All Films

Three Cheers for Catherine the Great!

2000 • 19 min • United States of America

Family - Sara's feisty Russian grandmother asks for "no presents" for her birthday - and gets them - one from each neighbor, one from Mama and a special one from Sara to teach Grandma to read and write English.

Nostalgia

2000 • 16 min • Japan

An elderly man walks along his house and sees a turtle munching on a turnip. He does not disturb the creature but lets it eat in peace. Later that night, he has a dream of his late wife...

Pie Fight '69

2000 • 7 min • United States of America

Opening night of the 1969 San Francisco International Film Festival on the steps of City Hall. A who's who of SF high society is suddenly ambushed by a cadre of independent filmmakers armed with pies.

Cloud Cover

2000 • 6 min • United Kingdom

In a city seemingly full of happy people, one young woman walks about with a small dark cloud directly over her head. It follows her up the stairs and into her apartment. She tries slamming the door on it, getting rid of it with a vacuum cleaner, and dumping it in someone else's shopping cart. But the cloud doesn't leave her, until she meets a young man who has his own sunshine. Is love the way she's going to get rid of her cloud? Or will change have to happen from within?

Linear Tracking

2000 • 12 min

The camera is filming people walking through streets and parks, but is not following anyone in particular or trying to register any particular event. Sometimes the images are blurred and filtered by falling snow, or are filmed via the reflecting surfaces of metal or water. They are distorted into scarcely recognizable, elegantly moving fields of colour, or dreamy contours in tones of grey. The image is carefully framed and divided into horizontals and verticals. The branches of trees in the foreground or floating leaves and circles on the water give it depth, thereby perfecting the composition.

41 Shots

2000 • 15 min

On February 4, 1999, 19 of the 41 shots fired in 10 seconds by 4 NYPD Street Crimes Unit cops hit Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo as he stood in the vestibule of the building where he lived in the Bronx…. This video essay seizes on the grotesque factual precision of this numerical data, proceeding with an intense contemplation of how police violence is produced and then addressed by other forces on the city streets.

Crayfish

2000 • 8 min • Australia

A horny and virile fish delivery man gets more than he bargained for when he delivers a crayfish to the wrong address. A cheeky comedy about sex and seafood.

The Threatened One

2000 • 4 min

An animated visual interpretation of the poem by Jorge Luis Borges.

Translation Series

2000 • 3 min

Temporal isomorphism and indexical relation between recording and reproduction. Film is used strictly as a light recording medium. I exposed 16mm raw film stock without a camera, by opening a film can and holding the film to the light of a site. This exposure encodes on the film both the light of the site and the performance of a gesture. These films are the result of a series of small “acts” that when projected function as documentations/translations of movement from space to time, meters to feet, photons to grain. While living in Paris, I mapped the contours of my apartment exposing film to the light of different rooms.

New Suits

2000 • 22 min

A visit to a suit shop becomes a trip into a family's life story as a father and son deal with old memories and new hopes. It's a story not only about fathers and sons but also about the immigrant experience and cultural conflicts between genterations.

Moonshine Overamerica Tour

2000 • 49 min

A 2000 documentary of the "Moonshine Overamerica Tour" featuring interviews, music, and tour footage with DJs: Carl Cox, Keoki, Cirrus, Micro, John Kelley, Donald Glaude, DJ Dan, Omar Santana, AK1200, Dara, Dieselboy, and more.

Beck: @NPA Paris

2000 • 56 min

Canal Paris 2000. Includes a special appearance from Jane Birkin

GraviDance

2000 • 25 min • Russia

An experimental digital animation with humor, music and reflective narrations. Kobrin's final film.

Invasión Travesti

2000 • 50 min • Spain

A group of stellar transvestites have invaded the planet, Laura Crawford - a lethal hybrid formed by the worst of man and woman - has been able to lead both sexes to chaos and mutual contempt. Barbara Furiasse, the last living heterosexual on earth, is about to vanish, and with it the hope of a future world. She has only three days to find a real man and together flee from the transvestite invasion.

Goofy's Extreme Sports: Shark Feeding

2000 • 2 min • United States of America

Goofy dons scuba gear and an anti-shark cage to go underwater and feed the sharks.

The Bank Heist

2000 • 27 min • United States of America

In the BANK HEIST, Tina plays a young woman who’s just been promoted to bank manager. Debbie plays the crook who will stop at nothing to get into the vault. Debbie takes Tina hostage, stripping her, gagging her, and ultimately leaving her tied to the desk with a stick of dynamite in her mouth, set to go off in two minutes! In the original, Vanessa Carlton plays the bank manager who’s left in a running car to die by carbon monoxide gas!

Myth Makers 62: Jeremy Bulloch

2000 • 55 min • United Kingdom

From his early childhood in the 1950’s, Jeremy Bulloch has built a career on stage and screen that has lasted through to the present day. Roles in Billy Bunter, Summer Holiday, Mary Queen of Scots and Doctor Who are just some of the credits on his CV. Not bad for an actor who finally found fame playing a character whose face audiences never saw. As Boba Fett, a bounty hunter in the original Star Wars trilogy, Jeremy managed to make a supporting character stand out so forcefully that even today he finds himself being invited all over the world to conventions. The Force is definitely still with him! In this Myth Makers, Nicholas Briggs delves behind the costume and mask to find the actor beneath and discovers Star Wars treasures hidden in Jeremy’s attic.

Ring

2000 • 4 min

Against the background of this short film in which he includes a complete Wagner cycle as a music video in four minutes, Scheffer shows in Ring many composers and conductors who have played a major role in twentieth-century music. Flashes of Elliot Carter, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Richard Wagner, Bernhard Haitink and many others crop up in the Wagner set. This leads to a compilation of the many music documentaries that Scheffer has made in recent years.

King of Porn 2: The Retirement

2000 • 6 min

Ralph "King of Porn" Whittington retires from the Library of Congress and the public relations office breathes a sigh of relief.

Herbert Von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

2000 • 46 min

This installment of the Herbert von Karajan: His Legacy series showcases the acclaimed conductor leading the Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra in a 1984 performance of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony no. 4 in F Minor, op. 36. One of the most legendary figures in 20th-century classical music, the Austrian-born von Karajan helmed the Berlin Philharmonic for more than 30 years, from 1955 to 1989.

The Drowning Room

2000 • 10 min

A sequence of domestic vignettes from the sunken suburbs. In the house, the stagnant atmosphere has slowly thickened to liquid. The inhabitants try to carry on as normal but beyond the borders of asphyxiation; communication is limited and expression difficult. Filmed entirely underwater in a submerged house to create an atmosphere unlike any other film.

Lucy

2000 • 5 min • Estonia

A transcendental float or an imminent fall: a woman is in a slow motion descent with a slightly illuminated building rushing on the background. Eyes are shut and the body delicately moves: the wind keeps blowing and the end is always near, yet never quite there.

Criminal Case 141/53

2000 • 50 min • Portugal

Two Portuguese nurses share their harrowing story. Sisters Isaura Borges Coelho and Hortênsia Campos Lima were arrested in the early 1950s for protesting a law that barred nurses from marrying. Salazar wanted nurses to live like nuns, in line with Catholic conservative ideals.

Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five

2000 • 45 min

This rare collection of early music videos -- known as "soundies" -- from the 1930s and '40s features jazz legend Louis Jordan and his band performing their hits, including collaborations with Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway and Nat King Cole. Songs are "Five Guys Named Moe," "Caldonia," "Shine," "Fuzzy Wuzzy," "Call of the Jitterbug," "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby," "Honey Chile," "Don't You Worry About That Mule" and more.