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2003 • 2 min • United States of America

Evoking the awe of the African Savannah at sunset, wild animals gather in a moody landscape for a last drink before nightfall. With the aid of a unique combination of fluid sand animation and backlit collages

Océano

2003 • 16 min • Argentina

This Wednesday at two o'clock in the morning the world will succumb under the waters.

Straight A's!

2003 • 45 min • Croatia, Netherlands

Lidija is 37, she was born in a small town on the Croatian coast. At the age of 19 she left for Amsterdam, where she was promised a waitressing job, but she ended up in the Red Light District. After 15 years, she returns to her hometown to turn a new page and become a mother. In the film she speaks up for the first time about leaving and returning to a conservative community, everything she experienced in between and describes Amsterdam’s windows, porn sets, Playboy covers.

Making of New York RH Avenue

2003 • 60 min

Making of New York RH Avenue & Collage of Our Life, starring actor and idol Ryoko Hirosue.

Axon

2003 • 16 min • United States of America

A FILM BY ALEX ROSSING

Ana's Poems

2003 • 28 min • Croatia

Ana’s Poems is a story about the folk poet Ana Šebalj from the village of Komletinci near Vinkovci and her best friend Mandica. These two "little girls trapped in the bodies of old women", as they were described by a film critic, in their lonely lives only have each other and the remarkable vitality of spirit.

Eilert Forever

2003 • 29 min • Sweden

Follows Elvis impersonator Eilert Pilarm on his last tour before retiring. Eilert has been obsessed with Elvis since he was a teenager and it has become a bigger and bigger part of his identity.

Love Cube

2003 • 2 min • Italy

The Birthday Party

2003 • 14 min

It's Tiffany's twenty-first birthday, and she's having a party with her closest friends. There's lots of drinking and kissing, and as the party progresses, various couples pair off, including Tiffany's boyfriend Drew with someone else. Her closest friend, Beth, hears strange noises from time to time, and finally goes to investigate. Tiffany and Drew follow with a flashlight. What sort of party will this turn out to be, and will Tiffany find true love?

Problema

2003 • 8 min • Brazil

What happens when two friends meet.

Pullin' the Devil by the Tail

2003 • 7 min • Ireland

A black goat talks to three old Irish folk-punks as they're walking home one night, and they freak out and kill it. The Devil turns up and claims it was his goat. He challenges them to play him a good song. If he likes it, he'll let them go. If he doesn't...

Vertical

2003 • 4 min • Canada

To the sound of a ramshackle brass band, a world slides towards ruin, carrying with it houses, birds, idols, balloons and whatever is left of reason. Theodore Ushev's Vertical combines expressionistic graphics with a scathing black humour and sense of the absurd.

Fairy Secter Tentoh Battle 7

2003 • 25 min • Japan

Tentos who came to play in the sea? !! Before that, the Antry Corps suddenly appears, the tents who suddenly become a battlefield on a peaceful beach, and the shadows and lights that stare at them.

Latent

2003 • 3 min

Peter Miller/R.Todd collaboration: Super8 text and image poetry. 2003

Summer In 1945

2003 • 20 min

One day, Hwa Young (Lee Seong Yeon, 3-iron) receives a mysterious parcel labeled "So Hwa 20 Years". In it, she finds an official death notice and some personal belongings of a Japanese soldier. A photo displaying the deceased soldier and a woman catches her attention. The woman on the photo looks just like her! Terrified, Hwa Young throws out the package, but a few days later, the same package reappears.

Nyancos: Hello! Our Brilliant Future

2003 • 25 min • Japan

Nyancos are UFO-riding cat women from space. They are whimsical, charming, and love all things beautiful and artistic as they watch worlds blossom. The OVA contains no dialogue, only background music.

Palace of the Winds

2003 • 58 min • India

Vipin Vijay's Palace of the Winds is a poetic essay about that "Holy Little Box," the radio, conceived of as a ghostly transmitter of Indian cultural artifacts.

Buscando el azul

2003 • 43 min • Peru

A warm and human portrait of Victor Churay and is narrated in the artist's own voice. The film traces the artist's personal and family history. Most of the documentary is filmed in natural settings of his Pucaurquillo

Old Man

2003 • 14 min

The plot of the film reveals a typical situation during Soviet stagnation. An old man and war veteran who is respected in the village prepares to pass onto another world and is making a coffin for himself. No one cares about him in the village, but there is they care about Luis Corvalan, who lives far across the ocean. By order of the Communist Party, the villagers hold a rally for the release of Luis Corvalan.

Sympathy

2003 • 5 min

The three-woman strong artists' collaboration The Icelandic Love Corporation's animation guides the viewer to friendship through the world's perils and paranoia. Narrated in the grey hues of a 1970s Czech cartoon, the forces of good and evil battle it out in a mythical universe as Hieronymus Bosch-style creatures meet Icelandic elves to a drum-solo frenzy. And at the end, we receive the hard won advice on how to stay (or become) sympathetic.

Verirrte Eskimos

2003 • 31 min • Germany

A supposedly deaf-mute peddler, who roams the countryside as a dance vendor and day laborer, meets a single woman who keeps her desire for closeness at a distance with anonymous phone sex. The two emotional Eskimos attract and repel each other, lie to and desire each other, perform egg dances on frosty-thin ground, fight for affection and a goldfish always ready to break out.

Discrepant Sight

2003 • 7 min

How well can movies reproduce the reality we see? Cinema used to record and reproduce the movements of the scene using a camera (photograph), a device that records the scene in terms of perspective. Is it true? Isn't it possible that our way of seeing things, on the contrary, was created by photographs and movies, or by paintings based on perspective that existed before then? This film provokes the way of viewing films cultivated in this way.

Uso mis manos. Uso mis ideas

2003 • 55 min • Argentina

In 1973, a group of grassroots activists launched an adult literacy project in the Villa Obrera neighborhood, on the outskirts of Centenario, Neuquén province, drawing on Cuban experiences and those developed by Paulo Freire in the 1960s. This initiative was filmed by professional photographer Raúl Rodríguez, with the goal of creating a film that would be useful for other neighborhoods and also provide a testament to the work accomplished. Thirty years later, "I Use My Hands, I Use My Ideas" rescues these images and the testimonies of those who participated in the project, a precursor to national literacy campaigns. It was an experience that drew on popular support and aimed to transform the traditional concept of education, fostering a critical reading of reality.

Pretty Big Dig

2003 • 3 min • Canada

Three excavation vehicles move together with impressive grace to a contemporary classical score, gently inviting us to re-examine the way we view dance and technology.