IFFR 2002

Various Artists

In the Japanese music world, experimental sound is not far removed from plastic pop music. The music-video-makers are also at home in all markets. A unique selection of Japanese pop promos.

exploding cinema

+81 b.p.m. Music Promo's from Japan

Modernist tours de force in the field of electronic image/sound compositions. Reveals that Vienna is really cool.

Austrian Abstracts

Stacy Peralta

Juicy doc about the Zephyr skating team that breathed new life into the fairly pedestrian skating sport in the 1970s with style, courage and no respect for convention.

Dogtown and Z-Boys

Benjamin Stokes

Rob Leggat

Leigh Marling

Seb Drhey & Benoit Millot

Chris Cunningham

D-Fuse

Floria Sigismondi

Johnny Hardstaff

Paul Donnelon

Richard Anthony

The Designers Republic

Til Obladen

Traktor

Unit 9

Klas Ahlund @ Stylewar

Logan

Inez van Lamsweerde

Jarvis Cocker

Martin Wallace

Andrea Giacobbe

The electronic music industry and the relevant music videos are still often not mainstream. Including videos by Ben Stokes, Tino, Chris Cunningham, Til Obladen, Inez van Lamsweerde.

Electric Cinema

Stephane Sednaoui

Geoffroy de Crecy

Antoine Bardou-Jacquet

Ludovic Houplin

Hervé de Crecy

Alex Courtes

Martin Fougerol

Numero 6

Quentin Dupieux

Siraj Jhaveri

Yann Orhan

Sebastian Fau

French electronic music engendered a new music-video style: the 'French New Wave'. With Stephane Sednaoui (Mirwais, Jamiroquai), Alex &amp; Martin (Air), Yann (St. Germain).

The French New Wave

Obitani Yuuri

Divergence between cameraman and soundman in tense street scene.

A Kid on the Alley of 3-2 Kyojima

Michel Gondry - Special Screening

Michel Gondry

Gondry seems to have been made to create strange worlds. He came to fame through his cooperation with Björk. But he also worked for Massive Attack, Rolling Stones or Radiohead and for companies such as Gap, Smirnoff, Air France.

Music Video Director in Focus: Michel Gondry

Spike Jonze

Spike Jonze, diretcor of Being John Malkovich, made a large number of historic music videos. Exploding Cinema honours him with a special programme: take your Weapon of Choice!

Music Video Director in Focus: Spike Jonze

Jonathan Glazer

Garth Jennings

W.I.Z.

Three influential clip giants: W.I.Z. including 'Stand Inside Your Love' (The Smashing Pumpkins); Sexy Beast director Jonathan Glazer including 'Street Spirit' (Radiohead); Hammer &amp; Tongs including 'Right Here Right Now' (Fatboy Slim).

Music Videos from England: 3 Directors in Focus

Mike Mills

Mark Romanek

A.N. Smith

Sanji

Pedro Romhany

Philippe Andre

David Fincher

Jake Scott

Dom and Nic

Geoffrey Barish

Luscious Jackson

New York, archetype of the post-modern metropolis, champion in the recycling of the urban image. From Mark Romanek's 'Devil's Haircut' (Beck) to Dom and Nics 'I am Afraid of Americans' (David Bowie).

New York New York

Mattias Hoene

Leiji Matsumoto

Pete Candeland

Jamie Hawlett

Kuntz & Maguire

Long live anonymity, the hippest musicians think. From Gorillaz to Fat Boy Slim and Daft Punk.

No More Stars

Forum discussion about the state of the art in the world of music video: with (n.v.) Floria Sigismondi, Michel Gondry, Geoffrey de Crecy and W.I.Z. Chaired by writer Steve Reiss.

Panel: The Look of Music

Short and moving documentary about the everyday life of American newspaper boys in a quiet suburb. By music video director Mike Mills.

Paperboys

Doug Pray

An already legendary documentary about super-DJs and scratch matches offers a panorama of the musical phenomenon of scratching, that reached its height in the late 1970s and is a source of inspiration for today's music culture.

Scratch

Run Wrake

Tim Hope

Belzebu

Jean-Luc Chansay

Shynola

Sam Arthur

Jonathan Dayton

Valerie Farris

Richard Kenworthy

Working for imaginative bands like Radiohead and Royksopp, new talents such as Shynola, Run Wrake, Time Hope and Betzebu are creating innovation in music videos. Animation flourishes, particularly with the new potential of digital technologies.

Sonic Animation

Giovanna Sonnino

Experimental docu-fiction about twenty years of male-female relationships, told by 11 young women in New York and accompanied by hits from the relevant periods. A quick course in 'What does the woman want?' for all men.

Strike a Light

Tanaka Hideyuki

Jack-of-all-trades Tanaka Hideyuki is in the vanguard of the creative industry in Japan: clothing designer for Superlovers, but also maker of title sequences, 3D animations, music videos and commercials. A dizzying mixture.

Tanaka Hideyuki - In the Frame

Tom Collins

Veteran BBC Radio DJ John Peel visits Derry in Northern Ireland for the first time and finds the band that created his favourite pop song, 'Teenage Kicks'.

Teenage Kicks - The Undertones

The music video as a story of dirty films. Unseen and Unclean investigates this grand tradition: from 'Sex Dwarf' (Tim Pope for Soft Cell) to the mainstream sex of 'Taste It' (INXS).

Unseen and Unclean: Banned Videos

While shooting a music video for Fatlip (ex-Pharcyde), Jonze decided he had enough material for a short film. 'Lip' plays a series of pitiful characters.

What's Up, Fatlip

Mark Neale

During a journey from L.A. to Vancouver, science-fiction writer William Gibson (Neuromancer) talks about everything that fascinates him: future, technology, the creative process etc.

William Gibson: No Maps for These Territories

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025