Cinematic Era: 2000 Vintage

Macedonian mockumentary.

Crimson Heather is a drop dead gorgeous vampire, met by a vengeful huntress, determined to slay this bloodsucker. Heather turns the tables, visits a hot nightclub and leaves with a man for the evening. At every turn, someone is trying to do away with Heather, but she knows how to use her sex appeal and charm to keep living her life of the undead!

It's Sunday afternoon again. Italian building workers Gino and Cosimo are hanging about in a shabby pub somewhere in Berlin. Gino would give anything to be chatting up German girls, Cosimo on the other side is pining for a big German sausage. First, they set about fulfilling this particular wish...

Surreal animated short.

A young peasant, Boubacar, owner of a corn field, wants to break free of his wretched existence and has an idea for a new job. He sells his field and uses the money to buy a broken-down old Peugeot 504 from an European couple. Boubacar wants to try his hand at being a bush taxi driver. But very soon, he sees that his dream cannot become reality : the engine of the old jalopy dies on him. Boubacar is ruined. His wife is forced into prostitution in the corn fields to meet the family's needs. But Boubacar is a resourceful, philosophical man. He strips the car down and uses the engine of the 504 as a barbecue to sell grilled corn in the streets. His hopes of being rich are renewed.

Various animated depictions of movement, accompanied by different instrumental and ambient sound arrangements.

Experimental film by Yosuke Okawado.

Probably the most widely-viewed of Douglas’s computer-animated creations is the haunting THE WHITEHOUSE (1998/2000), in which skeletal ‘spirits’ engage in a variety of activities (including dancing around a fire, playing the cello, watching television, kissing, conversing via reversed English tracts, and -- more ominously -- wielding firearms, torturing and tossing a blind- folded prisoner out of a black helicopter, etc.) in and around a doorless, windowless ‘white house’ which is slowly engulfed in rising flood waters.

A documentary on Vũ Dân Tân's infamous art piece, Icarus, and the process of bringing it back to Hanoi.

Medium-length film about the theatre company.

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Ten years after the Law of Expiration, this documentary analyses the historical background of Uruguay's recent past. It is a survey of the controversy stirred up in society by the fact that, thanks to this law, the armed forces personnel and police who committed crimes under the dictatorship (1973-1985) have gone unpunished, and it examines the scars the authoritarian regime left on a section of the population.

Jewish painter Leopold Mayer fled his native Frankfurt at the rise of the Nazi regime. Although briefly finding refuge in France, where he changed his name to Leo Maillet, his stay was cut short by Germany's invasion of Paris. Flucht traces Maillet's escape from the Gestapo and the French police, using Maillet's "Entre chien et loup" series of paintings as the framework for the film. Accompanied by Maillet's son Daniel, Peter Nestler revisits the late artist's hiding places and depicts a hauntingly beautiful portrait of an outstanding artist on the run.

A dozen of the revolutionary Army officers that played eminent parts in the change of political regime in Portugal, from a military dictatorship to a social-democracy, read a book to a young girl, describing in a poetic, yet realistic way, what happened in the streets, and minds, of her People in April 25, 1974.

Inststamatic pictures − sewn in and reversed. These images were all very ordinary with typical scenes from a family album: vacations, trips abroad, family gatherings etc. The sewing threads in the pictures − coast sewn to ocean, clouds to sky or people sewn to each other − marks a way of codifying the emotional structures and relations in the images, thus controlling an interpretation of them and highlighting (while at the same time trying to bridge) the gap between image and reality.

When best friends Reza and Siavash pick up a mysterious, deadly young woman on the north road out of the city, they cannot hope to comprehend the chilling events that are to follow them on their journey. Caught up in a strange calamitous world, one preceded by a terrible accident in the past, the friends find themselves alone in the forest with their enigmatic passenger and the heart of a perplexing mystery in this gripping, twisting drama.

This film begins with points of light defining a dark space out of which a female dancer (Vivienne Palmer) emerges dressed in a semi-transparent green dress. Her dance is visually 'echoed' by close-up superimpositions of her arms, legs, and feet, and then later by her distant figure seeming to mimic and/or perhaps to control her foregrounded, cometimes back-lit, image. She often pauses thoughtfully in her dance, breaks step, walks away, etc., defining the perimeters of the dance. Finally she appears naked, midst dance, and takes heraldic stance at end.

AnnLee, a manga character originally created as a silent one-dimensional extra, reveals her voice.

