Cinematic Era: 2000 Vintage

A young Jewish man worries that he doesn't look enough like a typical member of his ethnicity.

Holed up in a Oklahoma motel room, George Kuchar witnesses the tornado-conjuring power of a talking ceramic figurine.

Completed in 2000 (the same year as his third feature-length work, BACK AGAINST THE WALL), James Fotopoulos' THE SUN is a 16mm silent short that beguilingly cross-cuts between a lovely young woman, uncomfortably waiting, and the sun-drenched outdoors. Between these two seemingly unrelated sequences, a tension develops. Without the assistance of a soundtrack as a guide, anything imaginable could be possible. Or nothing at all. THE SUN is another remarkable selection from the Cinemad Almanac.

In a city in the near future, it's time for a boy to go home after school. But it's raining just in time. He wears a raincoat and runs through the desolate streets of the city, which seems too dangerous to him.

An adventure can occur anywhere. Also at the bus stop.

20-minute assembly of three songs, performed during two appearances that Yes made on Beat Club (aka MusikLaden) in 1969 and 1970.

Composed by John Cage in 1953, and played by Anton Lukoszevieze, there are several versions of this film, each lasting a minute. Despite being played from the same score, the films can appear to sound different - depending on what you see. Exhilarating and surprising, the score for 591/2 seconds for a String Player runs through the gamut of possible ways to produce a sound on a 'cello.

Join Tigger as he flips through his favorite scrapbook reminiscing about the good times he's had with Winnie the Pooh and all their friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. Songs and video clips from The Tigger Movie include "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers," "Whoop-De-Dooper Bounce," "Round My Family Tree," and "How to Be a Tigger." Other "artistical and musical memories" include the day Tigger met Pooh, a Halloween eve, and a day spent pirating on the high seas.

The story of a traveler who one day decided to get on the train without knowing where to go. He had been thinking about it for a long time: to live his life leaning out of the train window, and never come back down.

A story of a pig that dreams about the moon. This macabre tango will reach its top eventually, but does anything remain in the end?

An inevitable meeting between a man and a woman lead to a bond and a relationship between them which has an unexpected ending for both of them.

Popular soul and R&B balladeer Jeffrey Osborne takes the stage of BET's Studio II in Washington, D.C., to perform a collection of chart-topping hits and fan favorites from his platinum-selling albums. Among the many highlights from this intimate performance are the crooner's renditions of hits like "I Really Don't Need No Light," "Don't You Get So Mad," "Stay with Me Tonight," "You Should Be Mine (The Woo Woo Song)" and "On the Wings of Love."

Filmmaker Uli Aumüller turns his lens on the creative process of innovative composers Francis Dhomont and Paul Lansky in this hourlong documentary, exploring how they draw from their environs to make music. The video captures Dhomont recording natural sounds for a composition based on Antonio Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons: Spring," editing and mixing the new piece in Dhomont's studio and debating the definition of electro-acoustic with Lansky.

Long-buried treasures and newly discovered monuments are shedding new light on Celtic society. Classical writers condemned what they saw as the barbarian society - a lifestyle built around rituals, bloody sacrifices and savage fighting. This program reveals that there was a rich sophisticated element to Celtic culture.

In stark contrast to the law-enforcement heroes highlighted on "C.O.P.S.," the law-breaking police officers featured in this shocking collection of clips don't think twice about unnecessary roughness. Capturing beatings, assaults, wrongful shootings and more, Bad Cops catches the bad apples who overstep their authority and dispense vigilante justice instead of following their "protect and serve" creed.

Values, Victory and Peace of Mind presents the greatest coach of the 20th Century Coach John Wooden teaching his powerful values based philosophy of how to achieve competitive greatness in sports, business and life. John Wooden's UCLA basketball dynasty won an incredible ten national championships, seven of them in consecutive years producing perfect season after perfect season. Yet for John Robert Wooden winning was never his standard for success. How you win or lose is the ultimate test.

The "bulls" are four aging former police detectives who feel the neighborhood is going to hell and want to set it right...until something goes very wrong.

The raw material used in Blow-Up comprises two shots from an old educational film about first aid: a man demonstrates mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on a life-size dummy; the dummy's chest rises and falls. Fruhauf introduces this scene into his own métier, turning the "blow-up" metaphor into an image with a false bottom. With the aid of a digital photocopier, the strip of film was reduced in size to a narrow ribbon, and Blow-up shows this transformation in reverse.

