Cinematic Era: 2001 Vintage

Short experimental film by Lewis Klahr.

Two boys observing a church make a light-hearted bet about the cars coming to a ceremony.

A group of convicts slowly drag their balls and chains through a desolate landscape. One of them discovers a strange structure and decides to climb it.

Stories of Australian and New Zealand Rock and Roll.

Camera Edit, with Ambient Sound and Radio Frequencies. Captured in location. Shortwave radio signals. KHz Range: 1000-2000 AM SW.

A selection of Fieldworks captured in location during 2001-2002 in Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, Argentina. Chile

frenz of the Enz club DVD. Recorded ABC Studios, Melbourne, December 12, 1986.

A boy walks to his locker.

Short highly stylised film about a controversial location. Mainly shot at night in an observant style, the film shows the highs and lows of shopping mall Hoog Catharijne and the adjacent train station area. The concrete jungle with desolate nooks, tunnels and arcades seems to lead its own life under the pulsating neon light. Gradually, the constructed surroundings emerge as a versatile, battered organism, used in a continuous, contrasting and bizarre way by junks and cleaners, travellers and shoppers.

The tale of Kuno Nieff (Chajim Koeningshofen), who is responsible for making sure each of the animal specimen jars in the Berlin Natural History Museum is properly filled with alcoholic preservative.

The quests by Heinrich Schliemann and Arthur Evans to find the ancient city of Troy, dismissed by many as a myth

This documentary looks into the life of a musician who has traded one continent (and its history) for another, while never losing sight of his music. The film weaves Mr. Blair's story with glimpses of the beautiful Provence region where the swing of New Orleans and brilliant hues of the south of France come together.

In 1945, thousands of U.S. Marines entered one of the deadliest battles of modern warfare. Fifty years later, survivors returned to honor their collective past. Iwo Jima: Memories in Sand is a powerful, lyrical encounter with survivors who reveal how such experiences forever changed their lives and caused them to reflect deeply and thoughtfully about war.

A series of three mirror-image video films about love and sorrow, narcissism and loss. With rewritten synthetic dialogues and a recomposed sound image, the maker uses scenes from films by Resnais and Bergman to evoke a surreal, alienating and bizarre nostalgic mood.

When Giuseppe Verdi composed his Requiem Mass, he knew it was a profound and moving piece of music, but he could not have known it would be performed 100 years later to honor the centennial of his own death. This stirring concert series from 2001 captures all the drama of Verdi's masterpiece. Conductor Claudio Abbado draws out magnificent performances from the Berlin Philharmonic and talented singers Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna.

Focusing on films with a spiritual theme, the annual Damah Film Festival presents a wide range of shorts, from documentaries and dramas to experimental and animated films. The movies capture a variety of spiritual experiences told through edgy tales and more traditional stories of struggle and redemption. This collection from the 2001 festival includes "1, 2, 3 Dream," "Addiction," "American Wet Dream," "Blue Black Hours," "Troposphere" and more.

Top pop stars of the 20th century unite in Santa Barbara, Calif., to celebrate the unbelievable catalogue of Jeff Barry, the prolific tunesmith and producer behind such hits as "Be My Baby," "Doo Wah Ditty," "Da Doo Ron Ron" and more. Opening with the Dixie Cups on "Chapel of Love," the nostalgia-filled concert also features performances by Supremes star Mary Wilson, Beach Boys pioneer Brian Wilson, the Crystals, Deniece Williams and many more.

Seattle punkers the Murder City Devils burn up the stage at the Showbox in this 2001 Halloween performance, the band's final concert. Spencer Moody's raw vocals slice through the mosh pit on songs including "Bear Away," "I Drink the Wine," "One Vision of May," "Midnight Service at the Mutter Museum," "I Want A Lot Now" and "Rum to Whiskey." Features a full-length commentary track with Moody and Merchbot 2000, plus live bootleg videos.

Immortalized by photographer Ansel Adams and championed by naturalist John Muir, Yosemite is one of America's most awe-inspiring and popular national parks. This video offers a lavish look at the park and its history, with images of the landscape, wildlife and recreation opportunities as well as a peek into the park's role in pop culture, art and music, and a brief look at how the valley was formed. This video is part of a DVD set entitled America's National Park Collection and is DVD 5 out of 6.

Set against the beautiful and historical sites of Vietnam, pop-rock Brits BBMak -- singer Mark Barry, guitarist Christian Burns and guitarist Ste McNally -- perform acoustic renditions of their hit tunes in this 2001 music-filled travelogue. Songs include "Back Here," "I'm Not in Love," "Scotland the Brave," "Again" and more. Take a tour with the trio as they discover Vietnamese culture, history and spirituality.

