Cinematic Era: 1984 Vintage

A short film by Peter Schreiner

A bus driver dreams of his ideal woman, who materializes with the face of the mermaid painted on his bus. Video transfer of a slide projection by Sandra Eleta, composed of images from nine projectors.

"I pointed the camera at the trees and bushes in my lodgings' garden. I just wanted to keep watching them." VTR/sound

The original is in motion. The identity is being denied. On the very first take I wanted to pose naked in front of the camera. But I guess I didn't have the guts. - By the way, I took that shot by self-timer.

A documentary dramatized on the daily life of a women's prison: Instituto Penal Talavera Bruce, in Bangu, Rio de Janeiro. The film reveals the struggle for survival within this micro-society that is formed between the walls, the relationship of these women with the penal institution, with justice and with the outside world. Through work, leisure, leisure, affective relationships and the social and sexual roles that each one assumes in prison, the film shows the relationship between people, the struggle for survival within this micro-society that is formed between the walls, the relationship of these women with the penal institution, with justice, and with the outside world.

Two best friends who get separated have to cross a river to find each other

Performing gender and bending gender always had an element of risk. As, of course, it still does now. I think what's interesting about the John Kelly film The Dagmar Onassis Story, and the many drag performers that are featured in it, is that it shows how many different strategies and politics and poetics of drag there were in the East Village at that time—ranging from Joey Arias and Klaus Nomi, who appeared with David Bowie in spaceman fashions on Saturday Night Live, but also you have RuPaul, Lady Bunny, and Ethyl Eichelberger. There were many different drag strategies but drag was definitely underground, punk, subversive. There’s something about a John Kelly performance which has the heightened theatricality of a drag performance, but it’s also incredibly lyrical and emotional and it’s hard not to get caught up with the intensity and the adoration of a fan who is so deep that he actually becomes this persona.

A political comedy about the effects of the apparent discovery of gold in the sands near a small community on Iceland's south coast. Troops from the American NATO base "invade" the territory, journalists from Reykjavik arrive and the morals of the local inhabitants quickly turn topsy-turvy.

Evokes the life of 3rd century hermit Saint Antoine via the paintings of Bosch, Rops, Ensor, Ernst & Dalí.

The daughter of a Nebraska minister, Anna Louise Strong earned a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Chicago. But it was in the Pacific Northwest, where she witnessed the 1916 Everett massacre and chronicled the 1919 Seattle General Strike, that her political vision took shape. In Moscow she helped found the first English language newspaper, in Spain her many visits resulted in her book, Spain in Arms; and in China she interviewed Mao in a Yan'an cave in 1946. She is buried in Beijing in a special cemetery for martyrs of the revolution.

These shorts, executed between 1984 and 1986 in Vienna, exude an amazingly fresh intimacy and vitality. Referred to by the filmmakers as »home movies«, they record actionistic performances in the directors’ own living quarters, with added soundtracks of intermittent percussive sounds.

A short experimental film; "An hommage to silent movies".

Ivan Ladislav hides a true chamber of wonders behind the clear, mathematically abstract structure of his films and videos, meticulously compiled rhythmically frame for frame, each work likewise presenting an analysis of the film medium. Concealed therein, culled from deep in the medium’s prehistory, are hermetic parallel universes in whose number ranges and symbolic spaces, Galeta’s precisely constructed film compositions find a formalist anchor.

A philippine slave travels around the world. An early version of the story Tahimik used for Balikbayan.

A Vaudeo™ tape by Rhythm & Noise. Originally conceived as a spy thriller with socio-political overtones, Shadowcrack quickly assumed the form of an outline for a series of Vaudeo™ vignettes with partially overlapping plots to be developed in the near future. The Vaudeo™ concept denies the superficial juxtaposition of sound against image present in so-called "music videos" but relies on direct access to the experiential centers of the audience. To this end, Rhythm and Noise suggests playback level louder than normal.

The 1913 Russian Futurist opera Victory Over the Sun follows several archetypes such as The Fat Man, The Strong Men of the Future, and Nero-and-Caligula-In-One-Person as the sun is defeated in battle and imprisoned in a concrete house. The DVD discusses the process of recreating the partially lost opera for its first performance in nearly 70 years. Director Robert Benedetti narrates the film as a documentary on the recreation process and as a guide to the surreal plot of the opera itself. A stage performance of the opera (translated into English) comprises the bulk of the film.

Film material is subjected to biochemical processes by burying it in the garden, storing it in a pond, or overheating it. The results of these natural processes of decay or aging are then copied back onto film and thus conserved in the state of their dissolution. - Lightcone

Directed by Christine Panushka.

Moving story about a lonely old man and about his everyday life in his native village Brajchino. For Vasil Popjanevski the most difficult thing in his life is loneliness. Before he had a big family. But Vasil has contact now only with the tapes of his brother and his other relatives who live in USA.

