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On a midsummer afternoon Terence McKenna contemplated the ecological complexity of rainforests, the intelligence of ant colonies, and the proposition of modeling a forest anthill in VR.
Documentary about London's bed and breakfast trade.
The bags are packed and the transport is waiting in the courtyard, because Edit Falk is to be moved today. Ösbyholm is to be closed down, her home for 27 years where she thrived so well, cozy, beautiful, no locked doors. Her next address will be a locked ward at Beckomberga. All the other old mentally ill women have already been moved there. Now only Edit remains. The Ösbyholm case is closed. The decision has been made. By talented people who really only want to do well.
The theme of the film is the political responsibility of the CPSU to the people. Along with newsreel footage and fragments of feature films, a brief fragment of the speech of Yu. Boldyrev, member of the Committee of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, at the XXVIII Congress of the CPSU, as well as speeches in different years by N. Khrushchev, M. Suslov, D. Likhachev, which touch on aspects of this complex problem, is given.
The first part of a triptych devoted to the ecological and social disasters caused by government decisions to massively develop the tourism industry.
The film is based on the play "The Gospel According to Oxyrhincus" by Danish avant-garde theatre group Odin Teatret, performed from 1985 to 1987. "The Gospel According to Oxyrhincus" is the portrayal of the revolts buried alive, matching the story of Antigone and her brother Polynices, with the character of Zusha Mal'ak - a Jew who is searching for the Messiah and comes upon a society which has already found its Messiah - and the utopian revolutions which ended in blood. The performance is in Coptic and Old Greek, two dead languages that nobody understands any longer.
A portrait of the Cologne avant-garde composer and musician Holger Czukay, who called himself a “private symphonist”. In 1968, Czukay, a music college graduate and Stockhausen student, founded the band Can together with his fellow student Irmin Schmidt. In the following years, Can became one of the most innovative music groups of the time. In their music, which was mainly based on improvisation, parts influenced by free jazz mixed with rock passages, repetitive met catchy melodies and dissolved compositional influences from new music with the classical rock schemes. At the same time, Can's music was always groove-based and danceable despite all the complexity.
The Kahuripan Kingdom is facing a crisis due to the loss of a sacred heirloom and the threat of attacks from one of its regencies. This situation provides background for the story of Pujo (Dede Yusuf) and his wife, Kartikasari (Fitria Anwar), who are shown at the beginning of the film in a mysterious invisible cave where they discover the secret of the green pearl amulet. Their enemies are Wisangjiwo (Baron Hermanto), who has long been attracted to Kartikasari, whom he eventually rapes while she is meditating in the nude, and Joko Wanengpati (Gito Gilas). This story primarily features fight scenes among the main characters.
The film portrays women who were interned for long periods of time in the 1950s without trial. They were humiliated, separated from their families, their lives torn apart. Their crime was that they were wives, mothers, family members. Nearly 40 years later, the film confronts the former internees with their former prison governor, Piroska. Some of the women have traveled home from abroad to meet their former inmates and confront their former jailer.
A card game continues until the bitter end.
This fun, festive Christmas edition of Treasure Attic is full of excitement, songs and surprises to thrill young hearts as they discover the miracle and meaning of Christmas.
Lisl Pongers peaceful, hovering travel and daily life pictures, assembled associatively instead of narratively, develop here into a reflexion on photography itself, to an examination of unknown alphabets: Geometric forms develop out of the world's chaos.(Alexander Horwath)
Pilař returned to his original abstract film experiments in the mid-1980s when he could afford to buy his own Betamax video camera. During this period, a series of screeners were created that served as the basis for his later video experiments. Among other things, the painted animations were used to create the music video Pink Floyd (1984) and its later version reworked using the mosaic effect, Colours 1965 (1991).
In the east of Uruguay there is a little-known region of vast wetlands in a beautiful natural setting which is a sanctuary for thousands of species of flora and fauna. Although it is officially protected, it is under threat from rice producers who are draining parts of the area.
In England in the 1960s, a gay man's clandestine birthday party deteriorates when he shows up with his much younger boyfriend.
