Cinematic Era: 2000 Vintage

The stories of various people who live in a high-rise building (Soliter). The film sheds light on their thoughts, lives, and interpersonal relationships, capturing the challenges and dynamics of urban life.

Experimental documentary shot by Enrico Ghezzi in 2000 about a trip he made by plane.

This VHS movie Tha Memphis Underground gives you a glimpse of the Memphis rap underground scene and nightlife from the early 1990s featuring the likes of 8Ball and MJG, Gangsta Pat, Tommy Wright III, Pretty Tony and others.

Animated with drawings that are a collage of pop and grotesque. The surrealistic design and the generous viewing experience give the impression that it is a "picture book for adults", but the thoughtful storyline, poetic narration and songs that suddenly appear are pleasantly unrestrained as if the film were aimed at children. However, this unrestrainedness is accompanied by a high degree of perfection, and although it is a flat animation that seems to be the opposite of the latest CG, it gives the impression of possibilities for expression that may even broaden the definition of cinema.

Miss Jacobonot, a schoolteacher, has a crush on Jimmy, a student in her class. Jimmy loves to tell stories. But his teachers kick him out of school and sent him to an institute for unsuitable children.

Uses the final fragments of home movies to create a series of "endings," each one being obliterated by the white dots that appear at the end of each filmstrip.

The annual New Year’s Eve Concert is one of the highlights in the calendar of every classical music fan in Berlin and beyond. On New Year‘s Eve, the Berliner Philharmoniker invite an exceptional soloist for a festive gala. Together, the musicians bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new. The 2000 concert was conducted by Claudio Abbado and featured Andrea Rost (soprano), Alan Titus (baritone), Ramón Vargas (tenor), and the Prague Radio Choir. On the programme: Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera (Excerpts), Don Carlos (Excerpts), Rigoletto (Excerpts), La Traviata (Excerpts), Falstaff (Excerpts), Johann Strauss: Maskenfest – Quadrille.

A three-minute travelogue of a film based on a clear concept and minute calculations. The stills in the filmmaker’s hand and the color of their background… These two images, one inside the other in the frame, are looped together and metamorphose. The lags and flickers of live animation entice as well. It’s the appearance of “the origin of film” through a series of stills.

On All Saint’s Day 1755, around 09:40 hours, Lisbon was hit by an earthquake which eradicated almost the entire city. 345 years later (D.T. = depois de terramoto) means 2100 AD. Will Portugal’s capital be a Garden of Earthly Delights when we reach the year 2100? Pêra’s animation classic provides unexpected (in)sights about it.

"The final format is a 16mm blowup from an original Super 8 film, comprised of sequences shot off of a television monitor, which in turn played a videotape of a 35mm film, Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom. The images Fogel kidnapped are those of several young men, some nude, seemingly alone together in a small, ancient-looking bedchamber. The differences in frame-rate between camera and monitor cause black horizontal bands to strobe languidly up and down the screen; the five layers of media transmission have washed out the original colors into an electric blue-gray . . . The total effect is one of deep, erotic longing. It presents the metaphor of cinema as an eternally youthful, luminously beautiful 20-year-old boy, who is nevertheless slipping away, through layers of time, into a tantalizingly unreachable distance." —Ed Halter

It is June. The rainy season begins in Mali. Henri-Francois Imbert arrives in Bamako. He is looking for his friend Doulaye Danioko.

An old, rusty freighter enters the harbor on the morning of December 24th. A board brings a clandestine passenger who tries, at night, to jump into the country.

The ghost of a young woman starts to attack men and suck all the energy from them, resulting in death. To deal with this threat, a paranormal activity unit led by a man named Kagami is dispatched.

A documentary about director Budd Boetticher.

A portrait of Radio SMT 92.8, a small local radio station in Trelleborg, Sweden, and its importance to the community it serves. The film observes how everyday broadcasts—music, greetings, and conversations—bind listeners together.