World-famous baritone Thomas Hampson hosts this tribute to Italy's best known and most beloved composer, Giuseppe Verdi. Tracing the life of one of opera's greatest luminaries, this documentary, shot on location in Italy and France, invites you to visit the hometown of the composer and takes you on a journey to the cities -- including Paris -- that Verdi visited during his musical career. The video also includes four Verdi arias sung by Hampson.

Uncover the themes of Arthur Miller's chilling drama of 17th-century witch hunts with this guide to "The Crucible." Using a combination of text and imagery, Rocketbooks serve as a study companion for students at junior high school level and above. Engaging quizzes and in-depth analysis reinforce comprehension of Miller's play, a parable depicting disturbing parallels to the zeal of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and the Red Scare of the 1950s.

Return to N. Clark Street in Chicago as investigators comb the crime scene in hopes of revealing the identities of the killers and motives for one of the most infamous shootings in American history. Part of Discovery Channel's "Unsolved History" series, which takes a detailed forensic approach to some of history's most vexing mysteries via a painstaking examination of photographs, artifacts and interviews from experts and eyewitnesses.

Vaasu, who came to kill all the mad dogs of the Chandanakkunnu Village, finally becomes the hero of the Village.

Film with music from Pallavi Prakash

Filmed in Pakistan, India, Canada and United States, A Voice From Heaven is a tribute to one of the most beautiful voices in the century: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the king of Qawwali. The story interweaves excellent Nusrat performance footage and a rare behind the scene glimpse into Nusrat's life. Interviews conducted with the many friends, artists and producers with whom Nusrat has collaborated with, including Rick Rubin, Michael Brook, Bally Sagoo and the Asian Dub Foundation, tell the story of a man and his music of peace and spiritual love.

Ditty Dot Comma is a hand-painted, wide screen 35mm film that honours the relationship between the eye and the ear. The dot and the comma, literary punctuation marks, are also used as symbols and designs.

Determined to rid their neighborhood of the influences of gang violence, RoRo and Samuel organize the law-abiding citizens to reclaim their turf.

As the campus of Hollows Point University, a psychotic killer is on the rampage, brutally murdering three students, and terrifying the rest. Eager to take leave of their panic stricken school, ten students head into the woods for a camping trip that they hope will get them away from the killer. However, after a night filled with partying and drinking, the students feel that something is out there, watching them. Soon, the maniacal killer begins hunting them down, one by one, as they fight desperately for their lives.

This documentary about the multiethnic crew of a South African diamond ship off the African coast presents a revealing microcosm of social disintegration.

Three children living with significant communication and physical disabilities struggle against the public schools - and people's perceptions - in an emotional battle to prove their abilities and their worth.

Three classmates in a high school risk failing and their last class test - which went terribly wrong - would be the straw that breaks the camel's back. However, the papers have not yet been corrected and the three decide to break into the school at night to steal their homework and replace them with corrected ones. But entering the school building holds many surprises for them and some terrifying encounters that the three would never have expected.

Brett Mayer - - Lillo Brancato, Justina Machado, Keith Brunsmann

In 1930, Stefan and Franciszka Themerson made a controversial, black and white, silent, 35mm film in Warsaw. ‘Apteka’ was the first “moving photogram” and an innovation in experimental cinema. It disappeared during the German occupation of Poland. Bruce Checefsky’s extraordinary film ‘Pharmacy’ is based on the surviving notes, letters and stills from the original film and published reviews from Czas, Wiaomosci Literackic Polski Zbtgina, Swiatowid, Pion and Kuriet Polski.

This documentary tells the story of the Slánský trial, an infamous political show trial that took place in communist Czechoslovakia in 1952.

Known as the pioneer of the chopped and screwed sound, DJ Screw was one of the most prolific and influential hip-hop artists Texas has ever produced. Despite his untimely passing in 2000, the impact of his music lives on. With performance footage, videos, interviews and revealing behind-the-scenes clips, this documentary provides an intimate portrait of the mix-tape superstar and a glimpse into the world of the Screwed Up Click.

It's 1998, a packaged bomb explodes inside a camera store in Las Vegas. The following aftermath places shipping giant Pacific Cargo International under fire by it's employees. Not having any confidence in the FBI to solve the case, the company calls on the expert talents of Bud Chelzer, a special investigator whose long history speaks of adventure and irony.

