Cinematic Era: 2002 Vintage

What does one have to do to become rich and happy? According to success coaches like Jürgen Höller, there is a recipe for this: in the form of books, videos, and seminars that you can buy. But what remains after all the promises? Doris Metz tells the story of Jürgen Höller's mission to lead people to success and of the people who have followed him. The story of three men and three women; bizarre, funny, and touching stories in the search for happiness.

When Jeffrey's wife starts climbing the corporate ladder, he begins to feel neglected. Then, his best friend talks him into trying out a harmless affair until his wife turns her attention back on their marriage. Sean, however, soon learns that nothing is harmless and sets out to get things back to normal with his wife.

A two-part documentary story about Latvian theater prima donna actress Lilita Bērziņa and her century. An attempt to answer the question: how did time and people shape their idols? On the one hand, she was a darling of the public and a model citizen, whose political naivety is still the subject of backstage anecdotes. On the other hand, a tragic personality with an unsuccessful marriage and an unfulfilled personal life.

Nobody Knows is a short poetic video that eloquently hints at a few inner thoughts of a solitary young woman. Shot in 2 toy camera formats, the Lomographic 35mm Supersampler and the Intel Play Digital Movie Creator, Nobody Knows embraces alternative photography in both the celluloid and the digital realms.

Zohra, a single mother, struggles to balance her work as a housekeeper with raising her three children. On her first day off, she discovers that her eldest son and daughter have been lying to her for a long time...

Sylvester finally ate Tweety at Halloween night, but there are nightmares that haunt him.

A young girl is trying to relate to her grandmother's death which quickly becomes more than a personal loss.

Jon has been dumped by his girlfriend, which has led to extensive partying and he’s now broke. After a party one night, his mate Kurt suggests he sell more furniture to strengthen his financial situation.

Tang's student film While You Sleep (2002) was the first short film by a Singaporean filmmaker to be selected in the Venice Film Festival.

Is the path I am walking on now part of a dream or reality? This is the first animation film that is largely motionless.

National treasure Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong has been performing for most of his 91 years, ever since his father carved his first fiddle from a wooden crate. For two decades he has shared a life of creativity and feisty humor with artist Barbara Ward. Together they undertake a bittersweet journey to rediscover the past, and their place in it.

A film by Masakatsu Takagi

This fascinating film depicts the Taigana, an unusual tribe of nomads living in the mountainous Hovsgol region of Mongolia, near the Siberian border. Nomadism has deep spiritual meaning for the Taigana; their annual migration represents the cyclical nature of life to them and has profound sacred meanings. All their activities are dictated by the world of the spirits. They believe the valleys and mountains are inhabited by their forefathers and by the Supreme Divinity.The Taigana are entirely dependent on their reindeer. They use the sturdy animals to move along the same paths their ancestors did for hundreds of years. Each family owns ten to seventy reindeer which provide most of the diet of the Taigana. The meat is dried and preserved while the milk is used for drinking and making cheese. The skin is utilized to make clothing for the extremely cold winter.

A bachelor's thesis created at the Department of Acting Direction. A silent film about two people who, although separated by only a few meters on their daily morning bus ride to work, must overcome a much greater distance when they decide to get closer.

In December 2001, as American forces blasted mountain hideouts in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan, hundreds of Al Qaeda soldiers fled seemingly disappearing into thin air.

In Africa, two occidentals, a man and a woman, with totaly different minds, are obliged to make a long trip together in a cab.

Poe's poem told with stop-motion animation.

A fragment of tinted nitrate. An acetate recording of a wedding ceremony. Echoes of the bitter sweetness of the Spirit on the tongue of Man. As Frampton tipped his hat to Gloria, so might I.

Urban everyday life, repetition as a way of life in a world overloaded with information where the return to synthesis is a necessity for the creator.

Through the narration of my family's history, it delves into the memory of the recent emigration from the spanish state to Europe, and reflects on the mechanisms of oblivion and remembrance, by recuperating the idea of the construction of memory as a nexus and a dialogue, and the elabo ration from personal experience against the idea of an official history and memory, restricted to the institutional and articulated around the aesthetici-sation and the deactivation of the political subjects.

