Cinematic Era: 1995 Vintage

A glimpse into the junkie scene at Dortmund Central Station.

In this experimental film conceived by Sylvie Guillem, the choreographers become dancers or photographers: William Forsythe dances a superb solo and Mats Ek films his brother and Sylvie Guillem in Smoke, an oniric and sensual duet.

The story of three children whose parents are arrested during the coup...

Documentary discussion with actress Kathleen Gáti as she recalls the eight months she spent tending to her mother dying of cancer.

Jim Dag is on the trail of a maniac killer, who uses both the city and the wood lands to hide.

Franěk from the mill loves Anička, the daughter of a poor widow, but his father, a miserly miller, is against their marriage. Anička turns to God for help, and soon after, two mysterious poor pilgrims visit her...

A retirement-home newcomer resembling a superhero inspires hope in those around him, while trying to maintain his own. A tale of forgotten heroes.

The documentary is dedicated to the ethnographic group of Ukrainians living in the Carpathians; the film tells about their history, traditions and prominent cultural figures who come from this ethnic group.

Documentary covering the career of French composer Georges Delerue, famous for film scores for such films as Platoon, Contempt, Shoot the Piano Player, and Jules and Jim.

A man tells his child an unusual bedtime story.

A couple of college students take pity on an ex-convict and try to help him locate his lover whom he hasn't seen or heard from in seven years.

The first documentary about the little-known world of transvestites in Montevideo. We are shown the most complicated facets of these people, their consciousness of themselves, and their perceptions of the world and of life. We learn about their everyday (and every night) experiences, and how they cope with the bigotry and old fashioned attitudes that are all around.

A woman leaves her apartment to go pick up a newspaper, opening and closing a multiple of locks on her way out and back.

The 15th Vienna District: The downfall and demolish of the old Meisen open-air market where other things took place besides shopping. A camera-eye observes its disappearance, the excavator churns up the old shops, and with it unearths their stories.

After the death of her husband, an elderly widow rediscovers her vitality and romance when she falls in love with a fellow nursing home resident.

Peter Merz is used to getting what he wants: this time, too, business success is as good as certain: the Japanese investors with whose help he wants to build a factory in Dresden will eat out of his hand. The beautiful and no less tenacious competitor Teamarianne, who is always one step ahead of him in all his endeavors, gets in his way. When Peter's wife unsuspectingly involves the heir to the Takahashi group first in a traffic collision and then in a flirtation, a series of turbulent confusions and mix-ups takes its course.

With the participation of famed architects such as Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind and Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move provides an intimate look into the work of the daring and controversial creator. Filmed in the U.S. and Germany, Eisenman takes the viewer through several of his buildings, including the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio, while explaining his upcoming projects such as the Rebstockpark community in Frankfurt and the Max Reinhardt monument in Berlin. His predecessors and contemporaries offer praise and commentary on Eisenman's complex body of work including their own thoughts and theories surrounding his unique style.

Inspired by the song The Boat Goes to the Bottom by Zap Mam, this film depicts variations on that sinking feeling. The film is made by drawing and painting on cells and paper, cut outs, photos, photocopy and optical printing.

It doesn't take long for a queer child to find the homoerotic content of this Saturday morning cartoon.

A samurai master faces various fighters in battle.

Asuka Period, Japan. Ooama no Miko meets Nukata no Ookimi when he goes with his older brother (Nakano Ooe no Miko) to her house. There Nakano Ooe is wooing Nukata's older sister, and so the two younger siblings meet and fall in love. Five years later, Ooama and Nukata are married, and a daughter has just been born. Ooama talks happily to Nukata about his plans with his brother to jointly rule their empire of Yamato. As Nukata listens to his naive, happy chatter, she becomes uneasy. Later, Nakano Ooe arrives and tells Nukata that she has grown and become very lovely. He has fallen in love with her, and wants her for his own. Caught between the two brothers, Nukata flees back to her father's house. (Takawiki)

The adventures of the super agents of the DIG squad (Daisy-Iron-Growl). Consists of three episodes: "The Cave of Horrors", "The Pharaoh's Scepter" and "The Steal of the Century".

Directed by Anam Muhammad Ali.

Imperfect 3-Image Films | EUA, 1995, 16 mm, pb-cor, 6' ... MOCAtv Presents 'In Focus' - Jonas Mekas - The Artist's Studio by MOCA 9,101 .

This is a modern fairy tale that follows a young girl's attempts to reach beyond the dreams of her childhood and the reality of her simple home life. She seeks her adventures on an elusive steam train.

Confined within the gripping walls of self-deprivation disturbed by disquieting dreams and erotic fantasies, mysterious and hauntingly beautiful Karla Estrada plays the woman with inexplicably bewitching charm in this quirky movie.

By painting and scratching directly on celluloid strips and then duplicating each image for two or more frames, Brakhage produced a flickering cycle of abstract shapes that bespeak the restlessness of his own character and sensibility; the titles of the segments (which Brakhage also intended to function as freestanding films) further emphasize his rejection of collective thinking in favor of personal vision. I..., proposes an unstable image of the self with its centerless collisions of diverse imagery. Small black shapes are superimposed over diffuse colors, and each moment seems to consume and obliterate the last in an emotionally charged rush that suggests a consciousness terrified of stasis and perpetually seeking renewal.

