Cinematic Era: 2000 Vintage

An animated impression devoted to the complicated relationship between a woman and a man.

Huang Hsin-yao began studying documentary filmmaking in order to make a difference as an ecological activist. While attending Tainan University of the Arts, Huang made this film as a continuation of a previous documentary about the salt evaporation ponds near Tainan. But instead of filming the ponds once more, Huang turned his camera around to capture the state of the mangrove habitat surrounding the ponds. The result marks an important evolution for Huang as an ecologically-minded documentarian.

A rather original outlook on the relationships of two great Russian writers Dostoevsky and Turgenev and their roles in the future fate of Russia.

Ten-year-old Edward Krieger doesn't want Santa Claus to stop by this year. Why not? Because there's too much yelling at his house.

A film that chronicles over forty years of dancemaking in the San Francisco Bay Area. The film begins with dance revolutionary Anna Halprin and highlights seminal Bay Area choreographers including Mangrove, Tumbleweed, ODC/San Francisco, Margaret Jenkins, Dance Brigade, Joe Goode and Contraband. The films addresses the special nature of the Bay Area's social, political and environmental climate; the marginalization of Bay Area artists due to the New York dance establishment and the unique and vital dance community that continues to grow.

Bosse Högberg - once a tough European champion in light-middleweight since suffering from aphasia after stroke in 1988. The toughest fighter of Sweden ever. Against a Frenchman, he boxed fifteen rounds with the rejected jawbone.

From the dawning of film history until the dismantling of its own Film Institute, the Berlin Charité hospital produced approximately 1000 educational medical films, expository films and experimental science films. There is no film history of the Charité itself.There are scraps: fragments in the form of notes, articles a few photos and a number of films that have remained. How can one tell a story that does not exist, that appears only intermittently in a context of images and documents full of gaps?

2000 Peter Rose short work

Long time ago a cruel Pharaoh ruled Egypt. The people of the Israelites were allowed to live in Egypt, but he treated them like slaves. As the Israelites began to resist, he ordered to kill all newborn babies. But one child survived. His mother had marooned him it in a little basket on the Nile. The Pharaoh's daughter found the baby and took it with her. She called it Moses. And so Moses became the prince of Egypt.

The performance is by renowned organist and Bach specialist Hans-Andre Stamm includes Johann Sebastian Bach Favorites: • Toccata and Fugue d minor BWV 565 • Präludium and Fugue E flat major BWV 552 • Passacaglia and Fugue c minor BWV 582 • Various Choral Preludes

An in-depth investigation into the double crime of the Papin sisters, which made headlines in the early 1930s and has fascinated readers ever since. Claude Ventura returns to the circumstances of the savage murder of their boss by the Papin sisters, which occurred in Le Mans on February 2, 1933. This case fascinated Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir as much as Jean Genet and Jacques Lacan.

The story of the world's worst assassin, who is so bad he can't even kill himself.

A lonely computer wiz creates a robot with human-like intelligence. They will influence and teach each other as their lives spin out of control.

Joanne Guest is widely acclaimed as Britain's most lusted after and photographed fantasy girl. But after almost seven years at the top of the glamour industry her move into TV and role as a national newspaper 'agony babe' means she's more often shown with her clothes on these days.

"Twigs" of color in space, and pure white "ghosts" of them in the background interspersed with dark amalgams of these and conglomerate forms. The resolve of these themes is a combination of "amalgams" and "ghosts" at one in interplay, and then dark slashed spaces with "webs" of white, webbed spaces on white and, finally, solarization of colored forms - midst which the frame-line rises from bottom and drifts a few seconds visible, creating an insubstantiality of the frame of these images.

Cohen shot Little Flags in black and white on the streets of lower Manhattan during an early-’90s military ticker-tape parade and edited the footage years later. The crowd noises fade and Cohen shows the litter flooding the streets as the urban location looks progressively more ghostly and distant from the present. Everyone loves a parade—except for the dead.

Mirror on the wall, camera on the ceiling: fast tracked images of waves of an influx of movement inside a women’s bathroom. Entering, waiting, using, leaving: this is a surveillance-style depiction of the transitory life in a non-place filled with possibilities.

