All Films

Karaoğlan: The Man whose Name Was Written on the Mountains

2003 • 50 min • Turkey

A political amateur who was kneaded with art in the first half of the 1950s and was enthused with the idealism of politics in the second half, was now a person who was dealing with politics and state affairs 24 hours a day, gradually getting hotter and broadening his goals and horizons. In this section, you will follow the milestones of the poet's hopeful arrival in the 1970s, not a dream that the poet remembers with longing, but is no longer left behind. Contrary to the poem, you will recognize the struggle of a stubborn, belligerent missionary who is incompatible with the world. You will witness how it changed in that struggle and how this change affected a country...

14 de Fevereiro (a 1 de Abril)

2003 • 6 min

The life of a couple flickers between February 14th and April 1st of the same year.

Meyerhold's theatre and biomechanics

2003 • 42 min • Germany

Russian actor and pedagogue, Gennadi Bogdanov, presents the most important etudes and principles of Vsevolod Meyerhold's Biomechanics. Includes archival photographs and film of Meyerhold's original work and also recent scenic work from Europe and the U.S. developed on the principles of bio-mechanics.

Nazi Britain

2003 • 60 min • United Kingdom

In 1940 the Channel Islands became the only part of Britain to fall under Nazi rule. Now in this film Islanders speak from the heart about one of the most extraordinary periods in our history. Reliving in their own words the horror of the first air raids, the shock of occupation and the islands' gradual five year long decent into privation and starvation before experiencing the capitulation of the German forces and the joy of liberation.

Karaoğlan: Strawberry Blossom

2003 • 43 min • Turkey

What Ecevit feared had happened to him. Someone blew the whistle and the game was over. The name of the game was democracy. Those who finished the game, that is, those who took on the role of referees, were soldiers... The September 12 administration started by blaming the administrators, that is, the politicians. According to the military, incompetent and uncompromising politicians were responsible for the crisis in the country. Now they would put new rules into the game and this time there would be no old actors on the field. Ecevit's political life, which lasted for 27 years, was ending on the morning of September 12...

Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man

2003 • 52 min

In 1951, George Whitman opened a bookshop-commune in Paris. George, 92, still runs his "den of anarchists disguised as a bookstore," offering free, dirty beds to poor literati, cutting his hair with a candle and gluing the carpet with pancake batter. More than 40,000 poets, travelers and political activists have stayed at Shakespeare and Company, writing or stealing books, throwing parties and making soup or love while living with George's generosity and fits of anger. Illustrious guests include Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Jacques Prévert, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, James Baldwin and Richard Wright. Welcome to the makeshift utopia of the last member of the Beat Generation.

Houdini's Hound

2003 • 12 min • Norway

Fredrik wants to impress his cousin Klara by being Harry Houdini, but Klara wants to keep Fredrik on the leash. They compromise by making up a game called ”The Houdini-slave”. The Houdini-slave has to do dangerous things, and gets buried in the sand on the beach. There is no way he can get up. But when Klara comes back, he is not there.

Delirium

2003 • 33 min • Italy

Delirium is the first movie of the "Delirium Cycle". One of the most popular movie by FS. Obsessions, delusions, hate, hopelessness, humiliation and death in an experimental film signed FS. Reviewed in the Italian journal's cult 'Nocturno'. The location (Torre di Cerrano, near Pescara, Italy) is the same of 'Nelle Pieghe Della Carne' (aka 'In the folds of the flesh', 1970) cult movie by Sergio Bergonzelli.

Alice Through the Looking Glass

2003 • 26 min

Standing in front of her bedroom mirror, Alice reflects on the young girl she will soon become. The inverted world she sees there suddenly arouses her curiosity. Is everything different? In reverse? Alice can't resist the temptation to find out for herself by going through the mirror... This itinerary follows the rules of a life-size chess game... Most of the people Alice meets in "Mirrorland" are unkind, cowardly and selfish. This is the worrying image that children can sometimes have of adults. Alice decides what she wants to become: a free and fulfilled young girl. "De l'autre côté du Miroir" describes the path Alice takes to leave childhood behind and become herself.

Johnny Cash - Final Live Performance

2003 • 31 min • United States of America

In Hiltons, Virginia, a couple months before Mr. Johnny Cash's passing. Songs sung here include: "Folsom Prison Blues," "I Walk the Line," "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down," "Ring of Fire," "Angel Band," "Big River," and "Understand Your Man." He is a legend never to be forgotten.

Wrestling with Manhood

2003 • 60 min • United States of America

Wrestling with Manhood is the first educational program to pay attention to the enormous popularity of professional wrestling among male youth, addressing its relationship to real-life violence and probing the social values that sustain it as a powerful cultural force. Richly illustrating their analysis with numerous examples, Sut Jhally and Jackson Katz - the award-winning creators of the videos Dreamworlds and Tough Guise, respectively - offer a new way to think about the enduring problems of men's violence against women and bullying in our schools.

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.