold: a Two-fold Portrait in the Interior of the Epoch

2003 • 53 min • Russia

The film is about the complex, passionate and at the same time deeply respectful relationship between two genius directors, a teacher (Meyerhold) and a student (Eisenstein). In the most difficult conditions of the totalitarian regime, adherence to eternal values helped both defend their art and themselves in it, preserve honor and dignity. Their relationship, creative and everyday actions are not only an artistic, but also a moral testament to future generations.

Talking with Angels

2003 • 18 min • United Kingdom

A young boy struggles to maintain a degree of normality for his family in the face of his mother's mental instability in England's North West in 1971.

Metahead

2003 • 4 min • Croatia

The "Metahead" has been shown in a number of international animated and short film festivals.

Per Jonsson

2003 • 60 min

Per Jonsson (1956-1998), the Swedish dancer and choreographer who became one of the central figures in modern dance and who enchanted his audience. About Per's big dreams, genius, dark sides and relation to natural mysticism.

Yuri Vella's World

2003 • 59 min • Russia

The documentary follows Yuri Vella, writer and social activist of the Forest Nenets living in West-Siberia. To give his grandchildren proper education in their natural environment, he establishes an elementary school in his winter camp.

Oïo

2003 • 9 min • Canada

Allegory on the creation of the universe using liquid paint in motion. Oio is a truly unique experience where liquid paint and the cinematographic medium come together to create a painting in motion: a cinepainting! Jets of paint catapulted into the air become perceptible to the human eye through high-speed camera and computer. A bold technical device that allowed Simon Goulet to create a remarkable piece of art, highly acclaimed throughout the world for its "extraordinary technical inventiveness that takes the image and music on an emotional, dizzying trip toward great creativity" (International Federation of Film Critics, Annecy, 2003). Oio needed eleven years to be completed.