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The sacrificial well is said to have magical healing powers and money, silver, jewellery or other items are sacrificed there. The water of the sacrificial spring has been used to cure eye and skin diseases, to wash away evil spirits and to wash away crimes. This playful documentary, with its dramatic overtones, celebrates the folklore and warns against the desecration of the source and of nature as a whole.
Rey Malonzo action movie
Reflexive piece satirizing the formulaic structure of melodrama where the filmmaker and actors explain the cinematic techniques as they are happening (actually instead of them happening).
The goal of the American operation "Phoenix" in Vietnam was to destroy all the bases of the liberation struggle. K. Barton Osborn, a former "Phoenix" officer, who publicly disassociated himself from it, talks about his experiences as a CIA agent. They are confirmed by the statements of General Bui Van Nhu, the last chief of the South Vietnamese police
Videodance by Lisa Nelson
A short documentary film on the privately owned Tudor Cinema built and run by Roy Spence’s identical twin brother Noel. The film shows the preparation and organisation involved in running the small 66 seat private cinema and is a loving tribute to classic cinemas of a bygone era.
In Santiago de Chile in 1979, at the height of General Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship, Leppe had a five-point star shaved into his hair, invoking Marcel Duchamp’s star-shaped tonsure of 1919. In this video document, Leppe sits behind a transparent version of the Chilean flag, his head becoming the national emblem’s otherwise missing star.
Professor Phosphate discovers that he has no sample of an unusual mineral called "Zubbolite". He travels a considerable distance and endures the desert heat in his pursuit of the illusive mineral.
This film takes place on the island of Sein and reflects an experience that happened to the director, Jeanne Labrune. Before her, film crews on the trail of the sailors who, in 1940, joined De Gaulle in England, had bored the islanders. The filmmaker found herself in a position of incrustee, in a state of non-communication bordering on exclusion. Unable to obtain anything from the inhabitants, but nevertheless involved in the environment of granite and mutism of the people, she filmed herself as a "wanderer not integrated" in an island, whose tendency to fossilization she thus reveals.
A documentary focusing on the personality of Claudine Beccarie, one of the leading figures of mid-70s French porn production.
Welding at Butlers Wharf, Garden Scenes
Seeking the dynamics of two seemingly disparate cultures (Hassidic Jews, Jamaican Baptists) and unifying them through a textural image and sound weave. A powerful, emotional quality is apparent in the religiosity, ritual
Maan Apmaan is a Romantic Family Drama Film focusing on the life of Parvati- A wealthy girl living with his family falls in love with Shankar- A poor man without a home. Both agree to marry each other but live happily with struggles and obstacles created by Parvati's members. They stand united and fight with sheer determination.
Indigenous elders of Alberta explain the history and necessity for controlled burns in this 1979 documentary by H.T. Lewis, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alberta.
The Three Stooges shoot JFK.
The fates of workers employed in the construction of an industrial plant show the changes in the minds of Poles after 1970.
After graduation, a young couple settle down in a small town. Initially, Adam is successful and Ania has professional difficulties, but soon the roles are reversed.
A historical survey of the office of the Canadian governor general, from its inception through the inauguration of Edward Schreyer to office.
A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the famous Tower of London Ceremonies.
"We're making our point to the whole United States: you can fight the system; and win!" The Polish Americans of Northside, Brooklyn realized their community was under attack by the city bureaucracy: schools, hospitals, and other services has been closed or cut back and the neighborhood had began to decay. The closing of the local firehouse was the last straw. They occupied the firehouse and began a campaign to win back fire protection and revitalize their neighborhood.
An example of Gusella's impressive switch edits; A disarming rhythm is produced.
A young man passes by a girl huddled on a bank. A mysterious world begins with a group of boys in the direction she points. In this world of life and death, the protagonist, whose emotions are controlled to the utmost extent, and the depiction of life as justice and death as evil, deny the superficial grasp of life. The film is a trace of the unparalleled encounter between living and making.
A sunset scene with a fragment of the sun about to disappear at the edge of a mountain, children conveying a message against the background of a faintly coloured rainbow in the centre of the sky. The camera's point of view, which seems to be gazing at the scene, oscillates with a certain sense of rhythm, successfully expressing the flow of the filmmaker's mind.
A coming-of-age film that begins with a slide show of 8mm commemorative photos from a school trip to Okinawa and follows the daily life of a young salesman. The scenery of the town seen through the windshield has a unique color tone. The scenery of the town, seen through the windshield, is projected in a unique color scheme, and the scenery is indescribably lonely and beautiful. Only when the protagonist faces the scenery in this way can we sense that he has found the spark that can be called "youth.
