Year 2001 - 440

Short film by Lu Chunsheng.

Short film by Liang Yue.

A curious Bosnian refugee becomes an unexpected tour guide through war-torn Sarajevo.

An incantatory exercise of a balancing act on the rocks of an invested place, camera in hand at knee height, uttering by heart in the physical breath, a poem - which became, following his death, a tribute to Louis-René des Forests.

In the three-part series Nine Years Later, Beck revisits video performances he created nearly a decade earlier to music by the British pop band The Smiths. Beck betrays the apparent effortlessness of the original clips by editing them alongside the numerous rehearsals, variously self-conscious and obsessive, they required. With inter-titles and voice-over, Beck recapitulates his performances according to the video technology he used to produce them. As a result, the body, in its correlation with the evolution and obsolescence of technology, is revealed as a purely “enjoying” substance. Whether portraying a vindictive martyr in Bigmouth Strikes Again, a suicidal loner in Panic, or a comatose drag queen in Girlfriend In A Coma, Beck brings the violence and malice implicit in lead-singer Morrissey’s lyrics graphically to life.

"Song Poem (Trips Visits) is a single-channel work I created using videotapes I found in second-hand stores, from home movies to hunting how-to tapes. It was created for a show titled Song Poems, which took as its departure a popular 1960-70s mail-order phenomenon, advertised in the back of magazines, offering to set poems to music in an array of styles and return them as 'singles.' The exhibition brought together musicians and video artists to set original poems by a variety of artists and writers to music and images. I created a video for an original poem by the show’s curator, Steven Hull, with music composed by The Pony Express, an alternative New York rock band." -- Robert Beck

Video remix artist Brian Boyce combines appropriated CNN footage of George W. Bush with clips from The Teletubbies used without permission. This remix was a part of the 2002 Illegal Art Exhibit sponsored by Stay Free! magazine.

A sleazy creep comes out at night to terrorize a small town in California.

People associated with the art world give their personal interpretation of verses taken out of context of the respective poem. We see images, hear sounds, they interpret… What is ‘the city and the world’? What is ‘the room’? What does ‘the jails of time contract’ mean? This piece reveals the feelings prompted by reflection on the simple wording of a poem, which is ultimately reconstructed to propose a discussion around time and where we wasted it.

Abstract animation by Young-jae Shin

36 by lotte schreiber and Norbert pfaffenbichler is a strictly mathematical-graphic composition based on the eponymous number.

“Agin’ the Wall” depicts a group of young Irish travellers and their efforts to overcome the odds and gain acceptance within the wider community.

Anne-Marie Schneider work from 2001

"Andrey Bitov. The Green Suitcase" is the first portrait film in the work of Viktor Tikhomirov. Initially, the picture was supposed to reflect the process of writing the book "Chaos and Order", which was conceived by Andrey Bitov, and be called like a book. Later, due to objective reasons, the tape was transformed into a cinematic portrait of the writer, whose image is revealed through philosophical concepts: "chaos" and "order". The film features music by the groups "Volkovtrio" and "Auction". The film was awarded a special jury prize at the festival" Literature and Cinema " in Gatchina (2002).

Short film by Shizuko Tabata.

Short film by Shizuko Tabata.

First transmitted in 2001, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop, performs UK premieres of three works by American composer Philip Glass at the Barbican Hall.In an interview with presenter Charles Hazlewood, Philip Glass discusses the influence of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on his work and explains why he is uncomfortable being referred to as a minimalist composer.Music includes the European premier of Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists & Orchestra with solo timpanists Jonathan Haas and John Chimes.

Natsuki, who works at the town factory, is a lonely 19-year-old who makes tearful efforts such as skipping lunch and taking laxatives, worrying about the thick body shape pointed out by Shige. There is also a secret - Natsuki once killed father and was housed in a rehabilitation facility.