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Foulplay, Colored Strowberry, On Air

Foulplay, Colored Strowberry, On Air

2000 • 11 min • Japan
Apple Grown in Wind Tunnel

Apple Grown in Wind Tunnel

2000 • 26 min
This absurdist, microscopic film noir follows the activities of an underground network of ill people, desperate to create alternative methods of self-care in a world where natural resources are disappearing. While examining the meaning of health, disease, and well-being in the post-industrial world, Apple Grown In Wind Tunnel imagines the development of a culture at the margins, linked by illicit radio broadcasts, toxic waste sites, the highway, and ultimately by the overwhelming desire to find a cure. "To the immune system in the 21st Century, here's a sublime video elegy: a tale of illness, and grass-roots conjuring against the contemporary malaise. This riveting toxic-road-movie seeps and slouches forward in search of a cure." —Craig Baldwin
Contrafacta

Contrafacta

2000 • 15 min
Contrafacta is a collage animation made by Toronto filmmakers Roberto Ariganello and Chris Gehman. Using images from medieval artworks, and quotations from the writings of medieval mystics and poets, Contrafacta creates a web of related images and events without a simple connective narrative.
Jazz Casual: Dave Brubeck

Jazz Casual: Dave Brubeck

2000 • 23 min • United States of America
On October 17, 1961, the popular and pioneering pianist-composer Dave Brubeck performed on Ralph Gleason's Jazz Casual, the television show that showcased some of the finest jazz artists in a half-hour of no-frills performance and conversation. Backed by the Lester Young-influenced alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, bassist Eugene Wright and drummer Joe Morello, Brubeck and his combo perform some of their odd-metered hits. Desmond's dancing ditty, "Take Five" is rendered in a faster tempo than the studio version. Brubeck's ragtime-flavoured "(It's a) Raggy Waltz," highlights his percussive piano lines, while "Castillian Blues" and the Turkish strains of "Blue Rondo a la Turk" reveal his multicultural, compositional genius. Gleason, the show's creator and host, was a well-respected, San Francisco-based jazz critic and author. He remarks during the show that Dave Brubeck was "a provocative, experimental, and interesting musician." That statement is still true today.
Women's Courage

Women's Courage

2000 • 17 min • Haiti
Winner of the Djibril Diop Mambety award at the Cannes Festival in 2002, this film tells the story of 2 women stone crushers and their daily struggle for survival and dignity in today's Haiti. It shows the contrast between, on one hand, the Stone Age and on the other, the world of modern transportation
Kalahari

Kalahari

2000 • 56 min
Take a rollicking rafting excursion with six buffed men down the Orange River of Africa and see what happens when daylight turns to night... Filmed against the stunning backdrop of the Kalahari Desert, the action here is accentuated by the rising tensions of this rowdy and very eager group. Kalahari is sure to leave you breathless.
First Call

First Call

2000 • 57 min • United States of America
Here's a documentary about people in NY, NY during the year 2000 who drank in bars during the AM hours. Most NYC bars during that era offered first calls, so the bar opened and would serve alcohol starting at 8 am. Ah the good old days.
Superbitmapping

Superbitmapping

2000 • 3 min
A projected text is going through two transformations in terms of presenting information. At first one is able to understand its meaning. However, in the second stage, the text has been transformed into digital language which can only be read by a computer. Finally, with the third level, the digital code has been used to convey a flicker effect. The text is now a mere physical sensation, devoid of intelligible contents.
Fever

Fever

2000 • 3 min • United States of America
Experimental short by Sheri Wills.
Corey

Corey

2000 • 14 min
A daughter processes the loss of her father.
Cold Soup

Cold Soup

2000 • 6 min • Portugal
Stop motion animation by Alexandre Siqueira
The Sisters of Light

The Sisters of Light

2000 • 29 min
Out of the fascination with astronomy, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the brightly lit highways of Belgium (you can even see them from outer space!), The Sisters of Light is a fable about light and its mysteries. The title also suggests a homage to two of the founders of the moving image. Two friends—Stella, an astronomer, and Lucia, a salesgirl in a lamp store—who know each other only through correspondence, are separated by death. Lucia, the surviving friend, drives off at night, heading for the Belgium of twinkling motorways, searching for her Stella’s angel which should have become Lucia’s guardian angel. With an empty heart, she drives, accompanied by strange light phenomena around her (UFO's? angels?) to find enlightenment around her loss.
The Gregory Gallery Tour Special

The Gregory Gallery Tour Special

2000 • 30 min • Japan
Three unbroadcasted exclusive Special shorts of Gregory Horror Show (presented as bonus videos on the first series DVDs volumes 1-3 in Japan only), containing stories featuring Gregory himself as a guide, giving his commentary and thoughts on each of the guests in the hotel, also displaying paintings based around the said guests.
山口椿とその妻 エロティシズムチェロ

山口椿とその妻 エロティシズムチェロ

2000 • 6 min • Japan
Tatsumi Hijikata Asbestos Museum "Novelist Tsubaki Yamaguchi and his wife Eroticism Cello" 2000 Shuichi Inohana Film Work Tatsumi Hijikata Memorial Asbestos Nobelist Tsubaki Yamaguchi & wife 2000 Shuichi Inohana Film Work
M09

M09

2000 • 3 min • Spain
The flow of electricity, source of industry and life governed by switches and circuit breakers, affords convenience for millions around the world. ‘Read instructions for use´.
Jamming Uruno

Jamming Uruno

2000 • 6 min
Short film by Tachibana Kaoru
Two Encounters

Two Encounters

2000 • 7 min
Armed with hidden buttonhole cameras two gay men, one black and one white, go to two gay bars in New York, one predominantly black and one predominantly white, to uncover the “racialized geographies of New York’s gay bar scene.”
Brahman is Angry

Brahman is Angry

2000 • 45 min • Japan
The second film of Brahman Trilogy.
Auto Mommy

Auto Mommy

2000 • 12 min • Japan
Parents who don't want to take care of their child leave parenting to the mail ordered robot "Auto Mommy" and allow their child to be raised in isolation. One day, they take a look at the monitor to check the child, and then they see the child wearing dog skin and hiding his face. This is not good, the parents think, because they can't send the child to school like this. So they make Auto Mommy peel the dog skin off the child, only to find that the child became a plant without a human face.
100% Cotton

100% Cotton

2000 • 4 min
A male couple questions love and light bulbs over laundry.
Monica: I Love The Zoo

Monica: I Love The Zoo

2000 • 46 min • Australia
Monica presents I love the zoo.
Indépendance Cha Cha

Indépendance Cha Cha

2000 • 60 min
Fourty years after the Belgian Congo’s independance, this film tells the story of a song and liberation. This is the story of the road to independence as it was dreamt about and experienced by the Congolese, with their loathing of particularly odious colonial regime, and their visions of song-filled tomorrows. And it’s the story of « Indépendance cha cha » an extraordinary political hit song by the mythical band African Jazz, that became in the ‘60s the anthem of every African independence movement.
Cheating Las Vegas

Cheating Las Vegas

2000 • 50 min
The high tech world of cheaters and catching them in the world of the Las Vegas casinos.
Queen Street Corner

Queen Street Corner

2000 • 17 min • France, Mauritius
The "Enflés" are those laborers who load and unload the bags of goods from the docks to the trucks, from the trucks to the warehouses. Paid by the task, the swollen wait for employment at the crossroads of the shopping streets of Port-Louis.