Cinematic Era: 2003 Vintage

Film about the musical group La Orquesta Joven Sensación

A man, a woman and a road.

A no-budget tribute to 60s exploitation queen Doris Wishman and filmed in sordid black and white and searing colour, "Lesbo-A-Go-Go" follows the once-innocent Sugar on a wild psycho-sexual downhill spiral into degradation, drug addiction, delirium and ultimately damnation.

“Suddenly and sadly my dear friend Frances died. At that moment of loss I needed to hold on to her. The film is just that.” – Stephen Dwoskin.

A young man runs seemingly uncontrollably around in an urban environment. The film has video game form of narrative style.

An exploration into perceptual processes in the act of seeing and listening, Chiasmus takes film as a metaphor for the breathing body, through the intercrossing of the medium and the fragmented images of the body in movement. The rhythm and tension created by the interplay between sound and image, and their disjunction and conjunction, aspire to an organic and sensual moment where inside becomes outside, and outside inside.

Five people go to a former military barrack to play the Big Game. A game away from social norms and boundaries. They become more and more entangled in their own interpersonal games and are drawn into the insidious niche of their inner spaces.

Using a first-person narration, Snyder discusses her own experiences as a Chinese woman living in the United States. She uses experimental superimpositions, archival photographs, and other stylistic elements to explore her personal history. Due to a painful condition in her hands, Snyder has recently switched from sculpture to digital media projects.

"I was intrigued by Sonny Palmer after seeing his name printed in the concert programme, along with the piece he was going to play, 'Midnight Movie'. Something made me decide to record his performance. I was really glad that I did." Ben Sadler

The Long Road to Cabo is a delightful documentary about rock & roll fellowship, featuring Sammy Hagar as the founder of a summer-long feast of heavy metal, Van Halen memories, and many bared female bosoms (in Hagar's audiences, that is). Looking more like a mellow, mid-life surfer than hairy rock icon from the 1980s, the ever-expansive Hagar leads the Waboritas through a long, hot 2002 tour, sharing a bill with David Lee Roth, Hagar's co-outcast from Van Halen. Despite their shared ignominy, Roth rebuffs Hagar's efforts at collaboration, or at least camaraderie, resulting in a competitive and entertainingly catty atmosphere.

Documentary that reviews the filmography of Francisco Lombardi.

Lou and Thomas search for a quiet corner along an idyllic river to have their picnic. But right from the get go, something doesn't quite feel right. For Lou, the uneasiness slowly transforms into a nightmare.

A study of the short films made in Carlton during the Sixties, when film makers like Graeme Cutts, Peter Fisher, Geoff Gardner, Antony I. Ginnane contributed to a kind of Australian New Wave to match the revolution in theatre at La Mama. The influence of Jean Luc Godard is very evident.

Twenty-two minutes of costume noise from darling Texas transplants Tarantism, as kids staying up past their bedtime to do a little circuit-bending. A political campaign is launched, a Chinese Dinner Theatre/German Dark-Wave party is held, then 2 nuns beat a log to death! Two secret agents control the atmosphere in dark suits, the popular daytime cooking show "Let's Eat!" demonstrates how to fry Twinkies, and Silly Sammy wants to sell you some stereo equipment to go with your new personal comfort system. The 1-800-HOT-GIRLS are ready to party with you! Then it's back to the beach for some California Dreamin'

A young woman tries to understand the real circumstances of the death of her mother.

When young Stephen shows up in a khaki vest with a pair of binoculars and a yen to be a forest ranger, it's Barney's signal to take the crew to Camp WannaRunnaRound for some hiking, fishing and--of course--plenty of singing and dancing. Once out in the woods, the crew is joined by B.J. and Baby Bop for some catch-and-release fishing and a "Lake Medley." Next, Counselor Barney shows the kids how to set up a tent, pack for a day hike, and problem-solve when it comes to a fallen log. The hikers see a squirrel and a raccoon, sing the environment-friendly "Pick Up Your Part of the World," and end up around the campfire telling stories. When they get too scary for Baby Bop, the gang opts to listen to the sounds of insects instead. This 50-minute program satisfyingly sets up basic camp etiquette for either a structured facility or family outings. (Ages 2 to 6) --Kimberly Heinrichs

Majid Majidi’s emotional journey in the refugees camps of Afghanistan before and after the Taliban.

The film is about the complex, passionate and at the same time deeply respectful relationship between two genius directors, a teacher (Meyerhold) and a student (Eisenstein). In the most difficult conditions of the totalitarian regime, adherence to eternal values helped both defend their art and themselves in it, preserve honor and dignity. Their relationship, creative and everyday actions are not only an artistic, but also a moral testament to future generations.

Experimental 16mm short by Seiko Otobe.

For Eliot Ness, Al Capone was old news in 1935. It was Ness’ stint as Safety Director of Cleveland, and his face off with Cleveland’s Torso Murderer, that was plainly the defining episode in his career. The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run tore through the headlines of Cleveland’s daily papers for years, and this serial killer -perhaps America’s first of its kind- left behind a bloody birthright that haunts the city still.

