All Films

New Suits

2000 • 22 min

A visit to a suit shop becomes a trip into a family's life story as a father and son deal with old memories and new hopes. It's a story not only about fathers and sons but also about the immigrant experience and cultural conflicts between genterations.

Moonshine Overamerica Tour

2000 • 49 min

A 2000 documentary of the "Moonshine Overamerica Tour" featuring interviews, music, and tour footage with DJs: Carl Cox, Keoki, Cirrus, Micro, John Kelley, Donald Glaude, DJ Dan, Omar Santana, AK1200, Dara, Dieselboy, and more.

Beck: @NPA Paris

2000 • 56 min

Canal Paris 2000. Includes a special appearance from Jane Birkin

GraviDance

2000 • 25 min • Russia

An experimental digital animation with humor, music and reflective narrations. Kobrin's final film.

Invasión Travesti

2000 • 50 min • Spain

A group of stellar transvestites have invaded the planet, Laura Crawford - a lethal hybrid formed by the worst of man and woman - has been able to lead both sexes to chaos and mutual contempt. Barbara Furiasse, the last living heterosexual on earth, is about to vanish, and with it the hope of a future world. She has only three days to find a real man and together flee from the transvestite invasion.

Goofy's Extreme Sports: Shark Feeding

2000 • 2 min • United States of America

Goofy dons scuba gear and an anti-shark cage to go underwater and feed the sharks.

The Bank Heist

2000 • 27 min • United States of America

In the BANK HEIST, Tina plays a young woman who’s just been promoted to bank manager. Debbie plays the crook who will stop at nothing to get into the vault. Debbie takes Tina hostage, stripping her, gagging her, and ultimately leaving her tied to the desk with a stick of dynamite in her mouth, set to go off in two minutes! In the original, Vanessa Carlton plays the bank manager who’s left in a running car to die by carbon monoxide gas!

Myth Makers 62: Jeremy Bulloch

2000 • 55 min • United Kingdom

From his early childhood in the 1950’s, Jeremy Bulloch has built a career on stage and screen that has lasted through to the present day. Roles in Billy Bunter, Summer Holiday, Mary Queen of Scots and Doctor Who are just some of the credits on his CV. Not bad for an actor who finally found fame playing a character whose face audiences never saw. As Boba Fett, a bounty hunter in the original Star Wars trilogy, Jeremy managed to make a supporting character stand out so forcefully that even today he finds himself being invited all over the world to conventions. The Force is definitely still with him! In this Myth Makers, Nicholas Briggs delves behind the costume and mask to find the actor beneath and discovers Star Wars treasures hidden in Jeremy’s attic.

Ring

2000 • 4 min

Against the background of this short film in which he includes a complete Wagner cycle as a music video in four minutes, Scheffer shows in Ring many composers and conductors who have played a major role in twentieth-century music. Flashes of Elliot Carter, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Richard Wagner, Bernhard Haitink and many others crop up in the Wagner set. This leads to a compilation of the many music documentaries that Scheffer has made in recent years.

King of Porn 2: The Retirement

2000 • 6 min

Ralph "King of Porn" Whittington retires from the Library of Congress and the public relations office breathes a sigh of relief.

Herbert Von Karajan: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

2000 • 46 min

This installment of the Herbert von Karajan: His Legacy series showcases the acclaimed conductor leading the Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra in a 1984 performance of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony no. 4 in F Minor, op. 36. One of the most legendary figures in 20th-century classical music, the Austrian-born von Karajan helmed the Berlin Philharmonic for more than 30 years, from 1955 to 1989.

The Drowning Room

2000 • 10 min

A sequence of domestic vignettes from the sunken suburbs. In the house, the stagnant atmosphere has slowly thickened to liquid. The inhabitants try to carry on as normal but beyond the borders of asphyxiation; communication is limited and expression difficult. Filmed entirely underwater in a submerged house to create an atmosphere unlike any other film.

Lucy

2000 • 5 min • Estonia

A transcendental float or an imminent fall: a woman is in a slow motion descent with a slightly illuminated building rushing on the background. Eyes are shut and the body delicately moves: the wind keeps blowing and the end is always near, yet never quite there.

