All Films

Kronos Quartet - Kronos on Stage (Black Angels - Ghost Opera)

2002 • 56 min

Combining a fearless dedication to experimentation and a fresh emphasis on visual presentation, the San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet has emerged as a leading voice for new music. Its eclectic body of work, unparalleled in its range of expression, has captured the attention of audiences worldwide and earned five Grammy Award nominations. This dynamic recording features the Kronos Quartet playing George Crumb's musical response to the Vietnam War, "Black Angels," in which whispered and shrieked texts, demonic fiddling, and solemn episodes of piety express the relentless horror and senseless grief of war. The quartet also performs Tan Dun's "Ghost Opera," a blend of sophisticated techniques with folk traditions which required the musicians to become peformance artists, chanting text and playing a variety of instruments from gongs dipped in water to finger-cymbals. An electrifying theatrical experience!

The Old Woman's Step

2002 • 15 min

Old woman leaves her fishing village to sell a chicken in a nearby town.

Re:the_operation

2002 • 28 min

Based on a set of drawings that depict George W. Bush's administration as wounded soldiers in the war against terrorism, RE:THE_OPERATION explores the sexual and philosophical dynamics of war through the lives of the members as they physically engage each other and the "enemy." Letters, notes, and digital snapshots "produced" by the members on their tour of duty become the basis of video portraits that articulate the neuroses and obsessions compelling them toward an infinite war. Part M*A*S*H*, part Three's Company, part philosophical meditation (with a dash of character assassination thrown in) RE:THE_OPERATION exists as a single channel video and a set of desktop replacement icons for MAC and PC.

Elez

2002 • 2 min

Net Keeper

2002 • 7 min • France

Arman is the last person left working in the office of "E-Net Communication" one night. He is answering the phone as usual when he receives an e-mail with an attachment that will change the course of his life.

Ken Davis Live, Good News

2002 • 60 min

Ken delivers an uplifting and encouraging humor-filled presentation to help us find the missing gusto. No promises of health, wealth or perfection -- just an honest look at the Christian life.

City Horror: The Evil Spirit

2002 • 51 min • South Korea

The Evil Spirit: When Cha returns to her hometown to film a documentary, she finds that many of her friends are married, and many others that were married have already died due to unconfirmed accidents. Cha reaches back into her memory and recalls a girl named Yah, whom Cha and her friends made fun of when they were young. Yah had been killed in a fire, which Cha's friends were to blame. Could it be possible that Yah has returned from the dead to seek revenge? Or perhaps...Yah may have never died in the first place?

City Horror: The Stage Of Evil Spirit

2002 • 45 min • South Korea

The Stage of Evil Spirit: A drama club in an university is running a drama for the graduate ceremony. The producer Ki was picked Sha Yan as the main actress, Ki's sister Yu Mei was angry about play the role as a side actress. When the rehearsal starts, some strange happens, it makes Sha want to quit this role. At the mean time Yu was dead, Ki thought that Professor Wong might know something about the issue and he found out a girl was dead while acting this drama, afterward whoever plays this role will die...

The Perfect Gooseys

2002 • 18 min

A prep school for the junior elite has trouble accommodating it's unconventional student, George Goosey Jr.

The Breadbasket

2002 • 30 min

Story of a man who is obsessed with his stomach and how it gets in the way of his love, his dream and ultimately his life.

Just Call Me Kade

2002 • 26 min

The inspiring true story of Kade Farlow Collins 14, FTM (female to male) transgendered, and living with an incredibly understanding family in Tucson Arizona.

Parfum de lumière

2002 • 9 min

His many photographic explorations in Hong Kong and Shanghai have led Serge Clément to combine the Chinese metropolises, first in a book titled Fragrant Light, and now in this animated version for the National Film Board of Canada. This fragrant light in a revolving diamond-shaped bottle takes us through space and time, over a reinvented urban landscape where Hong Kong shows the way to Shanghai, while the photographer's inner city gives us a glimpse of the 21st century metropolises. But this is not history, it's a story where light and shadows fight for territory on shifting battlefields, his and ours. Film without words.

Memosium

2002 • 7 min • France

Memosium is composed like a concerto in three movements. Camera, body and space have their own tempo but all are played simultaneously. From its shots and characters, the story seems amnesic. Events reiterate themselves infinitely. We are in a time of repetition. Thus, all seems to start again, stressed by the circular arrangement of space. Prisoner of its own memory. Moreover, the acceleration and geometrical multiplication of movement, the complexity of the character’s activities, their mathematical cutting and the infinite re-arrangement of the body give the spectator a new awareness of time, without set limits. Only flight (death?) can allow escape from this trap of time.

