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E. P. Thompson, a British historian, poet, novelist and activist, was a voice of dissent in the dogmatic political environment of 20th century Europe. As a member of the New Left, his work and activism sought to bridge the gap between Marxist theory and practice, and to heal the fracture of the Cold War divide
Dagul: Directed by Cesar S.B. Abella. With Baldo Marro, Star Querubin, Howard Aleta, Bob Soler.
Annamalai Swami interviewed by Madhukar Thompson in Tiruvannamalai, India (1993).
Flotte is French slang for rain or downpour. This work was taken on a rainy day at the Abt Gallery in Waseda, Tokyo, a few days before his solo exhibition. If I can't shoot that day, I have to give up on the new work, and I can't help but worry about the rain. Before I saw the rush, I was worried about whether the picture would come out properly, but the rain came out beautifully, so I gave it the title "FLOTTE". It is constructed so that the speed changes intermittently in one cut (actually, it is meant to appear that way).
An unconventional chronicle of the literary and artistic Romanian avant-garde. The film recreates the atmosphere of those frenzied years (1916-1947) in the spirit of the avant-garde, through a bewildering collage of fundamental texts and images.
Documentary about the German conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch.
Examines the strained relationship between the filmmaker and his emotionally detached father. A collage of family photographs and cryptic subtitles fills the screen while the voices of his family and his personal thoughts are heard. An emotionally stirring film in which the pain of unresolved family issues washes over the viewer.
Munks and Lemijs are thinking about how best to cut and divide the pineapple, but then a monkey appears who also really likes pineapples.
Ancient vampires preying on heroin addicts in Edinburgh. Lost for 20 years, the only remaining copy of Blood Junkies was recently found on a long forgotten cutting-copy video tape hidden in a crew member's attic. Missing a few reels, it is now finally available to stream - for free via Tartan Features.
Poem by Bridget Meeds, as read by her, with accompanying text on screen intercut with a contact printed typewriter ribbon.
Funerals are of enormous cultural significance in the Kingdom of Tonga. In contrast with the taboos regarding death in Western society, death in the Kingdom of Tonga follows a highly ritualized grieving process. The last journey is accompanied by joyous song, hair cutting, gift giving, changing of the garb, lovingly made mats and tapa and social protocol. This documentary video provides an ethnographic window into the Tongan funeral ceremonies and explains the process through which the people elevate their deceased to the role of ancestor.
Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).
A girl who believes her lover is swimming in the water in her ears decides to take action one day. She visits her health teacher at the high school she graduated from to complain about her physical problems, and also goes to an ear, nose and throat specialist to consult about her ears, which are prone to water ingress. This is a semi-documentary in which the filmmaker herself plays the role of the girl and goes out with the tool of a film camera to reveal the internal chaos. (IFF, 1994).
A woman keeps goldfish in her kitchen. One day, the woman meets a strange man who hides his cheeks behind a white cloth. The film is set in motion the moment the wind stops and the shadows disappear. It is the story of a child born without wanting to be born, who has no place to stay.
The story of how Mary Travers becomes a famed popular singer in Quebec.
Gravity is a movement in relation to Earth. It is also a system in which phenomena take place in society.
A voice-over soundtrack repeats some common heterosexist lines: If only they didn’t flaunt it… It’s nothing personal but… A simple image, consisting of two women embracing, contradicts the soundtrack. This video examines the resilience of lesbian desire in the face of relentless homophobia.
Here they go again!
Using letters from famous visitors to Paris - Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Rainer Maria Rilke - the magical image of the city of lights is linked to that of a banal consumerism. A visual essay about the experience of observing and being observed in a Paris with many faces.
A work that straddles the boundary between science and art. A story about a microphone – a sound collector.
New York, 1941. Shortly before his joint suicide with Lotte, Stefan Zweig meets up once more with his first wife Friderike in order to write his last work, "The world of yesterday". Flashback: farewells that anticipate something.
An Asiatic confrontation with a noddle.
A farmer makes a deal with the Nazis.
The psychological inner life of a child that has experienced sexual violence. This film essay symbolically tells of violence and the dynamics of hurting in the language of an inoccent child.
A documentary short about the making of Gatica, el mono by argentine director Leonardo Favio. This film focuses on the particular way of directing that Favio had in big set pieces with huge crowds.
Live At NHK Hall, Tokyo, Japan, March 28th 1993
A testimony of the force of love that binds two people, a present-day betrothed couple. The narration proceeds as a thriller in which the two protagonists conceal a mystery: visible traces, scars on an arm, details that worm their way into the story until the enigma is revealed. He had previously been a she. A contemporary metamorphosis made possible by their love.
ince the 1970s, Robakowski has been experimenting with the category of the author, transferring the authorship of his works onto the film camera. Implementing the strategy of biological-mechanical records, Robakowski continues his experiments, carried out since the 1970s, consisting in the transfer of the authorship of the film onto the film camera, as well as initiates relations between the mechanical medium and the human organism. On the one hand, it embraces collaboration, on the other, human struggle with the machine, extending from the “integration” of its logic and the attempts at its “anthropomorphisation”.
A snapshot taken in a moment of human evolution, where the souls of the living are reflected in the windows of passing trains. The camera captures the reflections of passengers in the train windows as the trains enter and leave the station, and the movement creates a stroboscopic flickering effect that magically exploits the pure sensuality of the moving image.
A professor is entranced by a flower in the garden of his apartment building. It opens up when he gets closer to it but it closes when danger approaches.
