All Films

The Haint

2001 • 60 min • United States of America

Troy MInk plays 13 different characters in the mythical haunted town of Midway, Tennessee.

Travelling of the Dead

2001 • 26 min • Yugoslavia

During the NATO bombing police finds a truck full of corpses in Lake Djerdap, Serbia.

Edmund Kemper Part 1: The Death of my Life

2001 • 56 min • France

Edmund Kemper, cannibal and necrophiliac, mercilessly murdered his grandparents at the age of 15. Rejected by his parents and hating his mother, he killed eight more victims a few years later in a fit of madness. After rape, his supreme pleasure was to dissect and decapitate the corpses he ate...

The Cutting Room Floor

2001 • 3 min

An animated blooper reel of famous scenes from famous films, including Taxi Driver, The Graduate, Apocalypse Now, and others. The film was created in less than a week using crude stick-figures and improvised dialogue and premiered at Tropfest, the world's largest short film festival.

Performing Death

2001 • 15 min • India

This is a video about the Park Street cemetery in Calcutta - one of the earliest colonial cemeteries in the world – its degrading conditions and its status as an abandoned legacy of an empire lost and forgotten.

The Shooting Gallery

2001 • 10 min • Ukraine

Homeless "Patsan" spends the night in the basements, peeps out the window behind the inaccessible Ballerina and dreams of winning a million by shooting at the shooting gallery. However, an accurate hit does not bring anything except the ridicule of "Ded" - the keeper of the shooting gallery. And then the bullet goes to Grandfather himself.

The Buffalo War

2001 • 57 min • United States of America

Native Americans, ranchers, government officials, and environmental activists battle over the yearly slaughter of America's last wild bison, based on fear that migrating animals will transmit the disease brucellosis to cattle. Join a 500-mile spiritual march across Montana led by Lakota elder Rosalie Little Thunder expressing her people's cultural connection to bison, an environmental group engaging in civil disobedience and video activism, and a ranching family caught in the crossfire.

Ku...

2001 • 8 min • Ukraine

In old forgotten place an evil and insidious Koshchiy the Immortal lived. He lived his days among gray mists and vicious howls of unknown animals. There was no longer a magical cat who sang songs and recited poetry, a mermaid died, like many other fairytale characters. There was only him, a miserable old man.

A Local

2001 • 26 min • Lithuania

Hilda Spalviene, a resident of Šakininkai village, is a German from Klaipėda region. The cheerful old woman, who draws a cigarette with a mouthpiece, recalls her life: before the war she lived in Germany with her husband, after the war she was exiled to Siberia. Later, she was able to go back to Germany, but she returned to Šakininkai - to the land of her parents. Although the film focuses on Hilda's story, it also subtly invites us to consider the issues of multiethnicity and national identity of the inhabitants of Klaipėda Region. Hilda, who speaks with an accent, stubbornly calls herself a local: she was born here and is ready to spend her last days here.

Autumn

2001 • 13 min • United States of America

childhood memories of Autumn

Terrors: Black Shadow

2001 • 27 min • Japan

Adaptation of the game "Terrors 2" for the WonderSwan Color.

It's Bad Luck to See the Bride Before the Wedding

2001 • 9 min • Greece

At the wedding dress rehearsal, just before the big day, a phone call changes everything. Enraged, the bride decides to take revenge, and in her fury, she ravages everything in her path. After all, it's bad luck to see the bride before the wedding. (But which wedding?)

A Kid on the Alley of 3-2 Kyojima

2001 • 18 min

Divergence between cameraman and sound man in tense street scene.

The Sephardic Jews and the Pike Place Market

2001 • 26 min • United States of America

At the turn of the century, Sephardic Jews fled the turmoil of their homeland to start a new life in America. Filled with interviews, archival photos and dozens of Ladino phrases, this slice of Northwest history captures their story as they arrived in Seattle and found work at the Pike Place Market.

A World Apart

2001 • 46 min • Latvia

World War II separated the Latvian nation into two parts. Fleeing Soviet occupation, a large part of the people left their homeland by the Baltic Sea and sought refuge in the West. New York’s Hell’s Kitchen district became their home and the core of Latvian cultural exiles became young poets and artists. The film traces across half a century to show their life today and what has happened to those young writers and poets (the Troubadour – Gunars Silins, the Internal Dissident – Janis Kreslins, Philosopher the Dionisios – Robert Muks, the Estranged One – Rita Gale, the Observer – Aina Kraujiete, the Outsider – Dzintars Sodums) in their effort to combine the trends of global culture with their ethnic identity, when two cultures, Latvian and American, intersected.

Laird

2001 • 60 min

Teahupoo, Tahiti. On the 17th of August, 2000, a line was drawn in the sand and Laird Hamilton stood alone. Engulfed in the vortex of the heaviest wave ever ridden, Laird Hamilton stood where no man had ever stood before. Death was the only outcome if a mistake was made. The footage shocked the world. Had it not been captured on film, no one would believe it was possible. It was a moment shadowed only by the journey of his life as a waterman and explorer of the most pure form of energy on earth. This amazing film, shoot on both High Definition and 35mm, won numerous awards at the 2002 X-dance Film Festival. This is the extreme movie of the year, quite possibly the decade.

Flyin'

2001 • 3 min • Russia

It's about two boys, mischievous and visionary, who always get into trouble in search of entertainment and adventures.

Thus Spake Zarathustra

2001 • 18 min

Zarathustra spends his days in his NY apartment, talking to and confiding in a pin-up on his wall, and on this occasion his delusional dialog with the porn idol results in his declaration that he must ‘descend’, as if being reluctantly chosen for some important or divine mission.

Greta Garbo: A Lone Star

2001 • 50 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

Runs through Greta Garbo's life and films in chronological order in an attempt to reveal the 'real' Garbo.

À tes amours

2001 • 7 min • France

Cinexpérimentaux #2: Nicolas Rey

2001 • 13 min

Portrait of experimental filmmaker Nicolas Rey.

The Challenge to Death

2001 • 4 min • Argentina

For the first time in front of a camera Ayunanda Fahaki introduce his whole body in a blender and ensures due out alive after turning it on.

Don't Push the River

2001 • 35 min • Finland

Eye / Machine I

2001 • 25 min • Germany

The work centers on the images of the Gulf War which caused worldwide sensation in 1991. In the shots taken from projectiles homing in on their targets, bomb and reporter were identical, according to a theory put forward by the philosopher Klaus Theweleit. At the same time it was impossible to distinguish between the photographed and the (computer) simulated images. The loss of the 'genuine picture' means the eye no longer has a role as historical witness. It has been said that what was brought into play in the Gulf War was not new weaponry but rather a new policy on images. In this way the basis for electronic warfare was created...