.Yl 2002 - 472

A parody of Peter Jackson's award winning success, "The Lord of the Rings" - filmed with low budget in and around Moscow. Everything began with Sauron forging the Great Ring of Power. By chance this ring got lost by all of his masters - until it came to the hobbit Frodo Baggins. Thus he has been sent by Gandalf the Gray to an ero.. exotic walk to Bree. Still, the evil does not sleep - the power-thriving Sarumom tries participate in the expansive globalization plans of the evil Mordor conglomerate. And the 8 1/2 Nazgul have already rode out, looking for the Ring...

Those who care Faith and Healing in a Ladakhi Village This film gives an insight into the daily life and work of the traditional healer Amchi Smanla Tsering and his wife Tsering Dolma. They live in the Tibetan Buddhist village of Tia in a remote valley in Ladakh. Smanla is not only a healer, but also a farmer and this film shows how he combines these activities during the intensive harvest months. Very often the Amchi is the only person the villagers can turn to for medical or mental help. He also gives advice on important community matters. The Amchi's way of treatment and diagnosis is based on Tibetan medicine. Most important is the questioning, the feeling of the pulse and the observation of the tongue and eyes.

Friction is a 3d animated parable about a mad scientist from Green Bay whose books have recently affected the political order.

Documented through interviews, audio tapes and visuals, religious intolerance in Pakistan comes alive in this film. This is a life sketch of Bishop John Joseph, who laid down his life in 1999 to dramatically tell the world of the plight of religious minorities in his country.

A picaresque account of an ordinary man -made extraordinary by his appetite for life and love. At the age of 58 Lachuman Magarhas not just seen it all but done most of it too. A some-what fearless war veteran with a strong weakness when it comes to members of the opposite sex. Today Lachuman's story has come full circle and he wonders what his next step will be.

This film captures a moment in time during 9/11 by documenting the phenomenon of the Bellevue Hospital's "wall of prayers." It is my hope that it will allow viewers to spend a few moments quietly getting to know the people who perished on 9/11, and to recall a unique moment in history.

This documentary offers a rare glimpse into a way of life that is often overlooked. By understanding the Bakkarwals, we gain insights into the broader human experience of adaptation, survival, and cultural preservation. Perfect for those interested in anthropology, cultural studies, and the diverse tapestry of human societies.

Collection of cartoon anecdotes summons the small-town world of the turn of the century, condensed into a single day, with ‘Czech’ good humour. The mosaic-like short evokes locations of the artist’s childhood, the Fin de Siècle milieu of Sopron through the glittering imagination of the graphic artist director, where the stationmaster salutes the rising sun, and the train driver associates himself with a mermaid in his bath, who he caught that day in the lake.

This digital video arose from the idea of trying to transfer to film all the photographic images I had created with the so-called “photo-finish” technique. While in the process of completing it, I used single frame digital animation to shoot the faces and their sudden transformations when subjected to the photo-finish technique, transferring them, then imparting motion to them in a single animated sequence on the computer. This agitation, torn from photographic fixity [is] subjected, in turn, to distortion by its intersection with objects texture-mapped with those same faces. The passage from motionless quiet to paroxysmal interference; the animating startle of Bach’s cello.

A cold war, film noir, alien invasion, redneck retribution, psychological suspense thriller musical in three minutes flat.

A couch potato character sets himself an equally lazy task of demolishing a large pile of eggs and beer.

A pair of military officers visit a contemporary art exhibition. What follows is nothing short of a cultural "shock."

Experimental investigations and transformations of porn, including self as porn-mechanism. 'The Sexual Economy of Risk' partly visualizes reflections of Slavoj Zizek (from On Belief): '...the passage from animal copulation to properly human sexuality affects the human animal in such a way that it causes the human animal's radical self-withdrawal, so that the zero-level of human sexuality is not the 'straight' sexual intercourse, but the solitary act of masturbation sustained by fantasizing ---the passage from this self-immersion to involvement with an Other, to finding pleasure in the Other's body is by no means 'natural', it involved a series of traumatic cuts, leaps and inventive improvistaions...' -Slavoj Zizek.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate after being told an heir's estate is plagued by a ghostly dog.

The male gaze, staged in the classic western genre, forms the backdrop to Get Your Gun Up.

Man has always been fascinated with death. Throughout history there have been people who claim to be able to communicate with those who have passed on. And there have always been many who believe their claims are folly.

2001-2002 Season Review