Cinematic Era: 2003 Vintage

A shorter, significantly altered version of Wavelength (1967), where the original film is overlayed upon itself.

"Kissing Metal" is the story of Philippe, a down and out European film producer, who lives in a tent in the shadow of his unfinished house in Brentwood. Philippe is struggling to sell a film he made five years ago to foreign distributors. Nearly broke, and on the verge of eviction, he seeks spiritual help from Master Atchoum, a Buddhist Guru. Master Atchoum pushes him into practicing Buddhism and convinces him to buy an expensive metal sculpture of Buddha. Empowered by the support of his new-found "religion," Philippe starts turning things around. Through a series of serendipitous events...and some very unorthodox maneuvering, he becomes a success. But, he soon discovers that all is not what it appears to be.

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of David Lynch's Mullholland Drive

In 1973, teenager Wayne gathers his two friends, a female runaway named Rhonda and disco club-hopper Tim, for a drug party located in the suburban home of quiet recluse Dean. But unknown to Tim and Rhonda are the horrible secrets which lie in Dean's basement storage room. Dean is the murderer of local teenage males He uses his basement as a torture dungeon with the help of Wayne and fellow teenager, David. When the drugs and alcohol mix get higher throughout the night, not even so-called friends are safe from the sadistic bloodlust of Dean. Inspired by a true story.

Pimpa receives a letter from Rabbit and rushes to the beach, where they play with his siblings. After they leave, she floats on a raft until the little fish Flip wakes her up—he needs a candle for Grandpa Fish’s birthday! Pimpa gives him one and joins the underwater party, where a fish band (Trombone, Trumpet, Drum, and Clarinet) and Boby the dogfish sing ‘Happy Birthday.’ Grandpa Fish shares his childhood dreams with Pimpa, especially his love for stargazing. She takes him to the surface on her raft to see the stars again. Meanwhile, Armando returns home but there isn't anybody, so Mirror Pimpa replaces Pimpa. Colombo arrives in Uncle Gastone’s rocket and whisks Pimpa and Grandpa Fish on a space adventure. Back home, Pimpa tells Armando everything before falling asleep, happy.

A young couple dances through the extremes of human passion -- from lust to love, from obsession to murder!

A strangler stalks Las Vegas in this film by Ray Dennis Steckler.

A spoof of the popular MTV reality show, our version pits a group of stereo-types (and Michael Myers) together in a Hollywood apartment to try to live together.

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.

London Birds... evokes the shifting mental states of a streetwise, 15 year old girl. The film explores the impact of her surprise sexual awakening: a moment of rejection that's bad enough to make her run and keep running.

The Latvian Song festival captured from an unusual angle - literally and figuratively. Faces and legs of singers, listeners and dancers, close-ups of details and moods. In the final four minutes of the film, the 294 place names - cities, parishes and villages of Latvia and the world - are called, that the participants of the XXIII Latvian Song Festival come from - "...Cīrava, Code, Chicago, Dagda... Mālpils, Malta, Mārupe, Moscow... Sēlpils, Sesava, Sydney, Sigulda... Palsmane, Pampāli, Paris, Pāvilosta..."

Blind Spot constructs a space of living portraiture by “focusing time” on an exchange between the artist (the camera) and a man on the street in the small Algerian neighborhood of Belsunce in Marseille, France. As the camera zooms in slowly on its subject, the imagery is interrupted by longer and longer segments of black/silence, in essence slowing the scene down so that it almost reaches the photographic.

Mendoza, Argentina, 2002. In a country in crisis and marked by street violence, Boby, an entrepreneur, creates a TV show to sell home video cameras. The program is based on a contest that rewards the most violent footage of all those filmed by people on the street.

This experimental animation film examines society's deification of architecture and urbanization in the modern world and the impact on our relationship to nature. This film was made with the NFB Hothouse program for emerging filmmakers.

