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American composers have long struggled against the momentum of the Western European classical tradition and the prestige it has held in America's cultural life. "I did not want to have any stricture at all, I wanted to be completely free." So spoke Harry Partch, describing not only his own path, but also that of two other influential American composers: Lou Harrison and Terry Riley. They were attracted to musical ideas and sounds outside of the surrounding classical mainstream. Together they offer a deeper understanding of what those alternatives are and how they have affected American culture.

Vincent Price discusses his career with film historian David Del Valle.

Short film by Madelon Hooykaas and Elsa Stansfield.

The film is about the life and philosophy of the hero of the film Kamenskikh Igor Kuzmich, who lives in the village of Pavlovsk, Perm region, founded by the Stroganovs. In the appearance of Kuzmich, the image of Diogenes is recognized. A ramshackle leaning hut with broken windows, a never-heated stove, an old cousin on the next bed. And here, in the house, there is a goat and two horses, which in fact are both a symbol of Kuzmich's life and his stove. The transmigration of souls and the new coming of Christ to Earth, unity with Nature and God - this is his Faith. "When all borders between countries and people are erased," he says at the end of the film, "then the kingdom of God will come."

From ancient phrases etched in stone, to today's cutting edge multimedia commercials, selling has always meant grabbing attention. This is a story of explanation, exaggeration and even exploitation, a story that extends from Roman highways to Madison Avenue. This TV documentary provides an in depth analysis of how advertising came to be and how it’s overall effectiveness was gained through much trial and error.

Doccumentary about the PRL Icon, Kalina Jędrusik. A renowned theatre and film actress, as well as a singer, stole many people's hearts, although she lived a life full of controversy.

A look at how to avoid the consumerism and materialism rampant in today's society.

Using the example of a couple in love, this industry film demonstrates the industry's visions for car sharing, electromobility, smartphone use and in-car navigation.

Calopteryx cornelia only occurs in one color morph and shows the typical dragonfly behavior. Species of the genus Mnais form different color morphs. Males with intensely colored wings are dominant over males with hyaline wings.

If you love country music and are familiar with line dancing, this dance exercise video with Denise Austin is for you. The program of exercises shows you how to firm and tone hips, thighs, and buttocks using the latest country line-dance steps.

The second video released by Fairman's skate shop.

Chapter 3 of the series 18 decades of life in Mexico in the twentieth century. Images of the cultural, social and political life in Mexico between 1910 and 1914, and the beginning of the major armed conflict that marked the future of the Mexican nation.

An experimental narrative about machismo in the Northeast of Brazil.

From the producers of The Hoax comes Mad Beef - An Inline Felony: A 45 minute quest for truth and the meaning of life. The Mad Beef crew travelled from the streets of New York city to Venice, California via Omaha, Nebraska seeking the most buckled handrails and burliest half-pipes ever. Our quest for knowledge continues with Mad Beef. Watch the best skaters in the world as they represent!!! Mad Beef proves that there is no limit to the sport of aggressive inline skating.

See 97 of the most spectacular tornadoes ever filmed including the all-time 'top-20' home videos and the 'top-20' storm chase videos.

In his hometown of Southampton, Ken Russell takes his young son and his aunts out to dinner, but the new traffic restrictions mean he can't get near the place. Traffic signs force him onto a sightseeing tour of town, then the ferry port looms ...

1990 Danish/Faroese documentary

Dada Saheb Phalke ( 1870 – 1944) the father of Indian film industry & his own eight children. The film traces his life & career through the reminiscence of his surviving children, family photographs and his films.

Introduction to an extensive training program for everyone professionally involved in the process of film conservation and film restoration. The realization of this training program was initiated and coordinated by ECIPAR (Bologna-Italy) and the Cineteca del Comune di Bologna. It was produced in co-operation with eleven European film archives and film laboratories and co-financed by the FILM project - FORCE program of the European Community.

A fast-moving and comprehensive documentation of three Survival Research Laboratories performances 1989-1990. Includes "Illusions of Shameless Abundance ...", ArtSpace Computer-Controlled Installation, "A Carnival of Misplaced Devotion ...", plus details of the 1989 bomb hoax incident.