Criminal Case 141/53

2000 • 50 min • Portugal

Two Portuguese nurses share their harrowing story. Sisters Isaura Borges Coelho and Hortênsia Campos Lima were arrested in the early 1950s for protesting a law that barred nurses from marrying. Salazar wanted nurses to live like nuns, in line with Catholic conservative ideals.

Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five

2000 • 45 min

This rare collection of early music videos -- known as "soundies" -- from the 1930s and '40s features jazz legend Louis Jordan and his band performing their hits, including collaborations with Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway and Nat King Cole. Songs are "Five Guys Named Moe," "Caldonia," "Shine," "Fuzzy Wuzzy," "Call of the Jitterbug," "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby," "Honey Chile," "Don't You Worry About That Mule" and more.

Donald's Halloween Scare

2000 • 7 min

Donald scares the candy out of Huey, Dewey and Louie's trick or treat bags, so naturally, they have to retaliate.

Notes on Jonas Mekas

2000 • 26 min

“My purpose in filming NOTES ON JONAS was not to make a portrait per se. As a film editor, I was mainly curious to know about his editing technique. When I tried to get an interview, Jonas played his accordion, his tuba, his harmonica… He even organized a jam session in the basement of AFA. I wondered: ‘Is Jonas too shy to let himself be interviewed by a woman?’ Enlisting a cameraman to shoot the film instead of me did the trick. Jonas invited us to his loft on Broadway and to his editing room. How happy I was to be watching as he gave me a long master class.” –Jackie Raynal

The SharkTank Redemption

2000 • 25 min

Fred Redding, an assistant at Hollywood agency CMA comes before the board, seeking a promotion, and is refused. He tells us the story of his coworker, Randy Tulane, who didn't just do his time at the agency, but used the system for his own purposes and, ultimately, to help his friend, Fred.

Price of Knowledge

2000 • 36 min • Bhutan

Made by Bhutan's first filmmaker (Ugyen Wangdi), Price of Knowledge (1999) is also Bhutan's first documentary. Day by day, 11 year old Sherab Dorji walks three hours to school. In the early morning he meets the other children of his village at a chorten, a Buddhist shrine. From there, they walk to school together singing. The road leads across a mountain and through the woods. The parents are constantly afraid of their children meeting up with wild animals along the path. When Sherab walks the last part by himself in the evening, he prays aloud to fight his fear. They walk so much, his father says, that their socks tear within a week. Sherab’s family depends on subsistence farming. Sherab and his family’s life are presented in a touching realistic portrait of rural Bhutan in 1999.

Fowl Play - The Making of Chicken Run

2000 • 23 min • United Kingdom, United States of America, France

A documentary covering the making of Chicken Run.

Saïa

2000 • 30 min

Afghanistan. Year 1421, Hegira lunar calendar, civil war. Bagram front line, 50 kilometres north of Kabul. The enemy lines are within hailing distance. At night, the Taliban can be heard provoking their adversaries with insults...

Static

2000 • 47 min

Static Originally released in 1999, this 15 year anniversary edition re-release features a bonus director commentary along with the the "Cigar City" video from 1996 and the "Rising" video from 1997.

Blaufilm

2000 • 10 min

This film was made by hand with materials 16mm blank film (100m), transparent silicon, and blue pigment (Prussian-Paris blue), without a camera. There are 14,000 continuous blue pictures in this film without cuts. The reality of this work is the continuity of emotion and feeling expressed by the colour blue - a highly spiritual colour, Harada shows its emotional significance. The deeper it is, he shows, the more it awakens a desire for the eternal. You can see it dotted poignantly about in this film, sometimes as part of a far-off backdrop, and often as the outline of a mysterious mountain settlement.

Tony Hawk's Trick Tips Volume I: Skateboarding Basics

2000 • 53 min • United States of America

The legendary Tony Hawk teaches the basics of skateboarding to skaters of all ages. Also featuring Kris Markovich and Brian Sumner.