All Films

Trouble at the Big Top: Death of the Dome

2000 • 51 min

Trouble at the Top was a business-based BBC television fly-on-the wall documentary broadcast series, produced for BBC2. A spin off four-part series, Trouble at the Big Top. followed developments at the Millennium Dome in a similar style.

Eating Sea Urchins

2000 • 4 min • Spain

A surrealist home movie, filmed by Luis Buñuel in Cadaqués in 1930, focusing on Salvador Dalí's father and his wife.

Homage to Chen Da

2000 • 35 min

Chen Da, born in 1905, learned traditional Taitung-style songs as a boy. Working as a cowherd and fisherman, he travelled from Hengchun to Taitung. He began his career as a wandering minstrel at 20. Homage to Chen Da portrays his life and singing in various settings, including his hometown and the well-known musical venue in Taipei, Scarecrow Restaurant.

Vita Minima

2000 • 8 min • Germany

Short film by Marian Dora

Hand Game

2000 • 57 min

This documentary explores the mythic and historic roots of the most widely played Native gambling game in North America.

Analogue Assemblage

2000 • 2 min

Drawing from Paik's earliest experiments with video synthesizers, Analogue Assemblage employs current technology to create a multilayered montage that references both the old and the new. The eerie 1969 electronic score floats over ghostly image processing; the result is a paean to the way the future was.

Rockstar

2000 • 4 min

In November, 1999, Apple brought together a group of people under its AppleMaster program to teach them to use their new digital video editing software. As part of the class, Douglas Adams shot and edited a makeshift music video based on a song by his friend Margo Buchanan, and starring his daughter, Polly. John Cleese guest stars.

Sal Disfruta: Año Nuevo

2000 • 1 min

fruit salt television commercial

FreeDogme

2000 • 54 min • France

Marie Berthelius and Roger Narbonne conference call Lars von Trier, Win Wenders, Lone Scherfig, and Jean-Marc Barr and are also linked by digital video. The discussion is about the Dogme 95 film movement and how technological transformations affect cinematic practice.

The Stranglers

2000 • 60 min

BBC Choice documentary the story of The Stranglers, charting the band's rise to fame in the 1980s to present day. Despite the departure of lead singer and frontman Hugh Cornwell in 1990, the band continue to perform successfully to thousands of fans all over the world. Interviews with members of The Stranglers. Presented by jazz singer and art critic, George Melly.

The Final Days

2000 • 6 min • United States of America

A tongue-in-cheek look at President Clinton's final days in office.

Fantasporto – Carnaval no Porto

2000 • 34 min • Brazil

A look into the Porto Fantastic Film Festival at Portugal.

Shatzi Is Dying

2000 • 58 min

A multilayered treatise exploring queer culture, AIDS politics, life and death, traced through the near-death experiences of a beloved rescue dog.

Anton Corbijn: Geen Stil Leven

2000 • 51 min

Documentary about the life and works of Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn.

No One’s Rose

2000 • 10 min

If I travel the world from East to West, would it be the same world that I travelled from West to East?

R

2000 • 6 min • Japan

The protagonist, a young man, has recently begun to vaguely sense that the time axis behind him is out of whack. One day, he takes a nap in the park and has a dream. It is a world where the time axis is out of whack. He walks, he runs, he pedals his bicycle... But the movement of the people is not constant, it flows, it breaks, it starts from the middle. It was a scene of strangeness and unprecedented beauty as if not only the time axis but even the spatial axis was bent. Eventually, the man woke up from his sleep and began to walk, but his body had changed.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Il is a Great Thinker and Theoretician

2000 • 55 min • North Korea

Documentary film praising the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il for his political and social values, and beliefs to build a strong communist nation.

The Making of Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete

2000 • 56 min • United States of America

A making of movie CD that is included in the Lunar: Eternal Blue Complete PlayStation 1 game.

Doublecross

2000 • 20 min • United States of America

In the remake of DOUBLECROSS, Tina Krause stars as a spoiled little rich girl whose father refuses to give her any more money. She decides to make it appear she’s been kidnapped so that her rich father will pay the ransom and she’ll get the money she wants. But her stepmother (Debbie D) learns of her plot and sees a way to get even for her stepdaughter’s previous behavior. Debbie forces Tina to strip, ties her up, and puts a dog collar around her neck to keep her in line. Then when Tina tries to escape, Debbie forces her to put the dog’s favorite ball in her mouth and then it’s taped in place. But Debbie’s accomplice has his own plans and leaves both women tied back to back, completely naked, with the gas turned on!

100 Cameras: Capturing Lars von Trier's Vision

2000 • 14 min

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of "Dancer in the Dark" by Lars von Trier.

The Sixth Sense: Rules and Clues

2000 • 6 min

This making-of piece examines the various guiding elements of the story and various aspects of the film that hint to its surprising ending.

Masters of Stone V

2000 • 56 min • United States of America

Yet more American climbing mayhem. Speed big wall soloing by Dean Potter, Dan Osman's world record rope jump, slack lining. Dean Potter is a human acetylene torch, burning down the walls of the, "impossible." Potter's raw power, emotional intensity and deadly commitment reveal a terrifying world at the outer edge of human ability. Steph Davis is beautiful, brilliant and bold...free-soloing 5.12 and 5.11+ on red desert sandstone. Dan Osman's fatal final adventure must be seen to be believed. Hanging by fingertips 3000 feet off the ground with no rope or safety gear, tip-toeing a one-inch strip of nylon across a 120 foot-wide chasm, leaping off cliffs with laughter and fury, Potter and his friends deliver a whole new level of climbing action, set to a high-quality, adrenaline-pounding soundtrack featuring Metallica.

Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

2000 • 12 min

The son of director Frank Capra provides commentary on the making of 1939's "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington".

Arthur’s Scary Stories

2000 • 40 min

An anthology tape of three spooky tales from Elwood City starring Arthur and his pals. Night Fright, What Scared Sue Ellen? and The Fright Stuff.