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In this film, the idea of defending the country with weapons and the army, and not establishing peace in the world, but understanding each other through music, was sought to be brought out in the minds of five to six-year-old children. The boy saw a military parade and held a variety of music instead of the guns held by the soldiers. It tells about dreaming while marching.
A foray through the Sorbian customs of central Lusatia, made in the GDR. This classic work of documentary filmmaking covers the course of a year, in the process elaborating on village architecture, furniture, costumes, handicrafts, legends and oral traditions, as well as significant customs such as Zapust and the gift giving child.
The camera scans the typography of a book while the voice launches into a first attempt at reading: "Chapter one... The Passage..."; The camera freezes on the word Polynesia. In an abandoned waiting room, an ageless man keeps coughing. He is waiting. The voice resumes its attempt to read, but is interrupted by that of the witness (the writer Charles Juliet), who recounts his meetings with Jean Reverzy. The coughing man ventures into the apartment; Polynesia emerges from a television. At the origin of this series of essays, there is the desire to invite European writers of the 20th century to be read today. What they have in common is having lived and written in a Europe shaken by crises, wars and revolutions. Their works and their lives bear witness to this. Each film has the character of a very personal preface and expresses the pleasure of discovering a work.
A vision of Eve in a greenhouse paradise. Discontented, she takes a bus to the city while Adam is in the fields. There, she assumes the position of barmaid and occasional stripper in a sleazy nightclub that is the prime target of an apocalyptic fire. This is a reaction against the concept of the fall of humankind as presented in the holy Bible, which in most Christian circles places the blame completely on Eve herself. The absurdity of this idea and the film itself should be recognized.
"We have a date. You give me money and in return you get sex. Sex the way you want it. All kinds. Everything your wife would never do. But no love ..." - The story of a woman who is confronted one evening with the shocking result of her secret double existence.
The 1989 Lombard RAC Rally may have been without the works Lancia team and World Champion Miki Biasion, but it still boasted an incredibly strong field. For five days rallying legends including Juha Kankkunen, Kenneth Eriksson, Timo Salonen, Ari Vatanen and Hannu Mikkola battled beside British heroes like Jimmy McRae, David Llewellin, Malcolm Wilson and a certain Colin McRae.
Since the seventeenth century, Taiwan’s indigenous peoples have endured waves of colonisation until they were finally left with almost no land of their own. The 1984 formation of the Association for Taiwanese Indigenous Rights launched the struggle to regain their rights and initiated the ‘Return Our Land’ movement. This film documents the march on 27 September 1989.
Flamboyant comic Julian Clary presents his brand of chiffon laced humour to an appreciative audience at the Hackney Empire in 1989.
Short documentary
World In Action follows three reporters, Ian Breach, Mike Walsh and Penny Junor as they travel into the centre of London by car, tube and train respectively.
Documentary about the German theologian Friedrich von Bodelschwingh
'Traumlos?' sheds light on future plans of three teenagers and young adults in a Brandenburg village. Realized shortly before the fall of the Wall, the film also captures the fears and hopes of young people in the last year of the GDR
35mm 1.33 color silent
Singing at La Scala, the world's most famous opera house and the Mecca for opera lovers, must be every singer's ultimate dream. As the tenor Kristján Jóhannsson sings his first major part on the famous stage, we learn about the man and his career.
The Swordman The Golden Child
Some people say that "movies are made by connecting still pictures”, but that is not true. A frame of the film is not a photograph, but “something that failed to exercise”.
A woman wakes up and starts her day among a colorful world which blends live action, pixilation, stop motion, cut-outs and animated paint.
The viewer has the impression of walking through the streets of Paris during the French Revolution. We discover certain parts of scenes and incidents, which we wouldn't find out until later were going to change the course of our history.
A friend of her father's sexually molests baby Jeeta's mother. Her father finds out, takes his gun to kill the molester, but ends up killing someone else. On the run, he abandons his daughter, is subsequently arrested and sentenced to prison for 35 years. Jeeta grows up with her foster parents and gets married to Mahendar, whose widowed aunt refuses to accept her. She gives birth to a son, Teji. More problems will surface for Jeeta at the hands of Mahender's aunt.
This video in English tells of Ukraine Christianity since 988 and plight and persecution of martyr Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in soviet era by Russia and visions of hope of Mary in Seredne, Hrushiw, Mother of Jesus, especially post-WWII. Dissident Josyp Terelya provides testimony, insight.
The work of throwing the vector of one's own emotions into the heart of another person, and the work of "surveying" a disorderly land, maybe infinitely similar. Yamanaka, an aspiring novelist, moves into the lodgings of his friend Nagai. Nagai's younger sister, Yae, also comes to Tokyo, and the three of them have three different vectors to throw. However, through the making of Yae's video, they gradually come to understand each other's feelings. The director's skill is excellent, making the most of the characters by placing them in the right places. Through trivial everyday events, the film portrays three people who have been unable to communicate with each other coming to terms.
Can you fall in love and still have a sense of humor? This delightful, stylish comedy, in which boy meets boy and girl meets girl, uses the romantic music and visuals of Hollywood film noir to explore the ideal of love at first sight.
Filmed at a time of disillusionment for the British Left - the reverberations of the fall of Communism were causing demoralisation and destabilising old certainties, while change was also afoot in the Labour Party - Utopias questions what was meant by 'socialism' when people were supposedly saying farewell to the term. But rather than seeking to define socialism, director Marc Karlin instead created a series of portraits of people whose lives had intersected with the concept in practical (rather than abstract) terms - it is part of how they define themselves - and asked what 'socialism' meant to them and whether they believed it to be on its way out.
