Year 2002 - 467

The blind Colonel and the confraternity of naked gymnasts, simple men immersed in nature and the tired eye: notes for a homoerotic atlas.

2002 release

The California Delta is the only place in America where the Chinese community has maintained a sustained presence for nearly a century and a half. Here, immigrants from China transformed swampland into one of the richest agricultural regions on earth. Bittersweet Roots is their story, about how they came and thrived despite hardship and racism. It begins in the 1850s, when thousands of Chinese fortune-seekers rushed to California’s gold fields. After the mines played out, Chinese workers faced the arduous task of completing the transcontinental railroad, then reclaimed the Delta by building a complex system of levees. Learn about the families who worked the land and meet some of their descendants who are still producing crops today

Produced by South Asian movement organization SAALT (South Asian Americans Leading Together), Raising Our Voices raises awareness about the increasing hate crimes and violence against South Asian communities both before and after 9/11. Through interviews with community leaders and members, the documentary explores the difficulties of reporting hate violence, the needs of survivors, and the possibilities for reconciliation outside the criminal justice system.

Wakako Yamauchi, Momo Nagano, and Mary Nomura were teenagers when they were interned in concentration camps during World War II. Behind barbed wire, their creative spirits remained undaunted—their lives fortified by art, music, and literature. Words, Weaves, and Songs profiles the three women artists on their art, personal stories, and experiences of internment.

The experimental film is dealing with the process of globalisation represented by multi-layered real urban and virtual spaces, for which new cultural concept has to be developed. Video explores a topic of the ICT issue. Mobile communication, telematic tools, worldwide collaborative structures and global political alliances create a new cultural landscape whose rules will have to be worked on.

A short film that tells a fictional story using a curious phenomenon from the 18th century. The narrator of the novelistic plot is a decorative hermit who was hired by the eccentric owner of a country castle to live modestly like a hermit in a grotto as decoration for the garden. No one seems to know his true identity.

The relationship between Mavroscoufitsa and the Wolf is shaky. Mavroscoufitsa is almost sure that the Wolf is cheating on her with her mother. What she doesn’t know is that the coke she delivers daily to her addicted and blind grandmother, is stolen from the Wolf by her mother.

The ultimate visual expression lies in the development process. A darkroom, a dark room, the feeling of groping around. A buffer zone where developer and fixer mix together. The image sometimes appears and sometimes doesn't. It is also a ghost zone where ghosts appear out of nowhere.

January 2002. About sixty transplanted children from fourteen different countries were invited by Liz Schick to spend a week in Anzère, a swiss ski resort. They talk about their heavy interventions, but also about the pleasure they have to meet each others , and to live the same things than the other young children of their age.

Folktale from the Loop Head penisula about a trickster fox, narrated by seanachai Marty Keane. Told in drawings made of sand from Rinevilla beach, below Rehy hill, where the story is located.

A portrait of the acclaimed Scottish artist John Bellany.

Mickey is waiting for Minnie at the soda shop, but he then gets distracted by a pirate peg leg Pete-themed pinball machine for hours. And as he plays the game, Mickey gets so into the game he believes it is real and Pete has captured Minnie and Mickey has to save her. After he won the game, it offers him a free game, but he destroys the machine and has a great date with Minnie.

Mickey, Minnie and Mortimer are kidnapped by the mysterious Goat Man while performing their vaudeville act.

When compared to an ordinary person, a paranoid schizophrenic sees the world as if through a shattered mirror. But if perceptions create reality, then it is conceivable that a schizophrenic's world of shattered and reorganized perceptions could be as equally real as the "sane" world. In the mind of Frederic E. Drake, paranoid schizophrenic, every day is a fight for survival against nigh-insurmountable odds. In this collision of realities, which is illusion? What would you believe?

Gregor Seyffert as Vaslav Nijinsky runs barefoot across frozen leaves at the beginning. Then he enters one of the empty, half-ruined halls on the grounds. The room is a metaphor for Nijinsky's body.