Cinematic Era: 2000 Vintage

There are things everybody wants to learn to do, but knowledge comes at a price. Is knowing worth eating from the tree of knowledge?

It gathers from a perspective the voice of women victims of human rights violations during the military regime. It is a proposal that transcends denunciation, delving into the reconstruction of the daily lives of these women, thus constituting a reflection on our society in the past and the unresolved present. It is a testimony of the courage of our women, who reconstruct the "Pieta" as the only form of pain in the Chilean imaginary.

A film about the war in Kosovo.

transistor shows an excellent model for a direct coupling of sound and image. Accompanied by short, choppy segments of noise fragments, geometric gridworks appear with equal abruptness, as in a visual staccato: empty picture frames, lines and planes in varying intensities, light, semi-light, bold, extra-bold, etc. This not only places a visual matrix underneath the rasping, eruptive sound as a foundation, it also reveals the underlying matrix-like quality, the locking function in the digital culture as the interface at which graphic and acoustic elements have always overlapped. If structural film traditionally proceeded from the assumption that the visible world could be reduced to a geometric and conceptual image, Schwentner re-contextualizes such reduction processes: A kind of a dynamic structural model of an electronic culture which is crossing the genre is made visible. (Christian Höller)

The Glory Days features Trainz, Bombings Wallz, HipHop from Hannover and as nice Special they created a miniature city of Hannover with the Train system and streets bombed by the most active crews.

Documentary Short

Video installation (1 overhead projector, 24 small black and white TV sets, 6 big TV sets). expressionless men in suits amuse themselves by playing around in boats, swimming, and hiding behind trees in scenes set in a garden. The scenes appear to be daydreams. Yang says that he choose to create this affect after noticing the way people playing in gardens tend to give free rein to their imagination and enter their own fantasy world. The arched gateway represents the border between the real world and the other, enchanted land beyond. In the actual installation, a number of small monitors are embedded in a large screen onto which an image of the garden is projected, each depicting men swimming naked.

Single-channel video. Colour, sound.

Alison is a young woman on a clock - she's been diagnosed as HIV positive, and now has to confront her past as she contacts her sexual partners to warn them to get tested. Josh is a young man wrestling with his own demons - having blown it with the girl of his dreams, he now finds himself unable to make any emotional connections and hopes to leave town to escape his problems. These two people have nothing in common... and, maybe, that's exactly what they're both looking for.

Kasper, 14, plays soccer with his friend Jon, the goalkeeper. Jon loses the ball and causes the team to lose. The captain and the other team members demand a new goalkeeper. Kasper is unsure what is most important: friendship or winning?

Biography of Nova Scotia born contralto Portia White, who in the 1940' and 50's was often compared to the American Marian Anderson, covering her singing and teaching careers. Uses archival film and TV footage, excerpts from recordings, and interviews with family, friends, pupils and her accompanist, to portray a talented, dignified woman, her career shortened by mismanagement and ill health, but who left an important heritage that is remembered by those who knew her.

This documentary pays tribute to a group of Canadians who took racism to court. They are Canada's unsung heroes in the fight for Black civil rights. Focusing on the 1930s to the 1950s, this film documents the struggle of 6 people who refused to accept inequality. Featured here, among others, are Viola Desmond, a woman who insisted on keeping her seat at the Roseland movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia in 1946 rather than moving to the section normally reserved for the city's Black population, and Fred Christie, who took his case to the Supreme Court after being denied service at a Montreal tavern in 1936. These brave pioneers helped secure justice for all Canadians. Their stories deserve to be told.

Portrait of experimental filmmaker Martine Rousset.

Powergame is an exciting and unique behind the scenes look at the career of Jonathon Power, the first Canadian and first North American to win the World Squash Championship.The documentary tracks Power’s historic year as he battles the world’s top players (including Canada’s other world-ranked squash player, Graham Ryding) for the ultimate title in Squash.

One of the layers of this piece consists of an image of a Sufi like spinning dancer in a white lab coat. This out-take from an earlier film, Phonogramme, had somehow become splattered with a kind of mould that formed small flower like shapes in the frame. It is combined with a loop of hand-painted film which deteriorates slowly each time the loop repeats. The accidental misspelling of the title was retained as a piece of word play.

