All Films

Trieste

2002 • 5 min • Italy

Based on slides shot in 1978 of the Austrian aktion artist Hermann Nitsch. Put away for 24 years, the color transparencies are spread out on a light table. The images are examined with a macro lens and captured with digital video. Not so much a reconstruction, or documentary of an event but a process of re-imagining. A hundred frames record a 12-hour, noon to midnight performance in an Roman amphitheatre in the center of Trieste in Northern Italy. Hermann Nitsch has been creating his unique rituals since the early 1970’s. The blood flows over naked bodies strapped on crosses, carried blindfolded, senses are tweaked with percussion sounds and blaring brass instruments. Religious iconography, operatic orchestrations of cast, crew, friends, and the public who eat, dance, drink.

Hitting It Hard

2002 • 10 min • United States of America

The press tour to promote the film Vanilla Sky (2001) does quite a number on its stars. We see how tired an actor can get after answering the same questions over and over again at various press junkets and premieres.

D.I.Y. Hard

2002 • 10 min • United Kingdom

A hostage situation takes an unusual turn.

Playing Dead: Resident Evil from Game to Screen

2002 • 15 min • United States of America

Resident Evil featurette.

The Cherries Which Were Canned

2002 • 13 min • Iran

The last intimate night of a young couple before the husband leaves for the frontline.

Asshole

2002 • 7 min • United States of America

In the fall of 2001 just a month and a half after the 9/11 attack on New York, David Kramer's studio suffers a devastating gas explosion. Kramer tries to find the significance of these two national tragedies.

Metade Sexo, Metade Mussarela

2002 • 54 min • Brazil

Alberto and Lurdinha get married, but the girl cannot accept being supported by her husband and decides, secretly, to be an attendant for a telesex company. Upon discovering his wife's activity, Alberto feels betrayed and the marriage goes into crisis.

All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger

2002 • 23 min • United States of America

10th Anniversary documentary looking back at Unforgiven (1992)

Caravan

2002 • 8 min • Norway

Marianne has left Morten - again. He looks her up in hope of winning her back, but things take a turn for the unexpected as the couple's old caravan decides to have a say in the matter.

The White Darkness

2002 • 48 min • United Kingdom

A documentary about voodoo in modern-day Haiti.

Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl

2002 • 52 min

A series of 2-4 minute shorts. All films begin with a line from Edgar Allan Poe's Lenore: "A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young". "Dirge" also happens to be the pseudonymous surname of Lenore's creator.

Dark Side of the Moon

2002 • 52 min • France

A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel which originally aired on Arte in 2002 with the title Opération Lune. The basic premise for the film is the theory that the television footage from the Apollo 11 Moon landing was faked and actually recorded in a studio by the CIA with help from director Stanley Kubrick.

Thai Boxing: A Fighting Chance

2002 • 50 min • Thailand

Three fighters pursue their dreams in the world of muay thai. Sam Sheridan, a 27-year-old Harvard graduate, travels to Thailand to train under a legendary champion. Gong-Prai Sorjintana, a 13-year-old boy, fights to earn money for his education. Boon-Term Kitmuti, a 29-year-old mother, defies tradition to enter the ring despite her husband's disapproval. As they prepare for their toughest battles, their journeys reveal the challenges, sacrifices, and passion behind the sport.

Family Again

2002 • 60 min • Sweden

23 years after Ruben Östlund's parents divorce, both his mom and dad are single again. With a child's hope of an entire family, he tries to reconcile them in front of a new outward eye, the camera.

Covert

2002 • 3 min • United Kingdom

In a covert listing station an operative picks up a telephone conversation between someone he suspects is an agent and someone called mother. He follows their communication and intercepts another message about cakes and candles. However has he stumbled upon a plot of major importance or just something innocent?

Mysteries of Easter Island

2002 • 46 min • United States of America

Easter Island has long been the subject of curiosity and speculation. A triangle of volcanic rock in the South Pacific, Easter Island is over 2000 miles away from the nearest population center, making it one of the most isolated spots on Earth. It is best known for the giant stone statues, known as the Moai, that dot the coastline.

No Staging Today!

2002 • 30 min • Brazil

Radical experimentalism of anti-cinema metalanguage that wants to experience sensations. It was filmed with a bunch of people who wanted to have a party, but that we at Canibal Filmes tested them to see who was good at interpreting.

A Kind of Childhood

2002 • 51 min • Bangladesh

This is a film which challenges our notions of child labor. It peeks into a world where the concept of childhood as we know it has no meaning, where children support their parents, and where work is just another part of growing up. This is Dhaka, Bangladesh. Following several children over a period of six years, A KIND OF CHILDHOOD is an attempt to focus on the realities of child labor, with real children, their struggles and dreams.

Sindrome de divagación

2002 • 7 min • Dominican Republic

Ana tells her story in a call with Cleo, worried about a mysterious comeback in her life.

To The Spring Mountain

2002 • 22 min • South Korea

A mother and daughter are climbing a deserted mountain path, carrying their father's body. They came to this mountain to follow the father's last will to be buried somewhere in the mountains designated as a military operation zone, but the coffin breaks and the porter disappears along the way, and the mother and daughter's journey seems far away. They finally arrive at the gravesite, and what ending awaits them?

Iron and Beyond

2002 • 14 min

This short documentary explores just how the film Pumping Iron revolutionized the fitness industry and created an international icon in Arnold Schwarzenegger. It also touches on what Hollywood's idea of an action star was and is.

The Little Cotton Girl

2002 • 6 min • Brazil

The urban legend of 'cotton girl'. The dead girl appeared in the bathrooms of schools to terrorize children.

Kafka Goes to the Movies

2002 • 54 min • France, Germany

While working on a television movie project about Franz Kafka, German actor Hanns Zischler discovered a series of passionate writings in Kafka's journals about his own moviegoing. Zischler, who also wrote a book of the same title, spent the next twenty-five years combing through archives and libraries to locate many of the now-extinct films cited by Kafka in his journals. The result is a witty conjecture on the Czech writer's fascination with film and Zischler's fascination with Kafka.

Dolando

2002 • 7 min • Germany, Italy, France

"At the end of filming Umiliati, Straub and Huillet gave thanks to the cast and crew in a graceful way: by inviting Dolando Bernardini to sing several stanzas from Torquato Tasso’s 16th-century epic poem Jerusalem Delivered." - MoMA