Cinematic Era: 2004 Vintage

This amazing 40-minute video lets you see how water "listens" to music and "reads" printed words. You'll actually see the frozen water crystals forming.

A mystical drama based on the works of Nikolai Gogol.

Without sufficient work in the countryside, many peasants go to Hanoi to sell their labor force. As day laborers, they wait in the streets of the city until a job is offered them. After particularly arduous work, some decide to return to the countryside to be near their wives and children. The main character, surrounded by his neighbors, recounts the difficulties and the differences in living conditions between the city and the country.

A series of films which start from the end of a story and moves its way back, explaining the plot from minimal and maximal vantage points.

The raise and fall of a love story, in a mockery review of the Cinema Marginal [Marginal Cinema] from Brazil.

"Utopia" is dedicated to all the survivors of war who have shared the pain of their life stories with us . Moslem Mansouri

This documentary follows a group of Yemeni masons as they restore the 16th century Amiriya Madrasa using ancient—and uniquely Yemeni—techniques. Through this project they not only renovate and protect a revered landmark, but also ensure that their rare craft will not be lost.

ILONA, UPSTAIRS is a portrait of an artist; a glimpse at a butterfly who wants no association with her life as a caterpillar. In this mixed format documentary, deftly filmed in part by Albert Maysles, Ilona sings, dances, orates, paints, swims, and smells the roses, but will not, under any circumstances, face the specifics of her painful past. Melissa Hammel, the director and Ilona's downstairs neighbor, aspires to unearth some of Ilona's many skeletons in order to learn how one transitions from a place of great sorrow to a place of great joy. Sometimes Melissa tip-toes around issues, sometimes she asks directly. Repeatedly, however, she is met with a stiff arm. Perhaps the more important lessons are found in Ilona's present, as she's insisted all along.

For whom does a girl keep rotating? A story of a weird relationship between a child and adults.

A 25-minute tour documentary of the band as they tour the world to promote their album. Includes backstage footage, parties and the band just hanging out.

This gig was filmed live in the stunning quad of London's Somerset House in 2004, at the end of a long summer of touring. As the band stormed through one of their best ever performances, the crowd went wild and the cameras rolled to make sure that this amazing event would not be lost in gig history. Bonus features include video clips and never before seen behind the scenes footage of the band from Japan, Ireland, and the U.S.

An art video by Queer French photographer and filmmaker Emilie Jouvet, and she tells that the film is a “Threesome on school roof : Kat, me, and you, bandes de petits pervers!”

A recently arrived Paraguayan illegal immigrant in Buenos Aires turns to a cousin who supports her alcoholic and abusive boyfriend.

A man with power from the countryside of Manabi decides to take justice on his own hands and hires a group of hitmen to avenge the death of his son.

How has science impacted on our perception of God?

Miri Aizawa, the much-talked-about "psychic big-breasted idol" who has been a big hit among psychic fans, sneaks into a haunted place! She confronts an evil spirit filled with resentment and tries her hand at exorcism for the first time!

Third and final installment to the "Grudge Map" series. The scream is fully visualized. A nationwide comprehensive version of Japan that includes all 35 horror episodes, including the latest ghost stories from the 2004 edition.

Images of impending disaster (slamming doors, a truck careening down a hill and a frayed, almost snapping elevator rope) collide with the repeated image of a woman's body, cycling toward ephemerality as the woman disappears into the texture of the film itself. In her recent films, Geiser has been exploring the possibilities found in merging video texture with film, creating a lush, disorienting, ambiguous film space and an atmosphere of temporal suspension. In TERRACE 49, the space is shattered further, broken into shards: as fractured as memory and as fragile as glass.

A bored girl entertains herself by sneaking up on a raven. But the bird turns her game around.

Durham, North Carolina’s own Bouncing Bulldogs have no peer when it comes to precision jump roping. Boys and girls leap, tumble, whirl, flip and entwine in a series of gravity-defying tricks. The team’s inspiring coach believes in mentoring relationships between the older and younger members, and challenges each child to ask, “What am I giving back to the community?

Frank Zander is a phenomenon: he combines change and consistency like probably no other artist on the German music scene. In the 70s, he attracted attention as the gloomy Nick-Nack-Man, at the beginning of the 80s he landed his biggest hit with the kitschy and cheerful "Ja, wenn wir alle Englein wären", later he parodied the big city cowboy with "Hier kommt Kurt" and then brought tears to the eyes of even hardened soccer fans with the Hertha anthem "Nur nach Hause". On one of his CDs, he even follows in the footsteps of Rammstein and declares the German pop song dead.

The vacuum... or the story of a woman who no longer loves all that she loved before. However, people around her still love. She sees them loving, she hears them loving and that gives her a headache.

Bollywood 2004

Japanese street racing

It is a musical parody inspired by the three works: Tungalag Tamir, Sukhbaatar, Excursion

American Sasquatch' isn't your typical tour documentary; it's a raw, gonzo-style film capturing the Welsh rock band Super Furry Animals. Providing an insider's perspective, it showcases the band's American tours, TV appearances, and recording sessions from 2002 to 2004, including the making of "Phantom Power."

Chinese movie

In this short film by Sion Sono, three school girls struggle to finish a homework assignment due to their blossoming desires. The child actors are swapped out for adults for the more risque moments.