A Film by Oriol Sanchez

In 1975, Annie Mae Pictou Aquash, a 30-year-old Nova Scotia born-Mi'kmaq, was shot dead, execution style, on a desolate road in South Dakota. Nearly three decades later the crime remains a mystery. Aquash was highly placed in the American Indian Movement (AIM), a radical First Nations organization that took up arms in the 1970s to fight for the rights of their people. The Spirit of Annie Mae is the story of Aquash's remarkable life and her brutal murder. It is a moving tribute from the women who were closest to her: the two daughters who fled with their mother when she hid from the FBI; the young women she inspired to embrace Native culture; and the other activists, including Buffy Sainte-Marie and investigative journalist Minnie Two Shoes, who stood in solidarity with her. All are still trying to understand why she met such a violent death. Follow them on their journey as they celebrate the life of a woman who inspired a generation of Indigenous people.

Ricco is the last film of Swiss-American director Mike Wildbolz, who died shortly before its release at age 55. Strangely enough, the subject of Wildbolz's documentary also died relatively young, the painter Erich "Ricco" Wassmer (1915-1972). Perhaps because it was prophetic, or because Wildbolz sensed his fate and truly identified with Ricco, the life of the artist is related with a captivating poignancy, from his privileged but troubled childhood in Germany, to his artistic triumphs in Bern, to his career-wrecking imprisonment on the charge of immorality, ending with his life-draining illness in France. Wildbolz portrays Ricco as a victim throughout, a man misunderstood by bourgeois society and despised for his pursuit of exotic experiences (which, by the way, included an obsession with naked boys).

A short parody of Das komabrutale Duell directed by Heiko Fipper.

Bahman Kiarostami's charming documentary about mourners-for-hire who are called upon to attend funerals in Iran. With an understated, lighthearted style, Tabaki provides a fascinating view of a peculiar occupation within this religious culture, offering, in the process, an insightful portrait of the society as a whole.

People embarking on a small boat - the bustle and confusion of it. A walk and a song. A villiage square, men with coffee, women with children, and old man by himself. A painterly use of film grain.

They're Jewish, they're grandmothers, and they're lesbians. But they're also so much more, as you'll find out in Deborah Dickson's powerful and intimate documentary. Ruth Berman and Connie Kurtz first met in Brooklyn in 1959, both young married women raising their young children. Becoming fast friends, they soon both moved with their families near Coney Island, where they became active community leaders. Then, in 1974, something incredible happened - they fell in love.

Cuervo Jones is a low level ‘gangsta’ who dreams of one day becoming a rap star. When a powerful drug lord’s cocaine is stolen and his girlfriend is caught cheating, all guns point to Cuervo and a bounty is put on his head. Suddenly, the cops and the underworld are both out for the money the drug lord has put on Cuervo’s head. Dodging bullets, back-stabbing babes and boys in the hood, Cuervo makes his way through the strange menagerie of characters that populate the darkness Cuervo finds himself in. Together, Cuervo and his homies use all of their skills to uncover who framed him. They must succeed or else it’s Rest In Peace Cuervo Jones!

Join catfishing legend and In-Fisherman Editor-In-Chief Doug Stange along with catfish expert and Catfish In-Sider Editor Steve Hoffman as they take you along for a Day On The River. Doug and Steve demonstrate their game plan for finding and catching flatheads.

the quarry is a silent document of five minutes in the presence of the sublime. This small, quiet 16mm film serves as a testament both to cinema’s failure to reproduce the lived moment and to its success in replacing that moment with one that is equally wondrous.

This animation is based on Stephen Coates composition under the same title. This film is about The Great Revolution of the British Cuckoos, who bravely took over London, forcing all the people to move inside the cuckoo clocks. Animation by Alex Budovsky. Music by "(The Real) Tuesday Weld."

This DVD puts you on the bike with eight different, exciting camera positions. With nearly 400 action shots, not only on the bike but also from trackside and high above the rider, you see correct and incorrect riding. Drawings, diagrams and computer animations and demonstrations bring your visualization of riding into a crystal clear understanding of cornering and braking. No one has taken more time and care in developing the cornering arts than California Superbike School Director Keith Code. "Ride for fun or ride for fame, cornering is still the name of the game," he says.

