All Films

Goodbye

2001 • 14 min

Six goodbyes and a welcome. The very ending of dramatic, melodramatic and funny scenes of everyday life.

Kitchen Girl

2001 • 3 min • United States of America

In Kitchen Girl, Trecartin's frequent collaborator Lizzie Fitch throws herself into a state of total hysteria, portraying a girl who takes the childhood game of "playing house" to a dark and disturbing place. After pretending to cook dinner for her "kids," represented by colorful plush toys, she finds them lacking in appreciation of her efforts and throws them out the window. Fitch's overwrought performance is perfectly matched by Trecartin's skillful, hyperkinetic editing. Together they turn Trecartin's kitchen into a dimly lit world of mental trauma. Combining the innocuous with the malevolent, Fitch and Trecartin escort the viewer on a whirlwind tour of household dysfunction, child abuse, and isolation.

The Reflector

2001 • 10 min • Finland

A stranger comes to an abandoned circus where a couple still lives. Photographing connects the trio, but things starts to go queer.

Gaither's Pond: The Great Divide

2001 • 30 min

Bribed by three industrious beavers, Carp Lowry convinces the Wave Makers and the Pond Preservation Society-the pond's two chief factions-that the "no dam building" ordinance is archaic. When the sticks start to fly, Gaither's Pond is divided into several splinter groups. But pond harmony is restored when Carp confesses and the Friends of the pond determine to tear down the barriers that divide them.

Minus-Plus

2001 • 21 min • Israel

Shaul, an ex-guitarist and a serial inventor, is torn between his love for Yael and his war on the Electric Company, which has disconnected their power supply.

Daddy's Girl

2001 • 9 min • United Kingdom

A seven year old girl is standing in pouring rain, soaking wet, waiting for her father who is drinking in some bar. She becomes prey to the whims and vancies of passing strangers.

Katsushika Hokusai: The Great Wave

2001 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Created as "disposable art" circa 1830, the woodblock print of "The Great Wave" by 70-year-old Katsushika Hokusai has earned acclaim and a place of honor in the art world. Scholars and critics discuss the work's creation and wide influence.

Der Vorführ-Effekt

2001 • 55 min • Germany

Documentary about film projectionists.

Date with a Vampire

2001 • 59 min

Violet is a vampire with a taste for both men and women. One of her targets is a young man, named Chuck, whom she picks up in a bar, wines him, frightens him and eventually excites him into her bed.

Samba

2001 • 54 min • Brazil

A Room With the Walls Blasted to Shreds and Falling

2001 • 35 min

"A Room With the Walls Blasted to Shreds and Falling" is a non-narrative videotape shot entirely in and around central Ohio. This tape was shot over a two week period but means to document a “day” in the life of the Midwest—it begins at swim team practice at 8:00am and ends after midnight in the parking lot of an all-night grocery store. It is a series of idiosyncratic sequences which suggest a certain sense of extreme in the gestures of the everyday. A man waits for his flight in the airport. A teenage girl walks through her sub-division to meet a friend. An older woman washes her hair in the sink. A young boy sits on the floor playing video games. A plane flies overhead. Clouds shift. Cars move across the overpass. A grocery store is open all night.

Tito

2001 • 60 min • Czech Republic, Slovenia

Colleagues, friends, and other close acquaintances all give their account of the man who led strife-torn Yugoslavia from German occupation in World War II and walked her down a political tightrope for 40 years, begrudgingly gaining the respect and admiration of both the Soviet and Western superpowers.

Plata segura

2001 • 40 min • Argentina

It is the story of a child who overcomes the adversities of fate thanks to an inner force that protects him from the evil that reigns in a world inhabited by unscrupulous beings. His dream of playing the final of the FIFA World Cup in a light blue and white shirt will accompany him throughout his life. A story that shows the dark side of football.

Frank Auerbach: To The Studio

2001 • 53 min

This film offers an exclusive invitation into the secret world of Frank Auerbach. The legendary painter rarely leaves his studio: he works 365 days a year, from sun-up to sun-down in a furious race against time. There is not a minute to waste. His main links with the outside world are the models who’ve sat for him for between ten and forty-two years. They are from diverse backgrounds: acting, academia, filmmaking and business. They talk with insight about being painted and about the man behind the canvas. Auerbach is filmed in his studio, sketching in the National Gallery and around Camden town, talking about his sitters, his routine, his compulsions, strange rituals, his ambitions and his heroes.

East End

2001 • 27 min

White and grey, a big screen with noises and voices: we hear a man suffering. The film follows the hardscrabble day-to-day exploits of a nameless hero as he is trying to survive amidst violent, desperate men and desolate landscapes. Later we will watch them all again building a metal construction out in the desert. So these men here will find an Asian guy, almost dead: “You have got a point!” The Promised Land? No, and it is someone else who will die in the end. Or will simply end up in hallucinations.

I Will Follow You

2001 • 41 min • Japan

Natsuki, who works at the town factory, is a lonely 19-year-old who makes tearful efforts such as skipping lunch and taking laxatives, worrying about the thick body shape pointed out by Shige. There is also a secret - Natsuki once killed father and was housed in a rehabilitation facility.

In Foreign Soil

2001 • 56 min • Germany

In fremder Erde (In Foreign Soil) documents the Muslim traditions of burial in Turkey and Germany, but above all, the paths the dead take to return to Anatolian soil.

This Narrative is Killing Me

2001 • 16 min • Canada, India

An unhappy, silent man journeys through a constantly shifting mediascape in search of something we never discover. Transylvanian moonscapes, Baroque parties and fraternity joyrides constitute just a fragment of his dizzying journey. Is this unnamed character searching for a way in, or a way out of the shifting and overwhelming history which whirls about him?

White Pass & Yukon Route: The Railway Built of Gold

2001 • 35 min • Canada, United States of America

Completed in 1900 with British financing, Canadian contracting and American engineering, the White Pass & Yukon Route was the engineering marvel of its time. Cutting a swath through some of the world's most ruggedly beautiful terrain, the White Pass today is a trip through history.

Moscow Angel

2001 • 30 min • Russia

The story of a complex relationship between a mother and son belonging to the highest circles of the Moscow elite.

Full Moon

2001 • 45 min • United States of America

Designed for continuous single or multiple monitor display (as well as video projection), the tape is a collection of computer animated sequences of celestial images spanning time and cultures, moving objects and images in harmonic choreography and spatial play.

Dessous

2001 • 6 min • Germany

A perfectly dressed salesperson for upscale women's underwear is waiting for his next customer. A rather strange gentleman comes in and starts browsing the lingerie displays. He slides the thongs through his dirty fingers, satisfaction evident on his face. The salesman is suspicious but tries to remain politely in the background. What does the man want? Women's thongs? Hardly likely. The seller takes action...

Wer anderen eine Grube gräbt

2001 • 11 min • Germany

A murderously jealous lover and an extremely unruly corpse make for a pitch-black comedy.

Coin Laundry

2001 • 7 min

A young man wanders the streets of Tokyo clutching a laundry basket. Who is he? What is he looking for? What precious mystery does he hold close to his heart? Discover the simple world of a truly gifted individual. Learn how to achieve spiritual fulfillment with a little fabric softener.