Cinematic Era: 2004 Vintage

The line between myth and reality gets blurred when cameraman Paul starts investigating the disappearance of his co-worker.

This is a performance that contains the basic elements of the inspection (satirical sketches, dance, singing) while it is enriched with innovative high-tech digital (laser, portable cameras, video projection, etc.) that convert it automatically in a Super-Inspection.

What would you do if you woke up in a motel room with a gun in your hand, a corpse on the bed, and no memory of what happened the night before?

They may be elderly, but Masayo and Kumezo Mukaido are still working just as hard as when they were young. Their life is hardly made any easier by the snow that covers their mountain village home of Taimagura, in the north of Japan, for much of the year. But the old woman is good-humored and quick to smile, and the weather conditions are no obstacle at all to their carrying on their work. They mash soybeans with their feet to make miso, chop wood and harvest potatoes. The 16mm footage shows them hard at work on the land, intercut with black-and-white shots of their mountain village, and the elderly couple’s ruminations on life. Then the inevitable happens, and Kumezo dies. Now Masayo is all alone. This loving film documents a modest life packed with all the daily duties that come with working the land. It’s an ode to the unforgiving beauty of nature, an unflagging work ethic and ancient tradition.

An old farmer's wife lives alone on a secluded farm. In documentary-like observations, her idyllic life files past. Then, it is discovered that her house, as the last one in Belgium, has not been connected to the electricity grid yet. On their TVs and radios, the Belgians, living in houses that are filled with electric appliances, hear her story. `How has she managed to live like that?'

Anu finds out that her daughter, Pooja, is spending too much time with her boyfriend, Rahul, than on college studies. She confronts her, but Pooja refuses to heed her warnings. Then one night Pooja returns home bruised and battered, claiming that Rahul has been killed and she has been brutally raped by three men. Anu's efforts to file a police complaint are in vain, and Pooja is hospitalized. It is here that she will find out that her life mirrors that of her mother, while her assailants will attempt to silence her forever.

This whimsical series for 2- to 5-year-olds stars three snails -- Gordon, Dale and Buttons -- who live in the pocket of a boy named Jake. In this volume, the Pocket Snails help Jake (and viewers) learn the alphabet. Bouncy original music and colorful animation bring letters and words to life. The program is designed for retention, employing clever repetition without becoming boring, and displaying the letters on-screen as they're introduced.

Four children are lost in the woods during a camping trip with their parents in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains.

Shot live in the intimacy of a hotel room, this freewheeling set captures the nomadic spirit of the gypsy tradition as gypsy jazz guitarist Frank Vignola jams with guitarist Jimmy Rosenberg, violinist Federico Britos and drummer Joe Ascione. Tracks include "Pent-Up House," "Bésame Mucho," "Exactly Like You," "Tico Tico," "Czardus," "Nuages," "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)," "Endless Love," "Limehouse Blues" and more.

An Orthodox Jewish father tries to alert his adult sons to the dangers of creating impenetrable barriers between themselves and those outside their faith. He takes them on an emotional journey to Poland to track down the family who risked their lives to hide their grandfather for more than two years during World War II. Like many children of survivors, the sons feel that Poland is a country that is incurably anti-Semitic, but it is precisely here that they meet people who personify the highest levels of compassion

The film is a summary of the series of the same title. It talks about the war between Pruszkow and Wołomin during the last dozen years. It recalls the most interesting figures of the two gangs: "Masa" - Poland's witness number one, "Pershing", "nightingale", "Kiełbasa", "Słowik", "Kiełbasa", "Dziad" and "Wariat".

Mona, a student girl, is murdered. Her fiancé, Iman, is accused, but after repeated interrogations, the charges are dropped. Until another girl from Iman's class is murdered and...

Apart from the fact that she looks different from the rest of her family, Kay is a normal happy 20 year old, who enjoys fighting with her sister Suzy, a computer whiz and her brother Mike, a star Dodgeball player. Ever since their father Robert disappeared several years ago, their mother Sally had taken over the household. One day, Mike discovers the secret behind Robert's disappearance and embarks a pursuit for the truth. Kay soon learns the truth that this all has to do with her past links to the Lee clan (an underground clan behind the deadly game of CRUSHBALL). Her endurance is tested to the limit in her first game. She's up against the Death God, Jin, the most powerful and destructive player in the game. Who is Kay really? And will she prove to be a CRUSHBALL player worthy of the Lee clan and save her adopted family? This action mystery depicts the unconditional love of a family and a story of fate that crossed the path of two families

In 2000 George Bush Jr was voted into the White House thanks in part to the massive voting power of the evangelical religious right. In order to repay them for their support, Bush appointed John Ashcroft in the role of Director General. With his opinions including anti-abortion in all cases, opposition to laws that protect ethnic minorities etc Ashcroft horrified liberals but cheered the religious right. One of Ashcroft's first targets was pornography and, in 2003, the FBI ordered four copies of porn films from the website of Extreme Associates. When the material crossed state lines it became a federal issue and Rob Black (owner of EA) was served with 9 indictments. With Ashcroft's job pretty much dependant on Bush returning to office in 2004, this documentary looks at Black's case and the increasing involvement of the religious right in American politics.

