Cinematic Era: 2002 Vintage

2002, 11.5 min, 16mm-to-digital. With music by Enomoto Kenichi.

On a summer evening, a dance in the village brings together young and old. Children, lovers, drinkers and troublemakers all revel under the night sky, accompanied by a variety of musical styles.

Welcome to the over-the-top, extravagant world of Leigh Bowery, a key figure in New Romanticism and London nightlife in the 1980s. With his bizarre outfits, a mix of kitsch and fetish, and his eccentric performances, he influenced artists, musicians and stylists like Boy George, Lucian Freud (of whom he became the muse), Vivienne Westwood, Anthony and the Johnsons, John Galliano and David LaChapelle. Born in Australia into an intensely religious family and brought up in a Melbourne suburb, Leigh moved to London where he worked as a fashion designer and a promoter, and started the legendary disco club night "Taboo", the first outrageous polysexual party in London. The documentary offers a fully rounded portrait of this artist, including interviews with the people who knew him, who describe a complex, extreme, and ironic personality, a performer, actor and designer ahead of his time, from his difficult early life to international success, up to his death in 1994.

Anthology film containing three stories: In "Marisa," a woman's promise of love dissolves into a nightmare. In the meditative drama "His Life," we meet a man who has known his whole life he was to die on his 25th birthday. And in the terrifying horror picture "Haunted," a group of criminals are stalked by a murderous presence in a haunted hideout.

A man tries to break into an apartment

This show presents a tense and suspenseful atmosphere, revolving around the anticipation of a night train's departure. It explores themes of fate, mortality, and human confrontation with inevitable death. The characters are caught in moments of reflection and waiting, creating a haunting and thought-provoking mood throughout the performance

It's a movie from 2002.

"Dream about Poznań" is a computer-reconstructed film showing the streets of Poznań from a hundred years ago. Five parts of the film have been released so far. We can see the most important places in Poznań - including the fairgrounds, Chwaliszewo, the railway station, the neo-baroque cathedral, Garbary, Święty Marcin street, the Old Market Square and its surroundings, Plac Wolności, Aleje Marcinkowskiego...

In 2002, 20,000 members of the public cast their vote on what they saw as the locations everyone should visit at least once. The result is a definitive wishlist of global hotspots, presented by Craig Doyle. In addition to the top 50, four viewers file a report from their favourite place.

In Lights (Body), flashing lights in a busy nightclub are accompanied by the hypnotic dance beat "Don't Be Light (The Hacker Remix)," by the French duo Air. The ravers are out of sight, but specks of dust rising from their clothes and skin are visible in close-up shots of the beams of light. Like Tillmans's earliest photographs of nightclubs, the work presents the dance floor as a site of liberation and resistance, generated through experiments in representation and collective assembly. As Tillmans has noted, it is also "the venue for extreme beautiful abstraction." [Overview Courtesy of MoMA]

Starting from Sigmund Freud's definition of mourning and from Hannah Arendt's observation of the behavior of German intellectuals in 1933, Nurith Aviv lets her friends in Germany speak about what, according to them, has been irrevocably lost. In the background, a travelling shot of thirty minutes, a trip with the S-Bahn through Berlin, hometown of her Jewish ancestors.

Soon after Lynda Hart died on Dec. 31, 2000 from breast cancer; Stacey Foiles started writing letters to her beloved wife everyday. In July of 2001 she began this documentary as an extension of that dialogue. Using video, a medium at once grounded in the material world and allowing elusive access to fantasy and dreams, Since You've Been Gone chronicles the various universal stages of grief.

An investigation and study of the Yi ethnic minority's "Tiger Day" ceremony that applies the holistic principles of anthropological human research, while looking for the sociocultural causes of drug dependence behavior for local ethnic groups. The film establishes another methodology different from scientific methodology, that is, to defeat the addiction of human biology with the power of culture. "Tiger Day" changed the traditional characteristics of simple description and interpretation, and was involved in exploring the direct application purpose of the film and putting it into practice, thus opening up a new direction for film and television anthropology. Nominated for a Special Award at the 16th Belfast Public Health Conference Film Festival in 2005.

