All Films

The Cinematic Approach

2003 • 39 min

Shot all around Dallas, Texas, The Cinematic Approach features skits and rocket skateboard stunts from 8 of Dallas' cool skatin' dudes: Ryan Stalsby, Matt Orwig, Set Lopez, Jerid Dragna, Paul Feigenschue, Wes Wakeland, Jerry Esquivel, and Brian Rahn. Directed, filmed, and edited by Chase Whale.

S.a.p.

2003 • 44 min • Germany

Hidden in the shadows of the centuries is a threat that is about to be unleashed - An old secret society, striving to dictate the fate of this world forever, is preparing to...dictate the fate of this world forever. Driven by the greed for power, the minions of evil make their way through blood. Will the Guardians of Five Magical Stones Avert the Apocalypse?

Positiv auf Positiv Kosmos

2003 • 6 min

Positive and negative collide. An open space emerges.

Falcon

2003 • 5 min

An orangeish-red field of colour with a graphic which is not immediately recognizable, accompanied by the soundtrack's electronic fields: falcon begins with a static and visually arresting image which is soon transformed. The colour turns to white and then pink, yellowish green changes to orange and red. This takes place parallel to the vibrating soundtrack. Parts of images are affected by these colour modulations, resulting in various degrees of intensity. Only gradually does it become obvious that the strange symbol is the abstracted picture of a jet's cockpit: Falcon is both a bird of prey and the name of the F-16, a jet fighter. - Claudia Slanar

Minute papillon

2003 • 1 min • France

One minute of spring in Nantes.

La Beauté est dans la rue

2003 • 1 min • France

Paving stones in the heart of Nantes.

The 5th Dimension: Travelling Sunshine Show

2003 • 60 min • United States of America

The 5th Dimension Travelling Sunshine Show, recaptures the now 'classic' sound of the 1970's, and takes you on a musical odyssey with the group that ruled the Top 10 charts with hits like Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In, Wedding Bell Blues, and Up-Up and Away. With the core members of the group, Marilyn McCoo, Florence LaRue Gordon, Billy Davis, Jr., Lamonte McLemore, and Ron Townson, and featuring guests Dionne Warwick, Merle Haggard, and The Carpenters, this DVD recaptures history and takes you on a charming trip with the fashions, music, and exuberant spirit of that colorful decade.

Césio 137. O Brilho da Morte

2003 • 25 min

It describes fifteen years of pain, fear, panic, doubt, discrimination, segregation and death of victims of one of the biggest radiological accidents in the world.

The Galilean Satellites - Europa

2003 • 8 min • United States of America

An abstract film that imagines the icy hatched-marked world of Jupiter's moon, Europa. This is the first in a four-part series dedicated to filmmaker Stan Brakhage. The soundtrack consists of recordings from several probes that visited the moon, as well as whale songs- an imagining of the possible life beneath the icy surface. The imagery combines hand-painted liquid crystals and footage from a local aquarium.

The Galilean Satellites- Io

2003 • 13 min

The second film in The Galilean Satellites series which explores the terrain of Jupiter's moon Io. The soundtrack consists of recordings made by several probes that visited Io and reveals its ionosphere. The sounds are stretched and warped, along with the substances that are being filmed, to highlight Io's active techtonic life. It is the most techtonically active body in our solar system.

The Galilean Satellites- Ganymede

2003 • 4 min

Ganymede is the cup-bearer of the gods. Though he shows some superficial signs of age, the protection of Jupiter and his distance from the sun keep him in a state of eternal youth- his younger, liquid self cross-hatched with a cracked and ageing skin.

The Galilean Satellites- Callisto

2003 • 3 min

This film is the fourth of a four-part series dedicated to filmmaker Stan Brakhage. The inspiration for these films come from the incredible images and sounds coming from the Galileo space probe. The four large moons of Jupiter were thought to be nothing more interesting than our own moon- barren balls of rock. As optical technology advanced, we began to get a more interesting view of these bodies. The Voyager space probes sent back images that suggested that these worlds may be highly complex. The Galileo space probe images we have received of Callisto reveals a pumice-like moon. In the tradition of its Jupiter and its moons, this moon, receives the superlative of "most heavliy cratered body in the solar system." Jupiter's gravitational attraction frequently shields us from being bombarded by comets and meteors, but poor Callisto is right in the path!

Bonding or: Penises Are Weapons of Mass Destruction

2003 • 20 min

An exploration of the relationship between two teenage boys while they videotape an unknowing female, engage in mental masturbation, and talk about what they would like to do to her. Or maybe, what they really would like to do to each other. They talk and talk and talk until their words become meaningless and incoherent.

Nina

2003 • 10 min

Nina longs to be a special girl and meet the man of her dreams. However, life for this Filipino transsexual in Sydney is filled with isolation and displacement. Nina is a truly courageous and moving portrait of Noni Benito reflecting on four years of living in Australia through her journey of transformation.

I Am a Boyband

2003 • 6 min

A cloned boyband co-opts an Elizabethan madrigal to express its heartbreak over lost love and examine representations of masculinity in contemporary pop music.

Dream Again

2003 • 45 min • Italy

Two best friends Andy and Tom drive to a nearby lake to celebrate the end of Andy's long-term relationship and his newly won freedom with alcohol. Once at the lake, the two friends discover an abandoned hut in the vicinity that they want to take a closer look at. When they reach the hut, however, the two quickly realize that it would have been better to avoid this dark place.

Two Minutes After Midnight

2003 • 11 min

A young man strikes out while trying to pick up a hunk in a gay club. Later in the men's room he meets an angel who gives him the ability to change into the person of one's dreams. Unfortunately we don't all have the same dreams...

A Blink

2003 • 8 min • Japan

I used photographs and video tapes taken by my father during my childhood. Although this is a window into my father's vision, this was also my vision then and now. (Maki Satake)

Release System

2003 • 5 min

A stuttering double video projection of a landscape of the body, carnal desire rendered inhuman through surveillance destabilized by one video frame constantly disrupting another.

Night Lights

2003 • 8 min

An artificial constellation sparkles in a variation of micro-movements that interfere with a luminescent macro-mass which is also in movement. Visual dissonance, phase shift, and divergence of light sources emerge.

Faust

2003 • 4 min • Argentina

Fausto Papetti is an overwhelmed fellow and tired of living until he receives the visit of Mephisto, who allows him to know the libations of sin and delirium.

Engolervilha

2003 • 8 min • Brazil

The sordid, the putrid and the fetid. The bizarre, the eschatological and the grotesque. Peas, urine and chickens.

Honey

2003 • 10 min

This video appears to be a humorous stylistic reference to spy films. All the clichés – tension, eroticism, grave, cigarette-smoking men and atmospheric music – are present. The woman wears fishnet hose and a fur coat with her military uniform. This ambiguity of seduction and deceit is not only the earmark of espionage, but possibly also a metaphor for the present ambivalent situation in China.

Twelve Violent Deaths of Contemporary Artists: Vol. One

2003 • 5 min

The filmmaker interviewed a selection of victims (Teresa Margolles, Ximena Cuevas, Miguel Calderón, Tayana Pimentel and Kurt Hollander) about the way in which they would want to die or be murdered. Each victim then performed his/her own death on video.