Channel 4 documentary charting the meteoric rise and equally swift decline of Mary Millington, the girl-next-door who became one of the most famous porn stars of the 1970s.

Short film made in the middle of the Collor Era depression, at the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, with statements by the projectionist Wagner Oliveira.

This film is a travel depiction from a Christmas celebration in Gran Canaria. About women seeking love on the island where frozen Norwegians "warm up".

The movie shows the demolition of the old chapel on Jezerski vrh on Lovćen where the Montenegrin bishop Petar Petrović Njegoš was buried, and the subsequent construction of today's Njegoš mausoleum. The film was completed in the 1970s, but it was not available to the public, it was banned and it ended up in a bunker until the beginning of the 1990s, when it was shown on the Radio Television of Serbia.

Documents the European leg of the band's 1991 AGAINST THE GRAIN tour.

Documentary on the Millay Colony for the Arts community in New York.

Cédric is a child like millions of others. The only difference is that the little boy is seriously ill and must spend six months in a hospital. Fortunately, the medical staff are well aware that Cédric, like other kids named Steve or Dolores, must - above all else - live his child's life.

This documentary features Black women active in politics as well as community, labour and feminist organizing. They share their insights and personal testimonies on the double legacy of racism and sexism, linking their personal struggles with the ongoing battle to end systemic discrimination and violence against women and people of colour.

Production of natural flowers for domestic and international marketing.

The film commemorates the 50th anniversary of Sukarno driving through the street in the aftermath and waving the Flag of Indonesia as he became the first President proclaiming "My nationalism is humanity". The film investigates modern life on the street and whether early promises made by Sukarno lived up to expectations.

Black lung is a debilitating, incurable, and often fatal lung disease caused by exposure to coal dust. Great Britain recognized it as an occupational disease by the turn of the 20th century, but the American medical community still denied any relationship between exposure to coal dust and disabling lung disease until the late 1960s, when a movement of Appalachian coal miners, their families, and a few maverick doctors and politicians forced the nation to confront the issue of occupational disease and disability.

Sonic Youth play hockey arena w/ Neil Young in Reno, Nevada. Ten years earlier 7 Seconds recorded the earnest hardcore classic "Skins, Brains, & Guts" EP. The town was known as Skeeno. Audio recorded especially for the film by Society's Ills, a band consisting of Mike Watt (bass), Thurston (vocals), Dez Cadena (guitar), & David Markey (drums), who cover said EP.

In 1947, the Assisted Passage Scheme began, devised by the Australian government to bring in white British settlers. For just 10 pounds, they could start a new life in a sun-drenched land of opportunity, and over the next 25 years, more than a million people took up the offer. The scheme's pioneers tell their story.

There is a long tradition of hunting seals in Iceland. This film is about one such hunting trip on the South-east coast of Iceland where farmers catch the seals in nets in the glacial waters stemming from Vatnajökull, Europe's biggest glacier.

The tragic story of the immortal artist whose works are among the world's most treasured masterpieces today, but who was almost completely ignored in his own lifetime.

Janka Vidová made this video while studying in the New Media Studio of Michael Bielický. The artist borrowed an analogue video camera from the studio and filmed her visit to the region of her hometown in Slovakia. Using visual effects and instrumental music, she edited the resulting footage into a poetic film that captures the dreamy atmosphere of the snowy countryside.

A richly layered film in the format of personal autobiography, Naomi's Legacy tells the story of Naomi, a young, Jewish lesbian who, perpetually at odds with her mother, searches for a deeper understanding of her family history. Using home movies, audio recordings of her mother, dramatic re-creations of family fights, and herself as a "talking-head" subject, Naomi invents and interprets new meaning out of the paths and choices the women in her family have taken, ultimately coming to a new understanding of her own relationship to this legacy.

A portrait of a literary genius, cosmopolitan and activist, whose vivid portrayal of society still resonates today.