An elephant enclosure changing over several years, silently and steadily.

The Czech stop-motion puppet animation master Jiri Trnka directed some of the most acclaimed animated films ever made. In 1966, four years before his death, Newsday lauded him as "second to Chaplin as a film artist because his work inaugurated a new stage in a medium long dominated by Disney." Trnka continues to astound audiences to this day, particularly those discovering this amazing animation for the first time. This collection includes five of the master's shorts and his feature-length classic "The Emperor's Nightingale" based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale and narrated by Boris Karloff. Includes: The Emperor's Nightingale (1951, 67 min.), The Hand (18 min.), The Story of the Bass Cello (13 min.), A Merry Circus (11 min.), A Drop Too Much (14 min.), The Song of the Prairie (21 min.), Jiri Trnka: Puppet Animation Master documentary (12 min.).

This is a portrait of Lorenzo, a Florentine artist who has been repeating the creation of the same work of art for more than twenty years: a pliant and pointed blue-yellow-red acrylic "thread."

Dracula: A Chamber Musical is a 1997 Canadian musical adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.

Dede Chackelis (Uncle Chatzkel) portrays the patient triumph of one man's dignity and intellect over genocide, oppression and personal adversity.

At first glance Brazil appears to be an alluring playground of exciting carnivals, sultry samba, divine football and a vibrantly diverse people. But behind this dazzling facade lies a disturbing story of history’s largest-ever slave population. Astonishingly Brazil, a Portuguese colony, received ten-times more African slaves than the numbers transported to North America. This programme looks at those estimated 4 million people with whose blood, sweat and tears Brazil was built. Without them none of Brazil’s present-day success and appeal would exist. Using contemporary testimonies, this film takes a hard look at Brazil s dark history through the eyes of those slaves. They lived in squalid conditions on remote plantations or in teeming cities harboring fatal diseases. Most Africans survived only seven years in this ‘New World’.

In May 1937, Amelia Earhart embarked on the most ambitious and dangerous flight of her career: an attempt to fly around the world at the equator. Six weeks later, she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared without a trace in the South Pacific. In "The Final Hours", we take a journey around the world in a vintage Lockheed Electra, recreating Amelia's flight and reliving the adventure through her diaries and logbooks. Through interviews with aviation experts and historians we discover a possible solution to the mystery of her disappearance.

Video and computer games represent a $6 billion a year industry. One out of every ten households in American owns a Sony Playstation. Children who own video game equipment play an average of ten hours per week. And yet, despite capturing the attention of millions of children worldwide, video games remain one of the least scrutinized cultural industries. Game Over is the first educational documentary to address the fastest growing segment of the media through engaging questions of gender, race and violence. Game Over offers a refreshing dialogue about the complex and controversial topic of video game violence, and is designed to encourage high school and college students to think critically about the video games they play. - See more at: http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=205#sthash.f6Cram5T.dpuf

Like an ever-changing window onto the wonders of our world, the stunning images of National Geographic Magazine have delighted and amazed readers for generations. Now get to know the unforgettable people behind the cameras. And find out what it's like to travel, explore and get the shot on assignment with the celebrated photographers of National Geographic. Journey to the most remote corners of the globe with these gifted, award-winning professionals. Listen in as they reflect on their painstaking art, and their hair-raising adventures! Get a close-up look at the dangers they face and the often chaotic life they lead for the love of their craft. And discover the remarkable talent required to take pictures that make history, as you gain a fascinating new perspective on the world through the eyes of The Photographers.

A sequence of domestic vignettes from the sunken suburbs. In the house, the stagnant atmosphere has slowly thickened to liquid. The inhabitants try to carry on as normal but beyond the borders of asphyxiation; communication is limited and expression difficult. Filmed entirely underwater in a submerged house to create an atmosphere unlike any other film.

A man called El Toro leads a criminal gang and terrorizes the streets of Mexico City.

A 70 year old woman returns to a solitary train station where she recalls a strange encounter she had there 20 years ago.

A father and a mother await the arrival of a son on a rainy day.

