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Documentary that tells the deepest story of Mexico today. The story of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, that army of Mayan Indians that burst into our lives with the sound of the voices of women and men who emerged, on January 1, 1994, from the Lacandon jungle to tell the powerful enough is enough!
A short film directed by Frédéric Sojcher.
Berlin documented by the US after WW2, recorded again in 1986 by Flo and Ken feigning innocence when passing by elevated train between Capitalist showroom and Communist austerity. One roll of film is blank, evidence of East Berlin guards commanding the film be unloaded onto the station platform. KJ narrates. With the use of a single dark (Pulfrich) filter.
An animated film rich in colour and action drawn on top of a print of an X-rated film.
Director Michael Grigsby's portrait of a Britain largely forgotten in the 1990s - the entertainers in social clubs, and the people they entertain.
A documentary about the men who devote their lives to digging the graves and tending the plots of Holy Cross Cemetery. A unique behind the scenes look at the work and the art of grave digging.
The fun begins when the Kidsongs Kids and the Biggles decide to put on a show for their dad's birthday! Join them as they rehearse, dress up in fabulous costumes and dance, dance, dance! A young magician amazes the crowd, the boys put on their blue suede shoes for an Elvis routine and the girls show off their tap dancing skills. It's toe-tapping sing-along fun from the beginning until the curtain goes down!
Costes in Tokyo, crying for the lost geisha, suicides in a hotel room. Filmed at night in Tokyo in a shady hotel in the middle of bars with whores and love hotels.
A 37-minute documentary from KRO TV in 1995. What was it like to live in the shadow of this transit camp? How did they react to it then and how do they look back on it now? Why did only 210 of the many Jews who worked as seasonal workers on the surrounding farms escape?
A documentary shot in a Turkish quarter, somewhere in Brussels, from a universal viewpoint.
Street-life at a busy intersection beneath a freeway in San Francisco. An urban landscape film with an underlying formal structure.
Il turco in Italia (The Turk in Italy) is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The Italian-language libretto was written by Felice Romani. It was a re-working of a libretto by Caterino Mazzolà set as an opera (with the same title) by the German composer Franz Seydelmann in 1788. Recorded at the Theatre by Caen, France, 1995 (Opera buffa in two acts)
Asexual creatures frolic left and right before the eyes of little children? A film that explores, in a light and amusing manner, what Walt Disney movies and, more generally speaking, movies for children, might potentially contain. Also, I wanted to play with colliding recycled super-8 shots with a little song by Colette Renard, found on magnetic tape at a flea market in the nineties... - Olivier Fouchard
The installation ‘QUINAE’, which evokes multiple voyages, could be seen as a ‘Road Movie’. If the first shots of the road are literally images of trips, the evocation of other journeys that follows is more allusive, more diverse and more unexpected: geographical, historical, literary, dreamlike, psychoanalytical, and symbolic voyages etc., not to mention the incessant movement of our gaze from one image to the next, between one image and the next.
In association with Jean-Luc Guionnet. Film ‘haptique’ with electroacoustic music, on two male bodies in tension and brightness alternated, accused by technical manipulations and study of the light.
'Lying is done with words, and also with silence.' Adrienne Rich. Niamh is home in Ireland with her producer, Helen, looking at locations to film her prize-winning short story. They're staying with her parents which is causing underlying tensions to surface. Her relationship with her twin sister, Marion, is deteriorating while Helen's romantic interest in her is increasing. Everything comes to a head when Niamh decides to break the silence. This is the first known Irish film by a lesbian writer/director to be shot in Ireland by an almost-entirely Irish crew and deals with themes of invisibility, difference and self-expression.
A profile of Canadian pro cyclist Steve Bauer produced by the National Film Board of Canada
A one hour special broadcast on Comedy Central hosted by Bob Saget and Marilu Henner. Includes many Andy Kaufman clips from SNL/David Letterman, and commentary from the Kaufman family, Richard Belzer, Jim Carrey, Rodney Dangerfield, and many other comics.
The film is about people who have mixed life with art. And they exhibited themselves as if they were paintings in an art gallery. Such people are called exhibitionists. This story happened to one of them.
Artists often invoke a past that never existed, but this offbeat documentary focuses on a pair of artists who don't merely create a fictitious past but try to live in it. David McDermott and Peter McGough, a gay couple living in New York's East Village, choose to wear the fashions of a hundred years ago, and their anachronistic flourishes are an embodiment of their art.
"Night Dances is for my mother, who died whilst helping me to make this piano musical. The Dance of Death is bound to life - Lechaim - as we whirl together by Hebrew gravestones. A dreaming woman is ferried through our decaying city. This is the age of the Personal Computer - the Private Catacomb for the switched-on elite. Its dark doorways are for the wandering homeless... true survivors."
A short animated story that depicts the sexual yearnings of a man through a series of hallucinatory dream-like and surreal sequences.
A group of farmers with financial difficulties decide to ask help from their fellow villager who emigrated to the States 30 years ago. Shot with nonprofessional actors from the amateur theatre in Kovin, Serbia.
Experience Rudolf Nureyev's sumptuous landmark 1995 production of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet at the Opéra Bastille, starring Monique Loudières as Juliet, Manuel Legris as Romeo, Charles Jude as Tybalt, and Lionel Delanoë as Mercutio.
