Cinematic Era: 2004 Vintage

Video documentary of the last show of bass player Greg Demos. Includes footage of the band's practice session on Bob's front porch with Bob playing guitar.

2004 release

Young man wakes up in the street and is missing a shoe

Three women in heavy make-up find themselves in an empty flat.

Documentary featuring Patrick, a 9-year-old boy who is in first grade for the third time without knowing how to read or write.

National Geographic: the Boys of Normandy-60 Years after D-Day

Pornography can sometimes be beautiful, sensitive, aesthetic. A movie about making love, respirations, exhibition, loveniness, silences...

A short film by Jean-Claude Rousseau.

Awel Jones unexpectedly loses her gravity. At first she is embarrassed by her amazing gift and becomes isolated at school - until one day, she has to confront the bullies.

A young man on a mountaintop improvising empty tin cans into a drum set. Overlooking the suburbs of Batman, a Turkish city near Iraq, he abruptly stops playing and kicks the cans down the hillside—a rebellious gesture as familiar to rock and roll as it is to performance art.

Sit back and flick through over 3 hours of epic footage from inside our boardriding world.. Check out the worlds best surfers in the Quiksilver Pro presented by Boost, the Quiksilver Pro Fiji, the Quiksilver Crossing, the Quiksilver Airshow World Series, the Snickers Pro and loads more. Turn up the volume with a soundtrack that includes Xavier Rudd, Sunk Lotto, Sender, and The Camels. This is Quiksilver...

On October 30, 1969, Pete O'Neal, a young Black Panther in Kansas City, Missouri, was arrested for transporting a gun across state lines. One year later, O'Neal fled the charge, and for over 30 years, he has lived in Tanzania as one of the last American exiles from an era when activists considered themselves at war with the U.S. government. Today, this community organizer confronts very different challenges and finds himself living between two worlds — America and Africa, his radical past and his uncertain future.

A champion runner finds himself torn between winning a race and compulsively amassing any object he finds on his way. The film came about from a workshop run by Balázs Lóth in Budapest called Celluloid Műhely. Each participant was given complete freedom to make anything as long as the production didn’t exceed one roll of 16mm film, which was donated by the workshop.

To mark his 21st anniversary in broadcasting, the commentator Darcus Howe picks up on his chosen topic for another piece of work; racism. However, when Howe came to England "racism" was something that all ethnic groups faced from white people and it bonded the community together. Now Howe travels to the Midlands and several other areas of England to find that racism is rife within the ethnic community. He interviews those within the West Indian, Indian, Pakistani and Somalis communities to find that they are split with hatred and racism views of one another bringing the communities to the boil.

The year 2004 marks the 35th anniversary of the 1969 New York riots at Stonewall Inn.

Documentary that explores how philosophy, mythology and music combine in Mahler's Third Symphony to create an all-encompassing panoramic experience.

Found Super 8 footage is the basis of this flicker film which has been hand treated with ink and bleach. Every other frame has been coloured with a black marker pen to create the flicker and cracked mosaic effect.

Shot at the Flushing Mall in Queens, New York, "Flushing" is tour of a mall that doesn't live up to the glossy standards of typical American consumer palaces, but is thereby, perhaps a better place to understand the yearnings for fantasy via retailing.

An unofficial sequel to Kefir-Profit's unofficial Terminator sequel... This time featuring Superman, Rambo, Neo from the Matrix, Harry Potter and the evil Agent 007.

A summer's day in a Berlin suburb. Frank, a loud-mouthed hallodrider, is constantly running into nothing. Karla, a depressive sleeping beauty, is constantly falling over. No wonder Frank keeps tripping over Karla. Ex-punk and hippie buckle? Why not, think Ratzo and Izzy, two drunks for whom life is one big quiz show. However, standing in the way of the health food store owner is Harry, the last person still running a "Nicaragua Group". Meanwhile, journalist Robbie is on the hunt for a Nobel Prize winner who has gone into hiding. And two tourists from the Caucasus are looking for "Dschumbrilla". So everyone is on the lookout and finds something different.

A Special History of Saudi Arabia, it's troubled relationship with America, and the challenges confronting a nation where tradition an modernity are in violent collision.

"Gagarin’s Pioneers" is a journey of the director in search of his classmates from the 52nd school of the city of Lviv, with whom he studied in Soviet times. These are thirty-three short films about the author's thirty-three classmates. Today, several people still live in Lviv. The rest have gone all over the world. What unites the former pioneers of the Gagarin detachment now? What is the Motherland for them today, to which they swore an oath when they joined the pioneers in the spring of 1973?

During the Sydney Olympics, a young drag queen runs her own race.

Concert Hall of the Culture and Convention Centre Lucerne, 18-19 August 2004

Short movie

The Fab Four's early, innocent years are remembered in this fascinating look at the Hamburg Star Club era of the famous band. Former Beatles manager Allan Williams, Star Club manager Horst Fascher and Tony Sheridan (who performed with The Beatles in Germany and was instrumental in getting Ringo into the band after Pete Best was fired) are interviewed … and the fascinating anecdotes flow as freely as the music.

