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For centuries driftwood from the European mainland and all teh way from Siberia has washed up on the shores of Iceland. This film shows a driftwood expedition casting off at a fishing village on the east coast of Iceland, bound for the deserted Langanes headland in the far north-east. The film not only shows the collecting of driftwood, but also deals with the history of the settlement on the headland, narrated in part by the last farmer to leave.
People Power: The Philippine Experience
Documentary that narrates the origins and acts of the Shining Path and the injustices committed by the Armed Forces at the time of the internal armed conflict in Peru. The acts of the former will be seen in Lima and Ayacucho, and the latter mostly in Ayacucho.
Examines the life of nomadic herders-hunters-farmers in a remote region of an automous republic of the former Soviet Union. Mountainous terrain forms the dramatic backdrop against which a state farm operates. Modern influences are changing the lives of the young people.
Great herds of Asian elephants once roamed from Baghdad to Beijing. Now only remnants of these once mighty herds survive, protected today by the Indian government. It is here that filmmaker Naresh Bedi turns his camera, capturing an intimate portrait of thee largest of land mammals. An adult elephant eats 300 pounds of green fodder and drinks 40 gallons of water a day. This film follows these gentle giants as they forage and feed, wallow in watering holes, dust their skin with dirt, and care for their young.
Video focuses on five vital elements of effective communication and delineates the responsibilities of the message sender. Cover such topics as concise expression, timing and feedback.
Sikkim is a paradise for the naturalist. The steep variations inelevation and rainfall help create a multitude of species within a limited area. The original inhabitants of Sikkim belonged to the Lepcha tribe, then came the members of the Bhutia tribe from Tibet, and even later the Nepalese. The Sikkimese love to decorate not only their homes but anything that can be decorted -with flowers. This film introduces to the viewer some floral - species of Sikkim.
This film reveals the rich tribal heritage of women in New Guinea by examining ancient customs and beliefs. It also reveals a modern woman challenging tradition and the pulls of the past.
Barbara Jabaily's A Candlelight Vigil documents a candlelight vigil held in Denver to protest Colorado's funding of contact tracing instead of research or services for people with AIDS.
In this video diary of Breder’s trip, the viewer is given an after-hours tour of the Soviet capital. The different segments include a daylight panorama of Red Square, a scene in which Breder is handed the phone by his Russian artist hosts, a walking tour precursor of My Body Sees You, an underground performance with gas flames in a glass column, the midnight changing of the guard at Red Square, and a hypnosis session with a psychic that ends with a close up of another Russian magician on television.
Screwing a ballpoint pen together is no match! No, not one! But screw up 5000 if da'n, 25000 a week, 110000 a month or 1210000 a year! You may be able to do it for five years-possibly 10-then you have chronic, lifelong aches and can no longer wash your Windows or lift your children. You have invested yourself-like hundreds of thousands of other Swedish industrial workers. From the factory Ballograf BIC in Gothenburg.
Research of cinematographic adequacy with the plastic and technological work of the artist Piotr Kowalski. Document on the setting up of the "Time Machine" exhibition at the Center Georges Pompidou (1981/82).
In Georges Seurat’s work, the viewer will surely never “miss the point”. The son of wealthy Parisians took modern life as his theme. Excited by recent theories of colour, he developed the technique of pointillism, whereby individual colour-dots, set side by side on the canvas, meld, in the eye of the viewer, into whole colour-surfaces. Dying suddenly at age 31, he left behind only a few large paintings, including A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. David Thompson investigates, with the aid of such artists as Henry Moore, the artistic and theoretical work of the man who founded Post-Impressionism in modern painting.
Carole Lafavor, activist, mother and registered nurse, is a person with AIDS. In this candid and moving portrait, Lafavor relates how she has come to terms with AIDS by combining her traditional beliefs and healing practices with western medicine.
Animated scouting whose primary goal is to reactivate the poetry of myths in urban areas.
A documentary that explains the secrets of soul mate relationships.
One of the first films, truthfully telling about the ministers and believers of the Russian Orthodox Church - from the highest hierarchs of the church to ordinary parishioners.
Shot at Liberty State Park in New Jersey and in lower Manhattan, "New York 1981" exemplifies the sensitivity and artfulness that small-gauge filmmakers were capable of achieving through the dreamlike treatment of place, time of day, weather, and movement.
Palassteateret (The Palace Theater) was a cinema in Oslo that had one last performance before it got demolished.
