Cinematic Era: 2004 Vintage

In 1994, Minamata disease victims held an exhibition in Tokyo where portraits of the all 1080 people who had died of the disease by that time were displayed.

A portrait of the prominent Iranian novelist, whose work dealt with the troubled nature of life within his native country, often due to political upheaval.

Coil's very final live appearance at the 2004 Dublin Electronic Arts Festival held in the Dublin City Hall.

A head-spinning spoof from the get-go, Kwoon was a big hit on the Internet. Now, you can witness the pure digital video magic of nonstop action, sidesplitting guffaws and titanically bad acting in one of the few truly offbeat entertainment experiences this country has ever produced. Kwoon is sure to make you feel better about yourself … in comparison, that is!

A gang of crooks are escaping cops through the jungle. Suddenly a magical portal opens up, sucks them through and they appear in a lost city inhabited only by women.

House of Blues, Chicago, IL

Depression era story of a young woman trapped in an abusive marriage who finds grace in the friendship of her neighbor, and hope in the love of a traveling salesman. Garnering awards at festivals all over the world, Tom's Wife offers a glimpse into the scope of truly independent cinema and will be a joy to watch for anyone looking for a story with heart and dignity.

You can check out 6 unedited stories with Smilingüido and his entire class. Check out the chapters: Adventure in the Forest; Kind-hearted; Beijoqueira; Teacher's Lesson; The best gift; The thing.

Lynn Marie Kirby’s Lenten Light Conversions is a “hybrid” work, created first by exposing raw film to light inside St. Ignatius during the forty days between Lent and Easter, then edited on digital video. --Michelle Hyun

Two executives leave for a sailboat trip with two prostitutes. They end up mysteriously disappearing. Everything indicates that it was a crime. Meanwhile, a documentary filmmaker is making a film about the life of prostitutes. She meets Viviane, sister of one of the missing girls. Together they go in search of the truth.

A school theater production is not the best place to fall in love. Especially when you're in charge of lights and you can not stop looking at Romeo

* In concert: at the Jazz Cafe, + 2 extra songs from the Autumn 2003 tour. * Meet the band: individual profiles of the world's most dysfunctional drum+bass band. * Road Trips: behind-the-scenes footage from the last 12 months on the road. Including tour bus headspins, the joys of soundchecks, BBC live sessions, The Knowledge Awards and more. * Animated Videos: the amazing videos for 'Cum Dancing' and 'Billion Dollar' Gravy' by award winning animators Conkerco.

A five-part, site-specific installation and single-channel videotape. The piece manipulates shards of narrative into a meditation on the construction of self and culture through language. Archaeology and You juxtaposes historical theory with ever-timely questions such as “What do we have to say?” and “Why do we bother writing it down?”

Two unemployed film school graduates, a prostitute, a handsome policeman, a mature woman and her teenage daughter. They all lead their miserable lives on the mean streets of Lódz, and try desperately to love and be loved in return.

A promotional animation for the video game "Rockman Zero 3".

The source material came from the prosecution, who wanted to use it as a basis. The 120 hours of material from the broadcasts of various US television stations, which the officials of the Sacramento prosecutor's office had recorded (in poor picture and sound quality), were surprisingly made available to Lutz Dammbeck in 2002. However, there was no trial in 1998.

A portrait of two very different mathematicians, porridge pulleys and Pi features Fields medalist Vaughan Jones, one of the world's foremost knot theorists and an avid windsurfer, and Hendrik lenstra, a number theorist with a passion for Homer and all things classical. Porridge pulleys and Pi poses the question: how do we get first-rate research mathematicians? Hendrik lenstra and Vaughan Jones have had an extraordinary impact on mathematics; this charming documentary gives the viewer a taste of their personalities, mathematical and otherwise. A whirlwind tour of knots, geonomics, cryptography, music, Homer, elliptic curves, art, and windsurfing, the video contains sections on the history of Pi, and a suprising discovery involving a cocoa tin and an Escher print.

