All Films

Poor Girl!

2003 • 14 min • France

Finding herself alone and pregnant, Esther, soon to be in her thirties, rejects the proposal of Gontran, her roommate and gay lover, to raise her child together.

Secret Love

2003 • 3 min

This is a music clip for Percy Grainger's extraordinary orchestration of a gory Nordic folk song - Father and daughter. It is animated by scratching frame by frame into filmstock and features Jason Morrell and Annie Carpenter as the father and daughter who wreak havoc on each other and everyone around.

Trust Me - I'm a Politician

2003 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Last December's "Cheriegate" affair did little to abate the rampant public cynicism reserved for politicians - a mistrust evidenced in the turnout at the 2001 general election, which was the lowest for more than 80 years. In this documentary, Michael Cockerell talks to figures including Edwina Currie, Max Clifford, Geoffrey Robinson and Neil Hamilton in an effort to see if spin, sleaze and ministerial failure is to blame, or whether the media's sneering political coverage is most at fault.

Thong Girl

2003 • 4 min

Thong Girl takes on the forces of evil as she and her trusty sidekick BoxerBrief Boy defend Music City, USA from Chaz Chernobyl and the Dark Widow.

Submerge: Kami No Yu

2003 • 1 min • Canada

A “water poem,” set in a Japanese ofuro hot bath. It explores water as a medium and repository for collective stories and was created in a hybrid new media form using animation, video and split screens. This film was made as part of the first edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

Kochuu

2003 • 52 min • Sweden

A film about modern Japanese architecture, its roots in the Japanese tradition and its impact on the Nordic building-tradition. Winding its way through visions of the future, traditions, nature, concrete, gardens and high-tech, KOCHUU tells us how contemporary Japanese architects strive to unite the ways of modern man with the old philosophies in astounding constructions. Interviews with, and works by, Japanese architects Tadad Ando, Kisho Kurokawa, Toyo Ito and Kazuo Shinohara and Scandinavian architects Sverre Fehn, Kristian Gullichsen and Juhani Pallasmaa.

Love and Anarchy: The Wild Wild World of Jaimie Leonarder

2003 • 52 min • Australia

A roller coaster ride through the wild world of Australian performer, musician, diversional therapist and lost media archivist, Jaimie Leonarder. A multi-layered exploration of one of Australia most unique exponents of media counterculture.

The Louisiana Purchase

2003 • 45 min • United States of America

The History Channel looks at the background of the Louisiana Purchase and how Thomas Jefferson's emissaries managed to double the size of the United States with the stroke of a pen.

Unhung Heroes

2003 • 15 min

A comic fiction about five transgender guys who, after finding an internet article announcing the first actual penis transplants are about to be performed, imagine a scheme to come up with over a million dollars in surgery money.

Afghan Stories

2003 • 60 min

Horrified by the 9/11 attacks on America, filmmaker Taran Davies and Afghan American, Walied Osman, set out for Afghanistan to observe how the Afghan people have survived 24 years of war. They meet a member of the Afghan royal family once tortured by the Taliban, a refugee family stuck in a one-room apartment, a revered Muslim elder, an aid worker and a warlord. A unique and intimate film, Afghan Stories documents the torment, resolve and dreams of a people whose lives have been torn apart by war.

Little Light

2003 • 15 min • Senegal, France

Fatima is a little girl of eight years. By opening and closing the refrigerator, she wonders if the light stays on when the door closes...

La reina del bar Canalla

2003 • 9 min

The young wife of a millionaire hears some terrible news on the television. There has been a train accident near her house. It’s such a serious accident that it will be impossible to identify some of the victims. This is a terrible catastrophe for the city but it will mean something completely different for her.

Reinvenção da Rua

2003 • 32 min • Brazil

Helena Ignez's first film as a director is a homage to American architect and contemporary artist Vito Acconti, who made an urban intervention over a bridge in São Paulo, transforming that space for it to be used as shelter by nearby homeless people.

On the Edge of Destruction: The Frank Slide Story

2003 • 48 min • Canada

April 29, 1903, the coal mining town of Frank, in the Crowsnest Pass of the southern Canadian Rockies, was shattered by the sudden roar of a landslide, earning Frank a place of history as the site of North America's deadliest rockslide. This film explores the coincidences and explains its geological conditions.

Wildness

2003 • 56 min • Australia

Olegas Truchanas and Peter Dombrovskis were perhaps Australia's greatest wilderness photographers. Their work became synonymous with campaigns to protect Tasmania's natural heritage. They shared many things, including a bond that was more like that of father and son. Both came from Baltic Europe and migrated to Tasmania, where their passion for nature became a crusade to save an environment under threat. Both died in the wilderness, doing what they loved, and left a legacy in extraordinary images. Their philosophy was simple and remarkably effective - if people could see the beauty of Australia's wild places then they might be moved to save them.

To the Memory of Antonio Gaudí

2003 • 11 min • Russia, Spain

Dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the brilliant architect.

Signe un...

2003 • 30 min • Latvia

Portrait of Signe Baumane. About creative people, obsession and fixation with their work, huge egos without which nothing gets done, but alongside them are others whose lives are willingly or unwillingly subordinated... The train of alienation is picking up speed, and it seems that it is impossible to jump off without painful injuries.

The Tell-Tale Heart

2003 • 15 min • Germany

A young man feels being watched by his old landlord's vulture-like eye.

Fyre - The Documentary

2003 • 60 min

Documentary made by In The Cuts Records about the Sacramento band FYRE featuring a young Stefan Burnett who would eventually end up fronting the band Death Grips.

Die Badenden

2003 • 4 min • Germany

"The Bathers" lets a woman happily bathing in a swimming pool disappear into the decomposing grains of the holiday film.

Chimera

2003 • 22 min

A small group of soldiers on a remote dew-line outpost in northern Canada discover that scientific experiments conducted there have created a horrible monster that has been terrorizing the base.

Seabiscuit

2003 • 50 min • United States of America

He was boxy, with stumpy legs that wouldn't completely straighten a short straggly tail and an ungainly gait; though he didn't look the part, Seabiscuit was one of the most remarkable thoroughbred racehorses in history. In the 1930s, when Americans longed to escape the grim realities of Depression-era life, four men turned Seabiscuit into a national hero. They were his fabulously wealthy owner Charles Howard, his famously silent and stubborn trainer Tom Smith and the two hard-bitten, gifted jockeys who rode him to glory. By following the paths that brought these four together and in telling the story of Seabiscuit's unlikely career, this film illuminates the precarious economic conditions that defined America in the 1930s and explores the fascinating behind-the-scenes world of thoroughbred racing. Scott Glenn narrates.

Pipsqueak Prince

2003 • 10 min • France

As the sun rises on the horizon, a small finicky man strives, tenaciously and in every possible way, to clean the spots on the magnificent luminous star.

Caress of the Vampire 2.5: The Return of Billy the Vampire

2003 • 58 min

Surf-punk space vampire Billy is back, and he's headed to the one place he can blend in Los Angeles! But will the alt-right religious zealots interfere with his plan to mesmerize Hollywood? Find out in this zany pseudo-sequel to Caress of the Vampire 2