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Take a lesson from hilarious "professor" Bernard Fernandes, as he teaches his audience to speak Trinidadian style English. Using typically Trinidadian humour, this work turns a few stereotypes upside down and questions what is "correct".
Documentary about a meeting of motorcyclists in the south of Buenos Aires.
More of the same.
A portrait of the Finnish filmmaker Rauni Mollberg who made a notable splash on the international festival circuit in 1974 with his feature debut, “The Earth Is A Sinful Song”, based on a novel by Timo K. Mukka, one of Finland’s most controversial young writers.
This film uses a 'scene' between a woman and a trans man to mobilise Gilles Deleuzes's work on masochism as explored in his book 'Coldness and Cruelty'. Critical of all manifestations of fascism, the film's visuals and sound set up a tension between two libidinal economies - that of fascism (the super father) where the father is everything, and the world of the masochist, where the mother is everything and the father is nothing.
Shot in Hi8 video using a high-speed shutter and a spinning turret camera mount, "Machine in the Garden" is inspired by, and an homage to, apparatus-oriented work such as D. Vertov's "Man With a Movie Camera" and Michael Snow's "La Region Centrale."
Kitsch alert! Worshippers at the shrine of Elvis and followers of pop culture take note. Ten Thousand Points of Light is a wry, understated and terrifically funny look at the Townsends, a suburban Atlanta family, who every holiday season for eight years, transformed their Stone Mountain area brick ranch house into a meteoric blaze of Christmas lights. Known as both “the Christmas House” and the “the Elvis House”, the Townsend’s home was visited yearly by vast numbers of people, many of whom viewed a trip to the land of a thousand tchotchkes as an annual pilgrimage.
After studying literature Denis Gheerbrant joined the famous film school IDHEC (now FEMIS) in 1969. When he left the school he had obtained two degrees, one in direction and the other in cinematography. From 1972 on he has had several activities in the movie field: assistant camera operator, cinematographer,and mostly director of (excellent) documentaries. Gheerbrant is also an independent photographer.
Documentary film.
Movie about an endless search for an unattainable idyll, lost harmony between man and nature. The director concentrates on the inner world of his characters and the mood of nature.
Bare uses the documentary form to explore an unconventional subject matter-women who shave their heads. Three women talk about various personal experiences, touching on issues of identity and retaliation over the stereotyping of women of color, and how they use shaving as a personal, political action to achieve empowerment.
The first short film by Chris Landreth
No less than five branches are featured, in fact all the passenger lines and one freight. The scenery of the Looe branch with the interesting reversal and climb fromCoombe Junction, the freight-only branch to Fowey, running alongside the picturesque river, the meandering Newquay branch, the Falmouth branch still with its original main line infrastructure and finally the classic coastal railway over golden sands to picture postcard St.Ives. This is now a virtual archive as all the motive power is first generation DMUs on the passenger branches (single and two car) and a Class 37 loco on the Fowey branch. Filmed in 1991
During the past two decades, more than two million refugees have left Ethiopia. Famine, poverty and political strife as well as the religious persecution caused by Eritrea’s annexation have already cost countless lives. Narrated by Salem Mekuria, an Ethiopian filmmaker in the US, this lucid documentary presents the life stories of three women refugees in neighboring Sudan. It traces the attempts of individual women to survive displacement, resettlement camps and ineffectual bureaucracy. An astute, politically sophisticated analysis of social and economic crisis from the perspective of Third World women.
This essay about the policing of young black men, foreshadows the 1992 outcome of the trial which acquitted policeman directly involved in the brutal beating of a black motorist, Rodney King, was made as my graduate school thesis in the film school at San Francisco State University. It also underscores a series of escalating gripping actions and murders of black men and women in America-by police or individuals policing black lives...that would provoke the creation of the Black Lives Matter movement. It was nearly orphaned until I received a request from a scholar looking to write about video tape imagery & justice-just recently. This is the best result of the rescue of footage locked on an obsolete medium- hi-8. Boots Riley, one of the young men interviewed on the grassy knoll has become an important voice in Oakland and across the globe as an activist and cutting edge musician.
Video magazine with interviews and video clips. Featured on this volume is: Guns N' Roses, Faith No More, Testament, Hanoi Rocks, Anthrax, Dogs D'Amour, Joe Satriani, Primus and more.
Story of a two woman who goes to the hammam for the first time.
Sepultura at Ahveniston moottorirata, Hämeenlinna, Finland Intro Arise Inner Self Mass Hypnosis Dead Embryonic Cells Desperate Cry Troops of Doom Altered State Slaves of Pain Under Siege (Regnum Irae) Orgasmatron Beneath the Remains Polícia
In a house on a cliff by the sea, a man and a woman live together and eventually have children. When the mother disappears and the father goes for a swim in the sea, the baby is left to be raised by the twin brothers and the cruel, older sister. When they grow up secrets can only be kept for so long.
A short animation in which characters from 39 paintings in the Frans Hals Museum move from one artwork to the next.
We were all born for a reason, and many people have found out that they were Born to Ski. Join others who were born for the same thing like Bill Heath, Nelson Carmichael, Diana Golden, the Egan brothers, Brad Vancour and plenty more as they do the one thing they were born to do: ski. Travel to places like Canada, Oregon, Chile, France, Japan, even Yugoslavia and find out if skiing is what you were born to do also.
