Cinematic Era: 2002 Vintage

It's a movie from 2001.

A 2002 interview with John Vaccaro, founder of the Playhouse of the Ridiculous, recalling the actors’ walkout during rehearsals of The Conquest of the Universe, and his friendship with Charles Ludlam. The Theater of the Ridiculous was a radical theater genre that embodied queer, the word and the act, and set the embers of Gay Liberation aflame.

Insight into the lives of horse-drawn travellers over the stormy motorway mountains and into the village of Durisdeer in Dumfries.

Profiles of children addicted to extreme sports, focusing on three youngsters as their fathers take them in search of the ultimate adrenaline rush.

The lives and on-field antics of those in charge of some of Scotland's most popular football club mascots.

Glasgow has streets full of tanning salons which service the Glaswegian desire for glamour. We take a look at the peely-wally Scots obsession with having sun kissed brown, or orange, skin.

A CGI Animated short film by Bruce Monahan

A CGI Animated short film by Bruce Monahan

The desire to own and name land and the pleasures of seeing from a distance color this personal survey of the history of mapmaking in the New World.

A stripper-centric workout video focused as much on flexibility as tone.

Time-lapse footage of the demolition of Chicago's most notorious tenement.

A romantic essay on a modern Icarus and his metal flying angel. Some call it freedom, some call it flying saucers, some call it insane, some call it living, some are seen dying, some call it flying, some call it heaven, some call it hell.

Animated film by Ying Tan.

We experienced in the past an era when life was full of revolution and fighting, when class struggle dominated society. In modern-day China, we rarely witness such battles, but the struggle continues. In the commercial society we now live in, money has become the dictator ruling people's lives. It has become fashionable to pursue wealth. Desire leads us into a new battle, a whirlpool from which it is impossible to escape. And in this endless struggle puts a heavy burden on our emotions.

Those who care Faith and Healing in a Ladakhi Village This film gives an insight into the daily life and work of the traditional healer Amchi Smanla Tsering and his wife Tsering Dolma. They live in the Tibetan Buddhist village of Tia in a remote valley in Ladakh. Smanla is not only a healer, but also a farmer and this film shows how he combines these activities during the intensive harvest months. Very often the Amchi is the only person the villagers can turn to for medical or mental help. He also gives advice on important community matters. The Amchi's way of treatment and diagnosis is based on Tibetan medicine. Most important is the questioning, the feeling of the pulse and the observation of the tongue and eyes.

This documentary offers a rare glimpse into a way of life that is often overlooked. By understanding the Bakkarwals, we gain insights into the broader human experience of adaptation, survival, and cultural preservation. Perfect for those interested in anthropology, cultural studies, and the diverse tapestry of human societies.

The year is 2065. At Meditech, illegal genetical experiments are carried out on human beings in order to produce a super creature. But the creature escapes...

On Thursday, jurors in Rensselaer County Court left behind no doubt who they believe was responsible for the massacre. They found Mosley, 41, of Averill Park, guilty of first-degree murder for the brutal killings of 18-year-old Arica Lynn Schneider and Samuel "Frost" Holley, 27, in January 2002.

Archie McNally is known as the greatest Pittsburgh Steelers fan ever because of his daring exploits during the 1979 AFC Championship game when – using a suit of his own construction – he attempted to fly to heaven to visit his dead father.

A young boy goes outside to search for a rooster that has been switched to a neighbor's. and upon his return, an unwelcome guest awaits him.

Business at the Danasco Typing Company is looking up when mad scientist Dr. Charles Metzenbeamer successfully genetically mutates a human being with a worker bee, therefore creating the perfect employee for Danasco – an employee who toils endlessly and asks no questions. To help Mr. Hives blend in with his human co-workers, Dr. Metzenbeamer has dressed him in a suit and slapped a fake moustache and toupee on him. It works, nobody notices that Mr. Hives has an enormous bee head or is chained down to his desk to keep him from attacking everyone in the office. Stacey, a Danasco employee, takes a liking to Mr. Hives, but Dr. Metzenbeamer discourages any interaction with the worker bee, at least until he can squelch its killer instinct. But curiosity turns to obsession and Stacey finds herself neglecting her long-time boyfriend, Joe, to come face to face with a killer monstrosity

This abstract film/musical composition conjures an atmosphere in which an aerial mobile is magically suspended in three-dimentional space. The floating pendants of the mobile each reveal a mysterious world filled with unique visual and aural forms, movements and gestures. The visuals have been created using hand-cut animated mattes in combination with hand-painted and etched clear and black 35 mm motion picture film. These images were then digitalized, visually transformed and manipulated, composited and post produced. The computer-generated music consists of continuous variations and transformations of a seemingly simple but open-ended harmonic theme that caroms through many key centers. However, this theme takes shape gradually, and is heard most clearly in a choral setting only after all five «protagonists» of the work have been introduced.

Dimensional Holofonic Sound (D.H.S.)

King Daha calls on Master Warrior Baraba, whose son, Bahwula, is due to marry the witch's daughter Ratna, in the hope that they can steal the Book of Lontar and defeat Calon, a black magic witch who creates a severe drought in the Kingdom of Airlangar, in order to take over the throne.

