Cinematic Era: 2005 Vintage

A documentary where old movies technicians tells us how we get to present movies.

The history of Ireland through its music and the impact this has had on the country's struggles.

An elderly woman's quiet routine is interrupted when the local chapel undergoes a makeover.

A reconstruction of the lives of political prisoners of the last Argentine military dictatorship detained in Caseros Prison. It records testimonies that evoke episodes experienced in the cells, hallways, visiting rooms, infirmary, recreation yard, chapel, among other places. The documentary was filmed almost entirely in the prison building during the beginning of its demolition. The interviewees return to the place of their detention almost twenty years after their release. Their testimonies capture the emotions that the reunion aroused in them.

Featuring up-close, intimate footage and highly informative narration, "Wars of Israel" provides a comprehensive and engaging journey through the military history of the modern state of Israel. Experience the struggles and the joy of the War of Independence (194, when five heavily equipped modern armies struck at this tiny nation on the day of her birth, sending her citizens scrambling to form make-shift weapons of irrigation pipes and other agricultural tools.

Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news. But his father has set different aims for his son, so the afternoon comes to an unexpected end.

Zero Skateboards presents the full length video New Blood. With parts from Jon Allie, Garrett Hill, John Rattray, Tony Cervantes, Jamie Thomas, Tommy Sandoval, James Brockman and Chris Cole.

A prisoner gets a new cellmate, one who is very eager to escape.

Tierra negra is a global view, understanding different aspects (social, geographic, geological, human, etc.), the Laciana Mining Valley. However, accurate localization is only a reference element, to analyze and discover, in a scientific and poetic way, global mechanisms present in the life of every community. Or something so trivial and complex at once as what makes it possible that every time I push a switch the light turns on?

Produced for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, this "bibliodoc" about bubblegum music was inspired by and based on the excellent book of the same title.

Reflections in a surrealist tone about the art of cinema.

As a twelve-year-old boy, Nicola de Leo already knew she wanted to become a woman. Today, the now forty-year-old transsexual lives in Venice and has changed her name to Nicole. She has undergone a hormone treatment and grown breasts, but she still lives inside the body of a middle-aged man, including a penis, a beard and a substantial Adam's apple. This is why Nicole is applying for a sex change through official channels. 'I never thought it would be so hard. I thought making the decision was enough,' she says. During five tense years, Nicole fights her emotional and physical struggle in the presence of director Alberto Vendemmiati's camera. Working as an actress, a seller of carnival masks and a prostitute, she finances her cosmetic treatments and looks forward to the subsidised sex change operation. Meanwhile, she turns to her elderly mother for support, who has a hard time accepting that her son will soon be a daughter.

In Monster Movie Murata employs an exacting frame-by-frame technique to turn a bit of B-movie footage (from the 1981 film Caveman) into a seething, fragmented morass of color and shape that decomposes and reconstitutes itself thirty times per second.

Just a good documentary, trying to prove about the interference of the USA, the World Bank, IMF,etc, in the economy and business of other countries. Filmed in locations around The Guarani aquifer, a big repository of water, able for supplying all the population of the planet for four hundred years, a resource under the see of foreign economies, and in ecologic danger. The Guarani aquifer is owned by Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay and Uruguay, witch's governments seems no to be interested. The movie reveals why the rumors of terrorism in in the south, in special the triple border is a fraud, and the only intention is to control the natural resources-water and biological-,installing military bases in the zone. It was made with interviews to scientist, politics and journalist, including Nobel Prize Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, some interviews in natural landscapes, near animals like the cayman, a kind of crocodile, and there is a comparison, in how the World Bank is a predator.

The Opera is Giuseppe Verdi's La Forza del Destino, a new production from the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Maurizio Arena and directed by John Copley, with a world-renowned cast featuring opera stars Stefka Evstatieva, Allan Monk, Judith Forst and Ernesto Veronelli. Combining behind-the-scenes footage, beginning with the initial chorus rehearsals, with the set, timing and scheduling, costumes, music, staging rehearsals and on to the final spectacular production, this documentary film tells the complete story, from humble beginnings to the magnificent performance.

Candy Mountain Run / Stander on the Mountain / Gonna Be Some Changes Made / Funhouse / Mandolin Rain / Jacob's Ladder / The Way It Is / Fortunate Son / Rainbow's Cadillac / See The Same Way / Dreamland / White-Wheeled Limousine / The Valley Road

A family is torn apart by the conflict in Nicaragua, leaving brother fighting brother and illustrating religious manipulation, male chauvinism and poverty as part of the destructive legacy of war.

Today's been sad. Tomorrow won't get any better. Let's un-do it all over again

Frenz of the Enz club DVD of live TV performances of Finn Brothers, Crowded House and Split Enz

Uwe Scholz is one of the most brilliant choreographic minds of his generation he died in November 2004 at the age of 45. The Great Mass is one of the most impressive works of this important neoclassical Choreographer - a truly impressive requiem; a choreographic revelation. The full length Choreography takes its name from Mozart's famous unfinished Mass in C minor and adds other works by the same composer, such as the Adagio and Fugue in C minor and the motet Ave verum corpus as well as passages of Gregorian chant, and sequences from contemporary music by György Kurtág, Thomas Jahn and Arvo Pärt. The Leipzig Ballet is regarded as one of the best ballet companies worldwide.

Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: A Kingdom of Kindness is a unofficial 2005 direct-to-video animated feature produced by DisneyToon Studios. It was actually the first film in the brand new Disney Princess Enchanted Tales series (including Follow Your Dreams) of direct-to-video films, each featuring new stories about the Disney Princesses; Belle and Ariel--including her daughter; Melody, guest star from The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea, makes her appearance for the first time. It was released on July 4, 2005 by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.

