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Filmmakers travel through war-torn Nicaragua to document the conflict between the Sandinista government and U.S.-supported Contra forces. Through interviews with soldiers, farmers, and policymakers, the film examines the human and political realities of the escalating Central American war.
Observations of a man and a dog in a Hamburg street. Mass society did not arise because there are many people today, but because the media turned them into a mass. Death to the spectator would actually mean cutting off the water supply to this mill. Whoever destroys the masses, whoever removes this sense of humanity, has ended the media era.
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A story about the king, who lost his appetite.
In 1931, an actress haunts an abandoned film set.
The young couple, Alla and Robert, are planning to go to work in Norilsk for five years. Alla decides to leave the children with their grandmothers, but faces their resistance. The grandmothers believe that parents should raise their own children.
A short film by Maurice Deveraux and Tony Morello
Teno looks at a widespread workplace illness, tenosynovitis - a crippling and often misunderstood disease. The nature of modern work practices can inadvertently lead to the illness, which mostly strikes women, since they predominately work in jobs requiring repetitious activity. This is especially evident among migrant workers. The program also considers the responsibility of both employers and employees.
Friends react to being "on camera."
Short animation
For short films Antonio Mitrikeski by many critics said is that worked visually very simple, full of emotions caused by shaping the artistic staff. Idea author draws from the eternal themes, between life and death, between love and hope, in the infinity of time and space. Ordinary people with common ties between them, these ordinary visual sight Communications turns into a subtle threads of the eternal.
Esther, a traumatized Holocaust survivor, frequents a Manhattan cafeteria where she meets Aaron, a Jewish writer, who tries to uncover the ghosts of her past.
One day, the boy who loved mischief more than anything else in the world came to the wizard in the castle. Just before that, he took the teddy bear from the girl, threw it at her, and also slipped a beetle into her candy wrapper. How will the boy behave now? Will they let him go home? After all, here everything becomes known about his past pranks.
A short film by filmmaker Tom Palazzolo with his students of an informal illegal gambling type of game on a sidewalk of the Maxwell Street Market. “Grown folks, now, not young folks. If you ain’t 18 or over I can’t give you a bet–show me three IDs. I might make an exception if you got ten bucks.”
A story based on estonian folk song about the girl Salme, who is choosing between three fiancés – Sun, Moon and Star.
This light hearted look at three generations of gefilte fish makers reflects both the desire for tradition and the need for convenience. A grandmother, mother, and granddaughter show how they are different, yet similar. 16mm
A dance group forms at Gleisdreieck station, Berlin. More and more people join in until the next train leaves the station.
The Lord's Boot Camp? To Matt and Prentiss...to her, especially...it was a swamp, mud hole, some kind of glorified (spell it: horrified) concentration camp! You had to see it to believe it - digging ditches, laying concrete blocks, learning carpentry skills, and running the obstacle course.
Describes continuing opposition by local people to government plans to build a motorway alongside Archway Road in North London, including an analysis of the profit-based motives for the scheme, an expose of the tactics of the pro-motorway lobby and a mass march by people in the community. Credit's acknowledgement to the people of Hackney, Islington, Holloway, Archway and Finchley and the facilities of the London Film-Makers Co-op.
At an international animation festival, interesting encounters and conversations arise at different levels of society. A wide variety of films, ideas and nationalities convey the typical festival atmosphere with thunderous applause between celebrations, speeches and words of thanks.
One of the most popular groups of Yugoslavia, Poslednja igra leptira, with their frontman Nesa Leptir, made live spectacles by combining sketches of comedy and original music. One of these concerts, which were sold-out very quickly, was held at the Belgrade's Dom sindikata 1984..
Experimental video playing with the camera and the monitor.
Short movie by Evgeniy Kondratyev.
A compilation of the origins of Argentine cinema up to the 1960s.
Presented on a computer, "Pascal's Lemma" features mathematics (diagrams, equations, questions), biographical information about Blaise Pascal, and scrolling text sourced from the news.
The history of Kensal House, in West London, is seen through the experiences of some of its occupants from the early 1980s, who are juxtaposed against archive film. It shows how the house has declined in status since its construction in 1936 – a showpiece for the Gas, Light and Coke Company.
Ligaw na bunga: Directed by Arsenio Bautista. With Maria Montes, Edgar Mande, Perla Bautista, Liza Lorena.
“If you meet me, pretend you don't know me”, “I'm not like you”, are now classic phrases in the “furtive and veiled” homosexual relationship. This is for those who, out of fear, compromise or a thousand other reasons, decide to live their sexuality in a dissociated way. The "official" one, heterosexuality, and the clandestine one, homosexuality. Some do it very well ... others less so. Situations of this kind are more frequent than they appear. This short film wants to give the idea of how easy it is to border on melodrama in such cases.
Ssecond film in two filmmakers’ view on Hong Kong shortly before the UK sold its former colony to China. First part was directed by Ingo Petzke.
A Lae is a little metal foundry whose owner has gone back to Australia and which the workers have taken over, with some help from the provincial government. An experience in cooperative-management that is new in Papua-New Guinea.
A man tries his hardest to turn a large winged screw. He succeeds. The picture opens with a crack: the screw is stuck in the back of a huge woman who begins to dance. The little man jumps away in horror.
A 2-voice reading of the 1978 article "Contre la Nouvelle Cinephilie", written in 1978 by the film's director.
Summer 1984. An image of when I visited Sapporo, Otaru etc. And my parents hometown. I'm shooting only girls (shame ...).
An animated love poem.
Mainland film centered around the Buddhist grottos in Shanxi.
A woman scientist travels back in time to save her mad artist sister from committing suicide.
Scenes from the life of eight Styrian musicians; a collage which is intensified through super-8 images, polaroid photographs, the sound track which includes text citations; not much folk music, much context, sounds of everyday life, work and agricultural machines.
An abstract play of light, colour, geometric shapes and patterns synchronised with synthesised music. The image patterns have been created by scratching, drawing, painting and overlaying directly on clear and opaque film and fragments of photographed positive and negative images.
This journal entry of a film describes a young artist in the midst of over two years of shoe-free peregrinations, with a spare, mesmerizing narration that reflects a landscape ranging from the slimy underbelly of dirty Chicago to a hitchhiker’s perch in the back of a dusty pickup truck.
"... the line between public and private imagery." – Fred Worden
Set List: Blackout - Loving You Sunday Morning - Coming Home - Always Somewhere - Holiday - Can't Live Without You - Dynamite - Can't Get Enough
A portrait of the summer vacation of some young Chileans from different socioeconomic statuses during 1984.
'The Car of Your Dreams' is a film which celebrates three decades of automobile mobile industry advertisements, from the early days of television advertising and into the 1980s. The short film exemplifies how the automotive industry has long been the master at creating and manipulating images of desirable lifestyles, in order to sell a product.
A German short starring Kurt Raab.