All Films

American Mullet

2001 • 52 min

This documentary emphasizes that people have strong feelings about the mullet - very popular hair style among lesbians, race car drivers and others. The general attitude about the mullet is not all positive; some people are even harassed for having one. The director toured the USA asking one and all what they thought about this coif. The journey is not only hilariously funny, it's also enlightening. Turns out, the mullet isn't just a dyke cut. Musicians, bikers and Latino soccer players all love that style.

No Dumb Questions

2001 • 24 min

A documentary about three sisters, aged 6, 9 and 11, struggling to understand why and how their Uncle Bill is becoming a woman.

Caught Between Worlds

2001 • 50 min

Immerse yourself in unfathomable worlds of marvel and mystery through the cutting-edge of 3D computer animation art. Prepare to be caught between everyday reality and dimensions that lie beyond your wildest imaginations. A mysterious soundtrack fuses sound with perplexing imagery to create an amazing journey of insight and wonder.

Fear of Blushing

2001 • 6 min • United States of America

Fear of Blushing bursts forth with irrepressible hand-painted color, corroded emulsion and a menacing soundscape of looped voices, distorted instrumentals, samples & rhythm. Fleeting visions and voices erupt out of the ominous abstraction in unusual juxtapositions, suggesting a cinematic free-association marked by anxiety, pleasure and shame. Best appreciated in the immediate; the 7200 painted frames fly by at an average of 12 per second.

The Drum Buddy Show

2001 • 50 min

Ninth Ward musician and inventor Mr. Quintron shows off his new instrument, the Drum Buddy, with the help of some friends.

Night Mulch

2001 • 2 min • United States of America

This film is hand-painted and is essentially about the interplay between hypnagogic vision and words, the effect of the one upon the other, the contest between the two. The hypnagogic (hand-paint) shapes are multiple and variably complex that they tend to suggest a variety of almost recognizable shapes, such as many brightly colored people or a mulch of flowers. The words, such as "Subversive" and "Liberating", along with many which are unreadable, seem to struggle for an equality of viewer comprehension, almost as if the brain were coming to terms again with the origins of written language: the pun "Quills" accentuates this. In all cases, language is subsumed, but leaves a distinctive trail of itself distinct from the painted images.

Seventeen

2001 • 3 min • Japan

Be - Dirty, Sinful Me

2001 • 50 min

Bjørn-Erik was a 19 year old devoted Christian. When he determined that he was gay who decided to kill himself rather than living a "dirty and sinful" life. Through excerpts from his diary we learn that he didn't seek any guidance and he got none. His friends and family are interviewed as well as a gay Lutheran couple and some Christian fundamentalists.

Uzbek Express!

2001 • 7 min • Germany, Uzbekistan

Tashkent Station in the Uzbekistan capital: Passengers rush to catch their trains. A couple, locked in an intimate embrace, so deeply affects the train driver that leaves the train standing and makes a fundamental change in his life. A miniature by Veit Helmer.

WebCam Boys

2001 • 57 min

Ten men who run gay webcam sites discuss the pros and cons of life on-line. Among the 10 are a young surfer with a hyper sex drive, a bisexual man with a girlfriend who's expecting, two brothers who are closer than most parents would want, a hustler who collects movie memorabilia and an aging porn star who is using this as a way of working through some old issues.

Big Band

2001 • 3 min • France

Super 8mm / color / silent / 1S / 3' 00

Marc Dutroux and the Dead Witnesses

2001 • 30 min • Germany

A German documentary about the Marc Dutroux case, one of the most horrid elite pedophilia scandals ever unearthed.

Sans Titre

2001 • 6 min

Optically printed, hand processed and painted, this film records the space of light. It attempts to remove the Form of abstraction from Matter and thus places the viewerin a virtual temporal-space. The last minute of film is comprised of clear leader. After this, the projector remains running with no film passing through its gate for30 - 60 seconds. This flickering white light completes the film’s projection.

Body Double 15

2001 • 9 min

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Brian de Palma's Dressed to Kill

Poles Apart: The Blue Poles Controversy

2001 • 52 min • Australia

The year is 1973. A reforming Labor government swept into power determined to change the direction of the country. In an act of unpredendented daring the Whitlam government paid the highest price ever for an American painting for it's planned National Gallery. The painting was Jackson Pollock's "Blue Poles". 'Drunks did it' screamed the tabloid press. Journalists, politicians and cartoonists had a field day, while everybody, but everybody, across the nation had an opinion. Today painter Jackson Pollock's masterpiece is unquestionably the most famous painting in Australia. It has become a symbol of our independence, signaling the departure from our British roots and entry into a brave new world.

Make a Wish

2001 • 6 min

Sometimes a woman doesn't get her man, heaven knows why...

A Way Out

2001 • 53 min • Canada

A Way Out is a documentary about breaking the cycle of poverty in Canadian's oldest and largest "ghetto," Regent Park. In addition to talking about what it is like to grow up poor in North America, it explores the reasons behind one person finding a way out of poverty and others remaining. As a former resident of a low-income community, Christene Browne went back to find out what had happened to some of her old friends. Formal and impromptu interviews are conducted and the community is revealed through footage and stills.

Semi-Detached

2001 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A collection of films by Gee Vaucher, member of CRASS and the artist behind their groundbreaking graphic art. Made between 1978-1984, these films are visual extensions of the music and ideas of Gee and Crass and were shown during all of their gigs.

Vermilion Pleasure Night Volume 2

2001 • 53 min • Japan

Often sexy, sometimes profane – but always provocative – VERMILLION PLEASURE NIGHT is a variety show that stands out even by the offbeat standards of Japanese late night television---required viewing for the Japanophile, the college student, and the urban hipster!

Im Schnee

2001 • 2 min • Germany

HF860 - Super 8 (Black & White) film by Helga Fanderl

Souha, Surviving Hell

2001 • 57 min • Lebanon

The film follows Souha Béchara’s return to her village, Deir Mimas, to the Khiam jail, in the very place where she tried to assassinate General Lahd. For Souha, surviving hell is a joyful, thoughtful, and liberating travel diary. The diary of a trip that, for a moment, let one believe in the possible reconciliation of

Circulation

2001 • 1 min • Japan

Short film by Shizuko Tabata.

1/1

2001 • 4 min • United States of America

1/1 is a new direction for Seoungho Cho. This playful study, shot largely in degraded black and white, knowingly recalls the early performative experiments of 1970's video practitioners. In part an exercise in gesture and noise, the piece is also a reflexive anecdote on the nature of video itself.

Brendan Grace - A Night At The Opera House

2001 • 42 min