It operates through the juxtaposition of two strands of ambiguously contrasting image and sound. She has said: 'I want to remind the audience that there are different realities that people have to live through … Changing Parts … is about such different realities - the big contrast between a priviledged space, like the West, and the Third World where there's death, destruction, hunger.' (Quoted in Mona Hatoum, 1997, p.127.)

Recently, Ko-ko loses a longtime friend due to a widely publicized phenomenon known as the “beautiful suicide.” Intuitively sensing that it may actually be a murder, she asks her part-time colleagues from a handyman service, Kirishima and Sakai, for help but they refuse to take her seriously.

This is Yamada’s first directorial work. The storytelling can be described as a classic fairy tale in the style of old girls’ manga, immediately drawing the viewer into its world from the opening. Thanks to the full support of senior members of the film club, the film was completed with a distinctive atmosphere both fairy-tale-like and, in its own way, strikingly intense.

The blind owner of a sandwich shoppe encounters an unexpected visitor.

A Jam-Packed Local Train: A Pornographic Showdown Between Gropers and Pickpockets!

Famous drag queen Holly and her scheming sister Beryl (both played by Doug Lucas) battle over the wishes of their recently deceased grandmother, who wants to be buried with her canine companion, Dingo. Defying all health codes and decorum, Holly and her long-suffering manservant hatch a plan to fulfil her grandmother's wishes, while Beryl plots a much darker fate for her deluded sister.

About the importance of preserving forests.

Malcolm travels across inland Australia demonstrating survival techniques that he has learned over thirty years. Ways to make fire, to locate and collect water and what to do if your vehicle breaks down.

Documentary on Glasgow Rangers

The forest kills a person. Running away is pointless, as is hoping for the future. We are not masters of nature, but its prisoners.

Presents a drama portraying a day in the life of a teenage prostitute who has a fantasy of becoming a movie star

A young drug dealing man involved in the world of drugs decides to escape from it. His girlfriend is proud and ecstatic of him, his closest friend wishes him very good luck, but the suppliers are ready to prevent him at any cost and this means war.

In 1982, a fifteen-member Macedonian mountaineering expedition leaves for South America, in the Cordillera Blanca region in northeastern Peru, to realize the planned climb. The film follows the entire journey of the expedition – from Skopje, through Paris, to the peaks of Huascaran.

A short film by Maurice Deveraux and Tony Morello

Passengers are waiting on the platform of the dingy railway station. They are depressed and resigned. The dignitary stands behind the rostrum – he announces an cancels more and more trains. None of the trains arrive.

A history of the development of communication and a demonstration of how technology has broadened our ability to communicate.

Madness and anarchism in Alain Klarer's L'Air du crime are too often self-oppressed, having forgotten to live free in their minds. Elena's "terrorism" and Robert's gratuitous quest are all irrational acts perhaps, but ultimately free, a form of rebirth. Yet, some will not be able to bear this madness, chained like Stutz to a coherent structure. Thus, the film moves towards lyricism. First through Peer Raben's music, then through Hugues Ryffel's images. A play on color and light, contrasting a cold, gray, metallic frame and lighting on the rational side, and a sublime, extraordinary blue towards Lake Lucerne, on the side of night, dreams, imagination, suicide, and freedom. Even if the simple narrative sometimes takes over from the madness of the film, it remains a very rich first work, a vast fresco of symbols and ideas.

Cesar-nominated short film by Jacques Deschamps from 1986.

The Criminal has no dialogue, a fugitive who gets away from the death sentence but cannot escape from himself.

The plot of the film is based on the story of two lovers. The film features works by the composers S. Prokofiev, R. Drigo, D. Shostakovich, E. Waldteifel, I. Strauss and G. Sviridov performed by the Exemplary Orchestra of the Moscow Kremlin Commandant's Office.

Portrait of the French painter-etcher, lithographer and director.

Some long time Miami residents reflect on the impact of uncontrolled development in South Florida. Not only can the natural environment be ruined, but continual redevelopment prevents the permanence necessary to cultivate a sense of place. Those interviewed are: Al Rantel, Art Simon, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, Sgt. Lee Haddon, Beth Dunlop, and Arva Moore Parks.

About the hero of Socialist Labor, winner of the USSR State Prize, member of the Central Committee of the CPSU, combine harvester of the Lenin's Path collective farm The Peschanokopsky district of the Rostov region by N.V.Pereverzeva.

Three English girls at Institut Villa Pierrefeu in Switzerland.

Animated film by Kouji Nanke.

A young art student strives to achieve his dreams but faces numerous obstacles that stand in his way.

a Leszek Komorowski Cartoon

Summary of the documentary series 'Ikuska', directed by its promoter Antxon Ezeiza.

A swan waits for her cygnets to hatch. Featuring the music of Debussy.

“Ville Quelle Ville?” reflects a satirical view of city life, commonplace and redundant. Urban life is portrayed as a series of rituals: coming of age in an environment shaped by generations, obscured by the constant barrage of everyday life. The film randomly touches upon key events familiar to everyone in North America, a melting pot of human experiences. As in any city there is an aspect of alienation, here displayed through the eyes of a young woman caught in the web of her own daily existence.