A journey into the mines provides a visual representation of a journey into the conscience of Kentridge's invented character, Soho Eckstein, the white South African property owner who exploits the resources of land and black human labour which are under his domain. Throughout the film the imagery shifts between the geological landscape underground inhabited by innumerable black miners and Soho's world of white luxury above ground. When Soho, breakfasting in bed, pushes down the plunger of his cafetière, its movement is transformed into a rapid descent through the tray, through the bed and into the mine-shaft. Here the miners' world of overwhelming misery is depicted in claustrophobic tunnels where they are trapped digging, drilling and sleeping, embedded in rock. Above ground, Soho sits at his desk in his customary pin-stripe suit and punches adding machines and cash registers, creating a flow of gold bars, exhausted miners, blasted landscapes and blocks of uniform housing.
Outrage kiss-in at Bow Street police station in London, with a demonstration against homophobic government bills clause 25/28.
To Lavoisier Who Died in the Reign of Terror (1991) is a collaboration with filmmaker Carl Brown, who specializes in homebrewed chemical film development. In a series of tableaux, people perform everyday tasks — sleeping, dining, reading, card-playing — as the camera arcs past and over them (the replete set of positions recalls La région centrale’s movements). Brown abraded the film stock, creating a continuous dynamic surface-effect tension with the comparatively static views and cueing the soundtrack, the crackle of fire. The physics and chemistry of combustion were the scientific focus of Lavoisier, the 18th-century savant.
An Iranian film director (played by Jalili himself) embarks on casting for a new project. He believes he has found his lead in Samad Khani, a boy working at a bakery, whose face inspires him.
Lightweight romantic action/comedy about the unlikely relationship between an undercover cop and a club hostess named Miss Witty, the Queen of Silver.
This documentary focuses on the subculture known as television evangelists. Shown are clips from their programs, interviews with them from news programs and events, and also incidents when they said or did things and didn't know a camera or microphone was on them, along with other embarrassing moments.
80-year-old Zinaida Gorshkova, the last resident of the village of Otary, Mari SSR, entertains herself: walking through the forest, she sings songs that her decrepit memory still preserves: Soviet times of collectivization, church songs from childhood. In the songs, in the faces from old photographs, the memory of a past, bygone life is still preserved.
A short documentary about the works of Cassiano Branco, a modernist architect from Portugal
The specific colors and tones and rhythms of a place in the south of France. The dryness of gold, the rock of plateau, the cemetery of the sailors, the echoes of fishermen and artists, the memory of Paul Valery. And water everywhere.
Video EP with music videos, live clips and interviews.
Reports of UFO activity in the Soviet Union.
The film is a parable about the conflict between an individual and society, which prevents her from experiencing true freedom and happiness.
Created by Antonio Rezza using an auto-timer and edited in the video camera, it describes selfishness and one-sided relationships. The only person who listens to everyone else’s problems ends up sopressing himself before the eyes of his confidantes/ executioners.
Before Christmas, a curious world of elves wakes up. Snow-white elves make gifts from snow and ice. During the work, the elves themselves become colorful - their world acquires a sense of beauty and existence.
Kasarmu Ce mixes Hausa and western storytelling techniques to create an enlightening, politically potent and culturally rich African thriller, complete with conspiracy, murder, and the power of "Dodo" spirits. Sani, a young man of charm and quiet self-confidence, is moved to act when his grandfather is killed by agents of a corrupt businessman, who wants to buy up the entire village with revealing that precious stones have been found all over its lands.
Billy the Kid comes back from history to take a restful vacation at a lovely, lonely, secluded cottage on an island. He is confronted by a bevy of vampire beauties, lunatic Angela the Swordkeeper, the Sheriff Pat Garret and other ghosts from his historic past in the American Old West. Billy is overcome by the vampires, the inherent horror of B. J. Smith's haunted house and total destruction in the house!
Tu Thuc saved a girl and they fell in love.
This tape focuses on the nature of urban development in Chicago, the centre of American architecture. We encounter three people who relate some of the hard realities of life in the city, through a haze of historical and cultural phenomena.
The first gay pride march took place in New York City on June 28, 1970
Documentary about three inhabitants of Grzybowska street in Warsaw. Their statements, photographs and film footage reveal the characters' relationship to their place of residence, describing the "here and now" of the Poles.
An overview of historical and contemporary Native American concepts of gender, sexuality and sexual orientation. This documentary explores the "berdache" tradition in Native American culture, in which individuals who embody feminine and masculine qualities act as a conduit between the physical and spiritual world, and because of this are placed in positions of power within the community.
This videotape provides electronic, metaphorical images which, in part, illustrate theories of the disappearing body as a result of social controls, social silencing and oppression. The tape is a response to the inability to feel, touch and express in a culture that denies desire as well as non-desire. The struggle to escape the restraints of social regulation is explored through layered images, appropriated from stock biology lab films, and layered narrated sequences. Images of contemporary body decoration practices, such as piercing and tattooing depict the ability of the postmodern body to integrate the power that exists in ones own body.
Argentinian immigrant and political activist, Miguel, reflects on his escape from the regime attacks of De Mayo Plaza the week of his mother’s birthday in Israel when he’s suspected of a terrorist plotting.
Extract of the sound of the film: Sir, Following your first letter and according to your indications, the viewing of the press conference of General de Gaulle on May 16, 1967 was carried out by us. I regret to inform you that the questions - of which you had sent me the text - not appearing in the document archived at the INA, no copy of this press conference can be transferred to you.
The first gay Japanese documentary, Rough Sketch of a Spiral, takes an intimate look at the personal lives of gay men in Osaka. The star is 25-year-old Yoshiichi Yano who has written a play he hopes will open the public’s eyes to the status of gays in contemporary Japan, a society with deep-rooted prejudices against homosexuality. With abundant humor and nonchalant candor, director Yasufumi Kojima follows the day-to-day efforts of Yano to produce his play while introducing us to Yano’s friends and actors in the play, including a stunning drag queen and a charming 60-year-old man who claims to be gay but a virgin.
Early dialogue free short by Bent Hamer.