Cinematic Era: 2000 Vintage

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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.

Encounters on the Milky Way shows three cattle breeders from Mali and Burkina Faso during their trip to Switzerland where they meet with two dairy farmers from the Swiss Lake District and a cheese manufacturer in the Berne's Oberland. Back in their homeland, they tell their friends and neighbors about their experiences.

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

Gawryło was a convicted felon, who felt a religious awakening. His main goal now is to become an orthodox monk.

Short documentary.

Hyeon-young is dating two men, but within a few days, she is dumped by both of them. One is a classmate she has been seeing for six months, and the other is a 33-year-old man who does art. Hyeon-young finds one thing in common between the two, and that is the ambiguous smile they showed when they parted ways. (2010 4th Great Short Film Festival)

an Animated short film about balloon man making balloon puppies.

Penthouse: Girls of Europe (2000) Famed Penthouse photographer Earl Miller has traveled across the seas to find some of the most erotic and enticing models Europe has to offer.

Employee Sexual Harassment Info video

In a certain kingdom, in a certain state, there lived Tsar Anton. And he decided to marry his son, Ivan Tsarevich. But Ivan did not like any of the brides, and then the tsar got angry, ordered to blindfold the prince and give him a bow and arrows. The arrow sent by the prince hit the swamp hummock where the frog was sitting. Ivan handed her an engagement ring — and then a miracle happened: the frog turned into a beautiful girl, Elena the Wise.

The chilling story of a gross miscarriage of justice and cover-up, perpetrated by the very people we rely upon to uphold decency and public safety. Twenty-seven-year-old Jenny Tanner was found dead in the living room of her country home in November 1984 - shot twice in the head and hands, with her husband's bolt-action rifle between her knees. The initial police investigation ignored or destroyed vital forensic evidence and despite compelling personal accounts of a happy and optimistic young wife and mother, the verdict was suicide. Thanks to the efforts of journalist Andrew Rule, the suicide verdict has been quashed and a new murder investigation opened.

Experimental short by Shingo Yoshinaga.

three men lost at sea

This documentary attempts to reconstruct the 24 August 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius hour by hour. By using the latest evidence from volcanology.

An investigation into a UFO sighting by a miniature-golf course owner and several police officers in January 2000.

Painting Country follows a journey back to the traditional country of ten of Balgo's most celebrated artists - including Tjumpo Tjapanangka, Lucy Yukenbarri, Helicopter Tjungurrayi and Sam Tjampitjin. Along with the two art coordinators from Warlayirti Artists, the Aboriginal artists travel through some of Australia's most remote desert landscapes on tracks that have not been used for many years.

It was deserted and lonely around. The protagonist planted a seed. It was beautiful and pleasing to him, but he still decided to bury it in the ground, giving the seeds a chance. Days and nights the man was sitting near the place, keeping an eye on the work done. Warmed by the sun, once it started to grow.

This is a record of six years since the closing of the Doomeal branch school. At the end of 1994, the residents of Doomaelee, who protested the closure order of Doomeal Elementary School in Doomaelee village (Gapyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do), developed an anti-closure movement and opened a school in the village hall to teach children. Due to the unreasonable demands of the education office and the government, it is discontinued.

The story of Poomatha, a young girl belonging to the 'puluva' community, is told in the Vadakkanpaattu, the folklore of Northern Kerala.

Spaceship XPZ is on its way to Earth. Onboard are thousands of little creatures made entirely of brain matter. They are very intelligent and therefore very naughty.

Monica presents I love the zoo.

Yuki Terai is a vivacious 17-year-old who lives just outside Tokyo. In most ways she is every bit the typical teen-except she doesn't exist. The invention of acclaimed computer animator Kenichi Kutsugi, Yuki Terai is Japan's No.1 Virtual Star. Capable of unprecedented life-like expressions and movement, she inhabits many worlds: real-life, science fiction and music.

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).

This wonderful visual portrait of 88-year-old ukulele player Harry Feinberg manages to convey an incredible amount of emotion in a very short film.

