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This is the powerful critical review of the Red Hot Chili Peppers on record, on stage and on film. Drawing on live performance footage drawn from Woodstock and Red Square, the DVD features rare archive film and extensive interviews with the band, along with the reflections of RHCP insiders and critics, including the first full length interview with former Chilis producer Andy Gill.
We meet big Jack Taylor, who hasn’t left his little flat in Bradford, West Yorkshire for 25 years. Jack’s become something of a celebrity, with German camera crews flocking to visit him. But the last time Jack got weighed was many years ago, and then he clocked in at 48 stone. So how much does he weigh now? We’re introduced to Barry, a young man of 41 stone. Barry makes nightclub appearances and talks about the fame that fatness brings. But now he’s determined to lose weight and consults his doctor to discuss medication and diet. Meanwhile, Jack talks about the tragic deaths in his past and his decision to stop inside the house for a quarter of a century. Eventually Barry and Jack meet to discuss the impact of the media on their lives. Determined to confirm Jack as Britain’s fattest man, the director eventually coaxes Jack onto a vast set of scales. So who is the fattest man in Britain? The tale of the scales causes surprise and quivering outrage…
The intersex narrator of this animation talks about his changing experiences of his body.
After being shot and left for dead, Rio finds himself in a dream of revenge where, as an old man, he must confront his own Shadowside in order to find peace.
An interview with John Sweet, who provides details about the shooting of Powell and Pressburger's 1944 film, A CANTERBURY TALE.
Joe takes you on a comic journey like no other - he introduces you to his break dancing Nan; he challenges Houdini's reputation with an act of escapology that even David Blaine deemed too stupid, and he takes you on the camping journey of a lifetime! So sit back, take your medication and let yourself go on a journey with Joe! Filmed in front of a live audience at The Cliffs Pavillion in Southend.
Jethro spins side-splitting yarns with a little help from Denzil Pemberthy including Olympic and dog-swallowing condoms, being hospitalised by a hoover and banned from a supermarket. Tastier than the finest cream tea and packed with more content than a Cornish pasty, fill your comedy boots with A Giant Portion of Jethro.
It's been seven years since the plane crashed. Why are Bonnie and Lloyd still searching for their parents amongst the wreckage?
Travelogue of a sex tourist in a land beyond the sea.
London Birds... evokes the shifting mental states of a streetwise, 15 year old girl. The film explores the impact of her surprise sexual awakening: a moment of rejection that's bad enough to make her run and keep running.
The Highland superstar that never was. Norman Maclean, comedian, piper, raconteur, polymath, and chronically self-destructive alcoholic - in his own words.
A man in a canary outfit sits at the edge of a cliff behind a small desk. He watches as other people in animal outfits come up to the edge of the cliff and throw themselves off - making a tally in his book of what animal it was and treating himself to a jelly bean corresponding to the animal suit that just jumped.
Architectural historian Jon Cannon goes in search of the clues that shed light on how our medieval forebears were able to build the wonders of their world.
Shivering slightly in her swimsuit on a wet street corner, Sarah Gilder's Baywatch babe readies herself for a drenching by a passing car.
A short documentary on the band „The Whitest Boy Alive“ produced by Channel4 in the UK.
A glimpse of a dystopian future in which the cross-contamination of genetic material is completely out of control. Contamination depicts an atmospheric and ultimately disturbing world with hybrid life forms.
A documentary film crew follow Shaun Ryder for a year. The result of a fly on the wall look at Shaun Ryder's struggles both physically and mentally
Felix Mendelssohn, of Wedding March fame, was a devout Christian - and also a Jew. This became an embarrassment for the Nazis, who tried desperately to write Germany's most beloved music out of history. Meanwhile his part-Jewish descendants were forced to hunt for enough evidence of Aryan blood to stay alive. The composer's descendant, director Sheila Hayman, explores the effects on Felix's reputation, on the family and on the Jews of Germany, through music and through interviews with family members who lived through it. A film about the madness of labels, and the unifying power of music.
Superfast, superpowerful, with head-turning looks, the Subaru Impreza is one of the most desirable cars on the market today. It has become an icon for a motoring generation in an era where few cars can command such loyalty and prestige. The Subaru Impreza enjoys phenominal cult status thanks largely to Colin McRae's storming world rally championship glory in 1995 with Subaru taking the manufacturers' title (a title they won again in 1996 and 1997).
The Sculpture 100 is a journey through one hundred public sculptures made across one hundred years. In 1905, Thomas Brock and Aston Webb began work on their final grand celebration of Victoria Regina, the Victoria Memorial, at one end of London's Mall. A century later, Marc Quinn's Alison Lapper Pregnant sits triumphant on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. This is a film about these, and ninety-eight other distinctive, significant, quirky, glorious public sculptures made for England in the century in between.
