Joer 2002 - 479

The Hooley Dooleys: Oopsadazee

Mogens Elbæk travels across the Alps - from France to Slovenia. A cooperation between Danmarks Radio and Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten.

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.

Computer generated video projection.

Bike study honors a simpler, communal way of life, in which individuals are content to have peers rather than subordinates. Shot in Netherlands, this film presents an ideal – democracy – in the concrete form of a bicycle park.– Karen Treanor

On May 1, 2002, the narrator and his friend set off from Budapest in a thirty-year-old “White Power” Wartburg for a barn rave in Őrség, joined en route by a solar-tanned couple, the film’s composer and a handful of Amiga-loving party-goers. What begins as a laid-back Labour Day celebration - stew, pálinka, makeshift metal blasting from a boombox - rapidly swells into a nationwide legend as more revelers, a troublemaker and a student duo join in, even as the local police, an unforgiving schedule and baffled villagers threaten to shut them down. By dawn, amid flying profanity and folk-metal riffs no one can hear, they’re left asking each other: what story will this wild night become on film?

Six young lesbians and gays tell their stories, from the difficulty of being oneself when one feels different, to announcing one's homosexuality to oneself and to others (coming out), to the social rejection (homophobia) and the deafness or even hostility of the families, schools and institutions with which the young people are confronted, this film, made during the Euro-Mediterranean Summer School on Homosexuality in July 2000, recounts the journeys of three young lesbians and three young gays.

The film tells the story of the Hansa Theater in Hamburg, Germany's oldest variety theater, interweaving it with observations from the last season in 2001. It documents the work behind the scenes, the effort that had to be made month after month to bring a new program to the stage. The film lovingly observes the arrival of the artists in their trailers in the courtyard, their daily training, and the preparations made by the kitchen, service, and technical staff, and shows the performances as the culmination of this work. Above all, however, the images convey the joy that the work brings to everyone involved. Memories of Telse Meyer-Grell are visually complemented by archive footage and old photos.

This fascinating film depicts the Taigana, an unusual tribe of nomads living in the mountainous Hovsgol region of Mongolia, near the Siberian border. Nomadism has deep spiritual meaning for the Taigana; their annual migration represents the cyclical nature of life to them and has profound sacred meanings. All their activities are dictated by the world of the spirits. They believe the valleys and mountains are inhabited by their forefathers and by the Supreme Divinity.The Taigana are entirely dependent on their reindeer. They use the sturdy animals to move along the same paths their ancestors did for hundreds of years. Each family owns ten to seventy reindeer which provide most of the diet of the Taigana. The meat is dried and preserved while the milk is used for drinking and making cheese. The skin is utilized to make clothing for the extremely cold winter.

Short film made entirely by a picketer from Lanús that gives a first-person account of a land occupation carried out by the Unemployed Workers Movement in March 2002. Its author asked to borrow a camera for an hour to film his neighborhood and its history.

Hyun-jung lives with her friend named J who has both male and female’s sexual organs. She gets deeply involved in J’s life and conflicts break out. The film starts off as Hyun Jung’s raw curiosity about androgyny, but it leads to a subtle psychological drama. This film offers a chance to consider relationships between a person who lives in normal life and who wants to live a normal life.

The small ethnic group of the Wana Wewaju live in Indonesia in the eastern part of Sulawesi (Celebes Island) among the dense equatorial rain forest of the Tokkala Mountains. The film documents the traditional healing practices of the Wana shamans. This film is the result of fifteen years of research and constitution of ethnocinématographic archives about the shamanism of Wana People from Sulawesi (Indonesia).

The science and education film "Abyss - The Essence of Cults" produced by Beijing Science Education Film Studio, with rigorous and realistic scientific spirit, various artistic techniques, through a large amount of scientific knowledge, vivid strength, and detailed information, comprehensive and profound It thoroughly analyzes the nature and harm of cults, and is a shocking and thought-provoking work of caution. The film uses a large number of little-known materials to disclose the truth of "People's Temple", "David", "Sun Temple", "Falun Gong" and other cult organizations seeking money and killing people Various means and the evil nature of cults are anti-human, anti-science and anti-social. During the use of a large number of high-tech means such as three-dimensional animation, it is a perfect combination of science, art and education.

The film is about the encounter between tradition and modernity. In a small village of Papua New Guinea three exceptional men rival with each other in the field of rituals and artistic creation in order to win over their neighbours. They send a last letter to their dead who have abandoned them and who may have emigrated to a rich country from which the film-makers come.

Racing Through Time is an exceptional series entailing the sensational beginnings of much loved global sport. From the grease and glamour, to the danger and thrills, this is an action-packed, fact filled tour of the world of motor racing, featuring in-depth stories on the legends of motor racing, the high performance machines, the men behind the wheel, and the circuits that have made history.

Short by Vera Neubauer.

Early 20th century romance in Périgueux. A woman separates from her young lover.

An investigation and study of the Yi ethnic minority's "Tiger Day" ceremony that applies the holistic principles of anthropological human research, while looking for the sociocultural causes of drug dependence behavior for local ethnic groups. The film establishes another methodology different from scientific methodology, that is, to defeat the addiction of human biology with the power of culture. "Tiger Day" changed the traditional characteristics of simple description and interpretation, and was involved in exploring the direct application purpose of the film and putting it into practice, thus opening up a new direction for film and television anthropology. Nominated for a Special Award at the 16th Belfast Public Health Conference Film Festival in 2005.

Three male native speakers endlessly correct a woman's foreign pronunciations of English, French and Polish. It seems that the absolute pronunciation of the national texts is represented at its best in the cacophony of three languages overlapping female and male recitations of the anthems. These nonsensical exercises of the mouths problematize the meaning of certain politically charged words.

The video presents a year long documentation of walking in Jarry's park in Montreal. The toy-like looking extensions for the arms are made of maple wood and leather. These paradoxical prostheses do not facilitate the bodily movements. On the contrary, they present grotesque attachments that communicate the very impossibility of undertaking any unrestrained journey through time and space.