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A profile of composer Steve Reich, a leading creator of stripped-down, "minimal" music. The program explores how Reich's music eventually became accessible to the musical audience at large. Included are interviews with the composer himself, and contemporaries, and also performances of some of his works.
A family of peasants must live in the chaotic big city.
1934, Hamburg. Adolf Hitler is about to visit the city. Hamburg's executioner falls ill, and is unable to deliver the sentence of four communists who are awaiting capital punishment in jail. Fearing that this would spoil Hitler's visit, SS leader Footh offers a local bankrupt butcher, Albert Teetjen, 2,000 Marks in order to carry out the verdict. The broke Teetjen agrees and follows suit. When his neighbors hear of the execution, they shun him. His wife cannot tolerate her husband's deed and puts an end to her life. Eventually, Teetjen also commits suicide.
Franz Bollenstein is a thug. One day, jealous of his stepdaughter Nicoletta's rich inheritance, he instructs his trusted man, Antonio Olivieri, to track down the girl who in the meantime has run away from home and to lock her up in a Swiss clinic. But Antonio falls in love with Nicoletta.
' If you walked down Piccadilly naked and refused to put your clothes on when the police requested you to do so, even though you might not superficially be doing harm, you might be certified in the end.' A two-hander about a psychiatrist and his patient, starring Denholm Elliott and Michael Hordern.
Car parts found at a garbage dump, old mannequins, clocks and bicycle racks find a new purpose as installations in an exhibition.
A documentary on the socioeconomic and cultural context of the AIDS epidemic in a Latino Philadelphia neighborhood.
Raunchy comedy about class distinctions.
Lye created a series of scratched images in the 1950s – more regular or geometric than his usual style – to accompany Rock ‘n’ Rye, a track by jazz guitarist Tal Farlow, but he did not get far with the editing. He returned to the material in 1980 but died before it was completed. His assistant Steven Jones finished the film under the supervision of Lye’s widow Ann, who had been closely involved with all of Lye’s American films. - Harvard Film Archive
James van Santen, a white South African writer facing imminent arrest for acts of sabotage, has escaped to England. He leaves behind him not only a violent political life but also his handsome lover, Stephen. With little money or inclination to work, he fights a battle of wills with his Jamaican landlady, Katherine.
The story of three women, of very different epochs, whose lives are strangely parallel. The first story, during colonial times, has a man brutalizing both his wife and a female black servant. Parallel with this story is that of a modern couple who perpetuate the stereotyped role of the woman as subservient.
Documentation by Vostell of the environment 'E.d.H.R. Electronic dé-collage Happening Room' from 1968, exhibited in 1982 at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin in the exhibition "Art Becomes Material". The environment consisted of six televisions equipped with additional electric motors that move objects across the floor covered with broken glass. Slides of earlier happenings and works by Vostell were projected onto the walls. According to Vostell, the room contained "Multi-layered mixed layers, superimpositions and events, mobile collages and dé-collages".
What is the future of the controversial relationship of Jews and Arabs in Israel and the West Bank? How do Israelis see the issues, perceive what is happening to their country and themselves, and view the media which brings them distressing news about the effects of an extended occupation? This film draws particularly on the testimony of Rafik Halabi, an Israeli Arab journalist who has covered this beat for Israel Television, and who is the only Arab working in the Hebrew section of Israeli TV news.
Elpidio Valdés, a soldier of the Cuban war of independence, is entrusted with the difficult and dangerous mission of bringing from Florida, in the United States, a shipment of weapons for the Cuban Liberation Army. It develops between 1896 and 1897.
A brief introduction of Adolf Hitler's rise to power. With the emphasis on Der Führer's ambition to clean Germany from harmful, undesirable and degenerate art and culture (Entartete Kunst). Presented by children and teenagers from the Friedrichhofer Commune, Zurndorf/ Burgenland, Austria.
In Paris, an Arab immigrant working as a projectionist becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman he sees on the cinema screen. Following a visit from a man claiming to be his uncle, his world begins to mirror a macabre and cyclical narrative.
British Telecom documentary about the past and future of telephone exchanges and switches.
Follows the No. 31 London bus from Camden Town to World's End, Chelsea, meeting characters who live and work along the route. The soundtrack features the Carl Davis composition Variations on a Bus Route, commissioned to celebrate London Transport's 50th birthday in 1984.
In 1840 it took 5'30" to make a photograph.
