Cinematic Era: 2000 Vintage

The Glamour Chase is Andrew Miller's feature length 2000 documentary on the life of maverick Scottish pop star Billy Mackenzie. With contributions from close family, friends and the 1980s pop firmament that admired him so deeply, the documentary remains definitive. Variously described as an "anarchic Bassey, sinister Pavarotti and Scotland's Sinatra", Billy Mackenzie led an extraordinary life. The story is told by Billy himself from extensive archive footage, together with his father Jim and sister Helen and informed contributions from his biographer Tom Doyle and pop star friends including fellow Associates Alan Rankine and Michael Dempsey; ABC's Martin Fry, Siouxsie Sioux, Marc Almond and members of Heaven 17, Yello and Apollo 440.

A documentary about Crimea's history and beautiful sceneries.

The history of the exploitation of the Earth dates back to its original inhabitants by the farmers and landowners of Chiapas, the millennia-old organization of these peoples against oppression, and their struggle to recover their rights and the land that was violently taken from them.

Patrick claims to be a millionaire, but can't afford the rent for his one-room apartment in Berlin-Mitte. Nevertheless, he is the founder of an indie label and a rock musician. Increasingly infected by the current Berlin euphoria, he continues to pursue his vision with unique energy.

The Mole nurses an injured bird back to full health.

Yumi, a devoted wife whose nights with her husband have grown cold and distant, has begun to indulge in intense lewd fantasies. Frustrated by his lack of desire and whispers that he’s turned to paid pleasures online, she succumbs to increasingly lascivious daydreams. One evening, her friend Maki confesses that ever since her own husband lost his virility, she’s been sneaking around with younger men—and she reaches out to Yumi with a daring proposition. Yumi agrees to step beyond every boundary she’s ever known. As two adventurous couples swap partners in a heady experiment, Yumi’s timid restraint is swept away in a torrent of raw sensation. Each stolen touch, each gasp of surprise, ignites her deeper cravings until she’s lost in a world where every caress pulses with wanton release. In this bold, erotic exploration of marriage, intimacy, and the secret thrill of “email swaps,” Yumi discovers how far she’s willing to fall—and how sweet the depths of desire and lust can be.

A documentary series charting the birth, growth and development of the Irish state from its foundation in 1921 until the 1990s.

Pilot for Kirby: Right Back At Ya! The short begins with a mysterious pink creature, Kirby, crash landing his starship on a foreign planet, Popstar.

A nod to Germaine Dulac. I filmed brass discs with camera movements. The discs deform and create new shapes; sometimes they glimpse each other, overlapping to create abstract forms. The sound is computer-generated.

The most talked about musical event of the summer of 2000, that almost didn't happen, feturing extreme musics' biggest and brightest. This plastic terror contains an in depth adventure covering three days worth of heat, frustration, joy, triumph, chaos and unity.

Follows the history of the city Saratov, ts architectural monuments, and famous residents

An orphan named Tyler discovers he's a mutant and decides to save mankind from doom.

That is an ARD documentary that explains the Pokémon trend at the time.

This horror-movie is an omnibus-style film adaptation of horror stories submitted to "Monthly Mu" magazine by readers.

Documentary about the history of the Davis Cup.

A normal day in the life of the modern anti-hero in the big city.

The film is a typical auteur work with an observant but emotionally charged attitude. The film's action takes place while driving past the villages of Latgale. The houses are located right by the road, but few people manage to cross the threshold of this peculiar way of life. The people are welcoming and open if you manage to speak to them from the heart, but the peculiarity of this life remains an unfathomable mystery. The film crew visited more than 20 homes in Tiskādi, Poromonovka, Ružāni, and Silmale, listened to stories of life and death, sang along with the cheerful ones, and mourned with the sad ones. The result of these human encounters is a film about a world of isolation and immeasurable vitality – the Old Believer villages of Latgale.

The panic of a man in his 60s tormented by doubts, his escape to the Millevaches plateau and the experience of his strange metamorphosis.

Balmukand lives a poor lifestyle in a village in India along with his wife, Sharda, and son, Alok. They share their house with his brother, Jaikishan, his wife, Urmila, their son, Abhishek, and daughter, Mona. Jaikishan gets an offer to work in America and with Sharda's financial help re-locates there along with his family.

Dazzling documentary covering Erykah Badu's 2000 concert at the Knitting Factory in Los Angeles.

Part 5 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

A figure is manipulated via a rope leading off screen.

WILLIGAN'S FITZROY takes us to the small Aboriginal community of Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia. Through the eyes of the local Aboriginal Employment Coordinator, Joe Ross, we take an informal journey into the world of the Bunaba tribe, their lives, their culture and the modern infrastructures they are developing to make their community both financially and culturally viable. One thing that has long united the Bunuba people is the fight to stop their beloved Fitzroy River from becoming a massive dam project. We gain an inkling into the enormous spiritual and economic losses at stake for this remote Kimberley town.