Hairdressers in Cali discuss life, work, dreams, beauty, fashion, and homosexuality. The filmmaker is having a haircut too. Second installment of the crafts trilogy.
In English Canada, Madame Bolduc is virtually unknown, but her folk singing put a kick in the step of French Canadians throughout Quebec and parts of New England in the 1930s. Among her most popular songs was La Bastringue, illustrated in this lively animated film.
Sequence of images created using a photocopier.
Abstract sequences alternate between shadowy landscapes and nocturnal visuals, evoking unsettling atmospheres rather than a traditional narrative.
Scenes shot at two national gay marches on Washington, DC are juxtaposed to reveal some of the devastating changes in the gay movement from 1979 to 1987, as hope is replaced by frustration and mourning. In Hubbard's roving footage we follow the shifts in spirit, age and racial composition of the demonstrators and witness the growing organization of the protest spectacle, as ragtag bunches of rebellious marchers give way to marching bands and the unfurling of the Names Project AIDS Quilt.
Documentary about empty space in Berlin
In 1981, Susan Meiselas published "Nicaragua, June 1978 to July 1979," 70 photographs she took documenting the Sandanista revolution. Ten years later, Meiselas returns looking for the people who appear in the photographs: where are they now, what do they remember, what do they think of their country and of the revolution? She finds a woman who buried her husband when she was 14; she talks to those who fought the Guarda Nacional - some are disillusioned, some still have the fervor of revolution; she talks to mothers about their sons; she finds a Guarda member who became a Contra. And she offers her own reflections on time and history and on the moment and meaning of a photograph.
When Sam notices a number inside a matchbook he calls it and what ensues is a night of wild sex. Next day when trying the number again he realizes that he misdialed the night before and now wants to relocate his mystery man. This is a photo-romance featuring a number of events which may be made illegal in Britain by Clause 25 of the Criminal Justice Bill.
A film about civil defense to protect the population in extreme and emergency man-made and natural situations. Footage from a newsreel was used, showing the training of employees of civil defense enterprises in wartime conditions, the elimination of the consequences of radioactive contamination after the accident at the Chornobyl NPP. Interviews are given by the Deputy Chief of Civil Defense of the USSR, Lieutenant-General M.M. Dolgin, and Lieutenant-General M.S. Bondarchuk.
Part of the series of films produced with cooperation of Japan's Central Council for Financial Services Information and Bank of Japan Public Relations Department, this educational video teaches kids about the value of money and the consequences of overconsumption.
Dacait Jagira (Amrish Puri) has terrorized the entire country-side with his raids and cruelty. On one such encounter he kills Gopal's mother, leaving him an orphan. Durga (Rohini Hattangadi) takes care of Gopal and raises him as her own son, Birju. Years pass by, Gopal (Raj Babbar) and Birju (Vinod Khanna) have grown up. While another band of dacaits is raiding their village, the leader Sohn Kanwar (Sahila Chaddha) is about to kill Birju, when she is told that his mother is Durga, and she spares him, due to Durga being the wife of Dara (Dara Singh), another dacait. This revelation unleases a tide of hate against Birju and Durga, and they are forced to leave the village. To make matters worse, Gopal disowns any relationship he has had with both of them, and wants to marry Madhu (Amrita Singh), who loves Birju.
An era comes to an end. It seems to be time to render accounts. Preparations for the afterlife need to be made. In the form of a confession. Erich Honecker appears before the Holy Father. With a request for absolution. But the Pope has something to confess, too.
A drag queen shares a secret recipe.
Identities attempts to describe the importance of silence in communication, of those moments when someone is making up or remembering what he is going to say. A silence that compels us to question the maxim "silence is death".
Level 42 play live on their Guaranteed tour in 1991
A "wind-up chick" sees himself as "a hungry little boy with a runny nose".
Takashi is a man of extraordinary sexual prowess who cannot be satisfied without having sex with his wife Akiko before going to work. He also has a relationship with his sister-in-law, college student Yoshiko, who comes to visit while his wife is away. His next target is Etsuko, a young wife who lives next door and whose husband works at the same company as Takashi.
Hole's performance at The Lemon Grove on 11 December 1991. The first show where Courtney teased Surrender by Cheap Trick. It recurred throughout the rest of 1991.