Everyone remembers the harrowing footage of the Srebrenica massacre shot by Zoran Petrovic, the only cameraman to capture the events on film. But this week's fascinating documentary shows that the very worst of his pictures never reached our TV screens. Key scenes from Petrovic's rushes were 'lost' or blacked over, presumably to prevent reprisals. We unearth the lost images, and the completed jigsaw is even more heinous than the already blood-spattered picture. Amazingly, Petrovic has never been interviewed by the War Crimes Tribunal about what he saw. For the first time, his incriminating material is available for scrutiny.

Two brothers, one straight one gay reopen old childhood issues.

A documentary about the underground horror production company Toe Tag Pictures.

Another feature of the new digital (and visually inferior) medium is that sound plays a much more prominent role than in most of her films. Trace Elements, Nelson’s latest work, is another “sound video”, despite the fact the camera is more active this time. It feels as though only now Nelson has totally come to grips with her new technique. She approaches the moving image again through highlighting the act of shooting. This way she continues the ever-present indexical tradition of her filmmaking despite the fact that the video is based on the idea that the camera never quite finds its target. I believe the active, searching camera in Trace Elements indicates Nelson will continue making movies for many years to come.

In a digital world, can analogue find true love? It is the wise old gramaphone who has the answers for a lovesick loner.

It all started when we found some Mrs. Claus dolls at a craft store . . . This film unravels a slightly disturbing family tale of continued incest in a surreal, gritty, distant world . . . at the end of your street. This is what I like to call “homemade found footage”: an addition to the piles of forgotten, rotting, celliloid garbage, complete with burnt out sisters, baby-stealing weasels, and rusty-scissor surgery. For your voyeuristic viewing pleasure

Live concert from Mafalda Veiga, recorded at Coliseu, Lisboa.

A documentary that explores the roots and consequences of Argentina's profound economic, political, and social crisis. It offers a critical and analytical look at a system that has proven insufficient and socially unsustainable as a form of development in an Argentina that has witnessed a severe and violent crisis that demands a new form of development and social organization to overcome.

For two Nuyorican drug traffickers, heroin 'mules' are nothing new-until they meet tonight's 'mules' from Colombia: Maria and Manolo.

The life and times of Kevin Green a young man who suddenly finds himself thrust into internation fame and the lengths to which he's willing to go to keep it.

A six-minute short about how railroads changed life in the United States. Made for the home video release of Sergio Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in the West'.

How much do staircases and doors leading nowhere in the Californian Winchester House reveal about the owner’s superstitions and how much about the years of converting and rebuilding after the 1906 earthquake? In the centrepiece of his trilogy, Jeremy Blake fills the labyrinthine interiors of this architectural rarity with unreal light and colour apparitions of impressive beauty and oppressive impact.

Short film by Takagi Masakatsu.

The underlying chessboard image is derived from modified TV test pattern apparatus distorted by audio signals from a sinewave generator; filmed off a monitor with super 8, then coloured in with black ink and coated with household bleach. After initial editing on film it was compiled into positive, negative and split screen in a 1-2-4-2-1 sequence. The 4 track electronic music made with Helliwell's homemade circuits, also follows this symmetrical order.

Filmed in Miami this all-over toning guide is split into sections designed to condition, strengthen and tone every part of the body. The warm-up is followed by a forty minute workout that includes boxing moves and is finished off with twenty minutes of resistance training.

Third chapter of La fêlure du temps. "It's enough that Gloria tells you the first time: if you want to work that way, do it. The sueño is not taught: you yourself are going to think how to work the sueño"

Before he marries his current girlfriend, eccentric speech therapist Richard (Serge Bozon) asks his friend Raphael (Mods star Laurent Lacotte) to help him destroy photos kept by his ex-girlfriend, Mademoiselle Dornet, as a record of their relationship. Raphael in turn enlists an actor (Laurent Le Doyen) to pose as a Turkish doctor and convince Dornet that she must rid herself of the photos in order to cure her depression.

Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin - Live From The Record Plant

2003 release

The Sat.1 Christmas show with Anke Engelke in her "best role" will also take place in 2003: as a charming, witty and entertaining hostess.

