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A documentary about a village on Lake Maggiore where only one of the original residents remains, while many houses have been bought up by German and Swiss tourists. A compelling cinematic documentary that captures the perspectives of the new residents—including the filmmakers themselves—and their relationship with the Italians, while offering a (self-)critical examination of tourism in its various forms.
In 1709, Johann Friedrich Böttger invented Meissen porcelain while searching for a recipe for making gold. The group "Stern Combo Meißen" pays musical tribute to the inventor. Their performance is accompanied by excerpts from the DEFA feature film "Die blauen Schwerter" (The Blue Swords, 1949, directed by Wolfgang Schleif).
Shot during Deocampo’s year as a scholar in France under Atelier du Formacion Au Cinema Direct. His first documentary provides a glimpse of three Filipino painters residing in Europe: Nena Saguil, Macario Vitalis, and Ofelia Gelvezon-Tequi. The featured artists commentate on their daily practices as artists and migrants, all uniting at the end for an intimate gathering.
Will the homosexual find his alter-ego? Who's on the phone? While the hair is cut, the faces parade, which one is the good one? So many questions-pretexts for a visual and sound delirium.
To anyone outside the Atlantic provinces, K. C. Irving is virtually unknown. Yet he is reputed to be the richest man in Canada, patriarch of a New Brunswick-based industrial empire involving oil, transportation, newspapers, lumber and much more. This one-hour documentary marks the first time a filmmaker has gained access to the legendary Irving, whose business career began in 1924 with the purchase of an oil truck. It is an absorbing look at a man who amassed great wealth as a by-product of his main objective: "to see wheels turn."
An anthology of 8 and ¾ macabre and absurd jokes. Witty souls of the dead, genocidal animals, lethal sport performances, medical appointments. Each life ends with death, though in different ways.
At the turn of 1980/81, the peasants joined the workers' movement and they voiced their demands. As a result, they’ve registered the Independent Self-Governing Trade Union of Individual Farmers ‘Solidarity’.
Lucien Lumière has just bought a camera. He wants to experiment. In a square, he discovers a young woman sitting on a bench and decides to film her...
Based in Stockholm Abelli Elander has been working as an artist since the 1970's. Her early works focus on contemporary gender issues, through a surreal visual language inspired by comics and pop culture in general. Apart from this little offbeat gem (directed by the Charlie Nykvist, son of the famous cinematographer) she has also brought her style to several movies as a costume and set designer. Among these are several films directed by Marie-Louise Ekman (most notably Mamma, pappa, barn and Barnförbjudet) and Håkan Alexandersson and Carl-Johan de Geer (Tvätten, Res aldrig på enkel biljett, Resa till havet).
Kauhava master craftsman Kustaa Lammi makes a traditional Finnish puukko knife.
An experimental student film about failure and existential anxiety relating to student life.
"Your Child Interests Me" - analyzes the ideologies, the stages and the political choices which led to the contemporary and dominant concept of education.
A secretly filmed account of sessions at Osho Rajneesh's ashram in Pune, India.
A frightening vignette about violence and hatred in American society.
A pilot is forced to illegally transport drugs, arms and ammunition by terrorists, who have held his daughter hostage. However, they do not release her even after he complies with their demands.
The second story is about human misfortunes and mistakes, played out... with nails.
That special takes back to a time in San Francisco when Lesbians were creating their own separate restaurants, bookstores, bars and unique places they could define for themselves.
Fayrouz sings Al Ardou Lakoum at the United Nations General Assembly, New York 1981 USA Legend and legacy tour 1981
Documentary about the lives of three generations of residents of Warsaw’s Wola district.
A report on political conflict in Guatemala examines U.S. support for the country’s military government and its campaign against internal opposition, presenting footage filmed in the region alongside commentary from American and Guatemalan officials. (Note: Standalone film listing justified because titled CBS Reports documentaries are widely cataloged and circulated individually as complete investigative films.)
Details the impact of television on people and social institutions.
Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.
A swordplay film depicting acts of chivalry from the debonair swordsman known as Third Master, based on the novel by prolific writer of Wuxia Ku Lung.
Members of an otherwise typical New York Brooklyn family are "tortured" by a kind of hereditary madness. In the meantime, the adopted nephew Mortimer tries to do everything to protect his two aunts, who indulge in a variety of dangerous acts, such as poisoning lonely and homeless elderly people, and burying them in the basement of their house. When another niece, Jonathan, arrives, the situation will spiral out of control. The play was released on DVD by Radiotileorasi magazine in December 2010 (78th DVD of the "ERT Cultural Film Archive" series).
This work is the single-channel version of a multi-channel installation of the same name. The picture plane is divided into a left and a right half. A changing background is formed by colorful, highly graphic patterns reminiscent of TV test signals and various monochrome surfaces. Two smaller rectangles appear on the surface, in which video sequences are running. The two image strands show landscapes, interiors, objects, graphical images and text that are sometimes used in contrast, and on other occasions the same image can be seen mirrored in each rectangle. They are accompanied by Hill’s recitation of a long text, whose syllabic sequence determines the rhythm of the images (the screen changes with each uttered syllable). His voice comes alternately out of the left and right stereo channels functioning like a dialogue. This is broken into sections by a singing, but electronically altered, voice.
Art film part of the REWIND + PLAY, An Anthology of Early British Video Art box-set.