The rubber meets the road when these risk-taking speedsters push endurance to the limit in the World Extreme Games BMX street finals. This thrill-packed collection also features motocross legends such as "Mad" Mike Jones and Luke Urek in action, as well as coverage of mountain boarding, the dual luge finals, sky surfing, wakeboarding and in-line skating with gold medalist Sven Beokhorst. Finally, get a glimpse of the next iteration of BMX design.

Focusing on the relationship between an Israeli woman and the Ethiopian Christian illegal woman she hires as a housekeeper, this film depicts the heartbreaking lives of many of the 300,000 foreign workers in Israel today.

Consolation Service follows a young Finnish couple, Anni and J-P, as they make public their decision to divorce. It is set in early spring in Helsinki, with its frozen landscape on the cusp of thawing.

An alternative city guide to the southwest part of Cologne in Germany. The tour through the city slowly draws the life of four central characters together. A murder mystery is revealed.

Stereo consists of thirty 30-seconds structures filmed in super-8mm, video8 and dv. The 30 drones are all titled, numbered and conceived to work as autonomous organisms as well as part of a whole narrative machine; these boxes contain fiction, stolen-images, still lifes, found footage and documentaries fragments.

Compilation film of all the previous naturist films from Parafotos leading into the new millenium. Hosted by Charlie and Wendy Cooper

It's a movie from 2000.

A BMO member limited preview performance and final performance special

Experimental short film

Struggling to feed a family of seven in the midst of a prolonged drought, a Korean farmer stalks his barren fields and painfully deliberates on a course of action to fend off starvation. It is a stark tale tinged with magical realism juxtaposing the fleeting innocence of childhood against the cruelties of poverty and the complex emotions of child abandonment. As a Korean adoptee, Joy Dietrich draws insightful parallels to the growing pains of the Korean adoptee community.

There are over 300 million people in India who do not have enough food to meet their basic nutritional requirements. With further intrusion of the market economy and increasing corporatisation of Indian agriculture, it is suspected that millions more will go hungry in the first decades of the new millenium. 'Harvesting Hunger' is a journey into this impending world of hunger and famine, an exploration of the deepening crisis of food security in the country.

Great Battles of the Civil War combines archival material with faithfully created battle re-enactments to depict the real horror and heroism of the American Civil War combat from 1861-1863. Witness the sacrifice of over 600,000 patriots in fierce hand-to-hand combat and face-to-face warfare struggling to preserve their ways of life.

"We live in a violent time. The country is devastated, citizens are unprotected, and the police are corrupt. Two mafia gangs are fighting over the government of a city, and the end will be... a bloodbath."

Performance art. Two men are stuck in an enclosed space.

Documentary on similarities between the soviet ideology with orthodox traditions.

Short documentary about the rising of Orthodox Church after years of forced atheism in USSR.

Krzysztof Jackowski, Poland's most famous clairvoyant, works in Poland and abroad. He lives in Człuchów in Pomerania with his wife and two children. He mainly searches for missing people based on their photographs and clothing. Hundreds of documents confirm the clairvoyant's achievements.

Sexual suggestion, intimate bravado, and emotional ambiguity underlie this meditative adventure story where the up-for-discussion gender of a small town cab driver is the focal point of conversation.

Documentation about the intra-German relations after the reunification.

Documentary about Las Vegas.

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.

Filming of the UKs Last Night of the Proms

A group of poets and writers decides to rob a bank, but something goes wrong. The commando group disperses, and each individual begins to travel back in time. Corrientes Avenue, from Callao to the downtown area, from La Boca to the suburbs, from Literal magazine to the legendary 18 Whiskys, from the bars and bookstores of the 1970s to the bohemian scene of the 1990s. A poetic-political trance with no return ticket.

An elf boy escapes lizardmen foot soldiers in this computer animated short.

Explores two spirit possession rituals in Western Nepal. Focuses on two women, known as dhaminis, to examine the role spirit possession plays in the religious life of their communities.

A female writer talks about her three short stories in front of the camera

Two British couples on holiday in France become entangled in deaths and drama.

These Are Not My Images follows the voyage of a disillusioned Western filmmaker, accompanied by a half-blind guide and her encounter with a local filmmaker in a skewed "road movie" set in the near future. It evokes the different meanings of "place" : a location, a territory, a context, a situation, and a home. It speaks of being at your own place and being (at the place of) another, about identity and alterity, intimacy and distance, about the relationship between the "first" and the "Third". Images and sounds were recorded in Tamil Nadu. The images refer to different modes of image-making (painting, photography, film and video). They alternate from documentary" to "painterly images" created through digital and analog processing.