Cinematic Era: 2000 Vintage

An unlikely couple falls into passion that precludes love.

One day in Jolly World something very strange happens. It begins to snow. Strum, Bouncey, Amber and friends, have never seen anything like this before and are most perplexed. Things get even stranger when a jolly old man with a white beard and red suit turns up. Who is he? What does he want with them? What does 'Ho ho ho' mean?

This concert with chief conductor Kirill Petrenko provides an end to the year under the southern sun. The first stop is Spain, with sparkling ballet music by Manuel de Falla and Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez, featuring star guitarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas. There is a detour to South America with Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas brasileiras No. 4 and finally the Capriccio espagnol, in which Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov exudes a vibrant southern temperament with Russia colouring. As a tribute to Ludwig van Beethoven, the concert opens with the Leonore Overture No. 3.

Transatlantic recording their first album, June-July 1999. This video appeared as a bonus on the European limited edition of the album.

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.

The end of a historic red-light district and worker’s quarter, Barcelona’s Barrio Chino; captured on super-8. A film made about a place that had already vanished. As sense of place fragments, only Time remains, and time had cut through here…like a fire (Adam Cohen).

Reprise of the play of the same name staged by Carlo di Maio, loosely based on Thomas Migge's investigative book "Can Love Ever Be Sin?". It stages the confessions of some homosexual priests, their suffering and difficulty in living a "double" diversity.

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.

There is a planet near Earth where strange creatures live. They look like birds and they eat meteorites. Although their behaviours seem strange and completely different from ours, we have a lot more in common than it might seem at first.

From 2000, Primal Scream touring in support of XTRMNTR on the UK LIve programme.

After their culture was destroyed in 146 BC, the Phoenicians were forever marred as monsters. But were they truly evil, or victims of propaganda?

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.

10 year old Alice's family moves from the city to the country and leaving her friends proves difficult. Alice wants to return to the city until she makes an unexpected friend and finds that being cool city-style isn't as important as she thought it was.

A photographer has lost his wife in an accident while taking pictures of her. You feel guilty and depressed. But one day, by chance, he will meet another woman very similar to the previous one, whom he will try to replace.

"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

Combining artfully designed sets and digital processing, Santos recreates the historic Apollo lunar landing for this essayistic video, which uses simulation to interrogate representation. Relating a long-circulated rumor that the landing was actually faked in a NASA film studio — an opinion reputedly held by cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, among others — Santos delicately negotiates the increasingly blurry line between fact and fiction. As he notes in his on-screen text, the coming of the Internet makes any purported fact "easy to say, hard to prove."

Static Originally released in 1999, this 15 year anniversary edition re-release features a bonus director commentary along with the the "Cigar City" video from 1996 and the "Rising" video from 1997.

NATO agression. A Serbian village. Under the effect of depleated uranium from the enemy missiles, the dead rise from the graves.

Writer Nick Fraser travels the continent in search of a better understanding of the European Union. On the way he visits the European Parliament in Strasbourg, talks to Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission, and follows MEPs to Romanian orphanages

Nightingale, Not the Only Voice follows the lives of three artists, including the film’s director, on their shared journey through real and psychological oppression to self-discovery. Tang Danhong examines her past—particularly her relationship with her parents—and looks at the painful, formative moments that inform her current psychological state, her life, and her art.

The Fancy is a speculative, experimental work that explores the life of Francesca Woodman (1958-1981), evoked by the published catalogues of and about her photographs. Structural in form, the video radically reorganizes information from the catalogues in order to pose questions about biographical form, history and fantasy, female subjectivity, and issues of authorship and intellectual property.

A video work that visually alludes to Andrew Wyeth's painting "Christina's World" (1948) and depicts Chang on a suburban lawn that is curiously destabilizing.

Being told that their jobs are in peril due to cutbacks, Stormtroopers Dante and Randal embark on a quest to steal the DeathStar architectural plans by hiring the stations sith dou in training, Darth Jay and Darth Bob.

Botín de guerra focuses on the history of the birth and growth of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo association, along with the frightening socio-political phenomenon that gave them raison d'être: the systematic appropriation of the children of detainees disappeared by the Argentine dictatorship between the years 1976/1983, which after kidnapping, torturing, and murdering the parents, gave their babies for adoption.

A rock 'n' roll archaeological tour of the British Isles as it was in pre-Roman times.

Young people from different social classes feel the same deep sense of abandonment and dreams become the only company in an arid and incomprehensible world.

Animated promotional short for Persona 2: Innocent Sin.

A documentary about director Budd Boetticher.

At the dawn of Egyptian civilisation, Imhotep built the first pyramid, became legendary as a physician and governed the greatest state on earth. The ancients made him god. Then Hollywood made him "The Mummy".