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Video images, shot from the Yamanote train that follows its route around the city of Tokyo have been transferred to black & white 16mm film in order to treat them by hand with chemicals and create a soundtrack using grains. - A dark journey through a world made up of cloudy, lost grains of film in a microscopic dimension.

Unique images illustrate the contrasts that exist in a seemingly unknown world, even though it is right on one’s doorstep. In relation to the genre, this film with a regional background is highly unique, portraying nature and life in the Alps – between Säntis and Hoher Kasten. Thomas Rickenmann wants to inspire the viewer with the simplicities in life, with the ordinary, and he succeeds in doing so. The basis for this is established with the countless contrasts that are found in this small space. The fact that he opted to do without external sound effects serves to underscore his intent of immersing the viewer in this different, but yet familiar world. He has set the film to accommodate the pace of life on the alp, where it’s not the minutes that count but rather how one deals with nature. By all means, the film can be described as “wellness for the mind”.

The unusual method of preparing the meat causes complete confusion, but it makes people's mouths water!

Vienna the 1950s and 60s: it was not exactly an easy time for lesbians. The film is about how they lived, how they dressed and the places where they met. The two directors spent five years researching the traces of a forgotten past. Using places to create a common theme, the film builds an imaginary bridge between the Vienna of fifty years ago and the Vienna of today. Through the words of the three elderly women we see an unusual and important example of oral history, which helps us to understand the imposed models of behaviour women of that time had to follow to conceal their sexual orientation: to hint but not to say, to appear without being recognized.

An Austrian documentary, released in 2007.

A documentary film that, through a six-year long-term observation, reflects the redesign and structural changes at Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz—which has regained its central role since reunification—while also seeking to bring its past and history to life.

Women in jail talk about their former lives and about their crimes. Three of the prisoners explain how they came to commit the act of violence that put them behind bars. The more we learn about their backgrounds, the more we begin to doubt the dispensation of justice.

Documentary film about a US with German punk band Die Goldenen Zitronen, Wesley Willis, and hip hop duo Grand Buffet.

Documentary film.

Four 13 years old hang out on a railway bridge, going around in circles. Instead of talking things through, they concentrate on their own little pecking order.

A documentary about the work of the insolvency administrator Dr. Fritz Westhelle and the insolvency of the Autohaus Rößler in Nordhessen.

Experimental gender parody on the western genre.

The documentary is issueing the life of people being victims of the childrens "medical" department "Am Spiegelgrund". Victims and relatives of victims tell their problems handling memories that determines their life up the present days. The documentary is concentrated on the path of four persons to enable the viewers to get an impression of their memories. The victims stories are surrounded by statements of experts about the historical and medical background, among others: Elisabeth Brainin, doctor of psychiatrics, Wolfgang Neugebauer, chairman of the documentary archives of Austrian resistance, and Werner Vogt, medical doctor, who was engaged in a defamation court battle with Heinrich Gross (and aquitted in 1981). Dr Gross' trial started on March, 21 in Vienna. After one hour the judge adjourned the proceedings for an indefinite time, ruling that Dr. Gross was not mental fit enough to follow the trial.

A packed hospital waiting room. Thingy sits next to his mum. Time is long. You can cut the air with a knife. A man on crutches comes in. No one stands up. Someone should, someone like Thingy.

Taped in December 2003 at 'The Forum' in London with special guests June Tabor, Chumbawamba (an acoustic assemblege) and James O'Grady. There are 18 live performances plus bonus material including their brilliant B&W video of NY Girls recorded on the Staten Island ferry. A remarkable film of a remarkable event, Oysterband the 25th Anniversary Concert was recorded in December 2003 as the culmination of the band's 25th Anniversary Tour. It captures all the excitement of the UK's premier folk rock outfit OYSTERBAND in the company of English folk diva JUNE TABOR, reluctant chart heroes (with the hit Tubthumping) CHUMBAWAMBA (here in their stunning acoustic incarnation) and piper/fiddler, whistle player and singer JAMES O'GRADY.

A documentary on the restoration of Dziga Vertov's Entuziazm: Simfoniya Donbassa (1931).

Live concert of Tankard: Fat, Ugly And Still (A)Live

The makers of the LEGO Movie "Helden von Bern", did a new LEGO soccer match movie. This time they do a fantasy final game of the World Cup 2006.

We condensed hours and hours of footage, all shot by Steven Campbell, and hand-picked 70 minutes of the best for this film, while retaining that "uncut & unedited" feel. This film is a break away from our usual style: Unlike our usual releases, get a chance to study these cars with longer shots and less cuts.

