All Films

Good Morning Call

2001 • 19 min • Japan

One year has passed since Nao and Uehara accidentally moved into the same apartment. Since then, they have become an official couple. With Uehara's 16th birthday coming up, Nao's biggest worry is what to buy him. Everything is going smoothly- that is, until Nao realizes Uehara's birthday has already passed and she spent it acting as a cut model for the handsome hair stylist, Asai.

Nostradamus - Veszedelmes jóslatok

2001 • 52 min

Who was Nostradamus? What are his predictions about the future? A documentary about this mysterious man who, according to some investigators, could predict huge events like the Second World War.

Hanako

2001 • 60 min • Japan

An unusual family portrait questioning the definitions of art, family, and what it means to be disabled. Imamura Hanako is a 22-year-old girl with severe autism. Once a week she attends a painting class, where she paints pictures in oils. Every evening after dinner, she creates what her mother Chisa has named “food art.” This may only involve arranging the leftovers from the day’s meal on the floor or a tray, but Chisa records the works every day, accumulating some thousands of photographs. The collection of photographs has now been exhibited around the country. Following Hanako’s daily life in the routine of the four members of the Imamura family, we watch as a portrait of a “very ordinary” family unfold.

Ophelia's Opera

2001 • 28 min • United States of America

An artist uses a spell to free herself from an abusive relationship in this experimental revenge tale told through rap, song, Shakespearean verse, sign language, and Jamaican patois.

Codes - Makers and Breakers

2001 • 59 min • Denmark

Worm

2001 • 2 min • United States of America

An off-screen narrator remembers a time he was five years old, walking to school in a heavy rain, wearing a yellow slicker and cap. He relates to us that a boy he'd never seen before ran up to him and said that it was raining worms. Our lad of five is on the cusp between believing anything he hears and entering the age of reason. He asks for proof. He holds out his hand.

Why Is the Sky Blue?

2001 • 1 min • Canada

Why isn't it green, yellow or striped?

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon

2001 • 47 min • United States of America

Are the manned moon landings of Apollo one of the greatest hoaxes ever devised - perhaps even the greatest government conspiracy of all time? Were the moon walks filmed in a secret studio? Do you believe in the Moon Landing Hoax? The evidence will surprise you!

People of 1941

2001 • 53 min • Russia

The second World War echoes throughout the whole Khutsiyev's oeuvre. The director himself did not participate in the war: "The thing is, I didn't fight. I had been a sickly boy, so I was turned down because I still looked like a child. This is sort of like a debt I've been repaying ever since". In "People of 1941", Khutsiyev recites his favourite pieces by war poets and invokes documentary footage.

Midori

2001 • 12 min • Japan

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. Performed by Shimada himself and the girl is Ichigo-chan.

New Breed

2001 • 57 min • United States of America

Derek gets sucked into a gothic cult that turns out to be vampires. As a vampire now, he must figure out who he is and what side he serves. In the end will he be good or bad?

The Legend of the Three Trees

2001 • 24 min

Vivid visual imagery brings this classic legend to life. Told simply, in language even the youngest family members will understand, the story begins with three young trees who dream - as all children do - of doing big deeds. When the woodcutters come, the trees each find that the reality of their existence doesn't match their dreams... and yet... This touching story contains a simple lesson about God's Plan for every life, told in a way that will touch hearts. Narrated by Hal Holbrook.

Elf Panties: The Movie

2001 • 8 min • United States of America

Reverend Jen tries on different pairs of panties.

Contender: Mastering the Method

2001 • 25 min • United States of America

An in-depth analysis and celebration of the famous "I coulda been a contender" scene between Marlon Brando and Rod Steiger in the 1954 film "On the Waterfront".

The Making of 'Casualties of War'

2001 • 31 min

Documentary made for the film's 2001 DVD release.

Perforations 2001

2001 • 60 min • United States of America

Perforations 2001 starts off 10 years after the original. Barbara Joyce stars as a businesswoman who works for an unseen partner in the creation of snuff tapes. Once again, the targets of these tapes are prison inmates whose disappearances won’t create much of a stir. The first order of business is to kill the real Dr. Julia (Tina Krause) and replace her with another prison doctor (Pamela Sutch). Debbie D is Carla, the mercenary hired to kill the inmates and Luke Marlowe is the cameraman recording the deaths and Dean Paul is Barbara’s assistant. Laura Giglio is Jade, the sadistic prison guard who loves using her cattle prod! Also starring as the inmates are Veronika Blu, Elizabeth Raven, Kathy Lynn and introducing Vanessa, with Jordan East as the “warden”. Will anyone survive this bloody rampage?

The Changing Same

2001 • 9 min • United States of America

An Alien is sent to earth to investigate the "incubators." She discovers that she is replacing a rogue agent. She questions her mission.

Sanatorium Hill

2001 • 27 min • United States of America

From 1910-1972, Arkansas State law mandated that all victims of Tuberculosis (TB) be isolated in the State Sanatorium in Booneville, Arkansas. Some of them returned home free of their symptoms from Sanatorium Hill. Others died there, either of the disease or of the gruesome operations prescribed by the doctors. This documentary tells the story of patients who survived these morbid treatments, recovered from the disease of TB but unable to forget the pain, suffering and despair.

Bless Me Father

2001 • 52 min

Documentary and live footage from the final performance of Father Sexy.

Tutu

2001 • 28 min • France

Tutu is a small boy who lives with his grandmother in a working class neighborhood in Paris. Often punished by this bitter woman, eager for affection, he is seduced by a young neighbour. One day he steals a seashell for her. His life is turned upside down.

It Kinda Scares Me

2001 • 57 min • Israel

It Kinda Scares Me is a documentary about a drama coach and the “delinquent” boys he teaches. In their world, bravado is everything and Friday nights are for getting into fights. Tomer Heymann, both filmmaker and drama coach, encourages the boys to create something from their pain and marginalization, while they struggle in rehearsals to preserve their much-prized Israeli machismo. When Tomer announces to the group that he is gay, they are shocked, but his commitment to their play wins the day as they prepare for a performance that will give voice to the lives of disaffected Israeli youth.

The White

2001 • 10 min • Latvia

A story about a boy's attempt to get his own hat. Based on the book and drawings of Latvian author Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš.

Prey

2001 • 11 min

Two friends have taken photos of something in the woods. They become its prey as they try to escape.

InBetweening America

2001 • 4 min

Based on a New Yorker magazine cover by Saul Steinberg, twenty American icons morph from one to another, representing the vast diversity in this country. InBetweening America was Candy Kugel's first film. She created it in 1977 when she first started inbetweening TV commercials at Perpetual Motion Pictures. It was finally completed in 2001 when The Saul Steinberg Foundation gave permission to exhibit it.