All Films

Majma

2001 • 54 min

Aslam sells medicines for sexual problems on the pavements of Meena Bazar near Jama Masjid in Delhi. Khalifa Barkat presides over an wrestling gym (akhara) in the adjacent park and puts a group of young men through the moral and physical grind of wrestling. Through the park and the market pass hundreds of men every day. Majma explores the instability of working class lives and its impact on male sexuality and gender relations.

Sonst Nichts

2001 • 3 min • Czech Republic, Germany

The story (or: the non-story) is focusing on small, unconscious gestures during a moment of non-communication on a train.

Chief Seattle

2001 • 57 min

This film was made as part of 2001 "The Spirit Returns" exhibit at Seattle's Log House Museum. This film features Cecile Hansen and James Rasmussen (Duwamish Tribe), historians David Buerge and Alexandra Harmon, and author Jonathan Raban.

La Traverse de l'oubli

2001 • 14 min • France

Walking through the night in search of it, in search of them... The night, to test oneself against fear, solitude and darkness...

Train

2001 • 45 min • Georgia

The Gardener

2001 • 16 min • Estonia, Spain

A parable about a solitary man who has forsaken the world and finds comfort only in planting trees. This activity has become a sacred ritual for him. Yet deep inside, he awaits and seeks some sort of solution to his solitude. One day during a particularly severe drought, the Earth answers him - the man finds the unconscious body of a woman in the soil cracked by the heat. Without stopping to think, he takes her home, resuscitates her and looks after her. This unexpected companion seriously test his convictions. How far can solitude go? A story about the destructive vicious circle of solitude - the fixed idea, love and giving up love.

Hypnophrenia

2001 • 20 min

A man, in a deep state of psychosis, wanders through a series of disturbing vignettes uncovering a personal reality.

Rising from the Ashes: Gender, Globalization and the Fisheries

2001 • 59 min • Canada

Women from 18 countries discuss vital fishery issues from the perspective of gender and globalization.

Excursiones

2001 • 7 min • Argentina

A group of aliens travel to Earth to issue a warning to humanity.

Les demarches des papiers

2001 • 10 min • Ukraine

Seventeen-year-old Alina is in love with an imposing Frenchman. Suddenly, she loses her sense of humor. But not for long.

Born Again

2001 • 28 min • India

Rediscovering the intricately designed puppets of the Marathi legend Vishnudas Bhave. Screened at Atlanta and Milan.

Barcode

2001 • 8 min • Netherlands

A play of light and shadow in a virtual world.

Sunflower's Land

2001 • 26 min • Iran

This poetic short film reflects on Kurdish identity, love, and the fleeting nature of life through vivid imagery and emotion.

Madame Winger Makes a Film: A Survival Guide for the 21st Century

2001 • 10 min • Canada, United States of America

Madame Winger wants you to make a film about something you love. She shows you her favorite low budget filmmaking techniques, from cameraless animation to processing your own film in a bathtub. Filmed in 16 mm.

Echoes from the White House

2001 • 60 min

Martin Sheen hosts this documentary that commemorates the 200th anniversary of the White House by taking an in-depth look at the beloved piece of American architecture and history and examining artifacts from various presidents. Letters, memos and journal entries bring to light the inside details of the good, the bad and the ugly that's taken place within the White House's great halls over the past 200 years.

Redshift

2001 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Belying their apparent stillness, Emily Richardson’s time lapse studies make for compelling and surprisingly eventful viewing: in the case of Redshift (named appropriately, after Hubbles law regarding the different wavelengths of light from stars), the activity is on a galactic scale: the wheeling of the heavens over a ragged line of coast. — Shane Danielsen; 57th Edinburgh International Film Festival 2003, Black Box Activity.

The Razor's Edge

2001 • 30 min • India

Kshurasyadhara (The Razor's Edge), based on the temple oracles of Kerala. The film premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR),2002 and was shown in film festivals at Tehran, Milan, International Film Festival of Kerala, MIFF. "Kshurasyadhara" won the best Malayalam film commendation award 2001, Indian Documentary Producer's Association (IDPA), Best Director Award of the Kerala State Film & TV Awards 2001, and the National Jury award of the Mumbai International short & Animation film festival (MIFF) in 2002. "Kshurasyadhara" is now a part of permanent archives at the United States Library of Congress.

Antiromantika

2001 • 16 min • Kazakhstan

A young man aged about twenty chooses a beautiful woman to make love to her for money. It is not really his style and a couple of hours later he is even more lonely than he was before... He is probably dreaming of something very different from what he does. The title says it all. Shot in a slow and realistic style, entirely in the line of modern Kazakh cinema.

A Man Aside

2001 • 59 min • Chile

Documentary about Ricardo Liaño, once a businessman from the chilean boxing circles but with a very different life today. A life that Liaño seems to be escaping from.

still/here

2001 • 60 min • United States of America

In this austere and sorrowful portrait of his hometown, St. Louis, Harris sets his black-and-white 16mm camera loose to wander through the city’s decaying northside neighborhoods, an area populated almost exclusively by working class and working poor African Americans. Gliding down empty streets, across the facades of once-elegant homes, entering condemned buildings, the camera makes a detached but ultimately damning portrait of civic neglect and apathy. Poignantly, human beings are rarely encountered; their presence haunts the soundtrack of eerie footsteps, an unanswered telephone, and sparse voiceover commentary from found sources.

Magnet Man

2001 • 20 min

A true story about the filmmaker's father, a mesmerist, exorcist, and healer who can help everyone but himself. Told from the point of view of his young son (the filmmaker as a boy), who both adores and abhors his father. Marcin Wrona uses a visually energetic collage technique to create what he calls "tragicomic kitsch," one with a fantastical sense of Monty Python about it, like a missing Terry Gilliam project.

Beautiful Man

2001 • 14 min • Malaysia

An experimental, no-dialogue short in which a man comes literally out of a closet, only to be held in bondage by a woman. She finally puts him back into the closet.

Tango Privado

2001 • 15 min

Private Tango is the result of complicity between the interpreters and the camera. The movements initially choreographed adapt and reinvent themselves in an improvisation where the camera also becomes her interpreter.

Glazier Blues

2001 • 14 min • Slovenia

Plunging into a netherworld of machines and humans, Steklarski Blues (2001), also known as Glazier Blues, transforms the noisy, steam-filled work of a glass factory in the town of Hrastnik in Slovenia into something resembling a steampunk-inflected, sci-fi dystopia that belongs to no particular moment in time.