Cinematic Era: 2001 Vintage

Moscow tower block polar bear.

The wolf has made it right to your door ...

Recorded during their sixth visit to Japan in the autumn of 2001, Tokyo Blitz finds Ash on a high.

The international scientific film project Encyclopaedia Cinematographica has been founded in the 1950s by the Institute for Scientific Film (IWF), Göttingen/Germany, instigated a. o. by the ethologist Konrad Lorenz. The archive comprises several thousand films, mostly of 2 minutes duration and organised in a kind of matrix, which were supposed to document the entire moving world. Christoph Keller pushes the idea of the Encyclopaedia Cinematographica further. He selected 40 entries and isolated their smallest possible sequence of movement, creating new cycles of movements arranged in 40 loops. The videos of the endlessly moving animals are presented on 40 monitors in the exhibition hall of the Kunst-Werke, which thus becomes a kind of walk-in archive. Keller’s work alludes to the idea of the archive as museum.

A man tries to win back his ex girlfriend.

A short video in which Levine, facing a crescent moon, remembers Marjorie Keller telling a dream she had with her female friend, also a film director, who had died.

A young woman is having nightmares. Her husband reassures her that there is a rational basis for her fears. But what is that noise in the closet? A ghoulish vision of a woman's place that doubles as a stylish homage to 1970s horror, THE FEAR wrings dread out of every camera movement and splash of color.

A photographer's violent confrontation with one of his involuntary subjects, a famous politician, is brilliantly related in a computer-animated homage to film noir and tabloid journalism.

A film by Anri Sala

Instead of riding off into the sunset, Dolven's two protagonists walk off, painfully slowly and in perfect step, into an impenetrable darkness.

Iron Maiden at Estadio Vélez Sarsfield, Buenos Aires, Argentina The Wicker Man Ghost of the Navigator Brave New World Wrathchild 2 Minutes to Midnight Blood Brothers Sign of the Cross The Mercenary The Trooper Dream of Mirrors The Clansman The Evil That Men Do Fear of the Dark Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast Hallowed Be Thy Name Sanctuary The Fallen Angel Out of the Silent Planet

In the forest, the witch conjured up a gingerbread house to attract Janek and Marienka to her. After the intrigues of the evil neighbour, Janko and Marienka must also face the threats of the witch. The siblings help each other out of the hopeless situation with their own courage, cohesion and wit. The fairy tale, known all over the world, was filmed in the environment of the Little Carpathians.

The illusion of an hypnosis emerges from the serenity of a geometrical succession of forms. In this geometrical 'mini-drama' the pathos is created by colors in movement and the languorous and repetitive beat of a piano.

The final chapter of the "Morning Star Trilogy", Dimensional Connections is the culmination of an amazing journey that reveals itself with unfathomable insights. An intense and powerful soundtrack leads you stumbling through a maze of traps, temptations and surprises while the visuals dazzle.

This extended Behind the Music details the tumultuous life and career of hard rock pioneer Dave Mustaine and his band, Megadeth. Kicked out of Metallica, the band he co-founded, in 1982, the guitarist/vocalist got his revenge by forming Megadeth. His mission statement for his new group: "...to be the fastest, utmost furious heavy metal band ever." But if anybody embodied the philosophy "live hard, play hard" it was Mustaine, who battled heroin addiction for nearly 10 years. Five lineups, 16 trips to rehab, one near-death experience, and more than 20 million albums later, Megadeth have more than made their mark in metal.

