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17.17
Dir: Alexi Tan, United States, 6 min, 2000, Experimental
17.17 is a short film that encompasses an epic love story, fantasy, and martial arts. The story revolves around a woman's search for a mythical hero. The j ... more »
ABC'S OF FOOTBALL, THE
Dir: Itamar Rotem, Israel, 25 min, 2000, Documentary Short
This film depicts the Israeli society as reflected through the behavior of football fans. The director had mingled with fans of teams from different reg ... more »
AMNESIA
Dir: Margaret Harris, United States, 14 min, 2000, Narrative Short
A troubled young woman holds vigil, trying to remember a nightmare she'd rather forget. ... more »
ANIMAL MOVIES: FOX PAST
Dir: Judith Doyle, Canada, 13 min, 2000, Documentary Short
How do animal movies shape our experiences of nature? This is the theme of Alex Wilson's chapter Looking At The Non-Human in his book The Culture of Nature ... more »
AQUARIUM, THE
Dir: Mathieu Baillargeon, France, 8 min, 2001, Experimental
Once upon a time in an empty room, without any windows or doors, the story of a mans life, love and evolution takes place. ... more »
ARTIST, THE
Dir: Erik Eger, Sweden, 16 min, 2001, Narrative Short
Frank Rivers dreams of becoming an artist. He believes that if he works hard enough, trying every art-form on the planet, he will have success. But life as ... more »
BILL JOHNSON SHOW, THE
Dir: Eli Kabillio, United States, 2 min, 2000, Experimental
The Bill Johnson Show is a series of Animated Shorts by Mad Dog Films. In Voltron Bill Johnson shows Bobby a great way to start his mother's day with a lau ... more »
BILL'S SEAT
Dir: Karl Shefelman, United States, 15 min, 2001, Narrative Short
Bill's Seat is a psychological thriller about a young man who stops in a small town with a flat tire only to be trapped in the local bar and accused of ... more »
BZZ
Dir: Benoit Feroumont, Belgium, 11 min, 2000, Experimental
An ordinary man appears to be breeding flies in his apartment. He seems to be very fond of them. But appearances are deceptive... ... more »
CIRCUS. ACT 1, ACT 3, ACT 4
Dir: Enrique Enriquez, Venezuela, 5 min, 2000, Experimental
There an special interest that attempts to investigate how the limitations of the Internet -and the subsequent creation of programs destined to engage in a ... more »
CLEANING OUT
Dir: Kerstin Ahlrichs, Germany, 10 min, 2000, Narrative Short
Everything seems to be as usual: the decaying house, the dirt, the noise and the ignorant neighbours. It's Mrs Farbers turn to do the stairways and the hal ... more »
CRAZY
Dir: Hans-Christian Schmid, Germany, 95 min, 2000, Narrative Feature
Based on the best-selling novel by Benjamin Lebert, which has been sold in 30 territories! The Summer Hit in Germany: 1,5 million admissions and U$ 7 mill ... more »
DALTONS, THE
Dir: Rita Horst & Robert Alberdingk Thijm, Netherlands, 19 min, 1999, Narrative Short
Episode: The Tree Club. The Daltons, a ten-part children's series, is about a family of four boys. The brothers live with their mother and father at Dalton ... more »
DEEP SLEEP
Dir: Pierre Lacan, France, 20 min, 2000, Narrative Short
Lucien is a fifty year old bachelor. As he lives alone, his life is a precise and monotonous routine. But one day at the office, he bangs his head. He is ... more »
DESIRE LINES
Dir: Annie Beauchamp, Australia, 4 min, 1999, Experimental
Desire's embrace will break your fall. Trust and step away. ... more »
DISCOVERING SENSES
Dir: Biljana Biba Vickovic, Yugoslavia, 13 min, 2000, Experimental
Discovering Senses is an SiFi-fairy tale put together in a form of video game. The protagonist travel trough levels. Each level is a symbol which contains ... more »
DRINK
