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A vision shared by philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Reverend Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin enabling the restoration of the eighteenth-century capital of Williamsburg, Virginia is chronicled through archival photos and film accompanied by oral histories.
TV-movie based on a play by Miguel Ángel Asturias.
This short documentary presents 5 women from a variety of backgrounds who use strategy, humour and determination to seek to attain equality in the workplace.
A documentary about Arsha Ovanesova, documentary filmmaker and screenwriter who created the first Soviet newsreel series for chidren.
Videotape aimed at children illuminating various ways of transporting products.
A look into the past of the filmmakers' Czechoslovakia-born mother, who committed suicide.
A Film by Hideaki Sasaki
A Hungarian girl's dreams of fairy-tale happiness clash with the grim routine of her life.
A story about the adventures of a brother and his sister who got to an insidious witch. The evil woman placed cunning traps, and the girl got into one of them being succumbed to the temptation to become the owner of charming shoes. But the brother with Kruhlyachok, a kind and unusual guardian of the forest, will be able to pull the girl out of the trouble.
In this animated environmental parable, we find a people living in harmony with nature, until carelessness leads to the ravens' revenge. We follow a boy's courageous journey to the spirit world to find the only one who can save his village from the resulting darkness--the Lord of the sky. An artistic unity of form and content, Lord of the Sky is a dazzling combination of 3-D models, puppets, special effects and cut-out paper animation. Its intricate, beautifully rendered drawings reflect the natural environment and cultural heritage of the Pacific Northwest. The film speaks strongly of the need for ecological balance in the world.
Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin shortly after the fall of the Wall. Trees give shade in the wide streets. Behind the crumbling facades of buildings, seven people go about their daily lives, trying to fulfil their dreams. In a shimmering summer drowsiness, fantastic things suddenly happen, and a subway train takes off into the sky...
The film-parable about how hurting our neighbors we often don’t think about that pain which we made them
Quinn and Natasha lead a simple life until a strange man kidnaps Natasha and takes him to his mistress-someone Quinn had hoped was out of his life forever. Now Quinn must find Natasha, with the force of vengeance as his only guide.
This film, recorded in real time, depicts two actors on a walk through Vienna. One person is carrying a nylon bag with provisions for their journey, while the other person is carrying a film screen. The places that they walk through are only of peripheral meaning, in which pace changes again and again through the use of slapstick.
La Carrera Panamericana is a 1992 video of the Carrera Panamericana automobile race in Mexico. The film was directed by Ian McArthur, it included a soundtrack entirely of music by the band Pink Floyd, as the band's guitarist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason and manager Steve O'Rourke competed in the race in 1991.
A hard-hitting documentary that can only be described as unique. The protagonist is a friend of the director Kudo. His parents divorced when he was a child and he has grown up in an environment that is too miserable to be described in one word: gloomy. The film exposes all the privacy of his family. His father abandoned him and his mother and evaporated. A mother who brought her lover into the house. What were they thinking at the time when I felt so alone? To find out, he goes to his father's home, where he has remarried and has a child, and to his mother, who works hard to send him money. The camera follows the process closely and captures the naked truth on film. The director Kudo and the protagonist, in collusion to break the taboo, are on the edge of their seats in front of and behind the camera. The energy that surges through them is a truth that can only be expressed through the documentary method.
A profile of the eccentric French composer.
In the spring of 1992, film director Stanislav Govorukhin traveled to the state of Vermont, where he spent several days speaking with the renowned writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn and members of his family.
Frontline correspondent Hedrick Smith, the award-winning host of “Inside Gorbachev’s USSR,” revisits the former Soviet Union to investigate how the institutions and people he filmed for his 1990 series are dealing with the challenge of change. Smith finds a nation enjoying new freedoms of speech and conscience but on the brink of economic and political disaster.
A charismatic boss shuts himself up in a pokey little niche. His disciples go visit him and hang on his every complaint. The boss realises that the experts are all the same, they reason with their arse and never raise their eyes; despite this he adores them and urges them to spend time with him. A woman regularly keeps their meeting place clean and the disciples dislike her as they hate cleanliness. The charismatic boss doesn’t meet the needs of his “flock” which is getting bigger and bigger, a crowd gathering beneath the niche: a revolt breaks out……
A low-intensity/high-intensity low impact aerobic workout featuring your favorite Hosanna! Music Praise and Worship music!
Explores the history of the island of Vieques, also known as Isla Nena.
The Monkees' Michael Nesmith delights the crowd in this solo performance at the 30th annual Britt Festival in Jacksonville, Ore. Nesmith lends his soulful, Western style to solo hits such as "Joanne," "Silver Moon" and "Moon Over the Rio Grande." Between tunes, he offers plenty of his trademark, offbeat humor and repartee with his backup band of long-time collaborators Red Rhodes, John Jorgenson, Joe Chemay, Luis Conte and John Hobbs.
A writer isolates himself in a house by the sea to try to finish his novel, but his writing does not progress (unlike his illness, which continues to gallop ahead).
