All Films

Full Circle

2002 • 27 min

In the summer of 2001, under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, a totem pole in the Peabody Museum at Harvard University was returned to its original owners' ancestors, a Tlingit community in Southeast Alaska. The journey of the pole began a hundred years ago when it was removed by the Harriman Expedition from the deserted village of Gash at Cape Fox. The totem pole makes its way from Cambridge, Massachusetts to Ketchikan, Alaska, where the Cape Fox community holds a ceremony to welcome home artifacts taken by the Expedition.

Chama Verequete

2002 • 18 min • Brazil

Verequete, one of the great masters of carimbó, an afro-indigenous music genre from brazilian Amazon.

Da Lontano

2002 • 7 min • Italy

'Da Lontano' continues the research on the inner journey, a journey into an indefinite space and place. The images belong to the past or to a time to come; and an elsewhere pushes to show itself and present themselves in the form of light, whispered voices, flapping of wings...

Mardi Gras Raw: The Movie

2002 • 60 min • United States of America

Anything and everything goes on during the World's party in New Orleans! Uncensored, raw and unbelievable sites and sounds of Mardi Gras. With downtown parades to the looseness of Bourbon Street, This 60 minute DVD covers every aspect of the worl'ds greatest party!

Pikadourei

2002 • 22 min

Discordance Axis concert video, Japan 2002. "Grindcore Ninja Commando Team."

Woman

2002 • 10 min • Latvia

A philosophical study and personal myth of creation of a woman and her two ways to encounter a man. Screened both at Woodstock and KROK, the film captivates viewers with the elusive and not wholly understandable inner world of a woman.

Alligator Liberation

2002 • 3 min

Agitators try and release Wallygator back into the wild

Grandad's Honey

2002 • 5 min • Latvia, Sweden

A lonely old man lives in the countryside. The only thing left for him is to wait for the end of his days in the company of his family - his bees.

EAT: Mainstreet Dinner for the Homeless

2002 • 3 min • Canada

EAT: Mainstreet Dinner for the Homeless is a roving view of the homeless occupying the public sidewalks surrounding the vacant Woodward’s Building in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The tent city becomes both an eyesore and rallying point for the plight of the homeless and disenfranchised in Vancouver’s booming real estate market. Inter-cut with poverty is a chef preparing a gourmet meal and images of the houseboy cleaning. Originally created for the EAT issue #5 of www.horizonzero.ca. -- a virtual dinner party.

Amarelinha

2002 • 4 min • Brazil

One of the first caused by the radioactive accident that occurred in Goiânia, with cesium-137, was a child. Where are your dreams and games? Leide das Neves didn't have time to play.

Khash

2002 • 2 min • Russia

An ordinary story about three piglets.

The Lottery Liar

2002 • 48 min

The bizarre story of how painter and decorator Howard Walmsley deceived his wife, family, friends – and bank manager - into believing he had won an £8.9 million jackpot on the National Lottery.

Wear Destructive Fist!!

2002 • 30 min

The year is 200X, and the DESTRUCTIVE FIST, an artificial fist modified for combat, has become the only weapon and weapon of choice. There are three people who once spent the same youth, but their fates were divided. Akutsu, who abandoned his heart to protect his beloved and acquired the strongest fist, Kagan, who believes in kindness over strength, and Chirico, who was Kagan's sister and Akutsu's lover. A fierce battle begins between Akutsu, who wants to get Chirico, and Kagan, who wants to bring Chirico back, with either of them fighting to the death.

In Search of Al Qaeda

2002 • 55 min

In December 2001, as American forces blasted mountain hideouts in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan, hundreds of Al Qaeda soldiers fled seemingly disappearing into thin air.

Justice Runners

2002 • 5 min • Japan

A festival star, Tomioka does not fail to deliver in his wild and unique take on the world. His multi-coloured animation talents take us on a whirlwind trip of old school trams with weird and wonderful characters

Them Damn Zombies

2002 • 30 min • United States of America

The bodies of the recently dead are coming back to life and they are hungry for fresh meat. For one young "tabloid" news reporter it is the story of a lifetime. For everyone else it is hell on earth. What will there fate hold for them? Will they make it out alive? Or will they all be Zombie lunch?

Black flag

2002 • 27 min • Japan

A film by Yasunori Kakegawa + Yasunori Ikunishi + Kuknacke

Aspiralux

2002 • 15 min

Martin finally believes he has sold a sweeper to a retiree who turns out to be a dangerous individual.

Carpet Cleaners

2002 • 26 min • Canada

Amerika, Zed and Kyle are good friends until the excitingly undermedicated bitch goddess Trasha enters the frame, cutting Kyle off from his friends and their vacuous and unencumbered world of beer and porn. Amerika and Zed aim to free their friend from the clutches of his nutburger girlfriend by enlisting the aid of the Sappho Carpet Cleaners for some wet work. The plan goes awry when Trasha and her psychosis find themselves a paying gig and tables are turned, trashed and burned.

The blackbird of the blue womb

2002 • 15 min

A film by Kohki Hasei + kujun

The Bell

2002 • 6 min • Philippines

The “Batingaw” is a short film about a man who is in search of oneself. It is a story of a man who is looking for the perfect place where he can be genuinely free, serene, and happy; but ends up, to the same, where plastics, bottles, broken vessels, empty containers and the like stops. It is a place where the people, who live there, rely on the wastes of Metro Manila. (source: Mike Gallego)

Shaman's Dream

2002 • 44 min • Russia

The film is dedicated to the 125th anniversary A.E. Kulakovsky's poem "Shaman's Dream". The language and images of cinema convey the poet's foresight about future events in Russia and in the world.

Searching for Rajeev

2002 • 52 min • Iceland

Searching for Rajeev is a documentary film about an Icelandic girl who decides to go to India in the hope of finding an Indian freind of her´s who used to live in Iceland. Ten years have passed since he left Iceland and Birta has very little information about where he lives.

Discourse on Films

2002 • 48 min • Iceland

Discourse on Films is a documentary treating a new field of Icelandic culture, that is film history. Thorgeir Thorgeirson - a recipient of the honorary Edda (Award of The Icelandic Film Academy) "for his contribution to film production and general film culture in Iceland" comments on trends and tendencies of the local film industry, from the so called pioneers - as the first semi professional amateurs generously have been named - up to the more recent production of feature films. With professional skill and a clear dissident's mind Torgeirson is able not only to analyze Icelandic film history but also to sketch up a friendly-ironical picture of the “dress up society" in general.