All Films

Homeless

2000 • 9 min

A homeless woman, improbably well-groomed and (as seen naked to the waist as she changes from one shabby sweater to another) well-toned, spends from dawn till night pushing her cart around a seaside California city. Flashbacks show that she was once an exotic dancer and illustrate the point that, under the over-sized and dirty clothing that makes her "invisible", she is still the same attractive woman.

Erykah Badu Live

2000 • 56 min

Dazzling documentary covering Erykah Badu's 2000 concert at the Knitting Factory in Los Angeles.

Bed and Breakfast

2000 • 23 min

Chandler owns and runs one of the finest bed & breakfasts in town. What his guests do not realize, is that each room is secretly monitored by a hidden video camera. He delights in entering the very private worlds of those who pass through, and when the Glue family arrives, he uncovers their well kept secret.

Home for Christmas

2000 • 5 min

On Christmas Eve while her mother obsesses about stuffing the turkey, Annie tells her family she is a lesbian.

Poultry in Motion: The Making of Chicken Run

2000 • 30 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

The making of Chicken Run (2000).

Our Stork

2000 • 29 min • Hungary

Our Stork is a unique story, which tells us about the distinctive relation between man and animal. This award-winning documentary tells the story of a stork that has stayed behind when its mates left for their long journey to Africa.

Choreography: Creating Vincent Paterson's Dance Sequences

2000 • 24 min

A behind-the-scenes look at how Vincent Paterson creates his dance sequences.

Ghost of Stephen Foster

2000 • 4 min

A young couple check into a hotel, only to find it a seething, writhing hotbed of horrific surrealism. They're dealt with shabbily, put through a series of bizarre polymorphic straits, as the host regales them with the story of his nightmarish encounter with the Ghost of Stephen Foster.

Super TV: Frontline Information 15 Months of Exclusive Coverage! The Secret Behind "My Neighbors the Yamadas"

2000 • 46 min • Japan

Nippon Television "Super TV Information Frontline Exclusive Coverage of 15 Months! The Secrets of the Rumored Movie "My Neighbors the Yamadas""

The Sixth Sense: A Conversation with M. Night Shyamalan

2000 • 9 min

A Conversation with director M. Night Shyamalan discussing the film.

Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn

2000 • 49 min • United Kingdom

The Death of Jackson Pollock

2000 • 1 min

Crude animation by Bill Plympton. How the expressionist painter met his demise.

Sur incises: A lesson by Pierre Boulez

2000 • 50 min

With warmth, modesty and infectious enthusiasm, Boulez explains the hidden architecture of his most recent work, Sur Incises, to a non-specialized young audience. On a number of occasions, Pierre Boulez has shown that he can come up with the right words and gestures to throw a light on complex musical scores. Here he demonstrates his teaching talents in talking about his work as a composer: after conducting the nine soloists of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, who follow him with visible pleasure through the mysteries of a spectacular score, he offers a witty exposition of the musical movements that make up its construction.

Golpe de 64: a Procissão Está nas Ruas

2000 • 36 min

The Vanished

2000 • 5 min

16mm film (b&w)

New Advances in Medicine

2000 • 1 min • United States of America

Crude animation by Bill Plympton. A woman gives birth.

J-Walk

2000 • 1 min

This unique animation captures the celebrated strut of leading catwalk coach J. Alexander - the teacher behind Naomi Campbell's trademark walk - as he sashays and shantes his way through a modelling masterclass. Join the dots and watch Miss J. work it in this film that, even without clothes, is undeniably fashion in pure motion.

Intolerance

2000 • 11 min • United Kingdom

The film begins with an Earth space craft stumbling upon a movie floating in the vast nothingness. The film turns out to be from planet Zog and when people see it, they are shocked and angered by the Zogs (or is it 'Zogians' or 'Zogites'?). It seems that they have their genitals where our heads are and vice-versa. To make things really weird, they eat and drink with their genitals and defecate with their faces.

Megalopolis

2000 • 6 min

A high contrast, black-and-white architectural study of Manhattan skyscrapers, Megalopolis is a symphony of shapes and forms. Slivers of light and masses of darkness sweep across the screen in this wonderful, graphic work.

The Tierra Del Diablo Project

2000 • 20 min

A reporter (Brinke Stevens) tries to get old her anchor job back by exploring a haunted canyon. She and two female friends (Mina Lee and Skylar Nicholas) take turns shooting video as one by one they fall victim to a curse. See what happens when blind ambition runs amuck in the land of the devil...

The Directors: Milos Forman

2000 • 60 min

Documentary about the Chzech director, Milos Forman.

Happiness Is... Licking the Frosting

2000 • 1 min • United States of America

Crude animation by Bill Plympton. A boy tries to lick the frosting.

How to Grab a Woman's Breast

2000 • 1 min • United States of America

Crude animation by Bill Plympton. A how-to guide.

Blinded by Light

2000 • 8 min

A blind man receives corneal transplants. He is fifty years old. For the first time since he was ten months old he has complete functional use of his eyes. What does he see? This is the story of a man’s struggle to learn to see.