Cinematic Era: 2004 Vintage

It traces the history of foreign debt from its beginnings, exposing the fraud behind it. Based on the lawsuit filed (and won) by Alejandro Olmos against the state, when he felt harmed by the foreign debt. A historical document.

The History of UK Punk 1980-1984. A mix of promo videos and, in many cases, extremely rare live material from the likes of The Exploited, GBH, The Destructors, Peter & The Test Tube Babies, and many others. The DVD documents the raw passion and creativity that fired the UK punk scene during the first half of the 1980s

Discover Red Rock Canyon's fascinating scenery, geology, plant and animal life. From herds of Bighorn to the desert tortoise, you'll learn about the plant and animal life which reside here. Discover petroglyphs and roasting pits left by prehistoric man.

An animated lullaby for children by Latvian poet Māris Čaklais.

A documentary that reveals the emotional tale behind four gay couples who married in San Francisco in 2004, as told in their own words. The relationships, emotions of marrying, and love stories of these couples come alive in this snapshot of a historic moment.

The ancient Greeks used as a support for their writings wooden frames on which they poured liquid wax. When solidifying, it formed a flat surface capable of being engraved by means of a punch. These tablets were called 'tabulas', and when they had not yet been used they were 'tabula rasa', blank sheets.

A young boy lies beneath a huge oak tree as life unravels around him.

"The Mashin' of the Christ" was/is Negativland's top-secret-not-for-viewing video response to the number one film in America. Negativland decrypted, downloaded and mashed up the most violent religious film ever made along with over 27 other Hollywood portrayals of Jesus to create their own vision of the last moments of Christ's life... all in four minutes and 14 seconds. Is Christianity still stupid? Is Communism still good? Negativland hoped that no one would ever find out for sure. - from Negativland's website

Japan has created many traditional art forms - the Nô theater is one of the most fascinating! Tranquillity, sublimity, clarity are words that come to mind when you first see a performance in the distinguished Nô National Theater in Tokyo. This art has been preserved and cultivated for 600 years. Exact guidelines determine every step, every word, every movement of the performers. Wrapped in heavy, exquisite costumes, they move across the stage as if in slow motion - accompanied by three drums, flute and choir. The main actor, Shite, also wears a mask - because the Nô is the oldest still existing mask theater in the world.

An aging gay Norwegian man recounts his glory days.

An experimental short film using line and textures by Daniel Greaves. Hand-Drawn animation.

3-part series exploring political and military power in Israel; how Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin and Ariel Sharon shaped the destiny of Israel, and indeed the entire Middle East.

Filmmaker Marian Marzynski documents the first 30 years of his daughter Anya’s life.

A group of travelers from a far away time search into the woods to find a mysterious force. They also learn that legend and magic work hand in hand to make men heroes when the gods blow the winds of fate and a torch of fire into their souls. This group learns that the human search for power is held within themselves.

A documentary about Domus department stores in Sweden.

The story of Jewish tenor Joseph Schmidt whose voice touched millions in the early Thirties. When Germany voted Hitler into power, Schmidt had to flee. He died in Switzerland at the age of 38.

A look at the issues surrounding gay marriage in Canada, political, religious and social as evidenced by three gay marriages that the film focuses on.

KILVO is a classical music video in the sense that the music already existed, a track by Radian called Kilvo like the town in Lapland. I wanted to know what the place looked like that inspired the music, so I went online and found all these old postcards and I started collecting them. I reduced the postcards to lines to emphasize the two-dimensionality of the represented landscape. I wanted the final videoimage to look like a postcard, so I divided it in 4 parts and generated every image on a black, a gray and a white background. Each beat of the bassdrum moved the images to the next quarter and I made an arrangement so that each quarter had to move in every three colors and in every possible direction. So in the end it became this very dynamic, animated postcard.

With this abstract digital video, Murata presents viewers with a field of seething colors and line, within which a suggestive, Rorschach-like formation manages to retain its structure even as it is in a constant state of flux. The mesmerizing tableau that results is accompanied by a cyclical, dronelike sound track.

In Grasshopper, park-bench philosopher AJ Vadehra expounds on astrology and more productive avenues of contemplation. Done all in grey-green, this animated but otherwise unedited interview is a good example of what happens when you approach the right stranger with a camera. Grasshopper premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and has since played in many other festivals worldwide.

Where we learn how Orpheus seduced Eurydice.

Jazz sax pioneer Steve Lacy shares the inspirations and influences that drove him to become one of the greatest soprano saxophonists of all time. Lacy discusses his heroes, including Sidney Bechet, John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, Gil Evans and Thelonious Monk, and the film features performance footage of all of these sax masters. Onstage, Lacy performs with Irene Aebi, Steve Potts, Bobby Few, Jean-Jacques Avenel and Oliver Johnson.

The story of the de-commissioning of the original Air force One.

Prepare to relive a great season of Formula 1! Are meeting for the first time on one DVD three unforgettable for the world championships - especially for Brazilians. In the years 88, 90 and 91, Ayrton Senna won his third championship and made ​​history with wins, overtaking and sensational disputes. It was a time geniuses of motoring. What's more the talent of Senna, the F1 filled the eyes of the fans of the show with other riders. In exclusive pictures of the lanes and racks, you'll be reunited with the boldness of the English Nigel Mansell, Nelson Piquet of accuracy. boldness of Frenchman Jean Alesi and expertise in Mays rival Senna career, Frenchman Alain Prost. They are all here, fighting each other for the first world title.

A person is heard fleeing an angry mob – yet the uncannily empty streets show no sign of the chase. A never-ending nightmare. Sound reveals the hidden history in an imagined place.

