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Introduced by Joseph Matheny, Robert Anton Wilson introduces this lecture as a discussion of "The Western Hermetic Tradition" from Bob's unique point of view. Its sweeping scope covers centuries of individuals and groups like the Illuminati.
Based on the play by Volodymyr Vynnychenko. A married couple, Korney (Polar Bear), an artist, and his wife, Rita (Black Panther), live in Paris. Korniy's job is to paint for a salon. Their son Lesik is seriously ill. Rita persuades her husband to sell one of his paintings in order to use the money to treat her son. Kornii strongly disagrees. He forces his wife and sick son to pose for a new painting...
A news documentary about the "population growth" programme of former Rumanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, and the horrific consequences that followed.
The camera moves through a Minnesota corn field and finds a photograph of a suburban tract clothes-pinned to a cornstalk. Layered with visual and emotional paradoxes, Turn Here Sweet Corn searches for meaning beyond cliches and nostalgia, as a family farm is lost to speculative suburban real estate developers.
Sixteen Candles is a recording of a constructed candle chandelier which is suspended by a cord, wound up and allowed to wind down for recording in continuous edited time. The sixteen birthday candles while burning down and finally going out, create a moody atmospheric video having the capacity to colour a space.
Phil Herman’s previously unreleased 1989 SOV action feature debut!
Border Brujo is a ritual-linguistic journey across the U.S./Mexico border written and performed by artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña. In the guise of a cross-cultural shaman, Gómez Peña shifts into 15 different personas, each speaking a different language. The personas are symbolic of the borders between North and South, Anglo and Latino; myth and reality; legality and illegality; art and life. Border Brujo assaults and exorcises the demons of dominant cultures. He articulates fear, desire, trauma sublimation, anger and misplacement embodying ruptured and defiant communities with multilingual dexterity and humor.
Marcel Łoziński tells the story of the crime committed by the NKVD in Katyn in 1940. He interweaves accounts of witnesses and survivors with images from the pilgrimage of members of Katyn Families to the place of murder, death and nameless burial of their loved ones.
The Feeling of Power documents a 1989 ACT-UP protest at Trump Tower, offering a self-reflexive manifesto of video activism that brings the ‘70s "guerrilla television" movement into the age of the camcorder.
A film by Edgardo Cozarinsky.
Paying homage to her experimental contemporary Jack Smith, Vivienne Dick juxtaposes two quite different London landscapes.
Pittsburgh is often called The City of Bridges, and it's easy to see why. With three mighty rivers and lots of hills and valleys, the area around this city is the site for many outstanding bridges with innovative and beautiful designs. It's one-of-a-kind documentary about people and structures that have helped make Pittsburgh such an unforgettable place.
A film about conscription in the Soviet army. Mothers in Russia, Ukraine, and Latvia recount the tragic fate of their sons. The film has won awards at international film festivals in Lübeck (Germany), Yekaterinburg (Russia), and Kogoshima (Japan), and has been included in the official programs of film festivals in Cannes (France), Dortmund and Oberhausen (Germany), and elsewhere.
The film follows the journeys of Asian and Pacific Islander lesbian athletes and performers in the 1990 Gay Games III held in Vancouver, BC. The featured athletes include: Ana Chang, Abi Jeung, Corinne Lee, Cynthia Low, Canyon Sam, Granate Sosnoff, Jill Togawa, Kitty Tsui, and Marlene Wong.
One long take, the whole length of the reel, an Armenian girl plays the piano and sings Armenian folk songs. Her family watch and listen to her play...
Like many young women in Lima in the early 1990s, she was from a working-class Andean background, did not know her father, and did not know what to do after finishing school, so she decided to become a chorus girl at the Café-Teatro in Miraflores. Like many of her colleagues, she had dreams, nightmares, and a great sense of loneliness.
An adaptation of the Hans Christian Anderson fairytale
A group of children enters the missionary jungle looking for a treasure buried by the Jesuits.
Ben & Eddie: Nightmare - Facing Fear (1990)
This film delivers the remarkable and engaging profile of the 1959 Le Mans winner who became famous for the AC Cobra and his involvement with the Ford GT40 development programme. It traces Carroll Shelby’s career from driver to creator, featuring views from the influential men that worked and raced alongside him. The story is relayed by Shelby himself along with Phil Hill, Roy Salvadori, Dan Gurney, Bob Bondurant and others, whilst excellent archive footage, ranging from Nassau 1955 to Le Mans 1969, brings to life a fascinating chapter in motor racing history.
