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In June 1979, London played host to Gay Pride Week, which culminated in the Pride March through the capital. It was, at the time, the largest assembly of homosexuals Europe had ever seen. This is an episode of a BBC documentary film strand (Inside Story), with the focus on investigative journalism.
A humorous parody on the condition of creative film studies in art schools and colleges in general. The sound-track is a composition combining the musical score from the film Ballet Mechanique and the voices of film students testing various pieces of film recording equipment and complaining about grades and procedures. The visuals reveal a modern day mechanical ballet performed by the instructor (myself) on the dada chessboard of absolute reality to the automatic beat of an intervalometer clicking time away one frame per second, as he attempts to relay technical data to his students.
Two girls walk down a snowy street on their way home from school. They are residents of "Mahoroba," a place hugged by mountains and sheltered by snow. Winter, the girl in the grey coat, freezes her fingers in the falling snow to make a cold white tower. The girl in the yellow coat, Spring, is staring at her from a little distance. The winter girl in love with the snow is forever innocent. She will remain closed and eventually die. The girl in spring is saddened by this and destroys the winter girl's "mahoroba". The winter girl learns that she cannot resist the changing seasons. The day of adulthood is coming, but the innocence of Winter's youth prevents her from degrading herself, even to the point of death. The spring girl hugs the winter girl's shoulder. The colour of red blood can be seen through the cheeks of the girls. This is the beautiful myth of the girl's misery. Mahoroba, caged in the snow, will eventually be forgotten one day. Somewhere, the birds of spring are singing.
A melodramatic love fairy tale about a man and a woman in love who are separated after graduating from high school, one in Tokyo and the other in Nagoya. They search for each other amid various incidents such as incest, unemployment, and an encounter with a celestial maiden. The story is a melodramatic love fairy tale. The dialogues, tools, and ideas are all deliberately fake, but the fact that the entire film is dedicated to this makes it even more compelling. The space-fantasy ending is also enjoyable, as the nymph who fails to separate the two lovers and win the man bursts her beloved earth like a balloon, and the two become the creatures of a new planet. The original theme song by the two in a musical duet over the scenery of the new planet at the end is a highlight of the film.
One day at a high school, the headteacher suddenly announces that a draft is to be imposed at the morning assembly. The headteacher suddenly announces that there will be a draft. The idea that a school is like a nation and that one must have the military power to protect one's own school could be a satire for the sake of satire, but as in the episode where the principal is a Chiba native, the term Chiba native is used as if it were a racial term. The film maintains the quality of the gags that generate laughter, as in the episode where the school principal uses the word "Chiba-kenjin" as if it were a racial slur, making it an excellent comedy.
A promising swimmer who has had his leg amputated is trying to get back into the sport.
A doctor working on finding a substance that would inhibit the growth of certain types of cancer learns that he has cancer. He decides to try an unproven drug on himself.
The newly appointed parish priest of Giemza goes to the presbytery in the village of Ociesęki. On the way, it stops in front of Jan Kolasa's house. Invited to a richly set table, Giemza enjoys the hospitality. When he falls asleep tired, Kolasa changes into his cassock and goes to the rectory. The next day, Kolasa gives a general sermon announcing the distribution of church land to the poor, which causes a general stir.
From a symbolic prologue in which a child picks up a knife at the edge of the sea when he is finally separated from his mother, to an epilogue in which he throws the knife into the sea again. The film is an omnibus of seven episodes in which the images of communication are distorted and twisted around the knife.
Animated short
The seer speaks and evokes a journey into space. The journey is to Cuma and in Cuma there were the Sibyls...were there? There are! A ritual to open the past, to denounce the historical violence suffered by the Women/Sybils and their territory: Cuma, Naples.
Like the strings in the Byzantine Variations by Romanian composer Paul Constantinescu that accompany this audiovisual sonata, the images of a landscape passing outside the window of a moving train, a road, a house, and a hand shaping the imaginary landscape of childhood in a pile of sand strewn on a tabletop, adhere to and permeate each other.
The Chief Officer found dead on a morning in his well isolated room, doors locked from inside, armed guards outside at the door. The inspector find it weird, as seemingly no one was there when he stabbed in his heart. Turns out soon he has a wife, who is kept in a cage. The inspector want to meet her, and she says she actually not the wife of the Chief Officer, but she came to the palace with her husband who was killed by the CO.
