All Films

Kamen Rider Ryuki Special: 13 Riders

2002 • 49 min • Japan

This television special is an alternate telling of the Kamen Rider Ryuki story. Shinji Kido's life, working as an employee at ORE Journal, takes a sharp turn after being pulled into the Mirror World by a Mispider. Luckily, he was saved by Kamen Rider Ryuki, Koichi Sakakibara. However, Sakakibara could no longer go on due to the severity of his injuries and passed his Card Deck to Shinji, allowing him to become the next Ryuki and defeat the monster.

Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam: Towards the Complex - For the Courageous, the Curious, and the Cowards.

2001 • 13 min • Japan

Filmed on location in Vietnam’s Indochina Sea, this remarkable 13-minute video depicts a number of young men struggling to propel cyclos across the rock-strewn, sandy, ocean bottom. Working in teams, they pull, push, and pedal the passengerless vehicles; and periodically they must rush up to the surface for air or risk drowning. The water grows deeper; the boulders get larger; the trip to the surface takes longer; and the task is increasingly arduous. Finally, the drivers abandon their cyclos, and swim together toward an underwater “city” composed of tents made from white netting strung between boulders, a metaphorical memorial for the many Vietnamese boat people drowned in the aftermath of the war.

Metalstasis

2001 • 8 min • United Kingdom

An animated science-fiction short directed by Matthew Hood. A mechanical man finds his routine of life disturbed by illness from an unusual source.

Françoise

2001 • 22 min • Brazil

A woman named Françoise meets a man who's waiting for his bus in a bus station.

L’Etre à l’Autre

2001 • 33 min • France

In his solitude, a man dreams, imagines, fumbles, eructs. In front of his computer, he writing, he sends e-mails, like bottles at the sea. Robinson, he tries to escape, not from a deserted island, but a world of appearances, deserted, empty, inconsistent, mirage of a mirage.

Oberstube

2001 • 6 min

When bringing his freshly washed laundry to the attic, a man sees himself confronted with quiet voices and noises. By hanging up pieces for piece smoothly and listening to each, he tries to find out whether the noise comes from the laundry. He ends up in a labyrinth of sheets, without having the mystery solved. Are the voices coming from inside him?

Against Filial Piety

2001 • 5 min • United States of America

AGAINST FILIAL PIETY ponders one of the oldest Chinese beliefs; the gravest offense of filial piety is not to have offspring to carry on the family name and blood. The film also relates to feelings of failure in not being able to fulfill the filial responsibility. This five minute, single framed, 16mm experimental film includes the word “barren” from 34 different written languages, which were extracted from dictionaries. The individual word or symbol disintegrates as it being enlarged to resemble landscapes or graphic shapes. The colorful technical drawing s of human anatomy and the cycle of childbirth are combined and contrasted against the monotone enlargement of Xerox copies of the word “barren” which breaks up and converges through out the progression of film.

Finisterra

2001 • 50 min

It relates to our geographical position, with the discovery of the trajectory of each of the characters.

Burger Burp's & the Happy Farmer

2001 • 4 min • France

Rita on the Ropes

2001 • 9 min • United States of America

Rita, a young high school student, recounts and reflects on her life in a monologue played over footage of her wandering through various beautiful and often strange Chicago locations.

The Hapless Antiquarian

2001 • 7 min

An antiquarian acquires a rare, cursed book and then finds that he cannot get rid of it.

So jung kommen wir nicht mehr zusammen

2001 • 59 min

Documentary about the punk subculture in Hamburg, Germany.

News Time

2001 • 59 min • Palestinian Territory

Azza El-Hassan's film portrayal of her neighbourhood of Ramallah, a town under fire in the current Middle East conflict. With the threat of violence severely limiting locals' activities, filming becomes the main event, especially for a group of children.

America In Concert

2001 • 60 min

Recorded on June 16, 1999 at the TV Studio "Ohne Filter", in Baden-Baden, Germany

Director Huh Chi-gook (The Man Who Watched Too Much Part 2)

2001 • 60 min

The Man Who Watched Too Much Part 2

Reporting from the Rabbit Hutch

2001 • 40 min • Belarus

The politically minded director transcends the headlines to highlight the many atrocities committed by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenka on the businessmen and journalists who dare voice dissent, and the political figures and presidential hopefuls who would seek to wrestle away control of the Republic of Belarus.

Hello from Kislovodsk

2001 • 10 min • Russia

As often happens, a relationship between a man and a woman, interrupted at the very takeoff, leaves the feeling that this was happiness itself.

Mosaïc

2001 • 45 min

In "Mosaïc", the Islamic and Jewish decorative and architectural motifs are based on images, drawings and photographs of intercultural places: Samarkand, Bukhara, Fez, Casablanca, Andalusia, Isfahan, Cairo, Istanbul...

Bombies

2001 • 57 min

Between 1964 and 1973 the United States conducted a secret air war, dropping over 2 million tons of bombs and making tiny Laos the most heavily bombed country in history. Millions of these 'cluster bombs' did not explode when dropped, leaving the country massively contaminated with 'bombies' as dangerous now as when they fell 30 years ago. Bombies examines the problem of unexploded cluster bombs through the personal experiences of a group of Laotians and foreigners and argues for their elimination as a weapon of war. Unfortunately they are still a standard part of the US arsenal and were dropped in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Red Land

2001 • 30 min • Ukraine

A story about a unique Ukrainian settlement that has existed in Brazil for over a hundred years. Surrounded by a foreign culture and religion, Ukrainians preserve the traditions and language of their people.

Jam

2001 • 27 min • Latvia

"In the world of the fly," says biologist Uexkull, "we find only fly things. In the world of the sea urchin we find only sea urchin things." This is the Colonel’s story and here you will find only Colonel things.

Schizophrénia

2001 • 58 min • Poland, Russia, Ukraine

"Asymptomatic schizophrenia" is a disease that many people who did not like the regime in the USSR suffered from. Fortunately, it could be treated using "methods developed by the most eminent Soviet psychiatrists."

Tokyo Winter Story

2001 • 16 min

An unique love story spelled out with a documentary touch.

Reiko Azechi - Polish

2001 • 30 min

A forgotten gravure idol from 2001, Reiko Azechi (畦地令子), VHS.