This is a film with a rich and expansive image based on an incredibly high technical level, with a mostly female crew, and careful attention to the composition and tone of each cut, and a calculated editing process that follows the flow of the images. A symbolic night for all women, in which something important is lost and something important is gained, is written in a poem-like form over the flow of the images.
A Letraset composition quickly giving brief voice to varieties of synchronization. Hand made image, hand made sound.
This evocative film is a kind of dossier on San Francisco’s Survival House, which served homeless gay and transgendered people during the late 1970s. Located on Haight Street, the halfway house provided survival services and a supportive environment for GLBT people with nowhere else to go. Through interviews with residents and staff and images that capture both the melancholy liminality of its domestic spaces and the comforting intimacy enjoyed by its residents, Pavlow creates a portrait of a unique place that attracted a diverse group of people during the summer of 1977.
Twelve-year-old Alek lives in an orphanage. He does not remember his mother, but believes that she is alive, that he will meet her one day. He secretly writes touching letters to her. When "New" appears in the orphanage, Alek helps him find his way into the new environment. However, he masks his care with rough behavior. The same applies to Anna, the young educator, who instills confidence in him. He entrusts her with the secret of his letters to her mother. The girl, to protect Alek from disappointment, tells him that she has no mother. The injured boy becomes aggressive and withdrawn. She feels lonely after the departure of "New" and the departure of Anna. One day, in a beautiful dream, Alek sees his mother. He runs away from the orphanage at night, but quickly turns back.
Solo work by Dan Sandin acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in 2021.
A documentary film composed of private photographs taken from prisoners of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The authors use them to build a story, full of carelessness but also growing tension, about the end of the 1930s, the last days before the outbreak of war.
This program depicts the lives of Joe who was overweight, stressed and a lover of high fat, high cholesterol foods, and Ann who was a workaholic smoker. Both have died at 47 and, through realistically staged autopsies, the pathologists explain why. The program stresses that we are all responsible for our own health, and the life choices we make can, to a large degree, control our life span.
First a painter, Hugo Cleis was also making home movies that she used to show in her workshop. This one, with no title, depicts an exploration of her paintings.
An animated short from Lejf Marcussen about a visceral conductor.
An exploration into the enigmas, riddles and secrets that enamor and often terrify man as he strives to understand the universe around him.
This film is a glimpse of the traditional life of the Afghan people, their culture and their music, just before the Russian intervention in 1979.
History of dance buffs, please note: SACRAMENTAL SHADOW includes many shots of Edward Caton as ballet instructor and performer. Caton's 'story' also appears throughout the film. –D. L.
A short by Fred Worden
“Performative record of the multiple relationship between the author's body, environment and the medium used.” (Miloš Šejn)
“Super 8 mm full coloured movie with sound, which was recorded directly among grains of sand, stired up under the water surface. Flowing water and sand create an elusive, hallucinogenic sonic image. In some ways, this moving picture is very close to Hans Jenny's research.” (Miloš Šejn)
“Reflections of sun rays penetrating through the rocks on the water surface in a narrow gap in Plakánek valley of a side stream of Klenice Creek in Bohemian Paradise. The film suggests a hallucination visual effect after staring a long while at a single spot. Echoes is an excerpt from the 30-min. film Rokle.” (Miloš Šejn)
Experimental short
A drama film directed by BS Shaad, starring Sudha Chopra, Ved Goswami and Satish Kaul in the lead roles.
The story of two constables where one is honest in his work while other is totally corrupt.
Made using a super 8 sound camera. The microphone is attached to a stick protruding from the camera, and kept just out of sight. This image-and-sound-gathering device is used to 'play' the open strings of a piano.
Experimental film
The story of the film is inspired by Camil Petrescu's novel, The Last Night of Love, The First Night of War. The lives of two friends, intellectuals, are troubled by the outbreak of war and the awareness that each must adopt a position on the political and social problems the country is going through.
Science Fiction is a found-footage film that playfully explores the space-time continuum as it applies to narrative structure. Max J. Alvarez in the Milwaukee Journal writes: “J. J. Murphy’s Science Fiction, a dazzling five-minute experimental fantasy that at first appears to be a 1950s travelogue gone awry, features technical trickery that will impress and bewilder filmmakers and filmgoers.”
Surfing documentary.