Commissioned for the French television series Regards Entendus, La peinture cubiste is a multilayered, elusive investigation of the perception of reality and representation through cinema, painting and video. Unfolding as an evocative, implied fictional narrative, this work was suggested by a Jean Paulhan text in which a man experiences and perceives everyday life as though in the multifaceted space of a Cubist painting. Alternating between film and video, Kuntzel and Grandrieux explore physical and psychical perception, constructing an analogy between the way video transforms conventional filmic representation and the way Cubism fractured the perspectival codes of classical pictorial space. Shifting between abstraction and materiality, the real and the imaginary, this work suggests passages between painting, cinema and video.
Traces the development of blues music in the Carolinas through interviews with musicians and still photographs. North Carolina musicians talk about how they learned to play and perform different styles on the banjo, fiddle, guitar, piano, bottle and spoons. -Taken from Folkstreams
Carlo McCormick was invited to curate an East Village Art show at a gallery in Richmond, Virginia. Filmmaker Tessa Hughes-Freeland took filmic evidence of the infamous exhibition that featured downtown artists such as David Wojnarowicz, Marilyn Minter, Luis Frangella and more painting naughty murals while on acid.
Black health care professionals discuss AIDS causes, offer advice on safe sex and IV drug use in this video for black individuals.
In Wise Guys!, a stamp dealer from Los Angeles, a former school teacher form Miami, a born again Christian from Las Vegas and a whiz kid law student square off in the Jeopardy! $100,000 Tournament of Champions. David Hartwell's fast-paced, sometimes poignant film is a peek behind the scenes and into the fact-filled minds of contestants in one of America's favorite game shows.
After a six -or seven- year study of Hammurabi's Code, original Babylonian Text and translation, I've tried to feel my way into the moving visual thought process of this ancient culture (whose numerical system is composed primarily of building materials, nails, joints and the like): this, then, is a visual music which balances the two thought processes of Structure and Nature.
Short experimental documentary about legendary post-punk venue Crystal Ballroom, St Kilda.
Produced and directed by Richard W. Moulton, this documentary is a ski history landmark. A masterful blend of oral histories, authentic film footage, and narrative tell the fascinating story of skiing from the California gold camps to the rise of Ski Jumping to the birth of Alpine. A magical trip back to the first days of skiing in America which preserves the memories, stories and spirit of pioneers who lived it.
Menno de Nooijer had previously collaborated on Paul's films, but this one marks the launch of a directors' team that lasts until today. Two man stick their heads through a decor, photographs revolve around their heads. Unfettered reflection on their own work, the basic assumption being a quote from 18th-century writer Horace Walpole, which also appears in other titles of their films: 'Nobody had informed me that at one view - I should see a palace, a town, a fortified city, - temples on high places […]'. In 1989, this film was granted the jury award at the Holland Animation Film Festival. (filmcommission.nl)
Aztec romance and the dream of love. The anthropologist’s most human desire, the ultimate contact with the informant. The denial of intellectualism and the acceptance of the romantic heart, and a soul without innocence. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.
A report on the progress of the Bedford/St. Pancras suburban electrification scheme. An internal BR staff film which would not have been generally shown.
GREEN TEA AND CHERRY RIPE tells the story of six Japanese women who married Australian servicemen after the Second World War, their efforts to build new lives in Australia and the challenges they faced in an alien land.
16mm film by Bojan Jovanović.
Johan van der Keuken's film was made to celebrate the 10th anniversary of De Melkweg (The Milky Way). De Melkweg is a multimedia venue in Amsterdam, which was established in the spirit of the ’60s, and became an international centre of counter-culture.
Produced at International Video Colony Ohrid, Macedonia 1989. Screened in retrospective at Alternative Film/Video Belgrade Festival 2014.
Four images on a tape by Breda Beban and Hrvoje Horvatić are four arbitrarily chosen samples of the physical world or four micro-geographies: the fluid structure of a puddle disturbed by raindrops, features of a remarkable man’s face, a fish’s head and granite cubes. The duration of fixation at each of the inserts and their free order (by association) transcends the iconic dimension of the videoclip and call for meditation.
A restless lizard and a man move faster and faster to a punk beat.
The shameful history of persecution of the Aborigines in Australia. The secret history of Australia is a historical conspiracy of silence. Written history has long applied selectivity to what it records, largely ignoring the shameful way that the Aborigines were, and continue to be, treated. Because Aborigines had not cultivated the land they were seen by British colonists as having no proprietorial rights to the land. They had no treaty and therefore no rights under British colonial rule. Little of their resistance is recorded.
