Cinematic Era: 2002 Vintage

A film by Masakatsu Takagi

Tum is colorblind. One day he meets a girl who change his sight.

To understand Detroit's passion for the game of hockey one needs look no further than the ice at Joe Louis Arena. There inscribed in bold letters is one word, "Hockeytown".

Unwound had their last show and broke up on April Fools' Day in 2002. Live in Thekla, Olympia, Washington.

The First Windsors

"Elusive and compelling, Have a Nice Day Alone is surpassingly strange, even for Leslie Thornton, an acknowledged genius of the unexpected. The entire spatial field of the film is activated by a technological nervous twitch, a bizarrely beautiful and hypnotic pulsing. The image shrinks, flows, collapses, seeming to follow some strange and hidden agenda. There is a text about speech on screen, visible through the pulse. In the background, extreme forms of vocalization, yodeling and macabre laughter punctuate the visual space. As the image flutters, a robotic voice speaks about various conditions of speech. Language is dislocated.It is unclear whether the voice mimics or generates the text." (Thomas Zummer)

Enter a child’s play house and sit down. A small girl appears. Engage with her at your own risk.

Maurice Béjart is widely regarded as a master of modern dance, capable of fusing the classical and the unconventional with remarkable success.

“I met Jean Lambert one year after my arrival in Bénouville, in 1992...Before we met, I used to see his house, his farm, and wondered who could be living in such a mess, amidst such neglect. I had prowled around a lot before approaching him, for months. The day I decided to go and see him on the pretext of buying milk, I cycled from Bénouville with my empty milk bottles. On the way, the police stopped me to ask where I was going. What a coincidence! Jean Lambert gave me the milk, pointing out that there were other farms closer to where I lived. The most difficult step had been taken…I went back to have dinner with him once a week. I’d arrive around 7pm and leave around two or three in the morning, always on my bike, often drunk…Later, I suggested that we make a film. He found the idea amusing, even though he mistrusted cinema. ‘You’re wasting your time, poetry is the only good thing. He died in April, the year of the eclipse….I finished the film I’d begun with him, without him"

A portrait of the filmmaker's father, an American businessman on a quest for money and women in modern Moscow.

The life story of two generations of rural grassroots cadre.

Film made with analog 35mm photo camera framed vertically. The sound that arises is caused by the image extending over the optical sound track. The content focuses on the descent made from a building in the Plaza de España in Madrid, honoring the great Spanish filmmaker Iván Zulueta. — AP

Gern Fletcher is stuck in the middle of a boring and dull life - void of creativity, color or energy. Tonight, though teased with assured instant relief from his doldrums, his logic pulls him into the restroom to 'think about it'. So begins the classic battle of heart and mind. This short film was inspired by the rock band Rush's 1978 album of the same title.

One day, somewhere in the vastness of space... A parody of the Oscar-nominated German puppet animation "Quest"? "Any similarities with other films are purely coincidental and unintentional."

Behind The Scenes and Video

A documentary about Áillohaš (Nils-Aslak Valkeapää), a musician, painter, and poet of the Sámi people in Finland.

Documentary about the so-called "Crazy Strike," a strike led by members of the Federation of Naval Construction Workers-Autonomous (FOCN) between October 1956 and November 1957, the largest strike by the Argentine working class in the 20th century.

Mexican feature film

The falling letters carry the story of a woman: love, marriage, childbirth. Everything gathers together like a dream. Her story, and the story of the lover she chose, are both written on her body. Fragments of life drift past her gently closed eyes, as she feels the shimmering light of her soul by the seaside.

STILL FRAMES is a laboratory film, conceived while I was finishing SARABAN. Indeed the two films were produced from the same images. The aim was not only to prove that the same source of image can generate two different films but also to highlight the incidence of light on color.