This science fiction adventure centers on the interaction between a crew of Earthmen and their seduction by the love-hungry Amazons of the red planet, Mars. The tale is brought to life with all the opulence that an $800 budget can produce and the young cast of non-actors live up to their fullest foibles as the plot thickens with a mix of romance and wartime action intertwined with a musical number or two. The ambitions were high and the necklines low in this effects-laden tribute to pulp fiction fantasy and intergalactic intercourse.

Three individuals from different backgrounds discuss the nature of vision from strikingly different perspectives in this Swiss documentary. Peter Berman is a professional actor who has developed a tumor that has severely impacted his sight; he discusses his condition, and how it has affected his perceptions and his craft. Monie Neziane is a young woman who has gone blind; she speaks of her memories of light and images and how blindness has led her to a new way of seeing. And Bruno Netter, an artist who paints landscapes in the Swiss countryside, whose sense of light, shadow, and color are the basis of his work, explains how creating a painting is much more than a matter of seeing with one's eyes.

Take a chance. Don't do it. This is America. Do it.

Muri Romani is a somewhat radical type of documentary. In appearance, it is utter simplicity. For example, the image of a patch of wall in Rome, today. As one watches, the wall seems to change, invisibly, without technical means. The sound is a collage of street sounds: motorinos, bells, people talking, trams, and sirens -- the daily sounds of central Rome.

From ESPN's award-winning series, this in-depth retrospective on the life and times of "Hammerin'" Hank Aaron relives the highs and lows of the home run leader's storied career, forever tarnished by the bigotry he often faced. Through revealing interviews and archived footage, witness the courage of one of the game's most dignified figures as he makes his run at baseball's most hallowed record.

Journalist Kevin McKiernan's powerful film takes a close look at the Kurds, compelling and controversial subjects whose identities seem to shift depending on the loyalties of those viewing them. To some, they are heroes fighting to rebuild war-torn Iraq; to others, they are terrorists to be feared and loathed. What is the truth, and where do the answers lie? This provocative study earned Best Documentary honors at numerous film festivals.

Taiwanese documentary about the life of Tao, a Lanyu tribesman and how the director's life and relationship has grown and changed.

Disneyland reviewed by a true poet of cinema, Arnaud Pallières. A disturbing journey into the simulacrum.

Exercise your First Amendment Right to see this video! These are the shocking images the censors don't want you to see - and this tiem, we've saved the worst for last!

А short film about the psyche of a military sniper.

Against the backdrop of a minimal electronic soundtrack, a slow circular pan reveals a paradisiacal landscape made up of forests, a lake and flowery meadows.

Documentary depicting the filmmakers' efforts to find a nomadic Mauritanian family they had filmed six years earlier in order to show them the recorded footage.

When Linda, an outspoken lesbian psychotherapist, decided that George, a bulldozer-driving transsexual, was the woman for her, Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage was born. Directed and produced by Vancouver-based Mark Achbar, the video was shot over a two-year period by the subjects and covers what the media touted as the first lesbian marriage in Canadian history, a graphic sex change operation, and the daily lives and most intimate moments of a relationship generally hidden behind the iron curtain of societal taboo.

Anyone who is keen to capture Berlin’s most original characters on film is bound to end up at Sylvia Heidemann’s door. Sylvia has saved up every penny of her reparation money to appear just once in her life on the silver screen like Greta Garbo. It just so happens that the Viennese filmmaker Andersch and Madame Heidemann are staying at the same hotel and it’s not long before the two strike a bargain.

Legendary music director R.D. Burman enjoyed a prolific career that spanned more than three decades -- and a repertoire of scores for more than 350 films. This exciting collection contains some of his best-loved works, including "Kuch Na Kaho" (from 1942: A Love Story), "O Majhi Re" (from the film Khushboo), "Saagar Kinare" (featured in the movie Saagar), "Hawa Ke Saath," "Pyaar Karne Wale," "Yeh Dosti" and "Bechara Dil Kya Kare."

A kid falls in love with a train that is about to be scrapped, and helps steal the train away to a museum to be preserved.