Since 1952 countless films, documentaries, and reports have been made about Miková, the small village in Eastern Slovakia with a population of one hundred and fifty from where Andy Warhol’s family emigrated to the US. Focussing on his relatives who still live there, I Am From Nowhere examines the media’s obsession with Miková, thus reflecting on fame, filming as well as being filmed, and on Warhol’s legendary “15 minutes of fame”. More than that however, it is a film about the dreams and hopes of the people there, about the universal human dream of a better life, and an “American Dream”, which turns out to be completely different than expected.

Story of a man who is obsessed with his stomach and how it gets in the way of his love, his dream and ultimately his life.

Angra: Rebirth World Tour movie was released Aug 26, 2006 by the Creative Sounds studio. Angra releases this live DVD recorded in their native Sao Paulo, Brazil after coming off the successful release of their comeback CD Rebirth.

Memories are very precarious: good memories can fade with time, while haunted ones remain. The Leaf, Not Yet Falling is a documentary of a young girl’s sweet childhood memories of her homeland, Laos, her bitter experiences under the communist government and the involvement of the American CIA during the secret air war era. It recaptures over two decades of experiences living in exile in the United States

Gregor Seyffert as Vaslav Nijinsky runs barefoot across frozen leaves at the beginning. Then he enters one of the empty, half-ruined halls on the grounds. The room is a metaphor for Nijinsky's body.

Part of the No Ghost Just a Shell series, this video installation brings philosophy into dialogue with the virtual character Annlee. Drawing on Belhaj‑Kacem’s Trickster Theory, the work positions Annlee as a “trickster” figure—simultaneously created and agentic, structured and subversive. The video examines identity, authorship, and the game-like dynamics of virtual existence, exploring how a character bound by commercial and artistic frameworks might assert a form of strategic freedom. Through sound, text, and visual minimalism, it turns Annlee’s supposed “shell” into a stage for critique, ambiguity, and philosophical inquiry.

Shortflim based in a story by Alejandro Dolina

Erin O'Connor explores the meaning of fashion consumption in a short performance film.

Using home movies, vintage memorabilia, and the straight facts about Saskatchewan, the filmmaker creates an eccentric portrait of the first year of his life, and the province that shaped his identity.

The story of the friendship of Tiara (Wani Siregar), Hans (David Hilman), Nina (Pingkan Machmud) and Jo (Chilia Djaya) who live in Melbourne, Australia. Their friendship changes when Tiara returns to Jakarta and leaves her boyfriend, Rama (Rahmat Dunggo). Jo and Rama have an affair. Tiara suddenly returned to Australia, then an argument broke out.

Fellow violinist and artist Tony Conrad, in collaboration with software engineer Tom Demeyer, made for Steina the instrument seen in this title. Conrad and the Vasulkas all taught at the University at Buffalo in the Media Study Department from 1976 to 1979.

The future of many developing countries is largely dependent on an institution which is already fifty years old, the World Bank. Criticized and questioned as to its utility, and confronted with numerous setbacks, the Bank is going through a perplexing time in regard to deciding what new strategies to adopt, especially in Africa. For fourteen months, Peter Chappel followed negotiations between the World Bank and Uganda in order to understand and describe the obscure and abstract mechanisms that shape the reality of North-South relations, as well as the future of millions of people.

A boy’s phantasmagoric world of heroes is captured in layers of light and hues. This video, humorously and poetically juggles ideas about make believe and representation of the everyday.

Interesting Times: The Secret of My Success is a 2002 Chinese documentary film by director Duan Jinchuan about China's contemporary politics of democracy and the realities of the one child policy. The director shows how this policy is being implemented in Fanshen, a rural village in Northeast China. The film is part of the series, called Interesting Times, which shows different aspects of modern life in China. The other films in the series are: The War of Love (dir. Duan Jinhuan and Jiang Yue), Xiao's Long March (dir. Wu Gong AKA Kang Jianning), and This Happy Life (dir. Jiang Yue). The documentary aired on TV in a shortened version with English narration (59 min.), but a longer version (71 min.) screened at some international festivals.

Dissipation, dissolution, changing states. It is easy to apply these concepts to something like water; much more difficult when considering emotion and family relationships.

The Breathers-In is a 16mm experimental narrative film in which two Victorian Sisters float through a post-industrial landscape of Loss and Alienation. Through the use of archetypal characters, silent-film aesthetics, and asynchronous sound, The Breathers-In produces a world in which established constructs of identity, race, and narrative itself are slowly splintered apart.