سال 2000 - 412

An incredible resource for railroad and history buffs, Eastern Railroading looks at historic trains and railroads in New Hampshire, Pennsylvania Amish country, West Virginia, and Illinois in order to understand the emergence of railroads as a binding force in American history. With the help of interviews with historians and railroad experts, legends and folklore are explored as well as the mechanics and maintenance of locomotives. The collection of working locomotives in Pennsylvania's Amish country are particularly fun to see maintained and operated under 19th-century conditions. Special segments include passenger train history, the Pacific Railroad Act, commuter train operations, and the controls on Amtrak's EMD 103 super locomotive.

A three-minute travelogue of a film based on a clear concept and minute calculations. The stills in the filmmaker’s hand and the color of their background… These two images, one inside the other in the frame, are looped together and metamorphose. The lags and flickers of live animation entice as well. It’s the appearance of “the origin of film” through a series of stills.

A combination of 2 reels of super-8 animation, with driving electronic music, creating superimposed pulsing abstract patterns of stroboscopic intensity.

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

An American ambassador and his family move into an old castle. They learn from the help that Simon, a man suffering for 300 years due to a heavy sin he committed, resides in the castle. The Americans are quite lighthearted and unfazed by the situation. The father gives the ghost a gift, the boys pillow fight and play tricks on him, and the daughter Virginia is kind and forgiving with him. The ghost is quite surprised because he's used to haunting and people hating him.

Contrafacta is a collage animation made by Toronto filmmakers Roberto Ariganello and Chris Gehman. Using images from medieval artworks, and quotations from the writings of medieval mystics and poets, Contrafacta creates a web of related images and events without a simple connective narrative.

A Japanese-American family conceals their identity and reluctantly adopts discriminatory practices in order to operate a Chinese restaurant within the hostile cold war climate of Las Vegas in the late 1950's.

This documentary follows a group of African-American high school students from Brooklyn who go with their teacher to work on a kibbutz in Israel for a few months. The students also visit Jerusalem for a day. —Philip Apps

Donegan sets up a series of charged relationships -- between artist and model, art object and artistic "gesture," performer and viewer. The "lieder" of the title (German for "songs") are the amplified squeaks of Donegan's swiveling metal stool as it rotates.

Life as seen through the lens of a plastic bottle.

All-lesbian parody of the classic film CASABLANCA.

There are lessons to learn, songs to sing and new friends to laugh with in "Little Bytes," a very special computer-animated collection of short stories and songs. Kids will love to sing along with the hip "Hammer Time" and "Quazar Rap," parents will appreciate the messages in "Bunkie and Booboo" and "Sharing and Buddies," and everyone will laugh at the hilarious antics of the "Fat Cat on a Diet." Plus, there's two wonderful "Luxo Jr." films from Pixar, the creators of the huge hit "Toy Story." The stunning imagery and unforgettable characters will make "Little Bytes" a fixture in your family's entertainment collection for years to come! Presented by Odyssey Productions, creators of the internationally acclaimed "Mind's Eye" series of computer animation videos.

The Glory Days features Trainz, Bombings Wallz, HipHop from Hannover and as nice Special they created a miniature city of Hannover with the Train system and streets bombed by the most active crews.

The lowest administrative body in Chinese cities is the neighborhood committee; the staff are retired old ladies, known as the "Little Foot Detective Team." Community security, cleaning, posting slogans, catching thieves, and issuing government documents are all the responsibility of the neighborhood committee. The neighborhood committee for this film is located on the south bank of the Emperor's Garden in Beijing, where all the people living here are now. The film began shooting in 1999, when the Chinese government celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. The neighborhood committees were busy cleaning up their domains and collecting fees.

Documentary Short

Short film by performance artist Weng Fen from the Wen Pulin Chinese Avant-Garde Art Archive.

Short film by performance artist Weng Fen from the Wen Pulin Chinese Avant-Garde Art Archive.