All Films

Ysrael

2001 • 11 min • Dominican Republic

An adaptation of Junot Díaz's short story "Ysrael."

Remexicano

2001 • 4 min

Experimental film based on old Mexican movies.

High

2001 • 4 min

Experimental Short based on The Addiction

The Magic of Radio

2001 • 23 min

A wild and beautiful excursion into the world of pirate and amateur radio, including interviews with the bicycle pirate, Free Radio Austin, and Robert K6QXY; plus mystery sounds from space!

Lobo

2001 • 6 min

After a story by E Thompson - Seton The film participated in the festival Suzdal-2002 Wolf Lobo, who lived in the late 19th century in northern New Mexico near Clayton Valley Kurumampa. Story writer E.Setona-Thompson for many years was a hit, and executable on the radio and the stage. The creators of the film restored the events described in this story, explore the phenomenon of the famous Wolf.

Neither Here Nor There

2001 • 8 min

Osama Bin Laden – Britain and the USA in Iraq as through television reportage – camera only inches from the screen

FANG: An Epic Journey

2001 • 8 min

"This is a work of fiction but everything in it is based on real events." About the journey of an African sculpture, beginning in Cameroon in 1904. The film then traces what happens to the sculpture in Paris in 1907 and 1917, Berlin in 1933, and New York in 1948. The sculpture finally ends up in a museum in 1970.

Tel Aviv

2001 • 7 min

'FROM' 2001 (4 films) *A series of 4 travel films made between 1998 and 2001 according to an identical principle of scrolling all the filmed images, captured in precipitation and slowed down.

Silver Play

2001 • 16 min

"It's all coming out of Mexico. Surreal gets so real. And invader from England, France or Spain found the taste of cactus cocktail. That makes this movie sweat, ha?" (Stom Sogo)

Leaders in Battle: Oliver Cromwell

2001 • 50 min

Oliver Cromwell may be synonymous with what is now known as the Commonwealth of England, but his early years were simple. That soon changed when he proved himself a fine soldier, able to do battle in his country and abroad, as detailed in this historical documentary. But he was also a cunning operator within the confines and pressures of political life, though in the end, his reign as a de facto monarch divided his people.

Chrysalides en explosion

2001 • 17 min • France

"...Chrysalides use[s] the movie camera as a still camera, flickering between different stills of natural forms, proving once again that movement is not created in the film but in the brain.” (Pip Chodorov, 2002)

In Love

2001 • 3 min • United States of America

In this dual-channel video, two separate scenes of the artist with a parent are juxtaposed. Chang faces her mother and, in the adjacent frame, appears face–to–face with her father. Simultaneously both images show the artist’s and respective parent’s faces pressed together in what at first appears to be a deep kiss. Gradually it becomes evident that the video is running in reverse time, and that they share not a kiss but rather an onion from which they both eat. They bite into it slowly, pausing as they take turns offering it to each other, as if it suggests the proverbial, forbidden fruit. Parent and child swallow before they take additional bites, blinking hard to hold back tears from the onion’s sharpness and pungency. However, in the video’s reversal of time, the onion is reconstituted and the tears disappear—wholeness is thus regained.

The Tower of Industrial Life

2001 • 16 min • United States of America

Resembling a glimpse inside the DNA of modern existence, Guzzetti’s breathtaking composition seems to harness all the visible and invisible forces that connect and disconnect humanity. The various natural, political, violent, serene, exhilarating and alienating powers comprise a mediated complex through which the focal point of mortality appears both ever-present and faraway. Guzzetti pinpoints this surreal tension by recognizing its inherent blindness.

Vidrar Vel Til Loftarasa

2001 • 7 min

Set to the music of Sigur Ros, this short film features a football match in 1950s Iceland between two teams of young boys. As one team scores a goal and celebrates, two young boys on the same team begin to kiss.

Spoken Diary

2001 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Spoken Diary, intertwines the inner angst of a woman traversing hesitation, loss and denial with that of her journey through dark, wet and desolate streets of London.

Stethoscope

2001 • 16 min • United States of America

4 young partygoers stumble across a sight unlike any they’ve seen before: a ritual feeding of sex zombies, who thrive on both flesh and sexual pleasure.

Le Cri

2001 • 5 min • France

short film

Gobo the Elephant

2001 • 17 min • Russia

A mystical detective about the everyday life of Moscow police chasing a bloodthirsty killer elephant. Gobo, offended by fate, walks around Moscow apartments and crushes innocent citizens. Petrovka 38 has a difficult task to catch the criminal, because this is already the thirty-ninety-thousandth case in a week!

Bullenblut 2

2001 • 60 min • Switzerland

After years of absence, the Yakuza Gang around Max and Jay Jay are finally up to mischief again. And it would be all right for the naughty homies if the Deliquentes Clan could keep their hands off the big deal. The police, who are known not to shy away from losses, are getting closer and closer to resolving the case through the clever investigation by special agent Joe Miller ... But in this world, where violence is preferred over prudence, the barometer stands for death - and that's exactly what we're going to see. Bullenblut 2 is supposed to reveal how things really go on Winterthur's streets, nothing more and nothing less.

Light

2001 • 6 min • France

A journey through a magic tree that lives on my planet.

The Long Count (I Shook Up The World)

2001 • 1 min

In 'The Long Count (I Shook Up the World)," a tiny video monitor, which plays and replays in a continuous loop the third round of the 1964 match between Sonny Liston and Cassius Clay. Characteristically, the three-minute sequence has been Pfeifferized: the figures of Liston and Clay have been removed from the sequence as completely as current technology allows, serendipitously leaving a pair of ghostlike, barely discernible presences that flicker across the surface of the crowd like wind moving over water.

Nerves of Steel

2001 • 20 min

Set to the sultry sounds of a samba, this is the tale of a gay private detective hired by a desperate woman in search of her man. Hustlers, bath houses, jealousy and betrayal; all set to music you can dance to.

The Long Count III (Thrilla in Manila)

2001 • 1 min

The Long Count III (Thrilla in Manila) is the third in a series of works based on the three best-known fights in Muhammad Ali’s career between 1964 and 1975. It addresses the last rounds of the final boxing match between longtime rivals Ali and Joe Frazier, held in Manila on October 1, 1975 and ultimately won by Ali. The subtitle - Ali’s promotional slogan - indicates the subject of this work. Pfeiffer has effaced the figures of the boxers from the ring by digitally copy-pasting sections of background over them. However, they remain as blurred contours, a ghostly presence, and the ropes surrounding the ring occasionally move as one of the invisible fighters leans against them. The soundtrack was extracted from interviews with the boxers who participated in the three fights; Pfeiffer has edited out the words, and only sounds like stammering and breathing remain.

Gossamer Conglomerate

2001 • 4 min • United States of America

Gossamer Conglomerate consists of hand-manipulated material, optically printed under closely controlled and monitored lighting situations. The film explores the delicate nature of film by placing the fluttering colors of "fresh" film materials upon a colorless base of film destroyed by the molecular breakdown associated with "vinegar syndrome." The film represents the life cycle of film and its rebirth as a new and personal work and is suggestive of a butterfly's flight from the darkness of the chrysalis.