Mizu Shobai (Water Business) blends two stories, one of a geisha who is lost at sea and another of the first geisha to circle the world.
This video self-portrait draws inspiration from the storytelling tradition of A Thousand and One Nights, in which extraordinary characters become commonplace, and Georges Pérec’s infamous book Je me souviens (I Remember), which collected the remembrances of an entire generation in France. The artist’s voice emerges to claim its autonomy amid a social realm in which the collective supersedes the individual.
A documentary film examining the treatment of lesbians and gay men during the early years of the Cuban Revolution and perspectives of current residents of Cuba on questions of political ideology and sexual identity
An encounter with a small man-made waterfall presented in a triptych format.
A dozen of men meet after 50 years. Once they all studied in the same high school class in Berlin, but the war broke out the year before they were to graduate. And they all joined Hitler Jugend. It was an order. Half of the men of their generation would die, the others helped shape the new Germany.
Love, it is said, always ends fatally - either for love or for the lovers. In his highly acclaimed portrait film, Georg Stefan Troller meets people who have murdered for love - or what they thought was love. Those who strangled their partners in their sleep, attacked them with a knife or shot them, are stunned by their own actions in retrospect. It now seems incomprehensible to them that a brief moment, a moment of being out of their depth, was enough to throw them off course once and for all. With a detective's instinct, Troller delves into the perpetrators' innermost secrets. A movie about the mental abysses that gape in all of us and the longing for love that remains - for life.
A woman lives her life struggling against her own cold personality. She wants to be a poet, but must work during the day in order to earn a living, leaving her nights to her writing.
A film structured around Detel Aurand and Jon Sigurgeiersson.
Last short film made by Fukazawa, filmed on SVHS.
Before the high-tech advancements of Fiberglas, aluminum poles, release bindings and artificial powder, it was a simpler time in the world of winter sports: It was just you, your skis and the snow that lay ahead. Rounding up works produced in the 1940s, '50s, '60s and '70s by iconic ski-film director John Jay, this retrospective sampler offers a nostalgic look at what's called "the golden age of American skiing."
What is channeling? What are "spirit guides", "inner friends", and "multiple personalities?" Where do they come from? Is there any harm to the practitioner? Find out in this fascinating and startling examination of one of America's most dangerous spiritual trends. Channeling: the phenomenon is widespread. There are thousands of channelers in North America alone, and millions of adherents from all walks of life. They come seeking the wisdom of the so called spirit guides. Who Goes There? Takes you into the world of these channeled entities and raises some pertinent questions. Are the guides really who they say they are? Are there any dangers in this modern form of medium ship? WHO GOES THERE? looks beneath the surface into issues where mystery abounds.
A group of outsiders converges at the seedy Pension Ezequiel - live erotic performers Gervasio and Fabiola, multi-tasking dreamer Khouma, mapmaker Arcadio, letter-collector Virginia, moralist Delfín, and troubled newcomer Ana - all under the watch of the enigmatic proprietor Ezequiel. When Ezequiel dies, his passing unleashes hidden desires, rivalries, and secrets, changing the pension forever.
In L.A. the son of a vegetable vendor avoids joining an all-Korean gang called the Tigers and instead falls in love with Lily, the sister of the leader of the all-Chinese gang called the Lions.
Chapter 14 of the series 18 decades of life in Mexico in the twentieth century. Images of the cultural, social and political life in Mexico from 1965 to 1969. Around the events that marked the last years of the sixties: Mexico hosts the Olympics, public universities living in crisis due to its rapid growth without adequate resources and the student movement arises. It is a time of great social differences that are opposed to the official image of prosperous and modern country.
A poetic documentary film about Sigrid Undset’s life and authorship. The film shows us Undset’s life from childhood to her last years. It tells us about, among other things, her parents and her siblings, her life abroad and her relationship with her husband, the painter A. C. Svarstad. The documentary gives us an interesting picture of Sigrid Undset’s literary career from her debut in 1907, of her historical novels and her active participation in debates against Nazism and Knut Hamsuns attitude. Through interviews, letters, old film footage and excerpts from Sigrid Undset’s literary works, we get an insight into one of Norway’s most significant authors.
Internet TV pioneer Josh Harris' 1993 premonition of the Singularity.
Jón in Akureyri is the second part of Detel + Jón. I filmed Jón Sigrurgeiersson walking through the streets of his childhood, meeting his filmmaker brother and telling childhood stories.
An account of the processes used in the treatment of various types of glass and their different uses in a new Iranian factory. The director makes references to Charlie Chaplin's films through some scenes taken from "The Kid" and "Modern Times." He also inserts some scenes from Iranian films in which characters are busy breaking glass into pieces.
The thrill of cocaine becomes a metaphor for the consumption of images in this short montage. The title and lyrics come from Auder´s friend and 2001 Prix Goncourt winner Jean-Jacques Shuhl. The piece is composed entirely of still photographs from a variety of books and magazines that simultaneously reveal and feed an addiction to spectacle. With a source that is once removed, Auder's scopophilia is symptomatic of society at large. The song is performed by legendary chanteuse Ingrid Caven. Suffused with a bittersweet melancholy, Canven's seasoned voice compliments Auder's selection of images which dwell on the themes of death, destruction and desire. The melody is classic cabaret performed by a piano/violin duo who dramatically heighten the works already dark eroticism.
Per Mark McElhatten, it "unveils a kind of rainy day, indoor, peaceable kingdom of desultory and idyllic debauchery, masturbatory reveries and hermaphroditic transformations."