Cinematic Era: 2001 Vintage

Concert film of Japanese punk rock band Eastern Youth

Documentary about seven remaining inhabitants of the remote village of Hattarvík on the island of Fugloy, Faroes, North Atlantic ocean.

When a woman rides the subway and witnesses a disturbing incident, she gets more involved than she intended.

This film highlights the ongoing transformation of the Malian society moving into the era of modernity and globalisation. It portrays a Malian woman named Mrs.Kebe Tantou(one example taken for many) running her own enterprise. Mrs. Kebe Tantou’s business consists of dyeing clothes made of “basin” and selling them in Bamako(Mali), and everywhere in the world. She has got clients in Africa, France, the United Arab Emirats and in the USA. In a wide range of scenes, Mrs.Kebe Tantou is shown the main actress around whom several other actors and actresses are rotating. Mrs.Kebe Tantou symbolises the independence of the Malian wives, and the Malian women entrepreneurs.

16mm short by Masaru Noto.

16mm short by Masaru Noto.

Porky Pig and Daffy Duck land in a planet ruled by Tasmanian Devils.

The third part of Erica Russel's dance trilogy, as human figures form the letters S, O, M, and A.

This is a story of a young girl in Ancient Greece. Among nymphs, satyrs and night shadows she is involved in a strange love story.

Surreal short in which a woman spends her time in a swimming pool, fully clothed.

Documentation of a performance where the artist walked onto an academic lecture hall stage and sang Canada's national anthem. It was in the last days of 2001, when a new kind of nationalism was sweeping not just the US but also Canada.

A single-take depiction of a Gore-Tex-clad girl alternatively waiting and snacking, shot on location at the Royal British Columbia Museum's Pacific Rainforest diorama (a reconstruction of the kind of forest that surrounds the city of Victoria).

The number in the title of this work, 15.000.000 Parachutes, refers to the population of Jakarta, Indonesia. It was estimated that around sixty percent of the 15.000.000 inhabitants were unemployed at the time of filming. Diaz Morales’s video is an allegory, telling the story of one man, a ‘parachutist’, as a metaphor for the plight of those unemployed. The cyclical structure of the narrative mirrors the cyclical life of an anonymous would-be worker. Each morning, the voiceover tells us, the parachutist wakes up, finds the taps at his sink do not work so washes his face in bath water and summons the courage to ‘attempt another jump’. These jumps are made from the national monument of Jakarta, Monas, an obelisk topped with a gold flame, which was built in the 1960s and 70s to symbolize Indonesia’s independence.

A collection of Promo, Live, Tour and behind the scenes videos taken from their debut album Silver.

Hell in the Pacific is a compelling and provocative documentary film accounting the shocking Second World War conflict in the East.

“Traversing homogenous suburbs and multiplexed freeways, Besenbahn clinically and elegantly fragments the notion of a ‘road movie’. Using time slice technology, this videographic experiment transcends time and place as it ruptures the geometries of movement and perception.” — Melbourne Film Festival

In the aftermath of the Millenium Bug, and against a backdrop of conspiracy, cult behaviour and contagion, Adam Chodzko’s Plan for a Spell caught the spirit of a turbulent moment. Twenty years on, Chodzko’s newly remastered and reconfigured work is as cryptic and mercurial as ever but also resonates powerfully with these even weirder times.

Experimental short by Jun Ohtani.

Experimental short by Ryusuke Ito.

This project, 10 Years Self-Portrait, started July 1, 1999. The process of this project involves taking one photograph of my face every morning as soon as l wake up. The image changes a bit by a bit as days go by.

After reading in the newspaper a letter that the poet Juan Gelman wrote to his granddaughter, who disappeared during the military dictatorship, a young adopted girl suspects that she may be the writer's granddaughter.

Perceptaul transformation of material space: Visual expressions about how we understand and percept our real space perceptually.

Mars (Marcel Gornik) gets his report card and finds out that he has to repeat the 8th grade for the second time. To avoid further trouble from his parents, he runs away into the forest. There he finds a gas mask that soon causes him serious problems…

A teenage boy's epic struggle against an evil necromancer.

Four impressions of dreams.

A Chinese cinematographer Kai is invited to join a project in Edinburgh, but the pandemic arrives, and he lost contact with his production teams. He decides to stay because he is fascinated by the look of the city. He follows the script from the director and starts to film around the city. Later, he feels that he's been followed by somebody, he tries to escape and then accidentally spot the director on the street.

