All Films

Stockholmssyndromet

2002 • 9 min

Carl-Johan De Geer talks about his hometown Stockholm, how he will miss it when he's gone.

Hidden

2002 • 8 min • Denmark, Finland, Sweden

Animated documentary about a refugee boy who lives in hiding, constantly afraid of being exposed.

We Buy, Who Pays?

2002 • 25 min • Sweden

A short documentary about sweatshops and their working conditions in India.

Planet-Hopping

2002 • 16 min • South Korea

In a subway station... the story of insignificant dust that turns to wind and flies out into space.

Sam's Orchestra

2002 • 8 min • Sweden

A short film from Sweden, filled with African rhythms and a wry sense of humor, that challenges society's preconceived stereotypes, and portrays a magical moment in an otherwise ordinary day.

El Rostro de la Dignidad. Memoria del M.T.D. de Solano

2002 • 59 min • Argentina

Since 1997, a novel and powerful manifestation of workers' struggle has taken place in Argentina: roadblocks. In this way, unemployed workers demand from the state the right to decent work and income. Based on the principles of horizontality among workers, direct democracy, autonomy from the state and power, and comprehensive training among its members, one of the most important experiences of these years was that of the Solano Unemployed Workers' Movement in Quilmes, a city in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area. Work, training, the democratic debate of ideas, the sharing of life, as well as the struggle for work, dignity, and social change, are some of the contents of this report.

Mushroom Seekers

2002 • 55 min

Mushroom Seekers is a first-person exploration of the world of wild mushrooms and the people who pick them.

A Ordem dos Penitentes

2002 • 17 min • Brazil

Les fourmis de ma grand-mère

2002 • 5 min • France

Invigningen

2002 • 5 min • Sweden

A county governor is practising a speech. He is going to inaugurate a construction that will solve the care of the aged.

Pyongyang Robogirl

2002 • 4 min • Finland

Pyongyang, the capital of mysterious North Korea is built to impress. There is even no need for traffic lights in the workers' paradise. The traffic police at the main intersections rank among the most beautiful women in the world. Doll-like beauties swivel mechanically while directing traffic. They stand statuesque in electric blue uniform, short hair-cut, strong make-up and black-visored cap.

La photo déchirée, chronique d'une émigration clandestine

2002 • 52 min • France, Portugal

At the beginning of the 60's, thousands of Portuguese turned up in France through the underground. They were fleeing misery, war and repression. Left to unscrupulous smugglers, they had to cross the Iberian Peninsula tracked by the Portuguese and Spanish police. For many, the voyage towards France turned into a disaster. As a child in a shantytown, the author remembers having heard about these terrible odysseys. Thirty years later, he goes in search of the stories of his childhood and seeks to understand what sparked this unprecedented emigration known as the "plebiscite by foot" against Salazar. Between childhood memories and historical investigation, he looks for the images of this exodus, the largest in post-war Europe.

The Ape of Light

2002 • 23 min

“The sound is the ape of the light”, wrote Jesuit Father Athanasius Kircher. Can the laws of optics be transposed to the world of sound? Can one see the sound? Through relationships between image and sound, voice and music, noise and performance, the film “The Ape of Light” shows a series of actions freely inspired from lesson-books and treatises on acoustics.

Life in Ebb and Flow

2002 • 50 min • Netherlands

The Wadden Sea is a dynamic environment with huge changing tides - the largest coastal wetland in Europe. The animals and plants that live here - in the water, on the seabed or on land - have adapted remarkable strategies to survive in such a variable environment. The natural world of which they are a part has evolved a finely-tuned balancing act. However, the encroachment of man is putting new pressures on it.

Showa Shinzan

2002 • 12 min

This animated film tells the story of a young Japanese girl's relationship with her grandfather, a postmaster and amateur geologist. When the neighboring Mount Usu erupts during World War II, he records its activity. As he witnesses the birth of a new mountain named Showa Shinzan, he transcends the misery and folly of war that surrounds them and teaches his granddaughter a valuable lesson about life. Evoking the tradition of Bunraku puppetry, this animated film is based on actual events.

To Kill A Human Being

2002 • 25 min • Russia

Series of interviews with inmates of juvenile prison colony for girls, guilty of murder

Tale of the Palace

2002 • 8 min • Latvia

Two travellers are making their way to the Palace in hopes to find meaning of life. Do they know that this road is life-long?

daMNaged

2002 • 18 min • United States of America

When a guy's reflection escapes from his mirror, he gains a whole new perspective on his concerns about his appearance.

Fantasia Africana

2002 • 2 min • Italy

Short found-footage film by Danilo Torre.

Breath

2002 • 3 min • Hungary

The visual style of the film is inspired by ancient tribal symbols, which constantly morph into each other. They represent life in a womb-like frame.

Knee Level

2002 • 7 min • Canada, United States of America

A terminally ill woman describes the circumstances of her love life while images of a domestic interior taken from a single and static viewpoint simultaneously construct and deconstruct the narrative.

Patching

2002 • 21 min • Canada, United States of America

PATCHING is the metaphoric intermingling of a journey, a flat tire, a break-up and tips for getting back on the road. PATCHING is the second tape in a series known as BICYCLE DIARIES.

Smash: Reflecting Sex

2002 • 55 min • Canada

“In 2002, I was invited to curate two video programs of Canadian works for EuroPride in Koln, Germany. Feeling disillusioned by the mainstreaming or “gay-streaming” of queer culture, I slammed together a collection of shorts critiquing our queer culture – an anti-Pride program. The second program was Smash: Reflecting Sex, an assemblage of video clips dealing with sex and sexuality by Paul Wong." - Winston Xin

Here

2002 • 12 min • Canada, United States of America

The combination of constantly moving abstract imagery and a familiar-yet-cryptic soundtrack in HERE reflects the struggle of being aware and present in life’s moment(s).