This exciting, award-winning documentary explores the history and many acheivements of women in auto racing- the fight for recognition in a male-dominated field, the safety risks, the enthusiastic fans, family support and encouragement, the marketing and sponsorship challenges, and the pressure of being a role model. Thrilling footage from both historic and current races, and interviews with racing's most prominent women and men reveal just how far women have come in the field. -Witness some of these women's horrific crashes and learn what lures them back into the driver's seat. -Discover how a very shy and timid women expertly handles a monster machine zooming at 220mph across a salt bed. -Hear the touching tale of driver Kimberly Myers, a women who races against her own clock and Cystic Fibrosis -Meet Shawna Robinson, Janet Guthrie, Lyn St. James, and Tammy Jo Kirk along with other pioneers of women's racing

Harris lives in Manhattan. He is working in the real estate business, trying to recover from the love he just lost and struggling to move closer to becoming the stage performer he wants to be. The film moves intensely between something very fictitious and something very real.

Stone Dream records the daily life of Liu and his family and, by means of interviews with the protagonist and his neighbours, describes the complex ethnic relationships in Taiwan, where many Chinese live who have started families with native Taiwanese. The stones from the title are the rocks from the river that sometimes, in their polished form, display beautiful landscapes, as a symbol of inner beauty. When his wife dies, the now elderly Liu wants to return to his fatherland, but at the same time he realises that he will no longer feel at home there. He has become too strongly attached to his new fatherland Taiwan, where his son and grandson were born.

One year following the killings depicted in the original movie, the ghost of Kane Barker returns. More people die by the ax, drawing police chief Lawless and occult book store owner Myra into the center of the mystery.

We Will Take You With Us is the first DVD released by the Dutch symphonic metal band Epica. It contains material from their debut album, The Phantom Agony, As well as a cover of Memory from the musical Cats. The video was recorded for 2 Meter Sessies, a Dutch live music television show. The title of this release is taken from the lyrics of "Façade of Reality".

Concert film featuring Tata Young's Japan Tour 2005 ~I Believe~ filmed live at Zepp Tokyo on April 17, 2004.

A short story about a fierce chase between a rat, a dog, and a fully automatic vermin exterminator.

A Korean father goes out to have fun with his friends that leads to sex

Documentary short covering the early career of actress Misty Mundae.

Retold and illustrated by Jim LaMarche; Narrated by Patrick Stewart A pair of elves secretly create and amazing pair of shoes for a poor by kindly shoemaker.

Edward Said was one of the great contemporary intellectuals of our time and a prominent spokesperson for the Palestinian cause. Shortly before his death in 2003, a French film crew spent several weeks with him and his family. The result is this intimate documentary that offers Said's reflections on how the experience of exile shaped the central ideas, the work and the struggles of this famous academic and activist. Speaking of his background, Said once told a journalist, "My sense of exile has been lifelong -- it's a question of articulating it," Selves and Others features the Said speaking about his nomadic childhood and his views on Eastern identity in the West and how the city of New York balances tradition with a sense of constant change.

A marriage is disturbed when an uninvited guest gets confused for someone else.

Lucia di Lammermoor is a dramma tragico (tragic opera) in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti.

A century ago the Arabs were at peace with the West, allies in World War I. Then, in violation of God's Law that Jews must obey Jesus Christ in order to reoccupy His promised land, Zionist leaders set up a Jewish state in Palestine. From that moment, Mideast tensions mounted. Ultimately, after nearly a century of Zionist abuses, the Arab world has been driven to frenzy. This is not only against Israel, but against its arch supporter, Christian America.

The director questions his parents about their private life, past and present. They belong to a generation marked by misery and oppression, where marriage was "until death do us part". Although they are seen frequently together, they answer openly but alone. It's a portrait of identity, origin, memory - a stunning black and white intimacy.

