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A play that looks at the lives of F. Scott Fitzgerald, his wife Zelda, and Ernest Hemmingway in 1925 Paris. This dramatization brings to life the personalities of Scott and Zelda as well as the time period that produced “The Great Gatsby.”
A shady motel manager becomes obsessed with a neglected wife.
The symbolic value of the egg throughout history is represented in this film in colourful animation without commentary. The importance attached to the egg as one of the realities of nature appears in the art and architecture of all ancient civilizations. In modern times it still holds a place in traditional observance. The animation artist develops this theme in colourful, surprising sequences. Film without words.
Film dedicated to the American artist Andy Warhol.
"Lurugu" is the name of an initiation ceremony that had almost died out on Mornington Island after mission contact during World War One. This film records the community's efforts to revive the ceremony after a lapse of 14 years.
Two color video cameras, two microphones, Dave Jones prototype modules (input amplifiers, variable soft/hard keyers, output amplifier, analog-to-digital converter, bit switch, digital-to-analog converter), assorted speaker cones, enclosed speaker, sand, large spike nails, lighter fluid, lighter, amplifier, wire, and water.
Theodore and Mason have to cope with bullies, prejudice, and learning responsibility. In the process they learn about the reality of friendship and God's special caring.
Country/blues chanteuse Bonnie Raitt first appeared at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1977, singing tracks from her then-latest album, "Sweet Forgiveness." This video features 11 songs from that watershed show, including "Good Enough," "Walk Out the Front Door," "Under the Falling Sky," "Women Be Wise," "Sugar Mama," "Runaway" and "Nothing Seems to Matter." Also included are four songs from a 1991 performance by Raitt.
An adroit expansion on the notion of a "blue" movie, Mark Rappaport's early short BLUE STREAK contrasts the rarified realm of classical composition with an unspoken assortment of words predisposed to human sexuality, all layered over footage of a room filled with naked women and men. At the intersection of high art and low art, Rappaport skillfully dissects the absurdity of such distinctions and brings notions otherwise undiscussed in polite society to the forefront.
The heroes of the documentary are military recruits from the Baluty neighborhood in Lodz. We follow their story from the moment of the military commission to the first exercises on the training ground. The film features, among others, "In the raspberry chruśniak" by Bolesław Leśmian and the song "When one day I will call you again" by the band Czerwone Gitary.
Filmed 2 years before his death, this documentary portrays New Brunswick folk artist Joseph Sleep (1913-1978) in his later life. He was born at sea and worked with and around boats, fish, carnivals, and animals most of his life. While convalescing during an extended period in the Halifax infirmary in 1973, he was encouraged to paint. What began is therapy and a pastime developed into a way of representing a lifetime of images and experience
This film has taken one of the many tragedies buried in American history which befell the American Indian and through the voice of Dennis Banks, creates a tight and perceptive visual and aural telling and interpretation of the events. The selection of images, their iconography and meaning, effectively explored through juxtaposition, creates a powerful work. (John Hanhardt, Curator of Film and Video, Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.)
A story about Skid Row in Los Angeles that examines the lives of the men who live and die on 5th Street.
Made for ten thousand dollars over 5 years this film shows both the signs of lack or resources and inventiveness in attempting to overcome the low budget. The script is largely made up of nursery rhymes used as and a kindergarten teacher. The episodic narrative mixes staged with actuality footage. It won two major awards in 1969.
Tourist industry dudes moonlight as karate detectives, solving crimes committed among the mod young jet-setters.
Bollywood 1970
A story about friendship and forgiveness. Fury explodes high above the Royal Gorge in the spectacular Colorado mountains. Two fugitives run for their lives. A bitter cop seeks revenge for his wife’s death.
This film explores innovative ways in which "standard English" can be taught to dialect speaking children. Filmed on location in Louisiana at a U.S. Department of Education teacher-training project.
A Very Easy Death is a profoundly moving end-of-life account of Stephen's mother passing away in a hospital. Taking inspiration from Simone de Beauvoir's masterpiece, Stephen's finely nuanced portrait of bereavement, takes the viewers metaphorically through songs and images.
When an elderly man is forced from his home in the name of urban renewal, he invokes Jewish mysticism against the man he deems responsible.