Chris Moneymaker, an appropriately named champion from the World Series of Poker tournament, offers his insights on the finer points of the popular card game in this instructional video. Poker for Dummies first teaches the basics on the game and its most popular variants (including Texas Hold 'Em) and then offers solid advice on strategy, as Moneymaker explains how to evaluate your opponents, the best ways to bet, how to make bluffing work for you, and much more. The video also comes with a chart that ranks the status of various hands and a glossary of common poker slang.

During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican government created the Board of Artistic Treasure Defense, in order to preserve the works of the Prado Museum and prevent them from being destroyed during the war. The film reconstructs the events and the route of these works of art, since they were packed in a total of 1,868 boxes until his arrival in Geneva. There a Committee for the Safeguarding of the Spanish Treasury was established, and the boxes guarded until their return to the museum, in September 9, 1939.

Cops raided the Tasty nightclub in Melbourne in 1994, strip-searching 463 patrons. A decade later many of the patrons recall the incident for the cameras and provide colorful details amid the films re-creations.

Naked in the desert, a lone man throws himself at the mercy of the people at Burning Man. An extraordinary experiment in humanity.

A group trained by Antero Alli in paratheatrical methods develop rituals of initiation and perform them before a stunned San Francisco audience.

Four different stories about different people trying to attend, already at or happening to encounter a major farmhouse party in suburban Delhi.

Parokya ni Edgar's performance recorded live at Unitel Studio A, Makati City.

Who were the Aztecs and how did they live? What happened to them and what did they leave behind? In this riveting program, viewers travel from present-day Mexico City to over 500 years into the past to learn about the amazing Aztec Empire. The Aztecs were a warlike people with their own religion, language and cultural rituals. Archaeological excavations that reveal remains of grand Aztec temples and statues provide a starting point for an exploration of this wealthy and highly organized society. Through colorful historical recreations and vivid graphic illustrations, students can easily imagine the Aztec island-city of Tenochtitlan and what everyday life may have been like for Aztec people.

A short film about the late, celebrated Israeli journalist, poet, artist and satirist SHIMON TZABAR, and his last public protest against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, made shortly before his death in 2007 after forty years of self-imposed exile in London.

When three friends visit the fair, they attend an exhibition by the mysterious Dr. Krauss and his masked sideshow freak, the psychic Conrad. There they learn that two of the three comrades will not survive past dawn...

Dominatrix Waitrix exists as a human clone. She is amorphous, multi-gendered, and immortal. The only human quality she owns is an extremely powerful libido. She chooses the bodies of vulnerable servers and preys on their puppet-like customers. Her only concern is to give and receive pleasure and pain. One bold and buxom waitress wishes to keep Dominatrix Waitrix under her spiked heel. Dominatrix Waitrix fancies the red-headed mortal, but in the end, who will hold the whip and who will wear the handcuffs?

A man descends down a spiral of memories from an old relationship. Melancholic set back? Or gateway to a new emotional perception?

Material from this film (as well as other sequences previously shot but never used in other films) were eventually edited into what became Period Piece in 2006.

After her husband is murdered, Reggie Lucas' life becomes even more more complicated when a large sum of money turns up missing and a trio of gangsters come looking for it.

A 419 scammer perfects the act of defrauding people to the extent that he becomes a master of the craft, however his refusal to pay his dues to the person that taught him everything leads to his downfall. [parts 1-2]

The life and work of Mexican lawyer Digna Ochoa, from her first kidnapping at the hands of the police to her murder.

"Fandom" takes an inside look at true fandom, as the filmmakers follow the journey a devout fan (Gordon Coleman) to meet the famed celebrity that he admires.

A documentary concerning the detention of Muslim-Americans in the wake of 9/11.

Take flight with the legendary pioneers in aviation, from the Wright Brothers to barnstormers to the breathtaking exploits of the record setters. Re-live the thrilling key events from the early days of aviation.

The biggest peaceful demonstration of resistance to an authoritarian regime in Latin America in the 1970s was the general strike whereby Uruguayan workers and students rejected the military coup of 27 June 1973. In this documentary we follow what happened from two perspectives: that of the people who took part in the mass mobilisation, and that of those who captured those events in images.

The Universalists know little about the world outside of Boroville. They only know what a vendor named Karratu tells them. Karratu comes to look for the precious marbles that the Universalists make, and in exchange brings them various products. But sometimes things happen, and an unfortunate incident occurs at Pluto's birthday party; Saturn accidentally breaks the gift and everyone turns against him.

By subjecting fragments from the film 'Rashomon' by Akira Kurosawa to the mirror effect, Provost creates a hallucinating scene of a woman's reverse chrysalis into an imploding butterfly. Papillon d'amour produces skewed reflections upon love, its lyrical monstrosities and wounded act of dissappearance.

A shy seventeen-year-old construction worker tries to hold his own in the macho world of roofers

A look into the underground world of Bruce Haack, a genius whose past work continues to garner recognition with time. The homespun musician couldn't have done it without the support of his family, friends, lovers, and the neighborhood kids he called "starchildren," all of whom paint the big picture of Bruce's life legacy and so-called dimension of imagination. In addition, various musicians of many genres have joined in today showing worldwide support, thus contributing to Bruce's objective, "Sure it's nice to be famous, but I'm more interested in obtaining a telepathic following." As for the music world, history's future king is coming from the past.

America's exuberant and enduring passion for high school football fuels this documentary, which explores the phenomenon from true-blue team loyalty to long-standing rivalries between neighboring communities. The film offers an intimate look at the players, their families and fans, and spotlights Texas's Permian Panthers, California's De La Salle High, Florida's Pahokee High, Georgia's Hawkinsville High and Pennsylvania's Woodland Hills High.