Year 2001 - 447

"Hudson and Halls" was a popular New Zealand cooking show featuring Peter Hudson and David Halls. It ran for around ten years during the 1970s and 80s before being cancelled. Bitter about their treatment, the pair moved to England, where their chatty, somewhat slapstick and definitely campy presentation style won a second show a cult following. While it was general knowledge that Hudson and Halls lived together, were unmarried and certainly seemed uninterested in women, they never officially confirmed the nature of their relationship in the New Zealand media while they were TV stars, though they were out in their private lives. This documentary, which includes interviews with the couple's friends and family, explores the men behind the show and their lifelong romance.

Karine Albano recounts her experience with an antidepressant called Selexa.

Short film by Helga Fanderl

An escape from a dream back to earth, phenomenally ringing sound poetry. All of this happens whilst waiting for the miracle to pass away. PTKHO is a dreamy riddle, a reflective experiment by Mahine Rouhi.

Nine year old Jamie skips out on his family and takes a train to the beach. His adventure is great fun - at first.

An educational film about gender equality in society in the 21st century.

One of the premiere R&B balladeers of the past 20 years, Grammy-nominated Freddie Jackson rocks the night away on "Jazz Central." This rousing concert is jam-packed with wild surprises and romance as Jackson performs before a live audience at BET's Studio II in Washington, D.C.

The title written in Chinese means the way to reach true knowledge. I tried to depict my own realization of the circle of life in this animation, the destined suffering since the birth, the paralyzed salvation after the death and the voidness of meaning. The only way to escape from the circle of life is to see it and to realize it, although the realization evaporates in a moment. I wanted to see it to show it. Software:Adobe After Effects, Phototshop, Boris FX, Avid Xpress, Protools.Hardware:IBM

A documentary short.

A journey through the many forms of music that celebrate God in the Muslim religion: the animist litanies of Senegal, the ancestral rites of Egypt and Tunisia, the sophisticated and elegant Indian music, and the cosmic Turkish dances.

An homage to the majestic effects of light projected through celluloid. Luminous captures the projected image in its altered form; reflecting back into the projection booth, after passing through the glass and onto the screen, bleeding, breaking and flickering on the surfaces of spinning reels, old posters and the machinery itself.

Conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli, Roberto Alagna & Angela Gheorghiu perform favourites from the great composers, including Verdi, Puccini, and Bizet.

Matt Roberts is a personal trainer to many professional celebrities. Here he introduces the fat loss plan recently employed by pop star Melanie C. It features four distinct stages - cardiovascular exercises, resistance training, stretches and nutrition - and works even if you're not famous!

Hindi mythology drama.

A closely watched candle and an invitation to the dance. William Byrd booms among his books while Evelyn keeps to a quiet window; the volunteer fire brigade sorts through the ashes and Isaac Goldberg tells it like it is. Who read what; when, and why?

The most original aspect of Escartín, which gives his work a radical character, is a certain Olympian indifference to opinions conceived a priori as correct and his willingness to get to the bottom of things. That is why a short film with the curious title Amor (Love) is so important. It consists of an interview with a young former Israeli soldier, recorded in a single afternoon, in which the subject declares that it is necessary to achieve peace with the Palestinians after all the hatred and wounds of war. The soldier's speech has something innocent and conventional about it, but there is a dark side, where it is clear that he does not want to talk about his personal experience in the conflict, and he refers to something called kill rush, an addiction that one acquires when one has started killing.