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Documentary of a seven-day initiation ceremony of the Spiritual Baptist congregation of the Holy Temple of the Unicorn in Grenada. Christian elements blend with African tradition. Theater blends with medicine, singing with color.
Short educational film about women and computers.
"Heavenly Warrior Fantasy Legend" is a promotional video produced and released in the late 1980s at the Takeshima Fantasy Museum in Gamagori City, Aichi Prefecture, to commemorate the museum's 30th anniversary. It is believed to be a work from the late 1980s to the early 1990s, but the exact production year is unknown, although there are records indicating it was sold at the museum in 1987. Set in Gamagori City, the story features a heavenly warrior, played by Shinobu Sakagami, struggling in the human world. It also served as a promotional video for the Takeshima Fantasy Museum, a tourist attraction at the time. Production Background: Produced by the former management of the Fantasy Museum amidst the economic downturn following the collapse of the bubble economy, it was created to promote the museum's 30th anniversary.
Stop motion images of houses in Savannah, Georgia
This experimental film was created via one pass through the camera without special visual effects. Each frame of the film was taken at night via a long time-lapse ("time-exposure") which created the actual images, and each frame of film was taken after a period of time from the previous frame, creating the movement of the images. What looks like the sun in some shots is actually the moon, over-exposed to allow the capture of the much-dimmer stars in the sky. Longer exposures for each frame can make a night-time shot look like a day-time shot, except that you can still see stars moving in the sky. This film won a CINE Golden Eagle.
This is a journey to El Paso, Texas, where the Super-8 filmmaker Willie Varella and I have a dialogue amid domestic routines, motel accommodations, and emotional baggage, indicative of life on the road.
1987 documentary on the history and music of Winchester Cathedral.
George is invited to the AFI Video Festival to see the screening of his tape, VIDEO ALBUM 5: THE THURSDAY PEOPLE, but detours into a melodrama about the fear of internal spaces in buildings.
A young Turkish woman runs away from home to avoid her father's punishment. Despite all the setbacks, she makes her own way.
Here, "another regular day" in the life of Mike reveals a world completely envisioned and experienced through the images and slogans of the media. Mike enacts his daily routine — waking, shaving, dressing — as if he were in one advertisement after another. His language is the empty jargon of ad copy, his possessions are visualized as consumer products, his environment has the aestheticized, air-brushed look of a lifestyle commercial. In a collapse of image and self, of simulation and reality, Mike's mundane everyday life becomes a seductive TV ad, devoid of content, in which the viewer is exhorted to "make the ordinary extraordinary."
The protagonist recalls a long-suppressed childhood experience: his parents' separation, which is associated with the visual impression of his father's wing chair—a symbol of parental security—disappearing. The more the protagonist remembers, the more vividly the child reenacts his story.
A cautionary tale about a woman who hates Halloween.
Presents an overblown gangster comedy which manipulates the conventions of television in order to create a commentary on the pop culture of a television society. Made by the artist as a daytime TV show to be shown within the installation titled "Private House". It was also meant to fit into a short 16mm film that was shot in the installation while it was installed at the Walker Art Center.
A ballad-like story about a group of young people who settled in a village near Olsztyn a few years ago and decided to stay and work on the land. Among them are art historians, an actor, and an engineer. The film, which has no commentary, is accompanied by a song whose chorus sounds like the young protagonists' credo: "So take life into your own hands, life as it is. You won't get any more of it, you know that very well."
Carved in Silence tells the story of Chinese immigrants who were detained at the United States Immigration Station at Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay from 1910-1940. Emigrants were detained for weeks, months, even years, enduring harsh interrogations and physical examinations. Their feelings were expressed through the poetry carved into the walls of the locked barracks. Interviews are intercut with historical footage and dramatic re-enactments to powerfully translate the impact of racial exclusion on a generation of Chinese immigrants.
Young, war-wounded Salvadoran guerrillas rehabilitate in Cuba. Their stories, hopes and prospects for the future are recounted with startling clarity and acceptance. Made in El Salvador by Sistema Radio Venceremos, this film was part of a video series curated by El Salvador Media Project, a New York-based media organization.
