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On the one hand, the women’s aged faces, filmed among objects collected over a lifetime; on the other, the power of metaphorical images: volcanoes, cemeteries, construction sites. A meditation on the act of passing.
Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.
In the late 1980s a group of radical artists and automata makers were commissioned to make a theme ride to fill 15,000 square feet of the Meadowhall shopping centre in England. It was to be a journey made on a sofa trundling through more than 20 scenes of everyday life. The project was inspired by the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre in Covent Garden and features a dozen or so makers including Paul Spooner and Tim Hunkin and a completely bonkers maker called John White who made three of the scenes "disorientation, the upside down bedroom and motorway madness" in the film he demonstrates his giant gear wheels made of ice. There was also a magnificent 'Heaven' made in Cornwall and a 'Hell' made in Hebden Bridge. The project was completed but never installed. Most of it is now lost (except for the 'Pubic Bar' scene).
In an unspecified war-torn European country, two young girls, aged about 8 and 4, struggle to survive, the older girl having to find food and shelter. When a truckload of soldiers, having gang-raped a discarded naked woman, spots them in a house, the girls are forced up into the attic, but there appears to be no escape. Then the older girl tears their clothing, smears red muck over them, and orders the 4-year-old to lie still. This has the desired effect of convincing the men the girls had been raped and murdered, and they leave.
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Drama about poor Linda, who has problems both at home and at school.
An amateur takes a film camera to prove that all images of his memories are nothing else but shadows of the mutable space beneath yet another window he observes the world through.
The image of firefighters has always been one of fairness, heroism and courage. In Australia, with the constant threat of bush fires, we are reminded seasonally of their mettle. They've even become sex symbols in straight and gay communities. Interviewing firefighters from around the world, the film explores the world of the firefighter: the risks, the danger, the excitement, the humor and the glamor.
A film by Joel Schlemowitz
Animation about an unknown land somewhere near the North Pole. As a result of the magnetic anomaly, a tropical climate is preserved there. An expedition is sent in search of this land. Their plane crashes, and travelers find themselves on this very land, where not only tropical jungles grow, but prehistoric animals are still preserved. In addition, people live there - the Alkhok tribe.
Film about a journey made by Henri Plaat through the mountains and deserts of southern Morocco. This film is one of a series of idiosyncratic and candid visual travelogues by Plaat. When filming the landscape, his use of colour and composition reveals Plaat as a painter.
The story of 10-year-old Barbara Wilson's search, through cheap motels and homeless shelters, for permanence and security.
A Woman's cheeks are lit by the Sun while Film is illuminated by the lamps of the projector. But after all a Movie can only be shown to the audience through the light of the Projector.
«A film of a man in drag doing an erotic and eventually nude dance in a gravel pit. Mostly edited in camera, the fey dance is in surprisingly good sync with the music, making it an amusing send-up of Ravels macho rythms». Fred Camper.
An essayistic film about Ansis Epners’s family and his hometown of Riga, intertwining a broader perspective on Latvian history with his family’s story of deportation and key elements of Epners’s personality and creative work.
Take the ultimate walk down Memory Lane as we visit the Newcastle Upon Tyne of yesteryear. Produced with the assistance of the Tyne and Wear Archive Service and using rare film footage from its splendid collection, this production presents a unique insight into the changing face of the city during the 20th Century.
an interior/exterior domestic meditation.
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"City of Dreams" is the story of Marcel "Bambi" Commanda, an Ojibway man from Rama First Nation. Marcel sits in a prison cell, reciting a passage from his life. The film touches on his marginalization and displacement in the urban environment, the loss of culture, language and traditions, and his attempt to regain what he has lost. A poet, performer, drummer and emerging film and video maker, Marcel passed away in 1994 just after filming was finished.
[Overview Courtesy of Lux Online] In French this is called a 'Youyou', a sound made by women mainly to celebrates happy occasions but also was used during the Algerian war of liberation by women as a weapon against French soldiers. Issues of body representation are here explored by using a part of the body.
Celebrate President's Day with two teens who accidentally assume the roles of President and vice-president of the United States. Confounded and ill-prepared, the 8th graders receive a crash course in Government which helps them navigate the sensitive situations that arise. In the process, they learn how laws are made, enforced, interpreted, and what activities occur in various governmental departments.
Alain Desjacques, a well-known ethnomusicologist, takes us on a pilgrimmage to find and record the best traditional musicians and singers on the steppes of Mongolia. Desjacques had spent time in Mongolia before and had learned the language. Thus he was welcomed and given access to domestic life, with its closely knit families and intergenerational living. Set against stunning vistas of the rugged terrain, the film captures not only the music, but the richly textured details of daily life - hospitality customs, food preparation, games, caring for the herds. It is a portrait of a people who live almost entirely off their animals - horses, yaks, camels, and sheep - with little contact with the outside world.Travelling by horseback, truck and foot, Desjacques tracks down the most revered diphonic musicians. The diphonic sound combines a base drone with a melodic upper register. We hear part of an epic song which takes the singer seven days to perform, completely from memory.
