Rok 2002 - 489

The kicks, hits, and blows of martial arts master are no faster than Nicolayevsky's manic editing.

A video essay offering new perspectives on a contemporary China between communist slogans and market-driven society. Is the utopia of a communist society in China still alive or just kept alive artificially? In Zhou Hongxiang's video essay possible answers are interconnected, while presenting today's China as a nation torn between communist rhetoric and capitalist economy. Simultaneously, The Red Flag Flies critically reflects on the slogans of Maoism as well as on all kind of -isms in the world - albeit their economical, political or ideological origins.The Red Flag Flies tries to deconstruct and reconstruct the phenomenon of cinema by questioning current aesthetic experiences and cognitive perception, and tries to explore a new discourse on the power of images.

Ken delivers an uplifting and encouraging humor-filled presentation to help us find the missing gusto. No promises of health, wealth or perfection -- just an honest look at the Christian life.

Keith Deltano faces head-on the topic of teen abstinence, but not in the usual way. Keith is a Christian comedian with a style all his own. With pure energy, Keith combines side-splitting humor, slapstick, and audience participation with Scriptural truths and scientific evidence to confront youth with the harsh risks of premarital sex, and he presents the rich rewards of God’s plan: abstinence until marriage and monogamy afterwards. He helps young people know what to say and do to handle the pressures of their peers and today’s society.

Based on a set of drawings that depict George W. Bush's administration as wounded soldiers in the war against terrorism, RE:THE_OPERATION explores the sexual and philosophical dynamics of war through the lives of the members as they physically engage each other and the "enemy." Letters, notes, and digital snapshots "produced" by the members on their tour of duty become the basis of video portraits that articulate the neuroses and obsessions compelling them toward an infinite war. Part M*A*S*H*, part Three's Company, part philosophical meditation (with a dash of character assassination thrown in) RE:THE_OPERATION exists as a single channel video and a set of desktop replacement icons for MAC and PC.

The exclusive story of the investigation into the mechanism of collapse of the World Trade Center.

American indie film by director Brian Sullivan

These are various reports on the Church -- some from the world of Big Pink Media, others by SubGeniuses working in disguise within Pink media.

Belgium | France

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.