All Films

The Man of the Badlands

2000 • 54 min • France

A documentary about Luc Moullet and the mountainous locations featured in his films.

The Unknown Peter Sellers

2000 • 52 min • Canada, United States of America

Documentary about the life and career of a comic genius, Peter Sellers.

Dolman 2000

2000 • 35 min • Argentina, Cuba

Three stories about men and women in terminal situations.

Four Men in a Plane

2000 • 33 min • United Kingdom

Salesmen Alan, Ian, Tim, and the pushy Tony are on a plane on their way to a sales conference. Alan joins the mile-high club with a model in the toilet but Tim is annoyed that he is two air miles short of joining the others in club class. On arrival in North Africa, they decide to charter a plane rather than face a fifteen-hour coach journey to the conference.

Alien Technology

2000 • 48 min

A look at the possible effect of recovered alien technology on our lives.

Marisa

2000 • 9 min • Italy

Marisa is a film for Marisa, my mother, Marisa Rusconi who has been gone for a year. I wanted to tell this personal story, with vaguely biographical elements of Marisa and my sensations on detachment and life, using films from the Rai archive on the subject of migration. In this material, broad and open to the world, I found the elements with which I built the backbone of the film. Then I inserted images and sounds recorded by me in the last few months and fragments of Super 8 filmed by my father, Franco, in the 60s.

The Men Behind the Mayhem: The Special Effects of James Bond

2000 • 19 min

Documentary looking at the special effects from the bond movies and the men who created them. Narrated by Marie Clairu.

Ostatnie kuszenie Gawryły

2000 • 52 min • Poland

Gawryło was a convicted felon, who felt a religious awakening. His main goal now is to become an orthodox monk.

Cédula ciudadano

2000 • 23 min • Venezuela

In this dark, screwball comedy, Gustavo Perez has only a few hours to survive the bureaucracy, get an official stamp on his I.D. and put his military papers in order, or it's the draft and straight to the snipers and the border wars.

La comtesse de Castiglione

2000 • 14 min • United Kingdom

A surrealistic nightmare inspired by an 1855 photographic portrait, in which the magic tricks of early cinema are used to eerie effect. Creepy and beautiful at the same time, it does not share platitudinous ways to frighten the audience with the vast majority of modern horrors. Countess di Castiglione is a really existed Italian courtesan famous for her beauty and wide acquaintanceship among the ruling elite of those times. She directed Pierre-Louis Pierson to help her create 700 different photographs in which she re-created the signature moments of her life for the camera. Robert de Montesquiou, a Symbolist poet, dandy, and avid art collector, was fascinated by the Countess di Castiglione. He spent thirteen years writing a biography, La Divine Comtesse, which appeared in 1913. After her death, he collected 433 of her photographs, all of which entered the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Bsss

2000 • 3 min • Germany

A fly lands on a table to drink some spilled liquid; spotting an open children's book, it flies over and tries to emulate the picture of an elephant balancing on its trunk.

Inside The Space Station

2000 • 50 min

A virtual visit aboard the International Space Station, making the dreams of millions of people around the world come true.

Horison: Conjoined Twins

2000 • 48 min

Conjoined twins are among the rarest of human beings. There are probably fewer than a dozen adult pairs living in the world today. Only a few hundred pairs of conjoined twins are born in the whole world each year - they appear about once in every 100,000 births - but more than half of them are stillborn, and one in three live for only a few days.

Science Please! : The Moon Changes

2000 • 1 min • Canada

A clip in the Science Please! collection, The Moon Changes uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain what causes the different phases of the moon.

NOVICE No 21

2000 • 8 min • Georgia

A surreal short film about bureaucracy, paperwork and chaos from the police machine.

PlayStation 2: The Third Place

2000 • 1 min

A waiting room, a talking duck-man, a severed arm, a mysterious woman, a young man in a black suit and his doppelganger thumbs-upping each other. Smoke - FIRE.

The Dirt on Soap

2000 • 1 min • Canada

How soap cleans? Part of the Science Please! collection for children.

Cat Burglar

2000 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Tom the Chauffeur's weekend isn't going to plan. His only task is to feed the wealthy widow's cat whilst she's away. Brilliant! This is his chance to impress his date Dolores by masquerading as the owner of the huge mansion. But they're interrupted by a burglar who manages to kidnap the cat and blackmail Tom into a Menage-a-Trois!

Space Travelers: The Animation

2000 • 60 min • Japan

New Cosmic Century 038, humanity is suddenly attacked by an unknown alien civilization known as the Orbital Ring System. Soon, the entire Earth Civilization Sphere has been cut off from the space colonies, and is under the control of the ORS.

Circus Freaks and Sideshows

2000 • 50 min • United States of America

A trip through the bizarre world of midgets, giants, tattooed ladies, and other human curiosities as we trace the colorful history of a distinctly American form of entertainment--the circus sideshow. From the 1840s when P.T. Barnum exhibited Tom Thumb to the last remaining shows struggling to survive at New York's Coney Island, we learn the truth behind the sideshow adage that freaks are not born, but rather created, as performers share their memories of the magical midway.

Jean-Marie Tjibaou ou le rêve d'indépendance

2000 • 58 min • France, New Caledonia

Through the commitment of Jean-Marie Tjibaou, this documentary traces the history of the march of the Kanak people in search of their independence. Between the raising of the Kanak flag in December 1984 and the funeral procession of the independence leader assassinated by one of his own on the island of Ouvéa in May 1989, there were years of struggles, dramas, palaver, hopes, of which Jean-Marie Tjibaou was one of the main actors. Will France be able to win the bet of a smooth decolonization of one of the last confetti of its empire? The authors meet the main protagonists of the "Tjibaou years", which were those of the Kanak people's dream of independence.

Bibleman: Shattering The Prince Of Pride

2000 • 40 min

Miles Peterson was a man who had it all: wealth, status, success. Still something was lacking. Then, in his darkest hour, the words of a single book gave Miles Peterson the burning desire to know God.

Waking a Dream

2000 • 25 min

protagonist hoping to be taken in dreams into the hereafter falls in love with a person who is indifferent. Suffering heartbreak after confessing love, the protagonist drives to the California redwoods and dies while dreaming.

Science Please! : The Light Bulb

2000 • 1 min • Canada

Edison's bright idea, or how the electric light bulb works?