All Films

Guerrilla Public Service

2002 • 10 min

Richard Ankrom decides to fix an issue with California's highways.

From the Depths

2002 • 60 min

Yidel, an Israeli businessman, is flying for a meeting overseas. The plane, mid-flight, encounters technical difficulties, and the pilot prepares for an emergency landing. Unsuccessful in the attempt, the plane crashes into a remote valley, far removed from civilization. Three passengers, Yidel included, survive the ordeal, yet the tragedy is far from over. They must now contend with inhumane conditions in addition to the lack of food and water. Yidel's hope is what keeps him going, as he sincerely believes that Hashem will rescue him from this terrible calamity. THE FILM CONVEYS THE POWER OF HAVING EMUNAH IN HASHEM, EVEN WHEN THE OUTCOME LOOKS BLEAK.

Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

2002 • 60 min

Reverend Billy, a.k.a. Bill Talen, is an actor/performance artist and a leading figure within the anti-globalization movement. His work combines the ideas of social and political change with the means of theater arts to counteract our media-laden culture. The film follows the Reverend's "shopping interventions/actions" into cultural dead zones such as Starbucks, Disney and the New York University construction site at Poe House.

The River

2002 • 60 min

"...the simplest and most beautiful of [Fotopoulos'] early video features, which simply follows the movements of a model whose body is (re)filmed so closely that she appears as abstract swirls of colour and video grain." —Maximilian Le Cain

Broken Warning

2002 • 10 min

Isaac gets orders to execute his fellow gang member, Angel. Only problem is Angel and Isaac are secretly lovers. What will Isaac do?

Dr. Hook ‎– Completely Hooked

2002 • 46 min

The Outsider: The Story of Harry Partch

2002 • 59 min

A documentary about avant-garde composer Harry Partch.

Skinflick

2002 • 7 min • Germany

Three different levels of skin working with film / film working with skin: - fingerprints on clear leader - carefully arranged successive skin prints - snapshots of light-painted skin becoming leather The images are accompanied by soundscapes using aural skin scans performed by the cartridge of a record player.

Of Men and Gods

2002 • 52 min • France, Haiti

A documentary about the issues that confront homosexuals and transvestites in Haiti. The various caracters in the documentary have their own explanation as to why they are gay (all the interviewed people are male) and how the majority of them feel that the Voodoo godess Erzulie has made them into what they are.

Airway to Steven

2002 • 2 min

Looking for God.

Southern Family

2002 • 14 min

A Christmas party at a Southern grandmother’s home turns into an unexpected and tense coming out story in this heartwarming 2002 documentary that spans several generations.

Roberta Loved

2002 • 24 min

This dark bittersweet drama focuses on Roberta, a 350-lb secretary who loses her job and learns she is dying on the same day. On her last day alive, she develops an unusual relationship with Kevin, a bisexual hustler specializing in "freaks."

Je n'ai pas du tout l’intention de sombrer

2002 • 5 min • France

Chaos of concrete, glass and metal give birth to a luminous edge. Gap and frontier between darkness and light. Materiality versus immateriality.

A Little Planet

2002 • 6 min • Japan

Taking a stroll with a gleaming, floating ball.

Mambéty

2002 • 28 min • Senegal

Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambéty, one of the greatest figures in all of African film, died in 1998. In this behind-the-scenes documentary, shot during the making of his final work, The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun / La petite vendeuse de soleil, Mambéty speaks with his technicians, prepares the actors, talks with his young star, and, in voiceover, shares his thoughts on cinema and life.Mambéty doesn't differ significantly from the stock "behind-the-scenes" documentaries that adorn most DVDs nowadays, except that Mambéty's films have scenes you actually want to be taken behind. Because of the kind of attention that gets paid to African cinema, there's an initial intrigue to Mambéty, but that interest is sustained by Mambéty's own lyrical insights into his aesthetics.

A Day in the Life of an Actress

2002 • 5 min • United States of America

Actress Nancy Olson details the average day of shooting for an actress.

Preserving Pollyanna

2002 • 11 min • United States of America

Scott MacQueen talks about color collapse in 1960s films and the preservation process with a special emphasis on the Disney film Pollyanna from 1960.

The War of Roses

2002 • 60 min • Taiwan

Dedicated to the sisters who fought back with the last strengths in them, The War of Roses documents the struggles and aftermath of four women in different environments that encountered sexual assaults, shedding light on the underlying structural violence sustaining the unequal power relations in gender.

Junji Inagawa's Short Horror Cinema: Horror of Legend

2002 • 48 min • Japan

This is the third in a new series of short horror-cinema films depicting contemporary fears with Junji Inagawa as the storyteller. It includes "Peony Lantern," a traditional Japanese ghost story performed with beauty and sadness by Nanako Okochi, as well as "Kuma Onna," "Yamamba," and "Nurarihyon," a total of four stories.

Monastery Of Misery

2002 • 55 min • United States of America

The nunsploitation short.

High Performance Imports: Volume 4

2002 • 54 min

Join the HPI gang as they attend an HKS street drag meeting, check out demo cars from Signal and C&Y sports along with more in-car drifting action, plus more!

Roommatez

2002 • 60 min • United States of America

Jesse is a young man who wants to rent out a spare room in his apartment to a nice guy from the university campus. He decides on Graig, who is a well-known student and athlete. However, Graig's friendly face hides a psychopath of epic proportions.

Mutafukaz : Operation Blackhead

2002 • 7 min • France

Angelino and Vinz are quietly watching TV when their apartment is suddenly stormed by the Z7 section, a real urban commando specialised in high-risk interventions.

Chihuly at the V&A

2002 • 55 min

Footage from Dale Chihuly's exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Originally commissioned to create a chandelier for the museum's rotunda, this documentary covers the Chihuly's complete process from inception to installation.