All Films

The Real Deal: What It Is

2003 • 22 min

This twenty-two minute interview with Melvin Van Peebles has the cult filmmaker starting things off by lighting a cigar, which is something he has done in several interviews. From here he talks about the making of his hit film SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG, which of course broke all sorts of records and is what would kick start the blaxploitation genre. If you're a fan of the film or the director then you should enjoy this featurette, which tries to have a raw look like the film in question, although the effect here is a bit lame. With that said, there are still some very good stories told including one about a STD Van Peebles got during one of the scenes in the film. He talks about a few specific scenes in the picture as well as the now infamous one featuring his son in a sex scene. There's nothing ground-breaking here but it's certainly an entertaining interview.

Travelling with Mark

2003 • 6 min

A digital manipulation exploiting the transcoding ‘mosaic’ of video shot on a train journey from Berlin to southern Germany with Mark Webber. Transformations of selected sequences, - slowed, recolored, compared. New rhythms - slow thoughts inside a train at speed – blurred and fragmented landscape through the window. The sound is produced by frequency manipulation of the train recorded with the video.

The Flute Player

2003 • 55 min

From 1975 to 1979, the Khmer Rouge led a campaign of death against every Cambodian believed to be educated. As a result, over 90 percent of the country's traditional musicians were killed. Now, as the handful of surviving musicians grow old and fall ill, a way of life quietly slips toward the brink of extinction. Facing this desperate situation is Arn Chorn Pond - a survivor of Cambodia's genocide, an internationally recognized human rights leader and a talented musician. Today Arn is striving to heal the deep scars of his wartorn past by bringing Cambodia's once outlawed traditional music back to his people. The Flute Player is a heroic story of one man's fight against the devastating effects of war. It is a film about sorrow and pain, dignity and freedom, and the will to survive.

Investigating Operation Condor

2003 • 53 min

In the name of the struggle against terrorism, a special operation - code named CONDOR - was conducted in the 1970s and '80s in South America. Its target were left-wing political dissidents, the organized labor and intellectuals. Condor soon became a network of military dictatorships supported by the U.S. State Department, the CIA, and Interpol.

The Bachelor of Rhymes

2003 • 11 min

Cristobal's friendship seems to confuse Yuniel, a Cuban teenager. Cristobal is about to leave Cuba and this worries Yuniel even more. Writing liberates Yuniel and he enjoys it in solitude. "Sometimes. Sometimes. I think writing is absolutely useless. It won't even help me grasp your name. Your name! though fresh and clear, somehow tastes a little bitter".

What Is Love For?

2003 • 3 min • France

This animation is set to the duet composed of Édith Piaf and Théo Sarapo, singing the song “À quoi ça sert l’amour ?”.

A Man Called Nomad

2003 • 42 min

A Man Called Nomad is a story of a man trying to adjust to the shifting realities of the modern world, whilst retaining within his family a sense of place. Looking into the life of 30-year old Choegatar, father and provider, we get a glance into a world where temptations of the town interfere with natural life. This is an honest portrayal of life, shown with an unrivaled backdrop of beauty.

More Coffee

2003 • 14 min

Five individuals meet by coincidence in a random diner at the same time, without knowing they all affected each other's lives the night before. The multiple story-line follows a gay father trying to re-connect with his estranged son, a woman in desperate need of a drug fix and her dealer who accidentally shoots the wife of a young man, and a woman trying to escape an abusive marriage.

Heartbeat/Armpit

2003 • 3 min

Heartbeat/Armpit (2003) is a looped digital video just under two and a half minutes long and with no sound, a rare format in Tillmans’s artistic world. At first glance, this piece with its stringent composition and seeming calm seems to resemble a photograph. What we see is a cropped section of an angled overhead shot of a young man lying bare chested on a carpet.On closer inspection minimal movements can be discerned within this harmonious composition. These minute movements attest to the fact that he is alive: we intuit his breath and heartbeat from the fact that his chest rises and falls gently, and the artery in his neck pulsates.

The Milford Track - The Finest Walk In The World

2003 • 60 min

Join Ray Willet , whose affair with “the track” began in 1956 as a guide and Cathy Lewsley , who fell in love with “the track” when hut wardening there in 1997, as they journey along the “the Finest Walk in the World”. This is Nature at its awe- inspiring best – mountain vistas, gin clear waters with massive trout, those cheeky Keas and beautiful song birds the Tui and bellbird and those dreadful sandflies. A world where water is seen, felt and heard in its every form.

Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes: Crazy Sexy Cool

2003 • 44 min • United States of America

This unauthorized biography looks at the life and career of Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, co-founder and brashly outspoken member of R & B supergroup TLC, from her early years in obscurity to the height of her popularity and shocking death. Lopes's personal life was dogged with turmoil up until the time it was cut short by a 2002 car accident in Honduras. This program celebrates the life of an original and uniquely gifted artist.

My Charlie Brown Christmas

2003 • 10 min

For the 2003 Scrubs cast and crew Christmas party, editor Daniel S. Russ and production assistant Ryan Levin wrote, edited, and dubbed the A Charlie Brown Christmas movie with the cast of Scrubs, titled "My Charlie Brown Christmas".

Chic Point: Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints

2003 • 7 min • Israel

Chic Point was shot in a fictional location: the occupied catwalk. Employing all the elements of a fashion show, models reveal their abdomens in outfits designed especially to suit Israeli checkpoints. For Israelis in the present time, the individual Palestinian body is the most dangerous weapon there is, and it is therefore the subject of ongoing and humiliating surveillance.

The Cypress Tree

2003 • 60 min

The Cypress Tree directed by James Fotopolous

Captive, Waiting

2003 • 23 min

Documentary on the life of an Iraqi POW who got caught by the Iranians during the war 19 years ago. In prison, he writes a letter to his child, whom he has never seen.

LeapFrog: Letter Factory

2003 • 35 min • United States of America

An educational film from the LeapFrog series.

Searching for Wallenberg

2003 • 53 min • United States of America

This documentary tells the story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who traveled to Budapest in 1944 to rescue as many Jews as possible. In less then six months he managed to save thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazi and Arrow Cross death machinery. On 17 January 1945, during the Siege of Budapest by the Red Army, Wallenberg was arrested by Soviets SMERSH and subsequently disappeared.

Ghosts of Tombstone

2003 • 46 min • United States of America

Is the Wild West town of Tombstone, Ariz., haunted? Saddle up with a group called the Ghost Trackers as they set out to determine whether the historically rich town is overrun by the supernatural. With scientific equipment including infrared video cameras, electromagnetic field monitors and heat sensors, the Trackers explore Tombstone landmarks such as the Bird Cage Theatre, Buford Bed and Breakfast, the Boothill Cemetery and more.

Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey

2003 • 60 min

Bill Wyman, former bassist for The Rolling Stones, is your host for this documentary which offers a detailed look at the history of blues music. Bill Wyman: Blues Odyssey follows the rise of the blues in America as it travels from the Mississippi Delta and the Deep South to the big cities of New Orleans and Chicago, and then crosses the ocean to England, where the U.K.'s nascent rock 'n' roll scene helped spark a new interest and appreciation for the music. Bill Wyman: Blues Odyssey features performance footage of such legendary artists as Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin' Hopkins, The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and many more. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Have You Seen This Man?

2003 • 18 min • United States of America

Have You Seen This Man? explores New York City's post-modern consumer market through artist/businessman Geoff Lupo as he advertises and sells everything from a pen cap to a used thumbtack. Is Geoff playing an elaborate prank, somehow provoking New Yorkers to cross borroughs to purchase a fifteen-cent cracker? Or is he paving the way for the greatest artistic revolution since Andy Warhol's pop movement of the 60s? In this documentary short, filmmakers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck capture the candid humor and poignancy of Lupo's seemingly absurd interactions.

Canned Beauties

2003 • 60 min • Japan

Growing weary of his girl friend, Kentaro moves to a new apartment. One day in summer, he sees his ugly neighbor come out from the room together with many beautiful women around. It bothers him big time and eventually he reaches to an answer to this mystery: the very existence of a certain can named "BIJO-CAN". Kentaro, getting hold of this"BIJO-CAN" , finally succeeds to produce his own ideally beautiful woman, Yuki.

Encountering Jean Rouch

2003 • 11 min

This short film was shot in 2002 during Bilan du Film Ethnographic for the purpose of introducing Jean Rouch to the audience at 2003 Taiwan International Ethnographic film festival. Unexpectedly, Jean Rouch passed away in 2004. In this film Jean Rouch talked about his new marriage, his anger towards the moving of the artifacts of the Mankind Museum, his anarchistic nature, his dreams and fantasies, etc.

CKY Trilogy: Round 2

2003 • 51 min

Combined remix of the original movies CKY2K and CKY 3.

Mysterious! Unbelievable: EX

2003 • 60 min • Japan

A special version of the popular horror series that introduces spooky ghost photos. While introducing a number of ghost photos, the true nature of these paranormal phenomena will be thoroughly verified.