Dir: Patrick Smith, United States, 5 min, 2000, Experimental
A young boy experiences a series of abstract transformations after drinking a mysterious green liquid. A diverse cast of characters twist and stretch their ... more »
EDGEWAYS
Dir: Sandra Gibson, United States, 4 min, 1999, Experimental
Edgeways is a kinetic tone poem. ... more »
EVERY NIGHT ENDS AT THE MALECON
Dir: Cecilia Araujo, Cuba, 15 min, 2000, Narrative Short
One night in Havana looking for the perfect spot to sing can became an odyssey for Paloma a Cuban teenager and her group of friends. ... more »
EVERYTHING FOR A REASON
Dir: Vlas Parlapanides, United States, 88 min, 2000, Narrative Feature
When Manny Papadopoulos, a young aspiring writer, meets Eve Stephanopoulos, the girl of his dreams and a virgin to boot, he adamantly believes that getting ... more »
FLICKERING LIGHTS
Dir: Anders Thomas Jensen, Denmark, 109 min, 2000, Narrative Feature
Torkild may be forty, but he can't seem to get past his childhood high jinks. He's still indebted to a group of vicious, big-time crooks. His own little ga ... more »
FLYPAPER
Dir: Erik Laroi, United States, 4 min, 2000, Experimental
Flypaper is equal parts music video and political history. The Penkava-Cerney scandal of 1949 has been buried in obscurity and VPN's exposing the incident ... more »
fox : future
Dir: Judith Doyle, Canada, 10 min, 2001, Experimental
An intimate chronicle of urban foxes, Fox : Future pushes the boundaries of non-linear video, motion graphics and streaming software, including random-gene ... more »
FULL THROTTLE
Dir: Lolo Zazar, France, 13 min, 2000, Experimental
In the country-side, on a road, a rocker driving his Renault 20 and a businessman driving his Rover 600 are gone to face for the charms of a doll they will ... more »
GEORGIE PORGIE
Dir: Benjamin Meyer, United States, 24 min, 2000, Narrative Short
A couple spends a day together in their messy studio apartment, trying to sort out the debris that lies between them. ... more »
GREAT MOMENTS IN ROCK
Dir: Eli Kabillio, United States, 1 min, 2000, Experimental
Great Moments In Rock is a series of animated shorts by Mad Dog Films. ... more »
GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH, THE
Dir: Anne Paas, United States, 4 min, 2000, Experimental
Amidst his dilapidated and obsolete carnival surroundings, a dwarf abandons his life at the sideshow to hang himself. Seeking solace, he is instead confr ... more »
HANGED DOG TREE, THE
Dir: Oliver van Malderghem, Belgium, 13 min, 2000, Narrative Short
When Micha comes back from Auschwitz, he expects to find back his wife, Zelda, and his son, Dan. Zelda is there, but not Dan. Zelda cannot explain what hap ... more »
HEAVEN ON EARTH
Dir: Rick Minnich, Germany, 52 min, 2001, Documentary Feature
Branson, Missouri. Some call it the new Nashville or the Las Vegas of the Bible Belt. Over the past ten years, nearly 40 theaters have shot out of the grou ... more »
HERE AM I
Dir: Douglas Naimer, Joshua Dorsey, Canada, 72 min, 1999, Narrative Feature
Here Am I is set sometime in the 19th century. A horseman rides through the burning ruins of a village that he has just destroyed in search of a sacred te ... more »
HURT
Dir: Phillip Crawford & Matthew Priestly, Australia, 0 min, 1999, Documentary Short
Hurt is a docu-drama like no other. 250 young Australians from rural areas and small towns have been given the opportunity to tell their own stories, with ... more »
I WAS BORN A BLACK WOMAN
Dir: Maria Luisa Mendonca & Vicente Franco, Brazil, 44 min, 2000, Documentary Short
Benedita da Silva, shanty-dweller, domestic worker, mother, organizer, poet, Senator. I Was Born A Black Woman is a documentary based on the remarkable lif ... more »
INTO MY ARMS
