All Films

Who Killed The Red Baron?

2003 • 56 min • United States of America

An analysis of how the Red Baron died and who was responsible.

Murnau's 4 Devils: Traces of a Lost Film

2003 • 40 min

Reconstruction with photographies of the lost film 4 devils.

To the Happy Few

2003 • 4 min • Austria

The film is structured around the mystical idea of the mandala, in this case pictures of (fake) suns, galaxies and planets. These images are in sync with an Indian Bollywood song to enhance the pseudo-psychedelic effects. The film material covers a very wide range of found footage from various sources and decades from the Thirties (invisible woman) to the end of the 1980s.

Shooting at the Moon

2003 • 10 min • United States of America

Shooting at the Moon is a short Super-8 punk/Remodernist film directed by Jesse Richards and Nicholas Watson.

The Metropolis Case

2003 • 44 min • Germany

A documentary about Fritz Langs "Metropolis" by Enno Patalas.

Friendly Fire

2003 • 7 min • Germany

Burned filmstrips meet light and invade the screen with structures of residue, ashes, flames and destruction. New landscapes appear in a state of disintegration through fire. The former carrier of conserved imagery is now in full bloom of organic splendor. The lifeless filmstrips have been resurrected.

Wound Footage

2003 • 6 min

The source material is a found footage super 8 film. The visual carrier was attacked in a multitude of ways. It was scratched, cut open and violated. I captured an attempt to screen it. There it burned and was destroyed by the projector. Sorry little film. With the video footage I provoked the encoding. As a result some pixels were dislocated. In the end I reshot the film from the monitor while I somehow angered the cables that connect the monitor with my computer. That all may sound very negative to you but the goal was an almost humanist one: Unification of the digital with the analogue world. They seem so far apart and yet they aren’t. By exposing every material’s weaknesses and injuries it was made one. It’s all visual sensations in the end. Rita Hayworth grindedly sings along.

Children Full of Life

2003 • 48 min • Japan

Mr. Kanamori, a teacher of a 4th grade class, teaches his students not only how to be students, but how to live. He gives them lessons on teamwork, community, the importance of openness, how to cope, and the harm caused by bullying.

The Danish Solution: The Rescue of the Jews in Denmark

2003 • 58 min

Filmmakers Karen Cantor and Camilla Kjaerilff team to reveal how the Jews of Denmark managed to escape falling victim to Hitler's Third Reich.

Two-Hundred Feet

2003 • 3 min

Shapes shake nervously. Lines sway back and forth. The sun sets.

Giggle, Giggle, Quack

2003 • 9 min • United States of America

It's down-home fun on the farm with this collection of four children's stories about farm animals and their friends. In "Giggle, Giggle, Quack," Farmer Brown goes away, leaving his brother in charge, but sneaky Duck has a plan; lady birds compete to lay the most eggs in "The Most Wonderful Egg in the World"; in "Wings: A Tale of Two Chickens," Winnie is in peril of being eaten by a fox; and "The Foolish Frog" is a hoppin' fun sing-a-long!

Two

2003 • 10 min

A chronology of a stagnant relationship; one member becomes disillusioned and withdraws socially. Second film in Nick Peterson's "communication" series.

Tir Nan Og

2003 • 4 min • United States of America

Tir Nan Og by Fursy Teyssier is a mystical film about loss and leave-taking set in a Tolkein-like landscape of forest, sea and mountains. It commences on a clifftop where a child and her grandmother are playing on a grand piano. Along with a flock of sinister birds a bird-like figure shrouded in mystery arrives to take the old woman away and the girl attempts to follow.

Elephants: Spy in the Herd

2003 • 43 min

Spy cams capture rarely seen elephant behavior, including two males battling for territory, a calf's birth, intra-heard jealousy, and more.

The Gospel According to Lift-Man Albertas

2003 • 19 min

Albertas, a lift-operator, sits all day waiting for someone to ring the elevator. His wait transcends his sense of community and symbolism, a sign that someone needs him. The film, rife with surreal humor, is the documentary version of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’.

Car Craze

2003 • 12 min • Netherlands

An environmental inspector gets stranded in a forgotten town dominated by monstrous cars. His short stay in a motel doesn't give him a moment's rest. He discovers that cars evolve into parasitic life forms, entrancing mankind and extracting vital juices from the earth.

Two Rivers

2003 • 45 min • United States of America

Commissioned by the arts organization Minetta Brook, Two Rivers was inspired by Henry Hudson’s failed 1609 quest to discover a trade route between North America and China. Hutton observes the bustling industry of the Hudson from atop a ship’s deck. "A poetic, comparative portrait of the Hudson River and Yangtze River that speaks to the rise of China in relation to the decline of a post-industrial American region."

Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, Part I

2003 • 30 min

Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest has five parts. The series was finished in 2007 and shown as whole in the Venice Biennale the same year. Yang Fudong uses myths, individual memories and experiences as means to study identity and how it may be formed. In his films the spectator can sense the contradictions in the present and past China. Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, Part 1, was filmed on the Yellow Mountain. The mountain has a significant status in the traditional Chinese painting. The scenery, the not so clear motives of each character in the film combined with the music creates an almost poetic atmosphere.

The Exiled Bird

2003 • 60 min

Video (color)

Flux

2003 • 5 min

The spaces between memory and perception, dream and waking reveal themselves on the film surface. Glimpses, impressions, momentary clarity shifts to obscurity and afterimage. This is a film about film, a film that is process-oriented and takes its time. Finding a language without speech, communication is possible by other means.

Fragrant Portals, Bright Particulars and the Edge of Space

2003 • 12 min

“A companion of sorts to WHAT THE WATER SAID. An attempt to assess the potentials, possibilities and pitfalls of finding meaning in – or assigning human meaning to – the natural world; by way of Wallace Stevens. ‘The Idea of Order at Key West’ and ‘Of Mere Being’ translated into Ogham (the 5th-century ‘tree alphabet’ derived from a notational system used by shepherds to record notes on their wooden staffs), and carved a letter at a time into a piece of semi-transparent flexible wood (black leader).” (DG)

Lovebomb/Ai No Bakudan

2003 • 58 min

Once we accept love is not the root of all friendly cultural exchange, the revelation cannot be avoided that when strategizing coexistence in a global context, love is not the answer. From Helen of Troy (love of sex) to the Christian Crusades (love of religion) to Nazism (love of the fatherland) to Operation Infinite Justice (love of freedom), societies have placed love at the heart of conflict and conquest—all of which concealed larger cultural agendas in a cloak of opaque righteousness.

Mercado do Bolhão

2003 • 40 min

A documentary of everyday life in Bolhão's market, in Porto.

Moyngo el sueño de Maragareum

2003 • 44 min

A Txicão shaman tells the story of how his tribe learned the rituals they perform; his story is illustrated with footage of the ceremonies, rituals, celebrations being talked about.