All Films

Road Signs

2000 • 30 min • Chile, Italy, United States of America

Examines the mind and work of artist Juan Luis Martinez. Martinez's contemporaries expound upon his of reality and the political climate in Chile.

Mist

2000 • 12 min • Austria, Luxembourg, Germany

Matthias Müller's short is based on the poems to childhood by famed Austrian lyrical aertist Ernst Jandl who tried to write these poems in a language used by children, including nursery rhymes and prayers. Müller uses found footage and amateur films from his own childhood to create a visual equivalent to these poems. (M.M).

Flowers for the Lady

2000 • 8 min • Germany

At a relationships beginning, its end is still unknown. This film places the end centrally and explores its beginning.

Egg Lady

2000 • 26 min • Latvia, Sweden

In a Latvian bakery, Aina breaks 40000 eggs per day by hand, and she has done this monotone job for almost 20 years.

Yes & No

2000 • 4 min • Italy

A comedic look at adhering to driving rules.

In the Palace

2000 • 7 min • United Kingdom

In the Palace began with a daydream to enter inside two inaccessible places, to penetrate the tinyness of Giacometti’s surrealist sculpture The Palace at 4am (1932) and to move beyond the flatness of various photographs of early Modern stage and dance productions. In this film, Giacometti’s sculpture (which in a sense already resembles a theatrical model) is streamlined and scaled up to become a stage set proper; the posed theatrical stills are restaged as tableaux vivants.

Yugodivas

2000 • 58 min • Switzerland

Five New York divas close up. The thing that in addition to their friendship links these gifted, confident and beautiful women; a painter, an actress and three musicians, is their shared homeland, former Yugoslavia.

Episodes in Disbelief

2000 • 7 min

Is it possible to know if a seed discovered after a thousand years is that of a now vanished magnolia or instead that of a virulent presently extinct weed? A film which explores childhood speculations on various issues such as time and space, sight and sightlessness, trauma and hope.

Hôtel Turkoman

2000 • 15 min

This is what the city offers the passing foreigner: gold and night to the visitor who has barely arrived. Fragments, the stone found by the wayside, raw. We pick it up and keep it. Can we read into the gleaming lights passing by? What is written? Whole images, raw images, far from art and style.

The States of Things

2000 • 3 min

"The States of Things" is a B&W film of a Salvation Army jumble sale that is set to an old Egyptian love song by Um Kolthoum. Elderly ladies rummage through jumble at a sale held by the Salvation Army in Glasgow. 'Jumble sales aren't part of the normal capitalist system, so it doesn’t look quite like a Western Europe in the 21st century. And the music also makes the viewer unsure when or where this is.’

Who Was The Third Man...?

2000 • 29 min • Austria

Documentary about the making of the 1949 film "The Third Man".

Nemadis, the Years Without News

2000 • 52 min • Belgium, Mauritania

Documentary depicting the filmmakers' efforts to find a nomadic Mauritanian family they had filmed six years earlier in order to show them the recorded footage.

Freehand

2000 • 19 min • Chile

A lonely woman, although surrounded by her children, quickly drives her car to a destination out of control.

Space Kid

2000 • 51 min

Rare science fiction SOV from Donald Farmer, director of Demon Queen.

Shall We Kiss?

2000 • 6 min • France

A girl arrives at her audition ten minutes early. Finding it difficult to learn her lines, she approaches a man nearby for help.

John McGahern: A Private World

2000 • 52 min • Ireland

On March 30th 2006, after a life-time of dedication to his art, John McGahern, one of Ireland's most distinguished writers, sadly passed away after a long illness. Since the publication of his first book in 1963, John McGahern was at the cultural heart of Irish life. He was in the happy position of being universally praised by the critics and equally loved by the reading public. John McGahern: A Private World was filmed in 2004 just prior to the publication of his memoirs and these memoirs form the backbone of the documentary. Through intimate interviews, a strong and compelling sense of the man emerges, offering a rare insight into the creative process.

Strong Women

2000 • 15 min

Two contrasting portraits of magnificently strong women: champion body builder Andrulla Blanchette and trapeze artist Vicki Amedume. Strength displayed and strength employed.

Oscar Niemeyer, an architect commited to his century

2000 • 60 min • Belgium

The testimony of an artist who continues to believe in the socialist ideal. The story of a man who loves women.

Trooper Clerks: The Animated One-Shot

2000 • 10 min • United States of America

Being told that their jobs are in peril due to cutbacks, Stormtroopers Dante and Randal embark on a quest to steal the DeathStar architectural plans by hiring the stations sith dou in training, Darth Jay and Darth Bob.

Man of Grease

2000 • 50 min

Experience Montreal legend Tony Koulakis and his 11-seat greasy-spoon, Cosmos, famous for cholesterol-loaded breakfasts since 1967. Filmmaker and loyal customer Ezra Soiferman takes a loving glimpse at Tony's one-of-a-kind eatery and its devoted patrons. Follow "The God of the Potatoes" as he nervously places his beloved Cosmos in the trust of his children and returns to the mythical sun-drenched Greek island where he was born, for his first vacation in 32 years. Will Tony retire in Crete or return to Canada to keep clogging our arteries?

Projeto Apollo

2000 • 4 min

Combining artfully designed sets and digital processing, Santos recreates the historic Apollo lunar landing for this essayistic video, which uses simulation to interrogate representation. Relating a long-circulated rumor that the landing was actually faked in a NASA film studio — an opinion reputedly held by cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, among others — Santos delicately negotiates the increasingly blurry line between fact and fiction. As he notes in his on-screen text, the coming of the Internet makes any purported fact "easy to say, hard to prove."

La Vie des autres

2000 • 16 min • France

Philippe like to film people in public spaces. Observation turns into an obsession when a couple moves in front of his house and sows confusion in his sexual identity.

Caravan of Death

2000 • 44 min • United Kingdom

“Where is my son? Why don’t they give him back to me?” In 1973, a month after Pinochet seized power in Chile, a helicopter headed north. 4 days later it returned. 71 people were dead. What was the real purpose of the Caravan of Death? Who gave the order? And where are the dead? 27 years later Pinochet is facing trial. Filmed undercover with Judge Juan Guzman as he builds the case against Pinochet, this documentary asks whether Chilean justice will respect the relatives of the executed and disappeared who cannot, and will not, forget them.

Zinat A Special Day

2000 • 59 min • Iran

Zinat, who experimentally provided health services to the villagers of Salakh on Qeshm Island, discovered the burqa to get well and wore a health uniform, and was one of the first women on the island to work outside the home. Zinat is the only native of the island who ran for the ten-seat council in the first city and village elections (March 1998). A special day deals with the events and discussions related to Zinat's candidacy on election day as a woman.