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This is the story of Sayed Jaffar, a former hippie motorcycle gang member who played the drums in a heavy metal band. Now he returns to Afghanistan to become a key power broker between the Soviets, the Mujahidin and the Afghan government.
On their way to Seoul to find their mother, Soondol and Soon-i arrive in Seoul after defeating a criminal and a pickpocket who kidnapped Chorong, but the siblings break up. Soon-yi gets amnesia in a car accident while looking for Sundori, and learns pickpocketing under a fire fox. Soon-i inherits the eagle statue left by the old man Hwang, whom he met as a customer at a Chinese restaurant, before he dies, becoming the godfather of the group.
Scenes of a steamy Tennessee Williams style 50's film, Valley of Desire, are found in an old cinema at Nelson Bay. Are the scenes from a forgotten Hollywood masterpiece staring Miss Elizabeth Taylor or scenes from a cheap Australian copy starring Miss Tanya Stark (Tanya Spark)? The Film Historian (Robert Herbert) becomes entwined in a tangled web of memory and fiction as he tries to discover the origins of the celluloid images. A faux documentary, Valley of Desire explores the notion that our memories are as much personal fictions as fact.
Motion studies of humans and animals with an emphasis on single skins and musculature.
Night, crosses, a yellow bus rushes along a deserted highway, the driver is on his last trip, hurrying to his bride. On the way from the sea, a happy couple in love returns. Suddenly, four prisoners appear on their way from the darkness. Rushing past, the driver sees a brutal beating on the side of the road. The screeching of brakes! The doors swing open, the couple is pushed into the bus. The driver is ordered to keep quiet and drive. There are still 10 kilometers to the traffic police post, the guy falls unconscious on the floor, but she still resists...
This is an instructional video for amateur videographers produced by JVC in 1989 and supplied with JVC Videomovie Letter package.
" Advertisement film for video games made by CENTROCOOP. "
The entry for the 1989 New Zealand Rally, round 7 of the World rally series was a little thin with the absence of the major factory teams, Lancia and Toyota. But this did not detract in any way of what turned out to be an action-packed and eventful rally held mostly on spectacular gravel stages. As usual Videovision were there to capture the action set in some of the finest and scenic pictures of the year on the rally calendar. The Sierra Cosworths were making their debut at this venue. Driven by British Open Champion Jimmy McRae and son Colin –the latter proved to be a sensation in his first Group A world championship rally, the 2-wheel drive Cosworths were spectacular especially on the gravel and this was sure to make life exciting for the McRaes. The British were certainly in force with Malcolm Wilson driving a 2WD Vauxhall Astra GTE who gave the British something to cheer about with a superb performance.
A curfew under the threat of the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso triggers a night full of humor and surprises for the protagonist of this story
“Two dense, humming rainbows, their curves disappearing into the still whitish sky between dawn and day. Jets and clouds of vapor and, in height, these two bursts are replicated, twice four bands of neon, blue echoes red, orange, yellow: filters floating colors in the day to come. Water ripples, sand, hills, islands, clouds. Lands of oceans and open skies. Gestures and complaints, hands like voices that call the spirit to travel far. sail. Sea of green and blue twists and the South meets the South while spinning: “che catz' di bellezza, che catz'! Vulcani! Vulcani!” Sandra Reid.
An animated Dreaming story.
A visit to a laboratory conducting medical experiments on rats. Laboratory workers' reflections on the relationship between rats and humans and the impact of stress on the quality of research.
On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the great horned owl. An adaptation of the book of the same title by Jane Yolen; illustrations by John Schoenherr.
Morris (a moose) decides to go to school so he can learn how to count and read. He is a big hit with the children there. His takeaway from his experience there: "He never knew how much he didn't know."
The third film in the Slaughter Day series
"It is only an alternation of energy that operates here" is the visible inscription on a man's grave where another man can be seen lying on his back. The man, professor of Physics, is explaining the theory of relativity "One of the most important concepts used in the description of natural phenomena is that of energy ..." In physics, this is always associated with some process or some type of activity: " it can change shape, but nothing is lost… ". During the explanation, he traces, outside of chronological conventions, in an alternation of situations and thoughts, even paradoxical ones, part of that path lived with his man, abruptly interrupted by death.
“…It is an evocative film that patiently draws the viewer into its world. Both beautifully shot and structured. TESTAMENT takes huge risks and emerges successful on both an emotional and intellectual level. This is what independent filmmaking is all about.” -Program, Bucks County Independent Film Fest Tour
An exploration of non-violence as the means to achieving social reforms, focusing on the downfall of Pinochet in Chile, the Palestinian Intifada, and Cory Aquino's "people power" revolution in the Philippines.
Documentary about antique cars in Cuba and their relation with the Cuban revolution.
A loving couple on an escapade, ending in a hotel room in the underworld. When the floor waiter shows up, the woman feel she has seen him before. And suddenly she discovers who he is.
