All Films

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2000 • 7 min

Lucky Stars

2000 • 4 min • Germany

An animated series for adults starring the signs of the Zodiac. Leo eats his friends, Virgo succumbs to "shopping mall madness", and Taurus has an affair with a giant cow. The readings were done by two New York astrologers (found on the Internet). Believers in astrology will find Lucky Stars as reliable as their favorite horoscopes while scoffing skeptics will have their fun as well. The amusing characters and absurd situations portray astrology as an entertaining game of careers, money, luck and love.

The Old Place

2000 • 49 min • United States of America, France

Essay on the influence of arts at the end of the 20th century produced by the Museum of Modern Art.

Nude Not

2000 • 6 min • Canada

Jodie enters a strange world when the house she moves into seems full of nude people. Is it a dream, hallucination, a prank, or paradox?

Psycho Path

2000 • 30 min • United States of America

Documentary on the making of Gus Van Sant's "Psycho."

Govind Aur Ganesh

2000 • 45 min • India

Govind is a die-hard fan of director Ganesh Sen, known for making realistic films about the tyranny faced by common people. Kanai Bhaiya and Manju want Beena to marry Govind. But Govind takes the messages in Ganesh Sen’s films so seriously that he ends up almost ruining his own life.

Kirby of the Stars Pilot

2000 • 4 min

Pilot for Kirby: Right Back At Ya! The short begins with a mysterious pink creature, Kirby, crash landing his starship on a foreign planet, Popstar.

Rat Bastard

2000 • 5 min • United States of America

Roscoe Rodent is a private detective, in distant future. Denied the opportunity to serve on the Manhattan Empire Police force because of his genetic make-up, he uses his talents for solving crime in a for-hire capacity.

Science Please! : The State of the Matter

2000 • 1 min • Canada

A clip in the Science Please collection, The State of the Matter uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain how temperature affects the state of matter.

Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero

2000 • 52 min • United States of America

Through the use of spectacular, never-before-seen nuclear test footage, travels to ten former testing sites and explores the history, physical changes resulting from the tests and current condition of these amazing and important places. Visit the notorious Nevada Test Site, known as the most bombed place on earth. Over 900 nuclear explosions where detonated at this location – an area larger than the State of Rhode Island. Once upon a time these locations were kept top secret, but today, with this 60th Anniversary Diamond Edition of Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero, you will finally see these historic hot spots. Preserving the incredible legacy of America’s nuclear testing program stands as a reminder of the fine line between the progress of mankind and the destruction of the earth. Once you understand what really happened at the Ground Zero nuclear testing sites, you will never be the same.

Merry Kitschmas

2000 • 18 min • Greece

On the brink of the new Millennium, on Christmas Eve, a young couple invites Santa Claus over for dinner. What are the couple's intentions?

Diego la silla

2000 • 11 min • Argentina

Fresh and highpaced short shows Julio, his relationship, his chaotic and emotional quest through Buenos Aires, his Brazilian friend, the things he found, his chair and the stories that belong with them.

Millevaches (Expérience)

2000 • 10 min • France

The panic of a man in his 60s tormented by doubts, his escape to the Millevaches plateau and the experience of his strange metamorphosis.

Science Please! : The Internal Combustion Engine

2000 • 1 min • Canada

Four strokes of genius.

Ghosts Caught on Tape: Fact or Fiction?

2000 • 45 min • United States of America

An exploration of why people around the world believe ghostly phenomena are real and represent haunting spirits that are trying to contact the living.

Heritage Minutes: Lucille Teasdale

2000 • 1 min • Canada

One of the first female surgeons in Canada, Lucille Teasdale devotes her life to health care in Uganda.

Two Families

2000 • 30 min • Ukraine

It turns out that Andrei Tarkovsky’s great-grandfather and Ivan Tobilevych (Karpenko-Karyi) have family ties. In this film, Vadym Skurativskyi, a curious Ukrainian cultural historian, recounts this unexpected phenomenon, taking us to the tailend of the 19th century. Sergii Masloboishchykov recreates photographs of relatives and imposes them with the films of Tarkovsky.

Witness

2000 • 40 min • India

An aimless man who turns his life around after meeting a woman whose lover has disappeared. Things take an unforeseen turn when the lover returns.

A Drug Called Pornography

2000 • 60 min

Takes a detailed look at the negative side-effects to the use of pornography: addiction to pornography, sex mis-education, desensitization, conditioning and acting out. The film also explores adrenaline junkies and drug users to help explain how it is possible to become physically addicted to pornography. Includes candid interviews with pornography users, convicted sex offenders describing the influence of pornography on their behavior, survivors of sexual abuse, experts and authors who investigate pornographic issues.

Dalmatians 3

2000 • 43 min • Germany

The three little Dalmatians lived with an old lady just outside of town. One day they overheard the neighbor talking about a market selling gingerbread, cotton candy and many other goodies. "Gingerbread," beamed Krümel. "Our old lady loves to eat gingerbread!" "Me too," said the icing on the cake. "We'll go to the market and get a gingerbread heart," suggested Krümel. “And then we'll give it to our old lady for her birthday.” But the trader in the market had no sympathy for three little Dalmatians who just wanted to put their gingerbread hearts in their pockets. He called the police and had the dogs taken to an animal shelter. Only the icing on the cake could escape and she decided to free her friends.

Teenage Hooker Became Killing Machine

2000 • 60 min • South Korea

A high-school girl who moonlights as a prostitute is revived as a killing machine after she is murdered by her teacher.

The World of Stainboy

2000 • 25 min • United States of America

Local superhero Stainboy hunts down a series of oddball villains harnessing bizarre powers.

Can't Drag Race with Jesus

2000 • 2 min • United States of America

A southern preacher sings an ode to Jesus and auto racing, with a religious choir backing him up.

Cosmo Girls

2000 • 27 min • Hungary

A series of portraits of women from different fields of work who give us their views of the relationship between men and women – a Chinese woman who owns a beauty salon and hairdresser’s studio, workers at the first privately owned shoes factory, women who participate at the Erotic Fair in Budapest, a manager of a restaurant, and successful business women.