All Films

Grasp

2002 • 17 min

'Grasp' is a darkly humorous mystery peppered with some truly surreal visuals. Two hard-boiled detectives and an oddball pathologist investigate a severed hand found in a laundromat - and the results aren't pretty...

Manual

2002 • 10 min • Germany, United Kingdom

Combining close-ups of redundant technology gleaned from 60s US sci-fi television series with a female voice of a 40s Hollywood melodrama, Manual makes absolute detachment clash with magnified emotion. When its record of the minutae of endless buttons, switches and control panels Manual reduces the notion of any manageability of life to a sheer absurdity.

Invasion of the Hottie Snatchers

2002 • 60 min • United States of America

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the forest…think again! A group of girls search for their lost friend as they film the journey that takes them deep into the forbidden forest of the Bare Wench. Battling extra-terrestrial beings, the girls must band together-surviving only with a few clothes, their good looks and their very big…brains. It is a Close Encounters of the sexy kind!

Strange Fruit

2002 • 57 min • United States of America

In 1937, after seeing a photo depicting the lynching of a black man in the south, Bronx-born high school teacher Abel Meeropol wrote a poem entitled "Strange Fruit" that begins with the words: "Southern trees bear a strange fruit / Blood on the leaves and blood at the root." He set the poem to music and a few years later convinced Billy holiday to record it in a legendary heartbreaking performance. Intertwining jazz genealogy, biography, performance footage, and the history of lynching, director Joel Katz fashions a fascinating discovery of the lost story behind a true American classic. Written by Excerpted from Coolidge Corner Theatre Program Update

Burkina Faso

2002 • 11 min

Ouagadougou, September 2001: Adamà is a boy who is forced to leave school and work as a newsboy in order to pay for his sick mother's medical treatment. Two weeks after the attacks, Adamà sees a man who looks very similar to Osama bin Laden and decides to capture him with the help of his friends, in order to claim a $25 million bounty. Idrissa Ouédraogo's short for 11′09″01 September 11.

Naming Prairie

2002 • 7 min • United States of America

Two jewish lesbians hold a naming ceremony for their baby in a melding of old customs and new ideas.

Twick or Tweety

2002 • 4 min

Sylvester finally ate Tweety at Halloween night, but there are nightmares that haunt him.

Histoire d'eaux

2002 • 12 min

A group of Indian illegal immigrants are unloaded from a truck in the Lazio countryside. Among them, a young man and an old man. The latter, exhausted, stops under a tree and asks the young man to bring him some water. Narada – the young man – goes down to the valley, where he comes across a girl on her scooter who has broken down.

Marie and Jack: A Hardcore Love Story

2002 • 27 min • United States of America

Marie Silva and Jack Bravo are a married couple who also happen to make porn films for a living. This documentary examines what a marriage involving a couple whose jobs it is to have sex with other people is like, what the pressures are and the differences between their professional lives and their personal lives.

VILLA KUJOYAMA mars-juillet 2000

2002 • 35 min

A documentary on the activities of artists residing in the Villa Kujoyama French residence in Kyoto as part of a cultural exchange program.

The War of 1987

2002 • 2 min

A self portrait in copy and paste.

Art City 3 A Ruling Passion

2002 • 58 min

Many artists use the pain, exhilaration and resolution of private desires to express themselves. Art City: A Ruling Passion focuses on intense personalities who’ve used their art to explore the emotional impact of psychological truths. Everything that Louise Bourgeois creates - whether in marble, fabric or bronze - comes from memory. Michael Ray Charles investigates the marketing of black memorabilia, using early American advertising imagery. Elizabeth Peyton reinvents portraiture, using her friends as subjects, as well as pop culture royalty. Ed Ruscha’s literary landscapes burst from the physical world "right outside the window." The comic spirit of Lari Pittman contrasts with his graphic declarations. In a landmark house, Richmond Burton remembers his dreams to build "psychic fields" of abstraction. The arrays of featureless faces by David Deutsch are stimulated by sub-conscious sensations.

