سال 2001 - 447

Whoever lies next to Karl-Johan is apparently not his girlfriend, Sofie. Although she has similar boots. But Sofie is on her way up the stairs - and maybe mother-in-law with a dog.

A man and a woman make love while listening to the national reveille from the radio.

This short film chronicles a lesbian relationship up until its demise.

My Friend Su is an insightful examination of one man’s feelings and struggles with being a ‘man’ on the outside but feeling distinctly feminine otherwise. His acceptance of what he is from within, a real ‘woman’, and his dreams to be with a man who can love him as a woman become the core issues that unravel in the film.

An autobiographical documentary film that goes beyond the barriers of the genre and is something between videoart, experimental film and home video and seeks to throw light on the consequences of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, which forced the director´s family to emigrate to France. In the spirit of Bertolt Brecht´s theory of art and distanciation, Khazarian frees himself from reality, combining in the film amateur films about his own family and contemporary footage from the battlefield in Nagorno-Karabakh. His film is not a recapitulation of historical fact, but rather a visual meditation on the fetishist aesthetics of war, diverse sexual orientations and the consequences of emigration. The film deals with topics such as war, destruction and sexuality, which, in the director´s view are indissolubly linked.

"This work was inspired by images of people on the internet. Around 2000, online chatrooms started to become popular. However, most people would just want to show their bodies or look at women’s breasts and genitals. Phoebe Man created a walking vagina to question whether women are just pieces of meat. In the video, Rati lives like an ordinary woman, she would go to the library to read, and menstruate each month. With her look, even if she were doing something ordinary, it would look absurd. The work attempts to challenge gender stereotypes, and looks at women’s social and cultural images in a deconstructive manner, to open up an imaginative space." - timesartscenter.org

Super 8 film by Masaharu Oki.

Director Tamara Miranda returns to the VERHULST, an institute for young girls. Together with the current girls, the directors tries to answer the question if it is possible to feel at home in such a place.

'FROM' 2001 (4 films) *A series of 4 travel films made between 1998 and 2001 according to an identical principle of scrolling all the filmed images, captured in precipitation and slowed down.

One of the hottest R&B groups of all time, the legendary Earth, Wind and Fire in concert define excitement. Performing hit after hit in their distinctive style, the band gives everything they've got in this concert, captured live on their remarkable 1994 SRO tour of Japan, co-founder Maurice White's final performances. Always dynamite on stage with their unmistakable sound and showmanship, Earth, Wind and Fire combine all the greatest elements for one of the best live shows on Earth! Includes interviews with band members Philip Bailey, Verdine White, Ralph Johnson and Maurice White. Songs: September, Let Your Feelings Show, Let's Groove, Runnin', Boogie Wonderland, Can't Stop Love, Fantasy, Kalimba Interlude, Evil, Shining Star, Keep Your Head to the Sky, Reasons, Sing a Song, That's the Way of the World, Wouldn't Change a Thing About You, After the Love is Gone, System of Survival

At the time of the student demonstrations on Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989, Liu Wei was a student at the Beijing University. Before the repression by the Chinese government on 4 June, Liu was able to take photographs that have become evidence of what has remained silenced under the Chinese regime. Floating Memory contains these photographs, along with other image sequences pertaining to Chinese propaganda, the past, the present, and other symbolic scenes. Arranged using bifurcations and superimpositions, the video imitates the way memory works.

A Visual & Musical portrait Of The Lake District orchestrated with Vivaldi's The Four Seasons

A story of a single father, his relationships with his family, and his struggles to make ends meet as an immigrant in urban America.

Bjørn-Erik was a 19 year old devoted Christian. When he determined that he was gay who decided to kill himself rather than living a "dirty and sinful" life. Through excerpts from his diary we learn that he didn't seek any guidance and he got none. His friends and family are interviewed as well as a gay Lutheran couple and some Christian fundamentalists.

Novanta aims to illustrate a bus ride in order to make us experience some of the everday aspects of urban life including traffic, accidents, school kids, office, crowds, and ticket inspectors. The artist paints a unique portrait of daily life in the city through this funny and outright bizarre animation mixes skin textures and textile fabrics with abstract black and white drawings. Supported by an experimental soundtrack invoking conversations, noises, traffic, and all sort of urban sounds, Novanta takes into the ambiance of the city Italian style.

Everyone needs to be free, even if the cost of this freedom is high – this is the message that Nosfe, a young Finnish film-maker delivers via his short film Pako completed in 2001. This rebellious work captivates us through a succession of provocative slogans that accompany a rapid flow of images of Helsinki.

On/Off, On/Off, On/Off – this is the urban rhythm of PUSH by the Spanish film-maker Gorka Aguado. Through the use of switches, buttons, and handles from ordinary objects like microwaves, stereos, cars, doors, and toilets, Gorka has succeeded in choreographing a mechanical dance of daily routines. The different forms, textures, and colors are superimposed to reveal the richness and variety of these objects that almost unconsciously make up our daily lives.

Film by Johanna Vaude

Documentary film.

Recorded live at Leeds Millennium Square, 25th May, 2001. Joined by special guests " Melanie C " and " Lulu ".