Cinematic Era: 2000 Vintage

In a nature park, a group of teenagers are slaughtered by a dangerous psychopath.

A man addicted to gambling loses his job and leaves his family. He lives at a 24-hour open sauna away from debt collectors, while borrowing money left and right to keep his habit going. When he finally gets the upper hand at a poker game, a police raid spoils his good fortune. He sees a driver sleeping in a truck with his wallet hanging out of his pocket. Struggling to keep his 'moral integrity', the man kills himself rather than commit the robbery.

A making of movie CD that is included in the Lunar: Eternal Blue Complete PlayStation 1 game.

This film refracts Donegan's earlier performance work through the lens of a studio art practice. The artist subverts the tradition of studio painting by using a computer to make simple line drawings. Later, the computer is transformed into a canvas through the regressive act of directly marking the monitor. Painting is related to scatology as a correlation is made between art making and infantile fantasy.

Short Costa Rican drama

Based on true events taken from the files of the controversial LAPD Special Gang Task Force CRASH (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) War Stories takes you to the front line. This is the closest you'll get to gang life without wearing a red or blue rag

This animated short for children tells the story of Christopher, a little boy who didn't want to be called Christopher anymore. Such a common name! When Aunty Gail from Trinidad tells him a story about a Tiger, Christopher changes his name to Tiger. But then he finds a better name. When he has trouble cashing a birthday cheque, he realizes maybe he should stick with his original name... or maybe not?

Mexican feature film

Panico is the surrealist-inspired movement that Jodorowsky founded in 1962. "Our current generation - writes Jodorowsky in his 1965 'manifesto' Towards the ephemeral panic or drawing the theater out of the theater - is a circus in which the characters divide in 'augusti', clown and audience. The panic man is the clown; the citizen who affirms only one idea at a time, seeks a single solution for each problem and believes he is 'being', is the august; the immense mass of idle idlers are the public. However, every audience is an 'august' in power and every 'august' can evolve into a clown because the world is panic. »

A group of unrepresentative young people: cerebral girl, crisis expert, all-hearted girl, terrifying comedian, taciturn with an alien air. They have been going out together for a long time and it seems that nothing happens between them, until one of them announces that she is going abroad and that leads to a total rethinking of their relationship. A story of friendship, and the need to dare.

An old mother tries to persuade beautiful girls on the streets of Tehran to marry her only son.

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.

An animated film short

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.

ALL THAT'S SOLID (and) MELTS INTO AIR are each separate films shot at an exhibition of the urban landscape artist Tyree Suyton in Cambridge at Harvard. I was struck by the redemptive critical and visionary character of his work which struck me as similar to G.M. Hopkins or Clarence Smith. Coincidentally as I was shooting these films I went to a screening of Charles Burnett and asked him what film he would like to make but couldn't get the money for. He replied, "a feature narrative about Tyree Suyton." So I put together four of the films from Spring 2000 into a four-film work called "4 For Charles Burnett - All That's Solid Melts Into Air". They are: ALL THAT'S SOLID, LIGHT LICK, TOSCANINI'S EUROPEAN SIDEWALK CAFE, and MELTS INTO AIR.

A self-conscious counterpoint to FRANK FILM, FRANKLY CAROLINE focuses on Caroline Mouris and her story, but also examines the collaborative process and the creative roadblocks that always arise in a working relationship.

Estranged from his longtime girlfriend, suburban accountant Perry wanders into the Tenderloin at night and is drawn into a series of dangerous and erotic encounters.

Hiroshi's mother asks him to let his younger brother Jun live with him when she can't support him any longer. However, Jun is rebellious towards Hiroshi, and Hiroshi gets into further trouble when he loses his job.

In the north of Chad, in the heart of the Sahara Desert, lies a forgotten mountain massif, which shelters, in its secret canyons, a surprising richness of plants and animals.

An eerily stylized deconstruction of exploitation and violence in life and cinema.

Aldébaran is the first film from a series of works on hybridization: body and light, color and rhythm. The series are transforming and spiritualizing human body by the use of light, or more precisely by the screening of a film directly to the skin. The body is therefore the only screen for the abstract images made from mathematical models. This encounter between body and light produces a particular and creative energy beyond shapes. Lyrical abstraction, mathematical modelisation and sensual exploration of light, this film is the depth perception of the body stridences.