“About ten years ago I produced and hosted a program on Vancouver Co-operative Radio called Soundwalking, in which I took the listener to different locations in and around the city and explored them acoustically. Kits Beach Soundwalk is a compositional extension of this original idea. The recording on which this piece is based was made on a calm winter morning, when the quiet lapping of the water and the tiny sounds of barnacles feeding were audible before an acoustic backdrop of the throbbing city. We explore the world of high frequencies, inner space and dreams.”
Nice but ugly girl, Pepay wished for nothing but the affections of Manolet. Receiving nothing but mockery from other people that their relationship can never be, Pumomo gives Pepay a magical fan that will turn her into a beautiful young woman.
GRADIVA was shot over a period of five summers and weaves a complex set of themes. Based loosely on the Wilhelm Jensen story, "Gradiva," used by Freud in Delusion and Dream to describe the relation of delusion to dream and both to fetishes, GRADIVA is a portrait of a thirteen-to-seventeen-year-old adolescent girl. The word gradiva is Latin, and roughly translates as "one who walks forward most lightly." The film uses several themes, among them, the role of dolls and fetishized objects (especially rocks, bones, sticks, flowers and other natural forms).
We swoop through action-filled rooms. Again and again, we fly past people and events without ever recognizing what is really going on. This film is a three-minute version of an endless-loop video originally designed as a project for exhibitions. It was shown at the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, the Künstlerhaus in Stuttgart and the Goethe Institut in Paris.
In the calm light of a studio, a man relaxes, a woman draws. They are two strangers for whom the process of creation awakens intimacy that touches their very being. For the artist it is the need to go beyond appearances; for the model it is the refusal to look at the self. From scene to scene the film progresses, transforms, reconstructs the human interior landscape. A dramatic confrontation ensues.
In this film, Marrakech is filled with music, from women singing, dancing and drumming in their homes, to shopkeepers in the old market of Jamaa El-Fna, leaving their shops to follow groups of musicians through the allies of the old city.
A short film about the actress Black-Eyed Susan
Mexican feature film
Sudan Rolls originally were filmed as part of an ethnographic project. Only later did he realize that the complexity inherent in these simple shots was an area he wished to purposefully explore.
Hijokaidan 1989 live performance
Witness explosive mountain bike action, and meet many of the thrill-seekers who participate in this sport. Features Cindy Whitehead, John Tomac, Tinker Juarez, Ned Overend, Sara Ballantyne and Hansjorg Rey.
Walking a thematic tightrope, Norbert Meissner here puts media technology to the test. The universal event of pentecost is the moment of the highest realization: technologically, the moment of all possibilities, i.e. white noise and snow. The text spoken by a TV announcer tries to create a hierarchy, but it is constantly disturbed, subverted, and displaced by electronic image distortions and fade-ins and fade-outs of multilingual versions of the text and of signal terms in various alphabets. A work to be read with differentiation on truth, sublimity, and the media.
Edith Clever recites the complete text of The Marquise of O. by Heinrich von Kleist.
Encounter Belfast's very own manic street preachers in this powerful documentary.
Pipeline workers at the end of 1989. Daily life seems as ever to be determined by the rhythm of work, and the time spent in the workers' cabins. The camera films the excited, partly comical (though not to be taken any less seriously), debates on the changes happening in the country, and in this way tries to show more about the political events and the opinions of these workers, than usual documentary techniques can achieve.
Admittedly, a cinema seat is more uncomfortable than a bar stool. In a row of cinema seats, a viewer sits with their back to the camera and waits for the film to start. They turn around, see the viewer, and start telling a story...
As a young soldier Franta experiences a war that destroys all hopes and life - before he has really had any chance to live.
Film version of Arnold Schoenberg's one act monodrama.
A Japanese 8mm slasher film.
Dong-Seok tries to live a new life giving up violence, but the detectives doubt him because he is an ex-convict. His son Young-Cheol ignores the dream of father and quits boxing because he discredits in him. Young-Cheol begins to box again, after he realizes that he has a limited life. Dong-Seok is involved in the vicious gangster again on the match day of Young-Cheol in order to make money for a gymnasium. While Young-Cheol wins the match, Dong-Seok is killed by the gangster, after that he buried the gold bar.
Na Du-Su stays two years in the third class in high school because of a car accident. Mi-Ra becomes a college student and meets Won-Seok. Du-Su often meets Lee Sang-Eun and receives the spirit of music from her. However, Du-Su chases after Mi-Ra continuously, and Won-Seok is getting close to Mi-Ra. Du-Su composes a song, which describes the pain of love. Lee Sang-Eun sings Tamdadi that is composed by Du-Su and becomes a famous singer with this song. Du-Su studies hard and passes the entrance examination. After that, it turns out that the relationship of Mi-Ra and Won-Seok is invented by Kyu-Shik in order to stimulate him to study hard. Owing to his help, Du-Su succeeds in passing the entrance examination and gaining the love. On the other hand, Lee Sang-Eun is looking for another man...
Produced at International Video Colony Ohrid, Macedonia 1989. Screened in retrospective at Alternative Film/Video Belgrade Festival 2014.
Short film in which Sid Laverents chronicles his life story. Part 3 of 3.
A documentary film dedicated to the tragedy of the Armenian people as a result of the earthquake of 1989.
Let us travel back to the 15th century and imagine the interior of the workshop of the painter Jan van Eyck: a porter delivers a wooden panel, one assistant grinds pigments, another mixes them with linseed oil, and a third arranges them on palettes. It is in this environment that Jan van Eyck was able to paint The Virgin and Child with Chancellor Rolin, a small-scale work depicting the Virgin Mary seated on a blue cushion embroidered with gold, holding the Christ Child on her lap, facing a man in his sixties who clasps his hands in prayer.