Collaboration between Michael Rudnick and Rock Ross.
A stroboscopic film poem.
short film by carey burtt
Runners in a forest of tall trees provide the imagery for a study of spatial and temporal relationships.
"Based on Icelandic landscape, EARTH SAGA reveals the powerful beauty of a land formed by volcanic explosion. From steaming lava ash to moss-covered fields, the film redefines color and black and white images, superimposing abstract and surreal visions of nature. Original shooting was done in both 16mm and Super 8mm enabling the filmmaker to alter the inherent texture of the compositions through optical printing techniques of extending sequences, re-framing and superimposing. The resulting footage forms new flowing and rhythmic patterns in an illusionistic translation of landscape. The film is to be preceded by the reading of the poem 'Earth Saga' which was written at the time of the shooting. A copy is enclosed with the film." - RS
The story of a Chilean refugee, marked by imprisonment and torture, illustrates the tragedy suffered by victims of violence in Latin America during the years of dictatorship.
A set of comic sketches. The sequel to Cucarrecord.
Life is like a gigantic phonograph record fifty feet across. Or like one of those whirling discs at the old amusement park. You get on the disc and it's spinning and the faster it goes, the more centrifugal force builds up to throw you off it. The speed on the outer edge of the disc is so great you have to hold on for dear life just to stay on. The closer you get to the center of the disc, the slower the speed is and the easier it is to stand up. In fact, at the very center there is a point that is completely motionless. In life, most people don't get on the disc at all. They shouldn't get on. They don't have the nerve. They just sit in the stands and watch. Some people like to get on the outer edge and hang on and ride like hell. Others are standing up and falling down, staggering, lurching toward the center. And a few, a very few, reach the middle, that perfect motionless point, and stand up in the dead center of the rearing whirligig as if nothing could be clearer. (CB)
Directors belonging to the PLO film organisations were barred from entering territories under Israeli administration. Kais Al-Zubaidi sent a West-German film team into the territories occupied in 1967. They talked to Palestinian peasants and refugees and to Israeli settlers. The former have lost their fields and meadows and are to be driven further East from the camps in which they lived since 1948. The latter call their new settlement area “liberated land”.
Kalah is an old Arabic mathematical game, played by two people with 72 stones. The film is a "mapping" of the moves of a game that ends in a draw: each stone corresponds to a sound and a colour.
Self-Identification is a performance show which accompanied a series of photo montage films shown in the Small Gallery. Ewa Partum, therein, presents herself naked in public places in Warsaw. During the show she goes out from the exhibition space into the city, where nearby the Wedding Palace she met a bride. In this manner she confronted the institution of marriage determining one of the core elements of femininity seen as a paradigm of personality made up by patriarchal culture
Explains the difference between fantasy action and the real life action shown on news and sports programs. Shows how TV violence is staged and explains why it is dangerous for children to imitate such acts.
Cordelia Urueta reflects out loud about her life and creativity, she finds that the shapes of reality surrounding her are never as beautiful as the ones in her own colored universe.
Images of city and landscape moving with a romantic piano sonatina by Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924), then classic keyboard figures by Johann S. Bach. Images and music, "in" the same time-space, sometimes join and affect each other, then pursue their own independent course again.
This film shows the entertaining and joyful experiences of children in a series of creative workshops. With the help of artists, children make kites, poetry, music, movement, dance and film in Toronto schools - both normal and special education classrooms - as well as Scadding House, headquarters for the Inner City Angels in Toronto. The film provides a useful reference guide for alternative teaching methods and techniques for interaction between teachers and students.
One film, FIGURE WITH 14 TRAINS (7 min, sound), exists in a sort-of middle ground between documentary and experimentation. Around and superimposed through images of a man in bed are elegiac shots of Chicago trains, suggesting something almost erotic, much like SWIM, but it’s unequivocal in its depiction of the transit system as a wondrous framework. -Karen Sachs
Based on the children's fantasy novel set in Australia, written by Patricia Wrightson. The story involves an orphaned city boy named Simon Brent who comes to live on a 5000-acre sheep station called Wongadilla, in the Hunter Region, with his mother's second cousins, Edie and Charlie. In a remote valley on the property he discovers a variety of ancient Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime creatures. The arrival of heavy machinery intent on clearing the land brings to life the ominous stone Nargun. The Nargun is a creature drawn from tribal legends of the Gunai or Kurnai people of the area now known as the Mitchell River National Park in Victoria. Other creatures featured in the story include the mischievous green-scaled water-spirit Potkoorok, the Turongs (tree people) and the Nyols (cave people).
