Cinematic Era: 2000 Vintage

Short film by Valérie Pavia.

Desert. A vulture enjoys the silence of a hot afternoon. The sudden appearance of a noisy vehicle destroys the quietness of this situation. Two pistoleros exit the car ready for a duel. The vulture is watching with scepticism, ready to take advantage.

An offbeat film about Ben Katchor, who has been hailed as the creator of the last great American comic strip. Katchor’s Yiddish-inflected voice guides us through a vast and shadowy landscape of old skyscrapers, neglected warehouses, lay-away stores and all-night cafeterias.

There are only a handful of places on the planet with names like Jaws, Mavericks and Pipeline where storms generate waves of monstrous proportions. Only a few people possess the skills and courage to challenge Mother Nature's raw power and ride these towering walls of water. Some of these challenges are successful, others pay the ultimate price. During this winter, some of the largest waves ever recorded are expected to be produced by the El Nino conditions in the Pacific Ocean. This is the story of a small group of surfers and their quest to ride the largest waves ever.

Video work by the Kinoki Lumal collective

Video workshops in Chiapas villages with interviews about indigenous living environments.

Ganymede tells what really happened up there on Mount Olympus.

short film by Helga Fanderl

The artist Bruce Nauman set the corner post of a fence on his ranch in Galisteo, New Mexico, one day and videotaped the process. As the title of Setting a Good Corner (Allegory & Metaphor) suggests, Nauman sees this simple, even mundane, activity as an allegory and metaphor for other areas of life. Maybe we are to see the work as a metaphor for making a work of art, since Nauman has chosen to film it for display in a museum. One of the key elements of the video is Nauman’s decision to show us the entire process. He does not leave out the long digging scenes or edit the piece down to its most essential components.

The film depicts the creative instincts of tribal women of Hazaribug in Bihar through the paintings, drawings and sketches done traditionally.

VERA CRUZ is an experimental project founded on the idea of the “impossibility” of a documentary on the discovery of Brazil. Based on the contents of the famous letter by Pero Vaz de Caminha, this is the video version of an “(im)possible film” that oscillates back and forth between documentary and fiction. From the subtracted image, we see only the “film picture,” old, scratched, worn out by five hundred years of existence and overuse. The sound of the words has also been removed, seeing as the dialogue between conquistador and native, strictly speaking, did not take place. All that is left is the sound of the ocean and the wind, witnesses to the events. The account that remains takes the shape of subtitle-text.

A young man takes a break from his road trip for a jolt of caffeine only to find he's stumbled into a diner where a bottomless cup of coffee takes on a new meaning. From Columbia University.

Created at the university of Texas at Austin, this unique black and white film is an experiment with Xerox machine animation.

The Rescue Truck arrives at Diego's Animal Rescue Centre to drop off an animal that's really lost - a penguin! help them talk to animals along the way, and catch stars! Even in the South Pole,

Inept techies at a second-rate television station allow the audio track to slip back, becoming misaligned with the video of an Italian soap-film that's trying to capture the essence of old black-and-white movies, with a few mistakes.

The Hooley Dooleys: Keep on Dancing

Chercher la Vie ("Looking tor Life") introduces the viewer to two women, Anne-Rose and Rosemène, who each have their own particular way of battling through life. The former makes lunches in a factory yard in Port-au-Prince and sells her meals to the factory workers; the latter is employed in the same factory as a production worker making pullovers and T-shirts. Every day she buys her midday meal on credit from Anne-Rose. Through the connection between these two women the film reveals part of their daily work and the constant battle for survival that they lead together with other women in Haiti.

Chercher la Vie ("Looking tor Life") introduces the viewer to two women, Anne-Rose and Rosemène, who each have their own particular way of battling through life. The former makes lunches in a factory yard in Port-au-Prince and sells her meals to the factory workers; the latter is employed in the same factory as a production worker making pullovers and T-shirts. Every day she buys her midday meal on credit from Anne-Rose. Through the connection between these two women the film reveals part of their daily work and the constant battle for survival that they lead together with other women in Haiti.

The film concerns the activities of a rabbit and her mummified robot friend who set out to free some ants from the clutches of an evil mad scientist. Will they infiltrate his anti-ant plant? Can they defeat his security systems? What's he got against the ants anyway, and are they as innocent as they seem? Why don't they rescue that poor bear too? What does it all mean? What's going on? Whose hands are those? What!? - All these questions, and more, will be asked when you see the film! The short was constructed fairly haphazardly via many different animation techniques, including stop-motion (filmed on Super-8), 3D computer models, morphed paintings, 2D digital cutouts and the odd bit of live-action for good measure.

A high contrast, black-and-white architectural study of Manhattan skyscrapers, Megalopolis is a symphony of shapes and forms. Slivers of light and masses of darkness sweep across the screen in this wonderful, graphic work.

Katie, 16, is having fun and doing water dances with her best friend. One day while walking in the woods, she discovers her friend kissing another girl. This discovery provokes Katie's confusion, between emotional shock, incipient jealousy and incomprehension.