Dir: Scot Thiessen Gregory, Canada, 14 min, 2000, Experimental
In the haunted silence of memory, a beautiful young woman struggles to find peace, understanding and the strength to overcome the premature void that has l ... more »
IT DID IT
Dir: Peter Brinson, United States, 17 min, 2000, Experimental
It DID IT is a fictional character's story before and after I took Prozac. I used the scientific method to self-examine whether or not I needed antidepres ... more »
LAZY SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Dir: Bert Gottschalk, Germany, 9 min, 1999, Experimental
Desert. A vulture enjoys the silence of a hot afternoon. The sudden appearance of a noisy vehicle destroys the quietness of this situation. Two pistoleros ... more »
LIMITED, THE
Dir: Katherine Mackinney, United States, 11 min, 2000, Narrative Short
What if you had to give an account of your life when you die? John Hansen is about to find out. On his way to the store to pick up milk for the baby, he en ... more »
LITTLE DOG
Dir: Valeria Radivo, Argentina, 9 min, 2000, Narrative Short
A young couple, very much in love, returns to their home at night by bus. He gives her a box containing a present. It's a little dog with a sign saying I l ... more »
LONELINESS OF THE CROCODILES, THE
Dir: Jobst Oetzmann, Germany, 97 min, 2001, Narrative Feature
Günther, an intellectual son of a butcher from East Westphalia, is considered an eccentric in his village. He antagonizes his parents by taking the farmer' ... more »
LUMINOID
Dir: Alan Denman, England, 5 min, 2000, Experimental
Somewhere in the future a young female takes a very strange makeover to repair her traumatized ego. ... more »
MAKE A WISH
Dir: Franziska Stünkel, Germany, 7 min, 2001, Narrative Short
Sometimes a woman does' t get her man, heaven knows why... ... more »
ME AND THE MOILSIES
Dir: Justin Schwarz, United States, 20 min, 2000, Narrative Short
Set in 1969, Me and the Moilsies charts a Hasidic boy's journey into manhood and fall from innocence. Following his sister on an illicit trip to the beach, ... more »
MEETING
Dir: Marie-Pierre Huster, France, 9 min, 1999, Narrative Short
Alix, a young woman of 25, has an appointment for a job interview with the general director of a very prestigious wine company. Though she should be concen ... more »
MERMAIDS OF BROOKLYN
Dir: Maddy Lederman, United States, 2 min, 2000, Narrative Short
Mermaids of Brooklyn is a quick adventure through The Mermaid Parade, a decadent folly celebrating summer in Coney Island, Brooklyn. ... more »
MIDDAY MIDNIGHT
Dir: Philippe Vauville, France, 0 min, 1999, Narrative Short
The other side of the river. The other side of the mirror. And if we cross over? ... more »
MIGHTY MUTTS
Dir: Anne Paas, United States, 19 min, 2001, Documentary Short
Surrounded by his overflowing "home run" animal shelter, "Mighty Mutts," Jon Contino is rescuing dogs and cats (and birds) from the streets of Brooklyn w ... more »
MODERN LIFE
Dir: Dean Mermell, United States, 6 min, 1999, Narrative Short
Modern Life is a short film that honors the silent greats, particularly Buster Keaton. In Keaton's Sherlock Junior, Buster plays a projectionist who falls ... more »
MULTIPLE VOICES OF ALBERT ROSS, THE
Dir: Ben Burrell, United States, 6 min, 2000, Experimental
After a fight with his daughter Albert Ross is confronted by a man, smaller than his thumb. A man whom he's kept subdued and quiet for a very long tim ... more »
NEWS FROM THE L PROJECT
Dir: Samuel Benchetrit, France, 9 min, 2000, Narrative Short
One night, at the foot of L tower, a man is waiting, then another one comes and asks for some chocolate? A discussion begins. ... more »
NO MAN'S LAND
Dir: Nina Rosenmeier, Denmark, 90 min, 2000, Narrative Feature