In the summer of 1888, ads began to appear for a camera with a mysterious name: the Kodak. No one had ever seen anything like it. "All of a sudden this little device means you could go into the back yard, you can take a picture of the baby splashing around in a mud puddle," says John Staudenmaier, S.J., a historian at University of Detroit Mercy. "You can go to a picnic or a ballgame. You can do it. And you know how hard this is, because you in your memory have seen professional photographers all over the place. The hiding of the professional chemistry involved in photography is a stroke of genius." "The Wizard of Photography" is the story of how George Eastman struggled to overcome fierce competition and embarrassing failures to make photography easy and affordable for everyone. Produced, directed, and written by James A. DeVinney, the program is narrated by Judith Light.

The Nightingale of Ramersdorf is one of the most dazzling but also the most tragic figures of the German neighborhood scene. What began in the Munich chic of the 70s led to the sad life as Tingel-Chansonnier in Berlin through various supporting roles in films by Rosa von Praunheim. The quarrelsome artist never had a loyal fan base. But all the more people talk about him in the pubs, where he was accompanied by a ghetto blaster who was hated by the often involuntary audience. Because in truth there is usually nothing better to tell. Meanwhile, the nightingale of Ramersdorf is impoverished, a care case and almost blind. But she was left with the unmistakable voice and the memories of her own time.

It's a movie from 2000.

Made to commemorate the 2000th year from the birth of Christ, this documentary explores the night liturgy at the holy sepulcher in Jerusalem during holy week.

A hand-manipulated, painted and optically re-printed film; a meditation on historical trauma; the furnaces of Dachau and the Kristallnacht; a materialist essay on the spiritual in art; a landscape of sulfur and dye, the mental detritus of post-war Germany.

Mentioning Diao-yu-tai evokes an immediate patriotic response in Taiwan due to the territorial dispute between China and Japan, sparked by a 1968 oil field survey in the East China Sea.

A Thriller directed by Harald Holzenleiter

A Native American Medicine man has a vision of the future to come.

Morrocoy, a marine and submarine National Park, one of the greatest ecological sceneries of the Venezuelan coastline, with marine birds, mangrove and submarine fauna, The most important mangrove system found in the southern Caribbean, is now endangered.

The dialogue is as close to poetry as possible, the images are as free as if they were captured directly on the camera, and the mountain summer grasses and abandoned buses have as much presence as the characters. And a light air, as if they were stitched together with humming. The film, which was made from images that sprang up rather than being worked out, asks the viewer to be sensitised rather than understood. The happiness and unconcernedness given by the many songs and smiles of the characters may be one of the origins of "making films because you love them".

Using the structure and duration of a pop song, artist Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay comments on the pervasiveness of communication in “the information age” at the turn of this century. The video also acts as a reflection on the virtual reality we experience via innumerable screens today.

A deluded artist plans to become famous. He bumps into a girl who might just be the one to snap him out of his unrealistic dreams.

with Yogi John Franzoni

A bold uncompromising look at the hell of the director's real-life family life. He still shares the apartment with his dysfunctional parents who use verbal violence towards him on a daily basis.

A short lecture by Jonas Mekas

"Hot" by-play of reds-greens-yellows in black, blurred, finally, as the color shapes are shifted violently from side to side, finally ending of a sharp entanglement of multicolored twig-like and/or stem-like forms.

A mini-revolution. Wrong choices. The divorce of ethereal beauty and mystery so common in experimental films. In Stephanie Barber's films. What begins as devastatingly awkward or "tender" unfolds itself to show a deceptive, strangely rigid literary formalism commented upon by the content. The two (form and content) dance around, moving towards and away from each other in the tricky, clear dialogue. Hyper-reflexivity, art and love (and the role faith plays in each of these). The filmmaker writes, "I, myself, feel safest around purposefulness, can read more clearly an artist's work when I trust that choices have been weighed, bear meaning. This film requires a great deal of faith because it is strange and labile. Its device-ness is so apparent as to have left it naked. And then so naked as to be, perhaps, closed again."