Twin brothers Jimmy and Timmi were separated as children after a tragic accident, leading Jimmy into a life of crime as a contract killer while Timmi grew up in an orphanage as a forklift driver. Years later, Jimmy tries to leave his past behind by opening a brothel, the Fast Fack House, with a friend he met in prison. Their success threatens a powerful rival madam, Lydia Rosenthal, who sends her gang, the Bonebreakers, after them. In a case of mistaken identity, Timmi is kidnapped, forcing the estranged brothers to reunite and confront Lydia’s violent empire together.

Portrait of Rolf Ewald, a flight obsessive, who recounts his experiences as a pilot and manager at Düsseldorf Airport in an impressive way.

The Old and New World in 1491, and the biological conquest after their collision.

One day, somewhere in the vastness of space... A parody of the Oscar-nominated German puppet animation "Quest"? "Any similarities with other films are purely coincidental and unintentional."

The Kiev was the most important and largest Soviet warship during the Cold War. From 1994 onwards, the aircraft carrier lay as floating scrap off the North Sea coast of Russia, guarded and maintained by its last captain, until it was towed to China in the summer of 2000.

The source material is a found footage super 8 film. The visual carrier was attacked in a multitude of ways. It was scratched, cut open and violated. I captured an attempt to screen it. There it burned and was destroyed by the projector. Sorry little film. With the video footage I provoked the encoding. As a result some pixels were dislocated. In the end I reshot the film from the monitor while I somehow angered the cables that connect the monitor with my computer. That all may sound very negative to you but the goal was an almost humanist one: Unification of the digital with the analogue world. They seem so far apart and yet they aren’t. By exposing every material’s weaknesses and injuries it was made one. It’s all visual sensations in the end. Rita Hayworth grindedly sings along.

Without question, a highway rest stop plays the real leading role. This is where Paul (an aspiring filmmaker) and his camera (an outdated Super 8 sound film model) meet Anna (plagued by insomnia), Frank (her arrogant Parisian boyfriend or ex-boyfriend—you never know) and a bunch of strange and/or marginalized people.

A short film that tells a fictional story using a curious phenomenon from the 18th century. The narrator of the novelistic plot is a decorative hermit who was hired by the eccentric owner of a country castle to live modestly like a hermit in a grotto as decoration for the garden. No one seems to know his true identity.

Three police officers are visiting the construction site of their new guard. The citizen-oriented official shows destroyed glass tiles at the back of the station and tells of his experiences with dogs in the new development area. His colleague demonstrates his new bulletproof vest. A supervisor talks about his fears, the term prevention and draws a positive balance of the work of the police. A normal day.

In January 2007, I was stopped on the streets of Tehran by members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, who claimed I had been filming them with my Mini DV video camera. They detained me momentarily and erased 27 seconds of my footage by recording over it—pointing the lens at the white interior wall of their headquarters. This act of erasure now constitutes the artwork.

When a group of six friends start a night of sex, drugs and booze in an abandoned school, a stranger seems to have joined the party. A stranger with a thirst for blood.

A lonely lesbian attends multiple bars before going home with a woman.

This little house with a garden is the result of a lifetime of work. Once inhabited, every object in it loses its meaning with the sudden death of the owner. Within a single day, all traces of the lonely life that is coming to an end are erased by professional declutterers.

'Inside me' gives us a glimpse into how people with mental and multiple disabilities perceive the world. It provides us insight into each of their specific problems. We become acquainted with the abilities and emotions of the protagonists, and become witnesses of their triumphs and tribulations.

Loss shaped him early. Abandoned and haunted by mysterious voices, Sam Dagett decides to finally get rid of his past. But events catch up with him.

Here are priceless performances filmed during the Town Hall Party show, broadcast every Saturday night in the Compton suburb of Los Angeles. Bob performs on shows taped on Sept. 21st & 27th, 1958, as well as Oct. 4th & 25th 1958. Here, we see why Luman was one of rock 'n roll's all-time great performers as he sings Svengali, I Walk the Line, Blue Suede Shoes, Ready Teddy, Shake, Rattle & Roll, Rockin' Robin, Early in the Morning, Folsom Prison Blues, Precious, Oh Lonesome Me, Itchy Twitchy Feeling, Love Makes the World Go Round, Stagger Lee, A Lover's Question, I Got a Woman and My Baby Walks All Over Me.