A film by Masakatsu Takagi.

A film by Masakatsu Takagi.

Just about anybody and anything can dance – even traffic lights!

Bugs Bunny wants Satellite Sam to build a network anyplace that is not his home.

Documentary about the Basque survivors of the Nazi holocaust. It tells the story of some Basque republicans who ended up in the hands of the Third Reich with first-person testimonies.

A Kazakh bride wanders around the streets of Almaty.

I find pornographic magic lantern slides when I get home. I put them in front of my TV and record them. Thanks to Agathe Dreyfus.

A video by Monica Petracci and Silvia Bottiroli

Brazilian short film

Coal Bucket Outlaw is a documentary that asks Americans to look at where our energy comes from at a time when coal still produced over half of our nation's electricity, and reveals the human and environmental price we pay for our national addiction to fossil fuels. Built around a day in the life of a Kentucky coal truck driver, the film brings viewers into the cab of the truck and into the lives of the people who live and work by coal haul roads for a truly wild ride. A veteran driver who owns his own truck, and a young family struggling to pay the bills guide the audience along one-lane roads, up tight hollows, onto strip mines, and around coal processing facilities, while discussion of coal’s role in providing our nation with electricity connects the lives of these truckers to the lives of everyone in America.

The third special edition of the popular horror series. Five new episodes of supernatural phenomena are thoroughly examined by a psychic medium.

The dramatic story of a young boy who comes to Neryungri to meet his father, who left him as a child

The film chronicles the journey of a middle-aged man who is bored with his humdrum life, goes out to start his own business, and makes his way in the world. But he returns to the original life in the end.

Dance, Voldo, Dance is a machinima-based music video produced in 2002 by Chris Brandt. The video, created using the fighting game Soulcalibur, features two players both controlling the character Voldo, using existing in-game animation to have the characters perform a synchronized dance to the song "Hot in Herre" by musician Nelly. The result of over a week's full-time preparation and training, the video was conceived after Brandt noticed the character's animations and attacks could be triggered in sync with the beat of a song, and the reactions of onlookers to such a display. While several groups demonstrated interest in showcasing the video, complications arose from the copyright holders whose works were involved in creation.

Madeleine Parent's history

A documentary on Empower Field at Mile High, the Denver, CO stadium where the Denver Broncos play.

Discourse on Films is a documentary treating a new field of Icelandic culture, that is film history. Thorgeir Thorgeirson - a recipient of the honorary Edda (Award of The Icelandic Film Academy) "for his contribution to film production and general film culture in Iceland" comments on trends and tendencies of the local film industry, from the so called pioneers - as the first semi professional amateurs generously have been named - up to the more recent production of feature films. With professional skill and a clear dissident's mind Torgeirson is able not only to analyze Icelandic film history but also to sketch up a friendly-ironical picture of the “dress up society" in general.

Veteran experimental filmmaker Mary Filippo tackles issues of work, class and gender roles in this visually captivating and provocative autobiographical piece. At the core of this engaging autobiographical film is an interview with Filippo’s mother, as she recounts incidents of exploitation and gender discrimination she experienced working in jewelry factories in the 1940’s and 50’s. The filmmaker contrasts her mother’s quiet acquiescence with her own attitudes about the social injustices of her culture through a striking montage of images and audio clips - moving the viewer to consider connections between consumerism and global labor practices, motherhood, money and happiness. While her mother's attitude toward the social injustices she endured is one of resignation, Filippo’s is one of assumed but uncollected responsibility.

Maleness and femaleness are not antonyms but indication of a fundamental human lack.

The most beautiful & dangerous woman in European cinema in a dance performance of epic proportions.

The “Batingaw” is a short film about a man who is in search of oneself. It is a story of a man who is looking for the perfect place where he can be genuinely free, serene, and happy; but ends up, to the same, where plastics, bottles, broken vessels, empty containers and the like stops. It is a place where the people, who live there, rely on the wastes of Metro Manila. (source: Mike Gallego)

Stretching along the River Seine, Evry Ville Nouvelle is one of those utopian towns created by town-planners and architects, where habitat, work and leisure are mixed together so as to promote social contact and community life. However, recession soon puts a term to ambitions. Certain districts turn into ghettos, catchment areas for a poor and marginalised population with little hope of finding a job or fitting into society. The film explores life in the Pyramides district, following the 402 bus route through the town and other "difficult" districts. Buses passing through their territory are one of the teenagers' favourite targets. Given the rise of sometimes violent fighting, the local public transport service (the TICE) has organised a prevention network involving the district's inhabitants. For these mediators, dialogue and prevention are the only arms possible when dealing with youngsters who feel that they live "in the outer zone"

What about that? The sex is over and the here's the thing that's too absurd... An amazing sex parade!! If you look...

A young woman tries a new drug and goes on a bad trip.

Aamakaar tells the story of preservation. This film depicts the struggles of a small fisihing village in North Kerala that is fighting the assault on its estuary by sand mining. The villagers are also engaged in the conservation of Olive Ridley turtles that have come to their beach to nest. They make a connection between a species fast becoming extinct and the fate of a community that could face displacement.