All Films

Between Resistance and Community: The Long Island Do It Yourself Punk Scene

2002 • 43 min • United States of America

A strong time capsule about Long Island as a cornerstone and building block of DIY punk.

Alpha Blondy: Chiemse Reggae Summer

2002 • 44 min

Alpha Blondy live at the Chiemsee Reggae Summer 2002 festival.

Secret History of the Dividing Line

2002 • 20 min • United States of America

Paired texts as dueling histories; a journey imagined and remembered; 57 mileage markers produce an equal number of prospects. The latest in a series of films about the division of landscapes, objects, people, ideas and the Byrd family of Virginia during the early 18th century. —David Gatten

Yo! A Romantic Comedy

2002 • 12 min • United States of America

In Yo! A Romantic Comedy, Trecartin borrows clichés from hip-hop culture and genre films to craft a dark, dream-like narrative that veers from comic melodrama to goth fantasy. Applying his signature digital editing and delirious sound processing to remarkable effect, Trecartin creates an alternative narrative universe that suggests a kind of psychodramatic hyper-reality.

Punk Rawk: Taking Back the Airwaves

2002 • 55 min

This rowdy collection of music videos, interviews and more from emo and pop-punk supergroups like AFI, Pennywise and Thursday proves that in-your-face rock 'n' roll is alive and kicking. Songs include "Feel the Pain" by Stinkaholic, "All That You Wanted" by Hangnail, "God Save Us" by Ill Niño, "The Kind That Could" by Rod Laver, "Falling for You" by Student Rick, "Third Season" by AFI, "Termites Hollow" by Grade and more.

Snipers

2002 • 50 min

The story of the sniping war as it developed during World War II, throughout the various theatres of war. At the outset of war sniping was not considered relevant to modern warfare, but its importance was gradually realised by all the major combatants. This programme covers the development of different weapons and techniques adopted by the German, Russian, British, US and Japanese armies. Furthermore it covers the psychology of the sniper and his association with regular soildiers. The sniper was and remains to this day, a contradictory figure, respected as a skilled professional, hated as an assassin.

Peter Tosh - Captured Live

2002 • 60 min

Ascension

2002 • 2 min

Ascension begins by superimposing paintings that look like clouds over extremely close views of mottled paint, peculiarly intimate in their three-dimensionality. Juxtaposing images of transcendence with representations of what he liked to call the "mess" of life, Brakhage distances himself from both.

Panels for the Walls of Heaven

2002 • 31 min • United States of America

The last of Brakhage's longer works. Part of the "Vancouver Island" films. "Purple flashes are followed by a curtain of purple and blues, first seemingly static and then in motion. Close-ups of textures of paint evolve into flashes of jewel-like red, then more cascading blues and purples and white - 'falling,' seemingly, down from the top of the screen, at other times multi-directional bursts of rolling colors. Red, blue and yellow course through in an up-down motion, then blues and yellows enter from left and right in a complex medley of not solidly formed, but very vibrant pulsations of color, at times only slightly hinting at a solidity of "wallness" upon which the paint might exist. But it is a "wall" suffused with light." - Marilyn Brakhage

Resurrectus Est

2002 • 8 min

Resurrectus Est is a hand painted film which suggests, from the first, a spread of fragments of plants and flowers, individual petals and bits of twig with multiple colors, with much green "leafiness". This gives way to solid yellows and browns of, or suggesting, dried grass and earth (the decay, as it were, of the above mentioned fragments); but then again, and so spaced with clear light whites as to appear airy, wind-blown, somesuch, miniscule fragments of plant life, gradually enlarging to fill-the-frame. Amidst the many floral and earthen tones, there is a particular ethereal pale, almost phosphorescent, blue which so dominates the scenes of its appearance as to cause the darker earthen yellows to lighten into a mixture with the blue that suggest abstract Easter: these tones finally take over to such an extent that the flower-fragments can no longer be seen clearly as such.

Scream Tone

2002 • 3 min • United States of America

This is a direct animation made by applying Letraset half-tone films onto 16mm film. The sound is made by the image as read on the optical track. There is both a positive and negative version of the film; the sound reads differently in each version.

Coletivo

2002 • 3 min • Brazil

3’00” | DV | Colour | 2002 | Brazil Screening Format: DV Filming Format: Super 8 Directed, Photographed and edited by: Cao Guimarães Collective of people, streets, neighborhoods, names, of buses that lead people through the streets of neighborhoods named after people.

The Tick and the Bird

2002 • 51 min

Once upon a time there was a tick. A female tick that lived buried deep in the feathers of a Laysan Albatross. Together, they travelled across the sprawling north of the Pacific Ocean, between the Hawaiian and the Aleutian Island.

The Real Death Star

2002 • 48 min

This documentary examines theories behind the creation of gamma ray bursts, destructive explosions in space that can wipe out entire star systems.

Past Perfect

2002 • 38 min

“Past Perfect” is a spirited meditation on the elusiveness and inaccessibility of (Jewish) history as conveyed through sightseeing tours of “Jewish” Poland, a grandmother’s recollection of life in America during War II, and memoir-like “last moments” of a great aunt believed to have died in Treblinka. Shot almost entirely in contemporary Poland, “Past Perfect” lyrically portrays the relentless yet ultimately futile attempt to resuscitate a history literally gone up in smoke.

Interstices

2002 • 18 min

Presented at Documenta 14 in Athens.

East End

2002 • 10 min

Apoohcalypse Now

2002 • 8 min • Mexico

A.A. Milne's beloved stuffed bear encounters Francis Ford Coppola's nightmare.

Light Licks: Detour

2002 • 12 min

S8mm, b&w/si, (18 fps)

Letters to the Wall: A Documentary on the Vietnam Wall Experience

2002 • 55 min

Letters to the Wall: A Documentary on the Vietnam Wall Experience

Six Feet Under - Double Dead

2002 • 59 min

This disc captures metal band Six Feet Under in a 2002 concert. The DVD offers a standard full-frame transfer. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo. There are neither subtitles nor closed-captions on this release. Supplemental materials include a photo gallery and a discography. Songs performed include "The Day the Dead Walked," "The Enemy Inside," "Torn to the Bone," and almost a dozen others. A bonus CD contains five additional songs. This is a great disc for fans of the band or the music they play.

Wind in My Sails

2002 • 13 min • United States of America

Like ships in a harbor, men come and go in relationships. But, as one character says to another character who is heartbroken: "You sucked enough juice out of him... don't be greedy!"

Mountain of Fire: The Search for the True Mount Sinai

2002 • 46 min

A documentary of the true story of two American adventurers who follow mysterious clues to find the true Mt. Sinai. The discoveries made by Bob Cornuke and Larry Williams will shock the world and rewrite history. Centuries of tradition place this holy mountain in the Sinai peninsula of Egypt, but compelling evidence will show that this hallowed ground, where Moses was told to take the shoes of his feet before the burning bush, may actually be in the barren deserts of northwestern Saudi Arabia. Epic myth becomes burning truth on the Mountain of Fire.

Ceasefire!

2002 • 8 min • Hungary

A boy is forced to face the hardships of war alone.