"No Man's Land" is an original film about love, described on a series of levels in today's Denmark where the changing morals and generations from several p ... more »
OBSERVATIONS IN HOLLAND 3/4/5
Dir: Rob Britta & Hosman Smits, Netherlands, 30 min, 2000, Documentary Short
Observations in Holland is a truly rare piece. Made up of 6 ten minute micro-docs, the series explores what it is to be Dutch in an ever changing social an ... more »
PANDORA'S BEAUTY
Dir: Charles Binamé, Canada, 92 min, 2000, Narrative Feature
Her name is Pandora. She harbours a secret she wanted no part of. She intends to share it with someone. Fate determines that, one day, Pandora shall meet V ... more »
PARADISE
Dir: Treuniet Maarten, Netherlands, 75 min, 1999, Narrative Feature
The life of brothers Adri and Henri is disrupted when Adri wins a photo model, Diane, in a quiz show. Diane is no spring chicken when she comes, and Adri c ... more »
PASSING STONES
Dir: Roger Majkowski, United States, 90 min, 2000, Narrative Feature
It starts out at a frantic pace with the miserable Leon, a thirty-year-old paper boy, who talks to Jesus and still lives at home with his unstable mother a ... more »
PIGEON WITHIN
Dir: Emily Hubley, United States, 5 min, 1999, Experimental
PIGEON WITHIN was made over a period of two years. The artwork combines Xeroxed photographs with drawn and animated figures: this in order to juxtapose ide ... more »
PLAY FOR ME
Dir: Rodrigo Furth, Argentina, 101 min, 2001, Narrative Feature
Carlos, the young drummer in a Punk Rock band, receives news of the death of Genaro, his adoptive father. After the burial he travels to Los Angeles, the t ... more »
Full details » | Grand Chameleon Award, Best Narrative Feature, Best Original Score
PLEASE!
Dir: Paul Black, England, 15 min, 1999, Narrative Short
Peter Dunn is a young novelist who has lost his plot. He tries to get his life back together in the most dramatic way. The consequences prove to be tragic. ... more »
Rick & Steve the Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
Dir: Q. Allan Brocka, United States, 8 min, 2000, Experimental
The naughty adventures of America's newest sitcom demographic. ... more »
ROSEWATER
Dir: Kimi Takesue, United States, 13 min, 2000, Experimental
A solitary man struggles to grow a rose in a surreal urban world. Lonely and dislocated, he drifts in and out of a dream state envisioning the promise of ... more »
RUPPY - VERSION 1.0
Dir: Vem Yenovkian, United States, 3 min, 2000, Narrative Short
Ruppy 1.0 is an intence vision into the mind of a crippled crack addict. ... more »
SANDSTORM
Dir: Jagmohan, India, 125 min, 2000, Narrative Feature
A rural low-caste woman, working for Rajasthan government's woman's development program called "Saathin" is gang raped by upper caste men in her village w ... more »
SCAR
Dir: Leslie Kralyo Satterfield, United States, 6 min, 2000, Experimental
Scar delves into the spoken and unspoken language we use to create closeness or to distance ourselves from others. What subtle agreements are made in the e ... more »
SCARLET DIVA
Dir: Asia Argento, Italy, 91 min, 2000, Narrative Feature
Anna Battista, a young actress idolised by her adoring fans as their Scarlet Diva, lives for the demands of her career. Her agenda of public appearances, a ... more »
SCHERZO
Dir: Hideo Aoshima, Japan, 5 min, 1999, Experimental
Scherzo has three movements divided by three compositions - prelude, invention by J.S.Bach, and scherzo by L. van Beethoven. In this work, the music is per ... more »
SHADOW OF DOUBT, THE
Dir: Cynthia Wells, United States, 10 min, 2001, Experimental
A singer returns to the Paris club where she got her break years before. While preparing to go on stage she thinks about Jake, the club owner, who still ha ... more »
