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Biographical drama film faithfully evoking the life and work of Korczak through a reconstruction of " Dom Sierot ", "La Maison des Orphelins", one of his two model orphanages in Warsaw organized in "Republic of the children".
Urban life can be difficult. Here we first follow a couple who encounter one problem after another as they hunt for a flat. The estate agent is a crook and makes their job even harder. When it becomes impossible to find somewhere to rent, there’s only one thing left to do: live in a shanty town. One of the inhabitants shows us what living in that environment actually means.
From inside the kiosk, you can hear the trains leaving for Nairobi. In this little restaurant, the customers with the lowest income have gathered to eat a cheap meal, the only one they can afford. All around the station people rush about, cook and eat, in time to the rattle of the trains.
Kin Kiesse is a 1982 documentary film about "Kin" (Kinshasa), the capital of Zaire, and the capital of paradoxes and excesses, commentated on by one of its naïf artists, the painter Chéri Samba. We discover the "Kin" of night clubs, high buildings, bicycle-taxis, shoe shiners and hairdressers, the "Kin" of poor neighborhoods, but, above all, the "Kin" of music, where all the genres rub elbows, from beer party brass bands to the rumba to traditional dances, without leaving out the in-fashion bands of the time.
Charcoal drawings depict the bleak world of the worker. Pastel drawings illustrate his dreams. Oftentimes, they are dreams created by the media. Are they tailored to his real needs? Or his pocketbook? This film comments indirectly on the impact of publicity and its power to develop appetites that cannot be satisfied.
This animated film carries a positive message about the importance of helping others. Friends of the Family centres around a sister and brother who awaken each morning to a secure and comfortable environment where all their needs are taken care of. When plans to collect for UNICEF are discussed over breakfast, the boy questions the reasons for doing so. A sweep of the animator's brush sends the children into a world they have never before seen, a world without even the necessities of life. Through the experience, they realize the purpose of raising funds for foreign aid and at the same time learn how children can make a worthwhile contribution to their brothers and sisters around the world.
A little boy brings home a bird with a broken wing, which becomes a good friend. The boy himself becomes winged, happy from a beautiful act in which his soul is revealed.
A family of peasants must live in the chaotic big city.
A pair of thugs and a group of teenagers are locked down in a haunted house.
An Oceanian legend about a man who for the sake of get his lost love back, closes the world shell, the origin of everything.
Focuses on the visual arts programs of the New Deal, highlighting the impact on the lives and work of American artists. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in 1933 during the Great Depression, nearly 10,000 artists were out of work. Over the next decade, a series of programs known as the New Deal Art Projects was developed. Under the WPA and other programs, thousands of artists were able to earn a living while devoting themselves full-time to their art.
The films of Thomas Feldman are represented neither by the imagination nor (less) by the course of events. Until the end of the films, their true nature is the drama that finds a place at the borders and edges of existence, in which it will focus and intensify and that is why it is an image. . The action takes place less in the images than between the images, in the narrow sphere of darkness, which joins the image with the image and from which they draw their mystery… Movements, rhythms, cuts: these elements give Feldman's films their body language, the invocation of their materiality, their eroticism. All the films are marked by the unforeseen: like sudden pain, like blossoming happiness, like the transgression of limits or barriers, like the explosion of colors.
Gaia’s Dream is a vivid animated film made by drawing and painting directly on 16mm clear film. Emerging from images which suggest primordial beginnings, a running horse becomes the focus of this rhythmic and abstract animation. At its climax, the horse is transformed and takes flight before disappearing into the sun from which it came. The musicians of Gwinyai performed a soundtrack of traditional music from Zimbabwe expressly for the film.
Revolution and other movements.
A young man has supernatural experiences of a phantom leatherman.
Animated short film
The Chicago educator, noted for her ability to reach students who have previously done poorly in public schools, speaks about her methods.
An impressionistic piece of work, composed out of several movement experiences. A landscape glides by behind a rainscattered train compartment window. In fact the journey goes nowhere, although a map suggests the contrary. As useless as the automatic panning controls camera in a large clothing store only reflects clothes horses. Also shots from a car on the highway, pictures of combat planes on a military airport or shots in the Amsterdam subway are not focused on telling a specific story. Sometimes they are transformed into abstractions, literally and emotionally. They are daydreams backed up by rhythm and sounds from Heyink’s synthesiser.
