All Films

Usher

2002 • 37 min • United States of America

Writer Truman Jones travels to the home of old, eccentric poet Roderick Usher in his quest for wisdom from the aging poet.

Go! Anpanman: The Secret of Roll and Lola's Floating Castle

2002 • 51 min • Japan

Rollpanna visits Ukikimo Castle and meets Princess Lola. Her job is to wash away the world's dirt. However, the machine for that has broken down and Rollpanna helps her repair it. Worried that the Ukigumo Castle is dirty, Anpanman came to help. But Baikinman has invaded and tried to fill the world with dirt using "bamboo rain". Rollpanna is turned into Black Rollpanna, and then Currypanman is also turned black. Can Anpanman and friends save the day?

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low'

2002 • 37 min • Japan

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "High and Low" (1963).

Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales

2002 • 18 min • United States of America

Tis the season for the cheer and charm of the Peanuts kids - and this delight special offers five segments full of unforgettable moments. Snoopy works as a bell-ringer to raise money and tries making peace with the ferocious cat next door. Linus strives to strike the right tone in his letter to Santa - and his friendship with an indecisive girl at school. Sally's idea about gift giving and the identity of Santa may be unusual - but her strange notion about how to obtain a Christmas tree surprisingly does the job. Lucy tries awfully hard to be nice...and still coax everyone around her to buy her presents. Charlie Brown and Sally wait up for Santa (a surprisingly short man), who spreads Christmas gift cheer further than they had thought. Make merry!

Lupin the Third: Return of Pycal

2002 • 49 min • Japan

Lupin steals an extraordinary gem from a Mediterranean party, only to be interrupted by Pycal, the trickster "magician" who had apparently died fighting Lupin early in his career. Pycal, now armed with real magical abilities, is determined to take revenge.

From Darkness

2002 • 9 min • Ireland

A lonely fisherman drifts into haunted waters in search of food and finds much more than he bargained for. Based on an Inuit folktale.

Go! Anpanman: Sushi-roll Maki-chan and Gold Kamameshidon

2002 • 20 min • Japan

Baikinman and Dokin-chan crash the annual mushroom festival and kidnap Kamameshidon’s sweetheart, Kinoko. Kamameshidon is powered up by a lake fairy and turned into Super Gold Kamameshidon. Then he and the rest of the Donburiman-Trio try to rescue Kinoko, but they end up in Mushroom Valley, under the influence of dangerous mushrooms, and Sushi-roll Maki-chan shows up to help save the day.

Neo-Noir

2002 • 10 min • United States of America

In his homage to film noir, a man learns that cheaters can wind up dead.

Sinking into the Moon

2002 • 40 min • Japan

Minamo is a patient at a mental institute who keeps having the same dream. In the dream, there’s a small lake with a big bright moon shinning over it. Minamo sees herself in a boat on the lake. Her eyes are filled with tears of blood, and the boat is sinking slowly into the lake. The moon becomes red and she hears a voice calling her, Kagari… Kagari…

The Boy and the Sea Turtle

2002 • 45 min • Japan

The first film in Shin-Ei's series of annual WWII themed anime television movies for children "Sensou Douwa"

Premier cri

2002 • 9 min • France

A hardened businessman takes a prostitute to his house. He hopes she can help him feel human again.

Western Deep

2002 • 24 min • United Kingdom

An exploration of the sensory experience of the TauTona gold mine in South Africa, showing migrant labourers working in dark, claustrophobic environments and the ear-splitting noise of drilling. The TauTona mine in South Africa, known as 'Western Deep' is the world's deepest gold mine. Employing more than 5,000 people, it operates twenty-four hours day. The film begins in complete darkness as the miners descend three-and-a-half kilometres underground. McQueen documents an intense work regime where the temperature can reach over ninety degrees celsius. Accompanied by jarring sounds created by the mechanical equipment, Western Deep is a hellish representation of labour that makes the silent resolve of the miners all the more powerful.

Mrs. Meitlemeihr

2002 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Hitler escapes the war to London, where he lives as Mrs. Meitlemeihr, in this what-if black comedy from commercial director Graham Rose.

Maria Yumeno: Private Life of a Super Horny Woman

2002 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film written and directed by Daisuke Yamanouchi and starring Maria Yumeno. Yamanouchi filmed it for Film House, and Xces released it theatrically.

Tied Up

2002 • 15 min • Mexico

A homeless kid addicted to sniffing glue is part of a vicious circle of dysfunction and sexual abuse.

Restauratec

2002 • 3 min

In 1973, at the Restauratec staff canteen, Jean-Pierre Ranu explains and sings his passion for thawed paella.

Fits & Starts

2002 • 10 min • United States of America

A young man and woman spend the afternoon drinking orange soda and conversing through cassette recorders. And there's a musical number.

Drive By

2002 • 15 min • United States of America

A delinquent girl falls in love and, consequently, her life changes.

Bonheur Heights

2002 • 19 min • Japan

Short film by Kenji Yamauchi

Camp Pikachu

2002 • 22 min • Japan

Riding home atop a train, the Pichu Brothers suddenly find themselves knocked off and flying through the air! They hit a Wynaut on their way down, bringing all three of them to the forest where Pikachu, Totodile, and some more friends are playing in a waterfall and building a campfire. When it starts to rain, the group takes shelter in a water mill—but the water mill starts moving! The next morning, the whole group decides to work together to make sure the Pichu Brothers make their train. Will the two be able to make it home safe?

A Charlie Brown Valentine

2002 • 25 min • United States of America

Lovesick Charlie Brown hopes – still – to get a valentine from the Little Red-Haired Girl, as does Sally from Linus, Lucy from Schroeder and Peppermint Patty from Charlie Brown.

Zoku Aizome Kyôko no G no kaikan: Kyûkyoku-hen

2002 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film directed by Kyoko Aizome

Inferno

2002 • 28 min • United Kingdom

Set inside a "Quake" like video game, one of the game's cannon-fodder grunts falls for the Lara Croft-inspired heroine and, in a constantly looping game level, tries time and again to catch her attention before she can "chain gun" him.

Puzzle Punk

2002 • 5 min • Germany

A short directed by Christian von Aster.