Documenting the UK Punk Rock scene just prior to the turn of the new century. Never fully finished, it is a compilation of footage from around the UK at the end of the 90's, including a street party outside the Sex Pistols reunion gig.

The peculiar residents of a lonesome Canadian prairie town realize that changes are afoot after two strangers arrive and begin to entwine themselves into the life of the village. As newcomer Rose takes work as a phone-sex operator and indulges the town's wanna-be poet Nigel, African-American Otavie interrupts the romance between two local teens.

To millions worldwide the name Joey Dunlop conjures up magical images of dominant motorcycle race victories, but also of a humble, hardworking, compassionate and family man. His career statistics are stunning. This is a story of dedication, determination, humility and humanity.

A blind man receives corneal transplants. He is fifty years old. For the first time since he was ten months old he has complete functional use of his eyes. What does he see? This is the story of a man’s struggle to learn to see.

The Federal Reserve, or the Fed as it is lovingly called, may be one of the most mysterious entities in modern American government. Created during Wilson's presidency to protect the economy in times of financial turmoil, its real business remains to be discovered. During the Wilson presidency, the U.S. government sanctions the creation of the Federal Reserve. Thought by many to be a government organization maintained to provide financial accountability in the event of a domestic depression, the actual business of the Fed is shrouded in secrecy. Many Americans will be shocked to discover that the principle business of the Fed is to print money from nothing, lend it to the U.S. government and charge interest on these loans. Who keeps the interest? Good question. Find out as the connective tissue between this and other top-secret international organizations is explored and exposed.

A Holocaust film without Holocaust imagery, ZYKLON PORTRAIT combines archival instructional films with family snapshots, home movies, underwater photography, and hand-painted imagery for an expressive exploration of how history and memory are related to one family's loss.

Set 247 million years ago in what is now South Africa, The Moschops (2000) is a faux nature documentary focused on a genus long extinct. Trainor describes his animated film as being "about the origin of compassion in the animal kingdom."

Helena is a 70 year old woman living in a nursing home. His daughter, and especially his son, not want to have at home. Already expelled six residences, Helena thinks if escape this, it will not be accepted in another and can not do anything but let her go home. For this flight uses the help of James, another resident who has no family and is in love with him.

The life story of Milford Beeghly: Iowa farmer, early developer of hybrid seed corn, husband, father, grandfather.

An inspirational look into the life of a young man and how he brings out the best in those around him, including a Navy pilot, played by director Steve Viall. Based on Ida Mae Kempel's story WHAT WAS IN JEREMY'S EGG?, an award-winning true story.

Hot Tuna: Electric Celestial Blues - Live At The Fillmore

Based on the award-winning book by Harry Horse, The Last Polar Bears is the charming tale of an eccentric grandfather (narrated by Nigel Hawthorne) who embarks upon an expedition to the North Pole to find the Last Polar Bears. With him goes Roo—a dog of character and strong views—and a golf bag full of equipment. The intrepid explorers set sail on the good ship Unsinkable and embark upon the adventure of a lifetime. The story is told in the form of letters from Grandfather to his grandchild, which reinforce the poignancy and warmth of this charming tale.

Simple and effective Tai Chi that can be practiced almost anywhere while sitting or standing.

THE INTERNATIONALE draws on people's stories of an emotionally charged radical song (the long-time anthem of socialism and communism) to celebrate the relationship between music and social change, and to evaluate the uncertain fate of once thriving movements of the left.

Alfa Romeo, Benetton, Brabham, BRM, Cooper, Ferrari, Lancia, Lotus, Maserati, Matra, McLaren, Mercedes, Tyrell, Vanwall, Williams... Great manufacturers who have all earned their place in motorsport history for winning either a driver or constructor's World Championship during the first 50 years of Formula One. Now you can learn more about these legendary marques.

Involuntary Reception is a double-imaged, double-edged report from a young woman lost in the telecommunications ether. Possessing extraordinary electrical forces — a surging EPF (electro-magnetic pulse field) — she self-broadcasts her unique experience of the world. Appearing as a somewhat tragic spirit, the character, played by Lucas, is quarantined from physical contact and yet always at risk of contamination from the multitudinous signals of our digital age. Lucas investigates the substance, the very electricity of communication. Her performance engages the viewer in a critical yet witty musing on the construction of self and the experience of desire in an era of information overload.