An inside look at life in the Alay Valley, a dry and picturesque expanse in southern Kyrgyzstan.
This documentary evokes the question of death through different interviews filmed in nature or on the contrary in very socially and culturally marked places, such as a café, an abbey, a cathedral
Unknown, but likely a part of the 'Colouring - Singings' series of children's animation.
A documentary about the working methods of acclaimed writer HARRIETTE SIMPSON ARNOW - author of “The Dollmaker.”
A man and a woman, each them alone after an abortive love affair, and trying to re-establish a sort of equilibrium in their emotional life.
A 1987 documentary about the Revolutionary Communist Party of the USA and its founder and chairman, Bob Avakian.
Iceland, where this film was shot in 1985, is in a state of continuing creation which manifests itself in hot springs, steam eruptions and geysers. It is a magical land of vast expanses, strange rock formations, countless rivers, cascades and glaciers. Its skies are laden with moisture and its Northern latitude accounts for seemingly endless (spring) days marked by eerie twilights. This windswept and desolate earth paradoxically vents great heat and energy from its inner core. RESTLESS evokes some of the power of this young Earth. - AZ
The story of Mitford's life is interwoven with the issues of post war America-- civil rights, communism and the anti-war movement. Personal recollection, archival footage and accounts by family and friends round out this portrait of a woman whose dedication to causes has led to significant social change.
Quick overview of various useful things to do with rope--and not only on a boat!
An experimental compilation of live performances and video art by Ranko Shinohara and Hijokaidan, featuring music by White Hospital. Bloody dolls, bondage, malpracticing nurses, Japanoise and more.
George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn in 1898, the second of four children from a close-knit immigrant family. He began his musical career as a song-plugger on Tin Pan Alley, but was soon writing his own pieces.
Experimental short film. The visuals are motion paintings by Marianne Dolan in 1990. The music is the title track by Steve Roach.
A critical short film about Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of perestroika.
An Introduction to Icons and Prayer
A non-verbal dialogue between one woman and herself. The screen is split with the woman in black on one side and herself in white on the other. The film dwells on the threshold of self-awareness and deals with the frustrations found in the inherent limits of self-awareness.
A Mowelfund experimental film on a fictional criminal turned ruthless politician
An ordinary love story in summer
Short experimental film based on a quote from Mayakovsky: The crocodile lies lazily, bored in the blue-green water, ready to become a predator at any moment.
All I Want To Do - Keep On Moving - Watchdogs - Tell It Like It Is - Please Don't Make Me Cry - Johnny Too Bad - Don't Blame Me - 1 In 10 - Sing Our Own Song - Don't Break My Heart - Rat In Mi Kitchen - If It Happens Again
An Italian movie.
These are two diaries (filmed) from the holidays at the foot of the cliffs of Etretat, which served as a style exercise for me.
Silent Super 8 film by the Swiss painter Miriam Cahn.
Silent Super 8 film by the Swiss painter Miriam Cahn.
An institutional documentary short, produced by EMPLASA, on the fast and messy urban development of the city of São Paulo over the course of the twentieth century, and the problems faced by the city and its inhabitants.
Animated film by Kouji Nanke.
Rick Barongi of Miami’s Metrozoo guides the viewers through a modern zoo. From baby hippos to giraffes, the animals are well-cared for by the staff of specialists. From the TERRIFIC TRIPS series.
A short film.
A César award nominated short documentary.
In Tungabhadra, the images are limited to one place. The use of the same way of filming as well as the repeated images structure the film. They accentuate the atmosphere and character of the landscape. Water is an important recurring theme and the Tungabhadra River is as essential to the film as it is vital to the ancient capital of Vijayanagara. The film constantly returns to the river and the reflection of the enormous rocks in it. Here, the tranquility and disappearance of time are reinforced by the slow panoramic views in which reality and its reflection, the past and the present, merge into abstract patterns of light and shadow.
Film by Jon Behrens