"Trivia was Brakhage's choice out of all my films up to that point to be shown at the School of the Chicago Art Institute on a program with a Werner Herzog film. There was a definite poetic justice to this unplanned coincidental combination of Trivia with a Herzog film. Trivia could be described as the Old World in the New World, Bruegel's Icarus having a 'bad day' in the New World, a New World Aesthetic response to Herzog's Old World sentimental Romanticism of the New World." –G.D.
Realistic images of New York alternate with surrealistic indoor shots and posing fashion models, with references to aphroditism and transvestism.
Appropriating material from the introduction to the nightly television show, PM Magazine and a commercial for Wang Computers, Birnbaum uses enlarged still-frames from each of the sources to compound a new image of the indelible American Dream. To the soundtrack of an acid rock version of The Doors' L.A. Woman, repetitive images of an ice skater, baton twirler, cheerleader, and young girls licking ice cream, exemplify dominant cultural images of women — images that emphasize their performative nature: the idea that woman is a spectacle arranged for the (male) viewer's pleasure. The culimination of a series of works from 1978-82 dealing directly with television imagery and ideology, this tape is one of four channels shown simmultaneously in Birnbaum's installation at Documenta 9, in 1982.
The music is by composer Jean-Yves Bosseur. Film made from the work of Albert Ayme: 16 AND 1 VARIATIONS, made in 1963. The film is a series of variations of variations. Albert Ayme: "Each variation generates a new structure, each one is autonomous and treated like a stony runaway". So I analyzed each work, found its own structure, traveled the opposite path of the painter, materializing the different stages, using cutouts of transparent paper, creating inside each structure found new phases, new variations, with the help of which I was able to develop the film sequences.
An ex-gangster is determined to make a fresh start after getting out of prison, but soon finds herself too entrenched in a circle of violence to leave behind her ruthless past.
Mexican feature film
A young woman must face her insecurities when she is tasked with an assignment for her speech class.
A film by Ellen Gaine
A close up of the artist’s face, turned horizontal because she is lying on her side, is the focus of this simply shot piece. The title refers quite literally to what happens to the artist’s head. Her face is fairly neutral; it is hard to read anything into her expression. After a few moments in which she looks straight ahead then to the left and right with just her eyes, a hand appears from the top of the screen and pushes down. Quite deliberately another hand is laid on top of the first, followed by another. The pressure of the hands increases and squishes America’s features into a grotesque expression. Men’s and women’s hands both press down in a pile, one with a wedding ring, another with bright red nails. No emotional response from America or discernible gesture of aggression in the hands tells the audience that there is a specific emotion or story associated with this physical act.
An animated futuristic autobiography of a man born in the year 2000.
The animator uses expressionistic drawings for a filmic adaptation of Robert Schumann’s delightful and famous piece Dreaming, the composer’s well-known piece from Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood).
A short documentary focused on Falchera, one of the most impoverished neighborhood in Turin, Italy.
"Ghost Dance (1980) takes the viewer on a spiraling descent into Arizona’s Canyon de Chelly, from the rim at the top to the Navajo ruins on the mud-caked canyon floor. A systemic looping technique via JK Optical Printer creates images that are stretched, recycled, and interwoven, altering one’s perceptions of time and space in relation to the immediate “present.”" - Holly Fisher
An newly arrived immigrant to Sweden is dazzled by the culture, conveniences and excesses of western lifestyle.
Experimental film in which musical excerpts of the 20th century and images of a 15th century statue are superimposed.
Family bonds, how they hold us and how we break them.
At night, a city. Through the burst-crackle of typewriter and television, we are drawn towards uncertain landscapes; We find ourselves "travelers of the interval", at the fracture of two worlds, in the universe of the double-- To fall through the gaps into depths of the canals of Amsterdam.