Cinematic Era: 2000 Vintage

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

What does it feel like to be 13, having to spend summer holidays at home? You can go to the pool, read magazines and sink into boredom… or fall madly in love for the first time.

An innocent looking young man confronts unrequited love.

Travel to the East to explore four of the world's most diverse National Parks in the world. Dive into the turquoise waters of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, teeming with brilliant coral, parrot fish, moray eel, sea anemone, starfish. Explore the remote bamboo forest of China's Wo-long National Park and meet an extraordinary community of Giant Pandas. Sail the Pacific Ocean to the magical Galapagos Islands untouched by time and man to see the famous gigantic Galapagos tortoise, lava lizards - wildlife found nowhere else on earth. Finally climb the world's highest mountain, the beautiful and formidable Mount Everest for a view from the top of the world!

Summary of the first fifty years Jonas Mekas spent in New York.

The Asmat people live on the southwestern coast of western Papua, a land that has long remained free of outsiders, discouraged by the Asmats' terrifying reputation as cannibals and headhunters. The film tells the story of Rufinus, a 20 year old Asmat, that will be married. Before that however, he must capture and kill a cassowary, the great solitary bird that lives in the depths of the jungle. Accomplishing this task will give Rufinus a sense of belonging to the Asmat people, whom their neighbors, the Mimikans call, 'We mana wé: the men who eat the man'. Parallel to the wedding, spectacular and rare stock film retraces the history of this terrifying people.

A psychedelic adventure featuring the music of The Lost Vegas.

8mm film by Nobuyuki Yamagishi.

In a nondescript house, while female Martin watches pornography, male Martin tries to repair his "tool" so he won't have to resort to his third hand again.

What would you do if you could record your dreams? Paul has invented a machine that allows him to do just that. When there is a mishap Paul gets stuck in the dreamworld and the only way out is to battle the lord of nightmares. SOVHORROR is pleased to present for the first time on DVD John Bowker’s ambitious S.O.V. fantasy epic Dreamwalkers.

Deng and his family live in a remote village deep in the Daba mountains of China’s Sichuan province. From 1968 to 1999, Luo visited this village to meet Deng and his friends, and was welcomed by the whole village. We see scenes of roadwork undertaken by the whole village, a traditional marriage ceremony and the innocent, smiling faces of the local children. This film evokes Luo’s paintings while often gently describing the villagers’ daily lives as they unfold against the backdrop of the four seasons.

Criticism of renowned filmmakers to the boycott of the 1976 Law that regulated the exhibition of short films in commercial movie theaters in Brazil. The success of the result of this Law fostered the production of films in this category that were very well received by the public. Olho no Olho is a denunciation of the colonialist power that strangles the national audiovisual media and aims to reformat the world in its image.

The follow up to Soul Deep and recorded at The Basement in Sydney

Marco Paolini discusses with poet Andrea Zanzotto about nature, history and language.

Ali, an old Moroccan immigrant, has worked and lived alone in France for decades. Now that he is going on retirement he feels scared to die far from his native land but just as frightened to return to Morocco, for having lost contact with what the country has become. He finally spends his last moments between the home for immigrant workers where he has always lived and the flat of Momo, his faithful friend.

A cab driver is taking a man, whose wife gets off and is replaced almost immediately by a girl asking for help...

An atheist gets into a taxi whose driver is a believer who will try to convince him that God exists, but it was not quite as he had imagined.

Huckleberry Hound tries to quiet a city so that he can sing

Esteban is a journalist who is escaping to the northern border. In the Buenos Aires of 1978, his life is in danger. The threats after one of his articles in the newspaper and his own inner conflicts push him to run away. But crossing the border is impossible. He comes back to a village near the frontier, where he stays at Father Gabriel's, a priest with ideas and attitudes of mind far from the traditional church. There he will meet Marina and Margarita, who will complete this human group with strong convictions. His stay there will be a definitive experience.

In 1987 Dublin was the focus of the world music scene. U2 were huge. Music scouts flocked to Ireland in their quest to find the next big thing. They didn't bargain on finding Aidan Walsh - comedian, entrepreneur and self-proclaimed master of the universe! Aidan Walsh first came to the nation's attention when he signed the quickest record deal in pop music history. All it took was a three-minute rendition of the Hokey Cokey. His rise as Ireland's unlikeliest pop star coupled with his painful search for family is a unique and bizarre story. From his troubled childhood in a Cork orphanage to his rise as Ireland's most eccentric underground character.

An experimental dance piece revealing the complex dynamics between two dancers and another woman.

Malaysia, in the fifties. Raymond, a wealthy rubber planter is going to die and decides to leave his fortune to his daughter who lives in Europe. Marcel does not agree with this decision.

La Puerta makes us spin out of control in the long and cruel corridors of an institutional nightmare.

Joaquim is a romantic supermarket employee. He has only one friend Gaspar, who speaks almost only for cinematic quotes. At leisure, go around town looking for the right woman. But when found, she throws herself from a balcony. Then comes a dance, as in a musical, and an obvious surprise... A movie about beauty and glory that has more love stories.