Berlin Beshert

2002 • 30 min

This short film follows the ironic dating misadventures of Dahlia (30) and her lesbian sister Leah (29) in their search for their beshert ('soul mate' in Yiddish) in today's Berlin. The story challenges clichés and stereotypes about Jewish culture and identity in modern day Berlin from a variety of perspectives.

Descenso

2002 • 1 min

Film made with analog 35mm photo camera framed vertically. The sound that arises is caused by the image extending over the optical sound track. The content focuses on the descent made from a building in the Plaza de España in Madrid, honoring the great Spanish filmmaker Iván Zulueta. — AP

The Blue Rose

2002 • 25 min • Netherlands

Hans is an imaginative young boy whose life is forever changed by a summer job as a postman. During his responsible task, delivering a registered letter to the wealthy Nathalie de Laat, the boy falls in love with her. He chases the girl and spies on her villa. But shy as he is, Hans is not able to communicate normally with the girl. This will change when he starts sending her daily anonymous love letters in the form of a fairy tale. Nathalie's interest is aroused, but how will Hans make himself known as the sender?

Playboy: Small Town Girls

2002 • 57 min

Playboy’s TV’s Crystal Knight introduces you to the finest homegrown honeys the country has to offer. Shot live on location in the American heartland, including famous Diamonds in Dayton, Ohio. They’re small town girls with big city moves. The home front never looks so good

Hot Body Competition: Wild Wet T-Shirt Weekend

2002 • 58 min

Even with all the great sports on TV, I think the Hot Body Wild Wet T-Shirt Weekend will pull you away. 8 scrumptious models hop under the shower to get wet and then summarily discard the now soaked garment along with anything else they remembered to wear

La Horda

2002 • 7 min

Film by Oriol Sanchez

Queens Of The Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf (Real #1)

2002 • 31 min

Bonus DVD that was released with limited edition release of the album Songs For The Deaf. Featuring 1. Monsters In The Parasol (Live) 2. No Ones Knows (Live) 3. The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret (Live) 4. Quick And To The Pointless (Live) 5. Ode To Clarissa (Live)

Jungle Girl and the Lost Island of Dinosaurs

2002 • 50 min • Australia

The story of Emma Sharp, a prim and proper English child who becomes the Jungle Girl. On their way home to England, Emma and her father, William are wrecked on a mysterious uncharted island. The crew of their boat, Captain Jack and his mate Terry, steal the island's precious Golden Monkey statue. This act unleashes a herd of dinosaurs and threatens the safety of the entire island. Beano the talking dolphin, asks Emma to help him save the island. This she does, aided by Samson the toucan, Chuntee the chimp and Zelinka the Python. The statue is returned, the island is saved and Emma returns home with a new thirst for adventure.

Genesis: The Key To Reclaiming The Culture

2002 • 41 min • United States of America

Ken Ham, in his dynamic and captivating style, exposes the foundational reasons for this collapse and challenges the church with a powerful solution to rebuild its foundation. This well-illustrated DVD presentation will uniquely equip you with the answers to defend your faith... and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ in today's culture! The Bible-the "history book of the universe"-provides a reliable, eye-witness account of the beginning of all things, and can be trusted to tell the truth in all areas it touches on.

Andre Rieu : Love Around The World

2002 • 59 min

A portion of "Love Around The World" takes place on a beautiful cruise ship called the MS Deutchland; the other portion is filmed at various locations. There are 13 songs on the DVD, plus 3 bonus selections; there is also a section of special features with a discography section. The special features section is very interesting and very enjoyable.

Game Of Death

2002 • 1 min • United Kingdom

The short is a parody of the Bruce Lee film of the same name

Estudio En Rojo

2002 • 2 min

Hand painted film on super8 film by Oriol Sánchez.