All Films

La Colline des chefs

2001 • 52 min

Luc Bachelot, a researcher with the CNRS, has been directing since 1994 the French archeological mission at Tell Shioukh Faouqâni in Syria and coordinates the excavations that are carried out there.

Mass Grave

2001 • 27 min • Indonesia

When the bones of the military massacre victims of March 1966 were found in Wonosobo in 2002, old wounds resurface. This documentary shows how the conflict stays unresolved until present-day Indonesia.

Dernier métro avant Noël

2001 • 26 min

Every Christmas morning, a brother and sister living in Zyf-Sur-Yvette, the last village in France on Santa's list, discover their Christmas tree is empty. They decide to play a trick on him the following Christmas Eve.

Terrors: Angel Dust

2001 • 30 min • Japan

Adaptation of the game "Terrors 2" for the WonderSwan Color.

Terrors: Darkness

2001 • 27 min • Japan

Adaptation of the game "Terrors 2" from the WonderSwan Color.

Terrors: Ghost Village

2001 • 27 min • Japan

Adaptation of the game "Terrors 2" for the WonderSwan Color.

Louis Armstrong: 100th Anniversary 1901-2001

2001 • 55 min • United States of America

A documentary featuring archive footage to celebrate the 100th birth of jazz legend Louis Armstrong.

The Catcher

2001 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Holden Caulfield, a boarding school drop-out, take a solo vacation to London. A student film inspired by the J.D. Salinger novel.

Carte postale...

2001 • 7 min • France

Iranian Lottery

2001 • 40 min • Iran

People of a small town in northern Iran participate in a Great Lottery buying 800,000 tickets, while they are challenging some paradoxical problems such as charitable purposes, technocracy, gambling, religious limitations, economic difficulties and "high hopes".

Every Day , Every Time

2001 • 30 min

Experimental 8mm short by Akira Hoshino.

Austria: The Land of Music

2001 • 54 min • United States of America

Begin your tour of magical Austria in Salzburg, the birthplace of Mozart that echoes with the sound of music. Meet an archduke from the Hapsburg dynasty and enjoy regional food and drink at a country tavern. Enjoy the Tyrolean atmosphere of Innsbruck and the magnificent scenery of Heiligenblut. Tour an armor museum in Graz and stroll through the Old Town's arcaded courtyards. Watch famous Lipizzaner horses perform, then continue on to the famed Vienna Boys Choir, inspect a porcelain factory, and examine art in an auction house. Marvel at the Schoenbrunn Palace, then travel down the Danube to take in the wine harvest.

Con Brio - Karl Ulrich Schnabel

2001 • 57 min

"A wonderful film portrait... Leon Fleisher, Peter Serkin and Richard Goode credit Karl Ulrich Schnabel's teaching with providing a decisive impetus for their artistry..."

Dansbanan kommer!

2001 • 29 min

In Tornedalen, the far North of Sweden, next door to Finland, there is a dance track that travels from village to village every summer. One day a cheek-to-cheek in Sweden, the next a tango in Finland. Join the bright summer night where the Torneälven roars and mosquitoes swarm in this Sääskisafari, or Mygg Safari/Sääski Safari , as the Swedish-Finnish dance group calls themselves.

Love & Law

2001 • 6 min • Brazil

In the year of our lord Jesus Christ, in a proprierty in Kansas, young woodchiper Alan Jackson works peacifully. However, little did he know that would be his last day of peace over Earth's surface.

Comics Trip

2001 • 6 min • France

A little boy thinks he will have some extraordinary adventures when he goes to a birthday party.

Killer's Game

2001 • 40 min • Czech Republic

Five young people go to a cottage near Zelezny Brod to spend a nice weekend. When they start to play a Killer game, they find out that this time it is not just a game.

Freezer Burn

2001 • 34 min

A scientist experiments with a serum to bring the dead back to life.

That's My Face

2001 • 55 min

In 1996, the filmmaker journeyed to the city Salvador Da Bahia - the African heart and soul of Brazil - seeking the identity of the spirits who haunt his dreams. Twenty years before, his mother made a parallel journey when she migrated with the family to Tanzania, East Africa in search of a mythic motherland. Shot entirely on silent Super 8 film by three generations of an African American family, "That's My Face" creates a mythopoetic feast of self-discovery.

Storyville - The Naked Dance

2001 • 60 min

The Naked Dance is the first documentary about America's legendary legal red-light district that thrived in New Orleans from 1898 until World War I. Storyville got its name when Alderman Sidney Story attempted to clear up the New Orleans waterfront by restricting prostitution to a specific neighborhood. To his chagrin, the area was dubbed "Storyville," and it was so known until the U.S. Navy closed it for good in 1917.

Goodbye

2001 • 14 min

Six goodbyes and a welcome. The very ending of dramatic, melodramatic and funny scenes of everyday life.

Kitchen Girl

2001 • 3 min • United States of America

In Kitchen Girl, Trecartin's frequent collaborator Lizzie Fitch throws herself into a state of total hysteria, portraying a girl who takes the childhood game of "playing house" to a dark and disturbing place. After pretending to cook dinner for her "kids," represented by colorful plush toys, she finds them lacking in appreciation of her efforts and throws them out the window. Fitch's overwrought performance is perfectly matched by Trecartin's skillful, hyperkinetic editing. Together they turn Trecartin's kitchen into a dimly lit world of mental trauma. Combining the innocuous with the malevolent, Fitch and Trecartin escort the viewer on a whirlwind tour of household dysfunction, child abuse, and isolation.

The Reflector

2001 • 10 min • Finland

A stranger comes to an abandoned circus where a couple still lives. Photographing connects the trio, but things starts to go queer.

Gaither's Pond: The Great Divide

2001 • 30 min

Bribed by three industrious beavers, Carp Lowry convinces the Wave Makers and the Pond Preservation Society-the pond's two chief factions-that the "no dam building" ordinance is archaic. When the sticks start to fly, Gaither's Pond is divided into several splinter groups. But pond harmony is restored when Carp confesses and the Friends of the pond determine to tear down the barriers that divide them.