All Films

Pan Tian Shou

2003 • 5 min • China

Pan Tianshou was a Chinese painter and art educator in the 1960s. He studied Chinese traditional painting and built the foundation of Chinese traditional painting education. He was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution until his death in 1971.

copynature

2003 • 41 min • Japan

Visual album by Ryoichi Kurokawa.

A Crowning Achievement

2003 • 55 min • United States of America

The restoration of St. Paul cathedral in St. Paul, Minnesota

Three Dots

2003 • 58 min • Afghanistan

Gul Afrooz is engaged to her lover Firooz, despite this she is forced to marry an old warlord, a Khan.The Khan sends her to Iran as a drug courier for an opium ring. The ring is busted and she has to avoid the police and the revenge of the Khan (nomsheep)

Aquarela

2003 • 5 min • Brazil

With a homonymous score by Toquinho, Vinicius, Morra and Fabrizio, the film makes a metaphor between life, from birth to death, and a watercolor painting that, over time, discolours.

La Llorona

2003 • 8 min • United States of America

A comedic, revisionist retelling of the Mexican folk tale about the "weeping woman."

The Man On Top Of The Mountain

2003 • 26 min • Latvia

A documentary about Indulis Ranka, a Latvian sculptor.

Saving Face

2003 • 7 min • Lebanon

Were all the candidates’ faces posted on the walls of Lebanon during the parliamentary campaign of 2000 waiting for the results of the elections? No. As faces, they were waiting to be saved. Far better than any surgical face-lift or digital retouching, it was the physical removal of part of the poster of the face of one candidate so that the face of another candidate would partially appear under it; as well as the accretions of posters and photographs over each other that produced the most effective face-lift, and that proved a successful face-saver for all concerned. We have in these resultant recombinant posters one of the sites where Lebanese culture in specific, and Arabic culture in general, mired in an organic view of the body, in an organic body, exposes itself to inorganic bodies.

Wellspring

2003 • 49 min • China

Chukhray. Ballad of a Soldier

2003 • 48 min

If Anyone Should Happen to Get In My Way

2003 • 3 min • Canada

This animation was shot from hi-con coloured Lomo photographs of a girl in various animal states, licking her wounds. A meditation on female anger.

Precious Little Tiny Love

2003 • 3 min • Canada

An ode by a socially conscious carnivore to creatures that get crunched.

SARS in Beijing

2003 • 14 min • China

Between April and June 2003, the brutal SARS epidemic had a deep impact on Chinese people's lives, especially in Beijing. Flocks of migrant labourers who had come to the capital to find work started straggling back to their hometown in the countryside to escape the illness. I spent a day in the crowd packed into Beijing West railway station, trying to capture an event that made many feel emotional disquiet, while forcing them to meditate on their life and situation. Because of everyone's panic, many people are eager to leave Beijing to escape the disaster. On May 8th, the author recorded what happened at the Beijing West Railway Station that day, revealing the various mentalities of the Chinese people in front of emergencies.

Europlex

2003 • 21 min • Switzerland

The fourth in Ursula Biemann's critically acclaimed series of video essays that investigates migration across borders, EUROPLEX, a collaboration with Angela Sanders, tracks the daily, sometimes illicit, border crossings between Morocco and Spain- a rare intersection of the first and third worlds.

Box Factory

2003 • 1 min • United States of America

Two guys can't get along at the box factory.

Echo of Bullets

2003 • 48 min

After a year and 10 months in power, the Macapagal – Arroyo regime has committed 967 cases of human rights violations in the Southern Tagalog Region. “Alingawngaw ng mga Punglo” discusses the grim human rights situation in the region. It seeks to let the voices of the victims be heard: their anguished cry for justice and call for lasting peace.

Dem Bones

2003 • 8 min • United States of America

No bones about it, this will be a real boost for those looking to inject a little humor and fun into basic facts about the human body.

Next

2003 • 4 min • Ukraine

A bright story with black humor and concise design about how life can change radically in seconds.

Two Hanks

2003 • 26 min

This piece is about placing two major recording artists on the same stage together after they have been dead for some time. Since Hank Snow and Hank Williams never performed together during their lifetimes this was a way to bring them together with their two songs, ‘Rambling Man’ and ‘I’ve Been Everywhere.’ The thereminist, Scott Marshall, takes the two songs to another place. Footage of the audience, which was built into the construction of the work, constitutes a component of the video.

Grande Anarca

2003 • 18 min • Italy

Short film by Alvis Renzini.

Kuhu lähed?

2003 • 10 min • Estonia

A spontaneous argument between a religious messenger and his drunken opponent, accidentally caught during a bus ride. Ten minutes of fiery philosophy about life during which the whole world is put into place, from creation to true sin.

Going Down

2003 • 5 min

The elevator doors close, and suddenly our neurotic friend finds himself trapped with a raging stranger. Running out of time and options, our victim makes a desperate offer that can't be refused.

Sunken B-17 Flying Fortress

2003 • 24 min • Croatia

Crew members of the American B-17 Flying Fortress bomber where hit in 1944 during an operation above enemy territory,and the closest airport where they could safely land was on the island of Vis in Croatia. But because of the severe damage to the aircraft it fell in the sea near the island of Vis. Pilot Emerson and the gunner Sterling survived the crash After 60 years Emerson and Sterling return to see the what was left of the plane they where in that night.

The Butterfly Woman

2003 • 10 min

A spectator, who is a puppet, applauds the magic tricks of the butterfly woman, with whom he is in love. Under the force of his applause, the strings holding him in place give way. Thus free, he runs to the butterfly woman in the hope of conquering her and freeing her from her fate.