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The story of an old Bukovinian who returned to his homeland after some time. His heart rejoices at the magnificent scenery of the Carpathian Mountains, his meeting with Chernivtsi, folk customs, and folklore creations.
A short documentary.
Two homeless men become friends at a train station in Brussels.
Ten-channel installation. Captures the actions and sounds of an electric toy (penguins climbing up stairs) from various angles at the same time. Three penguins in different colors walk up the stairs one by one; when a penguin reaches the highest step in the staircase, it then drops onto a roller-coaster track, which brings it back to the beginning to restart the stair-climbing action.
Zhang hired a news anchor from China Central Television to read every entry and definition under the word “water” (水) from the Cihai encyclopedic dictionary, and recorded it on video. The lighting, background, microphone, and even the authoritative “national” face of the anchorwoman were exactly the same as those in CCTV’s extremely serious nightly News Broadcast program. The only thing changed was the content coming out of her mouth: instead of official news, she was reciting neutral, emotionless dictionary entries. The satirical subversion was obvious. The video produced a strong sense of absurdity: by applying a straight-faced, solemn presentation to utterly trivial content, the solemn authority of the broadcast is undermined.
A short domestic drama exploring the relationship between a man and his young daughter. The film uses high gloss colour to create a naturalistic view of home life. It begins with the daughter joyfully riding a horse, followed by scenes in the attic and her father’s room, where she discovers a coin and experiences moments of tension and mystery. The narrative shifts through various scenes, including a barn, a room with a seemingly dead person, and a final scene where the daughter lies beside her sleeping father.
Ordinary rural residents of the Vologda region — an engineer, a locomotive driver, a poet, emigrants from Argentina, and a former soldier of the Vlasov army — speak about what unites them. They share their vision of Russia and its fate. They talk about Russian people and Russian towns, about struggles and hopes. And they speak of love — boundless and all-powerful.
By society’s standards, Descatar Chupra is not a very nice guy. But he’s about to run into some people who are a lot, lot worse…
The Sahrawi women relate their exil, the tortures, their memories and the difficulties of life as refugees. They are beautiful, touching... Educated by the Polisario Front and attached to the values of islam, they are widows, divorcede or married to fighting men. Owing to the force of circumstances, they have built a society of independant muslim women...
A film about the impact of low doses of radiation, told through the visit of members of the youth organization “Next Stop” to the abandoned city of Prypiat. Dozens of hippies from Sweden, France, Japan and other countries arrive at the Chornobyl station after their boycott of a nuclear testing site in Nevada. The foreign youths are greeted by the local elderly self-settlers, who by force of habit continue to sell mushrooms along the road. Covering their bodies in paint, the visitors head to the fourth reactor to enact an anti-nuclear performance.
This surprisingly lighthearted exploration of childhood trauma depicts a women falling through space while reflecting on her past mistakes, as well as how she was made to feel about them.
A character from the early days of American cartoon creates his own, modern figure, but he soon loses control over his creation.
Lo(o)sgelöst is the complex summary of the considerations of C. ANGELMAIER, DRIENDL*STEIXNER, PRINZGAU/podgorschek put onto film... using film as a material for building a model means necessarily foregoing the copying function, and as it were playing with the possibilities within a specific framework, contents and conditions of film itself... (DRIENDL*STEIXNER). In its execution it means a focal plane with rapid, irritating and experimental techniques and the idea of a portrait about space, art and man. A sound is based on the attempted transmission of sound vibrating from the membraneous drum...over the ossicles of the ear (malleus, incus, stapes) to the sensory inner ear separeted by a membraneous fenestrae.
A team of paranormal researchers investigate a series of "full moon murders".
Born in the Bronx on Labor Day in 1914 to recent Italian immigrants, the self-taught American painter Ralph Fasanella is known today for his bustling tableaux of working-class city life. His exuberant scenes of baseball stadiums, street festivals, and labor strikes are rich with detail and symbolism pulled from his life and times.