Ryan is having a tough time making friends in his new neighborhood. The Littlest Angel is eager to help, but this is his very first earthly assignment. With faith, hope, understanding, they soon discover that miracles happen.

Prisoners working outdoors clash when one, Mark, is violently beaten after merely asking for water.

In his first live stand-up DVD for over 10 years, Lenny Henry at his brilliant best!

Malpertuis featurette on the casting of Welles, including rare outtakes of the actor

Jake and Bobby, two chain smoking roommates, make a friendly bet to see who can go longer without smoking a cigarette. As the days pass and tension mounts, both men do everything they can to hold on to what sanity they have left as they learn the true nature of addiction.

‘“Road-Watch” television footage of Toronto highways (from the local stock-market information channel) is processed through a series of slow-shutter VHS feedback loops. A cinematic surveillance depicting traffic absent of time/place designations.’ — CLL

2005 release

Paul Rusesabagina returns to his homeland of Rwanda, including reuniting with some of the hotel employees at the Hotel des Milles Collines.

Abraham Wasserman, a Holocaust survivor who had lost his entire family in the camps, and who has since turned his back on God is an elderly farmer living in a small, rural community. Of his two daughters, one still lives with him whilst the other has become ultra-orthodox. The relationship with his immediate family is complex, as is the one with his grandchildren and the other locals in the community which, over the years, has grown increasingly religious. It is a drought year and Abraham, for whom working the field is his whole life, finds himself at a critical juncture: he stands to lose everything – his livelihood, his family; even his hatred of God which is keeping him alive. In this time of crisis, he is left with no choice but to seek out the same God whom he had forsaken; and pray.

A short music video for Plones "Bibi Plone."

Gucha, a small town in Central Serbia, becomes the world capital of brass bands every August. Three days of brass band competition, celebration, and joy of life are now captured in this documentary.

A fascinating story of effort towards global peace, featuring eight peace people of Aotearoa New Zealand – spanning some seven decades – peacewalkers, petitioners, and folk in small boats and on the surfboards sailing out into the harbours in the face of huge warships. A unique documentary, bedded in the movement of aihe (dolphins), tohora (whales), kotuku (white herons), toroa (albatross) and with an original score blending contemporary waiata and traditional Maori musical instruments.

A historic documentary detailing the events of August 22, 1965 when the Beatles performed at the Memorial Coliseum in Portland Oregon

Stop motion extravaganza of a motorcycle made of fruit, two lovers riding in the night.

In the late fifties Iceland was isolated and backwards. Industrialisation had really just begun and the country was taking it’s first steps towards the ultra-modern society we know today. The US military set up a base next to the sleepy fishing village of Keflavik on the south coast turning everything on it’s head. The Americans outnumbered the locals three to one. Culturally it was as if a UFO had landed. The young people were more open to cultural influences than the older generation and this triggered a rock and roll explosion which then swept the rest of the country. It was the birth of Icelandic teenage culture. Because of Iceland’s location right between America and Europe the cultural influences mixed to produce an unique blend.

Brief history of the video artist and the history of the video

Recorded in May 2005 in the Mossi village of Dabo, in northern Burkina Faso, the above video produced by the late Christopher Roy (1947-2019) documents the traditional way of smelting iron. We witness a group of smith elders making charcoal, digging and mining the ore and flux, building the kiln (with clay from a termite mound), firing the kiln, making sacrifices, smelting the iron, and forging the iron into tools. No iron had been smelted in the region for over 50 years, this video being a reenactment of the old ways – as they now buy their iron imported from China. It’s a fascinating documentary that can only enlarge your respect for the makers of the many traditional African iron tools and weapons we encounter in the West. And, you’ll see that ‘pumping iron’ has a meaning outside the gym as well!

In 2001 the law in the UK for gay porn changed forever. Up until then, the only porn gay men in the UK could enjoy would be illegal, bad quality material mainly from Europe and America. Even up until 2003 certain sexual acts were still illegal in gay porn, whilst their straight counterpart movies still enjoyed greater freedom in sexual expression. Now that has all changed and films can be produced and sold freely in the UK and a new industry is starting to emerge. "The Seven Secrets to Perfect Porn" follows the work of Max Lincoln, who took the opportunity to start his own movie company, Eurocreme, in the UK to make porn to challenge the American and European dominance of hardcore films.

A doctor is producing something he calls 'the Perfected', a creature that, like Frankenstein's monster, was created from body parts from different people that he hopes will have superhuman powers.

Since PEAU D'ÂNE, cakes have become love potions. Today, to seduce your prince charming, no longer slip into your dough an ugly expensive ring that risks breaking your teeth, but a 100% natural ingredient that good friends can provide you for free... Here, finally revealed, the magical and extraordinary recipe from Madame Peau de Zob, an upstart peasant and bourgeoisie, who sings to us, with the banter of the 1930s, how to make a Cake with Cordom syrup... After OMELETTE and LES YEUX BROUILLÉS, Rémi Lange persists in his vein of culinary art with this three-minute clip which was originally commissioned by Alain Burosse for the 2005 Gay Night on Canal +. This little film was a great success during its screening as part of the 11th Paris Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

The concert set Live à l'Olympia documents Chiméne Badi's appearances at the legendary Paris music hall on 22 and 23 February 2005.

Juan Gelman and Other Issues is a documentary that reviews the life and work of a great poet, with some bandoneon music in the background.

The cat was chased out of the house by the owners, and the fox sheltered him and scared his friends with his new friend.

After the end of Guatemala's military dictatorship, relatives of the Maya killed during the genocide in the 1980s search for the bodies of their missing relatives, and fight to bring the perpetrators to justice.

What now my love / Now that you left me / How can I live through another day / Watching my dreams turn into ashes / And all my hopes into bits of clay (Pierre Delanoë)