All Films

Rotary Almanac

2000 • 5 min

2000 Peter Rose short work

Africa's Deadly Dozen

2000 • 53 min • United States of America

Africa is a continent that conjures up images of bold predators: Lions, cheetahs, hyenas, and jackals. Now National Geographic sets those four-legged giants aside in search of the twelve deadliest snakes in Africa, including the continent’s most lethal serpent. There are over 400 different species of snakes in Africa, nearly 100 of those are considered dangerous to man. Out of those, 12 stand out.

Pirated!

2000 • 11 min • United States of America, Vietnam

A riotous, erotic kaleidoscope in which a Vietnamese refugee’s recollections of fleeing his country by boat become enmeshed with nostalgia and big-screen fantasies of shirtless pirates and sailors—including images of Brad Davis in Fassbinder’s Querelle. (UCLA Film & Television Archive)

Ferris Wheel

2000 • 3 min

Short film by Helga Fanderl from the FRAGIL(E) DVD.

i was a strong man until i left home

2000 • 27 min

A travelogue as catharsis, "i was a strong man until i left home" blends footage from several trips across North America, by plane, train and car. Informed by principles of Imagist Poetry, Kerr turns his camera on familiar imagery of the American travel experience, yet renders the quotidian as abstract, the continuity of perception as fragments. Employing a method he refers to as 'Digital Sketching,' "i was a strong man until i left home" possesses the intimacy of a flip through an artist's sketchbook.

Raindance 7

2000 • 1 min

A short film by Dave McKean made for the 7th Raindance Film Festival.

Hollow Water

2000 • 49 min

This documentary profiles the tiny Ojibway community of Hollow Water on the shores of Lake Winnipeg as they deal with an epidemic of sexual abuse in their midst.

Waiting for Godot at De Gaulle

2000 • 52 min

Alexis Kouros' documentary on Mehran Karimi Nasseri

Eye-Step

2000 • 25 min • Germany

Traces a series of forever-winding staircases like liminal excerpts from an endless memory-spool, asking the viewer which spaces their eyes may have taken for granted along the ambling path.

Alice in the Wilderness

2000 • 50 min

8mm film by Nobuyuki Yamagishi.

Night Flower

2000 • 15 min

AIDS, Discrimination. Big questions that, in the voice of the Lady of the Night - A pansexual character that mixes in unbalanced doses political consciousness with poetic extravagance - acquire originality in front of an audience frantic and thirsty for a lot of joy and some ideology.

Settlers

2000 • 60 min

Tension mounts to the boiling point as Jewish “settlers” encroach upon the formerly exclusive Arab neighbourhoods of Jerusalem. On the other end of the Israeli political spectrum, the state complies with international demands to relinquish territory to the Palestinians.

Myth Makers 59: Jacqueline Pearce

2000 • 57 min • United Kingdom

Best known for her role as Servalan, the ‘steel queen’ of space from Blake’s 7, Jacqueline Pearce is so much more! In this exclusive interview Jacqueline discusses some of her numerous roles for stage and screen, gives her opinions on acting, and allows a unique insight into her personal philosophy that has evolved from a journey through life that has frequently been difficult but always interesting. As Jacqueline herself will tell you, she is a very private person. This is a rare opportunity to get acquainted with an outstanding actress and a unique woman.

The Loneliest Little Boy In The World

2000 • 5 min • United States of America

Psychedelic and occult visions intertwine, between a woman and a decapitated pig's head.

Homophobia, That Painful Problem

2000 • 52 min

Using interviews, personal testimonies, clips from films and television, re-enactments of gay bashings, lists of epithets used internationally, and other powerful graphics image, this French documentary explores the similarities and differences of anti-gay hate worldwide. Algeria, China, Cuba, England, France, Guinea, India, Iran, Jamaica, Romania, and the United States are among the countries investigated where lesbians and gay men regularly report physical and/or verbal violence endorsed by politicians, religious leaders, and the citizenry: Salim is sent back from France to Algeria for ‘’re-education’’; Cornelia flees Mugabe’s homophobic regime in Zimbabwe; and Phillipe is forced to resign as deputy mayor in the French provinces.

Further

2000 • 60 min • Canada, United States of America

Further, TGR’s 2000 feature film, displays spine-chilling accounts of the rowdiest action, with the sport’s most progressive athletes, in the world’s most insane locations. TGR chefs up more visual madness with Candide Thovex throwing d-spin 720’s over a 120 foot gap. Kreitler, Peifer, and Swany going phat in European Alps and BC’s coastal range. Check out Les Trois Phillips breaking ground in the new millennium with never before seen tricks, mad footage from big air comps and terrain parks around the world. Shot in 16mm, further contains the most progressive, multiple angle coverage and state of the art editing in the action / adrenaline sports genre.

Arbor Vitae

2000 • 28 min • United States of America

Arbor Vitae is a gesture towards a cinema of pure being. Its atmosphere is haunted by the period in which it was shot, the year of 1999. Although the cuts are open and numerous in their intent, the underlying motivation is the delicate reveal of the transparency of presence, our tender mystery midst the elaborate unfolding of the tree of life.

Samurai Jack: Digital Animation Test

2000 • 3 min • United States of America

Experience the genesis of Samurai Jack in a short animation test where he travels and fights.

The Glass System

2000 • 20 min • India, United States of America

“The Glass System, made from images shot in New York and Calcutta, looks at life as it is played out in the streets. Every corner turned reveals activities both simple and unfamiliar: a knife sharpener on a bicycle; a tiny tightrope walker; a man selling watches in front of a department store on Fifth Avenue; a hauntingly slow portrait of the darting eyes of schoolgirls on their way home; the uncompleted activities of a young contortionist. The sound in the film (which is from a Bengali primer written by British missionaries) is a meditation on how the English language teaches ideas about culture which are often incongruous. The disjunction between what you hear and what you see evokes reflections about the impact of globalization and the hegemony of Western-style capitalism.” - ML

The Man with the Golden Soles

2000 • 54 min • France, Syrian Arab Republic

The Man with the Golden Soles is a Syrian documentary film by the director Omar Amiralay. The film, released in 2000, is about the then Lebanese Prime minister Rafic Hariri

Pluto's Greatest Hits

2000 • 52 min • United States of America

- The Moose Hunt [1931] - Pluto, Junior - Bone Trouble - The Legend of Coyote Rock - Donald and Pluto - The Army Mascot - Pluto's Blue Note

The Post-Impressionists: Toulouse-Lautrec

2000 • 50 min

Henri Toulouse-Lautrec was ultimately, a tragic figure in the history of art. Crippled by an ill-proportioned body, he lived for just 36 years before the effects of alcoholism and syphilis took their final toll. His dissolute life spent in the brothels and nightclubs of late 19th century Paris provided the subject matter for his finest work. His radical, boldly-colored paintings and posters of the famous Moulin Rouge nightclub succeeded in conveying the unique feeling and energy of contemporary Parisian nightlife.

Old Western Movie

2000 • 4 min

Found Footage film based on She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.

Engram Sepals

2000 • 6 min

The dead body remembers. The Tibetan book of the dead meets film noir. An elliptical narrative of adultery and corporate espionage set to a score by Morton Feldman and shot in high contrast B&W. There's a glimpse of Eternity in those deep, luminous blacks. The title film from my feature length series ENGRAM SEPALS (Melodramas 1994-2000) which traces a history of American intoxication from World War 2 to the 1970's.