An exercise in gentle voyeurism revealing glimpses of the secret side of Salvador, the capital city of the Brazilian state of Bahia, filming a derelict prostitution zone.
A couple’s daily life whose only communication is through disembodied dialogues.
A short documentary
Daniel Gorban's wife Elisabet has left home after an argument and has been missing for ten days. Daniel is worried about his wife, but the inspector reassures him that there is no cause for concern yet. Pastor Maxim arrives unexpectedly at Daniel's house and tells him that Daniel's wife is with him. However, Daniel does not recognize the woman with the pastor. The woman claims to be Elisabet and has identification to prove it. Furthermore, during the inspector's questioning, the woman knows even the smallest details of the Gorbanis' marriage. Who is telling the truth? And what really happened between the couple?
Nearly 500 lions roam the vast land of Etosha National Park in Namibia, each pride guarding territory, raising young, and feasting on prey. Filmmakers Des and Jen Bartlett spent nearly five years filming the Ombika pride, a family of 19, resulting in this 1 hour documentary. They tracked their special pride of lions to record the rivalries, loyalties, and complex animal relationships. Catch a rare glimpse into the pride system, from family interactions and shared responsibilities to raising cubs and teaching them to hunt. Watch the pride's success and failures, battles and births, and encounters with elephants and the rarely seen black rhino
A woman, director of advertising films, catches the eye of a mysterious young woman dressed in white during an evening of dancing on the terrace of a bar and is fascinated by her.
Reel 15 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
Documentary short.
All is inevitably one. With the golden mean as seed, the fruit is 10 sided. Not "?'s", but "?s'" in homage to Ken, who almost offhandedly wished for wheels within wheels. Breathtaking, mesmerizing, deeply satisfying.
Walter Burton's realistic photographs depicting poor treatment of Maori prisoners are rejected by late 19th century government officials. Walter is condemned to making a living from everyday studio work, the frustration of which is apparently quite sufficient to make him a drunk. His brother Alfred is happy to take the photos that the officials want and therefore gets the commissions. Alfred's photos are well received, but when Walter shows his own photos, toughs are sent around to smash up his plates.
Documentary film depicts an anti-government protest organised by “Solidarity” in Warsaw. Shot with a handheld camera, it attempts to capture street life during the protest. An eloquent commentary to the shown events is delivered through the lyrics of Elżbieta Wojnowska’s song Widzę was
The film portrays Sanrizuka’s resistance through the lens of an everyday peasant’s life, remaining true to their perspectives as they reorganise and place agricultural issues at the heart of their continued struggle.
Part of a pair of Super 8 landscape studies with an ancient British style, the camera explores the countryside under striking cloudscapes.
Saga playing live in Dortmund (1981)
Short documentary made for the communities at the foot of Mount Hayachine. Not satisfied with it, Haneda expanded it into what eventually became Ode to Mt. Hayachine (Hayachine no fu)
When Luzifer fell from heaven to earth a precious stone fell from his crown, which turned into a huge deep black block of marble. "You think the world is on your string, well Rudy, think again". Luzifer had spoken.
This is a story about the love of two people in difficult times of war, about love that overcomes all obstacles, appearing unexpectedly, out of nowhere, taking possession of all the thoughts of the lovers...
This classic ’80s after-school special begins with a pre-teen beer-heist and subsequent drinking party, but ends with young Tony’s dependency on alcohol.
“By removing us from our place it is as if they were burying us.” This production by renowned filmmaker Luis Mandoki is an important visual testimony about the resettlement of the Mazatec and Chinantec populations affected by the construction of the Miguel Alemán (1951-1957) and Cerro de Oro (1974-1989) dams.
A Jewish boy in Berlin today: David’s daily life is hardly any different from that of his classmates. When his friends Max and Felix discover his religious background, he takes them to the synagogue and explains the interior and the order of the service to them. Documentary clips from a Bar Mitzvah celebration are interwoven into the fictional narrative. As guests in a Jewish religious education class, the boys eventually learn some rules of Jewish dietary laws and their significance in everyday life.
This work was a dance shot for film at the Cunningham studio. Staging for Channels/Inserts was divided among the main studio, the small studio and the office area. Cunningham employed the use of chance operations to decide the order in which each space would be used, whether action would occur in more than one location at a time, and how many dancers would be involved. The piece was divided into sixteen sections, each varying in length. One of the most striking sections began with a series of brief, masterfully executed solos for the men of the company, filmed in the main studio, followed by a shot of the women in the small studio, laughing and chatting amongst themselves, then back to the main studio for a second round of male solos. Music was composed by David Tudor, and costume design was by Charles Atlas.
Short film in the Delta Space Mission film series. A intergalactic research ship descends onto an unknown planet where the animals are reminiscent of Earth's distant past when it was populated by dinosaurs.
The tuatara is the sole survivor of a reptile species that has been extinct for 135 million years. This nocturnal creature which once lived world-wide, is now confined to a few off-shore islands in New Zealand. Tuataras grow up to 60 cm (two feet) in length, live to 150 years of age and have survived virtually unchanged since primeval times. The film is set on tiny Stephen's Island, a wildlife sanctuary which is a home for 100,000 of these unique reptiles.
In the blocs of low-cost housing in Colombes, the tenants’ association takes part in renovating the buildings.