Faces of Death inspired "Voodoo" mondo

"In my impression, the sea is the most mysterious one. It is also the one that brings the greatest bondage to mankind. Hence the theme of my second film, people living on islands. We chose Penglai, Shandong, chartered a boat, spent about a month running around the Changshan Islands, and finally chose the farthest island from the mainland. The population of the island is about 1,000, and there are many more Work from abroad. I have always believed that the most important part of a film should be people's lives, not the plot. The plot that is divorced from life is unbearable, and the reason why I like documentaries is precisely because of this preference. Human behavior dictates everything, and if you look carefully, you will discover the many details of life that make up our complex lives and hint at everything that has happened and will happen." --Douban

For more than four decades, David Robert Jones, alias Bowie, has established himself as a protean rock icon: an enigmatic, androgynous, pretentious, superhuman, magnificent creature... Christian Fevret, founder and former editor-in-chief of Les Inrockuptibles, conducted this rare interview, enriched with often unpublished archives, with the glam icon at the dawn of the millennium. It is a portrait that focuses on the 1970s, when the man with the mismatched eyes flirted more with the fringe and the avant-garde than with the global hits of the 1980s, such as Let's Dance.

Less Than Jake concert film.

Documentary about people with uncontrollable anger and the outlets they find for it.

Full of expectations and ambitions, 17-year-old Bjarte Agdestein sacrificed everything to become a professional football player. Twelve years later, he feels that life has passed - without even noticing

Sarah Jacobson goes bra shopping with her mother soon after finishing her feature film, Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore.

In an environment coloured with talcum powder, the Soldiers of Conception escort a Child-Judge as he walks backwards across the set. When he bumps into the Tables of the Law, reality is overturned and all interiors becomes exterior.

A homage to Barbara Hammer's splendid and sexy "Dyketactics." Begs the question: so what ARE those faggots doing on the train tracks?

Camera Edit, with Ambient Sound and Radio Frequencies. Captured in location. Shortwave radio signals. KHz Range: 5000-8000 AM SW.

Recorded at Irving Plaza, New York City, on March 13, 1982. This rare 1982 concert video showcases rough-and-tumble rocker (and former New York Doll) Johnny Thunders performing a set of the songs that shot him to punk notoriety, including "In Cold Blood," "Too Much Junkie Business" and "Alone in the Crowd." Thunders and his backing band also treat their New York audience to "Sad Vacation," "Who Needs Girls," "Pipeline," "Born to Lose," "Just Another Girl" and "Baby I Love You, Really I Do."

A TV comercial making of.

This definitive biography features an extensive personal interview (recorded just a year before his death) in which James recalls the major stages of his career and is combined with exciting archival material.

Ear-splitting improvisational noise sculpture and Christianity aren't normally mentioned in the same breath. But they are the twin passions of North Carolina musician Scotty Irving, and the essential elements of his one-man act, Clang Quartet. Using homemade instruments achieving unfathomable volumes (and inspired by Biblical verse), Irving challenges his audience to rethink traditional ideas of music and spirituality. When Irving's motivations for walking so far out on musical and theological limbs are revealed, the "Armor of God" becomes a metaphor for the courage to create. Armor of God screened at more than eighty festivals and cinema venues internationally, winning nine awards (including a Juror's Citation from the Black Maria Film and Video Festival). The film also screened on regional PBS.

A young woman loses her soul as she sleeps, and feels less alive each day. With the help of a young man's ghost and an old curandera, she finds her way back from being in between life and death.

It is the year 2124, and the crew of a medical transport ship are carrying dangerous cargo to its destination. The contents, though mostly unknown, are rumored to be viral in nature, and must not be let out under any circumstances. But when a leak occurs, the ship, as well as the crew, is at risk of being destroyed. With only two robotic space suits and limited ammo, can they escape in time, or are their fates sealed?

You See Me Laughin' is a personal journey into the lives and music of the last of the hill country bluesmen who've kept their music alive on the back porches and in the tiny juke joints of the Mississippi backwoods.

