.Yl 2004 - 499

Robert Beckford learned the Bible at his mother's knee and grew up believing that it was literally true. But, 20 years on from his Baptist upbringing, Beckford is no longer so sure that 'the good book' is the pure, unadulterated word of God untouched by human hand. For Beckford, who wrote the Bible matters more today than perhaps at any other moment in living memory. His journey takes him from Birmingham to the West Bank, from Jerusalem to Turkey, and from Rome to Bible Belt America.

Five basic elements: l) a dancer, Francine Breen; 2) a pair of internally illuminated fiber optic lights she holds in her hands; 3) a background screen (physical) and a foreground screen (electronic, constructed in the video editing process); 4) external illumination that pulses and flickers at a rhythmic but changing rate; and 5) a music score by Marilys Ernst.

The months-long battle of Monte Cassino, one of the bloodiest of the second World War, is related by the Germans and Allied troops who fought it. Men of the 1st/4th Essex Battalion and the German paratroop regiment are to the fore here, as they were 60 years ago.

Documentary about a former concentration camp and its surrounding.

The shoreline at Salthill, Galway on a summer's day, followed by the sounds and lights of a fairground ride at night to music by Arovane. V.D.

DumDum Boys: I Dødens Dal is a nearly two-hour concert recording from the already legendary concert the band kept under "Uka" in Trondheim in October 2003. A band in great shape performs an unbeatable set in front of 5,000 crazy audience, all captured by 8 cameras. In addition, the DVD includes over 40 minutes of previously unreleased material, including recordings from Dumdums first concert in Oslo in 1986.

A crossing of paths behind the seen, a labor of love in the wake of one who was just here.

Found footage film about telephones throughout film history.

Glenn, the great runner, will go out and compete. The question is, does he get the support he needs?

Cassandra Wilson is recognized as an unequaled vocalist, a jazz singer for a new generation. Her distinctive style and daring aesthetic have earned her wide recognition, including chart-topping albums, a Grammy and countless media accolades. In this Live recording she inspires with her trademark mix of first-rate originals and adventurous covers of other songwriters' works, this time picking material by Bob Dylan, Tom Jobim and The Monkees.

Several educational films warning marijuana addicts about the negative and sometimes bizarre consequences of their criminal habit.

A Claymation animated short that took over 1 year to make. The film covers the exploits of a group of crazed cannibal clowns. They love to throw pies and then eat whomever gets smacked by them.

In a sweltering and polluted city, the population is entirely the yoke of a multinational sunblock sunscreen imposing nudism as an ideology to serve its interests

The film is about the longing for a new language, a language that can grasp things at the limit of what we can understand and perceive. A unique form of communication, a place where words are not enough.

Carefully composed portrait of prominent modern composer Elliott Carter (1908-1912). Scheffer depicts both the person and the development in his music and the musical tradition it grew out of, as well as the time in which the American Carter grew up. The result: historical images of the city of New York, old film footage, cinematographic finds to illustrate the music and statements by conspicuous fellow-composers and musicians, including Pierre Boulez and Daniel Barenboim.

A camera speeds across the Trans Canada Highway.

Spanner's perfect plan encounters a major snag as the shocking nature of his true identity is revealed. [parts 1-2]

Deep inside a bizarre industrial abattoir, a blood-stained worker systematically hacks through... meat. A darkly comic Grand Guignol depiction of numbed desensitization from one of Britain's most twisted creative minds.