Cinematic Era: 2001 Vintage

Tim & Greg Hildebrandt talk about their passion for Tolkien, and their body of Tolkien artworks.

Experimental video work collecting pia #01 - pia #11

The fabric of the city emerged from the warp and weft of diverse threads, from the labour of migrant communities that made Bombay/Mumbai their own.

It is 2001. At a private journalism school, Professor Edward Wnuk-Lipiński asks seminar participants if they know who Albin Siwak was. They do not. Only one person has heard his name. For these young people, it is already history, and not necessarily something they need to learn about.

A dance film by Maja Lindström in collaboration with choreographer Anna Vnuk. Awarded Best Musical Composition, Georgetown Indy Short Film Festival, Washington DC.

Located in Yongning Township, Ninglang County, Lijiang Prefecture, Yunnan Province, the Mosuo are the only matrilineal society in China, where men do not marry, women do not marry, and people live with their mothers all their lives, without the marriage and family of mainstream society. The Mosuo people emphasize women over men, and there is no question of "men oppressing women" or "women oppressing men"; women and men are relaxed and at ease with their gender and sexuality, which is a rarity on earth....

A lonely man imprisoned in prison sculpts human figures out of clay and imagines himself to be their merciful god

Uno, a sexually inexperienced young woman, gets involved with a womanizer, Kaura, which leads to an unplanned pregnancy. When Kaura refuses to take responsibility for their child, and starts avoiding Uno, she leaves the baby in the care of her mother and goes to dangerous lengths to track Kaura down.

A 2001 documentary film about the work of the National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales.

A personal documentary about loss.

Short animated recap of the One Year War from the perspective of LCDR Garret Schmitzer.

This film is about the painter Sveinn Björnsson (1925-1997), and his struggles to perfect his art. Following a wide-ranging exhibition at the Kjarvalsstaðir Art Gallery in 1989, he has become tired of the fantasy style which he had been developing for thirty years. What needed to happen in order for him to create something new? What sacrifices would it involve? This film is about that struggle experienced by creative artists. The film is not a biography, or a learned review of the painter's style, but it does show a side of the man which very few see. One evening, he feels he is not alone in his studio; it feels as if some being is there who wants to help him.

Pravda is a loner, but Pravda acts.

Adult still animation, crude humour revolving around Dick, Jane and their dog Spot.

Short claymation. An orthodox Christian couple get more than they bargained for when they win tokens to the Frightride. Was also shown on Annecy 2002.

Award winning inspirational documentary film about double above-knee amputee Warren Macdonald's epic 28-day journey to Federation Peak, Australia's most challenging mountain summit.

A murderously jealous lover and an extremely unruly corpse make for a pitch-black comedy.

"You are invited to Jim’s party! Snake optional." — Cinematexas Festival

SHAU Tao is a talented and self respecting prostitute as described in ancient Chinese literature, born in the Tang dynasty - a period in Chinese history known for it\'s open attitude toward women. Nevertheless, even in a period like this, it is still men who control the fate of womankind. During that period, the celebrated poet, YU Jen falls for charms of SHAU Tao. However in the long run, he still does not wish to marry her due to her social status. Having a very high esteem for herself, SHAU Tao prefers to remain single for the rest of her life rather than make sacrifice to accommodate such a situation. The plot switches back and forth from the letters sent between SHAU Tao and YU Jen\'s wife. The film reveals an undercurrent of a homoerotic relationship and the subtle relationship between three of them.

A young man is diagnosed with AIDS and realizes that his relationship with his best friend isn't going to develop as he'd hoped.

A teenager goes to the grocery and get bullied.

A 16mm Joey Smack short film about the joys of consumerism.

Double-exposed, sepia-toned film sets the mood for this brief chronicle of the evolving identities that are claimed by a female-to-male transsexual.

Experimental short film that mix drawings of Jean-Luc Chansay's daughter with computer animation and sculptures of Marie Mercier.

When sculptor John Greer and filmmaker Stewart Applegath began shooting, they had no destination, only a desire to journey together in a row boat with camera in hand. Over six years, they rowed a fair distance. breakSurface documents these travels, and the extent to which Greer’s world is leavened with debilitating anxiety. Greer’s powerful sculpture is visually simple, conceptually complex, but silent; he identifies with Jonathan Swift’s "man of objects" who lays out things, not words, to be understood. Applegath, however, doesn’t make this film to replace words, but by embracing them.

