All Films

Var är Bus-Alfons?

2000 • 41 min • Sweden

A Swedish animated family film based on Gunilla Bergström's beloved children's book character.

Circumcision

2000 • 52 min • France

Circumcision is not a trivial act. For those parents, mostly "mixed" couples from different religious origins, a choice has to be made before the birth of their children, whether religion has a role in their lives or not.

The Unforgettable Kenny Everett

2000 • 30 min

TV documentary The Unforgettable Kenny Everett

The Girl from Marseilles

2000 • 19 min

A film adaptation of Andre Breton's surrealist novel "Nadja". This fictional memoir gives voice to the woman who, speaking from the sanitarium as World War II approaches, recounts her love affair with Breton through a matrix of archival and staged images of Paris. World Premiere: Viennale '00. Forum des Images (Paris) Permanent Collection

Pouring Grain

2000 • 2 min

Shores of Silence

2000 • 24 min

Shores of Silence: Whale Sharks in India is a landmark film by Mike Pandey that brought about major legislative changes to protect whale sharks worldwide. This documentary depicts the needless killing and harvesting of whale sharks by poor Indian communities. In response to the film, the Indian government introduced legislation to ban fishing of whale sharks, declaring them endangered species and protecting them under the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972. This gives whale sharks equal status to other endangered species such as tigers and rhinoceroses. Internationally, the film helped to bring the whale shark global protection under CITES. The film won 11 international awards including The Wildscreen Panda, also known as the Green Oscar. Recently, the film received four stars from the Hindustan Times.

Super Natural

2000 • 13 min • Sweden

IR-thermography creates pictures of events unseen by the naked eye as heat loss, or the transference of heat between individuals and surroundings. The video shows a group of people swimming in a river apparently unconscious of an eager voice calling out that ‘dinner is ready’.

Raft

2000 • 51 min • Japan

Idol Soldier Priere

2000 • 20 min

Mika Aikawa is given the powers of Idol Soldier Priere and told she must be the protection from an evil person.

Recycling Cinema

2000 • 12 min

For Recycling Cinema, Pau trained a camera on traffic moving along a Hong Kong expressway. The footage plays at changeable speeds and in various directions, as the camera’s lens tracks specific vehicles. The entire projection itself is kinetic, designed to shift back and forth horizontally across a long, curved paper screen.

Playboy's Playmates Bustin' Out

2000 • 57 min

Travel to New Orleans with bombshell Anna-Marie Goddard (40th Anniversary Playmate), Hollywood starlet Jenny McCarthy (1994 Playmate of the Year), Laura Cover, Miss October 1998; Karen McDougal, 1998 Playmate of the Year; Brooke Richards, Miss December 1999; Shauna Sand, Miss May 1996; Jaime Bergman, 45th Anniversary Playmate; Stacy Sanches, 1996 Playmate of the Year; and Carrie Stevens, Miss June 1997. It's a curvaceous collection of the world's most bountiful beauties.

Sea of Sharks

2000 • 45 min

On February 14, 2000, Disney debuted a sequel television documentary series to the True-Life Adventures for syndication and educational video distribution. There were four entries in this new series.

Sheep in the Big City: In the Baa-ginning

2000 • 23 min

Sheep leaves Farmer John's farm in pursuit of a happy life in the city.

Troma Citta Aperta

2000 • 57 min • Italy

This Italian documentary, produced by satellite TV Jimmy and filmed in New York City in 2000, explores the story of Troma Film, the oldest independent production house still in existence. Inspired by Lloyd Kaufman’s book “All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger,” the documentary features Kaufman narrating the origins and future of his sexy/horror/exploitation films with surreal humour. It delves into the unique genesis and production methods of Troma’s movies, showcasing the vibrant world of Tromettes, eccentric actors, fan enthusiasm, and the distinctive Troma style.

Xxxy

2000 • 13 min

Kristi Bruce and Howard Devore, both born intersex, talk eloquently about their experience of a medical model based upon shame, secrecy, and forced "normalization."

Ecce Omo

2000 • 5 min • Canada

Rome, a palimpsest: monuments, the Catholic church, the everyday life.

Robotting

2000 • 3 min • Japan

A short animation movie from Kunio Kato

The Horny Bed

2000 • 20 min

The story of a boy who inherits a mysterious bed, provoking dark desires in whoever comes near it. Humor, terror, eroticism, and fantasy in this sinister fable about desire and its secret facets.

Silver Screen

2000 • 5 min

A film made entirely with foil paper, exploring its possibilities in the realm of the audiovisual. For each frame a new foil paper landscape was created changing the parameters of light and perspective. In order to match the rapid flow of images several foil paper sounds have been restructured and edited.

Boy Toys

2000 • 10 min

A naughty romp that is bare, brazen, and "black and blue" too, featuring a playpen of playthings that go on an erotic rampage."

Asmat

2000 • 52 min

The Asmat people live on the southwestern coast of western Papua, a land that has long remained free of outsiders, discouraged by the Asmats' terrifying reputation as cannibals and headhunters. The film tells the story of Rufinus, a 20 year old Asmat, that will be married. Before that however, he must capture and kill a cassowary, the great solitary bird that lives in the depths of the jungle. Accomplishing this task will give Rufinus a sense of belonging to the Asmat people, whom their neighbors, the Mimikans call, 'We mana wé: the men who eat the man'. Parallel to the wedding, spectacular and rare stock film retraces the history of this terrifying people.

Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?

2000 • 7 min

Robot Jones learns that he has been put into a human public school that he must now attend.

Nuba Conversations

2000 • 53 min

Ten years after shooting Kafi's Story, British filmmaker Arthur Howes reentered the Sudan clandestinely to find out what had happened to the Nuba of Torogi. Everywhere, he encountered the face of jihad, or holy war. For example, a remarkable television program, Fields of Sacrifice, celebrates that week's casualties in the war against the Nuba and features family members thanking Allah for having taken their sons and brothers as martyrs.

Hope Is the Thing with Feathers

2000 • 28 min

Beau Riley is a recovering alcoholic. His lover, David, was born a paraplegic. Through Riley's poetry, paintings, and interviews we discover a portrait of grief and healing between two people, each disabled in his own way.