All Films

Five Starcle Men: Live + Dead

2003 • 49 min

Footage of Five Starcle Men live at Mondo Video and a memorial transmission show for Glen Hobbs at the Mondo Video Parking lot.

O Resto é Silêncio

2003 • 22 min

If Only

2003 • 8 min

"And so the intoxicated camera operator shoots the moon slipping through the barren trees. The rabbit hole's light shadow appears and he obliges, head first, no looking back. His cranium (like yours) is packed with illusions, but down the rabbit hole they treasure the same just so long as they're custom fabricated, hand tooled and conscious. Down this hole, stalking the unforeseen non-translatable is all. Join in here." (FW)

1945-1998

2003 • 14 min • Japan

"2053" - This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe. "This piece of work is a bird's eye view of the history by scaling down a month length of time into one second. No letter is used for equal messaging to all viewers without language barrier. The blinking light, sound and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many experiments each country have conducted. I created this work for the means of an interface to the people who are yet to know of the extremely grave, but present problem of the world."

Ergon

2003 • 18 min

In a setting close to hell, tiny, fragile men try to control the unleashed elements.

Market This!: Queer Radicals Respond to Gay Assimilation

2003 • 28 min • United States of America

While global capitalism is a defining feature of our times, many engage in an anti-capitalist resistance. MARKET THIS! is a timely documentary that explores the desire for radical politics and culture in the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Two-Spirited and Transgender community. The documentary began in 1999 after the Queeruption gathering in New York City. During workshops and caucuses and through discussion and entertainment, participants came together to explore ways that this community can sustain and validate itself without supporting a system that actively exploits poor people, women, People of Color, g/b/l/TS/t people. This video takes the dialogue from Queeruption one step further. MARKET THIS! considers both the successes as well as the problems which resulted most visibly (and ironically) from a lack of involvement and presence of People of Color and Transgender people.

Poster Girl

2003 • 5 min

As if trapped inside a nightmare, the main protagonist of Poster Girl is haunted by disturbing visions, thoughts and fantasies, which the viewer is privy to. She is joined at various points in the video by another woman, whose role in the narrative remains unclear – is she meant to function as a guardian or a demon? The video further complicates the matter by representing both women as simultaneously wounded and wounding, inviting and threatening, vulnerable and menacing. What results is a compelling, albeit disconcerting, glimpse into the tumultuous inner life of an adult woman.

Mala Leche

2003 • 47 min

A sequel to Leche, this film follows members of the same family now living in California's agricultural Central Valley. Through economic struggles and familial growing pains, the family relies on traditional values to navigate a complex environment of immigrant working life and cultural alienation.

Allahu Akbar

2003 • 6 min • Iraq, United States of America

Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the confrontation between tradition and modernity by drawing inspiration from geometric motives of Islamic art. The artist offers a re-interpretation of these motifs through computer animation. By turning the shapes in different direction, new images are generated, freeing them from their fixed state. Traditional spiritual values feed the present and open up to a modern perspective.

Le kiosque et la guerre

2003 • 52 min

Calais: The Last Border

2003 • 59 min • France, United Kingdom

A stark portrait of a town in decline. Brilliant juxstaposition between the scoff faced English day trippers searching for cheap booze, and the cold, snivelling asylum seekers existing on the streets. Thrown into the mix are two English ex pats, trying to make money against the odds.

Unseen + Untold: National Lampoon's Animal House

2003 • 60 min

On 25th anniversary of one of the greatest comedies, the filmmakers and casts tell about their work on the cult classic: Animal House

Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Life With Jesus

2003 • 50 min • United States of America

Whales of Atlantis: In Search of Moby Dick

2003 • 52 min • France, United States of America

Dive into the dark waves of the Atlantic to make contact with the Giants of the Sea.

Streamside Day

2003 • 26 min • United States of America, France

Streamside Day, explores the formative role of ideological and semiotic systems in establishing social rituals and traditions. Huyghe's exhibition includes five murals, concealed behind five supplementary walls, which are revealed when the walls begin to slowly move through the gallery to configure a pavilion in which a short fiction film is projected. When the film ends, the walls retract to their original positions along the perimeter of the space, restoring the gallery to its pristine condition. After opening with scenes from an Edenic landscape, Huyghe's film traces the formation of a burgeoning community hypothetically located in the Hudson Valley. The first of two sections limns a mythic kernel that is then instantiated in scenes from a typical inaugural celebration devised to forge communal identity.

Kyutai Panic Adventure!

2003 • 8 min • Japan

A special screened at special events named Odaiba Boken-Oh featuring characters from Astro Boy, Dragon Ball Z and One Piece.

Pneumenon

2003 • 5 min

2003 Peter Rose short work

Extn. 21

2003 • 9 min

A dystopic an surreal experience of a man who just wants to be heard.

Variations colorées / Spectres

2003 • 6 min • France

Few years ago (1987 - 88), I've been "victim" of chronic hallucinations. In front of the mirror, I was able to see my face distorting itself and transforming in strange creatures which, however, looks like it. Variations Colorées / Spectres (Work in progress) is one more step in my cinematographic works set about the theme of self-portrait. This one, becomes pretext to formal experimentations evolving to abstraction.

Petrushka

2003 • 35 min

The Petrushka Ballet with the Bolshoi Ballet with Nina Ananiashvili.

Class Queers

2003 • 52 min

Adam, Adina and Richard are three Canadian gay youth who attend a special school program for gay youth in Toronto. This film documents their lives in the year leading up to their senior prom.

Yo lo vi

2003 • 15 min • Germany

A journey through time, through the magical worlds of the paintings, engravings and frescoes of the painter Francisco de Goya. Variations on sketches and paintings that, animated, narrate passages of the painter's life and work.

Mundial 78. La historia paralela

2003 • 60 min • Argentina

The documentary reveals the narcotic effect the '78 World Cup had on Argentine society, when Kempes' goals masked the horrors of the dictatorship. Recalling the attitudes of Adolf Hitler at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and Benito Mussolini during the 1934 World Cup in Italy, the film argues that the 1978 World Cup was "one of the most blatant political exploitations in the history of sport." Through previously unseen testimonies, survivors' accounts, and previously unreleased archival footage, the film portrays the contradictory duality between the euphoria of a people passionate about football and the simultaneous horror suffered by the victims of a bloody dictatorship.

Cannibal Maniac

2003 • 23 min

While conducting a geological survey, a man finds a cursed relic. Dominated by its power, he becomes a mindless flesh hungry maniac.