Documentary about Finnish concentration camps build for Russians inhabiting the Karelia area during the Continuation War.
If your face is ugly, you can't do it all! Closely attached to the woman who realized this truth. Surgeon Asami of Asami Cosmetic Surgery performed the operation himself, and the entire surgical scene is completely recorded! This is a true cosmetic surgery video!
Baba, a 20 year old Senegalese, dreams of becoming a soccer player in France.
Through a unique combination of visual images the video plays with a certain vision of reality and illusion - histories and culture(s) and the ambiguities of a cultural or a national identity. The artist combines the work created - video and computer techno-applications to explore her aesthetics ... Each set of geographical, political and sociological circumstances prescribe different labels. We come to believe in labels and to limit ourselves within the parameter of that imposed identity. We have to struggle to mediate between what we know to be the self and the outward deluge of imposed descriptors.
The Ndebele women are known throughout the world for their vivid and multi faceted art forms, especially the colorful embellishment of their houses. Their arid land is pierced with blocks of color, each dwelling singular in a stylized way. Their resplendent clothing also boldly proclaims their identity. This unique film also explores Ndebele rituals never shown on film before. We see their fertility rites, a celebration that bonds them to their ancestral tradition. Ndebele performance art shows how traditional forms of expression can become a vehicle for political empowerment today. Nelson Mandela referred to the Ndebele as a 'Rainbow People.' Despite a history of racial oppression, forced removal from their ancestral land and economic privation, their pride and sense of joy has endured.
Within a circle humans exploit animals--predators and victims share the same vital space, for good or for evil. Was the first weapon created to kill, to hunt or for defense? Do we stand innocent or guilty in our treatment of animals? With its brilliant reds and blues exploding within the heartbeat of the circle, now a radar screen, now a target, now a planet, Between Red and Blue explores the dichotomy inherent in life.
There is no dialogue or explanatory scenes at all, and the visuals unfold endlessly as information that appeals directly to the emotions rather than the feelings. The screen is divided into two halves and twice the usual amount of footage is shown, or the same image is shown one after another from different angles. As a result, the audience's brain comes to judge that the corpse is as beautiful as the body of a young woman who has just climbed out of a swimming pool. This film lets us experience a new relationship with images.
From the opening scenes of clothespins "dancing" on a rack, through the images of the family photographs, a wooden chair, an expired student I.D. card and fragmented parts of the body, the video opens up a dialogue of personal identity. In particular, a recorded conversation between Kinga and Delfina posits many questions regarding their identifications as either Polish Canadian and/or Canadian-Polish. Is it or is it no longer possible to identify oneself with a fixed geographic place?
Complicated machinery may not be what it seems.
The concert recorded at the Bataclan on January 29, 1972 marked the first appearance on stage of Lou Reed and John Cale (two of the legendary members of The Velvet Underground), alongside the singer Nico, after the separation of the Velvet Underground in the late 1960s.
A series of Ufology experts provide their thoughts on the infamous "Alien Autopsy" footage.
A young girl obsessed with science fiction books, hides a secret from her well-meaning mother.
A woman who has returned from a refugee camp in Thailand lives with her four children under a tree in the middle of Phnom Penh: a tender portrait and violent denunciation of the conditions often reserved by the country for many of its returning refugees.
This film indicates some situations at Calmette Hospital. One patient described the difficulty of earning money to pay for medical treatment.
A provincial prosecutor who has just moved to Warsaw appears at the General Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw with the intention of resuming an investigation into a high-profile political crime from years ago - known as the Murder of Bohdan Piasecki
A documentary about Frank Di Capo, a Canton, Ohio man who was born with the rare genetic condition Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome. The symptoms of Lesch-Nyhan include violence, swearing, and self-mutilation by biting.
Greg Zglinski graduated with Przed zmierzchem/Before Dusk in 1995 under artistic supervision of Krzysztof Kieślowski.
Kinodelic is the art of organizing the necessary movements of color film stock through the optical printer in harmony with the internal rhythm in the music of Jimi Hendrix.
In the three-part series Nine Years Later, Beck revisits video performances he created nearly a decade earlier to music by the British pop band The Smiths. Beck betrays the apparent effortlessness of the original clips by editing them alongside the numerous rehearsals, variously self-conscious and obsessive, they required. With inter-titles and voice-over, Beck recapitulates his performances according to the video technology he used to produce them. As a result, the body, in its correlation with the evolution and obsolescence of technology, is revealed as a purely “enjoying” substance. Whether portraying a vindictive martyr in Bigmouth Strikes Again, a suicidal loner in Panic, or a comatose drag queen in Girlfriend In A Coma, Beck brings the violence and malice implicit in lead-singer Morrissey’s lyrics graphically to life.
Single-8 film by Tachibana Kaoru, sound.