In Ana Mendieta’s Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece), the artist’s silhouetted form is replicated as an effigy with blazing fireworks, the flickering embers gradually extinguishing until there is but a single spark left to stave off total darkness.
Plamuz animates a cool jazz ensemble's jam session, splitting the screen into pulsing shards of color that dance to different instruments from one moment to the next.
Starring the tasteless trio: Ainslie Pryor, John Thomas, and Curt McDowell.
Johnny Cash Live In Las Vegas 1979 is a completely unseen concert from the House Of Cash personal vault. Captured on the in-house video system at the casino, the set features Johnny, June and his regular backing band doing many of his most beloved songs as well as his more recent hits like (Ghost) Riders In The Sky and One Piece At A Time. The show was a special treat for the annual convention of the sales people at Century21 real estate and Johnny and June crack several jokes throughout about buying and selling property.
Edited by famed filmmaker Kathleen Collins, Statues Hardly Ever Smile follows a group of middle school children during a six-week project at the Brooklyn Museum, where they collectively discover and respond to the Egyptian collection. With narration by a member of the museum’s education department, we witness the group’s daily exercises and reflections as they create a theatre piece centered on the relationships developed with the objects and each other.
Illusionism and two-dimensionality collide in this film influenced by British filmmaker/theorist Malcolm LeGrice’s notions of repetition and pre-determined strategy. In addition Savage credits Gunvor Nelson as an influence in the timing of her editing Voyeur is an uncommon example of a film that consciously alters the shape of the screen’s traditional rectangle by using “wipes” drawn from the subject matter.
"Acacia Blossom" is a 1974 film by Ramaz Sharabidze based on a screenplay by Otia Ioseliani.
"Photographed at the Hambidge Center in Southern Appalachia, this film explores the process and history of weaving (to the background of authentic mountain music)" (US National Archives). The film is a product of the USIA's Young Filmmaker Bicentennial Grant program from the mid 1970s.
Set In Manhattan's Central Park, this film is the poignant story of a teenage girl's encounter with a homeless old woman (movingly portrayed by distinguished actress Mildred Dunnock) who carries all her belongings around in shopping bags. This encounter eventually leads to the girl's understanding of the problems of aging and the dignity of all individuals, regardless of their place in society.
An unknown, tucked-away, medieval island is threatened by the advent of big business. A wealthy business man wants to develop the untouched island, which could then be ruined by the subsequent pollution.
A short exploitation film masquerading as a public information film. Two young female hitch-hikers are preyed upon by those who would do them no good.
Depicts the cultural legacy of the Sumerians, Semites, Babylonians, and Assyrians of the ancient Middle East using authentic locales including Babylon, Ur, and Nineveh.
A film directed by Chitta Basu. Mithu Mukherjee made her film debut in Sesh Parba.
Encouraging visitors to engage and connect with on site artist's, Artpark provides a unique environment for those craving culture away from the whirring city. Located in Lewiston, New York the outdoor venue opens itself to artists, musicians and performers seeking a spot to reflect and create. During the summer seasons Artpark serves as an immersive experience, inviting the public to observe the artists as they work. Artpark People observes the vibrant scene and captures candid interactions between artist and onlookers. With a heavy emphasis on outdoor space and environmental influence, Artpark asserts itself as a cultural and communal haven for creatives.
A musical tribute to brothers George and Ira Gershwin
A troubled young woman agrees to spend two weeks at a friend's Manhattan penthouse while the friend is away on a modeling assignment, but a series of mysterious disturbances begin occurring during the night.
In a world where people are easily indoctrinated by speech, a reporter wants to know what people think about the actual political situation?
Twenty-four hours in the life of a factory worker.
Bollywood 1970
Merging the subjective and the objective, the autobiographical and the anthropological, The Laughing Alligator is a highly personal observation of an indigenous South American culture. Recorded while he and his family were living among the Yanomami of Venezuela, this compelling work distills Downey's search for his own cultural identity and heritage through the encounter between the Western family and the so-called "primitive" tribe. Challenging the anthropological view of the Yanomami as violent cannibals, Downey focuses on the tribe's myths, rituals and ceremonies, documenting funerary rites in which tribal members eat the pulverized ashes of their dead to insure their immortality. Subverting conventional modes of ethnographic documentary, Downey participates as an active presence, "shooting" with his video camera as a means of creating an interactive dialogue between artist and subject and addressing his own "yearning for a purer existence."
