All Films

The Trouble with Michel

2001 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Poet, essayist, novelist and filmmaker, Michel Houellebecq has always had close ties with the cinema and the world of the visual arts, which have accompanied and extended his reflexions since the start of his career, as the frequent allusions to them in his novels attest. This portrait of Houellebecq is from his early days of bad boy provocateur stardom. Having just published Plateforme in french and enjoying the many translations of Les Particules élémentaires.

Lost and Found

2001 • 21 min • Brazil

A TV reporter accidentally finds, in the subway's Lost and Found, a love letter addressed to a woman, written more than fifty years ago.

The Valley of the T-Rex

2001 • 50 min

The Secret History of Brisbane

2001 • 7 min

A one off 7 minute documentary film commissioned in 2001

Veta

2001 • 14 min • Macedonia

There is a myth of a bus that traveled every day from Skopje, Macedonia to Belgrade, Yugoslavia during the NATO bombing in 1999. A similar bus is depicted in Veta. There are no specifics to the story. It is the creator's response to the horrors that have haunted the Balkans for the past ten years. The film does not offer an answer or take sides, it concentrates on the psychology of war and feeling of no exit.

Criminal Mischief

2001 • 37 min • United States of America

Little Devils classic, Criminal Mischief. Ripped from the DVD box set for the first time.

Semmelweis

2001 • 19 min • United States of America

The under recognized story of Ignaz Semmelweis, the Hungarian doctor who discovered the method preventing childbed fever in new mothers and shaped a basic tenet in modern medicine.

An Englishman On Gallifrey

2001 • 50 min • United States of America

Here, for the very first time, we reveal how a convention looks from the other side of the stage – from the ‘star’s’ point of view. Armed with his own home video camera (and trailed by the intrepid Reeltime crew) Mark Strickson sets off from deepest rural England on an odyssey of adventure across the Atlantic to the Airtel Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, the venue for ‘the twelfth regeneration of Gallifrey One’ … confusing name but nonetheless one of America’s leading Doctor Who conventions. Don’t miss this totally unique ‘up-front and personal’ video diary of the trials an tribulations of being an Englishman on Gallifrey!

Trees

2001 • 50 min • Belgium, France

Arbres is the story of the Tree and trees. It begins with the Origins and then embarks upon a journey through the world of the tree and the trees of the world. The film reveals the huge differences and slight similarities between the Tree and Man, investigating the fascinating idea that, amongst plants, the tree fulfils the role played by man in the animal kingdom.

LEGO Jack Stone

2001 • 21 min • United States of America

Join Jack Stone as he uses his wits and imagination to save the victims of a flood, break up a bank robbery, and put out a blazing fire. It's all part of another exciting day in the life of Jack Stone.

The Significant Death of Quentin Crisp

2001 • 23 min • United Kingdom

Quentin Crisp was a writer, raconteur, social rebel, and "professional being". He was nearly 91 when he died of heart failure in 1999, and his death powerfully affected those who loved him. In this portrait, Tim Fountain (Crisp's biographer, and author of the play RESIDENT ALIEN) interviews friends and family of Crisp, to learn something of the significance of his death, and the "enigma of his life".

Graham Goes to Dollywood

2001 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Dolly Parton enjoyed her appearance on late-night talk show So Graham Norton so much that she invited the host to visit her theme park in Tennessee. Among other things, Graham rides a rollercoaster with 50 Dolly lookalikes, watches ostrich races at a rodeo and sings "Islands in the Stream" as a duet with Dolly herself.

Sisters in Resistance

2001 • 60 min

Four young women joined the Resistance to fight Nazi oppression and brutality in occupied France. They were arrested and deported to Ravensbruck concentration camp, where they helped each other to survive. SISTERS IN RESISTANCE captures their recollections and the intense friendship that has survived with them.

Le Family Pop: My Favorite Poppa

2001 • 3 min • United States of America

a French family of albino Koalas who worked in a circus.

Constant Payne

2001 • 10 min

Throughout history when ordinary people find themselves under the shadow of evil, the Payne Family has answered the call of duty. A long line of knights, crusaders, monster hunters, police, scientists, archaeologists, and adventurers, there has always been a Payne protecting human civilization from every sinister force imaginable. Funded by an immense family fortune, the Paynes exist to protect us from the worst in ourselves and from elsewhere. Now Amanda Payne, the youngest of the next generation of the Payne Family is coming of age and preparing to inherit this awesome mantle of responsibility... but her father doesn't want her to follow in his footsteps!

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

2001 • 44 min • United Kingdom

“We felt humiliated when they hit us, we asked ourselves what kind of life this is. Being in the union we realised that we should be allowed to live decently.” There have been calls for the abolition of child labour for years, but this film follows working children in the slums of Delhi and Bangalore who are demanding the right to work. They are forming unions and challenging authorities as they try to take control of their own lives. “They never ask us as working children what our problems are because they don’t want to know the truth.”

Science Please! : Gravity

2001 • 1 min • Canada

What keeps us down to earth? This clip from Science Please! answers the question.

Mont Blanc

2001 • 11 min • Estonia

An aging man leaves his wife and sets off on his way to Fujiyama, the mountain of his dreams.

Destroying America

2001 • 46 min • United States of America

Five years in the making, with a cast of thousands, Destroying America comes on the heels of the best selling skateboard video of all time, The End. A film this dangerous hasn't been seen since Cannonball Run 2. Heath Kirchart and Jeremy Klein are two skateboarders just out to have a good time in a race across the good old US of A. Rescued after a near death skateboarding accident, the two show off their amazing ability to cause destruction while a sinister cop, with an agenda of his own, tires to bring them down. The top notch story, an all-star cast (Eric Estrada, Tony Hawk, Ming Tran), and a special guest appearance by the Hook-Ups Destruction Van, makes Destroying America this year's hottest movie.

A Hollywood Life: Remembering Frances

2001 • 35 min • United States of America

The making of FRANCES, a retrospective documentary.

Lake Lubāns: Squaring the Circle

2001 • 29 min • Latvia

Every spring the surroundings of the Lake Lubāns, the largest lake in Latvia, are in flood. The efforts to prevent the floods have been going on since the middle of the 19th century. Today the lake, encircled by dikes, no longer threatens the surrounding homesteads but the seeming safety has been bought for a very high price – destruction of the natural balance. Can the damage be remedied? Two Latvians will travel to the wetlands of Japan in search for a possible solution.

Honey Bunny

2001 • 4 min

Beautiful women spinning in circles.

Flipped

2001 • 10 min

Short comedy

Treitum

2001 • 15 min

The story of a boy with a peculiar family (mother obsessed with food, father admitted to an asylum), and member of a gang where girls are prohibited and whose leader is a petty tyrant. Our protagonist will get into trouble when he disobeys the gang's law regarding girls, and will be considered a "treitum", a traitor.