The film depicts the creative instincts of tribal women of Hazaribug in Bihar through the paintings, drawings and sketches done traditionally.

In this clay animation, simple but lively clay dolls that viewers can't help but love run amok in real landscapes. They arise spontaneously from nowhere, touch themselves one by one as if to confirm the joy of life, and the sight of them moving around with their whole bodies overflowing with the joy of life is irrationally heart-warming. What makes this film even more deeply moving is that it also depicts death, which is the exact opposite of their sense of life and loveliness. The sincerity with which the characters try to accept the death of their beloved companions with all their might goes beyond the realm of character that tends to be described with the word 'cute', and is established as a rich drama. The exhilarating flight scenes and the music, which more than compensates for the dialogue, are also worthy of special mention.

A constellation of stars spread over the wall of an artist's studio metamorphose into a tumult of organic forms, which explode into a whirling, sparkling, luminous display. The human presence is evoked by a profile intent on exploring inner consciousness, rendered as a brilliant sphere. We are witnessing a fiery voyage of initiation to the very confines of the universe. 1974 is a mystical experience, a shimmering odyssey into the mysteries of perception. Up to 24 strata of different materials from oil paint to pencil drawings, filmed under the animation camera, contribute to the visual richness of the film, while progressive rock composed by Robert M. Lepage adds a harmonious counterpoint to its incantatory quality. Film without words.

This video is an artistic interpretation of an actual performance that took place in the summer, 2000 on Mount Royal in Montreal. All the scenes of the video are in slow motion. Kinga Araya climbs wooden stairs to get to the top of Mount Royal. Dressed in black, she wears a beautiful, yet cumbersome and dangerous copper hat (adjustable refers to the copper band inside the Headgear to fit almost any human head). When she finally reaches the lookout, she continues to walk in a circle. She finishes her 'Royal Promenade' with a final spin, in the middle of this picturesque public space.

In A Hundred examines the experience of time; both as an ongoing linear progression, as well as a circular pattern of remembered fragments. The work puts forward the notion that "real" time encompasses both; one seemingly measured and mathematical, the other incalculable and personal. It is in the fragmented past of memory that the work places its sympathy. As time moves on the mind gathers an ever increasing bank of stored moments. The place of memory can at times be haunting, but it is also the only place where loss can be momentarily appease.

Film by Yoshi Tomoku, 2000. The meeting is in a dream.

Everything you know is wrong.

A special episode countdown of the first 50 years of Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Actress Oscar winners.

texts from the late 20th century's most radical avant-garde works

an Animated Short Film by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar

The First Story is the first film in a trilogy of "westerns." Here the central idea is Power in its various forms, especially as seen overland in the quintessential American West: the big rigs on I 90 and the freight trains crossing Wyoming. It is the contrast of these machines to the broad landscape and animal life that digs at this mythological space and questions what other meanings might be created.

He works for a billion-dollar business -- banging heads and busting chops. His co-workers like and admire him. He is a merchandising money-making machine. His actions and words are part of the pop culture landscape and lexicon. Stone Cold Steve Austin's story told from the beginning -- from his high school football playing, to his meteoric rise to the top of the sports-entertainment industry.

An essay on some aspects of the language and technology deployed in turning natural space into commercialized space, shot in nine different commercialized caverns.

After the murder of Rufus, Henrik Möller meets Rufus' father. He is both angry and insidious.

The grumpy narrator begs and asks Jan Troell to pay attention to him.

Traumatized by the tragic death of his girlfriend, Jerome drops out of school and retreats to the province where he opens his own inn. Though still brokenhearted, Jerome settles into his new abode and leads a more serene life.

Moffatt's Artist is a collection of clips from movies and television programs that depict artists at work, at play and in the act of creation. By showing the particular bias of television and cinema to what the role of an artist apparently means to modern society, the film reflects the sometimes uninformed, sometimes humorous view of society towards artists today.

What at first appears to be a myriad of angry alligators floating in the murky waters of the Everglades, waiting to pounce on unsuspecting tourists, is in fact a delicate ecosystem vital to the environment of South Florida. Brought to video by National Geographic, this video is a swamp boat ride through the salty mangrove and saw-grass prairies to a secret place of survival. Between the sediments of silt and sand, wonderful creatures reside, such as the West Indian Manatee, the American White Pelican, the Roseate Spoonbill, and the rarest and most elusive native animal of the region -- the Florida Panther.

Using footage from CNN and ABC news reports, Boyce possesses American news anchors with the spirits of old-time sci-fi who speak the virtues of electronic hypnosis and rule through fear. He superimposes lips on the news anchors and makes them utter classic lines from classic films, amongst others Dracula.

Portrait of Genetic Girl Paddy's marriages and attractions to TS/TG people.

Tatsumi Hijikata Asbestos Museum "Novelist Tsubaki Yamaguchi and his wife Eroticism Cello" 2000 Shuichi Inohana Film Work Tatsumi Hijikata Memorial Asbestos Nobelist Tsubaki Yamaguchi & wife 2000 Shuichi Inohana Film Work

A harrowing haircut.