All Films

Border

2002 • 8 min • Japan

A woman in black dances with single-minded intensity before a grave. Eventually her steps lead her away from the grave and along the US military base fence strung across the island. A video shot almost by feel, as Yamashiro attempts to pin down the true nature of the doubt and disease she harbours in everyday life, Border ends on the beach at Henoko in Nago, a location rocked by controversy over construction of a new American base.

The White Winged

2002 • 14 min • Iran

Iranian claymation. In the middle of spring, a pair of majestic white herons enjoys the abundance and tranquility of spring. Until autumn arrives and circumstances lead the birds to a hidden swamp, where fresh food and warmth abound, but sometimes the price of comfort turns out to be freedom itself.

The Looney Plunger (The 1300 Meter Loop)

2002 • 2 min • Italy

1300 meters, blue, sky and sea. During the fall, strange feeling of suspension: the screen is monochrome, no activity or direction is perceptible. We come to desire the irruption of an action. At the end, we realize that we have never stopped falling.

Mourning The Ancient

2002 • 47 min

The first and only film released by Mourning the Ancient, who as a brand define themselves as a fearless magazine for the true underground.

One

2002 • 10 min

First film in Nick Peterson's "communication" series. A young man's longing provokes him to commit an anti-social act against the object of his desire.

Natural Snow Buildings - Live At The Pop In Paris France 18.12.2002

2002 • 30 min

A live performance by the French drone duo Natural Snow Buildings.

Three Sisters

2002 • 52 min • Russia

The main character is a poet, a guitarist, and even a fighter of the Airborne Forces! It's hard for a woman's heart to resist such a nice guy. Therefore, treatment in the garrison hospital, after an unsuccessful parachute fall, turns out to be a happy, albeit short-lived affair for the private guard. With three charming nurses at once...

Volto telato

2002 • 3 min

This digital video arose from the idea of trying to transfer to film all the photographic images I had created with the so-called “photo-finish” technique. While in the process of completing it, I used single frame digital animation to shoot the faces and their sudden transformations when subjected to the photo-finish technique, transferring them, then imparting motion to them in a single animated sequence on the computer. This agitation, torn from photographic fixity [is] subjected, in turn, to distortion by its intersection with objects texture-mapped with those same faces. The passage from motionless quiet to paroxysmal interference; the animating startle of Bach’s cello.

Shapes Of Movement

2002 • 6 min

A short history of gymnastics.

Fucked

2002 • 3 min • United States of America

"McQuilkin presents a sex-tape, of a sort. Her face is tightly framed by the camera, she applies make-up while in the midst of the experience described by the title, so hyper-focused on her image that she cannot let go." - CA Belgium

John Vaccaro and The Ridiculous

2002 • 16 min

A 2002 interview with John Vaccaro, founder of the Playhouse of the Ridiculous, recalling the actors’ walkout during rehearsals of The Conquest of the Universe, and his friendship with Charles Ludlam. The Theater of the Ridiculous was a radical theater genre that embodied queer, the word and the act, and set the embers of Gay Liberation aflame.

Baby Scanner

2002 • 4 min • Italy

Baby Scanner is aimed at a more adult audience and deals with a theme that is very much felt by educators: the behavior of "adults" in sports, observed and reproduced by children.

Myth Makers 52: Yee Jee Tso

2002 • 55 min • United States of America

Yes Jee Tso was cast in the role of Change Lee for the 1996 Doctor Who movie, alongside Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann as the seventh and eighth Doctor respectively. In this Myth Makers, shot on board the cruise ship Fascination while on the 2001 Sci-Fi Sea Cruise, Yee Jee reveals how he nearly lost the part by being late for his casting session. As an avid writer and director himself, he also gives a detailed account of the experience of shooting Doctor Who in Vancouver, Canada! What was it like working with two Doctors? Was Geoffrey Sax a good Director? These and many other questions are answered in this rare interview.

nszra

2002 • 5 min • France

A few dozen images slide over each other. Transparency plays with skin textures. Sensuality shifts from red to white.

spidery

2002 • 9 min

For spidery, mixing original shot material with colored filters, shown through a prism of water and cut crystal, to elongate and splinter the angular animal grace of the arachnidan limbs and elegant web, giving the appearance of a spider trapped in a microscopic pool or suspended within the actual projector lens. The music box soundtrack of Stockhausen's Zodiac rhymes the anthropomorphic notion of the plucked web as a sensitive stringed instrument.

Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood & Corporate Power

2002 • 52 min • United States of America

Mickey Mouse Monopoly takes a close and critical look at the world these films create and the stories they tell about race, gender and class and reaches disturbing conclusions about the values propagated under the guise of innocence and fun. This daring new video insightfully analyzes Disney's cultural pedagogy, examines its corporate power, and explores its vast influence on our global culture. Including interviews with cultural critics, media scholars, child psychologists, kindergarten teachers, multicultural educators, college students and children, Mickey Mouse Monopoly will provoke audiences to confront comfortable assumptions about an American institution that is virtually synonymous with childhood pleasure.

Family Values

2002 • 25 min • United States of America

Meet Becky and Donna, a nice lesbian couple with a home in the suburbs, who run a family business cleaning up murder scenes.

Pieniä eroja

2002 • 59 min

"Pieniä Eroja" is a film about Salla - a 13-year-old girl who has a crush on her ex-teacher from the lower level of the comprehensive school, Tarsala. Starting the upper level herself, Salla dreams of Tarsala and eventually they become friends.

Salad Days (TGR)

2002 • 30 min • United States of America

Salad Days, noun: a time of youthful indiscretion and delinquency What really are the salad days? TGR answers with the tightest in jib style and culture. Check it: backcountry air, cliffs, rails, urban, pipe, and more. Witness skiing’s new generation experience the sessions they wish would last forever. These are the happy days, the salad days as they say, when the boys are green in judgment, cold in blood.

The Coma-Brutal Stoner Duel

2002 • 22 min • Germany

A short parody of Das komabrutale Duell directed by Heiko Fipper.

Mysterial Power

2002 • 53 min

A personal pursuit of knowledge through interactions with family, spirituality, and everyday life in Taiwan.

Dad's Clock

2002 • 7 min • Australia

A moving ode to his dying father, Dik Jarman seeks and finds resolution to the strained relationship they shared by examining his father's love of clocks—overcoming in the end the specter of his long-lost brother.

Tower Opera

2002 • 57 min

The idea of the current project was born during the making of the long documentary “Charbons Ardents” which dealt with the present-day struggle of a group of coal miners who had bought out their mine and become its sole owners. These miners accepted an offer put to them by the director Brendan Wheatley, to create an opera from the start of their adventure. The film will follow the creation of this new type of opera where two worlds, that of miners and artists come together to recreate the battle for Tower Colliery.

The Snake Boy

2002 • 60 min

A portrait of Coco, a Chinese gay jazz singer in today's Shanghai.