All Films

Murder Will Out: Measured Silence

2000 • 22 min

Abstract imagery and shots of bodies and faces flicker with poetic voiceover text that meditates on death, memory, dreams and history.

One Star

2000 • 22 min

I found a faded photo in an old photo album. It was a photo of my family having a meal. I don't know who took the photo. All the people in the photo, except for my brother, are no longer with us . That house has been demolished and is now a road. It's all as if nothing had happened. The fireworks were launched. We cheered and looked up at the night sky. We were surprised and delighted in every moment, breathing like wildflowers under the night sky. And then the last fireworks were launched, and countless sparks would fall quietly like our tears. In that blinking moment, we were born, flickered as life, withered, and disappeared. The cheers would echo forever and ever as the voices of the soul, never disappearing from this earth, no, from this image. It was as if nothing had happened, even though we were no longer there. -Hideto Ishii

Automatic Writing 2

2000 • 11 min

“Continued explorations of automatism as a practical guide to negotiating the mysterious zone where light and no-light flutter in a fecund equipoise. A homemade rocket to realms unknown to any movie camera or photo lens. In the end, perhaps nothing more than a search for an experience of continuity, a kind of sanity. Failing sanity, a wild ride at least.”

Out of the Box

2000 • 16 min

A child is waiting after the school for her grandmother to come and take her back home. Seeing the child alone teacher also waits with her. After a long conversation with the child and observing the activities and fun of the child, the teacher too wants to be the same.

Baby Santa's Music Box

2000 • 24 min • United States of America

Baby Santa's Music Box, better known simply as Baby Santa, is the 6th Baby Einstein video in the series to be released. It takes toddlers on a journey through winter holidays through music and visuals that include nature and Christmas ornaments. It was released on November 1, 2000, just in time for the holiday season. The DVD was later released in late 2001. It was last re-released in Late-2004, with many alterations.

Schuhplattler

2000 • 13 min • Austria

Using the example of the "Schuhplattler" tradition in a small Upper Austrian town, Songül Boyraz examines ritual acts that serve to affirm a collective sense of community while simultaneously generating a mechanism of exclusion.

Grandma Baba and Little Boris

2000 • 20 min

Tradition, mystical revelation, the passing on of family secrets--all that is lost in translation. In this magical fairytale Grandma Baba struggles with the impossibility of telling what needs to be told. How can she pass on the traditions and stories of the Old Country to Little Boris, especially when Old Bandy Legs, a mercurial old magician, is vying to tell his stories? A humorous and whimsical tale made with puzzle pieces that never exactly fit together. Includes a stunning performance by Buffalo, NY as Mother Russia.

There's Something About McConkey

2000 • 60 min

Ten years ago, young renegade ski racer Shane McConkey quit his collegiate team to pursue a career in the small, unglamorous world of freeskiing. Through the '90s, McConkey battled the odds and the establishment as he put "fun" back in skiing. With an unprecedented manner of attacking mountains and a committed effort to appear ridiculous, McConkey opened the doors to a new way of thinking and skiing. As attention to his feats and antics blossomed, so did the sport around him. We've teamed up the raddest skiers of today with the past decade's most influential skier and biggest idiot. So sit back for a wacky, whirlwind tour through a man, a mind and a sport. You may never look at skiing the same way again.

Kingdom Protista

2000 • 6 min

‘A few drops of pond water rich in bottom sediments, seen under a microscope can quickly confirm the existence of another world. This is the Kingdom of Protista and like all living things it needs to try to suck itself off.’

A Quiet Man

2000 • 42 min

French documentary on director John Carpenter

Nico & Parker

2000 • 12 min • Uruguay

It's Saturday night, Nico and Parker have nothing better to do than wait outside of the Fire Department, waiting for an emergency to follow.

Rote Zora

2000 • 28 min

Rote Zora is a militant women’s group that carried out over twenty attacks and various other offences in Germany in the eighties. They fought against atomic, gene and reproduction technologies. Rote Zora formed a radical political opposition to the existing power which they carried out through a politics of property damage. It was their principle to avoid injuring anyone. The central element of the video “Die Rote Zora” is an interview with Corinna Kawaters that took place in summer 2000. Kawaters is the only woman from the Rote Zora who was sentenced by a court for “membership in a terrorist organization” (§129a). In addition, a conversation was held with the social scientist Erika Feyerabend, who, like the other members of the Gen-Archiv Essen, became caught in the whirl of police investigations against the Rota Zora at the end of the 1980s.

L'attraction universelle

2000 • 13 min

Train travel, sky maps observed with a magnifying glass, dance on a wire, spinning tops, attractions, rides, terrestrial globe, discs, dance, Luna Park, big night wheel, fireworks, bungee jumping make up various sequences that evoke Newtonian physics and cause spinning and dizziness. "Escaping from gravitation, defying gravity, defeating the circular march of bodies in space, are we able today to achieve a new revolution?"

Motion

2000 • 5 min

Movements of water and light.

Sunday

2000 • 5 min • Japan

"CHO-JIN (bird man)" flies by flapping its arms in a light-coloured-scenery. CHO-JIN leads you to a mysterious feeling axis when they slowly stop on an electric wire with a nostalgic and strange taste.

Leap to the Future!

2000 • 30 min • United States of America

A futuristic and fun presentation of Girl Scout cookie sale information and goal setting... plus a troop "sing-along" featuring Melinda Caroll!

Goodpenis Adventures

2000 • 5 min • United States of America

Goodpenis, a superpowered sentient schlong, foils the plans of Baron Vibe to help his master and missus back to bed!

The Witness

2000 • 43 min • United States of America

Transformed by the love of a kitten, a tough New York City construction contractor is inspired to rescue abandoned animals, become a vegetarian, and take his message of compassion to the streets. A construction contractor who grew up on the mean streets of Brooklyn, Eddie Lama is probably the last person you'd figure to be an animal activist. Indeed, Eddie was raised with a deeply ingrained aversion to animals, as he explains in the award-winning documentary "The Witness." But when a pretty woman asks him to take care of her kitten, he finds himself reluctantly agreeing as a ploy to get a date, not knowing that his life is about to change forever. In the end, it is the kitten who captures his heart, opening his eyes to the wonder of other living creatures and awakening him to the richness of the human-animal bond.

Blow-Up

2000 • 2 min • Austria

The raw material used in Blow-Up comprises two shots from an old educational film about first aid: a man demonstrates mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on a life-size dummy; the dummy's chest rises and falls. Fruhauf introduces this scene into his own métier, turning the "blow-up" metaphor into an image with a false bottom. With the aid of a digital photocopier, the strip of film was reduced in size to a narrow ribbon, and Blow-up shows this transformation in reverse.

Access to the View

2000 • 2 min

with Yogi John Franzoni

A Walk with Words: The Poetry of Romaine Morton

2000 • 28 min • Australia

Erica Glynn's short biographical film showcases the life and poetry of performance artist Romaine Moreton and her struggles to gain freedom.

Love Warrior Pantheon 2000

2000 • 47 min • Japan

A pure girl transforms into the goddess Partheon and challenges evil.

Red Chewing Gum

2000 • 10 min • Lebanon

RED CHEWING GUM recounts a story of separation between two men. It is a video letter that is set in the context of the changing Hamra, a formerly booming commercial center. It examines the tool of video and image making in relationship to consumption, age, desire and power as they all compare to one of the characters' attempt to capture, hence possess, fleeting time.

Idéal (Fin de L')

2000 • 3 min

A film from Isabelle Blanche