A 55-year-old former high school football player finally gets to fulfill his life-long dream and play in the big game in this autobiographical fantasy.
The programme charts a BEA Trident 1C from AMS to LHR
1. Intro 2. First Movement: Moderato - Allegro 3. Second Movement: Andante 4. Third Movement: Vivace - Presto Recorded on September 24th, 1969 at London's Royal Albert Hall, Jon Lord's Concerto for Group and Orchestra really was a meeting of two different worlds.
Made jointly by the Women’s Film Workshop and some of the inmates of the California Institution for Women, this is a moving analysis of why the women are in prison, what’s happening to them, what’s to become of them. It begins and ends with film taken outside the walls, while the rest is videotape transferred to film of the prisoners talking about race, sex and religion, class, economics and drugs. Occasionally statistics are inserted, but generally the women show such a degree of articulacy and radical thought that what they have to say is explanation enough. A remarkably undated combination of political anger and collective tenderness.
In For All Men, a grandfather uses ordinary objects to illustrate the message of Jesus Christ and helps his grandson understand that Jesus Christ is FOR ALL MEN.
Four Square is a film designed for four screens surrounding the audience. Through its spatial distribution of abstract image and sound it begins to build up a TIME/SPACE experience where the mental construction of the events do not clearly differentiate between separation/ distribution in time from separation/ distribution in space. A unified field TIME/SPACE experience.
Miles Davis live at The Isle Of Wight Festival , August 29, 1970. Tracks include Bitches Brew, It's About That Time, Sanctuary, Spanish Keys, and The Theme. Featuring Miles on Trumpet, Gary Bartz on saxophone, Chick Corea on electric piano, Keith Jarrett on electronic organ Dave Holland on electric bass, Jack DeJohnette on drums, Airto Moreira on percussion. Footage shot by documentary director Murray Lerner.
A surprised coyote stowaway on a freight train ends up in Nashville where he meets a friendly beagle and an aspiring songwriter. The songwriter is unable to sell his songs, so he returns to California, taking the coyote back to his desert home
Mocked throughout the jungles of India due to his small size, the smallest elephant in the world--no bigger than a house cat--has decided enough is enough. After all, if he's no bigger than a house cat, then a house must be where he belongs! After a long journey in the hold of a ship, this smallest elephant in the world finds himself a home with a nice little boy inside. But he must disguise himself as a cat to satisfy the boy's mother, and disaster strikes when he is confronted with his first mouse... Little does he know that the perfect home is waiting for him, in a circus where differences are celebrated, not scorned.
An inventor develops a force field who his greedy boss plans to steal.
The Shinjuku district was the epicentre of Tokyo's art scene and the political fever pitch where protests took place on a regular basis during the 1960s. Jonouchi's compilation footage of the area defies documentary imagery and transforms itself into something altogether more poetically subjective, attempting to capture the chaos of the location through his camerawork and editing. In 1974, Jonouchi projected images of the past onto himself whilst reciting Dada-influenced and virtually inaudible poetry generating a cacophony of images and sounds, drawing from and participating in the maelstrom of political and artistic expression during the era.
In a courtyard somewhere in Washington D.C., Senator Stevens walks and talks with President Nixon in this brief silent color film.
At the urgent request of his friend Roderick Usher, a man journeys to the strange House of Usher but becomes enmeshed in the darkness that threatens to destroy not only the last remaining family members but also the very house itself.
A striptease artist is prosecuted for indecency. Meanwhile, his aunt wants him to visit her, before she dies.
This early document is a videotaped interview ("videoview") of Vito Acconci by Willoughby Sharp during which they discuss Acconci's development as an artist. The intimate conversation addresses such concerns as Acconci's thoughts on the exhibition space, his transition from the page to the performance, and the role of video and photo documentation for performance art in general.
Extremely loose adaptation of Little Women, set in 1970s; three teenaged girls and a younger sister live alone after the death of their parents.
The Pink Panther tries to teach a small bird to fly south for the winter.
A five minute super-8mm short from Vito Acconci