The TV host becomes unexpectedly Messianic in this parody of the Home Shopping Club where viewers call in and give 'unsolicited and impromptu' endorsements of the products being sold.
Mary Pipes and Peter Templeton turn their subtitling skills to hilarious ends. Revenge of the Subtitles short aired on Eat Carpet.
....Oops. The horror of a simple mishap and last resort laughter.
This video, in a series of poetic scenes, shows men and women upon whom banality has not yet taken hold. Agile as fishers of eels, they capture the fleeting moments of daily life and transform them into extraordinary events. Storytellers in a broad sense, and without the usual pipes or rocking chairs, they sweep us off our feet in a strange waltz. Throughout, we meet a hotel keeper who takes in a sailor in distress, a man pursued by a little cloud of odour, a woman who believes that she possesses a magic ring, etc.
The ‘Hyena’ campaign was launched in 1992 – with the long-term objective of making car crime socially unacceptable. The campaign likens car criminals to scavenging hyenas, and encourages the public to collectively deter offenders. Offering simple advice, such as “remove valuables and ensure doors are locked”, the film suggests that opportunities for the car criminals will be reduced. The campaign proved successful in lowering this type of crime and has been coupled with nation-wide Police initiative ‘Operation Hyena’ targeting car criminals. However, there is more to be done as the Home Office states that vehicle crime still accounts for one-fifth of all crime recorded by the police.
My concept for “Evident / Evidence” was to create a kind of “peep-show”, which involved the construction of a mock Florida shack, into which the spectator is forced to “peep” through a burglar viewer eyepiece INTO the interior dark space. By ringing the doorbell, the viewer ignites a film and a video loop, which project onto a plexiglass screen in the center of the dark space. The loops include images of fragile Florida nature (swamps, birds) and a video intercut of the Hollywood film, the Wizard of Oz, with the Hill-Thomas senate hearings. I was interested here in the making of a woman’s body and experience into spectacle (parallel with the exploitation of the natural environment in Florida) and the positing of evil and blame on her. The specific complications and contrasts of racial and cultural identity embedded in these issues was further developed by the intercutting of the Hollywood film.
Hangyodon and co. end up getting sent back to the past through a time machine and learn about dinosaurs.
Established in the 1980s, the House of Avant-Garde was the first Chicago ballroom house. It served as a safe haven for predominantly Black LGBTQ+ youth and fostered a vibrant community where they could fully express themselves. Having A Ball! With the House of Avant Garde offers an immersive and thrilling experience into Chicago’s vibrant Black LGBTQ+ ballroom scene. The documentary showcases footage from the Unity Ball (1991) and the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Ball (1992), providing a unique and thrilling opportunity for the audience to step into the historical balls hosted by the House of Avant-Garde.
Explore the rich musical heritage of Deptford and New Cross, rapper Blade used the area as an integral part of their music and visual identity.
Experimental short where a man's entering his small room, checking the lights and eating behind the mirror.
Experimental short about family connections.
Steve Vickery delivers a 13-minute tribute to the star beyond stars, Marlene Dietrich. What could have become a feature documentary ended up as a short pastiche of the filmmakers ambition. The film end up in the odd genre of dramatized fictionalized reality. Where the the elevated object of the tribute is the only thing we can relate to.
Directed by Liz Hughes
A David 'The Rock' Nelson Short
1992 documentary about Accrington Stanley.
On Kuren's birthday, Yaramaz comes to his house as a guest and causes trouble, ruining everyone's mood.
Young people fall into a different space-time dimension due to a technical error.
Count Galsandorj was a high-ranking Manchurian and a patriot of Mongolia. The Manchu king gives him a princess. The princess is followed by many mercenaries, but they are all spies. It will tell about the love encounter and complicated life of the two of them.
Tells the story of a granddaughter's discovery of her family's history through the "talk stories" of her grandmother, a first-generation immigrant who labored in the Hawaiian sugar plantations over seventy years ago. Ann Akiko Moriyasu reveals the story of her grandmother's life incorporating information from family photos, archival films, and personal interviews with her grandmother and with other first generation women immigrants.