For a year at monthly intervals, Ute Aurand and Bärbel Freund filmed In the Garden, a lovely portrait of a Potsdam-Bornim garden designed in 1910 by gardener and philosopher Karl Foerster. An extraordinary variety of flora, natural lighting effects, textures and colors unfold in this gentle, expertly edited film, which forms a bridge between the natural world and the individual soul.

Manfred Binder, a loner, has been preoccupied with the future of our civilization for quite some time. He is interested in the impending climate changes. He presents his analyses with unmistakable charisma. From this, he develops ideas that are as compelling as they are imaginative: survival is possible thanks to a "survival capsule" he has built...

Mohamed D'abis worked as an assistant director and technician for many independent Lebanese filmmakers. In the winter of 2000, he left his home and never came back. His body was found months later inside an abandoned war-damaged building in Beirut. In this documentary, director Mohamed Soueid reflects on the life and death of his friend and frequent collaborator.

What really happened at the battle of Mazar I Sharif? Using footage of combat never seen before, award-winning filmmaker Paul Yule chronicles an extraordinary ten days in November 2001 that involved the US Armed Forces, the CIA, the British SAS, the Taliban, al Qaeda, the warlords of the Northern Alliance, the Red Cross and the western media.

I travelled across Mauritania to find a tree that I saw from my window in Belgium. It wasn't a mythical tree, but rather one that could be anywhere. On my way, I met men and women who shared their perception of this quest and in doing so, in a roundabout way they shared some of their visions of the world and of existence. For some, my tree was the sign from the spirits, of the invisible or a call from light. For others, it was the symbol of a history, a culture or the end of a period in time. For yet others, it was a tree that you see only when you get lost...

October 7, 2001, 6:27 p.m. local time: The first cruise missiles strike Kabul and other cities in Afghanistan. The documentary observes how this war affects the private lives of individuals in other parts of the world: In Paris, a couple's domestic bliss is disrupted, in New York a concert is canceled, and a South African miner works an extra shift. The film attempts to turn one of the basic tenets of chaos theory—that the flap of a butterfly's wings in China can cause a hurricane elsewhere—on its head.

We see the empty street outside the main gate of a Teheran University. Then we see several women, all of whom are wearing the traditional black chador, arrive one by one at the school. They enter the gate and congregate in the courtyard, where they wait for the scheduled time to take the school's entrance exam. While they wait, they converse among themselves or with the spouses or relatives who took them to the school. The film proceeds from one discussion to the next as we overhear people discuss both important and trivial matters that affect the lives of women in contemporary Iran. One woman mentions that she is waiting for her husband to pick up their baby from her so she can take the exam; others discuss their hopes and dreams, and there is some tension among some of the boys who are also hanging out there. Eventually it is time to take the exam, so the women leave the courtyard.

In the 1970s, a new protest movement burst into Israeli politics. Calling themselves the Black Panthers, this group of rebellious young Mizrahi men was intensely critical of racism and class bias within the Israeli establishment.

A struggle to hold on to the world, the various worlds we try to inhabit. Shot in the south of France during the fall of 2001.

Once upon a time there was a tick. A female tick that lived buried deep in the feathers of a Laysan Albatross. Together, they travelled across the sprawling north of the Pacific Ocean, between the Hawaiian and the Aleutian Island.

Against the bustling backdrop of Kuala Lumpur’s Chinatown, a Malay-Muslim narrator reminisces about a teenage relationship between himself and an ethnic Chinese classmate. Pangyau , the Cantonese word for friend, is not just the story of a close friendship, but a prism through which the writer gets to examine his feelings about the the ways in which race and religion have been used in the national socio-political discourse.

A few takes of Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, a scene from Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity, are the starting point for Picture Again: a woman and a man in a car, the murderess and her prey. The images in this sequence are accompanied and superimposed by documentary street scenes from Berlin and Madrid. A few birds flutter like birds of prey through an old horror film. Picture Again values a thorough structuralist formation, musical rhythm of the images, without refraining from the ecstatic.

