2000, Seen By... (French: 2000 vu par...) was a 1998 international film project initiated by the French company Haut et Court to produce films depicting the approaching turn of the millennium seen from the perspectives of 10 different countries.[1]
The idea was conceived by producers Caroline Benjo and Carole Scotta, who took the idea to Pierre Chevalier of the French-German TV station Arte. They envisioned each film to be one hour long, made for the cost of four to five million francs, by promising directors.[2]
Ten films were produced as a result of the project:
| Title | Director | Country | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Book of Life (1998)[3] | Hal Hartley | United States | |
| Frankfurt Millennium (1998)[4] | Romuald Karmakar | Germany | |
| The Hole (1998)[5] | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan | Entered into the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.[6] |
| La primera noche de mi vida (1998)[4] | Miguel Albaladejo | Spain | |
| Last Night (1998)[7] | Don McKellar | Canada | Winner of the Award of the Youth at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.[1] |
| La Vie Sur Terre (1998)[8] | Abderrahmane Sissako | Mali | |
| Les Sanguinaires (1998)[2] | Laurent Cantet | France | |
| Midnight (1998)[9] | Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas | Brazil | 2000 Ariel Award for Best Latin-American Film.[10] |
| Tamas and Juli (1998)[4] | Ildikó Enyedi | Hungary | |
| The Wall (1998)[11] | Alain Berliner | Belgium |
References
edit- ^ a b Yoram Allon, Del Cullen, Hannah Patterson, Contemporary North American Film Directors: A Wallflower Critical Guide, Wallflower Press, 2002, p. 367.
- ^ a b Martin O'Shaughnessy, Laurent Cantet, Oxford University Press, p. 4.
- ^ Cole, Susan G.; Sumi, Glenn; Wilner, Norman; Semley, John (31 December 2013). "TOP 25 TORONTO FILMS". Now. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
- ^ a b c Creutz, Norbert (4 December 1998). "Dix cinéastes de quatre continents imaginent le jour de l'an 2000". Le Temps.
- ^ "The Hole," Haut et Court, URL accessed 15 August 2016.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Hole". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-09-29.
- ^ Swedko, Pam (3 November 1997). "On set with Don McKeller's Last Night". Playback. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
- ^ "La Vie Sur Terre". Haut et Court. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
- ^ Barbosa, Rafhael (December 29, 2007). "Meu tempo é hoje". Gazeta de Alagoas (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on May 29, 2014. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
- ^ "Ariel > Ganadores y nominados > Walter Salles" (in Spanish). Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas. Archived from the original on 2014-05-29. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
- ^ "Le Mur". Haut et Court. Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 15 August 2016.