A first love is corrupted as a man recalls his affair with a beautiful circus contortionist in this stop-motion animation of wooden mannequins.

As a hurricane threatens, Grandpa Lou tells the story of Noah's Ark.

Route 181 is the epic record of a road trip undertaken in the summer of 2002 by two filmmakers, one Palestinian and one Israeli, along sections of what had been designated as the border between Israel and Palestine by U.N. Resolution 181 in 1947.

Honzík has to spend his holidays with his grandfather because his divorced mother is very busy. However, she doesn't want her father, a former military pilot, to tell her grandson anything about airplanes. She doesn't like airplanes because her childhood memories are mostly of her father constantly being at the airport, and when her mother died, she had to take care of everything herself. The film is about the love of flying. A love that brings both joy and pain in equal measure. It is a story about searching for lost relationships. About building new trust between loved ones. About the permanence of certain values that we often wastefully overlook, not out of malice, but because we take them for granted. The entire film is interwoven with unique real footage of MIG21 fighter jets, the likes of which have never been filmed before and probably never will be again. Other flight scenes feature a number of beautiful machines, from historic gliders to the L159 ALCA.

In this show you'll meet characters like daddy's boy Fillip from Bø, Finn Arild Selnes as the well-spoken lapp and many more familiar faces. We'll also get to know Arnt Hjalmar - leader of the local Amcar club. Arnt Hjalmar is portayed by Stein Arild Olaussen, one of the two new members of the cast. Securitas, the royal family, urban women, old home patients, Ozzy Osbourne, priests... Honningsvågrevyen will make fun of everything.

A bluesy mood piece featuring an eclectic line-up of musicians who busk in Montreal's metro, or subways. Bad News Brown, a charismatic harmonica player, acts as our witty impromptu host.

Two nerds meet the girls of their dreams at a party. The guys think that by getting the girls food to cure their "munchies," sexual favors will be had, sending the nerds out on a mission into the Twilight Zone.

outtakes from the gods of times square

When a chance meeting brings together the disconnected existences of two parties living either side of a desolate river's estuary, a bizarre relationship is born. However as time passes, what may truly seem like a token of one party's affection may only be the object of their darkest desires.

Story of a Hollywood animal trainer and his granddaughter, who befriends two of his performing dogs, Big Chuck and Little Chuck.

Dosage Volume 2 features eight high powered doses of strength climbing action. Watch Austrian strongman Klem Loskot deepwater soloing in Mallorca, Spain and American psycho-climber Dave Graham on the sportclimbs of Rumney, NH and the boulders of Fountainebleau, France. With historic first ascents and profiles of rising stars, you won't want to miss this exploration of the places and people that shape the sport.

2004 release

Known around the globe as the worldwide leader in roller coasters, Cedar Point is a coaster-lovers dream come true. Whether you crave the tallest and fastest scream machine in the universe, Top Thrill Dragster, high-tech thrills of Millennium Force, or the unpredictability of Raptor, Cedar Point has a coaster for you. This action-packed program will not only give you a brief history of the park's legendary coasters, but will actually give you a front-row seat on some of the best!

This Is Circumstantial Evidence is a music DVD created by Strictly Amateur Films and released by Three One G on April 20, 2004, featuring videos of live performances by several bands from the label. The bands included are: The Blood Brothers, The Locust, Cattle Decapitation, Swing Kids, Moving Units, Get Hustle, Jenny Piccolo, Orthrelm, and Love Life.

Carrion Remember the object we saw, my soul, This beautiful summer morning so sweet: At the bend of a path an infamous carrion On a bed strewn with pebbles, Legs in the air, like a lustful woman, Scorching and sweating poisons, Opened in a nonchalant and cynical way Her belly full of excitement. The sun shone on this rot, As in order to cooked to perfection, And to give back to great Nature a hundredfold Everything she had joined together ... - And yet you will be like this garbage, To this horrible infection, Star of my eyes, sun of my nature, You, my angel and my passion! Yes ! such you will be, O queen of graces, After the last rites, When you go, under the grass and the lush flowers, Mold among the bones. Amors, oh my beauty! tell the vermin Who will eat you with kisses, That I kept the divine form and essence Of my decomposed loves!

2004 release

During a hugely popular TV shopping program, Takeda introduces "EroNet Takeda" with a slogan "Your partner for a fulfilling sex life" and surrounded by sexy idols Reiko and Miho Ushioka. Earlier, an executive of their rival company, "Eros's Discount King" was brutally murdered. Naoko Yamada and Chirou Ueda, who work as a duo, are visited by a beautiful woman, Eriko Fujisaki, who claims to frequently witness another version of herself...

When your bonfire is stolen by a rival gang, there is only one thing to do. Head through no-man's and and steal it back.

It is shown in the role of Tumur, who has been forced to bear the actions of others and is unable to meet the person he longs for.

In the Serra da Estrela (Portugal) silence is sometimes broken by the calls (chamamentos) of shepherds to control their flocks of sheep. These sounds are the basis for the sound poet Américo Rodríguez's compositions.

