All Films

Family Portrait

2001 • 5 min

Short by Cosimo Terlizzi.

Holo Mai Pele

2001 • 54 min

This is the story of the Fire Goddess Pele and the dynamics of her relationship with her sister Hi’iaka. Six years ago, the renowned dance company Halau 'O Kekuhi began the ambitious undertaking of assembling and recreating the legend for modern audiences, translating it to the contemporary stage by combining the traditions of Hawaiian chant and hula with innovative elements of Western theater.

Blue Haven

2001 • 17 min • United States of America

Two skateboarders search for the perfect swimming pool to skate, but $40,000 and a sex change later, they find true love instead. Henry and Fakie live a joyous simple life combing the city for a Blue Haven pool to skate. If only Fakie could find the forty grand he needs to bankroll his sex change. Luckily Fate intrudes to lend a helping hand but neither Henry nor Fakie anticipate that every weird accident is usually followed up by increasingly weird accidents.

Candidature

2001 • 45 min • France

Jean, a young Parisian philosopher, travels to Angoulême to take part in a recruitment competition for the National Education. On the bus, he meets two other candidates, Pauline, an unscrupulous young woman, and Luc Dunoyer, a brilliant specialist of Descartes. The presence of the latter, who has never failed an exam, makes Jean lose all his means. But Dunoyer has fallen asleep on the bus.

Chirpy

2001 • 12 min • United States of America

Described by the director as his statement on modern pornography, the film follows the misadventures of a small yellow bird, which include the adult themes of hallucinogenic drugs and sexual intercourse with a horse.

Gandor: The Hunt for the Nirdala

2001 • 15 min • Yugoslavia

One man's battle for humanity! Bosko Drljic is a man that left he's job, way of living, and everything material behind, and gone in nature to hunt mystical creature Nirdala, witch represents all the evil in the world.

Rewriting the Script: A Love Letter to our Families

2001 • 46 min • Canada

Rewriting the Script features frank discussions with parents, siblings and extended family members of South Asian gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people. Poignant testimonies are shared not only about the coming out experience but how these families transformed themselves to include their queer children, changing the larger South Asian community in the process. The documentary speaks not only to experiences of South Asians (which includes people originating from the Indian subcontinent), but to other diasporic communities as well.

Transworld - Videoradio

2001 • 35 min • Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy

“Through seven countries in three weeks Transworld Skateboarding’s Videoradio follows Jamie Thomas Chad Muska Mark Appleyard Colt Cannon John Rattray Adrian Lopez Chris Cole Sammy Baptista and special guest Tom Penny along the Circa Footwear European Tour of June 2001 Beyond the daily barrage of demos interviews autographs and latenight street missions Videoradio goes deep inside the experience to explore a journey that captures the true essence of skateboarding friendship fun and life in the moment” Adrian Lopez, Chad Muska, Chris Cole, Colt Cannon, Jamie Thomas, John Rattray, Mark Appleyard, Sammy Baptista, Tom Penny

In the Company of Compañeros

2001 • 17 min • Italy

In the Company of Compañeros is an interview featurette with Franco Nero, Tomas Milian and composer Ennio Morricone

The Making Of The Katakuris

2001 • 30 min • Japan

In this contemporary documentary, the cast and the crew share their experiences of making the film.

National Geographic: Inside the Vatican

2001 • 50 min

Provides a behind-the-scenes look, with unprecedented access, into life inside the Vatican. With rare footage of secret archives, private chapels and papal quarters, the program explores the Vatican's long, powerful history, and the unique traditions and ceremonies that have survived for nearly 2000 years. Accounts from Vatican officiants, historians and devoted individuals who work closely with the Pope John Paul II provide privilieged insight into the inner workings of one of the richest wonders of the world.

Song of Sea

2001 • 4 min

Part of the “10 Poets 10 Directors” project funded by the Ministry of Culture.

The Passion of Joan of Arc

2001 • 12 min

The story of "Joan of Arc" is one of the most frequently told tales in cinema's hundred plus year history. This brand new version is a post-mortem/post- modern collaboration between the Great Dane Carl Dreyer and Marie Losier, who inserts herself into the 1928 film as God's greatest lover and France's most cherished martyr. A funny tragedy.

Ben Boyer and the Phenomenology of Automobile Marketing

2001 • 5 min

While sitting on the toilet one November morning, Ben Boyer receives a Jungian lesson on archetypal marketing.

All Water Has a Perfect Memory

2001 • 19 min

An experimental documentary about a family's loss of a child and the struggle between remembrance and forgetting. The film explores the cultural differences between a North American mother and a Mexican father in the face of death.

Nine Lives (The Eternal Moment of Now)

2001 • 1 min • United States of America

Exploring imagination, memories, dreams, or past lives of Pinky the cat.

Vamperotica: Flesh and Blood

2001 • 30 min • United States of America

Kirk Lindo's Vampiress Luxura is brought to life in living Flesh and Blood by the incomparable Julie Strain, who portrays The Ultimate Vampire Queen in all her glory! This 30 minute DVD features behind the scenes footage of the project, which also resulted in a trading card set, magazines and a CD rom release.

The Pizza Man

2001 • 48 min

A pizza delivery man kills his customers.

Bean Cake

2001 • 12 min • United States of America

On his first day of school in Tokyo 1933, young Uchida Taro makes the mistake of saying he likes his favourite snack more than the Emperor.

Slick City: The Adventures of Lela Devin

2001 • 60 min • United States of America

In the year 2011, virtual reality is within reach. When two of Lela's friends create the first virtuaslave program, they promptly go missing. She sets out to discover the truth. Soon, Lela herself becomes embroiled in a plot far more devious which it threatens her life and the lives of her friends.

Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'

2001 • 29 min • United States of America

This retrospective documentary offers a first-rate account of the making of 'Marathon Man'. Hoffman, Scheider, Keller and Goldman all share their memories, many of which are remarkably detailed. Even the change in the ending is addressed, and twenty-five years later, Goldman seems to have resigned himself to the rewrite.

Bee Gees: This Is Where I Came In

2001 • 52 min • United Kingdom

This Is Where I Came In is the Bee Gees' 22nd and final studio album (twentieth worldwide), released in 2001. It is the only album of all-new material released by them on the Universal Music label (which had acquired the rights to the group's releases on Polydor Records when they bought that label's parent PolyGram). The album peaked at #6 in the UK, while the single, "This Is Where I Came In", reached #18. In the US, the album peaked at #16. The group appeared on the A&E concert series Live by Request in April, 2001 to promote the new album.

Det goda livet

2001 • 60 min • Sweden

"The good life" is a documentary about Alf, a broker who sells expensive apartments in Stockholm. Alf lives the good life. But even the good life has several sides.

Rémi

2001 • 24 min

Three students pass their vacation in Normandie. One day they offer to stay at their house a young painter Remi.