London’s cultural diversity unfolds as Vivienne Dick portrays her friends, their lifestyles, what they talk about and how they talk. In this kaleidoscopic arrangement of encounters and re-enactments, equal weight is given to the passionate and the banal. The camera’s sudden hops from one reality to another and the disjointed conversations are drawn together by the musical score and the film’s internal rhythm.
A compilation of comedy/horror short films from Brazilian avant-garde Super 8 filmmaker Ivan Cardoso
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This animated cartoon has as a central figure a little man who lives in a flat in a large city and is subjected to overcrowding, noise, lack of light and air, water pollution, and other health hazards of city life.
One And The Other Time is an erotically charged experimental film exploring the dynamics between intimacy and violence. Grainy blue tinted images of a swaying branch of silver balls rhythmically knocking each other, mesmerise and evoke a sense of our own physical desire and fear. A hypnotic voice-over of a woman's account of a violent moment with her lover conveys a sense of the continual but unattainable desire to reconcile fantasy with external reality.
Plant workplace hazards become an athletic competition.
Music composition by Harrison Birtwistle, 1971 tape realized by Peter Zinovieff. Nervous Magic Lantern performance by Ken jacobs, 1990.
Phil Zwickler interviews David Wojnarowicz about a NEA project grant for a gallery show.
Who loves the sun? Found Footage of a "Neckermann East Africa" film.
Film by Michael Verhoeven.
The boisterous singing and wild camera movements bring to mind Native Americans roaming through the city. Their hunting grounds include the old KoKi (municipal cinema), various dwellings, and the wide prairie of Frankfurt.
Kipnis describes this tape as "an appropriation of the aesthetics of both late capitalism and early Soviet cinema—MTV meets Eisenstein—reconstructing Karl Marx for the video age.” She presents a postmodern lecture delivered by a chorus of drag queens on the unexpected corelations between Marx’s theories and the carbuncles that plagued the body of the rotund thinker for over thirty years. Marx’s erupting, diseased body is juxtaposed with the “body politic", and posited as a symbol of contemporary society proceeding the failed revolutions of the late 1960s. Seeking a parallel between the body of the state and women’s bodies, Kipnis brings to light the manner in which women’s bodies have been used as the site of displacement for social and political anxiety, with the state of the nation currently reflected in a female body plagued by anorexia and bulimia, traversed by pornography, manners, and regulations on abortion. From Video Data Bank.
A man waits at the side of the motorway with a tow rope, waiting for a car to tow him. Many, many cars go by without stopping until the driver of a small dilapidated car takes pity on him. The rope is attached. The other end of the rope leads to a pot-hole in the road. Lurking insides the pot-hole is a surprise.
This special program gives viewers a revealing look at Sellar's controversial productions of Mozart's Don Giovanni, Marriage of Figaro and Cosi Fan Tutte.
A rap teaching kids how to use a waste basket.
Thomas is turning 30 and has invited his friends over. Thomas and Daniel are also members of a gay theater group. Thomas is also full of naive anticipation for his husband, Freddie. Over coffee, the men take great delight in gossiping about their lovers... and it turns out that not everyone at the table is faithful.
The film investigates the mysterious circumstances surrounding the disappearance and death of Raoul Wallenberg in the Soviet Union following the end of WWII. Wallenberg had saved tens of thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in his role as Sweden’s special envoy in Budapest. Tireless filmmaker Rodnyanskiy searched across the globe for traces of Wallenberg, from Moscow and St. Petersburg, to the Russian interior, to Hungary, Israel, and Sweden. Featuring interviews from subjects as far-ranging as Ronald Reagan, Simon Wiesenthal, and Yelena Bonner, the film passionately confronts the shadowy circumstances of Wallenberg’s fate.
Merida Proscrita is a sad, sepia-toned love story set in Mexico, with a distinctive scratchy, operatic style. It is a moving account of two lovers and the relationship difficulties caused by machismo and fixed roles.
Stick-figure animation makes for a witty genre send-up of the Western.
