Cinematic Era: 2003 Vintage

Ohio represents us all. In its dramatic history and astonishing diversity, Ohio closely replicates the vast, complicated, and turbulent place called America. The film offers a snapshot of the state's colorful history along with insights into the Ohio of today: a mix of odd, funny moments and life-changing events.

Mga babae sa VIP rooms: Directed by Lorenzo Cruz. With Rose Valencia, Kat de Santos, Angela Corteza, Annabel Borromeo.

Cooperation and conflict between classic and computer animation. Two techniques, two persons, two worlds, who will win?...

A marvellous example of extreme animation. Jacob Bauming shows us a whirling dervish of sensory overload, with a tenuous connection to snazzy “aquatics,” using them as a trigger for his wild and manic imagination. This film was made as part of the first edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

A collection of discarded souls, rescued from the trash of a college darkroom.

The film tells of a love story linking the heart of Aziza and Jamal, and links a friendship between Jamal and Selim, the disabled young man who escapes from the persecution of his family to him and who is embraced by Abu Jamal, as if he was one of his sons

A commissioned documentary chronicling an American dance company's collaboration with a Cuban dance company to create a site-specific performance for the Festival de la Cultura Iberoamericana.

Documentary chronicles the lives of the German-Jewish Wolf brothers, who started a popular band at the turn of the century, most notably with their song "Tuedelband," which remains the anthem of the city's football team to this day.

Drama set in a Moroccan village.

A romantic film from Nigeria

In Czarist Russia, a young student becomes embroiled in a plot to kidnap the Chief Prosecutor.

A love story about a man who was so terrible to his wife, he was charming.

A film about the life & time of ex The Homosexuals bass player Xentos Jones Luke Fowler's The Way Out: A Portrait of Xentos Jones, made in collaboration with Kosten Koper, is a tribute to underground punk musician and film-maker Xentos Jones and his band The Homosexuals. Fowler collages together diverse material related to Jones including interviews, music and even found fragments from Jones' own experimental films to create a haphazard and intriguing portrayal of this maverick character.

Concentration camps in America? Feds set to toss millions of innocent Americans into gruesome factories of torture and death?… Could it be? Sounds preposterous. Yet…in this video, Texe Marrs marshals overwhelming evidence so convincing it boggles the mind. The Holy Bible of course, prophesies of unparalleled bloodshed and human suffering. In Revelation we are told that vast numbers of innocent human beings will be slaughtered, sacrificed to the beast and to his antichrist. America is not exempt. The killers who would perpetrate these new concentration camp holocausts are active today inside our borders. Indeed, they walk among us.

A young man crossing the park receives a strange proposition from an even stranger man. When he is unable to connect with his friends he reconsiders the offer.

Monstrous, hungry creatures: they are not beasts, they are not humans. One last survivor. A hunter. It will be a fight to the death.

The Body of Book - short film

A study in foreground and background made with a video camera, a set of handmade filters, and a canoe.

A dubious refugee smuggler cheats Mahmut of all his money. Not wanting his wife and children to regard him as a failure, he tries to get to Germany after all by hiding in the boot of a Mercedes belonging to two German tourists.

Filmed in the white working-class suburbs of Detroit, Spook House reveals a community reveling in the macabre. Front lawns are transformed into cemeteries, kitchens become mausoleums and dismembered ‘bodies’ are prepared for cannibal feasts. Cameron Jamie’s camera tracks the celebrants as the nights become longer and darker.

Discover Circus Nemo - Now with Neon! Anders Lund Madsen and Søren Østergaard are in top form. Watch pastries dance and learn about Nemonism - or sit back and enjoy the segment with Poul the fish, who knows every major city in the world. Clowns and artists from foreign countries perform incredible balancing acts, play with electricity, and billiard cues. Zirkus Nemo - Now With Neon! brought stars to the eyes of both critics and audiences - it was a summer of standing ovations every night and sold-out performances. Experience it all in this recording from one of the last performances in the circus tent.

Told entirely through still photos and voice-over, a young woman explores a large empty house in the countryside. As she wanders through the house, she muses on various subjects, including nature, color, beauty, how we can know or trust the things that we see. Though there are several animals around the house, she is the only person to be seen.

Chitãozinho e Xororó Ao Vivo em Garibaldi traz a melhor dupla sertaneja do país em um belo e diferenciado espetáculo. Gravado ao ar livre na Estação de trem da cidade de Garibaldi, Rio Grande Do Sul, em 21 de setembro de 2003, o memorável show conta com a participação especial de Gaúcho da Fronteira. Além das melhores canções da dupla em DVD, ao adquirir este material você leva de presente o CD Festa do Interior. É sertanejo de primeira qualidade para que ama o gênero. Informações especiais: Áudio dolby digital 2.0 e 5.1 - Frete (Videoclip) - Making of do show e do videoclip

Documentary about the history of Easter Island.