A group of women afflicted with a horrible disease (which forces them to cannibalism) try to support one another.
Official short film filmed on the set of the feature film 28 WEEKS LATER... Produced by Lawrence Glover and directed by Phil Stoole and Damien Wasylkiw
Profiles of children addicted to extreme sports, focusing on three youngsters as their fathers take them in search of the ultimate adrenaline rush.
Ben Rogers was a bright schoolboy from a loving, middle class family. He played in the orchestra, loved cricket and enjoyed the annual family holiday. But his future promise was halted when he started taking drugs in his teens. Early drinking led to cannabis, harder drugs, and then the revelation to his family, at the age of 21, that he was addicted to heroin. Over the next 13 years Ben and his family battled with his addiction, going through detox, rehab and attempts at 'cold turkey', but his health gradually declined. Whilst attempting another detox aged 34, he died from a brain haemorrhage. But during the last two years of his life, Ben filmed an unflinching video diary showing his final desperate attempts to come off heroin. It's a portrayal of his descent; intimate, raw, and at times difficult to watch, he talks to his glove puppet as he injects into a vein in his groin.
The perfect English arcadia gives way to varying kinds of misfortune, disruption and violence. With more than a passing reference to the 'narrative' paintings by masters such as Bruegel, this single-take 9-minute short is about a lazy Sunday afternoon that goes horribly wrong.
Comical Ali is a spoof documentary about the thus-nicknamed former Iraqi Minister for Information, Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf, whose bravura performances at press conferences throughout the brief Iraq War of 2003 turned him into a global icon.
Rangers FC: season review 1999/00
Teenager Chris McMillan desperately tries to stop his older brother joining a Glasgow gang, only to end up becoming a part of his violent initiation.
An exploration of the sexual experiences of young women.
A comic look at small-town Lotharios.
Memo mori is a journey through Hackney tracing loss and disappearance. A canoe trip along the canal, the huts of the Manor Garden allotments in Hackney Wick, demolition, relocation, a magical bus tour through the Olympic park and a Hell’s Angel funeral mark a seismic shift in the topography of East London. With commentary and readings from Hackney, That Red Rose Empire by Iain Sinclair
It was 30 years ago that 14-year-old Karzan Sherabayani was arrested and tortured by Saddam Hussein's secret police, his only crime being that he was a Kurd. After 25 years in exile, Karzan, now a British citizen, has returned to his childhood home to vote in Iraq's first democratic election. Having been banished for so long, Karzan now asks the people of Kirkuk if they accept the path promoted by the West...a path that will inevitably lead to a divided Iraq or a bloody civil war. In this incredible documentary, Karzan exposes a city that sits on one of the world's largest oil deposits as a place where old ethnic and sectarian divisions are still rife. Kirkuk, he says, is a microcosm of the new Iraq. During the year it took to make the program, Karzan confronted old demons from his past and met with the heroes and villains who are fashioning the country's dangerous and uncertain future
Deep Purple's Jon Lord performs live at The Basement in Sydney in this exclusive concert alongside The Hoochie Coochie Men (Bob Daisley - bass, Tim Gaze - guitar and vocals, Rob Grosser - drums, Jim Conway - harmonica). Special Guest: Jimmy Barnes.
Jethro explains to a jam packed audience everything from the differences between men and women to West Country logic and Viagra. He has the audience roaring with belly aching laughter with his tales and yarns of his old mate Denzel Pemberthy. He's been barmy and bonkers but now he's gone OFF THE WALL.
Since his discovery by Dr Dre in 1997, Eminem has achieved notoriety and commercial success in equal measures, and subsequently become the biggest Rap act on the planet. This film centres on his unparalleled stardom, revealing how, alongside one of the most staggering musical careers in history, he has received rave reviews for his acting abilities, launched a clothing range, signed superstars like 50 Cent to his own record label, and grabbed the headlines with his explosive behaviour at every given opportunity. His ability to stay at the cutting edge whilst taking on these other challenges is investigated thoroughly using exclusive interviews, rare and previously unseen film footage photographs and comments from his family, friends, colleagues and [in some cases] enemies.
Filmed live in Trbovlje, Slovenia -- the town where they formed in 1980 -- industrial music group Laibach puts on a dynamic show at the tail end of the tour to promote their highly praised album "Volk." With their usual militaristic aesthetics, they perform most of the creative reinterpretations of national anthems included on "Volk." Music videos, animated screen projections from the show and other features are included.
An austere Arab mother and her tearaway teen daughter struggle with a family dynamic in transition.