A minimalist epic – a theme and variations on a single brushstroke, with a great deal more discovered from it than one would have thought possible. Though we never learn the identity of the film's protagonist it develops a definite character and personality – sometimes mercurial, sometimes determined – which makes it as endearing as the human characters in many other films.
Pittsburgh’s churches are full of sacred treasures, unforgettable people, and wonderful ways of preserving important traditions. Holy Pittsburgh! takes you on a tour of some of the city’s most memorable and unusual houses of worship.
We all know this unbearable feeling when our work is treated like dirt by some fool, for remarks of fools are nothing but dirt, but still they make us furious like hell and we are paralyzed by anger which we try to conceal from othersm so this anger goes round and round in our heads: "The Hidden Labyrinth of Horror"
Martin couldn't understand his little brother's many fears until he, himself, was scared off by a large dog.
The provincial Russian town of Nerekhta is celebrating its 775th anniversary. The basis of the holiday is the legend about the local craftsman Krikutny, who was the first in the world in 1731 to fly in a balloon. Was there really the balloonist Krikutny, or was this story invented by the provincial official Sulukadzev? Whom to believe? To the text of the charter for the first ballooning or to historians who refute the reality of this event?
The day before a passionate female teacher moves to another school to be promoted, her student loses his owl. She postpones leaving and tries to get another owl for him. Although she is an experienced teacher now, when she was a new teacher, she made some mistakes, inadvertently hurting her students' feelings.
Private concert performed by Townes van Zandt in Holiday Inn, Houston, TX in 1988
Maria is a young and ambitious photographer. Her editor has sent her on a mission. To photograph premature born children.
A female teacher purchases an old house that turns out to be haunted. An evil psychic, who's conjuring up spirits in an attempt to force the teacher into selling, is responsible.
Up to 30,000 youths are homeless in Australia, resorting to drugs, prostitution and crime to stay alive. This underclass of physically and emotionally abused children are the subject of this documentary. The program looks at massive changes in the home where violence is on the increase and some kids have no option but to find accommodation elsewhere and looks at positive steps to prevent these situations in the future.
Directed by Ram Loevy.
A woman's body communicates with its surroundings; it is a receptor of the macrocosm that bears traces of all other laws, including even the physiology with all its energetic zones. This is the energy that corresponds to spiritual experiences, which also depend on the body technique. The communicability can be understood, among other things, as one of the variations of the functioning of the body within the sequential regime of signs.
Sadie Benning's first film. A version of the teenage diary, Benning places her feelings of confusion and depression alongside grisly tales of tabloid headlines and brutal events in her neighborhood.
1. Deadly Inner Sense 2. Frozen Illusion 3. Breeding Fear 4. Paradise Lost 5. Our Saviour 6. Rotting Misery 7. Internal Torment Live at the Bradford Queens Hall, England, 04. Nov 1989
A study of Veronese’s painting The Feast in the House of Levi (1573), originally conceived as a representation of the Last Supper. By transforming the traditional space and spirit of the subject into a grand Venetian banquet, the painter was accused of heresy by the Inquisition (reconstructed here through a voice-over of his dialogue with the judges). Ordered to correct the work, Veronese changed only its title.
Written, produced, photographed, directed, and manipulated during performance by Rafael Corkidi, the "video theater" Querida Benita (1989) is a spectacle that breaks with the formats of film and video by situating itself in a sui generis setting (the Manuel M. Ponce Hall of the Palace of Fine Arts or a small stage in the basement of the El Juglar bookstore in August-October 1989), but it encounters the limitations of the dramatic current that it, moreover, inaugurates. These are the limitations of Mexican socialist unrealism.
This is the story of two cultures and two technologies. An American navigator is taught the skills of navigation by a traditional Micronesian navigator on Satawal island. The American tries to navigate a boat through dangerous waters, without Western technology, while the traditional navigator watches him. The making of the film brought out interesting conflicts within the Micronesian community and in the interactions with the American navigator.
Secrets, fate, reality, superstition. How will the visitors cope with these things in one cruise hotel?
In the 17th century, in a Cossack village near Chyhyryn on Christmas Eve, Halya, the daughter of centurion Khoma Kychatyi, is looking for a matchmaker from a young Cossack Nazar Stodolya, whom she loves. But her father is ready to give her in marriage to a rich colonel. So, when the colonel's matchmakers come, he tries to deceive his daughter with the help of Stekha, his keywoman, in order to get her consent.
The girl is assisted to her feet and has a bird's head placed on her. The girl is led to another figure who is wearing a horse's head. The bird's head is removed after the horse head and bird size each other up. The girl is the left by herself. She wanders into a fog bank and lands on the ground. She sees an angel. The angel frees her from her mortal bonds.
Documentary on Christian metal band Stryper.
Kalman, released from the colony under an amnesty, turns out to be the only one who comes to the aid of a woman whose child was kidnapped...
Based on drawings by Ildar Urmanche, the cartoon tells the story about actor who gives people experience of grief and happiness.
The story of the restoration in the 1980's of the wall paintings in the tomb of Queen Nefertari, wife of Pharaoh Ramesses II.