In British India, a wealthy Hindu girl, Ram Kori, runs away with a Muslim boy Noor Ali Khan and meets a mystic freedom fighter, the 'Fakir of Ippy'. He marries Noor Ali Khan and Ram Kori but her family uses its influence and create troubles for the love birds

Manny Puig is profiled in his television special, as the Floridian hand-feeds bull sharks, swims with makos, and introduces us to his good friend, a lemon shark. The remarkable thing about Puig and his relation to the sharks is the fact that he refuses to use cages, or wear armor or repellent, when swimming with sharks.

Stories of prejudice, abandonment and overcoming difficulties are told by the residents of Santo Ângelo, a city built to treat leprosy patients. The human testimony of the remaining residents reveals the marks that remain from the time when hospitalization was compulsory. Condemned to isolation from a lifetime, without love and in revolution, in music and film as the main weapons to face their personal dramas.

2003, 5 min, color

This is an interesting look at the Baka pygmies of Cameroon. Instead of an anthropology documentary in the style of National Geographic, it is the recounting of a legend, all told from the point of view of the tribe. It's quite interesting in how it deals with their mythology and culture, which are of course introduced along the way, often cleverly in the way of an elder explaining to youngsters.

Everything but the Girl, Eyeless in Gaza and other bands from the London-based independent record label Cherry Red contribute mightily to this music video collection for "Pillows and Prayers," a 1982 compilation album of Cherry Red artists. Songs include Marine Girls' "A Place in the Sun," Jane's "It's a Fine Day," Eyeless in Gaza's "New Risen," Monochrome Set's "Jet Set Junta" and Everything but the Girl's "On My Mind."

Covers the key aspects of the world AIDS epidemic through powerful documentary stories about five victims and their communities, on five continents.

Episode 1 is the registration of Renzo Martens' activities in Chechnya. He penetrates the war-zone —alone, illegal and carrying a Hi8 camera- and takes on the role of the single most important actor in war: that of the ubiquitous, yet forever undefined, television viewer for whose attention the battles are being fought. Amidst ruins and bombings, he does not ask refugees, UN employees and rebels how they feel. Those stories are well known, and serve no purpose for those who tell them. Instead, he asks them how they think he feels. The film forms a metaphor for an economy of images, roles and emotions. At the same time, there Martens stands, alone, with his camera, recording. The film is not about some external phenomenon, but about the terms and conditions of its own existence.

Summer passings observed the enigmatic West Nile malady steal its way into the minds and forests of Winnipeg wanderers, casting its feverish amnesia spell; immobilizing wooded creatures collectively pleading to be cured and released of their infirmity. A cautious wanderer disregards her own ailment to aid the others as best she can; however the forest hosts its own fevers.

A descendant of the princes of the Meshchersky family, Evgeny, who moved from Ukraine to Russia in 1997 with his wife and three children, is trying to restore the ancestral estate in Alabino near Moscow.

Based on a story written by renowned Indian Bengali writer Shirshendu Mukhopaday, an artist's fascination with a circus performer who devours live snakes and chicken turns into obsession leading him to marry her just to learn her tricks but it costs him peace and poise.

Documentary about writer Cees Nooteboom.

Takes a closer look at the editing process to make 'Hulk' (2003) as cohesive, well-paced, and exciting as possible, while creating for the film a unique look with differing transitions and split screens.

Nihar (Krishna Mohan) is a flirt, mischievous student and always put others in trouble. His friends are around him whenever he gets into trouble. Anju Sharma (Radhika) joins the same collage and soon becomes the member of this gang and also becomes the active member of music band lead by Nihar. When Anju's betrothed Ashok (Aryan Prasad) does not allows her to perform with Nihar, she breaks her relationship with Ashok and slowly falls in love with Nihar. But Nihar who is unaware of her feeling towards him, loves Ramya (Sonia) who is the general manager of a musical company. Depressed Anju decides to leave the city. Whether she gets back her love or not forms the climax of the film.

A man discovers that his wife is cheating on him so he sets out to make sure she is killed.