Afọ 2002 - 490

In the history of Islam, love between men is a centuries-old phenomenon. Yet Koranic tradition forbids choosing a mate of the same sex. Kyriell, an Imam's son, struggled with reconciling his love for men with his love for Islam and eventually came back to the faith. Pakistani-born Arslan saw no compromise in Islam and discarded his religion, and Iftekar, a Muslim community leader, admits that Islam needs to be brought into the twenty-first century. Through the words of these men, the struggle of gay Muslims is revealed.

The Disobbedienti emerged from the Tute Bianche during the demonstrations against the G8 summit in Genoa in July 2001. The “Tute Bianche” were the white-clad Italian activists who used their bodies – protected by foam rubber, tires, helmets, gas masks, and homemade shields – in direct acts and demonstrations as weapons of civil disobedience. The Tute Bianche first appeared in Italy in 1994 in the midst of a social setting in which the “mass laborer,” who had played a central role in the 1970s in production and in labor struggles, was gradually replaced in the transition to precarious post-Fordist means of production. “Disobbedienti” thematizes the Disobbedienti’s origins, political bases, and forms of direct action on the basis of conversations with seven members of the movement.

A digital poem of the flesh unfolding in near mathematical structural precision. The video’s first segment is a meditation upon the movements of a single female body. The second section focuses on the physical mechanics of a male and female couple. The human footage is augmented with superimposed abstractions, flickering lights, paintings, sound waves and sculptures.

Combining a fearless dedication to experimentation and a fresh emphasis on visual presentation, the San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet has emerged as a leading voice for new music. Its eclectic body of work, unparalleled in its range of expression, has captured the attention of audiences worldwide and earned five Grammy Award nominations. This dynamic recording features the Kronos Quartet playing George Crumb's musical response to the Vietnam War, "Black Angels," in which whispered and shrieked texts, demonic fiddling, and solemn episodes of piety express the relentless horror and senseless grief of war. The quartet also performs Tan Dun's "Ghost Opera," a blend of sophisticated techniques with folk traditions which required the musicians to become peformance artists, chanting text and playing a variety of instruments from gongs dipped in water to finger-cymbals. An electrifying theatrical experience!

A group of four friends head off into the woods on a project for their church. There, they come across crazy old fella who tells them about a group of youngsters that were murdered a while earlier. The killer was never captured, so before long he comes back to wreck havoc on anyone that he comes into contact with.

Experience the skill, drama, high-speed action and shocking crashes from one of the most memorable seasons in the history of the World Rally Championship. The Official Review of the 2002 WRC campaign guides you through all 14 rounds, from Monte-Carlo to Great Britain, as the finest drivers do battle for the ultimate prize. The best camera angles ensure you don't miss any of the vital moments, while breathtaking in-car footage puts you alongside the legends of rallying on snow, ice, dust, gravel and mud-covered special stages across four continents The line-up of drivers reads like a who's who of rally legends - 2001 World Champion Richard Burns, Colin McRae, Carlos Sainz, Petter Solberg, Tommi Makinen and more. However, the 2002 season will be remembered for the staggering dominance of Peugeot and 'flying Finn' Marcus Gronholm, who piloted the 206 WRC to championship glory.

The video Autobrouillard (Auto-Fog) is a polychromatic nocturnal view of an illuminated city progressively invaded by mist. Autobrouillard, filmed using a scale model just as Hollywood movies do for special effects, adapts the themes of city-as-set and the self-managed metropolis. We immediately recognize Bertrand Lamarche’s universe: the themes and motifs (architecture, maquettes, vortices, spires, hurricanes, fog) of an artist, a monomaniacal inventor, whose workshop produces miniatures of atmospheric phenomena. He makes machines that generate processes filmed by a built-in camera. The resulting image is often a spiral ia whirlwind in Tore [1998] and Station des eaux usées [Water Station, 2002]; Autobrouillard shows two rotating movements). Autobrouillard constructs the atmosphere of a fiction in which the common reference is an ideal autarkic city.

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In this work Mark Lewis highlights the gap between utopian visions and everyday realities. The camera glides around a complex network of empty walkways in South London’s soon-to-be-demolished Heygate Estate, with the seamless movement of a computer game. Every detail is precisely planned and produced, from the perfect spring weather to the child actors playing in communal spaces. We are forcefully drawn into the image as the camera glides through the estate’s narrow paths, creating a metaphor for the linear nature of film itself, always moving on. Through this travelling motion, the architecture of the Heygate Estate is animated as a constant stream of images and information, highlighting how we, as viewers, understand the world around us, and what impact it can have on us.

A romance between a skeletonized couple begins with ballroom dancing to sweeping orchestral strains and ends with a salacious roll in the dirt astride his and her headstones in San Francisco–based filmmaker Michelle Silva's cheeky, macabre 2002 flight into the darker side of passion. Silva (a one-time student of George Kuchar) layers negative images atop each other as she limns the landscape of the unconscious with a bold, almost brooding humor. - Robert Avila

hidden star reveals itself only after a period of serious personal struggle. Each of us has their own star; you too can make it shine.

José Ernesto directs a play for AIDS prevention, written by Luisito, where Denise plays the main character. Strangely, the problems they face in the play are the same they confront in real life.

Solo show for MusicMax channel on Foxtel supporting his new album One Nil.

2002 Dutch Experimental Film

A documentary spanning from the Korean Wars to the present. (MUBI)

Underground filmmakers Sarah Reed and Sadie Shaw make their feature-length debut with this brooding horror flick. Frustrated by the apathy all around her, a discontented young woman named Rosie lashes out with increasing violence in order to provoke a reaction from the deadness in her world. Using surreal imagery, this visually compelling film also explores the themes of alienation, isolation and the destructive nature of relationships.

20,000 people live in the streets of Puerto Rico. This gritty documentary recounts the story of Frankie, one among the tens of thousands of Puerto Rico's homeless whose stories will never be told.