Genesis P-Orridge: We used to just improvise at night, making up stories to each other. And so at some point we began making videos but when that one was done we don’t remember. It was completely made up on the spot. We were doing something else and then Jay just said, ‘Why don’t you do one of those weird women?’ ‘Okay.’ And made the story up out of nowhere.

A strange attractor is created when lovers synchronize their minds, bodies, and computers using botanical substances. An enchanted and skewed digital dream world, Strange Attractor inverts the Adam and Eve story and re-visions the Persian/Arabian tale of Layla and Majnun. Sufi love madness meets media prophecy.

Ruud van Nistelroy, Roy Keane, Ryan Giggs and the rest of the Manchester United stars teach you the skills that will help you play like a champion. Sir Alex Ferguson and the first team players guide you through the moves that have helped United crack the toughest F.A. Premier League defences. Along with the club’s Academy players, you can learn skills like the Flick Behind, the Step Over and the Roller Coaster. With unprecedented access – from the training ground to the heart of Old Trafford – you can find out what makes Manchester United one of the most exciting teams in the world. So take your game to the next level and learn to play like a champion.

Four interviews with homosexuals who are asked to talk about their sexual orientation, through their desires, their history, their feelings.

Positive and negative collide. An open space emerges.

The ‘Group B’ International Motorsports Category was conceived in the late seventies as a return to the ‘good old days’ when amateur and factory teams alike could run the same production-based cars in either sports car racing or championship rally events. By the early eighties the class had become the ‘Godzilla’ of the rally scene and what resulted were the most awesome cars ever seen on the rally stages of the world - 600 horsepower, 4WD, turbocharged monsters that could cover forest, tarmac or gravel stages faster than anything ever seen before or since. In 1986 the door was slammed shut on the F1 cars of mountain and forest roads. Faster and faster cars combined with wilder and crazier crowds meant that within the confines of rally car competition the group B rocket ships were just “too fast to race”. The legacy of Group B, however, is a whole range of spectacular cars that continue to thrill enthusiasts. Includes awesome action footage and stunning close ups.

2003 release

Alice is the daughter, the ‘oriental pearl’, of filmmaker Nicole Giguère. ‘Big Noses’ is the familiar Chinese term for Westerners such as Nicole. In the late 1980s, Quebec led the way in adopting children from The People’s Republic of China. Since then, over 5,000 Chinese children, mostly girls, have found a home in Quebec. This documentary follows Alice over a span of ten years, as she and many of her friends face the challenges of growing up in a white world. The one hour program presents Big Nosed parents and their Chinese daughters, sharing their love, concerns and expectations as they learn to adopt each other. Members of Quebec’s long established Chinese community also express their views on this emotional and sometimes controversial issue. The film is a portrait of an ever-changing world, and shows how the presence of so many new Quebecers with almond-shaped eyes can contribute to the evolution of our society.

Filmed during MISIA's "The Tour of MISIA 2003" live concert tour that covered 10 cities, giving 20 shows. Songs center around her album "Kiss in the Sky."

Can Los Angeles of the 30’s be effectively placed alongside modern 21st century Los Angeles? As a true experiment, Awake and Sing mixes periods and genres taking pleasure not in easy solutions, but in the search for a form or way of telling that has to be tried out, discovered.

Aquarius is a film about horoscopes and hope, and coping with everyday life.

2003 Sam Taylor-Wood video art work featuring a tap dancer

Documentary tells the story of Maxim Vakhmin, a veritable alleycat of a man. Revered as both an angel and a devil, Maxim (once known as a successful artist in his native Russia) is losing friends and finding new ones as a homeless person in the USA.

History of the Green Bay Packers explores the rich and mythical story of this proud franchise, from its founding days in the Green Bay Press-Gazette building, to its most recent NFL Championship amidst the glitz of New Orleans, to its becoming one of the most beloved sports teams of the new millennium. *The Ice Bowl is generally regarded as the most dramatic game in NFL history, and yet does not fully exist anywhere on network videotape. Utilizing its unique resources, NFL Films painstakingly reconstructed the game and all its subplots from whistle to gun. Thousands of feet of film were catalogued to piece together the game, much of it never broadcast previously. 2 Disc DVD set includes: The Complete History of the Green Bay Packers; The Ice Bowl; Special Features: Packers Follies; The Lambeau Leap; Packers Fans; Lambeau Field; Willie Wood; Super Bowl XXXI; Weather Theater; Willie Davis; Don Meredith.

The yearly gathering at the Catherdral of St. John the Divine, shot in 16mm black and white. Cats, dogs, and perhaps a lamb, get blessed.

Insane Clown Posse fans are sure to enjoy this outrageously awesome concert recorded live in Las Vegas Hemp Festival. Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope rock the house with such hit songs. Always looking to start some trouble and incite mayhem, these Detroit-born, out-of-control performers get their army of loyal fans pumped up by spraying them with Faygo.

Excerpts from the novel Donna di Messina (1949 and 1964, 1967) by Elio Vittorini (1908-1966).