In 2000 [Campus] went through several months of radiation treatment after being diagnosed with cancer. He created a three-part video piece about this harrowing experience called Death Threat, a powerful work about the images behind the images of life. It is his visual death poem, but thankfully, without the death. -Bill Viola

Two pieces of found footage were used to produce Jumpcut: a series of frames cut from the head and tails of various takes of a talking head shot for a 1970s industrial film or commercial; and a piece of 1950s/60s home movie footage depicting a jumping child interrupted by the perforation marks at the end of the reel. Both images are processed through the Cox Box. The loop of the jumping boy had developed, over time, a network of miniscule cracks in the emulsion which were further emphasised by the increased contrast of the processing and the slow motion.

Beau Riley is a recovering alcoholic. His lover, David, was born a paraplegic. Through Riley's poetry, paintings, and interviews we discover a portrait of grief and healing between two people, each disabled in his own way.

Billa No 786 is the story of Shankar who had promised his dying mother that he would marry her friends daughter Pinky and thus fulfill her dream. After his mother's death along with sister (Kavita) and his dear monkey he went to look for his mother's sister to Rampur. there he meets Siddhu (Sidharth Dhavan). Siddhu takes Shankar to Flora Aunty's (Zubeida) locality to live there, with the help of the local people he gets a job of a coolie and with his good fortune he gets the Billa No. 786.One day he meets the rich girl Pinky (Rutika) who hates the poor. Dhankeshwar (Mohan Joshi), the owner of the basti , hates Shankar and tries different tricks to trap Shankar and to empty the locality. One day Dhankeshwar succeeds and Shankar is trapped. Does Dhankeshwar succeeds in vacating the locality and building a 5-star hotel? Does Shankar succeed in breaking Rutik's pride and fulfill his mother's dream?

A little "compensation fairy" grants a hack in Malaga his wish of being the perfect cabdriver, but he gets her in trouble when he insists on killing all his customers in outlandish ways.

Heise's first work produced specifically for television: a small film, the portrait of a pub on Rosenthaler Straße in Berlin Mitte, an homage to a kind of proletarian feeling of belonging together.

A revealing portrait of two young addicts, their life on the street and their despairing parents who find themselves powerless to save their children from the habit that is consuming them. As filmmaker Andrée Cazabon follows Cathy and Laurent for many months, recording their desperate drug-fuelled existence, she remembers her own life on the street. "My parents and I relived that horror," she says of her creative journey. But it was for all parents that she made this film. Cathy's and Laurent's parents live in a permanent state of bewildered anxiety and guilt. How can they avoid being totally destroyed by grief? How do they manage to carry on with their lives, in spite of everything? And how do they deal with a system that views them with suspicion? By grimly showing two children in the grip of a brutal addiction, No Quick Fix hopes to alleviate and identify some of the enormous pain endured by parents coping with an addicted child.

Originally released on VHS, Atomic Surf Punk is a visual journey through historical moments of the band during the 90's.

Mexican feature film

The Quintet of the Astonished shows the unfolding expressions of five actors in such extreme slow motion that every minute detail of their changing facial expressions and movements can be detected. In this piece artist Bill Viola explores the cathartic power within grief, personal suffering, and bereavement.

Based very loosely on a brief account in Peter Guralnick's Elvis biography Careless Love, the film is a fantasia about the night the Fab Four and the King spent together in 1965.

Playwright David Henry Hwang talks directly to the camera about race, politics, and ... pornography. He's discovered a way to get past the typical images of Asian porn to positive images of Asian men and women caught on tape: it's "Asian Pride Porn," a videotape Mr. Hwang is pitching...

TheIrish Tenors televised concert from Dublin is most notable for the debut of new tenor Finbar Wright after McDermott had taken leave from the group following the death of his mother. McDermott does make a brief but dramatic appearance, however, to sing "The Last Rose of Summer," as a tribute to his parents, then rejoins Kearns and Tynan for "Red Is the Rose." And of course both shows include "Danny Boy"--as inevitable a closer as "Nessun dorma" was for that other trio of tenors. I

Trilogy about love, experienced at different moments in life, by different people: an old couple, a young couple and two children at infant school.

