All Films

Goths Make Better Lovers

2002 • 9 min • United Kingdom

"A short film about the love too miserable to speak its name. Goths Make Better Lovers asks why do Goths always have boyfriends? Goths, so often the victims of wry asides, mild pity or open scorn have much to teach their more colourful bretheren when it comes to affairs of the heart. Because Goths always appear to be in a relationship - and obtusely, these relationships appear to be happier than the non-Goth kind."

August Sander: People of the 20th Century

2002 • 44 min • Germany

As the first documentary filmmaker, Reiner Holzemer has produced a film about the most famous German photographer, which shows both, the work and his biography. It introduces Sanders heritage from a poor minors family in the „Westerwald“, a region located in the midwest of Germany, as well as his early career as a studio photographer in Trier and Linz, and his most productive period between the Twenties and Thirties in Cologne, where he developed his big project „People of the 20th century“.

Into the Fire: American Women in the Spanish Civil War

2002 • 58 min

In 1936, a right-wing military coup tried to overthrow the new, legally elected, democratic government of Spain. Hitler and Mussolini quickly joined the fight on the side of the fascist military. In response, and against the wishes of the U.S. government, about 80 American women joined over 2700 of their countrymen to volunteer for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. This film is composed of interviews with and excerpts from the letters, journals, and published writings of some of these women, as well as of supporters and sympathizers including Martha Gellhorn, Eleanor Roosevelt, Virginia Cowles, Josephine Herbst, and Dorothy Parker.

Relics from the Rubble

2002 • 52 min

Artifacts (and the lack thereof) from the WTC collapse debris field.

Omidvar Brothers

2002 • 30 min • Iran

It is the life story of two brothers named Isa and Mohammad Ali who start a journey around the world together and set up their photo exhibitions in different areas.

Hemispheres

2002 • 15 min • United States of America

Gern Fletcher is stuck in the middle of a boring and dull life - void of creativity, color or energy. Tonight, though teased with assured instant relief from his doldrums, his logic pulls him into the restroom to 'think about it'. So begins the classic battle of heart and mind. This short film was inspired by the rock band Rush's 1978 album of the same title.

Evita against the oligarch vampires

2002 • 13 min • Argentina

The vast majority of the population is infected by a strange virus that makes them act like animals. The responsible are a group of oligarchic vampires that seek to totally devastate Argentina. Their new plan is to resurrect the dead and form an army of zombies. In an inhospitable place a group of Non-Infected Catholics survive.

Soak

2002 • 60 min • United States of America

Formally, an intriguing depiction of video as forward motion, or as technology of road movies and dreams. Alshaibi intercuts footage of a Southeastern Asian trip with a young man’s venereal disease-influenced fantasies of a strange young woman.

Great Homes of Rochester

2002 • 46 min • United States of America

Travel through the streets of Rochester and you’ll find some extraordinary architecture. From California bungalows to English Tudors, French colonials to Victorians, the Flour City is home to so many beautiful dwellings. WXXI takes you on a private tour inside some of these exquisite house in Great Homes of Rochester.

La Véritable Histoire du Petit Chaperon rouge

2002 • 55 min • France

Annabel Lee

2002 • 20 min

Poe's poem told with stop-motion animation.

Neutral Camp

2002 • 31 min

A group of jews are translated to a concentration camp. They must to escape.

Yashmak

2002 • 4 min

Music video director and commercial director James Brown shoots a stylized peek behind a yashmak veil, where a traditional Muslim custom is co-opted by a modern twist

Solzhenitsyn. On The Final Stretch

2002 • 46 min • Russia

In the film by Sergei Miroshnichenko, the classic of Russian and world literature Alexander Solzhenitsyn reflects on his human and writer's fate: "... well, a lot has already been done in life. Maybe I'm on the last stretch, and the river doesn't promise me any elbow ahead yet… But the heart does not submit to the last mold." The writer appears before the audience as a husband and father - the head of a large and friendly family.

The Nazi Plan to Bomb New York

2002 • 44 min • United States of America

The true story of the German Air Ministry commissioning designs of an aircraft capable of bombing New York City during World War II. Each plan is reviewed through interviews, archive footage, re-creations, and 3-D animation.

Placebo

2002 • 27 min • United States of America

A computer-animated short film that parodies fitness infomercials.

Un tal Ragone: deconstruyendo a Pa

2002 • 50 min • Argentina

This documentary deconstructs the life of my father, Carlos Ragone, based on his work as a photographer and photojournalist: father and daughter, photographs and audiovisuals, memory and imagination intertwine.

Diego, The Forbidden Island

2002 • 52 min • Mauritius

This documentary tells of how the Chagossians were torn from their islands in the northern Indian Ocean. In 1965, the Colonial British authorities declared the isle separate from Mauritius in exchange of its independence. Then, the United States rented Diego Garcia, the largest of the isles, to install a military base and the population was sent to Mauritius. The Chagossians have spent the past 36 years living in extreme poverty in Mauritius, dreaming of one day going home.

4 dreams, 4 gardens

2002 • 16 min • Japan

A film by Masakatsu Takagi

My Daughter

2002 • 4 min

S8 experimental short by Marlene Dumas, her only film.

The Secret of the First Day

2002 • 25 min • Cyprus

Alkis is a shy young man who lives with his paralyzed, authoritarian mother, who spends her hours nostalgic for her old glory as a theater actress. In an attempt to escape from his sterile environment, Alkis tries one of the dating services by phone, thus starting a journey of self-knowledge.

My Family

2002 • 1 min • Uruguay

The younger members of a big happy family reflect on how lucky they are.

The Helical Heart

2002 • 37 min • United States of America

Video presentation of Paco Torrent-Guasp's groundbreaking discovery of The Helical Heart. This new understanding of heart structure reveals how the helical heart muscle causes normal and abnormal cardiac performance. Winner of the 2005 Freddie Award from The International Health and Medical Media Awards for health and medical videos (the bio-medical equivalent to the Oscars and the Emmys). It won both the Basic and Clinical Science Category, and the overall Surgeon's General Award for Outstanding Health Professional Entry.

Song of the Gallows

2002 • 9 min • Czech Republic, Finland, Norway

The Song of the Gallows is based on a medieval, seventeenth-century story about a magic violin that saves the life of a Roma man from the gallows. The Polish princess Katarina Jagellonica arrives in Finland in order to get married to Duke Juhana; after listening to the Romani musician playing his instrument she agrees to his request that all the gallows should be torn down in the country to save the Roma from execution.