In Dr. Wayne Dyer's public television special, taped live in front of a thousand fans in Boston's historic theater district, he transforms conventional thinking about making things happen in our lives into a profound understanding of how each person possesses the infinite potential and power to co-create the life he or she desires. To accomplish this, Dr. Dyer takes the audience through a journey into the seven faces of intention - 1: creativity, 2: kindness; 3: love, 4: beauty, 5: expansiveness, 6: abundance, and 7: receptivity. Throughout the program, Dr. Dyer illustrates his points with signature stories that move the audience to tears--as well as abundant laughter.

Os Paralamas do Sucesso Uns Dias Ao Vivo é o título do lançamento de uma das bandas pop-rock mais respeitadas do país. Reunindo o melhor do repertório do grupo e contando com várias participações especiais. O show, gravado em novembro de 2003, no Olympia, em São Paulo, mostra a banda em um dos seus melhores momentos.

This compilation is comprised of a series of musical performances by some of the greatest names in rock history including a half-dozen appearances by Elvis Presley as well as songs by The Beatles, Sly & the Family Stone, and "The Killer" Jerry Lee Lewis.

An Albanian father and son flee war-torn Macedonia in search of a better future in Italy. Once in Venice, the father makes the most painful decision of his life.

In this instructional program, self-defense expert JimWagner teaches viewers basic handgun techniques for protection and defense. In addition to gun safety and shooting, lessons explain how to conduct an in-home drill for practice using nonlethal air guns. Wagner brings more than two decades' worth of experience as a military and law enforcement officer to his Reality-Based Personal Protection system.

AC/DC live at the SARStock Festival in Toronto, Canada - July 30, 2003

Tri-City. The hot summer of '76. The protagonist, a graduate of the Gdansk University of Technology, starts working in a design office. He spends his free time repairing his beloved Jeep, awaiting the arrival of his girlfriend Ola, who is studying abroad. He already has an apartment, he has a job, he has a girlfriend, he has only one thing missing - furniture. And getting them is not at all easy.

A man wakes up to find that his wife has committed suicide.

Hélène is a brilliant intern working in Dr. Keller's dermatology department. The discovery of several black patches developing on her skin throws her life into turmoil. Could these skin conditions be linked to the lesions suffered by the mysterious patient in room 203?

Melding documentary footage with personal history and performance art, Solo honours the fragility of self-discovery. It sheds new light on the necessity for art and its saving grace. It shows how personal demons must be faced as we learn to trust ourselves and love our partners. Solo celebrates one gay man's creative journey to self-realization--with or without Mr. Perfect.

Loaded with food and items for a subsistence of several weeks, four people occupy an empty apartment. Beyond their names, little or nothing is known about them, nor what relationship unites them or what are the reasons for their being there. Little by little, data is appearing that could suggest some kind of secret cell.

The story of a lesbian couple's move away from Israel and the problems they wish to leave behind. Joelle lived in Tel-Aviv for eleven years but tired of a city wrapped in violence. Sigal, hiding her true sexual identity from her family, needed to distance herself to be able to have a more complete life with her partner. Together they travel through Greece in search of a new home.The couple record each other throughout their travels, producing a video diary, each expressing her feelings as she observes the other. Their unfurling journey pushes them to question the very heart of their search, including essential dilemmas such as: “Where do I belong?” “What is home?” and “How can we be part of our families when we are different from them?”

This is a story of a child who was taken repeatedly to the hospital for various tests, one of which was catheterization. Woven throughout are two other stories - one, a training video for nurses demonstrating the procedure and the other, looking through the child's now adult eyes, as she encounters women who echo reminders of the original event. These various echoes trigger post trauma squeamishness and sexual tension that is strange and complex. Both medical ethics and the labels that limit our view of sexual identity are being questioned here.

The DVD brings you some of Shortt's favorite characters from his sell-out live show.

A folk song echoed on the Shandong Plain. This is the song of Luo Xiaojia, a Yunnan Yi girl who was trafficked to the Shandong Plain at the age of 17, and now she has lived in rural Shandong for seven years. After coming to Shandong, she was forced to marry a young farmer and received a marriage certificate. The film documents her family life in the unfamiliar Shandong countryside, her thoughts about her hometown and her views on destiny. Luo Xiaojia's tenth year in Shandong Province, she finally won the right to go home. After a journey of 4,000 kilometers, she returned to her hometown of Yunnan and saw her mother who she missed day and night. But she was caught in a contradiction. Finally, she asked her mother to sing a lot of folk songs for her, and she returned to Shandong with those sad folk songs.

The last live performance of Number Girl's last tour, recorded on November 30, 2002 at Sapporo Penny Rain.

During his stay in the Yanomami village of Watoriki with the anthropologist Bruce Albert, the French documentary filmmaker and photographer Raymond Depardon filmed in parallel a group of hunters and a group of Yanomami shamans in order to highlight – without having to explain – the close interdependence between the Shamanic metaphysics and the traditional knowledge of the forest.