All Films

Slaughterhouse

2001 • 14 min • Ecuador

Documentary about a slaughterhouse in Quito, where hundreds of people and entire families work everyday. The smell of the place is warm and penetrating, the noise is intense, everything is red. Would that much effort and death have an ulterior purpose?

Kokoa

2001 • 13 min • Niger

The festive citizens of the Kingdom of Frogs crowd into an arena to watch their warriors engage in hand-to-hand combat and to see Tountia and her musicians perform an enchanting concert.

Ink

2001 • 7 min • France

A black & white nightmare universe. A distant character, viewer of the violence growing in his house.

Triumph of the Beasts

2001 • 49 min

A deeper look at the science behind Walking with Beasts (2001)

Horses on Mars

2001 • 7 min • United States of America

Some 3.6 billion years ago, two microbes are playing "king of the pebble" when an event occurs that will separate them and change their future forever. This is the story of the microbe that remains on that pebble, and his amazing journey through time and space.

Cold Hands

2001 • 15 min

This work deals with seduction, fights, power games, surrender and rejection, fear, loneliness and eternal love.

Into the Dark

2001 • 6 min • Australia

As a man dies, his mind drifts back to the evenings of his childhood.

Dietro i Vetri

2001 • 11 min • Italy

"If in 'Di Ritorno' the movement leads to a well-defined place (the childhood home) even if it is no longer present, in 'Dietro i Vetri ' you get lost among the colours, the memories. The journey, without a declared destination, dissolves, like the cloud beyond the window..."

Di Ritorno

2001 • 10 min • Italy

"Made following the loss of my father, 'Di Ritorno' is a video very dear to me because it is intimately populated with voices, sounds and people who are no longer here. The movement of the train that takes me back to my childhood home, evoked by a sleepless night, is accompanied by an emotional backward movement: perhaps the only possibility of meeting lies in not moving, in waiting."

Floating Memory

2001 • 10 min

At the time of the student demonstrations on Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989, Liu Wei was a student at the Beijing University. Before the repression by the Chinese government on 4 June, Liu was able to take photographs that have become evidence of what has remained silenced under the Chinese regime. Floating Memory contains these photographs, along with other image sequences pertaining to Chinese propaganda, the past, the present, and other symbolic scenes. Arranged using bifurcations and superimpositions, the video imitates the way memory works.

Goft-o-Go Dar Meh

2001 • 51 min • Iran

Azar is responsible for rural health at Qazvin and addresses various people’s problems. But Haj Kamal is a big obstacle in his way and does not allow things to go right. Haj Kamal is the head of the council and the big village, but because of Azar’s membership, he is not ready to convene a meeting. He believes that this is the work of men.

Erè Mèla Mèla

2001 • 7 min • France, Luxembourg

Choreographer and interpreter for the Nederlands Dans Theater, Lionel Hoche likes to depict twin universes and dual life histories. In a sixties-style apartment, furnished with brightly coloured objects, two men face each other. While a smooth melody distils syncopations and undulations, the dancers have fun diverting everyday objects from their customary use. This dreamy, playful and amorous atmosphere leads to all kinds of visions and enchantments.

Wimme

2001 • 30 min • United States of America

Wimme Saari is one of the best known Sami yoikers from Finland. He combines traditional Sami singing with his own improvisations, usually to a techno-ambient accompaniment by members of Finnish electronic group RinneRadio. Wimme has also appeared on the albums of other bands or musicians, for instance Hedningarna, Nits or Hector Zazou.

Rockin' and Rollin'

2001 • 5 min

What really happens below the green baize of the pool table. The losers of the game sit on a bench commiserating with each other.

Between the Lines: Asian American Women's Poetry

2001 • 60 min • United States of America

This documentary offers rare interviews with over 15 major Asian-Pacific American women poets. Organized in interwoven sections such as Immigration, Language, Family, Memory, and Spirituality, it is a sophisticated merging of Asian-American history and identity with the questions of performance, voice, and image.

Demons of Bars and Tone

2001 • 8 min

A man is tortured both mentally and physically by his television. As the man is suffering, the television plays commercials representing his life, both past and present.

Dog Sitter

2001 • 60 min • United States of America

Steve Cantin has assembled a variety of sights and sounds intended to entertain dogs.

Vermont Youth Orchestra with Trey Anastasio & Ernie Stires

2001 • 55 min

Vermont Youth Orchestra with Trey Anastasio and Ernie Stires is a live concert video featuring a performance by the Vermont Youth Orchestra led by conductor Troy Peters along with Phish leader Trey Anastasio and his mentor Ernie Stires. Anastasio studied composition and arranging under Stires while he was a student at Goddard College in Vermont. The concert is divided into four movements featuring compositions written and arranged by Anastasio and Stires. The concert's centerpiece is a performance of the Phish song "Guyute," which also contains elements of another Phish song, "My Friend, My Friend."

Not Flammable

2001 • 27 min • Estonia

A documentary with a mystical-criminal air about a man who studies the story of a photographer from the Estonian diaspora in Canada who drowned 24 years ago. A branching, strange network of predestination is brutally turning against the researcher. The film is composed of material left behind by him.

Raising the Hunley

2001 • 55 min • Australia

Discover the secrets of the Confederate hand-powered submarine, the H.L. Hunley, as researchers raise it and open it for the first time in more than a century.

I Want You to Need Me

2001 • 4 min • Canada

Can popular songs be appropriated to convey the experience of a gay-bashing in Moncton? Or the need for acceptance? In an ongoing series of autobiographical performance videos named Overmelodramas, the artist explores our relationship to violence and culture, and questions our polarized tastes for melodrama and documentary.

Nurpu

2001 • 57 min

Join the Teton Gravity Research crew for a deep dive into the wild world of whitewater kayaking.

Looking Back to See

2001 • 20 min • Canada, United States of America

LOOKING BACK TO SEE is a journey through a dreary, artificial landscape accompanied by ghostly sounds that speak of escape at the same time that they remind us of worlds that have been paved over "to make life better." LOOKING BACK TO SEE is the first in a series of videos known as BICYCLE DIARIES.

My Heart the Lunchbox

2001 • 2 min • Canada, United States of America

Drummond takes a humourous look at a single incident from his youth and isolates the jelling of personality in relation to how we form our sexual/love molds.