All Films

Magnum Photos: The Changing of a Myth

2001 • 58 min • Germany

This video artfully weaves together a sort of history of Magnum Photos, one of the world's premier photo agencies, with a fresh look at where new Magnum photographers are taking the group. Magnum is more than a traditional photo agency, though, which is not widely known. It is a cooperative of photographers founded in 1947 whose original members tended to focus on documentary-style photography. This focus has developed over the years to become almost an ethos: to compassionately record the human condition.

Baalbek

2001 • 53 min

A journalist and a photographer drift on their way between Beirut and Baalbeck. Their journey is repeated three times in three different ways to evoke current issues and confusion in Lebanon’s present state.

D.s.t.

2001 • 6 min • Canada

In "DST", Canadian porn icon Peter North helps shed some light on the confusing issues of road safety in the 21st century. Mr. North is one of the pornography industry's most cautious drivers, and as a role model for today's youth, he helps steer kids in the right direction.

The Day Before Yesterday

2001 • 22 min

The hard life of lesbians during the fascism in Italy, when the woman had value just due to the mother role and the word "lesbian" cannot be pronounced. 5 women as witnesses.

Evert

2001 • 45 min • Sweden

A crime is defined as an act which follows by a punishment, according to applicable law. Therefore it can not be a crime unless you are punished. But then it will not be the perfect crime either. Just perfect.

Bucky Pizzarelli - Swing Live

2001 • 60 min

Bucky Pizzarelli leads a strong quintet through this intimate live set at Makor, a Manhattan night spot. The seven-string guitarist is always game for anything, and with a superb group -- including nearly everyone's first-call bassist, Michael Moore, clarinetist Allan Vaché, vibraphonist Peter Appleyard (who previously worked with Benny Goodman, as did Michael Moore and the leader), and drummer Bernard "Pretty" Purdie -- the veteran leads his group through seven favorites from the swing era. The set sounds very relaxed and informal, as if the musicians were playing for their own fun and had no idea tapes were rolling. A snappy take of "Perdido" and an extended workout of "Limehouse Blues" are but two of the memorable tracks recorded that evening.

VH1 Divas Live: The One and Only Aretha Franklin

2001 • 60 min

A concert performance by "Lady Soul" Aretha Franklin, as well as Mary J. Blige, Marc Anthony and Jill Scott. From Radio City Music Hall in New York.

David Sanborn & Friends | The Super Session

2001 • 47 min

David Sanborn Band : David Sanborn, Marcus Miller, Ricky Peterson, David Gilmore, Gene Lake, Don Alias // Special Guests : Lou Reed, Boz Scaggs, Joan Osborne, Naughty By Nature, Dr. John, Isaac Hayes

TO NEW YORK WITH LOVE - A Letter to Penny Arcade June 25, 2001

2001 • 15 min • United States of America

I made this video June 23, 2001, as a letter for my good friend Penny Arcade who some days earlier had asked me why I love New York. I truly love New York! This letter to Penny Arcade is my love letter to New York.

Foundation – Art Bars Subtitles and Seagulls

2001 • 40 min

Skaters: Daniel Shimizu, Ethan Fowler, Jon West, Judd Hertzler, Justin Roy, Justin Strubing, Kris Markovich, Mike Rusczyk, Omar Salazar

Se mig nu

2001 • 25 min

Two cousins, Iben and Sanne, are invited to spend their summer holiday with their aunt, the owner of a dilapidated spa in Eastern Europe. The aunt is an eccentric woman whose life is sustained by memories of a time long past; Iben and Sanne are eager and hungry for life. Soon after their arrival, they discover Felix, a young man who has pitched his tent in the aunt's large, overgrown park. All three women are drawn to Felix.

The Living Edens: Yellowstone: America's Sacred Wilderness

2001 • 60 min

High in the wild heart of the American Rockies, Yellowstone is a place of extraordinary landscapes and geysers. Created by the largest volcanic explosions in the planet's history, Yellowstone became the world's first national park in the late 1870s. Now that the wolves have been returned to the park, Yellowstone has become an unparalleled wildlife sanctuary and perhaps the best place on the planet to see wolves and grizzly bears hunting elk.

Songs of the Silly Symphonies

2001 • 12 min

Leonard Maltin talks with song writer Richard M. Sherman about Disney music.

The World Is a Classroom

2001 • 15 min

Caveh Zahedi's allegory about 9/11.

Day of Reckoning

2001 • 6 min

A teenage boy's epic struggle against an evil necromancer.

There's Only One Madonna

2001 • 58 min

A look back over Madonna's career from a British perspective.

We Have Forgotten to Return Home

2001 • 60 min • Germany

A documentary by Fatih Akin about turkish immigrants in Germany.

To You, Wherever You Are

2001 • 52 min

After “Letter From a Time of Exile”, the director is back in Lebanon where he discovers that his dreams about his country are an illusion and that the exile in your homeland is by far the worst exile. Programmer's Note: Borhane Alaouié returns to Beirut from his exile. His documentary film constitutes a new letter at the start of the 21st century in reply to the letters of the 1980s. The reconstruction process appears to affect stones more than people.

Tidal

2001 • 8 min

Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.

2001 • 20 min • Japan

This short documentary follows director Hayao Miyazaki and producer Toshio Suzuki as they attend two film festivals showing the film Princess Mononoke and answer questions. Miyazaki discusses his experience in LA before founding Studio Ghibli.

The Funk Hunt

2001 • 12 min

The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era

2001 • 58 min

The New Modernists: Folds, Blobs and Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era approaches the topic of artistic technological advances, and the modern architects who were educated with this new influx of electronic techniques. In this detailed portrait we visit the exhibition entitled Folds, Blobs + Boxes at the Carnegie Museum of Art where ten architect/designers discuss their approaches to digital architecture with curator of the exhibition, Joseph Rosa. By abandoning the traditional notions of aesthetic beauty, scale and proportion, a new freedom has formed amongst these contemporary creators.

The Seven Last Words of Jesus Christ

2001 • 7 min

The two sides of the end of culture–in all the aspects of knowledge as well as in all the aspects of perceptible representations exist in a unified manner in what used to be art in the most general sense. In the case of knowledge, the accumulation of branches of fragmentary knowledge, which become unusable because the approval of existing conditions must finally renounce knowledge of itself, confronts the theory of praxis which alone holds the truth of them all since it alone holds the secret of their use. In the case of representations, the critical self-destruction of society’s former common language confronts its artificial recomposition in the commodity spectacle, the illusory representation of the non-lived.

Nuclear Rescue 911: Broken Arrows & Incidents

2001 • 53 min

Since 1950, there have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents, known as "Broken Arrows." A Broken Arrow is defined as an unexpected event involving nuclear weapons that result in the accidental launching, firing, detonating, theft or loss of the weapon. To date, six nuclear weapons have been lost and never recovered.Now, recently declassified documents reveal the history and secrecy surrounding the events known as "Broken Arrows". There have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents since 1950. Six of these nuclear weapons have been lost and never recovered. What does this say about our defense system? What does this mean to our threatened environment? What do we do to rectify these monumental "mistakes"? Using spectacular special effects, newly uncovered and recently declassified footage, filmmaker Peter Kuran explores the accidents, incidents and exercises in the secret world of nuclear weapons.