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"Don’t Touch That Dial!" is a CBS Reports documentary that explores the creation and production of two American prime-time television series, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Family Ties. Broadcast in 1982, the film documents how network television programs are developed for a mass audience, focusing on the industrial, creative, and logistical processes behind successful network scheduling.
The polychrome ceramic mural integrated into the architecture of the Banco del Sur in Peru, by the Bolivian artist Lorgio Vaca (Santa Cruz, 1930) and its relationship with the Arequipa landscape.
This refers to the Krahô people and their way of relating to the Kupe (white people).
This 1983 German documentary by Katja Raganelli features director Joan Micklin Silver; her husband, Ray Silver; and a handful of key collaborators discussing her film work, from her debut feature HESTER STREET through her romantic comedy HEAD OVER HEELS.
Educational film about folk songs and their origins, along with performances.
Made during Lefebvre's national tour of Canada for a 1981 retrospective of his films compiled by the Canadian Film Institute, the film is a video diary documenting both his philosophical and creative discussions on the co-operative movement in cinema as part of the tour and the concurrent illness and death of his wife, film editor and producer Marguerite Duparc. (Wikipedia)
A documentary that offers an intimate glimpse of three respected yet controversial Québec writers. Now recognized at home and abroad, Louky Bersianik, Jovette Marchessault and Nicole Brossard have contributed greatly to the creation of a distinctive women's literature. Confirming that fresh approaches to literature are still possible, they have helped to heighten the awareness of the politics of language. Excerpts from their works vividly convey each woman's style, concerns and rhythms. They examine personal and global issues from a feminist perspective: human relationships, work, justice, poverty, loneliness, women's spirituality, and the future.
Documentary film about the adventurous professional life of sponge divers on the Greek Aegean island of Kalymnos. Their existence has been called into question since the entire sponge population became unusable due to fungal infestation in the fall of 1986, for which the fishermen blame the Chernobyl disaster.
A documentary film that addresses aspects of children's gender role patterns, in a serious, humorous way.
An educational film about birdlife in Iceland, with a main emphasis on birds that nest in swampland.
Terra incognito. This is a meeting with another Universe, with another world. Who inhabits it? What kind of winds blow on it? Or it happens that you would like to penetrate into the depths of this earth, but any of your attempts encounters landslides, landslides, rockfalls... The Earth does not allow...
This propagandistic, race-car documentary is a vehicle for Werner Erhard (the founder of EST) to express his philosophy on motorized competition. Aphorisms and platitudes sprout up at every turn as the cars make their way around the track. Erhard and his group communicate in emotional terms when they do not win, filling the time between races with their viewpoints on life and living, and losing.
A documentary about the life of one of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th century, her battles with and tragedies under the Soviet regime.
A film intended as a tour souvenir for the band, roadies and tour staff was put together in 1984 by sound engineer Grant Showbiz with Jonathan Barnett and Hetty Church using stage, soundcheck and backstage footage filmed on this date.
Marion Bloem attempts to connect with the origins of her Indo-European family through conversations about the colonial era, the Indonesian struggle for independence, and the adaptation to the cold Netherlands.
A silent, Super 8 film in color by Joseph Morder.
A documentary on Brazilian poet and composer Vinicius de Moraes, made by his daughter a few months before his death.
Educational work carried out by nuns in remote Andean villages in Peru, as well as the experiences of their personal inner world.
Film feature about a small movie theater in the provinces whose evening screening is saved by the "heroic" efforts of the projectionist.
A film portrait of Eva Rubinstein, artist, photographer, and daughter of Arthur Rubinstein, made during one of her stays in Poland in the 1980s. A citizen of the world who feels an extraordinary bond with Łódź.
A fictional letter from a daughter, Olivia, to her mother in Dominica is the narrative thread connecting interviews from (predominantly) black and Asian cultural critics, historians and journalists. The choice of occupation for the daughter, a researcher, perhaps strains the narrative conceit too far. Nevertheless, for an avowedly political documentary the result is absorbing.
An ode to the bridges of Leningrad — their history, beauty, and role in the city’s life.
When Robert Lax was approached in the early 1980s about doing a video documentary on him, he had only one condition—that it be focused on his creative work and not a biography of his personal life. “Let’s keep it simple and about the work, with maybe some comments on it. No baby pictures PLEASE!” This documentary is an attempt at an introduction to the important works of poet Robert Lax.
Educational film; a musical courtroom drama encouraging students to buckle up.
Made in 1980, this film explores the contemporary dance scene through the work of seven New York-based choreographers. They discuss the nature of dance and the evolution of their own work. Filmed at rehearsals, performances, and during interviews, the film is a unique primary source. The artistic roots of these seven artists can be found in Martha Graham's concern with modern life as a subject for dance and in Merce Cunningham's emphasis on the nature of movement. In the 1960s, the interaction of art forms generated choreographic innovations. Especially influential was John Cage, whose radical ideas served as a point of departure for much of the new choreography. Each of the choreographers in Making Dances draws inspiration from the Graham/Cunningham tradition, yet each makes a highly distinctive statement. Structure, movement in non-fictive time and space, and the nature of movement itself are recurring themes.
Speaking from Henry Moore's own studio in Perry Green, Hertfordshire, John Read shares his personal memories of the artist he filmed six times over 28 years.
Film critic Tony Rayns interviews Lino Brocka and other prominent Filipino filmmakers.
