Cinematic Era: 2001 Vintage

Heaven and Hell' put UK FMX on the world stage; three years on, the upstarts are goin' off again and showing just how far FMX has come. With its healthy mix of insanity, disrespect and hard riding, H&H2 'The Second Coming' is set to be another kick ass cult classic. Feel the Noise!

Bookings closed Hardly anyone embodies the Zen qualities of "nothing special" with such an impressive presence, mental clarity, and simplicity as Zen master Joko Beck, born in New Jersey in 1917. The film shows unique excerpts from her life and work.

Diary Entry: Father and Daughter (Shiva and Rumple) March 7, 2001.

A mock-documentary comedy that takes you beyond the 60-second sound bits and into the heart of a Presidential campaign.

A short anime about what Santa does when he's not delivering presents.

This poetic short film reflects on Kurdish identity, love, and the fleeting nature of life through vivid imagery and emotion.

Every Christmas morning, a brother and sister living in Zyf-Sur-Yvette, the last village in France on Santa's list, discover their Christmas tree is empty. They decide to play a trick on him the following Christmas Eve.

The TV documentary explores the lives of Taiwan’s licensed sex workers. It follows how, in 1997, Mayor Chen Shui-bian’s sudden abolition of legal prostitution in Taipei stripped more than a hundred women of their right to work, forcing them into a long-term struggle for survival. Through documenting their protests and personal stories, the film uncovers the little-known history of sex workers in Taiwan and examines their struggles under multiple layers of oppression—from political and economic forces to legal and ethical debates.

"In love with the desert" is a documentary in tribute to Sir David Lean's movie "Lawrence of Arabia". With Eddie Fowlie, Lean's closest friend.

Crafts, foods, popular festivals and other aspects of the Diaguita-Calchaquí culture in the Yocavil Valley.

Oswald and his monkey chums leap from tree to tree, chattering away in the sunshine. Life would be wonderful indeed but for the big, bad ape constantly on their backs. One day Oswald has had enough. He says "No!" In a colourful explosion of swaying monkeys and creeping vines accompanied by a jazzy soundtrack, the monkeys' tale is narrated by a singing troubadour.

It is a Mongolian feature film released in 2001.

Short film about the personal life of Nobuhiro Kawanaka.

A plane tree filmed from my window on a day with blue sky, onto which I applied ink.

After four years of study, students of the Irkutsk theater school have to leave each other. Tradition dictates that they spend the last night together. They will take advantage of this festive moment to settle their account and free themselves from the Master who taught them everything…

Experimental film by Ryoji Suzuki

Unwritten Page is a 16mm-film made for a composition by Antoine Beuger.

The wind in branches and leaves, in the clouds, revealing or masking the sun, affecting a gong, but also the montage, animating a garden. There is also a spiral at one moment, oh yes and also the moon. A play with sampling gusts of wind and gong, sun and clouds.

It's a movie from 2001.

The main character, who started out as a peddler selling instant adhesives on the subway due to financial difficulties, experiences a series of setbacks due to fear and shame. He gains courage through the kindness of a stranger and eventually seems to succeed, but...

A group of cops laugh and talk, while scanning the street for suspicious activity. An extreme close-up of a sensuously exposed neck; a soft pink fleshy ear turns to reveal an inquisitive hostile eye.... [Overview courtesy of Shelly Silver]

Women from 18 countries discuss vital fishery issues from the perspective of gender and globalization.

Christopher Summa's BE MY BROTHER is a 15-minute film that is inspired by both biblical and current events. It asks the timeless question of humanity: Can we treat the person whom we do not know, the stranger whom we fear and maybe even see as the enemy, as a brother? Shot on the streets of New York City the film celebrates the idea that every person has a dream and that it is never too late to be a pioneer of peace and truth in this world.

A murder victim returns from the grave to seek revenge.

A suspenseful thriller of misfortune, madness, and a torrential downpour of non-stop action, TERMINAL TARGETS is the story of one man’s vendetta against five unsuspecting people he thinks stole him blind via the internet, it all being brought on in reality by computer hackers who also bring the state of Virginia to a complete standstill. Greedy hired killers battle each other for an expensive bounty. The mystery deepens as it is unclear who is out to protect the last innocent victim and who is out to kill her…

Short Vietnamese animated film about a bicycle.

A celebration of Venezuelan folklore by experimental animation filmmaker José Castillo.

A documentary about Pula Film Festival.