The beauty of the rustic summer countryside has little impact on the alienated Juliette. Her 16th birthday is marred by bickering between her British-born mother and her hippie ersatz stepfather; moreover, her father is a drunken bartender in town. Her boredom leads her to Titi and his gang of skinheads. When their walk on the wild side goes awry, Juliette's parents react coarsely. Frustrated, Juliette ventures into the night on her scooter, resulting in a major accident that chastens the community.

The Goodmans were a singing Christian-based family who toured the world from the 1990s-early 2000s. On Sunday, December 8, 1996, father Steve Goodman and five of his children were in a car accident that resulted in the death of sons David (age 12) and Peter (age 11) and daughter LeAnne (age 10). They were buried together on December 14. Steve, and daughters Aimee and Andrea were on life support and had various complications, but eventually recovered. The family immediately resumed their worldwide touring with a new mission, to speak of their personal experiences rebuilding their family after the devastation of the accident. On December 20 the following year, the story was aired on TV as a musically charged documentary called Fortress of Love, hosted by Merrill Osmond and with music by Kenneth Cope.

Originally recorded live at the Faithful Central Bible Church in Los Angeles, this production features gospel singer Kurt Carr and his choir at the height of their success.

A Johnny DeCesare Film by Poor Boyz Productions with riders like Candide Thovex, Evan Raps, J.F. Cusson, JP Auclair, Julien RL, Mike Douglas, Philou Poirier, Seth Morrison, Shane Szocs, Skogen Sprang, Vini Dorion

In 1893, a Norwegian artist created a masterpiece which became a defining image of the 20th Century. The Scream is a picture whose sense of anguish reveals much about our own lives, as well as the life of its creator. All his life, Edvard Munch suffered the consequences of a childhood surrounded by madness and death.

Paul Cézanne sought a method of capturing the underlying structure of any subject matter. His eventual triumph derived from a revolutionary new approach to color and to perspective. His paintings were often derided by the critics, but by the end of his life, his genius was beginning to be appreciated. Cézanne's influence on 20th century artists was so great that he is now referred to as the "Father of Modern Painting."

Now Balthasar, the true murderer of the shepherd, has had to take the place of his brother Friedrich in the glass coffin of the crypt. Thus Friedrich Freiherr von Kuhlbanz has finally found peace in the shadow realm. But Maja is still looking for a way to him and sticks to her love for Friedrich. Apparently, however, Balthasar wants to use her longing to satisfy his thirst for revenge on von Kuhlbanz. A victim and black magic come just at the right time with his diabolical plan.

Optically printed, hand processed and painted: the film process is manipulated to disrupt viewing expectations on a textual and aesthetic level. This repositions the subject and discourse of gender ambiguity available in the gaze. By shifting the discourse of the gaze, the film implicates viewers in the gazes operating between the filmmaker and her self-identified lesbian butch subjects. -Canyon Cinema

Documentary film.

Profiles Neal Smither, the founder of a company that specializes in the cleanup of homicides, suicides and accidental death.

Each day before dawn, 67-year-old Kobra goes fishing in a small rowing boat tied to her porch. Her house stands on the water's edge. It is a tough life. She tries to sell her meager catch at the local market to support herself and her old invalid mother, but she must fight with dealers and thieves (of her fish net) in an all-male environment first.

Includes track tutorials and Guitar jam tracks, taught by Danny Gill. This excellent DVD will show you how to nail seven tracks by these alternative rock giants whose Guitar driven songs are at the forefront of contemporary rock! Learn each song and play along with Guitar jam tracks. Danny Gill is a former pupil of Joe Satriani, and co-author of the Musicians Institute Rock Lead Guitar series. His songs have appeared on numerous TV shows including 'The Osbournes' as well as motion picture soundtracks such as 'Insomnia' and 'Under Siege'.Includes these songs:All My LifeDOAEverlongMonkey WrenchThe Best Of YouThe PretenderTimes Like These

Witness the horror as an ordinary man is transformed into a horrific demon possessed with the urge the kill! Nothing can stop him as a ruler of an army of the undead. Will Steve end up being the end of all mankind, or does Earth have one last hope?

Donald scares the candy out of Huey, Dewey and Louie's trick or treat bags, so naturally, they have to retaliate.

Documentary about the making of the 1948 British film, including interviews with members of the production team.

Being a child does not mean having a childhood. A reflection on what it is to be a child in the contemporary world.

Smithfield (2000), the camera peers in through the windows as though spying on the woman who is cleaning the floor inside.

This is a one minute demonstration of the present.

THE BEE HIVE (2000) is a Super 8mm (sound) haiku-film about the discovery of nature. Made as an experimental scholastic film to better convey the aesthetics and wonderment of nature that the institutional science films of the filmmaker's childhood utterly failed to communicate.