Pantera at Olympic Tennis Center, Seoul, South Korea 01 - Hellbound 02 - A New Level 03 - Slaughtered 04 - Goddamn Electric 05 - Becoming 06 - Revolution Is My Name 07 - Use My Third Arm 08 - Floods 09 - Suicide Note, Part 2 10 - I'll Cast A Shadow 11 - Walk 12 - Cemetary Gates (tease) 13 - Fucking Hostile 14 - This Love 15 - Primal Concrete Sledge 16 - Cowboys From Hell 17 - Cat Scratch Fever

Pantera at Sunrise Musical Theater, Sunrise, FL, USA Hellbound A New Level Slaughtered Goddamn Electric Becoming [with Throes of Rejection outro] Revolution Is My Name Use My Third Arm Floods Suicide Note Pt. II I'll Cast a Shadow [with 25 Years outro] Walk [w/ Mikey Doling of Soulfly] Fucking Hostile [with Cemetary Gates intro] This Love Primal Concrete Sledge Cowboys From Hell

Let Me Live, The One You Are, Never, Come Into Resistance, Bleed, Cross of Hatred

This is the story of Terenti, a reindeer hunter and chief of the brigade, and his family. His wife Maïa, daughter Anna, brother Vassia, and grandfather live in their balok. Anna’s cousin Konstantin is staying with them in the tundra. Early one morning, Anna awakens. The Trace of Moloktchon follows a family of Dolgans from sunrise to sunset. We meet the Tundra of Siberia, the last nomadic inhabitants of the Taïmyr. On May 9, 2000, the filmmaker set a camera inside a balok and another outside on a swivel to follow the sun. This allowed him to film on two screens, an intimate record of Maïa’s daily life and the means developed by this thousand-year-old culture for meeting its needs. At the same time, he captured a panorama of her environment, the Tundra of Terenti. We discover the way of life of these animistic nomads. They went about their usual activities without apparent regard for the camera. The resulting document is moving and informative.

When Josh loses his heart to Violet, he doesn't know how severely his faith will be tested, but he soon must decide whether he's willing to sacrifice everything -- including his life -- for the woman he loves.

Fredrik, age 16, from Askøy outside Bergen is an unassuming boy; until he sits down in front of a computer. There Fredrik dons his alias, Slayer, and becomes one of the world's best players of the computer game Starcraft. We follow Fredrik on a trip to Korea where the world's best Starcraft players meet in combat. Only the top 128 of over 100,000 applicants qualify to compete for the first prize of $10,000.

The American Agency known as The Octopus has set forth a new order into the realm of technological espionage.

Prison escape by helicopter re-created with multi-screens consisting of eight sequence shots in a loop.

A documentary about "little people" born with achondroplasia.

Perhaps the most delicately tactile in the series of four cinematic songs, Love's Refrain rests moment to moment on its own surface. It is a coda in twilight, a soft-spoken conclusion to a set of cinematic songs.

short Chris Marker-esque essay on Kershner's THE EYES OF LAURA MARS

Directed by Ian Breakwell.

Miracle workers such as Benny Hinn are followed and interviwed in this American Undercover documentary. It questions if faith and prayer can heal.

"You Are My World" is the 10th album from Hillsong. Recorded live at the Sydney Entertainment Centre and featuring Darlene Zschech and the worship team from Hillsong.

Short experimental film by Lewis Klahr.

Mother and father are divorced. Now it's Dad's Weekend. A short film about the relationship between a weekend dad and his 10 year old daughter.

Two boys observing a church make a light-hearted bet about the cars coming to a ceremony.

A man gets confused when he thinks he sees a carrot.

A boy walks to his locker.

Elegy is a film about and in memory of a cat. It depicts her nocturnal space as imagined by us. It occurs partly in our ‘garden’, a dank and decaying back yard full of weeds and wildlife, a place that belonged more to her than to us. Various creatures join in the process of mourning, on and off screen.

In Frances Stark's Cat Videos 1999 - 2002, the artist's cats are featured playing and lounging in her apartment. The videos are a result of Stark being inspired by the visual pleasure of watching her cats and the way their movement changed her perception of her domestic surroundings. By utilizing the soundtrack of one diegetic song per video, the life of the domestic cat - which usually involves no plans or action - is framed, and then elevated as a work of art. The videos, produced pre-Youtube in 1999-2002, predict our current extensive consumption and emotional responses to online cat videos, and unintentionally explore the rise of rapid attention span as a response to current technologies.

Evolving out of bleached off-cuts from the 1998 film 'Into The Light', this short abstract sequel overlays super 8 film shot directly into a projector beam.