Elser, employee and bearer of secrets in a public institute, throws everything away and disappears, so he is suspected of treason. But he is on a trip to Finland, where he falls in love with Rosa and tries to start a new life with her.
This superficial, psychological travelog is about a young man who goes to India, leaving behind the woman he once loved, to search for a spiritual awakening. His first such awakening comes in Calcutta when his baggage is stolen, but undaunted, he jumps on a cargo boat going up the sacred Ganges River and thus begins a journey that will take him to the home of a family in a small village and eventually up into the mountains -- long held to be the best places for spiritual discovery. If the internal life of the young man was described in terms of a turbulent past history, unconquerable emotions, trauma, or whatever it was that drove him to India, then viewers might find some inspiration in his journey. As it stands, most audiences would be hard put to sympathize with his search without a good reason -- though the external journey is poetically and eloquently filmed.
It is the story of a middle age professor who falls deaply in love with a young student in his English literature class. The student is a boarder in the teacher's house. The teacher is married and his wife knows he is mostly attracted to young men. She loves him nevertheless. The whole story revolves around a book the professor will write, dictating to his young pupil... he will only declare his love at the end of the writing ...and, it is too late.
Ssecond film in two filmmakers’ view on Hong Kong shortly before the UK sold its former colony to China. First part was directed by Ingo Petzke.
The Lowesthorpe Trawlers, an English American football team, hire American coach Hunter McCall and persuade local firm Salty Sea Fish Foods to be their sponsors, in an attempt to improve their game.
The bizarre rituals and disturbing characters found in Liverpool's Casablanca Nightclub.
Josef "Schmutz" (german for "dirt"), a security guard obsessed with duty and cleanliness, is given the task of guarding a decommissioned industrial plant. While maintaining his devotion to the authority of property right, the self-proclaimed "Representative of Ownership" is himself slowly losing his sense of reality.
In 1983, the Lotus F1 team journey into the unknown, as they have to overcome the loss of ground-effect aerodynamics and a transition from the normally-aspirated Cosworth engine, to the more powerful, but more complex Renault Turbo unit.
A documentary with many excerpts from the films of French movie pioneer Max Linder, narrated by his daughter.
A German scientist drowns while on vacation in Bulgaria. The GDR state security authorities become involved in the investigation, suspecting a political murder.
Video essay that collects the legacy of the photographer Francesc Català Roca
Film divided into three parts in which the Valencian musician Carles Santos explores various sonorities, using the image as a means of expression.
After a meteor-like object lands in the woods, poachers unearth a cave filled with alien eggs. As they attempt to destroy the eggs, one of them is killed by an unseen creature, leaving one egg intact. A young boy named Tommy finds the remaining egg and brings it home to hatch. As more murders occur around town, Tommy learns that his new pet alien, who he names Trumpy, possesses telekinetic powers.
Historia is a compilation video released by Def Leppard, containing all the band's promotional videos from 1980 to 1988.
The British Embassy in a communist Eastern Bloc country: This is where diplomat Chris Caulker and his wife Iris live. In the middle of breakfast, the poet Bozidar bursts in; he has managed to take refuge on the embassy grounds and is asking for asylum.
Around the year 3000, Pierrot, Psi and the robot Metro, inhabitants of the planet Omega, are tasked with ensuing space security. When they come under attack, their ship crash-lands on an unknown planet...
Produced for a fraction of the cost of an Elton John epic, CLIP flashes through scenes of everyday teendom. A scratchy trip through everyday life punctuated by vivid colours, manic music and a rather excessive trip to the barbers, is eventually thwarted as the whole thing goes up in smoke.
Eleven year old Stefan no longer knows his identity: is he Polish or German? Until now he has been Polish, and now that his family has moved to West Germany, he is supposed to be German? But there's the foreign language, the big city with its supermarkets and the lack of friends. In the end, Stefan leaves home and travels back to his hometown illegally. But he can't find his way around there either. Until Stefan knows where he belongs, he has to make many detours.
Four teen-age New York residents try to raise cash to improve a dilapidated building they brought for a dollar.
The child of survivors of the Sinti persecution by Nazis, Melanie Spitta confronts the truth about unpaid reparations as she exposes shocking evidence and issues a warning against believing perpetrators over victims.
Part 1: In May 1789, in Versailles, a game tug of war takes place between conservative and more progressive bigwigs. Part 2: As the people of Paris revolt, King Louis XVI finds it increasingly difficult to get the situation under control.
Two women use all their arts to get a man without achieving their goal. A fourth character emerges: the third woman.