It tells about three men from the countryside coming to the city to have fun. The characters of the film show how the natural character and humanity of the three are manifested in the noisy environment of the city in a comical way, criticizing the loss of human conscience and the fact that the people living in the city are becoming more and more selfish and selfish, and the characters of the film show that the kindness and trusting nature of Mongolians are no longer compatible with city life. shown as running away.
Russian short film.
Commemorative program for the 25th anniversary of the live broadcast of the ascent of the Old Man of Hoy. In July of 1967, 15 million people watched one of the most audacious BBC outside broadcasts ever undertaken - the climbing of the 'Old Man of Hoy'. Chris Bonnington and Tom Patey, took the East Face; Joe Brown and Ian McNaught-Davis, the South Face; Peter Crew and Douglas Haston took the South-East Arête. A further crew of four climbers- Hamish MacInnes, John Cleare, Rusty Baillie and Ian Clough carried cameras and transmitters. 25 years later, BBC gathers the protagonists to recover the footage and to look back on the achievement.
Lars Theodor Jonsson is Sami, 86 years old. Once upon a time celebrated ski king. For a couple of decades, he lives a secluded forest life in close dialogue with the animals, birds and trees. A man so deeply rooted in nature that he becomes a stranger to modern man.
Memories and reminiscences mark the passage of a young woman to the land of her childhood.
A detailed introduction to curse rituals and secret techniques supervised by Toshiya Nakahara.
This fascinating biography of the lengendary "Blue Eyes" takes us on an informative and captivating excursion through his life and career. From his fledgling days to present stardom, his career is chronicled in infinite detail, including rare and never before seen footage.
A team of contractors is building a gas pipeline in the steppe. One of the workers is accidentally sealed into a pipe. This is the last junction — you can't walk in either direction. People are faced with a choice: to save a person or to execute a plan on time.
Directed by Drew King.
A poetic phantasmagoria about the meaning of human existence.
In this short narrative, a young woman moves to New York City from the Midwest in order to "develop her writing" and to share an apartment with her boyfriend. Distracted from her new creative life-style, she is soon challenged by her best friend to work harder to foster her own growth as an artist.
A short student film, shot at the Scala Cinema.
This is a political propaganda and educational film made in China.
Chamonix, Courmayeur, les Arcs, Telluride, Maui, Whistler/Blackcomb. What more could you ask for in one groovy concoction of a movie? The universe is a lot more fun if you bring something to slide on! Featuring music by Seal, 808 State, Stone Temple Pilots, Eugenius, New Atlantic, Jomanda, Baha Men, T-Diva, Jay Williams, SoL.A., Tumblweed.
A broadcast classical concert brings together an estranged couple as memories of their shared past are stirred.
Have you ever been alone and felt that someone or something nearby was watching you-or-that something brushed past you and when you turned to look, nothing was there? Have strange sounds and familiar smells from your past invaded your senses making you wonder where they came from or how a breeze seemed to sound like a whisper calling you, trying to communicate with you and causing a chill to go through your entire body and even make your hair stand up? Come and explore some of the occurrences that have happened to Maine people as well as other hauntings over the centuries. Writer and professor William O. Thomson, shares his years of research into the para-normal in this thirty minute professionally produced video. His ideas and explanations are illustrated by using innovative video special effects. This video is directed and designed by Emmy Award winning television director, Don Moore, who brings 40 years of visual experience to the project.
A close and passionate look at the art of arctic peoples from the earliest findings to the beginning of the 20th century. “There are no talking heads, there is no dramatic lighting or sharp focus in these two long movies. Rather, each object is lovingly filmed, as if inviting the artwork to converse with us. Lehmuskallio has discovered how to let his camera speak to the art, and how to let the art reply, and thereby this northern art can speak with us as well.” (Kathleen Osgood, in Uralic Imaginations on Film)
Villi Hermann and the cameraman Hugues Ryffel accompany the photographer Jean Mohr on three trips on Japan, Pakistan and Russia.
Inspired by Herbert Read’s novel of the same name.