SHOWER, THE
Dir: Michel Kammoun, France, 10 min, 2000, Narrative Short
Take a man who wants to have a shower. Put him in an angry bathroom for 10 minutes. Then watch. ... more »
SMALL PIECE OF PARADISE, A
Dir: Marc de Launay, Scotland, 12 min, 2000, Narrative Short
A Small Piece of Paradise is a short film that explores the reality behind some West of Scotland stereotypes. A sports loving son, a domineering father and ... more »
SOME COMMON THING THAT HAPPEN TO CORPSES
Dir: Molly O'Brien, United States, 18 min, 1999, Narrative Short
A lost woman finds herself in a mortuary where she meets Alcott Green, a clairvoyant mortician who loves to embalm the dead. But why is he leading her in ... more »
SPOTLESS
Dir: Jessica Nilsson, Denmark, 5 min, 1999, Narrative Short
House wife from hell demonstrates a cleaning guide, to protect your marriage from filth and disorder. ... more »
STANLEY
Dir: Suzie Templeton, England, 7 min, 1999, Experimental
While his wife wreaks violence and death in the kitchen, Stanley finds life and love in a cabbage he is growing in his barren back yard. ... more »
STATE OF BLISS
Dir: Kenneth Sperling, Denmark, 7 min, 2000, Experimental
If the really beguiling artists are insane, then one ought to become a really beguiling artist by becoming insane ... more »
TABLE ONE
Dir: Michael Scott Bregman, United States, 90 min, 2000, Narrative Feature
Bored with the New York social scene, and unable to score with women, four guys - wealthy nerd Norman (David Herman), hockey player Rowdy (Michael Rooker), ... more »
TENNIS MATCH
Dir: Robert Ellmann, Czech Republic, 10 min, 2000, Experimental
Once upon a time, the goddess of victory lost. ... more »
UNPREDICTABLE THING, AN
Dir: Rhonda Keyser, United States, 6 min, 2001, Experimental
Solange confesses to a conference room of silent professionals that she realizes she's not in control of anything anymore. This documentary-like pronouncem ... more »
UP SYNDROME
Dir: Duane Graves, United States, 82 min, 2001, Documentary Feature
University of Texas student Duane Graves chronicles his charismatic childhood chum Rene Moreno, a San Antonio, Texas, native with Down syndrome, in this pl ... more »
UPPER STOREY, THE
Dir: Sebastian Winkels, Germany, 6 min, 2000, Narrative Short
A man lost in voices is hanging up white sheets: A schizophrenic attic tale about the unconscious fight for balance. ... more »
VALUES
Dir: Van Phan, United States, 5 min, 2000, Experimental
Values is a five-minute computer animated thesis film produced at the University of Southern California in the animation and digital arts program. It was i ... more »
VON TRIER'S 100 EYES
Dir: Katia Forbert Peterson, Denmark, 56 min, 2000, Documentary Feature
Lars von Trier's Dancer In The Dark was awarded the Palme d'Or at Cannes 2000, while Björk was awarded Best Actress. Trier filmed a single dance scene usin ... more »
WOMAN IN DEBT
Dir: Regis Mardon, France, 8 min, 2000, Narrative Short
In Paris, a very upscale woman goes into a bank with a duffle bag. Without saying a single word she withdraws a huge amount of money. Once she is out of th ... more »
YELLOW CARD
Dir: John Riber, Zimbabwe, 90 min, 2000, Narrative Feature
Sex, Soccer and Life's Little secrets... Tiyane is in danger of becoming the local hero - at 17! Rising star in Hyenas; the township football team, res ... more »
YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD SNAKE DOWN
Dir: Moira Tierney & Masha Godovannaya, United States, 4 min, 2000, Experimental
For a long time saint Patrick has been hailed as the redemptor of pagan Ireland - the man who rid the country of its snake population. You Can't Keep A Goo ... more »