Cinematic Era: 2002 Vintage

Another hilarius standup comedy by Casper de Vries

An un-named author is driving to meet her agent late one night. In the middle of an unlit country road she accidentally hits a young cyclist but fortunately the boy seems uninjured apart from a mysterious mark on his back. Though she can’t prise a word out of him she finds his address in his bag and drives him home to an isolated farmhouse. The boy’s slight unnerving parents are surprisingly unconcerned about their son, who is swiftly locked in his room, but they invite their guest in and offer her a glass of wine. It turns out the father is also a writer, but the manuscript he proffers is merely a single phrase repeated dozens of times on each page. Something very odd is going on...

As its nuclear missile silos get blown-up, North Dakota scratches its head and wonders what’s next.

Tales of survival, seduction, and triumph comprise Secondary High, a campy cinematic treat split into three episodes.

Produced for the “Starship Troopers” DVD.

2002 release

"Mischief 3000" is the second coming after the huge success of the first "Teckademics" movie, "Mischief". The movie features the Gumball 3000 underground rally across the country; 5 day race from NYC to LA! Includes stops in Graceland, Dallas, and Las Vegas. Exotics pushing 200mph on public roads! The "Mischief" guys Dustin and Dado participate in the event in a 1999 BMW M3.

The film tells the story of patients at the Lviv Regional Psychiatric Clinic who are being treated with art by rehearsing Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Its main idea is to make us "normal" people think about our lives and actions in the "normal" world.

While out for a walk, I came across a peaked roof and decided to try moving it like an umbrella. Using the roof as the starting point, I decided on the theme of the work as "buildings," and combined elements other than the roof to create a single work. The title expresses the smallness of Japanese houses, the smallness of the country, and the high population density. 2004 Hiroshima International Animation Festival, nominated for the competition / Recommended work by the Japan Media Arts Festival Animation Division Judging Committee

Baby Beethoven is the 10th Baby Einstein video in the series to be released. It uses musical compositions accompanying footage of toys and other novelty items. As the name suggests, and made as a musical sequel to Baby Shakespeare, the classical music of Baby Beethoven was composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, albeit rearranged with softer instruments by Bill Weisbach.

Gerald Weber, in his inimitable way, takes you through the ins and outs of servicing a wonky amp.

A wooden chalet is consumed by fire, leaving no trace of what it was, save for the metal boiler into which the wooden structure was fed and destroyed.

"McQuilkin presents a sex-tape, of a sort. Her face is tightly framed by the camera, she applies make-up while in the midst of the experience described by the title, so hyper-focused on her image that she cannot let go." - CA Belgium

Watch as beautiful couples enjoy a level of desire, passion and lust that's intensified by the rush that comes from getting it on in not-so-private settings!

The Letter tells the story of a nameless main character tortured in the lonely existence he tries to escape by the past relationship he wants to forget. As routine becomes his solace, his solitude breeds delirium and an obsession with the past. Soon his memories become more than mere daydreams, and the hard truths of his failed relationship force their way into the present.

Amsterdam Diary is a short observational work that was recently shot at Koninklijk Paleis Dam in the Netherlands. This video-portrait studies public space, the intersection of two very specific realities, and, well, the futility of it all.

This short of powerful imagery takes us through traits of human behaviour that everybody will recognize, be proud of or completely deny. This is a fun scenario depicting a woman and a man on that action adventure Saturday night out with friends. The images will be used to poke fun at both parties, provide light entertainment and even throw a little romance into the mix.

First of May 2002. Paris. 900,000 people are on parade and opposed to the rise of the National Front... Instant portraits of some demonstrators.

One day in the life of a boy who wishes he could make an ancestral human dream come true and fly. With a machine he has made himself and with the strength of his own muscles, he intends to overcome the force of gravity.

Two characters want, do not want, to meet.

Documentary on Portuguese artist Albuquerque Mendes, his work process and preparations on his 2002 Serralves exhibition titled "Confesso".

This second film in the the Footprints of God series follows Mary on her extraordinary journey on location in Turkey, Israel and Greece with popular Catholic author and speaker Stephen Ray as guide. Down-to-earth teaching on subjects like Mary's Immaculate Conception, Assumption into Heaven, and her role of intercessor, and more are offered in an energized, high-impact style that combines the best elements of a travel documentary, biography, Bible study, apologetics course, and church history review.

Single-channel video, 4' 54"

Out of Bounds isn't a film about sports. It is a film about the culture of winning. During one hot morning in Texas a bunch of students share the same playing fields. A high school PE soccer team scrimmages on the back field, the drama club rehearses on the side field, the college track team runs laps around the track, and the fifth grade football players practice right in the middle of it all. Sometimes the drive to win comes from within, and sometimes it comes from a coach, parent or teammate, but in all four cases the need to win takes all the fun out of the game. While there is plenty of action, this is not an ordinary sports flick. Ten-year olds clash helmets to a spaghetti western soundtrack and high schoolers break out in song. Does pressure ruin the game for everyone, or are there ways for individuals to shine even without being winners?

Video Ravingz is a hacked version of Mario 2 where the user wins the game simply by inserting the cartridge. With rave-style graphics and music, there's an air of celebration about this work because everyone's a winner.

Documentary tells the gripping personal stories of September 11th that have never been told and accompanied by images never before seen.

Experimental collage animation that covers decades of art, culture, technology, etc.