A Grasshopper who gets into a lot of X rated scenarios.
About the final military operation in Afghanistan. Reconnaissance company commander Grachev and his soldiers struggle to make sense of this strange and terrifying war...
Douglas’s Monodramas, ten 30- to 60-second videos conceived as interventions into commercial television, interrupted the usual flow of advertising and entertainment when broadcast nightly in British Columbia for three weeks in 1992. These micronarratives mimic television’s editing techniques, but as kernels of a story they refuse to cohere. They are tales of dysfunction and dislocation, misanthropy and misunderstanding: a car and a school bus nearly collide at an intersection, only to drive away; a pedestrian greets an Afro-Canadian man he encounters on the street but is told in response, “I’m not Gary.” When the videos were aired unannounced during commercial breaks, viewers called the station to inquire about what was being sold, their responses evincing how the media can refocus attention from content to consumption.
Witness the most exciting hound and boar action ever filmed.
Made shortly before Robert Motherwell’s death in 1991, is an exploration of the Abstract Expressionist movement and a portrait of one of its last survivors. Having come to New York in the early 1940s, Motherwell found himself on the battleground of American art. He and a group of painters set out to change the face of American painting. The film charts this epic battle led by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, and Robert Motherwell, who endeavored to make American painting equal to painting elsewhere and, in the process, shifted the center of modern art from Paris to New York.
An arrogant and entitled coward stumbles upon a magical sword and by an unbelievable prevalence of dumb luck in his life gets renowned as a hero.
Xiao Gao is a poor businessman and owes a huge debt. A fierce battle driven by greed and lust is about to unfold...
Half a ton of explosives demolishes in front of thirty thousand people the building complex that served as a shelter in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of La Paternal. On March 16, 1991 Narcisa Hirsch records it in a unique way: that giant becomes a cloud of dust that, as a natural phenomenon, covers the town with all its remains.
Come with us to sunny Spain, land of bullfights, flamenco, and 2,000 years of history. Begin in Madrid's Royal Palace and see the paintings of Velázquez and El Greco, then go on to the Prado for Goya. Stroll through the oldest part of the city, to the Plaza Mayor and the restaurant Botin, where Hemingway dined. Take an excursion to Ávila, the walled 11th century home of Saint Teresa. Continue on to the Alcazar at Segovia; Toledo and the famed cathedral; Córdoba and its gypsy caves. Savor the exotic flavor of Granada, center of Moorish Spain, and pause in the Alhambra, where nightingales sing in the gardens. Soak up sun along the Costa del Sol and then complete your tour in Barcelona, Spain's second city.
Michael W. Johnson’s 1991 SOV zombie themed short film.
A Bollywood remake of 'Splash' (1984). Shankar falls in love with Minakshi, unaware that she is a mermaid. Dr. Jacob discovers this and tries every possible way to expose her, not knowing that she will encounter danger.
Macedonian TV drama.
Gjertrud has an affair with an engaged priest's son.
Canadian peacekeepers are stationed in Cyprus to help diffuse tension between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
For five minutes we watch three metaphoric shots. In the central one, we see a naked young man, a "tableau vivant" of the ancient Greek statue Antinoos. The film is an allegory about youth, beauty and civilization.
MUTE is an irresolute web of shifting power positions. It is a malevolent bed-time story whose focal character, while deviating herself from the grip of the narration, firmly maintains her ambivalence towards her state of menace. Included is subtitled information, which is the running contrapuntal perspective of the "other," the mute. This commentary blossoms out in the long silent sections, from a discussion of her own involuntary objectification to her problematic "fascination" with a foreign culture. "MUTE, Greta's masterpiece, uses layers of allegory and true-life crime story to reveal the miscommunication at the heart of patriarchal eroticism." - Ann Powers, SF Weekly
Vinh is born to a US serviceman and a Vietnamese mother. At the end of the Vietnam war, there were as many as 100,000 children like Vinh in Vietnam. Later, the US allowed a few to migrate to their father's country. "The Story of Vinh" begins his dazed arrival at JFK and follows his struggle with the foster care system and into adulthood.