This searing indictment of society's failure to deal with intimate partner violence pays homage to Cathy Bowie, a vibrant young woman whose life became a headline and then faded into a statistic after she was murdered by her husband, George Jackson.

Since the time of the Qing Dynasty, villagers of Xiaotun have performed a folk opera in which all the actors wear masks. Known as the “Guansuo Opera”, its performances were suspended during the Cultural Revolution, and its script was burned. In 1980, through the approval of the local government, it started to perform again. “Mask” records the various antagonisms and attitudes amongst villagers, performers, village and county officials, local cultural researchers and filmmakers. More significantly, it reveals the cultural confrontation between “the observed” in the village and the filmmaking crew.

Written in 1949, George Orwell envisioned a grim future. By 1984, he imagined political leaders manipulating the multitudes into placing infinite faith in their power. In Great Books: 1984, revisit Orwell's life and work, and explore his darkest novel which is sometimes difficult to distinguish from today's reality.

Held in the Kingdom of Eswatini, the titular reed dance is an annual ceremony where tens of thousands of unmarried women come to dance in extremely skimpy outfits in front of the king in the hope that he will choose one of them as his next wife.

Documentary about the events of October 2nd, 1968 in Mexico

Short film by Hiroko Kobayashi

From Leonard Knight's painted mountain of hand crafted adobe to Grandma Prisbry's architectural marvel of "recycled" bottles, this rollicking travelogue celebrates the boundless creativity of those resourceful, perhaps obsessive characters, who have transformed their environments into utterly unique works of art. In between revelatory visits to four of the Southwest's most ingenious roadside attractions, whimsical, thoughtful and downright invaluable travel tips are dispensed, with the hope that awestruck audiences will not resist the urge to realize their own inspired visions and future adventures.

Three short films, made in 1997-99. The originals are 16mm prints with optical sound. Titles are 'Room with Two Mirrors', 'By the Woodyard' and 'Midday Shade'.

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 16mm film printed flat, with the light (the flickers) of an empty lighter, in the darkness of my bathroom. Home-made printing, without a printer (as for Man Ray's rayographs in Retour à la raison) using Éclair 16mm solarised and hand-colored newsreels. Only some fragments remain from the optical soundtrack.

"Every person alive today carries approximately 250 chemicals within their body, chemicals that didn't exist prior to 1945. This concentration of chemicals within every human being on the face of the earth is called the "body burden" and it is considered our common legacy from the processes of development and industrialization. "

A rock video in the laundromat.

We’re Fathers Too is a documentary that details some of the conflicts gay men face as fathers in North America. Interviews with gay dads, their children, and gay activists are contrasted with footage from a 1999 demonstration in Ottawa by an American fundamentalist organization, making this work a thought-provoking piece to watch.

Documentary chronicling the rise and fall of the internationally renowned rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. Features never before seen footage of the group and extensive interviews with the band’s leader, Billy Corgan.

Yield to Total Elation explores the life and work of the enigmatic and visionary artist Achilles G. Rizzoli. A mundane architectural draftsman by day, the architectural transcriber of the divine by night, Rizzoli created elaborate Beaux-Arts influenced monuments which would never be built. Accompanied by his witty and poignant commentary, the drawings served as translations for the voices and the hallucinations that haunted him. By deftly weaving Rizzoli's words, archival footage, photos and evocative present day scenes of San Francisco's historic architecture, the film tells the story of Rizzoli's life and his work -- an exaltation of architecture as pleasure, as memorial, as redemption.

Bunty, Kamal, Sanjay and Sanju, best of friends and residents of Jehangirpuri, a working class colony on the outskirts of Delhi are young and trying to make their lives in an environment which is changing rapidly… girls seem to be very bold… stable jobs are not easy to come by… sex is a strange mix of guilt and pleasure… families are claustrophobic… and the blur of television the only sounding board…

Three men are stranded on a planet, work in a bunker-like area, fiddling with equipment, and are dominated by a tyrannical overlord whose logo is Boston Terrier with a pipe. Into our hero's drab gas masked existence a woman appears, luring him away from his duties and the social order.