Prior to any other treatment, the emulsion is covered with layers of chemical products, resulting in a black filmstrip. "The black leader can be anticipated as Malevitch's white painting: a space in which everything is possible, the space of absolute potentiality and virtuality." This is because cinema, contrary to painting, gives light to its own image, via the lamp projector. This is not about covering a blank surface with forms and colors since they already exist on the black film. Whilst ALL OVER is a film made without "instrumentation" (like a camera), it also differs from direct films in that the film remains untouched by any tool (not even the hand). As in dripping, materials and color are spontaneously laid down on the film in semi-controlled gestures, which create a shower of colored dots. The soundtrack functions according to the same principle: the sound, in all its expressions, is formed using one single formal element.

"A documentary made for the media" (Hao Yuejun).

Kay Mander kept training and social issues to the fore in the 1940s with her innovative documentaries. Mander, now living in Kirkcudbrightshire, recalls her life and work, with clips from many of her films.

Christian's father is dying of cancer and Christian is left alone with his mother. Together they try to understand and find a new way to live on with each other and with the person they have lost. Christian turns to a little hedgehog he has never seen. He feeds it, believes in it and learns to say "hedgehog" in several different languages.

Working alongside Jorge Egusquiza Zorilla, Inside Downtown is a charming portrait of artists and poets of Guillén Landrián’s generation, including the cult Afro-Cuban poet, Esteban Luis Cárdenas.

The connections between three strangers living in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood are explored in this short film.

A film made up of 4 baroque, kitsch, queer and colorful shorts including the controversial cult "My buBuddy Rachid" and "The Elephants of the Planet Mars"

Against the backdrop of the race for mayor of Las Vegas, a mad bomber is on the loose and his target is Pacific Cargo Shipping. The company hires expert and world-renowned P.I., Bud Chelzer, to investigate the latest bombing in Las Vegas, NV. At the same time, Brad Morrison, a recently fired singer/comedian, has just been approached by a sexy and mysterious woman...

Sweden's first rock'n roll performer Owe Thörnqvist is on tour. There is still power and joy in the music and there is a slight gnola in the lyrics. Folk home rock and vadmals blues for full houses and standing ovations, and it makes Berit and Börje's hearts a little tight because they remember how it was once there in the late 50s.

An educational documentary on the uses and properties of timber.

Abbott reflects on her unfortunate experience with childhood love.

The writer Ariano Suassuna is kidnapped by rebel forces that request a cultural rescue to free him.

Over seventy people dead, a new threat to mankind, the entire town is killed by...

Sequel to the movie " I love you Natasja!" (1999). The film tells about some of the women who give birth in the first film.

This video is laden with energy very reminiscent of the late 80's. Hell, very few vids these days have much energy to them. They all seem to be about nailing the trick - which is important - but there's also this thing called cinematography. 2nd To None has a fast pace and awesome skating. The intro montage is stunning. Filmed in the warehouse, it features the team sessioning everything from the top of a forklift to jumping gaps from one product rack to another. They pile stuff high and go wild on every surface in the place - including a few ramps. Some street footy is edited in as well. This vid is so well done, it's insane. Each rider has a part, some of which is in the warehouse, but most is out on the streets. They mix in some skits and other random stuff. There's a "Chariots of Fire" routine in which they push - in super slow-mo - doing a variety of tricks while trying to sabotage each other's runs.

Sonal is a National Award winning documentary based on Indian classical dancer and Guru Bharatanatyam and Odissi dancing style, Sonal Mansingh.

A crow disturbs the daily life of a retired couple.

When an unnamed protagonist puts on a Colonel Sanders mask he transforms into Wun Blee Chung Dee in this zero budget oddity. Physical copies included a free wet wipe. See Wun Blee Chung Dee visit his shut in old lady lover, frolic thru the cemetary with stolen flower bouquets, converting non-believers on the streets of Salt Lake City, visit with the chicken folk and appear on cable access TV with Gene Simmons of the rock band KISS! Wun Blee Chung Dee remains one of the strangest pieces of cinema-flotsam & jetsam around.

In a school, Persian literature teacher wants the boys to read a poem from the book, but everybody has an excuse…

A story about a boy's attempt to get his own hat. Based on the book and drawings of Latvian author Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš.

It is a bit funny and a bit sad story about snowmen and…spring. Everyone has got their time and place in this world. Like that rabbit who managed to get fresh carrots in spring.

A documentary about the two German families whose paths cross in the 1930s.