Sehmuz, his wife Delal and their three children have saved themselves by escaping from Turkey to Switzerland. They are temporarily lodged in the asylum centre, together with refugees from Africa and East Europe that can se the funny side of everyday life despite their scars and nightmares. However, their fates do not sound genuine enough for the asylum authorities, this is what Sehmuz’ Kurdish compatriot Aziz claims. He sends Sehmuz to a Swiss who invents a credible story substantiated by documents. Sehmuz persuades Delal to pawn the family jewels and buys a new biography, which he laboriously learns by heart with the help of his children. Yet, at the decisive interview he can no longer remember the weather in Izmir …

A charming hustler, Sandy, insinuates himself into the life of his restless teenage son, Billy, tearing apart mother and son, husband and wife, and sister and brother in order to catch whatever broken soul falls his way.

In this unique film, viewers are given a guided tour of the town of Assisi by Saint Francis himself. St. Francis' "narration" is rendered by Christopher Jones. The tour visits all the sites in Assisi that played a significant role in the life of Saint Francis. Assisi's spiritual and mystical dimension, and its artistic and cultural heritage are explored, including its winding medieval streets, its squares, and its festivals.

RESISTANCE is the first major look at the complex subject of Jewish efforts to fight back against the Nazis and their collaborators in Eastern Europe. Told by the partisans themselves, without a narrator, and filmed in Lithuania, Poland, and Israel, the film uses striking black and white imagery of the partisan forest hideouts, rare archival footage, historical photographs and original artwork by partisan fighter Alexander Bogen to document this little known history. In RESISTANCE, surviving partisans tell of the circumstances that enabled them to fight back.

A sprawling look at the class system in the United States, ranging from WASP elegance to trailer-park desperation, with lots of other stuff in between.

Two friends are overcome with the spirit of the samurai warrior after unearthing a pair of mythical swords in this over-the-top action effort directed by freshman filmmaker Aaron Yamasato and featuring special makeup effects by Screaming Mad George.

A year behind the scenes in the brutal and beautiful world of professional rodeo.

Captures the discipline of a boxer preparing for a fight.

Includes an exclusive mix from Saeed and Palash, an interview with duo and bonus interviews with Danny Tenaglia. Paul Van Dyk and Timo Maas.

In 1996, the filmmaker journeyed to the city Salvador Da Bahia - the African heart and soul of Brazil - seeking the identity of the spirits who haunt his dreams. Twenty years before, his mother made a parallel journey when she migrated with the family to Tanzania, East Africa in search of a mythic motherland. Shot entirely on silent Super 8 film by three generations of an African American family, "That's My Face" creates a mythopoetic feast of self-discovery.

An unblinking look at the questionable journalistic ethics involved in publishing North America's only satirical magazine, the film also explores the need for an independent, alternative view that exposes the mis-conduct of business leaders, journalists, celebrities, and politicians.

FourWheeler Stunts

A rebirth and roller skates. A young woman awakens to discover that she is a monster, but that is all she knows. Images of a collective unconscious, a set of wheels, and vague memories – lead her to the conclusion that she is alone in the world.

Walter Trout is a younger generation blues guitarist, who toured with Joe Tex, Big Mama Thornton, John Lee Hooker, Canned Heat and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. This concert, from the German "Ohne Filter" series took place on June 29, 1993. Appearing with Trout was Martin Gerschwitz, James Trapp and Bernard Pershey. Special features include an interview with the producer,Artist's biography, recorded in Dolby Digital 5.1. A New Jersey native & former member of Canned Heat and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Walter Trout has also toured with John Lee Hooker, Big Mama Thornton, and Canned Heat. Here, he performs live in Germany on June 29, 1993. Accompanied by Martin Gerschwitz, James Trapp, and Bernard Pershey, Trout performs a set of 8 tracks including "I Can Tell," "Life in the Jungle," and "Finally Gotten Over You."

Halford Chile 2001 (full concert)

It was the first concert of the animated band Gorillaz that turned a huge success throughout Europe and rage in the U.S. thus highlighting songs such as 19/2000 and clint Eastwood

Celebrities and musicians gather in New York's Radio City Music Hall to pay tribute to Beach Boys supremo Brian Wilson. Includes Ricky Martin's version of 'California Girls', Elton John's take on 'God Only Knows', Jimmy Webb, David Crosby and Vince Hill tackling 'Surf's Up', and Mr Wilson himself performing 'Heroes and Villains'. Recorded March 29, 2001.

The best way to find out who you are is to test your own limits - to do the utmost of your ability. That is the theme of this short psychological thriller. A boy lies in a bathtub, holding his breath. He is trying to break his personal record - 2 minutes.

The 20th century is the first century of moving pictures and in the archive of the Swedish public service, a massive amount of footage is collected. In this third entry of Jan Bergman's Pentalogy, we see the chocking news of world war affecting Stockholm, but also the big changes that would transform the city throughout the decade.

Documentation of the Cuban missile crisis (from 13 days supplementary material)