Intimate documentary portrait which chronicles the lives of Donald and Luba Boyd, the parents of the director and the grandparents of his 22 year old daughter and co-cinematographer Kate who accompanies him on his personal quest through the countries that Donald and Luba had lived out their failed marriage.

Collection of short films.

Jewish people, who once called the small Polish town of Będzin home, embark on a journey into their past, one marked by fear, despair, and shame toward their murdered fellow human beings. The images of what they were forced to endure continue to haunt them and shape their lives.

Two Portuguese nurses share their harrowing story. Sisters Isaura Borges Coelho and Hortênsia Campos Lima were arrested in the early 1950s for protesting a law that barred nurses from marrying. Salazar wanted nurses to live like nuns, in line with Catholic conservative ideals.

A short film by Dave McKean made for the 7th Raindance Film Festival.

The film serves as a backstory to the Nehahra fan-made single-player game, released on August 17, 2000, which is set five years after the events of Quake. The film is also an unofficial backstory to that of Quake.

A group of scouts set out to camp in a cursed forest, where an ancient legend tells of Boni Coveiro, an evil spirit that haunts the place. One of the team members, obsessed with solving the story told by his grandparents, performs a satanic ritual with the aim of summoning and controlling the supposed cursed entity. However, little did he know that the legend was true, and that his disbelief would lead him to awaken the fury of a demonic being thirsty for revenge. From that moment on, terrible deaths begin to occur among the team members, with nothing they can do to stop the massacre.

Adaptation of the Alex La Guma story

I had this calendar from Fredricks of Hollywood on my wall and there was an air purifier that I used to prop the door open. I would hear rhythmic fluttering of paper and the calendar was moving between images in a sort of dance.

A video work that visually alludes to Andrew Wyeth's painting "Christina's World" (1948) and depicts Chang on a suburban lawn that is curiously destabilizing.

Harvard square stroll, talking to myself.

Thirsty Animals

Two contrasting portraits of magnificently strong women: champion body builder Andrulla Blanchette and trapeze artist Vicki Amedume. Strength displayed and strength employed.

This film documents the transformation of a derelict fire station into studio and living spaces for artists. The opening of the restored building is celebrated in performances and installations by its new occupants. In common with Raban’s films that reflect upon different aspects of the changing face of London’s East End, this tightly structured film-poem confronts the present with the past: the building’s war-time role is recalled in archival images, and by women who served in it as Auxiliary Fire Service officers.

Afghanistan. Year 1421, Hegira lunar calendar, civil war. Bagram front line, 50 kilometres north of Kabul. The enemy lines are within hailing distance. At night, the Taliban can be heard provoking their adversaries with insults...

Animation scratched directly on film.

His life transformed by the passing of his grandfather in the early 1990s, Canadian filmmaker Frank Cole found himself obsessed with the idea of death. Determined to overcome his fear, he resolved to cross the Sahara Desert by camel, training for years to prepare himself for the emotional and physical ordeal. Cole filmed his travels from Mauritania to the Sudan with a 16mm Bolex, capturing the harsh reality of the desert environment with an unflinching intimacy. Cole offers a deeply personal, yet distinctly Western, perspective on the desert as a space of Romantic sublimity.

An avant-garde "experimental anthropological poem" from France.

Rote Zora is a militant women’s group that carried out over twenty attacks and various other offences in Germany in the eighties. They fought against atomic, gene and reproduction technologies. Rote Zora formed a radical political opposition to the existing power which they carried out through a politics of property damage. It was their principle to avoid injuring anyone. The central element of the video “Die Rote Zora” is an interview with Corinna Kawaters that took place in summer 2000. Kawaters is the only woman from the Rote Zora who was sentenced by a court for “membership in a terrorist organization” (§129a). In addition, a conversation was held with the social scientist Erika Feyerabend, who, like the other members of the Gen-Archiv Essen, became caught in the whirl of police investigations against the Rota Zora at the end of the 1980s.

In 1798, the 28-year-old Napoleon Bonaparte realized his dream of reaching Egypt, where he intended to emulate the feat of his hero Alexander the Great, by making his own conquest of the country. Napoleon brought 40,000 soldiers with him to Egypt, as well as several artists, scholars and scientists to establish the Institut de l’Egypte. Their work and the work of the soldiers led to the discovery of the Rosetta stone and the birth of modern Egyptology.