All Films

Fantôme

2002 • 21 min • France

Xavier Baert works on the visual outline of the body. He creates cinematographic body states which according to the French filmmaker, only cinema can invent. Ghost plays on projection and light phenomenon, on the double exposure of a body on another. The narration which is essential through a slow temporal flood comes within a progression which plays on the working drawing and fading. A ‘ghostly’ fading as it is more a question of the appearance of a body without substance through shadow effects and light loops. The image cast in negative adds to this ethereal space the sensation of unreal space, which however, forms one body with the presence of this shadow in perpetual movement. Fantome reminds us that cinema’s main rights are ‘recording bodies.

Pink Eyed Pet

2002 • 3 min • Canada

Sometimes topical treatments aren't enough to cure love's infections.

Hello Performance!

2002 • 13 min • Canada

From May 2001 to February 2002, transsexual performance artist Mirha-Soleil Ross appeared pregnant every time she was in public. This video features Mirha-Soleil performing pregnancy by the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco and an audio recording of her mother speaking about the ups and downs of having a baby. Created as a part of Mirha-Soleil Ross' performance art cycle: The Pregnancy Project. The Pregnancy Project explores some transsexual women's relationship to the personal and institutional aspects of motherhood and hopes to foster community discussion around controversial reproductive technologies.

The Whirlwind

2002 • 6 min • Canada

"Over and over I am mesmerized by Jeanne Moreau's presence in cinema. Enigmatic, gutsy, provocative, she defines the true female avant-garde artist." - Lise Beaudry

Dahiet Al Bareed, District of the Post Office

2002 • 7 min • Palestinian Territory, United Kingdom

One slow, hot afternoon in a neighbourhood built to be a utopian suburb for employees of the Palestinian Post Office; now becomes a lawless no-man’s-land between occupied East Jerusalem and Ramallah.

Commune by the Great Wall

2002 • 12 min

Selected for the Venice Biennale. A short documentary made on the "Commune by the Great Wall": a contemporary architectural museum of private houses designed by 12 Asian artists. (Cinematography: Andre Kawazudi.)

The French

2002 • 13 min

Adventure of a Japanese boy who wanders in France where the violence of a strange environment and strange language penetrate his mind and he starts to have incoherent illusions. What happens to the boy between illusions printed in him and tyrannically cruel reality? The work was animated with 6,000 wood block prints to express the gaps and shakes of megalomaniac illusions.

A Taste of Blood

2002 • 19 min

Video album by Kettle Cadaver

Crépitation

2002 • 4 min • Spain

This video, created for ‘Crépitation’, a song included in Ápeiron’s (a band from Orense) album Todo sigue intacto recorded for Barcelona music company Foehn Records, depicts rural Galicia in 2002, mixing bucolic images of green landscapes, clean rivers, free-ranging animals… with others of drastically contrasting ‘progress’.

Colour Stream

2002 • 4 min

Flowing lights and colours are the focus of this abstract film shot with super-8 through a close-up lens. Helliwell`s homemade electronics provide the rhythmic soundtrack.

One + One

2002 • 27 min

A powerful film about serodiscordant couples (of mixed HIV status) living with HIV and AIDS. John and Noel are in a panic. The condom broke during sex, and John happens to have AIDS. Joanne breaks down when the counselor asks about her HIV-positive husband Robert. In their six-year marriage, Joanne has been tested twice a year, each time more stressful than the last. One + One takes an unflinching look at the lives of these two couples of mixed HIV status--one straight, one gay--as they navigate the physical and emotional minefield inherent in every serodiscordant relationship.

Black Taboo Series - Moxi Town

2002 • 10 min

Short film by Shi Qing.

Meerkats: Part of the Team

2002 • 48 min

Documentary-maker Simon King follows a family of meerkats in the Tswalu National Park in South Africa, winning their trust and using modern filming techniques to capture their secret lives, including their constant struggle to find food and potentially deadly encounters with snakes, scorpions and cheetahs.

Racing Through Time: The History of Grand Prix Racing

2002 • 55 min • United States of America

Racing Through Time is an exceptional series entailing the sensational beginnings of much loved global sport. From the grease and glamour, to the danger and thrills, this is an action-packed, fact filled tour of the world of motor racing, featuring in-depth stories on the legends of motor racing, the high performance machines, the men behind the wheel, and the circuits that have made history.

Tiger Day

2002 • 19 min

An investigation and study of the Yi ethnic minority's "Tiger Day" ceremony that applies the holistic principles of anthropological human research, while looking for the sociocultural causes of drug dependence behavior for local ethnic groups. The film establishes another methodology different from scientific methodology, that is, to defeat the addiction of human biology with the power of culture. "Tiger Day" changed the traditional characteristics of simple description and interpretation, and was involved in exploring the direct application purpose of the film and putting it into practice, thus opening up a new direction for film and television anthropology. Nominated for a Special Award at the 16th Belfast Public Health Conference Film Festival in 2005.

Gladys, A Cuban Mother

2002 • 11 min

A mother tells her son that her greatest loves have been women. She recounts the story of raising two daughters left behind after the death of their mother, one of Gladys’ former lovers. Shot clandestinely in Havana in 2001, Gladys, A Cuban Mother depicts the poignant experience of a lesbian mother living in a machismo society.

Bar Talk

2002 • 8 min

A humorous look at what women are REALLY saying when they lock eyes across a crowded bar. Find out why some lesbians are too cool for words.

Adagio

2002 • 4 min

A four minute film, in which the landscape is inhabited by the imagination. It uses the medium of moving paint to suggest the thought processes of the viewer contemplating Nature.

The Ragged Ones

2002 • 30 min

The Basotho live in Lesotho, a kingdom of high mountains surrounded by South Africa. Afflicted by famine, poverty and AIDS, they carry on making a science out of their witchcraft beliefs.

Kashou no Tsuki: Aki Kyougen

2002 • 60 min • Japan

When he was young, Arimasa Tsuchimikado rescued an injured cat and wished for it to become human. The cat, Kagetsu, is actually a member of the shape-shifting Kouga tribe and comes to live with Arimasa.

Finow - child labour in Berlin

2002 • 8 min

The giant business "Finow" works successfully in Berlin, Germany. But what does this success cover?

Undrinkable Water

2002 • 20 min

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

The Day the Towers Fell

2002 • 44 min

Documentary tells the gripping personal stories of September 11th that have never been told and accompanied by images never before seen.

Syunsoku 4

2002 • 3 min

Experimental short by Akira Mizuyoshi.