Poverty pushes couple Sandy and Jaime to join their affluent acquaintances in their circle called the Kaliwat ng Sigbin. As soon as they become members, their lives quickly become filled with success and fortune. Little do they know that their luck comes with a heavy price.

A documentary about the most famous Polish rock festival of the communist era – the Jarocin Festival. With the help of musicians who owe their artistic existence to this festival and its organizers, the filmmakers paint a picture of a legendary, almost mythical event. The very fact that a punk rock and hippie festival existed in a country behind the Iron Curtain was a phenomenon in itself. And when we realize the cultural significance of Jarocin, we understand that this festival was unique and irreplaceable. The film's director presents a wide range of people who appeared at the event over the course of its several years of existence, as well as artists who took their first steps on stage in the 1980s and are now "megastars" and pillars of Polish rock culture.

Lennox Lewis vs. Michael Grant, billed as Two Big, was a professional boxing match contested on April 29, 2000 for the WBC, IBF, and IBO heavyweight championships.

A woman's shoes say a lot about her.

After exercises at the Berlingowcy monument, soldiers from the Polish Army Representative Company parade without uniforms in the ballet hall. Under the command of their commander, the naked soldiers perform all elements of parade drill.

Corpuscles dash about. Nerves twitch. Neurons fire. Anatomical illustrations, overlaid with the body's activities scratched and handpainted directly onto the film.

A journey to the Buenos Aires underground tango culture, where the elusive soul of tango is to be found... Even after a century of history, after enshrinement as the national music, after rampant commercialization and packaging for export, the tango still speaks to the Argentine soul. Subtango shows how tango music, dance, art and poetry are an essential part of the emotional expression of regular people, featuring the gamblers, ramblers and barroom prophets of the Buenos Aires night, playing weather-beaten accordions and singing old tangos of heartbreak and resentment.

This short documentary covers the Johns Committee, started by Florida State Senator Charley Johns to weed out Communists and homosexuals. Florida State University and the University of South Florida did not cooperate fully with the investigations, but the University of Florida, under the direction of J. Wayne Reitz, did. Several prominent gay men and lesbians were left unaffected by the investigations, while others had their careers left in shambles.

ayumi hamasaki concert tour 2000 Vol.1 is Hamasaki Ayumi's first live concert video. The final show, on June 3rd, was broadcasted live on Sky PerfecTV.

Produced by Alexis Bicât, To Catch a Crow tells the story of a pompous English film crew who find themselves in desperate need of a live crow while on location in rural northwest Ireland. Starring Peter Caffrey (Ballykissangel, Father Ted) and Michael Roper (The Winter Lake, Mapmaker) as the local farmers roped in to help.

The small and marginalised remaining Caribs of Dominica set out on a voyage to re-discover their heritage and raise awareness to their plight; by sailing a traditional 500 year old canoe back to their South American homeland in Guyana.

"Duet is the cinematic expression of the themes of isolationism, escapism and self-effacement addressed in Simpson’s earlier photographic works. In the installation, two images are projected onto a single screen, and the border between the two images becomes an imaginative site for visual and contextual exchange. Scenes of two girls playing a duet on the piano interact with scenes of two women conversing about memory. As the video progresses, subjects disappear into the “no space” gluing the two images together." -The Studio Museum in Harlem

Around 6,000 elephants, one third of all Asian elephants roaming the planet, live in the forests of Burma. The film follows the trials of one particular herd of wild elephant struggling to survive in the shrinking forests of Burma, and the deep and tangled history their kind has shared with man.

What you see, isn’t always what you get in this Barbie and Ken Doll stop motion celebration of sex and surprise. Also starring Marie Osmond, The Bionic Woman, and The Lone Ranger.

The story takes place in the Yangtze River valley of China in the first half of the 20th century. The torrents and dangerous deep mountains and valleys and rivers have made countless people daunted.

A daughter processes the loss of her father.

Wang Fen’s father is a small-time railway bureaucrat who’s had many extramarital affairs; her mother claims not to have a single good memory of her married life with him. Funny how a 30-year-marriage can sound so different when described by separate parties in separate interviews. Wang captures her parents’ broken marriage with a carefree, humorous yet somehow also critical perspective, lacing her film with pop music from their generation.

A day in the life of a Jerusalem taxi driver, on which he buried his son who committed suicide while in the army. Having no family, he finds himself at work as usual. He meets with blunt reality as it exists in Israel and with grief.

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.

Documentary by Ateyyat El Abnoudy

A film examining the state of life in the Canadian province of Ontario under the far right regime of Premier Mike Harris.