Almost subliminal lunar images flash by. Contrasts of light and dark are evocative of the mechanisms of filmic process itself - positive/negative. A fantastic, though familiar, moonscape is momentarily exposed.

This documentary looks into the life of a musician who has traded one continent (and its history) for another, while never losing sight of his music. The film weaves Mr. Blair's story with glimpses of the beautiful Provence region where the swing of New Orleans and brilliant hues of the south of France come together.

In 1945, thousands of U.S. Marines entered one of the deadliest battles of modern warfare. Fifty years later, survivors returned to honor their collective past. Iwo Jima: Memories in Sand is a powerful, lyrical encounter with survivors who reveal how such experiences forever changed their lives and caused them to reflect deeply and thoughtfully about war.

Explore the life and works of one of America's greatest writers with this absorbing program on William Faulkner. Famous for his depiction of the growing pains of the South in his many novels, Faulkner received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1949. Expert commentary, archival documents and rare interviews shed light on the celebrated author, whose major works include The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August and Absalom, Absalom.

Focusing on films with a spiritual theme, the annual Damah Film Festival presents a wide range of shorts, from documentaries and dramas to experimental and animated films. The movies capture a variety of spiritual experiences told through edgy tales and more traditional stories of struggle and redemption. This collection from the 2001 festival includes "1, 2, 3 Dream," "Addiction," "American Wet Dream," "Blue Black Hours," "Troposphere" and more.

Performed by the Gewandhaus Orchestra, this skillfully abridged adaptation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's brilliant comic opera is a delightful family treat. Lavish sets and costumes (and a cast adept at playing comedy) complement and complete the Austrian composer's glorious music. English-language narration helps guide viewers through the story, and bonus features include a Mozart biography and a full synopsis of the opera.

When Peter the Great came to power at the beginning of the 18th century, he westernized Russia, often using a brutal hand to bring about change. One of the transformations that occurred at this time was in the field of art, which moved from its primitive tribal and religious roots toward a more classic western style. This absorbing program explores how the combination of influences is reflected in the country's emergent art.

A young man ditches the real world for that of film, but eventually comes to realize that running away is no substitute for the sublime beauty of everyday life. When Hilbert's father has a near-fatal heart attack, he falls into a downward spiral of introspection, re-evaluating and restructuring his life. The despondent young man turns away from his family and his girlfriend toward the comfort of an alternative world. Taking up residence in a cheap, downtown San Francisco hotel, he experiments with drugs and bisexuality and art. On an 8mm projector, he obsessively analyzes home movies from his childhood, comparing these films with his recollections of his youth. Memory and desire- spawned from what he imagined was reality versus what he sees in these movies -encourage Hilbert to create his own film, to re-write the past and blow the Oedipal triangle apart.

Legendary tenor Placido Domingo takes on a different role, conducting the Berlin Philharmonic's annual summer concert. The 2001 concert features Spanish-themed music and performances by violinist Sarah Chang and soprano Ana Maria Martinez. Domingo conducts works that evoke his native Spain including Sarasate's "Carmen Fantasy," Rimsky-Korsakov's "Capriccio Espagnol," Chabrier's "España" and Vives's "Fandango."

Saivar Thirumeni (transl. Saivar high priest) is a 2001 Indian Malayalam-language action drama film directed by Shajoon Karyal and written by Robin Thirumala. It features Suresh Gopi, Manoj K. Jayan, Samyuktha Varma, Narendra Prasad, Nedumudi Venu, Jagathy Sreekumar, Sangeetha Mohan, and K. P. A. C. Lalitha in major roles. The music was composed by Raveendran. The plot revolves around Devadatthan (Suresh Gopi), a Namboothiri youth.

While serving as a test subject for a synthetic blood product, Bernard (Kevin Barnes) waits for each of his injections inside a suburban motel room. He develops a friendship with the helpful maid (Jill Carnes), but being a medical guinea pig gradually takes its toll on Bernard's sanity. Soon, he believes he's a mummy whose synthetic blood will grant him eternal life. Chris Jolly directs this indie horror flick shot in minimalist black-and-white.