Under the spell of Cathy Berberian’s voice, scraps of melodies and poems in Sami's head. In love with spring and summer’s flowers, she walks through streets and gardens, pastures, fields and forests.
Clocks offers the impression of the working life of the 37-year old composer and pianist Elena Kats-Chernin.
A sunny winter morning... Two brothers on a countryside path, go intown, as usual... That day, the younger brother has a meeting with his criminal friends. Stéphane, his older brother, isn’t aware of it. Fate will reunite them one last time... but too late. Stéphane, bearer of a terrible secret, is in for a life of suffering...
Ultra low-budget early German splatter effort from Andreas Bethmann, director of "Help Me I Am Dead"
This retrospective looks back at the revolutionary career of Bobby Orr, the ice hockey legend who won two Stanley cups and 3 MVP awards along with breaking dozens of records in his 10-year career.
The Eliminator is back! This time going head to head with a pair of mental patients who've just escaped from Orlando Insane Asylum
A man stands on a sidewalk, holding a model airplane aloft...
Part of Halas and Bachelor's unfinished "Know your Europeans" series by the late John Halas. The film takes an irreverent, funny and - at times downright bizarre look at German history.
The story about a prophet who sees beyond the average eye.
Ernie is a simple fellow who loves his job, but the blissful routine of Ernie's life is thrown into chaos when a pesky and persistent idea suddenly decides to follow him around, demanding attention in the most disruptive ways. Suddenly Ernie's job is in jeopardy. What do you do with an idea, when you've never had one before? How can you tell if it's worth keeping or just plain trouble?
A story of village life in Ontario in the 1850s as seen through the eyes of three young children. The whole community participates in the building of the new schoolhouse and its opening day celebrations.
A Super 8 film.
A romantic comedy that will charm your socks off. Set in a typical Manhattan apartment building, two couples get their anniversary dates mixed and tensions build. As their spouses prepare fabulous meals, the nosy new neighbor Nancy is trying to be friendly, but only adds to the confusion.
From old plates of an anonymous photographer who worked in the 50s, I extracted this impossible film (plates that had contributed to the composition of one of my little books with the title Sconosciuti [Persons Unknown] Frame by frame, plate by plate, with strips of reflected light and strips of tens of faces, I tried to bring them into a single cinematic stream, thinking about a solitary, single face emerging from the darkness.
When a Mapuche community is displaced from their land by authorities, one of their members, Nahuel Pan (Fabián Gianola), decides to confront the president of Argentina and tell him about his people's problems. On the bus to Buenos Aires he meets Fernando (Alberto Segado), a gay businessman, who invites Nahuel to his home. Fernando's dissolute lifestyle of costume parties and heavy drinking begins to seem more and more empty and frivolous as he identifies with Nahuel's quest to overcome beaurocracy and indifference. Occasionally funny and ultimately heartbreaking.
Amir - a youngster from Zanjan (one of the provinces of Iran) is going to Tehran to visit her grandmother for the first time by train, but inside the train coup, a man steals his money while he is asleep ...
In this quintessential 'coming out' film, a grinding rhythm leads us through a passage of closed doors, as a man struggles to break free from his literal and social confinement.
Two shocking documentaries where the neighbors of Cuba 111 and the passengers of a taxi traveling on the Malecón speak without fear and say what they think of the government.
In 1975, John Pilger reported the end of the Vietnam War from the American Embassy in Saigon, where the last American troops fled from the roof-top helicopter pad. He was made Journalist of the Year and International Reporter of the Year for his reporting of the Vietnam War over a period of almost ten years. In 1995’s ‘Vietnam: The Last Battle’, Pilger returns to Vietnam to review those twenty years, seeking to rescue something of Vietnamese past and present from Hollywood images which pitied the invader while overshadowing one of the most epic struggles of the 20th century. And with the embargo on the country now lifted by President Clinton, he describes Vietnam's latest battle against the economic plunder of the country by the United States and other powerful countries
A young filmmaker/poet thrills the audience with romantic and profound images of gay youth.
One kid in a playground sees a malign supernatural figure menacing selected people just before they collapse with a sudden-onset fatal disease.
"Mastering the Theremin" covers basic theremin techniques in 6 lessons - and includes exercises designed by Clara Rockmore. Lydia Kavina also performs three of her original compositions for theremin. This is the main resource you need for learning to play theremin or for improving your technique.
Film by Telscher.
Propaganda documentary explaining the Korean War from the Chinese side.
Christian short video searching for the answer posed in the title.
A toilet training video for young children.
The film weaves together two parallel stories: the evolution of underground networks that helped women find safe abortions outside the law, and the intensive efforts by activists and legislators to decriminalize abortion through legislative and judicial channels. This film combines rare archival footage with interviews that document the courageous efforts of those who fought to break the silence, change the laws and end the shame which surrounded abortion when it was a crime. The film is the second of the Abortion Rights Film Trilogy.
A story about a woman descending into mental illness.
Documentary focusing on the difference between different release prints of the James Bond movie Thunderball (1965). It discusses the alternate edits to a selection of sequences, scene deletions and various dubbing of actors' voices.
In this autobiographical experimental work, Daniel Reeves examines childhood memories, family history, and the personal aftermath of violence. Drawing on family photographs, Polaroids, and home movies dating back decades, the film assembles a poetic collage of images, voiceover, and text that reflects on trauma, memory, and the search for meaning across generations.