All Films

So Near Yet So Far

2002 • 58 min

Opening with the harrowing 2000 press footage of Palestinian boy Mohamad al-Durra’s death in his father’s arms, Eliane Raheb’s film becomes both witness and participant. Her camera travels through Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt, tracing the lives of countless “young Mohamads” - children forced to grow up too soon in a world shaped by the intifada. As the journey unfolds, the filmmaker’s quest becomes deeply personal, prompting her to reflect on her place within the Arab world and to question her relationship with Palestine.

Piktori

2002 • 3 min

"Piktori” describes how the end of the dictatorship in Albania brought about a situation where freedom and anarchy were mixed together. Among the kiosks that started to appear with signs like ”Fruits & Vegetables” and ”Bicycle repair” were also signs that said ”Painter”. In these small kiosks were produced at the same time paintings in oil, copies of work of art, slogans and false documents starting from birth certificates and ending with death certificates. Paci asks questions about the role of the artist in society, the relationship of the handcraft work and the artistic action, the difficulty today of defining the artist as such.

The End of Extinction: Cloning the Tasmanian Tiger

2002 • 50 min

Scientists try to resurrect the extinct thylacine.

Coffee Break

2002 • 7 min

All that Uncle Sam wanted was to drink his coffee and watch some wrestling while on break, but no, two dickheads want to watch Dawson's Creek! So what does he do? Yes, he kills them and bunch of other people.

العودة إلى الجذور المرئية

2002 • 15 min

Lebanese filmmaker begins to confront the echoes of a war she did not live through but cannot escape. Through the excavation of inherited objects, the film becomes a quiet reflection on memory, identity, and the emotional weight of what we choose to remember or forget.

Myth Makers 65: Bob May

2002 • 51 min • United Kingdom

Bob May entered the entertainment business at an early age working with his grandfather Chic Johnson on the American classic Hellzapoppin’ comedy show. Since then he hasn’t looked back, his CV is endless… including roles in nine Jerry Lewis films, plus Jailhouse Rock, 77 Sunset Strip, Time Tunnell… the list goes on and on! But it’s his role as the Robot in Lost in Space that Myth Makers are focusing on, and in this engrossing interview by Nicholas Briggs, Bob regales us with an hour of fascinating stories behind one of the most loved and successful science fiction TV series ever made – it even knocked Star Trek off the ratings when it first aired!

Hurby. April 1944

2002 • 19 min • Ukraine

A documentary about the largest battle of the UPA with the NKVD and other parts of the Soviet Union near the villages of Antonivtsi and Gurba in Ternopil Oblast and Rivne Oblast.

Plovdiv

2002 • 4 min • Estonia

According to pop culture mythology, Paris Hilton “invented” the selfie in 2006. In factual terms, Uber and its rideshare model was officially launched in 2010. Mare Tralla’s video precedes - and reflects - both of these cultural landmarks that have since become nouns. In this piece, no words are needed: a woman rides in the backseat, entranced by pulsing rhythms. Through a double-layered image - or perhaps an altered state of mind - we follow the movements of a fleeting moment inside a car.

i hate video

2002 • 8 min

A documentary of sorts on the making of the video Metronome, here is the frustrated, anguished, entirely pissed off truth that Sony, JVC, Panasonic, and Apple Macintosh don't want you to see.

Actor's Lines

2002 • 6 min

A scene showing a soldier who, having committed a mistake, was being corrected by his senior, from the film, The New Guard Under Neon Lights, was taken out and re-edited; parts of the scene are repeated and some dialogue and movements are slowed down, but the entire scene with the complete dialogue has been retained in the video clip.

F.F.F. (Short Version)

2002 • 25 min

A colourful feature about young criminals (Ominato Masao, Tachibana Kaoru, Tatesawa Sadoru), sex scenes and their bitter ends. Onishi again is using almost no dialogue, that does not make it easy to watch this film, but it makes so much sense. While killing and suffering or seldom enjoying nice and peaceful moments, what should they talk about?

95% Equal

2002 • 2 min

The work part of Ochoa's research about genetics that she has been investigating since 1994. Her video, filmed in the city of Bogota, Colombia, shows a ballet dancer in a tutu, spinning and shifting on tiptoes at a Tudor's style house. The image of the performer and the image of the performer and the image of a pink pig wearing a tulle is juxtaposed from the toes of the dancer and the pig's feet, merging the features of both characters. At the end of Ochoa's video appears a statistical sentence printing on the screen "95% of porcine chromosomes correspond to human chromosomes."

