All Films

A Woman and Circles

2004 • 10 min • United States of America

Using a vintage 35mm camera, the director re-creates the unmade film script of a Polish poet living in Paris in the 1930s. Revealing successions of negative and positive images, the figurative and abstract film pays homage to a surrealist and poetic vision.

Fishtank

2004 • 13 min • Australia

Sales and Company Image Seminar Tape #7

2004 • 3 min

From Fenslerfilm Vol. 2

Blind Date

2004 • 35 min

From Fenslerfilm Vol. 2

Farm Film

2004 • 41 min • United Kingdom

Part intimate portrait and part observational documentary, this film looks at how a Dartmoor farming family relate to the land and their animals. Closely observed and beautifully captured over a period of 6 months in 2003, it gives a privileged insight into the world of farmers' perceptions, their knowledge and skills accumulated over generations and their sensitivity to working with nature.

The Ordovicians

2004 • 6 min

Like an antiquated nature documentary from Mars, The Ordovicians fills the screen with weirdly twitching objects.

Ecosystem 14 ~ Stay

2004 • 13 min • Japan

Part 14 of Koike Teruo’s Ecosystem series. Video

Paseantes

2004 • 7 min • Spain

It is a pleasant summer day and the first bathers have come to the beach. The camera takes a fixed shot within what could be a video of manners. People walk calmly, oblivious to the fact that they are sharing the beach with a strange and unexpected visitor.

The Israeli Wall in Palestinian Lands

2004 • 43 min

Miro la vida pasar

2004 • 4 min • Spain

Alaska and Nacho Canut are the fearless protagonists of the elapsing of non-existent time, while a dream within everyday reach, a reality where good friends also go, lies on another level of life.

Os Amantes Ou Da Incomum Arte de Se Achar Sem Se Perder

2004 • 9 min • Brazil

Two men hook up for a one night stand of hot sex. In the morning one is gone, and so is some of the other's cash. After a repeat performance, more cash is missing. Should there be a third round?

Nylon and Chenille

2004 • 4 min

Experimental hand painted short film.

Plasma

2004 • 11 min

A woman in a hall of mirrors on the Vienna Prater.

Baby Faith: God Made Animals

2004 • 28 min • United States of America

This video is about God Made Animals

Circular Loves

2004 • 4 min

Insomnia: Four people cannot sleep. Two men and two women, four combinations. The same story is repeated over and over again, with different protagonists. Equivalent and interchangeable stories in a night that becomes endless.

Memorandum on Happiness

2004 • 45 min

This is a documentary about sweetness and hurt, pursuit and loss. It is a bluebird's song of comrades and their joy, tinged with melancholy premonition-a song that comes from afar as though to rub shoulders with life directly, only to pass on. A story of two marriages, one lesbian and one gay. The parallel structure lays bare the complexity of queer love, but also the cruelty inherent to love itself. Domestic violence, faithfully captured by the camera, threads its way like a deep silent river, cutting out its course and leaving a path of marks and scars. The survivor is like a child who cannot explain, but can only remember.

Panorama Roma

2004 • 24 min

The Panorama series started in 2004 with Rome. The first site of the project is Piazza del Popolo, a natural stage set in continuous motion where the camera has been set up, like the minute hand of a clock, to complete a 360° revolution over the course of an hour. The result is an extra–ordinary temporal flux, whereby 8 hours of film have been accelerated to a 1:20 ratio, resulting in 24 minutes of time–lapse video. The camera’s eye gradually discovers the site’s hidden identity, encountering strange narcoleptic beings who sleep, stare, act and inhabit the architecture and send mysterious signals while oblivious pedestrians flash precipitously by. The performers move through a parallel temporal landscape in which they experience the dimension of permanence. This flux is charged with visions and omens in which other possibilities of life take form.

Lamp

2004 • 1 min • Netherlands

A short animated film with a lamp and spiders.

You Fake

2004 • 7 min

What do real women do in bed? After a bad one-night stand, Morgan looks for solace from her best friend only to be confronted with self-righteousness. Their disagreement results in a high-stakes bet to find out how many dykes fake it.

Se gaeui mello

2004 • 43 min • South Korea

In an afternoon of summer, only two female customers are in the cafe. One is having a cake, the other is drinking a coffee. A woman staff is taking view the space with boresome. All three women are looking on invisible time with different point of view simultaneously, and a young chap is strolling about the street near the cafe, and then coming back to the building after passing by around the cafe. (SIFF2004)

Lights Out

2004 • 4 min

A little stuffed dog who defends his girl from a scary monster in the dead of the night.

The Green Line

2004 • 18 min • Belgium, Israel, Jordan, Palestinian Territory

In The Green Line, for which the axiom was ‘sometimes the political is poetic, sometimes the poetic is political’, Alÿs walks holding a punctured can of dribbling green paint along the contested width of the so-called Green Line established between Israel and its neighbours following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. In formal terms, The Green Line is a reenactment of an earlier work, The Leak (1996), in which the artist took a can dribbling blue paint for a walk and installed the empty container in the gallery. By recontextualising The Leak in geopolitical terms, Alÿs relocates the tensions in the work from those formal ideas of action and painting to questions of maps and territories and who has the right to live where.

With Diva

2004 • 8 min

A pakistanese emigrant lives in Spain and struggles to be himself in the poetry of the night and the reality of day ight.

Mischief: Hyper Street Racing - Type A

2004 • 56 min

Ready to get slammed by a wall of street racing stunts cars explosions clowning and never-seen-before caught-on-tape chaos? Are you sure you want to enter into the madness that is HypeR Street Racing? Just remember that once you enter there is no way out. Be prepared to get hooked on the HypeR debauchery. We have only one motto at HypeR Street Racing..."Rock It "Til The Wheels Fall Off!"This movie is not for the faint of heart. We don't spend a lot of time on boring car features endless bling bling show footage or anything you might have watched before or have seen for yourself. HypeR Street Racing is a bunch of guys who race and clown. We are the pranksters of the street racing world.