A street poll about contemporary youth. The answers are engineered to show the manipulation of propaganda and television.
The film authors cautiously approach the village of Gossliwil in Bucheggberg, Solothurn, with its 160 inhabitants, and sift through traces of a rural culture of survival under modern conditions without romanticization. Knowledge of the destructive threat of industrialization and the mechanisms of a global food market for the farming world is included in the research. The farmers themselves have their say; at the same time, their tradition is traced in pictures, deliberate narrative rhythm, repetitions and sayings. The result is a clever analysis of Swiss agricultural policy, whose clear structure never slips into nostalgia; a highlight of Swiss documentary filmmaking.
Documents the history of the independence movement in Zimbabwe through art prints, vintage documents and photographs, posters, and archival film footage. Shows the continuing disparity between Black farmers, who barely make a living on their inferior land, and affluent whites, who employ modern agricultural techniques on their lush acres.
The Qatar International Rally held near the Qatari capital Doha, dates back to the 1970s and has long been one of the main events of the Middle East Rally Championship (MERC). 1989 was the sixth year of the MERC with Qatar marking the opening round. The reigning champion Mohammed Bin Sulayem, driving a Toyota Celica GT-Four turbo, was eager to open his season account with a win but his arch rival Saeed Al-Hajri would push him all the way to finish line in the Ford Sierra RS Cosworth.
Short film about the coelacanth
Documentary about the film projectionist Alois Gugutzer in a 1970's half automatic 4-screen cinema in Munich.
"Zworl Quern" was a stage name for Janet Wolfe, whose brief but bizarre acting career including being sawed in half by Orson Welles. Friends and family tell stories about this irrepressible woman who has fearlessly traveled the world in search of love, art and adventure.
One of Bielický’s first videos, filmed during his studies in Düsseldorf. The recording of spontaneously occurring situations was shot in the studio on Double Super 8 film. However, with its subsequent conversion to video, we watch an unbroken film strip. This creates a new type of spatial communication between the individual frames of film and the action in them.
Scotland’s Gypsies have lived outside mainstream society for more than 500 years. Although some of the “Travelling People” still live by the sides of roads, most live today in houses and are under pressure to abandon their culture. This film celebrates their traditional music, especially the long unaccompanied British ballads that date back hundreds of years and have been handed down by memory through the generations.
1980. A report on political repression in Mexico.
Observations of gestures, stereotypes, and everyday behaviors. Violence against women is not limited to physical abuse.
Lil Picard, the colorful, outrageous art world personality, performance and collage artist, and critic, tells her story, from Belle Epoque Belle, to Berlin Twenties Cabaret dancer, Thirties journalist and refugee from Hitler's Germany, to her long involvement with the art world and its artists. Lil's story, which she tells with Rousseau-like honesty, reflects the history of the times.
British Public Information Film about looking both ways before crossing the street.
The achievements of BREL - British Rail Engineering Limited - are celebrated in this promotional film looking at two of the company's 13 workshops, at Horwich in Lancashire and Crewe, in which locomotives and carriages are built for British Rail and companies overseas.
In 1987 and to the beat of two songs by The Cure, an anonymous Chilean collective filmed the clandestine processes of organising protests, making Molotov cocktails and confrontations with the military in the films Orgasmo Callejero and One Player. Colectivo Cámara en Mano was an informative film and video group that made a series of films and public interventions in the last years of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.
The documentary takes the viewer to the Polish countryside of the mid-1970s. Andrzej, Leszek, Eugeniusz, Ryszard and Jerzy are young men who dream of finding their other half. The film's protagonists have advertised in newspapers and talk frankly and without inhibition about their search and the dilemmas it involves. The picture is complemented by the statements of their parents, who watch their sons' efforts to start a family with love but also concern. The film also gives an insight into the problems farmers face - not only love but also hard work on the land awaits the chosen one of their hearts. "Either get married or quit this farm", "What's one to do on a farm?" - say the characters in the film. The countryside is not a place made for living alone.
El Grito Subterráneo is a record of the resurgence of Peruvian "subte" rock. The birth of the "Second Wave", a movement that began in the 80's and did not stop until the early 90's, was the hotbed in which bands like Voz Propia, Leuzemia, Eutanasia, María Teta, Kaos, Flema, Narcosis, among others, burst into the scene.