Explore the public and private life of one of the 20th Century's most important Americans. The legacy of Howard Hughes is both inspirational and tragic. Gain insight into the motivations of this complex man through a rare interviews and footage.

Trailer for Crossing Europe Film Festival, Linz 2004.

Veteran Christian musicians the Rance Allen Group praise the Lord and pump up their fans by performing some of their most popular songs, such as "Miracle Worker" and "Preacher Man." With their R&B-infused gospel sound, the talented group delivers inspirational songs that uplift the soul while getting the body moving. Guest artists Fred Hammond, Kirk Franklin and LaShun Pace join the band for a truly memorable live concert.

Franklin McDowell embarks on a journey to kill his estranged wife. But along the way, he receives resistance from a mysterious preacher-like stranger who appears to know more about Franklin than himself. Will the preacher's revelations make him change his mind or will Franklin go through with his evil intentions?

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.

Black magician by witchcraft and cunning seized the power in Baghdad. The oracle predicted that a girl named Fatima would cause his death. The magician told the servants to get rid of her. But Fatima miraculously escapes and even acquires unusual friends. Together they go to Baghdad and defeat the Black magician and his servants.

Moroccan TV film about the events of 11 September in USA. The first dramatic production in the Arab world deals with the events of September 11 and the repercussions of these events on the Arab citizen through the story of a simple worker who was holding all his hopes to emigrate to America to achieve his dreams that have become deferred

2004 release

A special concert to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Takarazuka's musical version of The Rose of Versailles.

A collection of promos by Welsh rock band Super Furry Animals.

The artist is captured by a fixed camera while moving on her knees around her atelier. Almeida explores the space and its limits, as well as the things in it, thus creating a dialogue between the artist's body and the place where she develops her craft.

How the advance of a column of tanks is stopped by the ultimate war machine in the hands of an unrelenting general. A statement from the heart against the rapidly changing world political stage.

The whole world is confident that bears walk the streets in Russia, and the entire population from young to old is drinking vodka from morning to evening. In fairness, we note that Russian people themselves recognize the reputation of inveterate drunkards and are proud of it somewhere. Russian Russian documentarian Alexey Khanyutin made an attempt to analyze the role of vodka in the life of a Russian person.

A gay Filipino man goes home with a non-Asian man that he meets at a club. When he finds a chinaman figurine and other Asian knickknacks he's confronted with the issue of how race affects desire.

There's excitement on the farm where the Ugly Duckling lives, because a very special competition is about to take place. It's the Big Race, and all the best runners are going to compete, like Mariano the rooster, always full of fun, the motorized tortoise, sneaky old Apolo, and, last but not least, the Ugly Duckling, ready to surprise us all. The contestants are under starters orders for a race packed with challenges and adventures. Who will be the winner?

It's 1903, and Otto Weininger, Vienna's most infamous self-hating Jew has decided to kill himself in a room containing Beethoven's deathbed. He has just published his first book Sex and Character, and has yet to witness an acknowledgment of his self-assured genius. Haunted by the damning statements within his own book, he holds a gun to his head, and takes a leap towards the great unknown.

Pleymo’s 2004 Les Inrockuptibles performance, live at Zénith Paris. Remastered for the first time ever in 4K.

A profile of bad-boy Canadian painter Richard Lukacs.

A Norwegian film crew on a road trip through the deep American South run across a liquor store owned by Jerry Lee Lewis' wild'n'crazy sister and her drunken husband. They're invited to stay the night and what starts off as quirky redneck antics suddenly devolves into an all-out hillbilly horror show!

The thoughts of a young African woman in Ireland as she considers her future, and her unfolding sense of identity, as she walks along the city street at night.

Exhibitionist captures legendary Detroit DJ and producer Jeff Mills as he mixes a selection of techno/house tunes on his three-deck setup, providing a close look at his skill and technique. A black backdrop behind Mills was used so that the reprogramming of this footage in a live setting would not conflict with existing decor. Consists of four parts - Axis Mix, Purpose Maker Mix, Tomorrow Mix, and Exhibitionist Mix.

Seventy-five days before the U.S. Army captured Saddam Hussein, an Iraqi-Canadian filmmaker tries to re-enter his homeland after 27 years of forced exile. In Jordan, he meets other Iraqis who are no longer able to cross the border: workers without jobs, truckers, cab drivers and anxious refugees. Worn down by years of war, sanctions, arbitrary arrests, torture and fear of execution, the men angrily recall the darkest years of the fallen regime. Still stunned by the course of events and uncertain about the future, they have no faith in the Americans, whom they believe are out for their oil. "Are we another Palestine?" asks one of them. Shot in the thick of the action amid the ongoing chaos, the film reveals Iraqi opinions and their versions of the unfolding story.

2004 release

Short film accompaniment to photos of Rieko Miura.

Exclusive footage from classified espionage British bases on the island of Cyprus. Which countries and which satellites are being watched?

The short film is dedicated to the outstanding Ukrainian film director. The video features archival footage in which writers Vasyl Chekhon, Viktor Shklovsky, and Armenian film director Levon Isakyan share their memories of Oleksandr Dovzhenko. It includes excerpts from Dovzhenko's films, archival photographs, and footage of memorable places in Armenia.

2004 release