Title | Film Maker | Country | TRT | Year | Program# | Synopsis |
Jon's Point, LA | Jack Beck | USA | 3:30 | 2001 | 1 | Simply and wholly Los Angeles. |
Lost | Eleanor Yule | Scotland | 25 | 2001 | 2 | A tragic event forces a family to re-evaluate what is precious about life. |
Before | Anthony Kaufman & Ariel Rogers | USA | 1 | 2001 | 3 | A boy enters his house and sees what appears to be most of his family looking gravely at him from the living room. Things will never be the same. |
Hubert's Brain | Phil Robinson | USA | 17:12 | 2001 | 4 | A story about a little boy genius who doesn't quite fit in, and a brain who is looking for the perfect fit. |
Blue Haven | Julian Cautherley | USA | 17:04 | 2001 | 5 | This classic love story chases after two friends in search of the perfect swimming pool to skate. But $40,000 and a sex change later, they find true love instead. |
Graveyard | Michaela Pavlatova | USA | 4:56 | 2001 | 6 | Every grave has a story. See how the dearly departed met their untimely end. |
Sugar | Lisa Barnstone | USA | 7 | 2001 | 7 | An Alaskan- NYC love story in which a woman's snowboard takes her on a journey of self discovery. Shot and animated with Super8 film. |
DIGITAL - GROUP B A C D Nov. 12 - 12:00 PM Nov. 13 - 6:00 PM | ||||||
Auto Mommy | Nakata Hideto | Japan | 12 | 2000 | 1 | A pair of parents, tired of raising their child, decide to buy an "auto mommy" by mail-order and let it take care of him. |
Small Love | Manu Keruwa | Scotland | 24 | 2001 | 2 | Spike, a 15 year old runaway, is given a home by Esther, a young woman with mental health problems. A story about the healing power of unconditional love. |
Rockin & Rollin | Richard Jack | UK | 4:30 | 2001 | 3 | A candid look at the loser's bench. Warning: It's got balls. |
Dirty Tiles | Jason Ubaldi | USA | 12 | 2001 | 4 | A "mockumentary" on an eccentric "dirty Scrabble" player and his 11-year-old apprentice in a showdown for Scrabble supremecy. |
The 100th Undone | Jacqueline Goss | USA | 9 | 2001 | 5 | This film considers the Self in the age of ultimate reproducability via transcription of the Human Genome and cloning. |
Water? | Madeleine Duba & Nadine F. James | UK | 2:14 | 2001 | 6 | A short and critical reflection on ecological sustainability. |
Samurai | Neels Chr. Thorn | Denmark | 10 | 2000 | 7 | Admist a picturesque, fairytale picture of feudal Japan, two stubborn Samurai fight a meaningless battle for a woman's hand. |
Semi-Private sub-Hegelian Panty Fantasy | Keith Sanborne | USA | 3 | 2001 | 1 | A philosophical dream narrative, structured around conceptions and representations of the reversibility and irreversibility of time and desire. |
Leonard | Brian Kelly | Scotland | 24 | 2001 | 2 | Leonard, at the mercy of obsessive compulsive behavior, refuses to leave his house. When his long lost son appears on his doorstep and proves to be the epitomy of Leonard's paranoia, it seems impossible that the peronality clash can ever be overcome. |
The Settler | Rian Brown | USA | 15 | 2000 | 3 | Taking place in 2067, this film tells the story of the first man to settle the Planet Mars. |
The Snowman | Lane Nakamura | USA | 5:18 | 2001 | 4 | Unwitting space aliens kidnap a snowman. Unaware that the snowman has begun to melt, sparks fly and the ship explodes. |
Under Dagen/ The Dancing Letter | Julie Bille | Denmark | 18 | 2000 | 5 | A boy is pulled down through the living room and is seduced into an adventurous, animated universe. |
About Face | Marilyn Cherenko | Canada | 5:40 | 2000 | 6 | A story about getting ready to face another day, another dragon, another dance... |
Hot Pants | Jonathan Judge | USA | 9:30 | 2000 | 7 | Ben and Suzy are having the perfect first date until Ben orders Enchiladas Surprise at a Mexican restaurant. Now Ben's in a battle to avoid the ultimate humiliation. |
DIGITAL - GROUP D A B C Nov. 12 - 6:00 PM Nov. 13 - 12:00 PM | ||||||
Switch on Bhutan | Alexis Bloom & Tshewang Dendup | USA | 24:41 | 2001 | 1 | In June 1999, after centuries of self-imposed isolation, Bhutan became the last country to legalize televison. This film charts this cusp of change on a remote Himalayan village. |
Elegy | Jenny Gage & Tom Betterton | USA | 10 | 2001 | 2 | In a long distance phone call, a young girl remembers her childhood and the murder of another girl in her small Southern California town. |
No Dumb Questions | Melissa Reagan | USA | 24 | 2001 | 3 | A documentary about three sisters, aged 6, 9 and 11, struggling to understand why and how uncle Bill is becoming a woman. |
Oil & Water | Robert Leaver | USA | 5:00 | 2001 | 4 | A documentary following Jim St. Clair in his small boat/studio as he roams the backwaters and boat graveyards of Manhattan's disappearing coastline. |
American Exile | Cassandra Herrman & Katy Shront | USA | 26:36 | 2001 | 5 | Shot on location in Tanzania and Kansas City, this documentary tells the story of sixty-year-old Pete O'Neal, a former Black Panther leader who has lived in exile in Africa for thirty years. |
Dents Are Us | James Matthews | USA | 14:50 | 2000 | 6 | A documentary that looks at how friends become the tools to smooth out the dents in our lives. |