All Films

Terminal: Paradise

2000 • 7 min • Germany

At home on their mountain, the small colony of rats doesn't lead much of a life. Nothing to eat, nothing to drink and nothing but rubbish, as far as the eye can see. Life drifts along, until one day a rat finds a postcard with a special motif. After this, nothing is the way it used to be ...

Dachimawa Lee

2000 • 35 min • South Korea

Hwa-nyeo and Chung-nyeo, two country girls who have come to Seoul with big dreams. They are thrilled just to see the wondrous Seoul landscape, but a group of thugs, including Shanghai Park, appears before them. Just as they face a terrible fate, a man by the name of Dachimawa Lee appears like a comet. He suavely fights off the thugs and rescues Hwa-nyeo and Chung-nyeo. The two girls become infatuated with his manly image, and Hwa-nyeo and Dachimawa Lee fall in love. Meanwhile, the head of the thugs, the Nameless Man of the East, hears that his underlings have been harshly beaten and decides to make Dachimawa Lee pay. Finally, there is a battle between Dachimawa Lee and the gang of the Nameless Man of the East.

Flex

2000 • 17 min • United Kingdom

Video installation for the Anthony d'Offay gallery, depicting a naked man and woman floating in darkness, beating each other and engaging in acts of intercourse. Only a 3½ minute excerpt has been commercially released.

Resident Evil 4D Executer

2000 • 19 min • Japan

Five members of the U.B.C.S., a private military force owned by the Umbrella Corporation, are sent to Racoon City to trace Dr. Cameron and, foremost, her research. However, the horrors they encounter are beyond their imagination.

Sticky Dough

2000 • 8 min • Germany

Both the machines and the staff at the bread factory run like clockwork.The girls are always on the go and their piece rate is bang on target. The new girl, however, number 423, is having a hard time getting to grips with the machines. She's fighting a losing battle, it seems. But we shall see who will win in the end.

Life

2000 • 6 min • Hong Kong

May and Lily are two juvenile delinquents and experts in burglary and theft. Both have the hears for fellow rascal Jack (Sam Lee), who has his life savings cheated by his gang leader. As both May and Lily conspire to steal back the money for Jack, the revelation of him dying from cancer force the three to rethink their priorities and try to cope with their own unforeseeable future.

Kimono

2000 • 28 min • Germany

A hot summer day on a country road. A young woman in her bridal dress gets kicked out of a car. Lost and frustrated, she wanders off across a sea of grass into a dark wood - and discovers an abandoned house. Tired and worn out, she lies down on a bed. When she is awakened from her nap by a clap of thunder, she sees a cup of steaming hot tea and a package on the floor. She opens it - and finds a kimono. The bride knows she no longer is alone ... but should she put on the kimono?

Refrain Blue: Chapter 3 - Eternal Blue Waves

2000 • 30 min • Japan

In the last chapter of the Refrain Blue series, the bond between Yoshihiro Matsunaga and Nao Morisawa grows stronger, while Yoshihiro finally finds out the identify of the mysterious girl from the first chapter.

Override

2000 • 10 min • United States of America

An oppressed office worker is whisked away to a dynamic club scene by a strapping bike messenger.

50cc

2000 • 43 min

A film about the things of life: girls, boys, scooters… Anyway, you know how it is.

Film Club

2000 • 5 min

A parody of Fight Club in which the first rule is you don't talk about film club.

Kyuukyuu Sentai GoGoFive vs Gingaman

2000 • 42 min • Japan

The team-up between Kyuukyuu Sentai GoGoFive and Seijuu Sentai Gingaman. Its footage was used in the Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue episodes Trakeena's Revenge parts I & II.

In Absentia

2000 • 20 min • United Kingdom

A woman sits alone on a chair at a table in a room on one of the top floors of an asylum. Bright spot lights dot the night, sometimes shining on her window. She sharpens pencils and writes on a page in a copy book. The pencil point often breaks under her fingers' force. She places broken points outside the window on the sill. A satanic figure is somewhere nearby, animated but of straw or clay, not flesh. She finishes her writing, tears the paper from the pad, folds it, places it in an envelope, and slips it through a slot. Is she writing to her husband? "Sweetheart, come."

Worst Contact

2000 • 21 min • Japan

In the near future, a man undergoes an experiment by sharing living quarters with an alien aboard a space station. Based on a Yasutaka Tsutsui play.

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone

2000 • 20 min • United Kingdom

A short documentary based on Sergio Leone's life and career, and the making of the film "Once Upon a Time in America."

Making of 'Battle Royale'

2000 • 52 min • Japan

An abundance of footage from the shooting of Battle Royale and cast and crew discussions.

Bare

2000 • 9 min • Australia

Dee wakes up with a stranger in her bed, while her neighbour Paul is discovering new spice in an old relationship. But when inner city living finds them at closer quarters than they might expect, sensual surprises and unexpected desires are the order of the day.

The Heist

2000 • 6 min • Denmark

Four young men are sitting in a car at a train crossing and waiting for the train to pass.

Prince Mackaroo the Movie: The Promised Summer - Ojaru and Semira

2000 • 47 min • Japan

This short film introduces Semira, a strange boy who comes to play with Ojaru and his chums and bears a marked resemblance to a boy of the same name who spent a summer with the village elders when they were boys, long ago.

Quantum Project

2000 • 40 min • United States of America

Quantum Project is the story of physicist and prodigy Paul Pentcho (Stephen Dorff), whose exploration of the quantum universe leads him on a collision course with life, destiny, and true love.

Dirty Couple Exchange Sex

2000 • 59 min • Japan

Yumi, a married woman, started to indulge in lewd fantasies due to her frustration...

Shadow of the Blair Witch

2000 • 45 min • United States of America

In this true-crime documentary, we delve into the murder spree that was the inspiration for Joe Berlinger's "Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2".

Kuproquo

2000 • 13 min • Canada

Six-year-old Jeremiah asks his parents what the word "sodomize" means. His father gets lost in the explanations.

Bakunyû fuzoku: Okini mesumama

2000 • 60 min • Japan

Fuyusako lives with her half-brother Natsuo. She secretly works at an image club without telling him, and Yumihiko, a regular customer at the image club, is Fuyusako's half-brother. To Natsuo, Fuyusako was like a virgin, and that was the reason why even if she had a lover with him, it wouldn't last long. Fuyusako takes the plunge and confesses her truth for the sake of her younger brother. However, after Natsuo cleansed his dirty body, he embraced Fuyusako. One day, an incident occurs where Fuyusako is raped by a customer...