All Films

Chrissy

2000 • 52 min

A young woman living with HIV, faces what she fears the most - rejection, and finds what she always wanted - the unconditional love and acceptance of her family.

Week-end à Tokyo

2000 • 21 min • France

From Sandai, a teenage girl (Yuka Asai) writes to her friend in France. She met Jean Franasi on a visit to France. We hear her letters as she writes them. However when Jean comes to visit Tokyo for work and we hear his thoughts, it transpires that their feelings towards each other do not match.

405

2000 • 3 min • United States of America

A section of a highway is blocked off so that a plane can make an emergency landing on it. However, there are two people still driving on the highway: a man in an SUV and an old lady in a Lincoln.

Death Jerk-Off 2000

2000 • 3 min

A cut up exploration in film-kink and video-noise fetish for the children of the millennium.

Straight Down the Aisle

2000 • 23 min

This documentary goes behind the scenes of traditional weddings to talk to lesbian bridesmaids and their various experiences. Topics include struggles over bringing their girlfriends/partners and standing up for their ex-gay lovers.

Twice Daily

2000 • 9 min

Stop motion animated short movie by Keith Lowry. Humorous look at our use of pills. Kieth Lowry spent four months working alone to shoot frame by frame. Produced 2000.

Masters of the Country Blues - Mance Lipscomb and Lightnin' Hopkins

2000 • 60 min

Mance Lipscomb and Lightnin' Hopkins play music and talk about their lives. Hosted by musician Taj Mahal.

Elvis Meets the Beatles

2000 • 23 min

Based very loosely on a brief account in Peter Guralnick's Elvis biography Careless Love, the film is a fantasia about the night the Fab Four and the King spent together in 1965.

Open Bondage Audition 10

2000 • 60 min

Goth club girl KATIE JORDON exudes a bitch-with-attitude persona, but it quickly disappears as her subjugation starts. Her machine gun chattering gives way to quiet submission as she gets the full bondage treatment from top to bottom. Literally no part of her body is spared from painful intrusion as special attention is paid to her milky white breasts and buttocks. In the end, she is hog-tied completely naked, rolled over on her back, and fondled as a final goodbye to M.R. STEWART.

Guided by Voices

2000 • 10 min • United States of America

In Guided By Voices, Sogo constructs a film version of Dennis Cooper's novel Guide. The highly abstracted, colored digital video (shot on video and Super-8) evokes a psychedelic experience. As Sogo recalls: "It was 5:45 AM; [I was] crashing at a friend's house, deep in Brooklyn, where I was dealing with a final point in the movie. Then, I crashed with a seizure, all my memories flashed before me. I fell off the stairs, and the film finished itself."

Antietam: A Documentary Film

2000 • 57 min

Re-enactments illustrate the details of the three principle stages of the battle of Antietam, fought November 17th, 1862. Also features animated tactical maps, dramatic readings of personal papers, and expert narrative commentary.

10/26/00

2000 • 3 min

This short video uses surveillance-type images of men standing on an anonymous street corner as the conceptual foreground for an examination of the relationship between fathers and sons.

For the Birds

2000 • 8 min • United States of America

Part three of a cycle of digital video works I'm beginning to call-after Bataille-«Theory of religion, theory of ecstasy.» The other two parts are Mirror and The Zapruder Footage.... This tape is inspired by the 11th century Sufi mystical text The Conference of the Birds. It is a text which explores transparency and opacity, multiplicity and unity, narrative and insight, the mundane and the ecstatic. I include a postscript from the text which I included at the end of the tape perhaps best responds to the attempt to parse it: «Seek the trunk of the tree and do not worry whether the branches do or do not exist.»

Dudley Moore: After the Laughter

2000 • 48 min • United Kingdom

A poignant portrait of the popular comedian, movie star and musician, who has a terminal illness and has opted to make his last public appearance on Omnibus.

Great National Parks of the World: Lands of Wonder Europe to Africa

2000 • 50 min

Take a thrilling journey to four of the greatest national treasures of Europe and Africa. Walk along the misty shores of Ireland's rocky northern coast to experience the legendary Giant's Causeway. Search for elusive mountain gorillas in Uganda's lush Impenetrable Forest. Climb the stunning snow-capped peaks of Italy's timeless Alps to discover the regal ibex in Gran Paradiso National Park. Behold the spectacle of thundering herds of migrating wildebeest, zebra and gazelle on Africa's fabled Serengeti Plains.

Spiral Vessel

2000 • 7 min • United States of America

A found psychological test kit yields puzzle figures with cutout ears, cutoff heads, and pullaway body parts. The ear opens into an interior world of shifting science book images which, when isolated, evoke mysteries more than they reveal facts.

Sexual Harassment Awareness

2000 • 32 min • United States of America

Employee Sexual Harassment Info video

The Vyrotonin Decision

2000 • 7 min

A seven minute disaster epic created from early 70's scrap television commercials.

Let's Rap Fire Safety

2000 • 22 min

An educational video about fire safty

Peru's City of Ghosts

2000 • 46 min • France, United Kingdom, United States of America

Join a team of archaeologists and the Discovery Channel in an investigation into the mysterious lines of the Nazca region in Peru. Created by the Nazcas, these huge sculptures are only visible from the sky and depict people, animal, geometric forms, and strange creatures. See a premier exhibition of pottery and textiles, musical instruments, and mummies from this long-forgotten, pre-Columbian civilization and visit Cahuachi, a buried city of pyramids and ceremonial buildings which may have once been the religious capital of the Nazca people.

Inventário das Pequenas Mortes (Sopro)

2000 • 6 min

"Sopro" expresses the relation between what's in and outside. The translucid form of an everchanging bubble shows the world to which it belongs and also that which is contained by it.

Born in-a Babylon

2000 • 35 min • United Kingdom

A portrait of Rastafarians living in Tottenham at the start of the new millennium.

Beauty Will Save the World

2000 • 58 min • Sweden

A documentary about Arne Sucksdorff. Stefan Jarl interviews Sucksdorff in his home where they talk about his films, life and memories.

Amália Traída

2000 • 10 min

Ironic take on soap opera presenting, in word and song, the life of Portuguese fado singer, Amália Rodrigues.