In December 1927, a funeral car arrived in Leningrad, at the Moscow railway station. It brought an urn with the ashes of academician Vladimir Bekhterev and a glass jar with the brain of a scientist hidden from the public eye. Just a few days before, he had gone to Moscow for a congress of psychiatrists. However, according to a telegram recently found in the archives of the Leningrad Institute of the Brain, Professor Bekhterev was urgently summoned to Moscow by the Council of People's Commissars. The last time he was summoned to the Kremlin was three years earlier to see the seriously ill Lenin. To whom was this urgent call? What happened on that mysterious night before Christmas? And are there any documents about the illness and death of Academician Bekhterev?

Created with the ‘anamorphic Boyétizeur’, built in 1974, this experimental video offers an alternative representation of the human face as an anthropological source of story-telling, imagination, and emotion. Set to profound music, it offers a hyper-sensitive vision of the living.

Several characters visit a gay bar before it opens for 'Foucault Night'.

Selection of videos from F Communications artists including Llorca, The Youngsters and label head Laurent Garnier.

July 11, 2002 E-Werk Cologne, Germany

Documentary about Li Ying's film FLYING FLYING.

"McQuilkin presents a sex-tape, of a sort. Her face is tightly framed by the camera, she applies make-up while in the midst of the experience described by the title, so hyper-focused on her image that she cannot let go." - CA Belgium

A journey around the UK showcasing Norton motorcycles and their owners

A journey across the UK to showcase Triumph motorcycles and their owners

A lonesome Baboon has been assigned to live on the moon and light it every evening. Once his daily duty is performed he takes out his trumpet, playing a sonata to the Earth he loves and misses.

Marko is an 11-year-old boy who would like to be like a cloud.

Early 2000s sleazebag explorations of lower Manhattan.

Cantor reimagines Kenneth Anger’s Invokation of My Demon Brother (1969) as if it were a paean to Hindu goddess of destruction Kali instead of Lucifer. In Cantor's take, Anger's hypermasculine imagination of the occult is replaced by that of an ironic depiction of female "hysterics"; a romantic strings section sweeps over the Mick Jagger Moog soundtrack; and Anton LeVay and Bobby Beausoleil are replaced by Sissy Spacek in Carrie and Christine Noonan in Lindsey Anderson’s if….

For more than 15 years, people of the valley have resisted a series of massive dams on their river, and in their struggle have exposed the deceptive heart of India’s development politics. The struggle has forged unusual alliances.

A short documentary about sweatshops and their working conditions in India.

Documentary on Rotterdam artist Co Westerik, who died in September 2018. In this film, Jan Wouter van Reijen explicitly rejects the traditional form of the artist portrait. Instead he searches for a different, creative way of illuminating the motivations, themes and emotions underlying Westerik’s paintings.

F.I.R.T 119 is a tribute to the Earth's Southmost railway in Argentina. The austere image, under the strong impulse of the piano score, captures the intensity of sooty coal trains.

Salad Days, noun: a time of youthful indiscretion and delinquency What really are the salad days? TGR answers with the tightest in jib style and culture. Check it: backcountry air, cliffs, rails, urban, pipe, and more. Witness skiing’s new generation experience the sessions they wish would last forever. These are the happy days, the salad days as they say, when the boys are green in judgment, cold in blood.

Jack is a martial arts-trained cop who is working hard to restore his neighborhood back to its glorious past. But a local mob boss called Blades makes it worse when he decides to target a small store owned by Jack's family. Taking matters into his own hands, Jack uses unorthodox methods to ensure Blades' imprisonment. While in jail, the jaded kingpin uses his time to plot revenge against Jack and the whole community. Who will be the victor?

Berg has just come to Kuala Lumpur and agrees to share a room with Andrew. He meets the other occupants of the house, including the ghost of a murdered girl and a struggling screenwriter whose wife works as a hooker. He also finds out about the mysterious disappearance of an artist who had been a previous tenant. Berg himself is plagued by inertia and the memory of a lost love, and needs to reconcile this with his new life in the city.