A quiet and yet, in certain senses, noisy movie about the storm in someone's head. Purification or brainwashing? A compulsive evocation of the house as a mental concept, for some other people.

A pickle and a tomato argue over whether Jesus is a pickle or a tomato. Cell-animated short.

Poem by Wanda Phipps beginning "pink around a circle of pink" heard on the soundtrack. The poem appears as flickering words and colors.

Short film from 2001.

Short film by Valérie Pavia.

Short film by Valérie Pavia.

A transsexual man's fantasies gather momentum under the bar tender's gaze. When at last his dreams become reality, he/she realises that the bar tender isn't what he appeared to be either.

Imagine 22 women in tights, shoulder pads, and helmets, poised on either side of the scrimmage line, ready to smash each other as hard as they can. Never mind that women aren't supposed to play tackle football. Forget that women's pro leagues rarely succeed. These are committed athletes and this is their one, slim chance to realize their dreams of professional sports careers.

This short film was made during Petra Vargová’s studies abroad at the art academy in Stockholm, Sweden, where she had professional technical facilities at her disposal. Using a virtual set and technical consultants, she embedded herself into footage from the fighting video game Dead or Alive 2. Thus, instead of a generic character, the artist herself fights virtual monsters in the virtual game.

Short video for the promotion of the cultural association Ahau Tepepul in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala: How can social networks be reconnected after more than thirty years of civil war?

Video work by the Kinoki Lumal collective

Video work by the Kinoki Lumal collective

BLACK RUSSIANS is a feature length documentary that investigates the lives of contemporary Afro-Russians aged 10 to 65, born and raised in Soviet Russia. Their experiences chronicle two ideological currents that have shaped major international events in the twentieth century: race and communism. Intimate interviews with a poet, a film producer, a reggae artist, a businessman and others, all Black and all Russian, guide us through this story of promise and non-discrimination. Archive images reveal rarely seen footage of Black political leaders in the Soviet Union, like Paul Robeson, Kwame Nkruma and Angela Davis. More than a decade after the 'fall of communism' a new Russia struggles to steady itself in the wave of nationalism from within and the pressures of global capitalism from without. “Black Russians” constructs a deeply personal account of the effects of political issues such as migration, identity and loss on a minority community in the vast remains of the Soviet Union.

At Halloween Night, four young people drive with their car through a car wash that turns into a ghost train and the contours between reality and fantasy start to blur.

A series of four public service announcements created by a diverse group of 16 to 21-year-old queer youth. They created artworks expressing their fears, ideas and experiences regarding safer sex. Finally, they conceived, developed and designed four animated HIV/AIDS awareness public service announcements directed towards at-risk youth.

This photo-collage animation is a surreal fairy tale that begins when a girl is awakened one morning by a mysterious seagull. She follows the bird to an abandoned garden, where she discovers the edge of the world and a single tree bearing tangled red fruit. The girl takes a bite of the fruit and is catapulted into a startling, violent and extended metamorphosis.

The story of the six-month anniversary of a dog named Pedro and his boyfriend, Tony, who just happens to be a chicken.

after Marianna Moore's definition of poetry as "the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads."

HF223A - Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl

A man walks across a bridge. He runs into something and falls. It is an invisible object. The man guesses at its form, touching and turning it. He discovers a door-handle, opens the door and passes through it, becoming invisible himself. He then exits, and grumbling to himself he continues over the bridge and walks away.

made for an exhibition at the Inova gallery in Milwaukee Wisconsin in 2001.

Short film from James Fotopoulos, 16mm film (color), mono.

Short film from James Fotopoulos

The older brother is impotent and he and his girlfriend cannot have children. So he kidnaps his younger brother, who is gay. She wants to get sperm from him to keep the family together.

Cultures collide when a young man's desire to become a dancer conflicts with his parent's career dreams for him.

In 1992 the filmmaker Christine Choy returned to Shanghai for the first time in over thirty years: to track down the title of her family’s house that her mother abandoned on leaving China for the U.S. in the early 1960’s and to locate an old schoolmate. This is a documentary journal recorded over a period of eight years.

Directed By: Exsiquel, Starring: Lovely Legarda, Klaudia Kardinal, Jomari Arroyo, Toro Pimentel, Valentino Drilon

A film about the Mowla Bluff Massacre of 1916