Skeletons bring to life a song and dance.

This documentary is a visual encyclopaedia of the bombers deployed and their strategic use, by both the Allied and Axis Forces during the Second World War. The programme includes detailed accounts of the Lancaster, Wellington, Blenheim, Liberator, Flying Fortress, Heinkel HE 111, Stuka, Mitchell, Superfortress, Heinkel HE 177 Greif, Marauder, Whitley, Halifax, Hampden, Stirling, and more.

Nitwit" is a story of mouth disease, rebellious hair and transdimensional farting. It is also a story of mothers and their children. Finally it is a story about the power of stupidity.

Stories from the Sea tour

Contains archive moving footage of Derby over the last 80 years.

Documentary by Janko Baljak.

Forcible eviction of the Kurubas of the forests of Nagarahole and Kakanakote in the Western Ghats started in the early 70s. Today these forest dwellers have nowhere to go, and they find it hard to adapt to the new recommended way of life. They have become trespassers on their own lands.

Official movie compilation of cutscenes from the 1998 video game StarCraft.

A little boy thinks he will have some extraordinary adventures when he goes to a birthday party.

A woman discovers the unexpected in her basement when she investigates why her water has run dry.

In a world which runs on the steam of individualism, how satisfying can the inner journey be? Does a worldview that looks at a purpose beyond the self, hold currency in a society drained of cultural values and driven solely by market considerations? This is the dilemma that haunts the protagonist. Integral to this experience is the loss of intensity and social integrity that marked the cultural movement of the '70s, particularly after the Emergency. The film aims to capture this existential predicament in its various shades and tones. It is this struggle, perhaps vain, that forms the central theme. And, quite fatalistically, see no logical conclusion. Leaving the protagonist suspended in the grey area between ideals and reality...

A widely seen short focusing on the draconian impact of the Rockefeller Mandatory Minimum Drug Laws on families and communities in New York City as we follow the "The Mothers' of the New York Disappeared", who protest to change these unjust laws.

An animated, lo-fi sci-fi take on the Apollo Moon Landing in which a rabbit, a penguin, and a bumblebee rocket to the moon to investigate a bizarre transmission repeating the words 'Get Down!'. 'What does it mean?'

In a synthetic shopping mall surveillance and unsuspecting body language combine to create their own theatre.

On Sept. 10, 2001, Monika Bravo filmed the views from her studio at the World Trade Center, originally intended for A_Maze, a piece she was working on at the time. The film depicts a thunderstorm from what would be the last day the towers stood. That evening she left close to midnight, taking with her the mini DV tape along with some inkjet prints. The following morning during the tragic events, fellow artist Michael Richards lost his life. Seven hours of time-lapse footage have been condensed to a 5-minute document in Richards' memory.

In 1939, Yiddish was the spoken language of three-quarters of the world's Jews. But when leading Jewish scholars convened in 1980, they estimated that only 70,000 Yiddish books remained in the world. This engaging, often funny documentary film chronicles the adventures of an enterprising 23-year-old named Aaron Lansky, who rallied together an international network of volunteers and set out to rescue the world's Yiddish books. Twenty years later, the National Yiddish Book Center has collected 1.5 million Yiddish books and helped save a rich diverse, and surprisingly modern literature from oblivion. With rare archival images, and a lyrical portrayal of the National Yiddish Book Center's warehouse and cultural complex, A Bridge Of Books celebrates a pursuit that has become a powerful vehicle for the transmission of history, culture and identity across several generations.

About the opening of the first opera house in Tbilisi.

Dentist Jantzen went bankrupt. The few selected objects in his apartment are charged with cryptic meaning. The protagonist leads through his apartment, a self-staging in the ritual of loneliness.

Excerpts from two conversations, one with Abdel Majid Fadl Ali Hassan (in Bourg al Barajinah refugee camp, near Beirut), and the other with Nameh Hussein Suleiman (in Baddawi refugee camp, near Tripoli, Lebanon), two elder Palestinians that have been living in the camps in Lebanon since they were children, forced to flee from their homes in Palestine in 1948. They discuss their displacement and the condition of their lives in a brutal permanent temporariness. Abdel Majid discusses issues of dispossession, and recites an eloquent poem told by the ruins of his house in Palestine where once he was allowed visit after his first 30 years of forced absence, and Nameh recounts her journey of exile and the present situation of her life.

Short film directed by Mariano Peralta.