The myths of globalisation have been incorporated into much of our everyday language. "Thinking globally" and "the global economy" are part of a jargon that assumes we are all part of one big global village, where national borders and national identities no longer matter. But what is globalisation? And where is this global village? In 2001, John Pilger made 'The New Rulers of the World', a film exploring the impact of globalisation. It took Indonesia as the prime example, a country that the World Bank described as a 'model pupil' until its 'globalised' economy collapsed in 1998. Globalisation has not only made the world smaller. It has also made it interdependent. An investment decision made in London can spell unemployment for thousands in Indonesia, while a business decision taken in Tokyo can create thousands of new jobs for workers in north-east England.
A straight 8 film by Frederik Hamm
A film/video installation centered on a 'buggy race', an illegal pony and trap race organised by gypsies on a motorway. The film plays with documentary and cinematic forms to address notions of artificiality and representations of the real.
Tales of the existence of white lions have been passed through four centuries of African folklore. But today no white lions exist in the Timabavti range where they originated. That is until a team of conservationists brings one special lioness and her three cubs out of captivity and into the natural habit of their origins. Two years into the project, Linda has achieved much of what she set out to do but the hunting policy hasn't changed and the genetic marker hasn't yet been identified - meaning the white lions are still not a protected sub-species. Whilst this challenge still remains, Marah's legacy lives on as her daughter produces the white cubs, and the brothers are ready to breed with the tawny lionesses. Linda continues to fight for the protection of these magical lions and looks forward to the day when it will be safe for her lions - and all white lions - to roam freely in the Greater Timbavati Ecosystem.
As the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew prepare to celebrate their 250th anniversary, Dan Cruickshank unearths some of the surprising stories that shaped the famous gardens. His travels take him from the royal gardens to the corridors of power and the outposts of Empire as he pieces together Kew's story, uncovering tales of bravery, high adventure, passion and drama.
Mel B embarks on a personal journey of a lifetime to explore the traditional religions of West Africa. Her destination is Benin - the cradle of Voodoo.
This documentary reveals some of the various practices that women engage in to “enhance” the beauty of their naughty bits. The program had its fair share of sensationalism, but it also had some good food for thought. It covers four broad areas: Masturbation, Removal of pubic hair, Genital piercing and Labiaplasty. Discussion of each area begins with either a neutral or positive portrayal and then proceeded to give one or more examples of women having had a bad experience which are presented in a “When Dildos Attack” kind of way. Some fun stories, and some make your skin crawl, because it all looks extremely painful. Contains graphical images of female genitalia, female genital piercing and surgery, strong language and frank talk about women's most private of parts.
The footage for I Want to Be a Secretary has been reclaimed and reworked from a selection of all but forgotten post-war recruitment films encouraging the modern girl to pursue a secretarial career. What other path is open to an independent-minded young lady after all? What are the secrets of the boardroom? And what is the meaning of the firm-but-fair Miss Ingall's mysterious smile? Our plucky young career gal heroine is about to find out.
Set in Paisley, the 'NED' capital of Scotland, this film provides a comprehensive and candid look at the daily lives and habits of these "Non Educated Delinquents", from their pulling tactics to lessons on how to talk like a Ned. We not only get to see life from their point of view, but also from that of the long suffering residents of the city, who don't hesitate to provide us with their unanimous opinion on today's Ned culture: they've got to go!
Guitarist and singer Stan Bush is best known to AOR collectors for the melodic, crunchy pop/rock albums he recorded during the '80s, invades the UK backed by AOR greats Talon.
This compilation of footage from the BBC television series 'Railway Roundabout' features archive material from the 1960s, supplied by the National Railway Museum, York. Railway artist Terence Cuneo is seen at work, and there is also film of the Talyllyn and Ffestioniog lines.
A portrait of Rastafarians living in Tottenham at the start of the new millennium.
An intimate and unflinching look at life in Iran, seen through the lens of those living at its fringes, 'Be Like Others' is a provocative look at a generation of young Iranians choosing to undergo gender reassignment surgery.
One man proves in a very physical way that it is very important to love people
Burgin brings together a 360° video panorama of a square in Venice, animated from still photographs of the place, together with other photographs he shot in Venice and Milan. In common with most of his other moving image works, the story is told in fragmentary form through dissolves between intertitles. It was first shown simultaneously in public art spaces in Milan and Venice.
Maddy is fifteen and everything in her life feels totally dead. Last night she tickled her brother so much he cried. Maddy felt strangely satisfied. Her boyfriend Daz can be fun but all he wants to do is get her into bed. His older brother sniffs around her. She knows what he's after, and she kinda likes the game. He makes her feel different.
Real life action looking at the world of diggers and dump trucks.
China’s irresistible process of growth and its precariousness.