Cinematic Era: 2001 Vintage

The first in a monumental series of Rolling DVDs that leads the way for a lot to come...

Coming out in Hispanic families is explored from the points of view of those coming out as well as from the points of view of their fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers.

Lysergic video between pure Found-footage and mash-up, it gained a number of shows in different festivals; it is an aggression to the woman image, meant to be the creativity, idea and inspiration figure and metaphor. Burning and melting and deforming creativity, the destruction of which generates a trick of light and color, and creates a small creative divertissement.

Since the beginning of time, man has emphasized his power by building monuments. None of the world's structures inspires as much admiration as the pyramids. Pyramids - in the deserts of Egypt and the Middle East, in the jungles of Mexico and in the American prairies - were built of stone as tombs of rulers or places of sacrificial rituals. They are silent witnesses of bygone times and extinct civilizations of antiquity. The secret of the construction of the Egyptian pyramids in Giza, the Aztec Pyramid of the Sun in Mexico, the Mayan pyramids as a reminder of bloody rituals, the ziggurats in Babylonia - all this in the British documentary PYRAMIDS from the series MYSTERIES OF THE ANCIENT AGE.

Across America, small town cops rule the land. And what you hear about these prejudiced police is often true. This is the story of one such cop. Part mythic folk hero, part bad-ass, he is both feared and admired, hated and loved by the residents of his town. Witness first hand the violence and boredom consuming this law-man's daily routine. Come, take a ride with Pig.

Family prepares to meet the man who murdered their daughter.

Munkphilm explores meditation and inspiration in the cinematic medium. Carefully timed, animated fades set a rhythm that is interrupted and overlapped by moments of luminescence. These moments come and go, but in the end we are left with the original breath

The Light Touch Dust Nebula is a hand-painted film, optically printed with carefully controlled temperature and lighting. Thermotropic (temperature sensitive) liquid crystal paint applied to decayed film changes from red to blue with heat. In-camera optical effects expose the contrast between the two extremes. This film exposes the warmth of light and its birth to form and motion in cinema.

An inspirational story based on the Third Sorrowful Mystery of the Rosary, The Crowning with Thorns. None of us deserves anything and that's where real love begins.

Did you ever walk among flowers? Yes? And when they sing?

Directed by Lewis Klahr

An experiment with orientation movement and shape combined with musical improvisation. A continuous rolling, tumbling motion determined by a geometric shape creates a visual rhythm and images that roll, dip and soar with the improvised soundtrack.

Documentary film about the city of Havana.

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Recorded on June 16, 1999 at the TV Studio "Ohne Filter", in Baden-Baden, Germany

After discovering that he may have almost two hundred half-brothers and sisters, amateur sleuth and documentarian Barry Stevens sets out to uncover the identity of the anonymous sperm donor behind his secret clan - all of whom are among the first people in England to be artificially conceived.

Photojournalist Nick Danziger 's return to Kosovo as he tries to trace the ethnic Albanian people he pictured in refugee camps duringthe war in the Balkans.

An antiquarian acquires a rare, cursed book and then finds that he cannot get rid of it.

When the king of Lesotho, a small South African kingdom, is killed in a car crash in 1996, his Amplefortheducated son. Prince Mohato, finds himself thrust upon the throne under pressure to find a wife. Accustomed to the carefree life of a 30-something bachelor, Mohato is neither prepared for the responsibility of office, nor the commitment of marriage.

Compared to analogue b/w-photography and my experimental work in the colorlab, I tried to find out, what digital photography and computer processing is able to do, what the other techniques can't. We asked ourselves how does abstract film begin, what's its progress, how does it create suspense and how does it end? My model was the division of acts in greek tragedy. The length, the division of the different parts and the different cuts. The first abstract film made from pictures of plants was a purely abstract exercise, without any symbolic meaning nor background. The name stems from a misspelling of my Turkish flowersalesman, which I copied by accident. It is an abstraction of an Ilex twig. Another difference to all the other “flower pieces“ is that the film was made with a graphic-programme, that means each picture was constructed seperately, 25 pictures per second. That makes 4500 pictures which I worked on. Technically it is an animation film.

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Brian de Palma's Dressed to Kill

In Black & White there are two types of imagery: video footage of surfaces and spaces such as walls and doorways, and static computer-generated graphics. There are points when the origin of the material that you see seems clear, but a change in focus or a cut to another perspective often throws the image into doubt. In many ways the piece is a minimalist investigation of assumptions regarding the aesthetics of virtual reality.

Keiko Matsui may have won a few Smooth Jazz Awards, but the Japanese- born, classically influenced keyboardist's music is not jazz--at least not if your definition of jazz includes swinging, the blues, and improvisation, all of which are in relatively short supply in this nearly 90-minute performance (plus DVD bonus features, including an interview with the artist). Not that it matters, really. Whatever you call the style--"contemporary instrumental" seems as good a term as any--Matsui is one of its more appealing, and certainly most popular, exponents.