All tracks composed and performed by GREATER THAN ONE Original story, visual works, and direction by TAKAYUKI TERAKADO Visual supervised by KUNISAKU MATSUDA Cover designed by HIROMICHI OOHASHI 1. Hair/Spirits 2. Pathway/Entrance 3. Spin/Fall 4. August/Bondage 5. Memories/Scissors
Documentary on Roma iving in Spain.
"As passing through/torn formations concerns his mother's family heritage, Kitchener-Berlin revolves around his father's family hometown. The slash and the hyphen in the titles suggest both severance from the past and connections to it, an ambivalence that is especially poignant for the descendants of the area's German settlers. The history of the area underpins the film, but refuses to bind it or restrict it from free association. Hoffman assembles a wide range of visual materials, including home movies, television news footage, and archival film, as well as his own characteristically enticing images, to build complex layers of superimpositions analogous to the impressions of memory." (Blaine Allen)
1. Intro/Shadow Of A Lost Dream 2. Die By My Hand 3. No Need To Be Human 4. Read My Scars 5. Voyage To Eternity 6. Absorbed 7. Masked Jackal 8. D.O.A. 9. Sudden Fall 10. Reborn Through Hate 11. Last Entertainment (Taped)
Three figures - man, woman, child - roam the grounds of a State Mental Hospital, a kind of hell on earth, looking for each other or for a supreme witness to their loneliness. A visual poem with voices off.
In this evocative work, we hear and see the interactions of a man and a woman in a pristine forest. We gain a sense of intimacy with them and nature. Suddenly we leave the worries of our scattered lives and begin to remember the primal elements of existence: earth, wind, fire, water, people, and creation. This epiphanic process demands patience and an almost meditative state, but it is so worth the effort – just as a journey a mountain meadow requires some effort in order to find its treasures. We leave the traditions of narrative for a more open approach to cinema. There are suggestions and onsets of a storyline, but almost everything remains a mystery for our encountering. This is a film that will allow you to observe and exist, without anxiety, without demands, and it allows you a rare glimpse into the life of things.
A cartoon based on the fairy tale by S. Voronin. About the love of a luminary to a watch-ballerina, who stood on one table. The ballerina was as beautiful as a butterfly and as light as a breeze, that's how the young luminary thought about her and often told her about his love. But the flirtatious ballerina only laughed and said that she could not love him because he had no heart. And one day the ballerina became ill and dying she told the luminary that she loved him too. The master came, wound the clock, the ballerina revived and was the same old gaggle, thinking only of herself. What does she care about a poor young man in love? The main thing is that she lives and enjoys life…
For the first time the event moves north, to the immense Talga forest of Siberia. The yellow Land Rover Discoverys have to battle their way through the final wilderness in the northern hemisphere. One day choking in dust, the next windscreen-deep in either mud or freezing water, men and machines have to get through to Lake Bikal, the largest freshwater lake in the world. On the way the constant struggle draws the competitors together in a spirit of shared hardship and adventure, but Special Tasks on the way keep up the pressure to find the winning team. The first international motor sport event ever held in the Soviet Union - competitors from 16 countries - 1000 miles of perestroika: The Camel Trophy.
Ddoli studies hard to research the martial arts and learning like his grandfather. On the other hand, Samtos, the subordinate of Titos, comes to the earth on a mission of reconnaissance in order to conquer the earth. He meets Ddoli who practices the martial arts by chance. Ddoli has the superpower with the help of Samtos, and Samtos turns out the foolish Samdoli. After that, they come to Seoul. Ddoli has a pleasant time in school. Ddoli arrests the pickpockets using his superpower. Samdoli is impressed by the warm and beautiful mind of the children on the earth and leaves the earth in order to hinder Titos.
Veerendra Pratap Rai is a wealthy businessman who lives in a palatial house with his son, Vikram, and daughter, Seema. Vikram is an alcoholic and womanizer, while Seema is the opposite, and is qualified to practice medicine in India. She meets with fellow doctor, Anand, who comes from a poor background, and both are attracted to each other, and fall in love. They decide to get married, but Seema's brother will not hear of his sister getting married to a poor man, but would prefer that she marry Dr. Anil Verma, who is equally wealthy. But Seema is adamant, and will only marry Anand. Then tragedy strikes when a patient, who was being treated by Anand dies, and the cause of death was that the patient was induced with a spurious drug. Anand faces a public inquiry, and with the evidence stacked against him, he may lose his job, and never be able to marry Seema.