Rok 2000 - 414

"Chong brings queer chops into new sightlines with this elegant mini-essay on desire... A series of peek-a-boo mattes admit moments glimpsed in passing. Scars of seeing. The throbbing, hand-processed emulsion begins with clouds then descends through traffic to arrive at the aching towards some new moment of release." — Mike Hoolboom

A cat tries to cross a street in Tel Aviv, prevented by computer bugs.

This musical will have you rolling with laughter as director Zack Stratis introduces the audience to his Greek-American family. Exploring his relationships with his siblings and his parents as they plan the celebration of his parents’ fiftieth wedding anniversary, Zack’s recurring question is "What should I say in my film?" Not only is he talking about the intricacies of his family’s "personal" life, but also about being gay in this traditionally closed family.

In a city seemingly full of happy people, one young woman walks about with a small dark cloud directly over her head. It follows her up the stairs and into her apartment. She tries slamming the door on it, getting rid of it with a vacuum cleaner, and dumping it in someone else's shopping cart. But the cloud doesn't leave her, until she meets a young man who has his own sunshine. Is love the way she's going to get rid of her cloud? Or will change have to happen from within?

Canadian documentary

A young man spitting cherry pits, with an off-screen accomplice, attempts to hit the camera´s lens with one of them. Various moods become apparent on the way to a certain goal: effort, failure, then finally success. A happy, lighthearted film.

A thriller without a storyline. A boat sails at night through the canals of The Hague and observes people and buildings. Who did what?

San Francisco seen through reflections in moving cars.

A camera attached to a microscope facilitates the trawling of spaces shaped by small dead things in tiny chambers between the naked eye and the mansions of molecules. Infinitely devisable focal planes denote the topography and tilt of an insect limb, large and tortuous as a conifer, or a torso brown as maple syrup, which repeatedly emerge and dissolve through the lens as if composed of vapor.

Karnaza, reaper of the peasant souls, spreads terror in the Romagna countryside.

A woman`s passage. Video work screened at Manifesta 4 and other venues

".. and yet of that living breathing throng, not one will be encased in a material frame. A company of ghosts, playing to spectral music. So may the luminous larvae of the Elysian fields have rehearsed ...

Judith Abitbol filmed the work of pianist Jean-Louis Haguenauer. More precisely his work on the twenty-four preludes of Claude Debussy. It was a question of filming the elaboration of the work of the interpreter, such as Jean-Louis Haguenauer conceives it, at home, alone, in front of his piano. What does he do for hours at his piano? What is his approach to the work? How does he find his interpretation?

Clare E. Rojas and Andrew Jeffrey Wright have some white-out fun with fashion magazines.

A Johnny DeCesare Film by Poor Boyz Productions with riders like Candide Thovex, Evan Raps, J.F. Cusson, JP Auclair, Julien RL, Mike Douglas, Philou Poirier, Seth Morrison, Shane Szocs, Skogen Sprang, Vini Dorion

Two art deco style eagles, ornamentation on a large office building, briefly come to life and the devotion of one to the other is the subject of this animation.

The personal life of James Abbott McNeill Whistler may have been the most remarkable of any 19th century artist. Born an American, he spent his childhood in St. Petersburg, received only his formal art training in the unlikely surroundings of West Point Military Academy, and then emigrated to Europe to pursue an artistic career. Whistler's radical emphasis on composition at the expense of subject matter was typified when he painted his famous portrait of his mother and called it Arrangement in Grey and Black.

Daniel Gabriel Rosetti was born in 1828 and lived the life of a true non-conformist. He was one of the founders of the "PRB" or Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He and the other painters in this group were accused of being atheists and societal outcasts. Controversy surrounded many of his paintings, especially "Girlhood of Mary the Virgin." Many of his early works focus on his wife Elizabeth Siddal. His life took a dramatic turn for the worse following her death, an apparent suicide. During his remaining years, Rosetti became a recluse. Because of guilt, sorrow and grief, he had buried a complete collection of his poetry in his wife's coffin. Rosetti later had her body exhumed so he could obtain the poetry collection and have it published. His paintings can now be viewed at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City and at numerous European museums.

Gustave Courbet was one of the first French artists to use his talents to open up realism to paintings and drawings that featured common men and women of society in them, as well as members of the upper class. Courbet was born in 1819 and his early life was a privileged one. Those who knew him best expected him to study law when he moved to Paris in the early 1840s. Instead, Courbet had the courage to embark on an artistic adventure few others would have undertaken. Some of his best works are reviewed in this video, including "The Stone Breakers" and "A Burial at Ornans." In his later years, Courbet concentrated on painting many nature scenes. It is believed that his many seascapes greatly impacted the Impressionists. His political beliefs as a socialist eventually led to both imprisonment and his later flight to Switzerland where he eventually died.