Igor: The Paris Years, one segment of a larger biographical program created for Channel 4 on the life and times of Igor Stravinsky, finds the brothers working in a slightly different vein than the one that would come to characterize their later work. This is the first section, which covers the pianist’s “French period” from roughly 1920-1939, and it details, among other things, his connection with Jean Cocteau (who, as a matter of fact, contributes voice work to this project). Filtered through gonzo and impressionistic puppetry (often bearing strong resemblance to the work of Terry Gilliam), the film takes an unconventional and often beautiful stab at the television biography special.
Documentary produced by ORF and NDR in 1985 about the German author and soldier Ernst Jünger
Calligrapher Donald Jackson presents an historical overview of the alphabet from the cave paintings of primitive man more than 35,000 years ago to the stylus and wax tablets of the Romans and the Egyptians' hieroglyphics.
Between 1962 and 1966, sex murderer Jurgen Bartsch cruelly tortured and killed four children in an old air raid bunker in Germany. This documentary examines the personality of the killer who died in 1976 during voluntary castration surgery at the age of 30. Vilified by the press for his heinous crime, Bartsch also became a case study for famous found criminal psychologists like Alice Miller (who maintains that no one abuses without being abused as a child, and murderers tend to have their own childhood abuse denied by the adults around them). Bartsch never met his birth parents, he was raised in a clinic and later adopted by a cold, unaffectionate couple. By the age of 15, he tortured and killed his first child victim. This informative, fact-filled documentary provides enough details for viewers to come away with a broader understanding of the nature of the criminally insane and society's role in their formation.
A view of the city of Trujillo from an architectural point of view in the pre-Columbian, colonial and republican eras.
A road safety awareness video aimed at schoolchildren.
Valmar Adams (1899-1993), writer and literary historian with artistic nature, has played an important part as a mediator of Russian literature and culture while working in the faculty of Russian language and literature at the University of Tartu during 1931-1974. First poems in Russian and German were published already in 1915. However, his hot-bloodedness often caused trouble. Trivimi Velliste, Rein Veidemann and Linnar Priimägi talk to the 87-year-old Adams.
Images of Berlin, the Silesian Gate – last underground station before the wall, the suburb of Asakusa, Tokyo, and of Hong Kong, from the tram in Kowloon are mixed together with studies of the director’s room in Berlin, accompanied by westernized Chinese music.
“By removing us from our place it is as if they were burying us.” This production by renowned filmmaker Luis Mandoki is an important visual testimony about the resettlement of the Mazatec and Chinantec populations affected by the construction of the Miguel Alemán (1951-1957) and Cerro de Oro (1974-1989) dams.
From Rock protest to Rock conjuncture... Perestroika not only opened the way for various cultural phenomena that had previously been in the underground, but also gave rise to a wave of opportunistic product that uses the aesthetics of underground art. A film about the production of the rock opera "Dogs" by the theater of a young spectator.
It's burlesque! It's oil wrestling! It's both!
Compilation of various German sex education films from the 60s and 70s, which amuse with their staid style and outdated views.
The community of Maras in Cusco extracts natural salt from a complex of pools. According to legend, the salt flat was formed by the tears of the Inca Ayar Cachi who was buried by his brothers before he came to found Cusco.
A documentary about a group of 2nd Marine Division survivors of the fierce World War II battle with the Japanese at the Tarawa Atoll who return to that location after 45 years.
Super 8mm film documenting "Disco Demolition Night," which took place after game one of a July 12, 1979 doubleheader between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers at Comiskey Park in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood.
The episode dives into the mystical universe of Carlos Pertius, the son of a family of French immigrants, hospitalized at the age of 29. After facing personal problems such as the death of his father, one day he caught a glimpse of a cosmic image, which he named “the planetarium of God”. He was incarcerated at Praia Vermelha hospital, in Rio de Janeiro, and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. In 1946, he began to attend the studio created by Nise da Silveira, becoming fond of it as if it were his home. His works are marked by the presence of mandalas, signs of his attempts to organize psychic chaos.
In 1984, David Byrne put together a TV special on the Talking Heads for U.K. TV’s Channel 4, a 68-minute mix of live material filmed at Wembley Arena, interviews with the band, TV news clips, commercials and other various bits of found footage and sound.
In this short documentary, five black women talk about their lives in rural and urban Canada between the 1920s and 1950s. What emerges is a unique history of Canada’s black people and the legacy of their community elders. Produced by the NFB’s iconic Studio D.
A documentary about Monimbo, a town in Nicaragua.
A film which uses the device of developing Polaroid camera shots to present the highlights of a family celebration during the birthday of filmmaker Tony Buba.
The José María Arguedas Theatre Group of Andahuaylas brings scenes of daily life to rural schools in this territory with the intention of reflecting on rural reality and thinking together about the education that is desired.
Documentary film about a hike through the Ruhr Valley from the source to the estuary.
A skillful, sensual rendering of an intriguing performance orchestrated by the artist. Through a fog-laden atmosphere, iconic figures emerge to perform on a huge turntable. Our look at this garishly lit spectacle is mediated by the gaze of a female Red Guard. All flesh and brilliance, this tape appears to critique popular culture by robbing it of any ostensible content. Hollywood proverb says, beneath the surface of fake tinsel lies only the real tinsel – the detritus of our times.
A pleasant tasting summer film made in New York and Searsmont, Maine. With poems by Daniel Shapiro (age five), performances by Dana Reitz, Yoshiko Chuma and Wang Pint; music by Duke Ellington and Gamelon of Bali.
Whyte's observations and research show why some urban open spaces such as the Seagram Plaza in New York City attract people and why others are unsuccessful.
A superb visual trick that will mystify its audience, this animated film transforms the commonplace into magic.
A short film documenting street protests against the filming of William Friedkin's Cruising (1980)