All Films

The Long Count II (Rumble In The Jungle)

2001 • 15 min

The Long Count (Rumble In The Jungle), is the second of three works in which the artist has painstakingly removed Muhammad Ali from the boxer’s most famous bouts. This piece continues his investigation of racial identity through his use of popular iconography, namely athletes and movie stars, across various media.

The Light Touch Dust Nebula

2001 • 5 min • United States of America

The Light Touch Dust Nebula is a hand-painted film, optically printed with carefully controlled temperature and lighting. Thermotropic (temperature sensitive) liquid crystal paint applied to decayed film changes from red to blue with heat. In-camera optical effects expose the contrast between the two extremes. This film exposes the warmth of light and its birth to form and motion in cinema.

Munkphilm

2001 • 5 min • United States of America

Munkphilm explores meditation and inspiration in the cinematic medium. Carefully timed, animated fades set a rhythm that is interrupted and overlapped by moments of luminescence. These moments come and go, but in the end we are left with the original breath

In the House of Equal and Opposite Reaction

2001 • 4 min

In The House of Equal and Opposite Reaction was a gift that I was reluctant to accept and even more reluctant to share until I did so accidentally, calming somewhat my mind and the minds of my unwitting audience. The majority of the footage was filmed from my rooftop on September 11th, 2001 with my super-8 camera, which was already loaded with film from my home movies (my dog, Myairo, whom I filmed in my home over a month prior.)

Cyberslut

2001 • 9 min

Musings of a self proclaimed cyberslut on the attractions of his ongoing habit of meeting men thru cyberspace from his first "speedy 1200 baud modem" to the present day.

Ascension

2001 • 6 min

Short 16mm film by Glen Fogel comprised of heavily altered footage of winners' faces on The Price is RIght

The Space in Between (Airport Architecture)

2001 • 15 min

". . . Nevertheless, Fogel pushes these pictures of escalators and suitcase-toting travelers deeply into lyrical, Rorschach-symmetrical abstraction. In the course of moving from video to film, the images become flattened into painterly icons and patterns; their contrast has been increased, and the colors shifted into gemlike purples, greens and blues. Edited with a primal shape-based rhythm, Airport Architecture was created for a live musical accompaniment by Greta Cohn and James Hoff." —Ed Halter

Control Sequences

2001 • 6 min

"Super 8 images of a cellophane-covered male body floating in water are blown up into two separate movies—one video, the other 16mm—which screen simultaneously as superimpositions upon one another, further altered through colored gels placed in front of the projectors. The overlapped projections create an uncanny 3D effect, while the claustrophobic shots of the man's open mouth attempting to breath through clinging cellophane and roiling water, and the film's respiratory soundtrack, unveils a thanatos within its eros." —Ed Halter

Anodyne

2001 • 3 min • United States of America

Mixing old tech with new, these lyrical abstractions explore red-gold color fields created with photograms (direct exposure of film without cameras), then animated through 16mm rephotography and digital manipulation. Soothing and melancholy, Wills works in the aleatory-painterly tradition of Brakhage, but with sound: the tracks consist of classical music, spoken word, and altered bits of everyday noises. Floral images link her work to Victorian embroidery and other womanly parlor arts. (Ed Halte)

Ballast

2001 • 2 min • Netherlands

Plastic bags behind a driving car

You Don't Want to Do That

2001 • 39 min

Jeremy Clarkson presents humorous clips of vintage public service films and gives his commentary on them.

Shattered Lives: The Dean Olds Story

2001 • 55 min

Dean Olds and his wife Suzanne appeared to have it all -- a nice home, a 30-year marriage, and three grown children. Then on December 28, 1993, Suzanne was found beaten to death in the driveway of her home. Over the next three years, Dean's double life would be exposed, and he would end up penniless and alone.

Glutinosity

2001 • 29 min

Glutinosity, 2001, depicts a stage resembling the context of a riot and social masses as politic actors: uniformed crowd pulls and pushes the bodies of another group which seems to be glued together, presenting a single multifarious human mass. These strength and counter strength create a choreography around the density of the crowd and the weight of the crowded bodies.

Surface Tension

2001 • 3 min

snow, water, christmas lights, and shopping malls

Ghosts Along the Ompompanoosuc

2001 • 4 min • United States of America

A spectral love story shot on Super 8 film. Dedicated to the great photographer and haunter of ruins Clarence John Lauglin

Montessori Sword Fight

2001 • 9 min • United States of America

A young girl struggles to perfect her new found passion, swordfighting. She discovers her role model when a band of Montessori school children invite her to a demonstration given by a legendary Hollywood master. After intense training, the children's adroit sword play awakens their competitive instincts. They rebel against their teacher, and a harrowing duel ensues. The heroine faces internal turmoil, when the Montessori gang forces her to choose between her master's path and their growing power. The film combines optically printed and hand processed original and appropriated imagery.

Peripheria

2001 • 8 min

Time passes in the outskirts of a city: light, shadows and time move towards warehouses. Aluminum-colored days are rising, neon nights are setting.

Trembling Flesh

2001 • 8 min • Canada

A poetic meditation on the beauty, perils and power of sexuality in a transsexual woman's body.

An Old Cruller

2001 • 15 min

Multimedia artist Jiang Zhi's sixth video art work. From his website: "The cruller is a popular food for Chinese people, who often treat them as breakfast. This is a short film full of humor. The person used the cruller as stage prop，and made a series of unimaginably strange actions in our daily life."

67/97

2001 • 7 min

67/97 begins by imagining the information collected when a bar code is scanned, and then asks: What if everything could be read by a scanner? What information would be retrieved, what secrets revealed? A barrage of text is generated as a laser reads bar codes and then food, objects, and the body, while the beeps of the scanner create an uncanny soundtrack. Cho employs the technology of scanning to meditate upon the process of information gathering and the construction of meaning. 67/97 is a lyrical and witty investigation of data systems, surveillance and information overload.

Candide

2001 • 10 min • United States of America

Appropriated television images and music accompany excerpts from a sound effects CD, all seeking connections between nationalism, television, and Voltaire’s satire Candide.

Mind Your Own Business

2001 • 4 min • South Korea

Abstract animation by Young-jae Shin

O tempo perdido

2001 • 16 min • Spain

People associated with the art world give their personal interpretation of verses taken out of context of the respective poem. We see images, hear sounds, they interpret… What is ‘the city and the world’? What is ‘the room’? What does ‘the jails of time contract’ mean? This piece reveals the feelings prompted by reflection on the simple wording of a poem, which is ultimately reconstructed to propose a discussion around time and where we wasted it.

Bleip: No

2001 • 3 min • France

Short film by Jean-Philippe Desclandes and Genevieve Gauckler