Structured around a dancer's routine, the film unfolds in four stages: hope, fear, anger, and longing for stability. It interweaves these emotions with those of locals of Matsu, the military, and first-time-visiting photographers from Taiwan island.

Ahmed Zameel, an office worker in Male’, visits an island to deliver his deceased friend Moosa’s assets and cash to his family. He meets Shiuna Ibrahim, and they develop a relationship. Zameel was previously married to Nashfa, and they had a son before divorcing. However, when Ibrahim arrives home, his behavior takes a dark turn, revealing that he is possessed by a spirit.

Anti-tobacco PSA by the Arizona Department of Health Services, with its campaign aimed at teenagers which ran between the mid-90s to early 2000s. This is one of their later ones, which uses the dark and disturbing imagery of a factory that produces both cigarettes and the teenagers who smoke them.

Arriving as part of a later wave of the Cinema of Transgression, Joe Christ’s films exploit and explore dementedly offensive human behavior. Following in the tradition of John Waters and The Kuchar Brothers, Christ’s films wallow in extreme sicko humor and strange people behaving badly.

A sing-a-long homage to the wonderful music of Burt Bacharach, Peter Sellers and Surf! A tantalizing production shot in various exotic surf locations around the world. Filmed in Los Angeles, Puerto Escondido, Itacaré, Venice Beach and Venice, Italy.

A well-mannered penguin visits a supermarket in search of tea. There's plenty of brisket, a singing butcher, an asthmatic shopper who refers to herself in the third person, a wide-eyed clerk, and a loose bit of octopus tentacle rolling about. But the tea? Should she try aisle B?

Romance gone wrong sparks this visually poetic meditation on love, promises and destruction, with reference to Mrs. Danvers, that icon of perfectly executed revenge in Alfred Hitchcock's classic Rebecca.

A story about Nashville based Kurt Wagner and his band Lambchop, his parents, his dogs and his incredible basement. The man who wants to be just a normal blue collar worker and his mother who took him to the theater.

Follow a woman as she puts herself through the Third Degree, in which she questions the loss of a relationship with a younger woman and the painful steps involved in letting go.

Jatin Mahato’s house becomes a wonderful sight during the monsoon when hundreds of open-billed storks arrives and breed virtual colonies in the trees adjacent to his house. Jatin and his family feel an uncanny attachment to the feathered friends who are almost their own children. But the world beyond the Mahato family is not so friendly to the birds. Over the years they are being mercilessly killed for their tasty flesh. Jatin has severely beaten up several times and the villagers have ostracized the family. But the morale of the Mahato family is too high. They guard the birds day and night so that no one can do any harm to them.

Zinat, who experimentally provided health services to the villagers of Salakh on Qeshm Island, discovered the burqa to get well and wore a health uniform, and was one of the first women on the island to work outside the home. Zinat is the only native of the island who ran for the ten-seat council in the first city and village elections (March 1998). A special day deals with the events and discussions related to Zinat's candidacy on election day as a woman.

A documentary about the killing fields of Kosovo, at the height of the carnage in September 1998 - months before NATO bombs fell.

A supernatural horror film from Madagascar.

Enjoy this timeless documentary collection that pays tribute to the greatest Hollywood screen legends of all time. Featuring 25 Male and 25 Female stars of the silver screen. Go in-depth on their lives and careers as we honor these Tinseltown treasures

The powerful and hard-hitting documentary, American Holocaust, is quite possibly the only film that reveals the link between the Nazi holocaust, which claimed at least 6 million Jews, and the American Holocaust which claimed, according to conservative estimates, 19 million Indigenous People.

Complex forces drive elephant migration. Is this a journey by chance or design? Learn of new discoveries as to how elephants communicate and recent research by meteorologists that suggest a link between elephant communication and atmospheric conditions. Now we know that elephants produce sounds far below the threshold of human hearing. Listen as Mauney journeys with the elephants on a personal quest to unlock their mysteries by tracking their movements, following their ancient game paths and searching for clues as to exactly why they move.

A crazy old man takes to the streets.

2000 release

One of several short films. Claymation that follows the misadventures of a mad anthropomorphic frog chef, often facing mishaps and disaster in his kitchen.