Rok 2002 - 477

March 18, 2008 - UPDATE - New action on the Super Console Wars Front! New trailer coming soon followed by a slew of episodes!!!! I'm usually not one to post a trailer to something, but this is taking a while, so I thought I'd give you a taste of things to come. Just so you know, I'm not advocating one console over another. Rather this is more about game characters versus the hardware. Also the upload is the higher quality audio version, so it may take a little time to download.

Stretching along the River Seine, Evry Ville Nouvelle is one of those utopian towns created by town-planners and architects, where habitat, work and leisure are mixed together so as to promote social contact and community life. However, recession soon puts a term to ambitions. Certain districts turn into ghettos, catchment areas for a poor and marginalised population with little hope of finding a job or fitting into society. The film explores life in the Pyramides district, following the 402 bus route through the town and other "difficult" districts. Buses passing through their territory are one of the teenagers' favourite targets. Given the rise of sometimes violent fighting, the local public transport service (the TICE) has organised a prevention network involving the district's inhabitants. For these mediators, dialogue and prevention are the only arms possible when dealing with youngsters who feel that they live "in the outer zone"

The film opens with a striking image: seven children in rags, aged 7 to 19, crawl out from under a Brazzaville market stall where they have spent the night. Moussa Touré picks up with them there and then continues to film as they go about their business in the city, looking for food and odd jobs. Taking advantage of his closeness to the children, the filmmaker sets out to take each back to his family. But the road back is beset with difficulties that exemplify the state of Congolese society.

3D animation about farting in an office cubicle.

Short film by Valérie Pavia.

Nothing particularly special appears to happen in Tomatoheads: a regular couple doing regular things. But something becomes increasingly strange in the way they are behaving, something that the spectator cannot read clearly. The world seems to be turning upside down.

Puppet animation to the sound of a bottleneck guitar: Tricky image processing from Kinoki Lumal's training workshop.

The world is a timeless and single organism, everything is animate, alive, inhabited by spirits you can talk to. This is how conscience is born and knowledge of the Sacred begins. The tropical jungle that runs along the Atlantic coast of Central Africa at Equatorial Guinea is the land of the ndowé, an ethnic group who understand the world as a set of invisible forces that interact with each other. According to the ndowé, there is an occult side to every element of reality and, for example, each plant has its own power, just as each person does. The nganga (witch doctor) is the mediator between the two realities, and the video show how he controls this whole universe of forces.

A film about friends you thought you knew and the lover you will never forget. Three gay men, estranged friends trying to overcome their differences, meet accidentally on the anniversary of Eddie's death, a lover of all three.

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

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

The leaf is floating slowly in the dark with the song on the radio out of tune. (S.K.)

Huwag mong takasan ang batas: Directed by Karlo Montero. With Rommel Padilla, Ynez Veneracion, Jorge Estregan, Sarah Gomez.

The Basotho live in Lesotho, a kingdom of high mountains surrounded by South Africa. Afflicted by famine, poverty and AIDS, they carry on making a science out of their witchcraft beliefs.

A four minute film, in which the landscape is inhabited by the imagination. It uses the medium of moving paint to suggest the thought processes of the viewer contemplating Nature.

A film that addresses the daily experience of feeling different. Interviews with people who fall in between the gender spectrum provide revelations about what it’s like to not feel 100% male or female.