All Films

Circumcized

2000 • 20 min • Sudan

The elder filmmaker makes a strong statement against the practices of circumcision as they performed around Africa and particularly Sudan. The film is typical of the later Gubara films which are determined to take a stand against the tyrannies that are still keeping people down. Gubara has stated that circumcision is "Nothing more than a bad habit".

Nine Inch Nails: Live At Big Day Out, Sydney 2000

2000 • 30 min

Nine Inch Nails performs at the Sydney Big Day Out Festival in 2000

Nine Inch Nails: And All That Could Have Been - TV Cable Special

2000 • 42 min

Originally a TV / Cable Special. This Music DVD is made up of live footage with promo footage and interviews from Nine Inch Nails to promote the upcoming And All That Could Have Been DVD

Yield to Total Elation: The Life and Art of Achilles Rizzoli

2000 • 51 min • United States of America

Yield to Total Elation explores the life and work of the enigmatic and visionary artist Achilles G. Rizzoli. A mundane architectural draftsman by day, the architectural transcriber of the divine by night, Rizzoli created elaborate Beaux-Arts influenced monuments which would never be built. Accompanied by his witty and poignant commentary, the drawings served as translations for the voices and the hallucinations that haunted him. By deftly weaving Rizzoli's words, archival footage, photos and evocative present day scenes of San Francisco's historic architecture, the film tells the story of Rizzoli's life and his work -- an exaltation of architecture as pleasure, as memorial, as redemption.

Surface Noise

2000 • 18 min

Found footage exploring public and private space, organized formally as a sonata, centered around work and issues of class: the divisions between home and public, owners and workers, saturation and flow, structure and improvisation.

Et cetera

2000 • 24 min

100 years of Russian history, 7 major wars. They took human lives, destroyed cities and even countries. The footage of a unique historical chronicle returns to the past to explain only one thing: the weapons change, the place changes, but the horror of death in war remains the same. And along with a person's life, unique worlds, ideas that have not been realized, children who have not been born are being destroyed...

Seconde valse

2000 • 17 min • Canada

Éric St-Amand and Mika Dionne are 9 and 10 years old, going nowhere fast in the heat of a New Brunswick summer. The luminous, idyllic flipside to the Old Fashion Waltz.

Weeki Wachee Girls

2000 • 22 min

Katie, 16, is having fun and doing water dances with her best friend. One day while walking in the woods, she discovers her friend kissing another girl. This discovery provokes Katie's confusion, between emotional shock, incipient jealousy and incomprehension.

Motion Photograffiti

2000 • 9 min • Japan

Short movie by Jun Miyazaki.

After the Fox

2000 • 4 min

A sing-a-long homage to the wonderful music of Burt Bacharach, Peter Sellers and Surf! A tantalizing production shot in various exotic surf locations around the world. Filmed in Los Angeles, Puerto Escondido, Itacaré, Venice Beach and Venice, Italy.

Split

2000 • 1 min

The story concerns a heartbroken woman who splits herself from the relationship she used where she used to live.

Mask Girl

2000 • 5 min

A short film about a mask girl.

Breathe

2000 • 1 min • United States of America

Short film from James Fotopoulos, 16mm film (b&w).

Dreamer

2000 • 11 min • United States of America

A Native American Medicine man has a vision of the future to come.

Where Have All the Lesbians Gone?

2000 • 8 min • Canada

A bunch of Vancouver dykes take hand held hi8 to new heights. In this improvisational short, which offers a wake up call to political complacency. Short on plot, big on subtext. Amidst comic moments these intrepid lesbians go searching for political dykes. What else can you do when the lesbian centre becomes a tattooparlour?

Murder Will Out: Measured Silence

2000 • 22 min

Abstract imagery and shots of bodies and faces flicker with poetic voiceover text that meditates on death, memory, dreams and history.

One Star

2000 • 22 min

I found a faded photo in an old photo album. It was a photo of my family having a meal. I don't know who took the photo. All the people in the photo, except for my brother, are no longer with us . That house has been demolished and is now a road. It's all as if nothing had happened. The fireworks were launched. We cheered and looked up at the night sky. We were surprised and delighted in every moment, breathing like wildflowers under the night sky. And then the last fireworks were launched, and countless sparks would fall quietly like our tears. In that blinking moment, we were born, flickered as life, withered, and disappeared. The cheers would echo forever and ever as the voices of the soul, never disappearing from this earth, no, from this image. It was as if nothing had happened, even though we were no longer there. -Hideto Ishii

Automatic Writing 2

2000 • 11 min

“Continued explorations of automatism as a practical guide to negotiating the mysterious zone where light and no-light flutter in a fecund equipoise. A homemade rocket to realms unknown to any movie camera or photo lens. In the end, perhaps nothing more than a search for an experience of continuity, a kind of sanity. Failing sanity, a wild ride at least.”

Out of the Box

2000 • 16 min

A child is waiting after the school for her grandmother to come and take her back home. Seeing the child alone teacher also waits with her. After a long conversation with the child and observing the activities and fun of the child, the teacher too wants to be the same.

Baby Santa's Music Box

2000 • 24 min • United States of America

Baby Santa's Music Box, better known simply as Baby Santa, is the 6th Baby Einstein video in the series to be released. It takes toddlers on a journey through winter holidays through music and visuals that include nature and Christmas ornaments. It was released on November 1, 2000, just in time for the holiday season. The DVD was later released in late 2001. It was last re-released in Late-2004, with many alterations.

Schuhplattler

2000 • 13 min • Austria

Using the example of the "Schuhplattler" tradition in a small Upper Austrian town, Songül Boyraz examines ritual acts that serve to affirm a collective sense of community while simultaneously generating a mechanism of exclusion.

Grandma Baba and Little Boris

2000 • 20 min

Tradition, mystical revelation, the passing on of family secrets--all that is lost in translation. In this magical fairytale Grandma Baba struggles with the impossibility of telling what needs to be told. How can she pass on the traditions and stories of the Old Country to Little Boris, especially when Old Bandy Legs, a mercurial old magician, is vying to tell his stories? A humorous and whimsical tale made with puzzle pieces that never exactly fit together. Includes a stunning performance by Buffalo, NY as Mother Russia.

There's Something About McConkey

2000 • 60 min

Ten years ago, young renegade ski racer Shane McConkey quit his collegiate team to pursue a career in the small, unglamorous world of freeskiing. Through the '90s, McConkey battled the odds and the establishment as he put "fun" back in skiing. With an unprecedented manner of attacking mountains and a committed effort to appear ridiculous, McConkey opened the doors to a new way of thinking and skiing. As attention to his feats and antics blossomed, so did the sport around him. We've teamed up the raddest skiers of today with the past decade's most influential skier and biggest idiot. So sit back for a wacky, whirlwind tour through a man, a mind and a sport. You may never look at skiing the same way again.

Kingdom Protista

2000 • 6 min

‘A few drops of pond water rich in bottom sediments, seen under a microscope can quickly confirm the existence of another world. This is the Kingdom of Protista and like all living things it needs to try to suck itself off.’