In the cramped, cluttered confines of Shopsin’s, a legendary hole-in-the-wall diner in New York’s Greenwich Village, eccentric chef Kenny Shopsin holds court—serving up an absurdly massive menu alongside his razor-sharp wit and unfiltered philosophies on life, food, and human nature. As the family-run institution faces a forced relocation, this intimate documentary captures the controlled chaos of Kenny’s world, where every customer is a character and every meal is a performance. A love letter to stubborn individuality and the art of doing things your own way.

We follow Ulla-Carin through a few months at the end of her life. It depicts the disease ALS, with all its consequences and how a person deals with a condition that little by little breaks down his body.

Short animated film by Tomoyasu Murata.

WATER PEOPLE is an erotic and painful allegory of dark desire featuring blazing performances by its lead actors. Stew, a guitarist and intellectual, is traveling to the country with his girlfriend Carrie and their dog, Max, to Stew's recently-deceased grandmother's home to deal with her estate. Just as death is palpable in the house with its eerily silent rooms filled with boxes of decaying furniture and old photographs to be auctioned off, so too is the couple's relationship creeping toward an unspoken demise. Stew, who suffers from an unknown ailment and is in a perpetual state of denial, frantically clutches at his over-sexed girlfriend, who resents being tied down by any man. She sets her designs on an unwitting local gardener and uses him as a pawn in her game of sexual manipulation and destruction. Through voyeuristic imagery and a deafening silence, the tension builds to a climax.

A Donatello award nominated short feature.

Born in Wyoming in 1912, Jackson Pollock became one of the most notorious artists that America ever produced. He developed a technique in which he would fix his canvas to the floor, drip and splash paint onto it, then use a variety of objects to manipulate the paint. With these innovative paintings, he became the front-runner of the Abstract Expressionist movement.

The clouds over a couple give rise to a story about the small everyday gestures of a world that stops around the disturbing spaces of everyday life.

A woman hires a "troubleshooter" to deal with a possible haunting in her home. But all is not as it seems.

Hosted by State Senator Shiela Kuehl, 'Coming Out: A collection of Stories', is a in-debth investigation of what it means to be gay/lesbian and how each person has grown to come to grips with their sexuality. Coming Out is an elightening and freeing experience, and those who have experienced it share thier most intimate stories.

Documentary about AJEP, a organization that helps children who lost their parents in fight against AIDS, in Burkina Faso.

DVD of CD release

Join triplets Anna, Teresa and Helena as they set off to discover the world and beyond, learning some valuable lessons about friendship and family in this collection of three episodes from the delightful animated children's series. In Africa, the kids meet a friendly taxi driver who tells them about his culture. Then they join a traveling circus and perform at a refugee camp. Later, the trio blasts off for an exciting adventure in space.

Ritualised through performance to camera, Stages of Mourning is Pucill’s journey of bereavement. In as much as this is a meditation on coming to terms with loss, the film is an exploration of how our relationship with the dead is made different through film. The artist orders image fragments of her late lover and collaborator, Sandra Lahire. By trying to physically immerse herself into photographs and film footage or by restaging these, Pucill forms a continuous stream of a life of two lovers. Through this doubling and layering, illusions accumulate as if these were a product of a machine that didn’t stop.

After the destruction of his home, Sutkeh the Destroyer struggles to find work and acceptance in an unforgiving world.

A Donatello award nominated short drama about a misunderstanding that spirals out of control.

A condensed omnibus of all twelve chapters of Film ist. by Gustav Deutsch. Chapters 1-6 consists almost exclusively, of sequences from existing scientific films, while chapters 7-12 is a collection of moving pictures from the first thirty years of a medium which was then still silent.

Luukkaankangas - Updated, Revisited, 2004, 8 min., Beta SP, Music: Stefan Németh, Commissioned by: Kunstverein Medienturm Graz

Threnody is a somber but luminous progression through a delicate articulation of earthly phenomena… an offering to a friend who died. It is the second of two devotional songs, the first being The Visitation. These two films were preceeded by a series of Four Cinematic Songs: Triste, Variations, Arbor Vitae, and Love’s Refrain.

Film starring Blair Underwood, Regina King