It's moving day for the Via Marsili 19th apartment in Bologna, Italy, a former hotbed of the Movement of 1977. While waiting for the movers to finish their job, cultural agitator Franco Bifo Berardi leads us through a decade-long trip down memory lane.

A documentary about the 23-year-old Turkish woman "Berlin", who lives in the German capital with her parents. Her parents, devout Turkish Arab Alawites, think that her daughter should get married. Despite many attempts of rebellion Berlin can lead not an independent, self-determined life. She would much rather be a stewardess, than to be search by her family a man. Her only hope is to attain through marriage a little more freedom.

A documentary about the life and works of the artist M. C. Escher. Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) usually referred to as M. C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. These feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessellations.

A performance with an abstract filmstrip, where some of the texts on the cards told a sarcastic tale about composers.

A surreal journey of a displaced spirit as he wanders in the interminable darkness through the temporal landscape of a quaint and isolated feudal-era fishing village. Guided by a series of faintly illuminated rooms, the wandering spirit comes upon ancient souls who take on physical forms as they recount their personal stories of daily existence, loss, and tragedy in the peasant community. Intrigued by his initial visit to a curiously distracted elderly woman, the spirit returns to her home in order to ask a fundamental question - "What is happiness?" - an existential query that is innocently answered with innate humility and accepted unknowingness.

An exploration of the work of the Castlemilk Pensioners Action Centre showing that there is life after 60, and that new opportunities, new social activities, and friends are there for everyone - as well as help and advice for the elderly in the community to give them a political and social voice.

It was confidence, not arrogance, that put he Dallas Cowboys on the media firing line during their successful quest for a second consecutive Super Bowl victory. It was also typical Jimmy Johnson the unconventional coach who wrote his own rules, and took the Dallas Cowboys from worse to first in just four years.

The theme of the film is the political responsibility of the CPSU to the people. Along with newsreel footage and fragments of feature films, a brief fragment of the speech of Yu. Boldyrev, member of the Committee of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, at the XXVIII Congress of the CPSU, as well as speeches in different years by N. Khrushchev, M. Suslov, D. Likhachev, which touch on aspects of this complex problem, is given.

This fascinating biography of the lengendary "Blue Eyes" takes us on an informative and captivating excursion through his life and career. From his fledgling days to present stardom, his career is chronicled in infinite detail, including rare and never before seen footage.

Documentarian Aivars Feimanis lived on the Liv Coast, in Melnsils. It's home to Latvia’s ancient indigenous Livs - a small Finno-Ugric people of the North Kurzeme coast, who preserve their unique folklore and traditions to this day. This film is about them.

Michael Moorer vs. George Foreman, billed as One for the Ages, was a professional boxing match contested on November 5, 1994 for the WBA and IBF heavyweight championships.

Documentary about the priest and joiker Johan Märak and the artist Lars Pirak, and their friendship.

In Morocco, the art and craft of beautification is essentially in the hands of a woman known in the north of the country as a "ziyanna" (beautician) and everywhere else as a "neggaffa." A central figure in the lives of Moroccan women, the "neggaffa" accompanies all beauty rituals. She is an accomplished artist, a creator of living, ephemeral tableaux. Hajja Khadifa, mistress of the "neggaffates" of Casablanca, and her aunt Fanida share some of their knowledge with us.

In a quiet film, where words are almost absent, Nabiha Lotfi films children from a village in Upper Egypt. They create their own toys with everyday objects and utensils.

In a lively mix of off-beat narrative, collage and memoir, A Biography of Lilith updates the creation myth by telling the story of the first woman and for some, the first feminist. Lilith’s betrayal by Adam in Eden and subsequent vow of revenge is recast as a modern tale with present-day Lilith (Cherie Wallace) musing on a life that has included giving up a baby for adoption and work as a bar dancer. Interweaving mystical texts from Jewish folklore with interviews, music and poetry, Sachs reclaims this cabalistic parable to frame her own role as a mother.

The film deals with the problems of fishermen at the Suez Canal caused by the increasing privatization of public property, including shores and fishing grounds.