"Highly idiosyncratic and deeply creepy, this series as a whole – which includes passages in both film and video, sometimes shown concurrently – represents the most exciting recent work in the American avant-garde, a saga that raises questions about everything while making everything seem very strange." - Jonathan Rosenbaum

A Certain Love / Free Drinks and a Beer (A Vegas Story) / The Wall of Heaven / If You Loved Here (You'd Be Home By Now) / In The Distance / The Great Divide / Wild Ride / Moses In The Desert / Bad Indigestion / Why Is The Devil Red? / Honeysuckle Rose / Breathe Deep / Joel

A candid look at the burgeoning punk rock scene in South Korea, focusing on the club and the bands that started the movement.

Formed in 1969, the band Nazareth hit the big time in 1973 with their breakout single "Broken Down Angel." This concert was filmed at London's Camden Palace in May 1985 and includes such tracks as "Hair of the Dog," "Razamanaz," ""Telegram," "I Want to Do Everything for You," "Boys in the Band," "Beggars Day," "This Flight Tonight," "Love Hurts" and many more!

Don't miss this compelling one-hour documentary about the vital role women played in putting an end to World War II by working for Canadian spymaster William Stephenson -- a.k.a. "the Man Called Intrepid."

A band of friends endure much suffering while trying to achieve their dreams of becoming music superstars.

A struggling actor takes a job as a Santa to make ends meet. During his voyage from aspiring actor to Santa-provocateur, he finds bittersweet romance and reveals the dark side of Santa Claus.

A young female phallophile blurs the line between food and sex for her unsuspecting boyfriend.

Terra Incognita is a lensless film whose cloudy pinhole images create a memory of history. Ancient and modern explorer texts of Easter Island are garbled together by a computer narrator, resulting in a forever repeating narrative of discovery, colonialism, loss and departure.

This is a great concert dvd if you like Juvenile's music and St Louis rap sound made famous by Juve and Nelly. He actually performs all his hit songs on this dvd. What is really cool is that this was filmed in St. Louis - Juvenile's hometown. So the crowds are very wild and energetic. Plus, the show actually includes footage from two diferent concerts so you get alot of exciting crowd participation. You can see how much they love Juvenile in St. Louis.

Yazid and Yati are best friends since childhood. As adults they equally served as a caddy at the Golf Club of smaller and less well known. Privately Yati actually had feelings of love for Yazid. In seconds Yati willing to express his feelings on Yazid , suddenly appeared Nor, a son of Dato ' a wealthy owner of a Golf Club in Kuala Lumpur . One day Nor Yazid and his father was invited to become amateur golfers in their club . Yazid could not refuse the invitation because Nor beauty captivated him and become a professional golfer is a dream. Then play a bigger club in Kuala Lumpur is a golden opportunity for Yazid. Yati was not willing to see the migration Yazid there alone , and he strives to be chosen there. The fact Yazid also require him to Kuala Lumpur Yati as Yati was the inspiration for this . In Kuala Lumpur , Yazid living with Amri , a caddy who was initially considered a freak Yazid .

Christiane Raetsch (Mira Gittner) and Sandra Wolf (Marina Anna Eich) write a book about the “world of magic”. At an esoteric summer workshop, they meet three other women and decide to work together on the project, with each woman delving into a special area: shamanism, witchcraft, ritual magic, sexual magic, geomancy. They all try to influence reality through magical rituals and to handle their lives with esoteric practices. Christiane, the shaman, tries to find answers with psycho active drugs in the mist of other dimensions. Sandra, the witch, is searching for the man of her life, but the tarot cards always say “no” to the men she meets. A crazy comedy which spares no aspect of the “magical sciences”. A mean side blow to all hobby esoterics, who go to a workshop on the weekend and explain the world on the next day. But Magic always goes its own ways.

Mike's Drum-cam footage from Transatlantic's Bridge Across Forever recording sessions. Audio Options include: Full Band; Studio and an Audio Commentary with Mike. Tracks: Duel with the Devil Suite Charlotte Pike Bridge Across Forever Stranger in You Soul