A collaboration between filmmakers Jon Behrens in Seattle, Washington, and Joel Schlemowitz in Brooklyn, New York, shot on ALL SAINTS DAY, November 1, 2000. They each shot 100 feet of film at the same time of the day 3,000 miles apart, and they did not tell each other what they shot. The film was hand-processed, cut up into two-foot lengths and then cut back together, alternating between Joel's footage and Jon's footage. The soundtrack for this film was done the same way.

Ten men who run gay webcam sites discuss the pros and cons of life on-line. Among the 10 are a young surfer with a hyper sex drive, a bisexual man with a girlfriend who's expecting, two brothers who are closer than most parents would want, a hustler who collects movie memorabilia and an aging porn star who is using this as a way of working through some old issues.

Short epic fairytale inspired by the 900 yrs old manuscript written by the Georgian monk, Shotha Rustaveli. The work is a cinematic intervention into painting honoring the byzantine poetics and Georgian lineage.

‘An idea of white’, according to the rather cryptic description.

Composing images of destruction of huge housing projects by film techniques like panorama, multiple exposure etc. With field sounds.

Coin Toss Carnage vs. Renegade (s) Blitz vs Rage (c) Ironman vs. ???

Juvenile vs. Carnage vs. Rage (c) (s) Blitz vs. Diablo (#1 Contender For Canadian Championship) ??? vs. Rage (s) (c)

Diablo vs. Blitz vs. Juvenile (s) Rage vs. Carnage (c)

Royal Rumble (#1 Contender For Saskatchewan Hardcore Championship) ??? vs. Blitz (s)

Diablo vs. Rage Juvenile vs. Blitz (s) Ironman vs. Carnage (c) (Falls Count Anywhere)

Ironman vs. Juvenile vs. Blitz (s) Rage vs. Carnage (c)

Rage & The Devil vs. Juvenile & Blitz Carnage (s) vs. Ironman (c)

Azar is responsible for rural health at Qazvin and addresses various people’s problems. But Haj Kamal is a big obstacle in his way and does not allow things to go right. Haj Kamal is the head of the council and the big village, but because of Azar’s membership, he is not ready to convene a meeting. He believes that this is the work of men.

This short film chronicles a lesbian relationship up until its demise.

My Friend Su is an insightful examination of one man’s feelings and struggles with being a ‘man’ on the outside but feeling distinctly feminine otherwise. His acceptance of what he is from within, a real ‘woman’, and his dreams to be with a man who can love him as a woman become the core issues that unravel in the film.

Super 8 film by Masaharu Oki.

Director Tamara Miranda returns to the VERHULST, an institute for young girls. Together with the current girls, the directors tries to answer the question if it is possible to feel at home in such a place.

'FROM' 2001 (4 films) *A series of 4 travel films made between 1998 and 2001 according to an identical principle of scrolling all the filmed images, captured in precipitation and slowed down.

Two Affect Studies consists of characteristically simple experiments. In the first sequence, a tape measure marks a spot on the wall while the camera documents the mad, free forms of a rubber band repeatedly snapped into the air. The image is improbably set, to near-comic effect, against “Functional” (1957), a tune by jazz legend Thelonious Monk. In the second part of the work, Perlman recorded the visual effects produced by the billowing wisps of smoke from two cigarettes left smoldering in an ashtray. Accompanied by Samuel Barber’s willfully sentimental “Adagio for Strings” (1936), this sequence, like its counterpart, uncovers the surprising potential for emotion, humor—and, ultimately, meaning—that resides within the simplest of stunts.

A Visual & Musical portrait Of The Lake District orchestrated with Vivaldi's The Four Seasons

Everyone needs to be free, even if the cost of this freedom is high – this is the message that Nosfe, a young Finnish film-maker delivers via his short film Pako completed in 2001. This rebellious work captivates us through a succession of provocative slogans that accompany a rapid flow of images of Helsinki.

An exploration of iconography of the Virgin Mary from Early Christian to Modern painting. The way your eye would travel over a single painting, the camera travels over hundreds of images of Mary, discovering the many ways artists have revered her smile, hands, eyes, and the baby Jesus himself.

The projected image is constructed from deteriorated colour film (old loops from the the installation Little Girl), the agitated rhythm of the movements of colour and form underscore the movement of the spectator and the rapid eye movement. To renforce the movement the film was edited in a series of mirco-loops, similar material was assembled to create a sense of progresssion and familiarity with the image, brief passages of figurative material were kept as a sort of visual conterpoint to the flow of the abstract colour sections. This duality of material seems to change the speed of the images we percieve a double dynamic dynamics produced within the same material.

Interviews from 1999, with some queer artists, activists and bands about queer punk, feminist concepts and actions. Filmed during a trip to San Francisco.

A wild and beautiful excursion into the world of pirate and amateur radio, including interviews with the bicycle pirate, Free Radio Austin, and Robert K6QXY; plus mystery sounds from space!

In a faraway land, lives a community of little mice tyrannized by a cruel king with an insatiable appetite. Bahador, a mouse like no other, forcibly collects, under the king's orders, the peasants' provisions. Very quickly, Bahador discovers how hungry these poor little mice are... Touched by their misfortune, he disobeys. But unmasked by the soldiers, he is taken prisoner... Will he then be brave enough to face the great steward?