The Friends of Kwan Ming

2002 • 7 min

Kwan Ming makes three friends on his journey from China to the New World. Once the men arrive, they all look for work but find nothing. When opportunities finally arise, Kwan Ming lets his friends have the best jobs: tailor, shoemaker and baker. Kwan takes a lowly position as helper to a mean store owner. His cruel boss makes three impossible demands: that Kwan Ming find him a woolen suit that never tears, boots that never wear out and bread that won't go stale. Kwan Ming's generosity of spirit pays off when his friends come to his aid.

Little Armadillos

2002 • 6 min

Did you know that there are approximately five billion tiny armadillo-like mites and bacteria roaming around your body? When you think about it, our planet is blessed with a similar population. From the microscopic world of our personal fauna to the macroscopic beauty of the cosmos, Little Armadillos explores interconnectedness of worlds both large and small. In this zany animated short, the universe is just one very big--and very small--dance of life... rockin' to the tune of co-director John Forrest's title song, with Long John Baldry, Canada's King of rock and roll, on vocals.

Loon Dreaming

2002 • 8 min

Loon Dreaming opens with loons gracefully riding the waves. Then suddenly we see the world through the eyes of one of these spectacular birds. We dive down deep into the waters in pursuit of fish, launch skyward from the water and fly high over the busy highways and sprawling subdivisions that scar the natural world--before gently splashing down on a secluded lake. The artistry of Iriz Pääbo and her creative use of digital technology are a magical mix! A forest transforms into an explosion of colour, the passion of loons becomes palpable, and their hunting call resonates. A film without words.

Rivière 0 / River 0

2002 • 17 min • Canada

Experimental short film by Jean-Claude Bustros

Bilby Brothers

2002 • 48 min • Australia

The documentary focuses on the plight of the bilby, a small big eared, long nosed unusual creature of the Australian outback that has been marginalised by rabbits, feral predators and humans. But there are two humans that put the bilby first and have gone on to capture the imagination of their local community, politicians, government bureaucrat and the wider population because they have single handedly turned the tables on an almost extinct species. Candy company Darrell Lea contributes a percentage of sales to Save the Bilby Fund, ($185,000AU to date) and the sanctuary has been built thanks to the chocolate eating Australian public and The Bilby Brothers, who have spent practically every waking moment of the past decade working to save this little oddball from extinction. Their work is a phenominal example of how one person CAN make a difference.

Battle Stations – A Navel Adventure

2002 • 6 min • United States of America

Starring Bruce Conner, a belly dancer, a geiger counter, and a toxic waste dump.

Peng You Town

2002 • 5 min • Japan

In a small provincial town, three children play football but when they hear breaking glass, two of them flee; leaving a little girl to investigate. She finds that she has broken a fish bowl and a small fish is flapping on the ground gasping for its life. What will the girl do to save this poor creature?

Plum Tree Zoom

2002 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Super 8 blow up to 16mm, optically slowed and stretch printed on Kodak 7272 - leaves of a plum tree in the the wind hand held full zoom to macro, Summer '99 at Dickins Farm near Sutton. S. Yorkshire, with simple 3:2 repeat phrases from Bartok's Mikrokosmos like a round played on Dad's old piano as roughly and imperfectly as the print - re-filmed off the wall on obsolete DV Cam

Jellyfish Lake

2002 • 6 min

Jellyfish Lake is a film by Dorothy Cross resulting from investigations into the biomechanics of Chironex fleckeri, the jellyfish. Filmed in an isolated lake, estimated to be 12,000 years old, in Palau, Micronesia, millions of golden jellyfish migrate across the lake daily.

Brainy Baby: Left Brain

2002 • 45 min • United States of America

Brainy Baby is university studied and winner of over 77 Awards. Interactive Infant Early Learning DVD features live action and real children while using familiar objects to help make fast learning connections. DVD enhances Left Brain development exposing children to Classical Music, Gentle Voices while exploring Logic, Patterns, Letters and Numbers, Sequencing, Analyzing details and more.

Whispering Pines 1

2002 • 2 min • United States of America

The first installment in the multi-part Whispering Pines series, this unsettling video introduces Cynthia, the series' silent, somewhat confused protagonist, who is played by Moulton. In these wryly humorous narratives, Cynthia's interactions with her everyday world mix the mundane and the surreal. A portrait of anxiety set in a generic supermarket, Whispering Pines 1 foregrounds the artist's ongoing concerns with the ways in which people are at once estranged from and invested in consumer goods.