All Films

Scarlet Road

2002 • 13 min • Japan

The sign to change from despair to hope is an accumulation of trifling matters which touch our hearts, such as a single flower, a beautiful sunset, or a girl with a smile.

The Seven Deadly Sins

2002 • 50 min

The Seven Deadly Sins reveals a new setting for a mistress and her young maid: the roaring 20's when decadence was a privilege. The mistress is an expert in the art of sensual torment, and she punishes her servant in a re-enactment of the lessons of Seven Deadly Sins.

Fated to Be Queer

2002 • 25 min

Four charming and articulate Filipino men illuminate some issues and concerns as gay people of color in San Francisco in this early depiction of coming out stories. These brave men share personal perspectives on family, cultural heritage and racial stereotyping.

The Exclusive Brethren

2002 • 49 min • United Kingdom

Documentary on the religious group - The Exclusive Brethren, a cult part of the Christian evangelical movement.

Où Sont les Femmes ?

2002 • 3 min

Two Boys Who Don't Drink

2002 • 39 min • Russia

"Almost everyone in our village drinks," "everyone who lives here is drunk and alcoholic," "they steal all sorts of things, then they sell them, they drink everything." This is how the little residents of the Ivanovo region talk about their village. They talk casually, not seeing anything special in it. No one, neither children nor adults, is surprised that two boys, abandoned by an alcoholic mother, live nearby. The children run the farm themselves, keep goats, and repair the roof. Another thing is strange to the villagers — the boys do not drink or smoke. This is really rare in the Russian countryside.

sorina street

2002 • 4 min

A film by Masakatsu Takagi.

No Mercy Vol. 1

2002 • 53 min • United States of America

No Mercy Vol. 1 contains stunts, pranks, backyard wrestling and other stuff should not be tried at home.

Antoine Bonfanti, sonic traces of an engaged listening

2002 • 54 min • France

A documentary on the professional and personal affordances of the influential sound engineer Antoine Bonfanti.

Doctor at Sea

2002 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Since 1988 a curious Doctor Who event has been taking place. Almost unnoticed by fandom in general, Dan Harris has been quietly organising cruises around the coast of America with fans and stars from Doctor Who. This must surely be the most obscure and unique fan activity of all! Join the intrepid Reeltime crew as we board the good ship Fascination with Nicholas Courtney, Yee Jee Tso and Lisa Bowerman as it leaves Miami on it’s way across the Gulf of Mexico. Somehow in this totally unique video (between trips on a glass bottom boat and to the Mayan ruins at Tulum) we manage to… squeeze in a Writers Workshop with Gary Russell, Stephen Cole and Simon Gerard… chat to the stars and fans about why they signed up… and include highlights of previous cruises.

Venus Velvet

2002 • 17 min • Portugal

When almost everyone in their senses (or in their powers to do so so) has left a Western European Capital of millions of people under the threat of a colliding commet, a bar stays open in defyance. Two lovers are too self absorbed but not so much so that between drinks they cannot realise the barmen's infatuation with the lost girl who thinks she's just his last plaything and keeps playing jukebox songs (American/French-Italian/American) to that effect.

Essence of Life

2002 • 25 min • United States of America

Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass talk about their 1982 film "Koyaanisqatsi."

Devil's Daughter

2002 • 39 min • Indonesia

King Daha calls on Master Warrior Baraba, whose son, Bahwula, is due to marry the witch's daughter Ratna, in the hope that they can steal the Book of Lontar and defeat Calon, a black magic witch who creates a severe drought in the Kingdom of Airlangar, in order to take over the throne.

City Slickers: A tale of two African penguins

2002 • 53 min

Fifteen years ago, a handful of African Penguins, normally found only on remote islands off the Southern African coast, stumbled across on of the Cape's most beautiful and popular tourist beaches. They swam, they saw, they conquered. And today, Boulders beach is home to more than 4,000 of these delightful, resourceful and entertaining seabirds who live side by side with their human neighbours -well, most of the time! These knee-high invaders not only share the beach, they dodge traffic, scale fences, and take over gardens, the golf course and even the occasional bedroom! For the two feathered stars, Henry and Margot, it's a tale of romance, the challenges of parenthood, separation and a penguin's worst nightmare, oil.

No Loitering

2002 • 56 min

An intimate portrait of teenagers trying to understand their world and their possibilities. The film weaves together video shot by teens and by the filmmaker, as they work together to make a film and create expressive outlets for youth in the community. They organize dances and community events and paint a mural. At the same time, with humor and pathos, these young people raise issues around violence, feeling misunderstood by adults and lacking respect in their community. Set in the small town of Sitka, Alaska, home to a large Alaska Native population, the video chronicles their creativity, concerns and dreams.

Cold War Submarine Adventures: K-19 - Doomsday Submarine

2002 • 52 min

The disastrous first combat patrol of the K-19, the Soviet Union's first atomic-powered nuclear missile submarine.

Swallows on the Roof

2002 • 23 min • Australia

The breeding cycle of the Blue-and-White Swallow under the roof of a house, from the nest building to the flying of the two chicks. Several side stories of the fauna in the gardens and the suburbs of a mountain area near a big city. A small ecosystem that favours the fauna adapted to man.

Am I Alive or Am I Dead?

2002 • 4 min

This is a silent video I made for Dana Moser’s Intro To Video class at Massachusetts College of Art in 2002. I shot it on miniDV tape at my parents’ house in Marlborough on a freezing winter day. Enjoy.

Onán

2002 • 17 min • Spain

When his father caught his 12-year-old son masturbating over a pornographic magazine, he does not punish him but he states: "If you do this fifty times - you will die". What will happen at the 50th?

The Last Gunfighter

2002 • 8 min • Italy

A man roves the vastity of a deserted industrial plant ready to grasp his gun. Hat, boots, belt, the last pistolero is going to face the hardest of challenges...

Music in the Afternoon

2002 • 4 min • United States of America

Fellow violinist and artist Tony Conrad, in collaboration with software engineer Tom Demeyer, made for Steina the instrument seen in this title. Conrad and the Vasulkas all taught at the University at Buffalo in the Media Study Department from 1976 to 1979.

I'll Wait for the Next One...

2002 • 4 min • France

On a subway train, a man announces that he's looking for someone who might be interested in him; the usual dating methods have not worked, though there's nothing wrong with him. He explains that any interested woman can just get off at the next stop. One woman looks interested...

Circa Me

2002 • 22 min

In the childhood circus, time stops for a last dance under the big top. Juggle with the images, the memories, the dreams, the fears, the desires and the stories that we tell ourselves before we fall asleep.

Albert Ball: Missing Ace

2002 • 22 min

British Ace and hero Albert Ball was perhaps the Allies' best known flyer of the Great War. Originally an infantryman, Ball was one of the first members of the Royal Flying Corps but, on 7th May 1917, he would depart for his last fight. While engaged in a ferocious dog fight with the Germans over northern France he was seen heading into heavy cloud cover with his machine guns blazing. That was the last time anyone ever saw him alive. Official German records claim that Lothar Von Richtoffen, brother of the Red Baron, shot Ball down but this was never officially confirmed and remains a mystery of the war.