An absurd story of a gentleman and a fish. Based on the poem by Edward Lear.

A transcendental float or an imminent fall: a woman is in a slow motion descent with a slightly illuminated building rushing on the background. Eyes are shut and the body delicately moves: the wind keeps blowing and the end is always near, yet never quite there.

Mongolian feature film released in 2000.

This lion tamer has some tricks up his sleeve that are unlike any other tamer.

Collection of short gore film shorts! Super Rare. Amazing! Bag Face who? Jogging Holocaust!? Violent boner offender attacks!! Offensive Splatter!!

An Animated Short Film by Raman Hui.

Monotone computer animation. A "gaze" on wheels wanders through an empty hospital. The immense waiting room is filled with sunlight. In the hallways, the light reflecting off linoleum floors leaves a strong impression. A ball falls slowly outside the window. The smooth movement of the gaze and the work's consistently stoic and symbolic spatial composition succeed in drawing out "signs."

Documentary about Dominatrixes in Tokyo.

Jeanne never looks at the landscape, she feels its change from hour to hour since she was a child. Since she was a little girl, Jeanne prefers girls. Today she is in love with Alice who wants a child. From Marseille to Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Jeanne tells the story of the color of wheat, of women who give themselves and of what is possible at a given moment. A random fiction, the film resonates with slow love, fraternal friendships and painful filiations.

When a newlywed's husband is brutally murdered she becomes stricken with agoraphobia. Trapped within the confines of her home, and through the help of a neighbor, dates from personal ads, and her new psychologist, she begins to unravel the mystery of her hsuband's death and invites in a world even more dangerous.

20 years of clips where one finds pleasure intact with titles such as Je marche seul, Elle a fait un bébé toute seule, Quand la musique est bonne, Là-bas, Je te donne, Comme toi, Pas toi, Au bout de mes rêves, Encore un matin...

The first segment of Pure Girl’s Document 14 embraces a raw and spontaneous approach, carried by the presence of Maria Kurosawa. Between simple moments at the beach and much more directly filmed sex scenes, the film develops an intimate, almost documentary-like atmosphere. The grainy DV texture, the silences, and certain everyday moments give the segment a strange sense of closeness, as if the camera were trying to capture a presence as much as mere eroticism.

Join in and sing-along with Thomas & Friends in this beautifully animated video of wonderful songs. Also on board, as an extra special treat, is Sir Topham Hatt, a song which has never been featured on video before. (2000) - A Britt Allcroft Company Production

An Alexey Budovsky Animated Short Film

A Kafka-esque story in which an office clerk is constantly yelled at by boss in an incomprehensible language, but the clerk does get his revenge.

The magic flute : opera in two acts [(DVD) videorecording] / by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, libretto by Emmanuel Schikaneder from the Opernhaus Zürich. Intertwining music of purity and beauty with the conventions of musical comedy, this opera is an exploration of man's search for truth and his confusion between the forces of light and dark. Mozart's final operatic legacy is a great work of the Enlightenment era.

Examining the effects of war and terrorism on the children of Bosnia, Israel, Rwanda and Northern Ireland, this story is told by the children. These children have witnessed horrific war crimes and suffered the loss of family and home, or they have become politicized combatants willing to take part in the conflict. Art therapy is used as a means of having the children express themselves to cope with the trauma of war, and the pictures that are drawn by these children are as sad as the stories of their countries’ conflicts. Using images of war rarely seen, this film sheds light on the terrifying trend of combatants deliberately targeting civilians, including children.

A contemporary documentary film about four teenage girls as fearless, but on wobbly legs takes a step from nine to high school, from the teen chaos on the way to adulthood.

In the BANK HEIST, Tina plays a young woman who’s just been promoted to bank manager. Debbie plays the crook who will stop at nothing to get into the vault. Debbie takes Tina hostage, stripping her, gagging her, and ultimately leaving her tied to the desk with a stick of dynamite in her mouth, set to go off in two minutes! In the original, Vanessa Carlton plays the bank manager who’s left in a running car to die by carbon monoxide gas!

Edison's bright idea, or how the electric light bulb works?

A stop-motion animation monkey movie.