Un autre jour sur la plage

2002 • 20 min

We met Rashid during the summer of 2002. Like so many others, he waits, sitting on the sand, his eyes fixed on the horizon where the lights of the English coast shine. Like every evening, he hopes to cross to the other side. But, on the beach at Sangatte, only the days pass, and these men continue to wait, on the threshold of a new life.

Deliquescence

2002 • 9 min

"Deliquescence" offers a double layer of marine flowers and aquatic erotics, with Richard Sylvarnes on electronic shadows. A Bradley Eros' original olfactory cinema with perfume scents.

Vitia Hurov Is Leaving for Italy

2002 • 11 min • Ukraine

A playful student film depicts the farewell of a young man named Vitia as he leaves for Italy. It’s unclear what in this story is true and what is not — the filmmaker manages to speak about serious things in a seemingly lighthearted way.

Dreyer's Zitat

2002 • 8 min • Austria

A small, cheerful homage to one of Friedl vom Gröller's favorite directors – Carl Theodor Dreyer – or perhaps a game of telephone with acquaintances. (Dietmar Schwärzler)

I Am Dreaming About a Reality

2002 • 4 min

A constellation-like video project emerging from No Ghost Just a Shell, this work repositions the digital character Annlee as an unstable subject caught between authors, images, and borrowed narratives. Rather than offering a single viewpoint, the piece multiplies perspectives: Annlee becomes a vessel through which different artists test the limits of agency, voice, and representation in the age of licensed avatars. I Am Dreaming About a Reality? examines what happens when a character is freed from commercial authorship yet remains bound to the expectations projected onto her—an experiment in identity that hovers between animation, conceptual art, and philosophical inquiry.

Witness Screen

2002 • 5 min

In Witness Screen, Annlee, a virtual entity shaped by contemporary artists, becomes a fragile witness to her own constructed existence, blurring the line between observation and identity.

Resurrection of the Daleks: On Location

2002 • 19 min • United Kingdom

Director Matthew Robinson, Producer John Nathan-Turner and Writer/Script Editor Eric Saward return to the location of the story - Shad Thames in London - to talk through their memories and recollections of the making of this story. Sadly, John Nathan-Turner died six weeks after recording this, his last on-screen interview.

Penelope

2002 • 37 min

Film by Eduard Shelganov. 16-mm.

You Gotta See This! Too Sick for TV!

2002 • 40 min

YOU GOTTA SEE THIS! is a compilation of twisted human behaviour, featuring topless wrestling, horrible car crashes, and various serious injuries. This is 'harsh reality TV', not for the squeamish. Limbs Torn off, naked skydiving, gored and stomped by bulls, topless wrestling, insane falls, hand-to-hand violence, horrific crashes, snapped limbs, topless boxing and for the first time in the UK... the insanity of backyard wrestling!

National Geographic: Through the Lens

2002 • 47 min

National Geographic holds court in the pantheon of magazine journalism for many reasons, the biggest of which is its breathtaking photography. But what makes a picture perfect? What goes into its creation? By taking ten stills and examining the work that goes on behind the lens, this documentary lets you into the world of professional photography and shows you the glamour, grit and guts that go into capturing some of history's best moments.

Pearl Jam: Riot Act - Live At Chop Suey

2002 • 18 min

Live footage of Pearl Jam performing three tracks off of Riot Act. Filmed at the Chop Suey Club, Seattle, WA on September 6, 2002. Distributed as a promotional gift along with first Riot Act copies.

My Terrorist

2002 • 58 min

Fahad Mihyi, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Yulie Cohen, a sixth-generation Israeli, first met in August 1978, when Mihyi pointed a machine gun at the El Al flight attendant in a terrorist attack. Twenty-three years later, in an effort to help break the cycle of violence, Yulie considers writing a letter in support of Mihyi's parole, thus thrusting herself into the turbulent world of Middle East politics. Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Jerusalem International Film Festival, and nominated for the Silver Wolf award at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival, My Terrorist asks hard questions about the meaning of forgiveness and hate, the inevitability of violence and, just possibly, about the chance of reconciliation between Palestinians and Israelis.