All Films

Foundation – Art Bars Subtitles and Seagulls

2001 • 40 min

Skaters: Daniel Shimizu, Ethan Fowler, Jon West, Judd Hertzler, Justin Roy, Justin Strubing, Kris Markovich, Mike Rusczyk, Omar Salazar

Se mig nu

2001 • 25 min

Two cousins, Iben and Sanne, are invited to spend their summer holiday with their aunt, the owner of a dilapidated spa in Eastern Europe. The aunt is an eccentric woman whose life is sustained by memories of a time long past; Iben and Sanne are eager and hungry for life. Soon after their arrival, they discover Felix, a young man who has pitched his tent in the aunt's large, overgrown park. All three women are drawn to Felix.

The Living Edens: Yellowstone: America's Sacred Wilderness

2001 • 60 min

High in the wild heart of the American Rockies, Yellowstone is a place of extraordinary landscapes and geysers. Created by the largest volcanic explosions in the planet's history, Yellowstone became the world's first national park in the late 1870s. Now that the wolves have been returned to the park, Yellowstone has become an unparalleled wildlife sanctuary and perhaps the best place on the planet to see wolves and grizzly bears hunting elk.

Songs of the Silly Symphonies

2001 • 12 min

Leonard Maltin talks with song writer Richard M. Sherman about Disney music.

The World Is a Classroom

2001 • 15 min

Caveh Zahedi's allegory about 9/11.

Day of Reckoning

2001 • 6 min

A teenage boy's epic struggle against an evil necromancer.

There's Only One Madonna

2001 • 58 min

A look back over Madonna's career from a British perspective.

We Have Forgotten to Return Home

2001 • 60 min • Germany

A documentary by Fatih Akin about turkish immigrants in Germany.

To You, Wherever You Are

2001 • 52 min

After “Letter From a Time of Exile”, the director is back in Lebanon where he discovers that his dreams about his country are an illusion and that the exile in your homeland is by far the worst exile. Programmer's Note: Borhane Alaouié returns to Beirut from his exile. His documentary film constitutes a new letter at the start of the 21st century in reply to the letters of the 1980s. The reconstruction process appears to affect stones more than people.

Tidal

2001 • 8 min

Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.

2001 • 20 min • Japan

This short documentary follows director Hayao Miyazaki and producer Toshio Suzuki as they attend two film festivals showing the film Princess Mononoke and answer questions. Miyazaki discusses his experience in LA before founding Studio Ghibli.

The Funk Hunt

2001 • 12 min

The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era

2001 • 58 min

The New Modernists: Folds, Blobs and Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era approaches the topic of artistic technological advances, and the modern architects who were educated with this new influx of electronic techniques. In this detailed portrait we visit the exhibition entitled Folds, Blobs + Boxes at the Carnegie Museum of Art where ten architect/designers discuss their approaches to digital architecture with curator of the exhibition, Joseph Rosa. By abandoning the traditional notions of aesthetic beauty, scale and proportion, a new freedom has formed amongst these contemporary creators.

The Seven Last Words of Jesus Christ

2001 • 7 min

The two sides of the end of culture–in all the aspects of knowledge as well as in all the aspects of perceptible representations exist in a unified manner in what used to be art in the most general sense. In the case of knowledge, the accumulation of branches of fragmentary knowledge, which become unusable because the approval of existing conditions must finally renounce knowledge of itself, confronts the theory of praxis which alone holds the truth of them all since it alone holds the secret of their use. In the case of representations, the critical self-destruction of society’s former common language confronts its artificial recomposition in the commodity spectacle, the illusory representation of the non-lived.

Nuclear Rescue 911: Broken Arrows & Incidents

2001 • 53 min

Since 1950, there have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents, known as "Broken Arrows." A Broken Arrow is defined as an unexpected event involving nuclear weapons that result in the accidental launching, firing, detonating, theft or loss of the weapon. To date, six nuclear weapons have been lost and never recovered.Now, recently declassified documents reveal the history and secrecy surrounding the events known as "Broken Arrows". There have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents since 1950. Six of these nuclear weapons have been lost and never recovered. What does this say about our defense system? What does this mean to our threatened environment? What do we do to rectify these monumental "mistakes"? Using spectacular special effects, newly uncovered and recently declassified footage, filmmaker Peter Kuran explores the accidents, incidents and exercises in the secret world of nuclear weapons.

Shot Heard 'Round the World

2001 • 60 min • United States of America

With one swing of a bat, Bobby Thomson became a legend. His dramatic home run on October 3, 1951, led the New York Giants to win the National League pennant over the rival Brooklyn Dodgers. This documentary looks at the teams, personalities and events that combined to create one of the most heated pennant races ever witnessed...one that ended with an unforgettable homer.

ほぞ

2001 • 17 min • Japan

Short film by Tetsuya Mariko

Frantz Fanon: His Life, His Struggle, His Work

2001 • 52 min • Algeria, France

It is the evocation of a life as brief as it is dense. An encounter with a dazzling thought, that of Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist of West Indian origin, who will reflect on the alienation of black people. It is the evocation of a man of reflection who refuses to close his eyes, of the man of action who devoted himself body and soul to the liberation struggle of the Algerian people and who will become, through his political commitment, his fight, and his writings, one of the figures of the anti-colonialist struggle. Before being killed at the age of 36 by leukemia, on December 6, 1961. His body was buried by Chadli Bendjedid, who later became Algerian president, in Algeria, at the Chouhadas cemetery (cemetery of war martyrs ). With him, three of his works are buried: “Black Skin, White Masks”, “L’An V De La Révolution Algérien” and “The Wretched of the Earth”.

Nightgirl

2001 • 45 min

Ma Yingli's documentary, produced as part of Kroma Films' "Girls Around the World" series, presents the poignant story of Han Lin, a 17-year old girl prematurely made to enter into the workforce as a Go-Go dancer in order to help her family eke out a living in modern-day Beijing. Born at the center of the metropolis, on the surface Lin is an ordinary girl from a traditional Chinese family; upon closer inspection, though, she is mature beyond her years and faces an enormous burden of responsibility unfamiliar to most young women in the West.

Aki Kaurismäki

2001 • 53 min • Finland, France

Renowned filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki, creator of The Man Without a Past (Grand Prix du Jury, 2002 Cannes Film Festival) and acclaimed films such as Ariel, Leningrad Cowboys Go America, and Drifting Clouds, is the subject of AKI KAURISMÄKI, the latest release from the Cinema, of Our Time series. The younger member of Finland's most prolific and irreverent filmmaking team, Kaurismäki, together with older brother Mika, virtually invented "The New Finnish Cinema." Since 1981, Kaurismäki has made twenty-two films, many of which are excerpted in this documentary.

Roxy Music Musikladen 1973

2001 • 25 min

Roxy Music performing live on the Musikladen TV Show in May 1973, Bremen, Germany. Songs: Do the Strand / Editions of You /In Every Dream Home a Heartache / Remake/Remodel / Virginia Plain

Pools of Desire

2001 • 55 min • United States of America

The amazing wartime saga of a young American GI who travels to Budapest to find his former companion, a French soldier who told him of the spectacular bathhouses he visited there. The GI explores the fraternal joy of these Turkish baths and loses himself in passion - only to discover his real sexual self!

PJ Harvey: Big Day Out 2001

2001 • 25 min

2001-01-26, Sydney

One Magic Night

2001 • 3 min • Sweden

"Well, somehow it must go on after that moment of perfect love." Something unexpected happens when a couple arrives at a lake.