The film gradually reveals the apparently isolated existence of Dominguinhos, a 72-year-old hermit who lives inside a cave that juts off from a rock mountain. The film is composed of long silences in which the hermit executes his daily chores, such as cooking and cleaning, and of images that transcend his territory. Towards the end we discover that silence is commonplace in the hermit’s life, the normal state in which time passes. Speech is the state of exception.

Recorded live in 2004 at The Sydney Entertainment Centre, with over 11,000 worshippers. You will be inspired and touched with the 15 worship songs on Double CD, from Darlene Zschech and the Hillsong Team!

A man comes home from work, greeted by his dog roaming outside and by a neighbor complaining about the dog. The man bends over to pet his dog and finds that it's bleeding. "Oh my God," he mutters. He enters his house and there makes grisly discoveries, repeating over and over, "Oh my God!" and "How did this happen?" Soon his neighbor hears the exclamations. The man's fate concludes the film.

This is the true story of five brawling hockey players, who live in the back of a hockey arena and fight their way to heroic status in the most violent league in the world. One by one our heroes begin to crumble against their worst foes - themselves. Les Chiefs is a real-life account of men fighting to remain boys.

A frog tries to impress a shapely gazelle by transforming into various animals, each with a different attempted appeal.

Ben Franklin's young reporters, Sarah and James learn that Thomas Jefferson has arrived in Philadelphia to put the final touches on the Declaration of Independence. On July 4th, 1776, they sneak into the Independence Hall and watch as the 2nd Continental Congress declares America's independence from England. They then head to New York, where George Washington and his troops are fighting one of the most difficult battles of the Revolutionary War. James falls into the enemy hands, where he meets a fellow prisoner, the great patriot Nathan Hale. When Hale is told he will be executed, he bravely declares, "I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." The fight for liberty has begun, and there is no turning back!

Humorist Réal Béland goes in France with his friends to do some jokes

Leading a renaissance of earnestness is the Scottish band Travis, whose December 20, 2003 concert at London's Alexandra Palace finds the young band onstage and on fire before a polite yet enthusiastic crowd of 8,000. It's a huge hall, almost too big for the band's intimate, introspective music. But Travis pulls off a high-energy show built around its 2003 12 Memories album, lighting songwriter Fran Healy's pure-pop cadences with terse arrangements and bursts of overdriven sound. The band plays tight and clean, commendably resisting the tendency among bands to get noisy when they want to sound powerful. If only director Matt Askem better understood this concept. The cameras are always moving, giving us almost no stationary vantage. Still, the picture looks great, with terrific use of black and supersaturated hues emphasizing primary colors. Travis at the Palaceis an exciting record of a band in its prime.

What killed the woolly mammoth? Why do we find specimens all over Siberia? How did these hairy elephants survive such a hostile environment? You’ll be captivated as scientist Michael Oard solves the baffling mystery of the Ice Age that followed the biblical Flood.

College students Izumi, Tomoko, and Hikimasa arrive at a vacation rental villa, but it turns out to be a trap set by someone to kill them. But it turns out to be a trap set by someone to kill them...

The life and music of Walter Malosetti, one of the most important guitar and jazz exponents in Argentina.

This music release compiles several television appearances by legendary jazz singer Nat King Cole performing classic tracks such as 'I'm A Shy Guy', 'Too Young', 'Always You', and 'Now He Tells Me'.

Svava Jakobsdóttir is one of Iceland's greatest author. She fought long and hard for equality for women in Iceland and her work became an important milestone in Icelandic society. In this documentary highly acclaimed authors talk about Svavas writings and tell us more about her important work and what kind of an impact she had.

'Wise old little boy' is a portrait of Phil Elverum (the microphones) and Kyle Field (little wings). Following them on a tour of small towns and unconventional venues, Ryer Banta explores the world of two incredibly unique and creative musicians.

Two Senegalese boys are instructed in the proper pronunciation of their native Wolof; their introduction to language becomes the process through which they classify and order their own social and racial identity.

2004 release

A weary donkey causes a huge traffic jam on a busy road in Tbilisi. The donkey refuses to budge. Outside the city, a bull is attracted by the red dress of a pretty girl and chases her.

Documentary about the Brazilian poet Joaquim de Sousa Andrade.

They are an Indian people who have suffered for many years. They were forced to live in unimaginable squalor. Houses not much better than cardboard boxes. No running water, no sewage disposal. Human waste tossed into the streets where children played in it and dogs ate it. As their sense of worth disintegrated, they engaged in a process of self-destruction. 90% of the community became alcoholic. Many of their children sniffed gas. Many more suffered from chronic disease. Stripped of culture, meaning, and hope, they killed themselves at a rate among the world's highest. But their tragedies did not occur in a third world country. They happened in a country with a reputation as one of the world's best places to live-Canada. They are the Innu. For thousands of years they roamed strong and free.

A collection of 6 queer horror film shorts.

A theater directed by Pari Saberi

If you're a teenager living in Liberal, Kansas, you can have a job "being Dorothy" at Liberal's own Land of Oz Museum. Being Dorothy weaves the lyrical mysticism of the wizard of Oz into the conservative landscape of middle America. Is there no place like home for Dorothy today?

"The caterpillar becomes a butterfly, the pig becomes a sausage, that is the law of nature." From birth to supermarket, 3 experiments on the well-being of farmed pigs are discussed by 2 biologists, 1 philosopher, 1 animal keeper, and 2 trainees from the pig research station of the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique in Saint-Gilles in Brittany. Between scientific documentary and journalistic tract, this is a subjective vision of the practices of scientific objectivation in a French institution.

Documentary about Iran's deadliest train disaster.