Instead of fighting poverty, we fight the poor. Europe: its chic neighborhoods and its suburban high-rise hovels where ‘zero tolerance’ is increasingly the order of the day. A prison is built when a factory shuts down. The poor, in general, and young people from an immigrant background, in particular, are the focus of many fears. Passing to the other side of the mirror and breaking away from clichés, the film shows the humanity of these people, in the street, a prison, a courtroom or a city cellar, with their emotions, desires, fears and despair. Far from an image of European democracy where everyone has an equal chance, the film, calling to witness France and Belgium, offers a critical and moving glimpse of a society that is sometimes horrific and brutal, our own. “What a strange period! Just where are we heading? Have we lost our minds?

A collection of more than two hundred Super 8 short films by the Swiss artist.

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

Quentin who is awoken one morning by a phone call from his old school friend John. John uses the remaining strengths of their long but faded friendship and he asks Quentin to do him a favor. The film follows the repercussions of this favor.

Documentary about the hard working DJs and producers who have brought electronic dance music to the forefront of nightlife around the world. Featuring over 35 world class artists from Derrick Carter to Paul Van Dyk.

For centuries the Afghan people threw back all invaders. But in 1979, the Russians invaded with planes and tanks. 5 million Afghans fled the country. 300,000 lucky ones made it to North America. They escaped the Russians but not themselves. This film depicts the lives of the members of two families in New York.

African-born pop musician Angelique Kidjo's genre-hopping brew of funk, soul, salsa, jazz, and traditional African music has garnered her worldwide popularity. This video release sees her performing a sampling of her songs with her signature passion, as well as documenting her homecoming to West African nation Benin after a 13-year absence.

In this comedy of errors and elevators, a bike messenger and a businessman can't stop thinking about each other after their paths cross.

Dasha is beautiful, intelligent, charming — and not very happy. She can’t find a job, and by the age of thirty her personal life has never truly worked out; all the worthy men seem to have already been snapped up by more assertive women. Just when it seems that her last hope has faded, he appears. Alexander is a successful businessman and an attractive man who is equally unlucky in love. As often happens, while he was busy building his business, his best friend began an affair with his bored wife. As a result, Alexander divorced her, and she left the country with her new husband. Now he is raising his daughter on his own. The teenage girl constantly demands attention that her father cannot give her, and so a governess appears in the house.

An image video of Yuriko Sakuma, a popular idol who is active in pictorial and TV.

Part 1: Ebo and Suzy are told that his surgery was successful except that an irremovable obstruction has made him sterile. Three years have passed and Ebo’s mother must produce a grandchild for sacrifice or die. Ebo convinces Suzy to get pregnant from another man. He takes her to a village where she is impregnated by stranger and lives as his wife for nine months. As agreed, five months later Ebo returns to get Suzy. Part 2: Suzy’s village husband is devastated when he discovers that his pregnant new wife is missing. He goes to Accra desperately searching for his wife. Meanwhile, Ebo’s mother takes the baby to the village priest who tells her that the baby is not her blood. Part 3: it just happens that Suzy’s houseboy is an old friend of Suzy’s village husband. Guess who comes to visit. The suspense will keep you on the edge of your seat.

2003 release

Jan Hugo Stenbeck died in August 2002 as one of Sweden's most controversial businessmen. During his whole life he constantly broke new ground and challenged old truths. He founded and ran corporations in a new and different way. In the first documentary after his death childhood friends, classmates, colleagues talk about what it was like to live with Jan Stenbeck - the corporate leader who became mythic during his lifetime.

Documentary about making of the Električni orgazam album "Harmonajzer", released in 2002.

I made an animation work with the theme of "book". The first half uses a "paperback book" and the second half uses a "mail order" free book. 1996, 8mm work.

A video guide for the 2003 Summer Sailormoon musical.

Excerpted here is a 2003 conversation with actor Omar Sharif, moderated by actor and Screen Actors Guild staffer and organizer Todd Amorde for the SAG Foundation. Sharif discusses Funny Girl as well as his experiences as an Egyptian actor in the cinema world.

Portrait of the Swedish artist, sculptor, estradeur, author, designer, and professor, Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd (1934-2016).

Drive-By Truckers had been invited by the legendary German "Rockpalast" TV show. The live recording took place at the club "Underground" in Cologne on December 14, 2003.

A portrait of the watch shop owned and run by Konrad and Ursula Brzynski, in Rye, New York, 2003.

"Clay Fields" is a ghost story told partially in reverse in the form of a found footage VHS tape.

One of the earliest films of Alex Wesley

A portrait of Brakhage shot in Victoria, British Columbia, just a few months before his death. Filmmaker Pip Chodorov illustrates Brakhage's reflections on his art with short passages from his hand-painted films.

Near the apocalyptic scenery of a Phnom Penh garbage dump where children live and eat, Christian and Marie-France have been fighting to educate these little ragpickers for a decade.

A traditional slide show disintegrates into fragmentary forms. Using re-photographic methods that mimic the mechanics of recollection, the artist's family slide images are reframed, distorted and hand-processed. An attempt to grasp a personal memory surrounding the taking of the originals.