Set to the soundtrack of Papa Wemba's extraordinary music, this outrageous, funny and eye-opening film depicts the underground world of a flamboyant African cult. Papa Wemba is a well-known Congolese singer. He is also a big cheese in Le Sape, the Société des Ambianceurs et Persons Élégants, which translated into English means a society of people who spend huge amounts of money on designer clothes with the motive of making themselves as conspicuously elegant as possible. The film is a splendid evocation of Papa Wemba's music, but it is also an unusual insight into what it means to be an immigrant in contemporary Europe. The sapeur have borrowed from our own culture, creating something rich and strange and wholly Congolese. Don't miss the scene where they try on fur coats.

A young hit man falls on hard times and gets a job as an usher in a movie theatre. He can't handle it.

Thea Pratt explores the exhilarating moment of a poetic dive. The movement of the puppet diver is influenced by Norman McLaren, Leni Riefenstahl and Busby Berkeley. Dancing light, frothing oceans, rolling rivers and calm lakes describe in photographic images the diver’s own stream of consciousness. This film was made as part of the second edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

Little Luka lives fascinated by everything that flies. Immersed in his world, one day he will not be aware of the mess he will create creating a domino effect.

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Sound/intoxication (Rauschen) is what the music video is about, say the artists, and the ecstatic (Rauschhaft). The German play on words actually makes sense in MY KINGDOM FOR A LULLABY #2; it suits a piece, in which electronically generated sounds and images are modulated and combined in a thoroughly sensorial or even ecstatic manner. The term «white noise» refers to both visual and acoustic elements. It is a prevailing theme in this video, an abstract piece, which requires that the viewer look and listen with utmost attention. On a white screen appear horizontal and vertical lines in delicate gray. First they alternate, then overlap, fade, then become more intense. The soundtrack plays a primary role, is equally as powerful (and elusive) as the images: a composition of crackling, noises (Rauschen), and whirring begins to emerge; music comprised of subtle electronic tones and high frequency distortion.

This video is made up of television footage recorded between 2001 and 2004. A large part of the imagery was collected during a residence where participants were invited to record their channel-hopping of television stations from all over the world. A hadith – a narration brought from the prophet Muhammad - concerning women, provides the thread: “the first look at a woman is for you, the second is for the devil, the third is a crime”. (MF)

Morocco is a land of ingratiating variety and intense contrast. Its people are as diverse as its topography. The cosmopolitan Atlantic coast fuses with the Berber heritage of the northern Rif and Atlas mountain ranges as the ancient Saharan trade routes wind their way from the south into the city of Marrakech, where all points collide, creating a vibrant mixture of the traditional, the exotic and the supernatural.

The entire concert of Biréli Lagrène given at the Festival of Vienna 2002. On July 9, 2002, the Jazz Festival in Vienna was a great night of gypsy jazz. It was a sold-out show, with eight thousand people packed on the stone steps of the sumptuous Theater Antique. They came to admire the greatest prodigies of this music, since the passing of the master, Django. Surrounded by his good friends - bassist Diego Imbert, rhythm guitarists Hono Winterstein and Thomas Dutronc, and violinist Florin Niculescu - Biréli Lagrène plays with stellar musical technique, virtuosity, speed, and great emotion.

John and Misty find that they aren't the only ones who are trespassing once they break into the Fairview Falls House of Horrors.

Documentary follows notorious motorcycle outlaw Jesse James on a wild ride through one year of his life. The owner of West Coast Choppers ditches his wife and business and sets out with a full tank of gas. With best friend Kid Rock along for the ride, James ends up on a cross-country road odyssey that eventually winds up in Mexico, the land of Cervezas, fun, sun and firearms!

Kela was abandoned as a child in Bangladesh and adopted by a British family. Twenty-five years later, she returns for the first time.

A short stylistic exercise about a Prenzelberg resident who, in search of his girlfriend's birth control pill, is confronted in an obstacle course with the technical (children's carts) and human (the brats themselves) excesses of his childbearing district neighbors.

The Tale of 1001 waterfalls takes place day and night right in the heart of Croatia. For here lying hidden among rough karst mountains is a “Natural Wonder World” – the Plitvice Lakes, one of the oldest Nationalparks in Europe. The Plitvice Lakes are embedded in a grandiose karst region. The film follows the course of the water taking it’s wondrous paths through the limestone. Rain and snow seep through the porous layers, cavities and caves to disappear from the surface but once in the depths these small water veins collect to mighty torrents.

“Children of the Street” examines the gritty reality of four children living on the streets of Mexico City. Filmed during September and December of 2001, this dramatic and moving documentary follows Marcos, Erika, Antonio and Juan as they get high, visit their families, and struggle to survive in the world’s largest metropolis.

On May 2, 1963, the children of Birmingham, Alabama took to the streets to challenge segregation.

Birds living in a tree suffer from the attacks of a Snake stealing their eggs. One day they figured out how to punish the villain.

Cloning brings whole new possibilities to narcissism. If one is dating one's clone and decides to break things off, are you really breaking up with yourself?

A bunch of drunks at a party. Video poetry.

An animated take on the bible story, focusing on choices and repercussions