A filmed TV drama by the Montenegrin National Theater about St. John the Baptist.
On March 16, 1792, the king of Sweden Gustav III was shot at the Royal Opera in Stockholm. The play portrays the king's last hours before the attack.
Based on a short story by Mia Couto titled "A Fogueira," it tells the story of a man obsessed with building his wife's grave before her death, who ends up being buried by her in the grave he dug for her. A story of love and respect told around a campfire. This film is João Ribeiro's debut and was made as his final project.
Kalaratri 12 Gantalu is a Telugu Adult-Horror film, starring Kapil Dev, Jayamadhuri, Arya, Jayarekha, Mala Aravindan, Kabir, Asha Khan and Fazi.
Conversation with prisoners of the RAF.
Canaries were used by miners to alert them to the presence of poisonous gases underground. If a canary died, they knew the air was bad. This film is about human canaries - some of the first victims of a newly recognised and devastating illness emerging in America. People are being poisoned by some of the 60,000 chemicals in everyday use. A group of chemically ill people have found refuge in unusual homes in the clean air of the small Texan town of Wimberley - with painful and bizarre results.
A powerful profile of women prisoners in New York dealing with HIV/AIDS.
A documentary on the life and writings of Saunders Lewis.
A fast paced visual essay on love, sex, and A.I.D.S. in the late 20th century.
Portrait of the German and Jewish painter who lived during the war in the south of France, in Villefranche-sur-Mer, where she painted 769 gouaches which recount her life, from her childhood, the suicide of her mother, her relationship to her father, to her mother-in-law, the singer Paula Lindberg, to a teacher whom she was secretly in love with, her flight to France, the reunion with her grandparents, until her arrest by the Gestapo who sent her to Auschwitz where she was assassinated in 1943.
The film explores what transformations in power and politics do to art, how much opportunism can be found in “pure” art and whether fascist symbols can ever regain their aesthetic innocence. The questions it addresses about the relationship between ethics and aesthetics make a valuable contribution to any discussion about art and power.
A film made by Pelle Lowe and myself, Ready-Made is a single work in itself, and also exists as part of a series of works that Pelle and I made reflecting on Manet's painting OLYMPIA, including it's reception, it's relationship to painting, sex work, imperialism, the Paris Commune, sex, drugs and rock roll, ect.
Robert Tanner is a popular, courteous grocer in the provinces. No one believes the unassuming man to be malicious. And yet Tanner is seething. One night, out of the blue and with a strange calm, he kills first his wife Edith and then his young son Beni. The next morning, he leaves the place of horror with a strange feeling of liberation. On his "journey" he reveals himself to a strange woman and wants to face the press.
A documentary report on paintings, photographs and the first cinematography images in Iran, which belongs to 90 years ago.
The author of the work in a grotesque form tries to convey to the viewer that school education can not only make people better, but also, with an inappropriate approach to training, turn them into notorious monsters. We follow one lesson in school of fantastic, but such recognizable monsters.
This pulsating collage animation interwoven with folk art elements is a warning of the dangers of extinction, in which an organism is connected to each day of the week.
Will poor Beethoven's troubles never end? Stuck in an artistic rut, noisy neighbors - and now, the rent is due. The story of Beethoven's inspiration for his most famous piano composition, Für Elise.
God and the Devil make a bet. Paracelsus, doctor and alchemist, scientist and charlatan, seeker after God and narrator of fariy tales, is allowed to come back to earth to prove that he is capable of winning the love of a woman, having wasted his whole life merely writing about her. Thus he becomes embroiled in the eternal trial between reality and speculation, libido and the rule of the intellect, aiming to swap his pen for his virility and allow his heart to rule over his head.
Sitting in a flying DeLorean, the audience gets rocked when traveling through several times.
Director Quentin Lee shoots a pseudo-documentary about himself, his family, friends, and his lover, in an experimental pastiche of genres. As if in retaliation to the stern image, each sequence is ruptured by self-conscious meditations on the construction of ethnicity and the self within Western culture.
A fiction science monologue about artificial fertilization and its consequences, delivered by four characters interacting with the text.
One of four Claymation shorts made by Will Vinton Studios for The California Science Center.
Early work by Kenji Onishi.
A successful young businessman pays $10, 000 at a charity auction to work for a day in a soup kitchen, and becomes obsessed with the plight of the homeless.
Critics place Berenice Abbott at the head of her class. She was one of the greatest American photographers of the 20th Century. From her portraits of the avant-garde taken in Paris during the 1920's, to her documentation of New York in the 1930's, to her science photography of the 1950s, and her studies of small-town America, Abbott's genius is in the incredible range of her work. Filmed during her 91st and 92nd years, the open-hearted Abbott takes us on a guided tour of her century. The tour teaches history, perseverance, courage, and single-minded dedication to one's chosen field. A brilliant film about a brilliant American artist!
Bible memory melodies with Steve Green