Tosca is a tale of love, torture and despair—and that’s before the curtain goes up on this Opera Australia production at the Sydney Opera House. Mid-winter and money is tight at Opera Australia as rehearsals begin for Puccini’s perennial favourite Tosca, a story of love, betrayal and murder set amid the political turmoil of 19th century Rome. With only three weeks before the curtain goes up, not everyone is sure they will make it—least of all director Cathy Dadd and renowned Scottish conductor Roderick Brydon. The drama backstage equals the soaring emotion of Tosca itself. Tension builds and comes to a head in frustration, anger, tears and laughter. Then it’s opening night and they’re on. The filmmakers were granted no-holds-barred access to film behind the scenes, from day one of rehearsals to opening night at the Sydney Opera House. The result is an intimate and honest portrait of artists at work.

Documentary about the legendary club Lepakko (The Bat) in Finland.

Delivering a continuous flow of urban landscapes' digitally reworked images where passers-by are seen as anonymous silhouettes, the film offers a poetic monologue commentating on a disenchanted vision of the ghostly ballet of modern life.

2000 short documentary on the silent film "Different From the Others"

In the deep urban jungle of Los Angeles lurks the ultra violent street gang XS...the Brothahood. Membership in the Brothahood comes only through participation in the gang's violent citywide reign of terror. Told through the narration of former Brothahood member Lamont Guy their violent exploits are relived through the eyes of hidden miniature video cameras. The camera does not lie as violence bordering on psychosis fills the L.A. underworld. Starring platinum rap stars Domino King T Ras Kass and Hutch of Above the Law Brothahood is a clash between extreme realism and distorted authenticity. It is an urban version of "Tales from the Crypt"...but more. Though awash with implied violence it is true fury with cause and is rage representing fact. Brothahood translates the existence of a seething L.A. underworld to film...a world looking for a way out and a reason to go on.

a story of body and soul and knowledge of Kamasutra.

The nightmares of five different guests at a roadside motel mesh together to describe a terrible crime with surreal obscurity.

Headlined by Dawn Upshaw, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and Willard White and orchestrated by the Berlin German Symphony Orchestra, this Nativity oratorio from composer John Adams tells the magical story of the birth of Christ. Conducted by renowned maestro Kent Nagano, this moving experience draws on both Old World and New World sources to re-create this influential story, highlighted by Adams’s trademark minimalism and melody.

Seeking to reach out to his son, a father expresses his wish to fix a relationship that has become cold and distant.

Joined by the likes of saxophonist Ben Webster and trumpeter Cootie Williams, jazz giant Duke Ellington demonstrates in this collection of performance clips (spanning the years 1929-43) precisely why he's one of the seminal figures in American music. Ellington's musical evolution can be seen in excerpts from feature-length and short films that include Black and Tan, Check and Double Check, Symphony in Black and The Hit Parade of 1937.

After a bloody conquest, a shaman is forced to reveal a formula to revive wooden prosthesis

The fate of a local orphanage is at stake before Christmas. According to the plans of a local businessman, the home is to be liquidated and its place is to be taken...

Jacques Gomez is back in the action packed sequel.

A film composed of images from prisons. Quotes from fiction films and documentaries as well as footage from surveillance cameras. A look at the new control technologies, at personal identification devices, electronic ankle bracelets, electronic tracking devices.

A portrait of 'The Daily Nation', Kenya's largest newspaper.

A story about everyday time and space takes place in the extremely small space of an apartment room. A collection of usu- ally unnoticed traces, filled with murmurs, working to bury each frame as the film is shot. The senses are saturated with the everyday. In the last scene the viewers, too, experience the saturation of the everyday.

An italian piazza is invaded by an unlikely...invader.

Short film.

Over the course of five days for three to four hours each day, Pope.L seats atop a tall, four-legged throne with a toilet as the seat, reading the Wall Street Journal. Resembling a “gargoyle mounted on a castle parapet,” he wears only a jockstrap and douses himself in flour, a manufactured and consumable form of whiteness.

Psychedelic and occult visions intertwine, between a woman and a decapitated pig's head.

Tom Mathisen & Herodes Falsk present: Ante Valente, Aunt Cruel, Finnish policemen, Jehovah’s Witnesses. Be fascinated by: the gynecologist Bobo, the Slim Bakfras Orchestra, the chef Mogu. Have lunch with: Märtha Louise, dancing monkeys, Michael Jackson. Witness: NRK auditions, morning exercise for women, funerals. Find out more about: the Taxidermists, ex-wives, deadly monsters. All this and much more from the two comedians who, in just a few minutes, manage to capture all of Shakespeare’s qualities and intrigues.

Sahar, after the death of her mother, who was once a famous singer, goes to Tehran and begins searching with her friend. The only clue she finds is a man named Taher, who used to be her father’s steward and now runs his own business...

Video recording made by Bruce Baillie to accompany public presentations and classroom screenings of his work.

Nasim reminisces about her youth in the years of 1940s. She, being a nurse, goes to the train station to welcome Alireza, the son of Afsar, who is coming from Arak. Alireza's mother has allowed him to spend the summer with his aunt since he passed his exams with good grades.

This documentary goes inside the world of the negotiators from the New York Police Department Hostage Negotiations Team.

Conjoined twins are among the rarest of human beings. There are probably fewer than a dozen adult pairs living in the world today. Only a few hundred pairs of conjoined twins are born in the whole world each year - they appear about once in every 100,000 births - but more than half of them are stillborn, and one in three live for only a few days.

A one-off special looking at the world of animation, from the Clangers to Fritz the Cat.