Visual memos by Auto Awac, the group name used by Kees de Groot, Frank Morsinkhof, Ron Sluik and Emile Toorop. Small personal events and ordinary technology alternate. Subjects like a digital clock, a laundromat, a recorder and a filmclip promoting an electronics factory are experienced just as subjectively as walking through a cornfield or living in a dormitory. On one page of this visual diary is a musical improvisation - one of the artists plays the trumpet for the first time; on another, pieces of a TV show. This romanticism of the technological society is borne not only by impulsively chosen and reworked pictures, but especially by its own electronic music. The initial title of (a part of) the work has been 'In the Interest of Science and Technology'.
The Costa Rican situation of women incorporated into the production in a double shift, jobs and housework.
Does humanity exist in our world?
"... portrays the views of a first generation Italian-American woman though her life experiences as immigrant, factory worker, and as the 'emotional heart of the family.'" – Fabrice Ziolkowski
A sequel to HEALING PROCESS: "Four years after my father died, I found the sympathy cards, the certificates for trees in Israel, and the letters of condolence that I stashed away in haste when my mother demanded, 'Get rid of these.' Due to my morbid curiosity, I opened the envelopes." – (from the beginning of the soundtrack)
Valeria, an Argentine exile in Bilbao, is involved against her will in a political kidnapping.
Amadeo is a normal-looking young man. He earns his living practicing the profession of photographer in a store-studio dedicated to the making of cards, wedding reports, baptisms, etc. But it doesn't match at all with his dreams of becoming a big star in photography. On the other hand, and given his clumsiness and shyness, success is not precisely the one that accompanies him in his relationships with women.
An animation film based on the play by Anna Brigadere.
Using one half of a convex mirror mounted within a glass cylinder, Steina trains the video camera eye dead center as she records the space immediately around her. “Steina playfully does gymnastics with her camera and its mirrored lens attachment as a means of producing a 360-degree image of a torso wrapped around the camera lens . . . an exercise in an immersive space” for both maker and viewer. —Yvonne Spielmann
Documentary.
The young Rui Ramos constantly turns his life into amazing dreams due to the influence of novels, comic-books and movies.
A young boy is visiting his uncle. Before bed, his uncle tells him a fairytale about the Sun.
Documentary about one of the most significant migrant battles in the Federal Republic of Germany, a wildcat strike mainly sustained by migrant workers (euphemistically called “guest workers”) at the Ford plant in Cologne-Niehl in August 1973.
Vietnamese comedic traditional opera originated from the Quang Nam area.
A filming of Meredith Monk and Ping Chong's 1973 experimental theatre piece.
A preview program of ABC's Saturday morning lineup in 1982, hosted by Dick Clark.
The following is what is no longer and is still going on and almost not and...
This film closely examines the tension between the established Italian fishing community and the recently arrived Vietnamese fishermen in California’s Monterey Bay peninsula. It documents a specific facet of anti-Asian sentiment and the conflicts faced by an industry that is also fighting for survival.
In Handel's day this best-loved of all oratorios was performed by fewer than forty instrumentalists and a chorus, less than thirty strong, of boy trebles and men. That is the tradition to which Christopher Hogwood has returned in his performances with the Academy of Ancient Music. Members of the Academy all play instruments of the period or accurate modern copies. In this recording the choruses are sung by boy trebles and male altos, tenors and basses, members of the Choir of Westminster Abbey. The soloists improvise embellishments in the arias and, in certain cases, join in the singing of the choruses, just as they would have done 240 years ago. The recording takes full advantage not only of Westminster Abbey's fine acoustic qualities, but also of the incomparable architectural splendor of the surroundings.
"A silent, in-camera improv that contemplates the early autumn colors and forms of some weathered, wild blackberries growing along a rural Maine railroad track. The berries themselves are gone - into many mouths or fallen to earth. Winter, as yet unseen, approaches from afar. The superimpositions were done in the camera and there was no further editing of the film." —Abbott Meader
A simple and honest Master Sadashiv Deshmukh is transferred to Tegwadi village.He soon runs into trouble when he punishes the son of village head.Sadashiv befriends a village beauty Nakubala.But Sadashiv's trouble doesn't end here when a dance troupe enters the village.The village head empties his house to impress the dancer so that the dance troupe can live in it. Sadashiv goes in an abandoned house where he meets the ghost of Maratha solider Kandoji Pradhan who was cursed for separating two lovers and cant attain salvation.Sadashiv at first is scared but be friends the ghost.Kandoji realizes that by helping Sadashiv he will be free from the curse and also plays a big part to make Sadashiv and Nakubala to fall in love.
A scientist dies while researching the toxins dropped by American bombers onto Southern Vietnam. His three students goes on a trip through the forest of Truong Son mountains to bring his remains and research documents back to the North, but soon find themselves developing the same symptoms like their professor.