“The Glass System, made from images shot in New York and Calcutta, looks at life as it is played out in the streets. Every corner turned reveals activities both simple and unfamiliar: a knife sharpener on a bicycle; a tiny tightrope walker; a man selling watches in front of a department store on Fifth Avenue; a hauntingly slow portrait of the darting eyes of schoolgirls on their way home; the uncompleted activities of a young contortionist. The sound in the film (which is from a Bengali primer written by British missionaries) is a meditation on how the English language teaches ideas about culture which are often incongruous. The disjunction between what you hear and what you see evokes reflections about the impact of globalization and the hegemony of Western-style capitalism.” - ML

The ancient Greeks divided the night into four sections; the last watch before morning was called the fourth watch. In the hours before dawn, an endless succession of rooms is inhabited by silent film figures occupying the flickering space in a midcentury house made of printed tin. Their presence is at once inevitable and uncanny. A boy turns his head in dread, a woman’s eyes look askance, a sleepwalker reaches into a cabinet that dissolves with her touch, and hands write letters behind ephemeral windows. The rooms reveal themselves and fill with impossible, shadowed light. It is not clear who is watching and who is trespassing in this nocturnal drama of lost souls.

Short film release

A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and String Quartet.

Dio at Harpo's, Detroit, MI, USA Sunset Superman Invisible Stand Up and Shout Don't Talk to Strangers All the Fools Sailed Away Discovery Magica Theme Lord of the Last Day Fever Dreams Feed My Head Eriel Guitar Solo Challis As Long As It's Not About Love Losing My Insanity Otherworld Magica (Reprise) Holy Diver Rainbow in the Dark The Mob Rules The Last in Line Man on the Silver Mountain Long Live Rock 'n' Roll We Rock

The title and the narrative are taken from the 1897 autobiography of Elizabeth d’Espérance, a materializing medium who could produce full body apparitions. We discover a lonely little girl who can conjure imaginary friends that appear, to her, completely real. This remarkable ability causes her much suffering, for upon reaching adolescence, she is diagnosed as mad on account of seeing people who are not there. Only later does she find a way to cultivate her gifts within the spiritualist movement.

Dreaded by sailors through the ages, this other-worldly looking denizen of the seas is surrendering the astonishing secrets that have brought it almost mythical status. With footage of octopus species rarely, if ever, seen before, including one with giant eyes and another with antennae in place of suction cups, National Geographic takes viewers into the deepest realms of the ocean for a front-row view of The Octopus Show.

A man trying to get in touch with his past is confronted with the realities of his nation's future in this drama. Andreas (Giorgos Dialegmenos) is an elderly man who finds himself caught in a wave of nostalgia about the home where he grew up with his mother. Andreas decides to travel to the Greek island where he and his mother lived in hopes of visiting his boyhood home, but he soon discovers that things have changed a great deal over the years; many familiar landmarks are gone, and no one on the island is terribly interested in helping him find his way. After much searching, Andreas thinks he's found the place where he grew up, only to discover the house is gone, and a group of refugees have set up camp on what used to be the family's property. Efimeri Poli was the first dramatic feature from director Giorgos Zafiris after helming a series of well-respected documentaries.

Michael Jordan, considered the greatest basketball player of all time, is featured in ESPN's SportsCentury.

A documentary directed by Marie-Claude Treilhou.

A mediterranean garden dulled in a hot summer afternoon. The camera twirl around like a wasp and, into the burnt super 8 images fragments, we discern, among stones and scrubs, erotics photos in which Bacchus spirit is blowing and who invite to wake up senses ...

The Incredible Creatures That Defy Evolution Series enters the fascinating world of animals to reveal sophisticated and complex designs that shake the traditional foundations of evolutionary theory. This series features Dr. Jobe Martin, who for the past 20 years, has been exploring evolution vs. creation. His findings have been fascinating students around the world as he lectures on these remarkable animal designs that cannot be explained by traditional evolution. Dr. Martin himself was a traditional evolutionist, but his medical and scientific training would go through an evolution, rather a revolution when he began to study animals that challenged the scientific assumptions of his education. This was the beginning of the evolution of a creationist.

A choreography of sorts, involving a camera and a couple who are in the midst of their existential errands. Filmed at Heingeborgen in Skåne, Sweden, in the year 2000. The couple are author Sture Dahlström (voice and text) and his wife, painter Anna-Stina Ehrenfeldt. (Filmform)