The anxieties and frustrations of McCarthy-era Hollywood are integrated into this reconstruction from the highly politicized Western High Noon. The struggle between a sheriff & his deputy becomes one with the film's emulsion as cold war tensions are integrated into the scene's frenzy.

A depiction of the movements and physical characteristics of an infant. Through simplicity of technique, the film seeks a primacy of vision to match the innocence of its subject.

This music video for The Shins takes inspiration from the ’80s classic A-Team television series and features the members of the band liberating a bunch of balloons from the dreary tethers of a used car lot.

The action of the film takes place in the post-war years, when a particularly dangerous gang of criminals "Black Mask" operated on the territory of Yakutia under the leadership of a former circus performer, strongman Ivan. Another strongman, senior police lieutenant Gavril Desyatkin, was ordered to neutralize the criminals. The film is based on the novel of the same name by the famous Yakut writer Egor Neimokhov and is based on real events that took place in Yakutia.

Three women experience the most earth-shattering climaxes of their lives--with a twist...

Join hosts Casey and Finnegan in this special video collection as they revisit carefree childhood memories of Mr. Dressup, and they romp again through those special days with songs, stories and Mr. Dressup's drawings at his famous drawing board.

The third part of Cokes's Shrink! trilogy in which he "shrinks" criticism.

A chronicle of the intersecting lives of four lost souls haunting the fringes of Coney Island's 60th Precinct. John Funn, a lonely Missing Persons detective at the frayed end of a once promising career, hitches his wagon to the rising star of a strange and impressionable young sergeant named Snookie. Computo, a World War II Army surplus robot, and Crazy Legs, an horrifically injured streetfighter, eke out a desperate living hawking mislabelled narcotics, while patiently awaiting happier times. Woven throughout the unraveling of these two dysfunctional partnerships is the story of a bizarre Missing Persons case involving a mysterious half-drowned man living one foot below the surface of the Atlantic ocean. A tale told in a cycle of interlocking absurdities--played almost alarmingly straight--MISSING PERSONS is an entirely CGI-generated 3D animated film, rendered in "toon-style" using custom software.

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.

The documentary presents the life of teenage Karolina and her one-year-old son.

Urban Ground Squirrels is the hilarious tale of love, friendship, and experiences set against the battlefield of a modern college campus. From classrooms to dorm rooms, it's hard to keep it together when you can't even find the door. This weekend-sized slice of college life follows the amusing escapades of Adam Parker and his three closest friends.

Unsung heroes tells the story of the battle that for many, symbolized the entire Vietnam War. Included is archival footage and recollections from the soldiers who were there.

Mark Bussler's film Civil War Life: Shot to Pieces chronicles the life of Harvard student William F. Bartlett, who leaves school to sign up with the Union Army. After losing a leg to Southern gunfire, he begins a relationship with Agnes Pomeroy. William eventually rejoins the war effort, but is captured by enemy forces. He attempts to survive his squalid conditions as a POW because of his love for Agnes.

Bo and Mouse, two New York City armed robbers are bored of running easy stick-ups for little profit and decide drug dealing is where the money is at. But in order for them to get in the game, they need start up cash.

"Anonymously Yours" is the outcome of a daring filmmaking operation on sex-trafficking in a military state where nothing is as it seems. Four Burmese women's strikingly different life experiences come together to reveal an institution that enslaves them and as many as forty#million women worldwide in the fastest growing industry on earth: human sales. Clandestinely shot deep in the uncharted world of Southeast Asian sex trafficking, the film chronicles the merchandising of women commonplace in a land afflicted with staggering poverty and widespread corruption.

At the cemetery of Armenian town Gjumry one can meet a teenage boy who works as a grave cleaner along with grownup colleagues.

"Opus Incertum, is a tribute to Dalí's concrete irrationality. Part of video-sound improvisations (mixes of film fragments, television commercials, educational or scientific videos, fragments of his own works ...) and the resulting ephemeral accidents, revelations that establish disturbing analogies, in an open process on chance. Around this base I tried to construct, or rather to re-construct, the narrative, in accordance with the critical paranoid-process. The result of this experiment is the materialization in images of delusional associations, sometimes unpleasant, enigmatic or eschatological. Opus incertum is an unfinished work, testimony of the collaborative work, between the year 2000-2002, with Javier Otaduy ".

AFRO@DIGITAL looks at the impact of various digital technologies across a broad swath of present-day African life and asks how the technology is affecting African culture and how it can best serve the interests of Africa and the global South.

Look at impoverished mountain village government officials. Shot over the course of four years, it reveals the tension and complexity that comes with the job of village cadre.

Reality Therapy, first developed by psychiatrist William Glasser, is a practical and systematic approach which helps clients evaluate the effectiveness of current behaviors and focus on practical plans of action for change. In the video, Dr. Wubbolding conducts a full-length psychotherapy session with a client whose recovery from cocaine addiction is complicated by depression. Prior to the session, Jon Carlson and Judy Lewis introduce Dr. Wubbolding, and facilitate an in-depth discussion of his approach. Afterwards, Dr. Wubbolding discusses how his model was applied with this specific clients, and well as in other applications.

A group of friends throw an engagement party for one of their friends, a banking executive, whose fiancée has some dark secrets of his past that come to light at the party which soon goes wrong.

A short movie about three girls.