Rap, drugs and violence. One day in the suburbs of São Paulo.

The psychological and emotional motivations of gay sexual fetish, especially relating to gay male teens maturing into men and their sexual exploits.

What is the connection between the bloody gang war that once raged over control of the Chicago fish market, the decades of terror perpetrated by the Chinese, Russian, and Italian mafias, the secret operations of the CIA and the KGB, the Cuban revolution, and the Kennedy assassination? And who is the 100-year-old monk who is revered as a saint in a Nepalese monastery and in whose body the presence of a strange crystal can be detected? Szilveszter Siklósi's thrilling "documentary" provides striking and convincing answers to questions that have preoccupied the world's public for nearly a generation.

»Dream a Little Dream of Me« - a duet between the fat and dangerous cat, sung by Ella Fitzgerald and the bird, sung by Louis Armstong's characteristic, hoarse voice. This is the third short film in the Jannik Hastrup's Birdland series about jazz.

An intimate glimpse of Vaginal Davis's band !Cholita! The Female Menudo, with longtime collaborators Alex Bag as Sad Girl and Fertile La Toyah Jackson as Guadalupe. Directed by Michele "Meesh" Mills.

Early super8 location hunting sketches for what would then turn out to be the feature-lenght film "Squareworld" (1995), the sound recordings of this work where used in that film and in "Aquarium City" (1996). The original concept of "Suburban Midnight Serial Murder Case" was an over 5 hours long film that never actually developed into its final form, however its overall darkness and the core idea of creating a tale of complete darkness are to be seen as a prelude to the aforementionted 16mm films.

This DVD examines the multiple points of cultural contact between the United States and Mexico. From the Santa Barbara Fiestas and South Carolina's kitschy "South of the Border" tourist complex, to a Mexican Beatles cover band and Chicano rap, this film reveals the borderlands as a laboratory of hybridity that continues to ignite the popular imagination of each nation. Working at the boundaries of experimental film and documentary travelogue, this film weaves together found footage, interviews, performance art, and music video, producing a masterful commentary that is at once poetic, disturbing and hilarious. Includes appearances by Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Aztlán Underground, among others.

In the year 19XX (a long time ago), a meteorite fell in Tokyo Bay, Tokyo is destroyed & for some reason it is full of zombies. The government closed the entire Kanto area. The main character is an international terrorist who is locked up. Until she escapes from a prison in Tokyo while fighting zombies Act. 1 focuses on indoor combat.

"I know you want me". Eyes wander across bodies dancing in the bar, hinting at the surface, not touching. Forbidden desires become playful streetwise sex, exploring the dynamics of watching and being watched. Originally produced as part of the two channel video installation "Girllie Movies" in "Fantasmagoria: Sexing the Lesbian Imaginary", first exhibited at the New Gallery in Calgary in 1993 by the lesbian art collective Lock Up Your Daughters.

Black and white 16mm found footage film re-cutting dancing films, hand painted with color.

Who has the shiniest bumpers in Frogmorton? Why do some people require a vehicle that looks like it was designed for rounding up wild animals in Colorado in order to drive 300 yards to the solarium? Is it possible to perform satisfactory sex in the back seat of a Volkswagen Beetle without the aid of a workshop manual? If you yearn for the answers to these and other burning motoring questions, as well as the chance to drool over some of the world's most stunning classic automobiles and exotic modern supercars, then why not let Sir Marmaduke Lovetuesday - heir to a great British tradition of drunkenness, greed and incompetence - take you on a guided tour of the Surley Manor Automotive Gala... a tale of sin, sex and soiled spark plugs!

Angus Lynch, a psycho, escapes from prison and hooks up with his stripper sister named Kascha. Some death ensues eventually leading Angus to cross paths with a police captain named David who has a daughter named Jackie and whose wife was murdered when she was a child.

Goran is a literary student who writes erotic stories to support himself is introduced to Carmen, who was born in extramarital relationship of an opera singer. Goran tries to get rid her of drugs and prostitution. Deeply depressed Carmen blames his mother for her own misery, which gets even worse after her death. A sense of guilt because of her mother's death leads Carmen to insanity.

Part of the Operavox series.

This is a movie from Cambodia and it was actually directed by King Norodom Sihanouk, the king of Cambodia. It depicts the events of 1975 that ended with the fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge.

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Vampires are alive - but they want you dead! Welcome to Hell Week at Malibu State University! It's a vampire conspiracy for world domination - one dead college student at a time.

A barrage of images contrasts the experience of a Korean man who lived through the Japanese occupation, WWII, and the Korean War, with his present life – manning the cash register at a convenience store.

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A cruel drama about stray dogs, street children and a girl with AIDS.

Shot on Gouraud Street in Gemayzeh and edited by Zaatari in Beirut, Lebanon.

A classic short by FARSA Producciones reconditioned so that it can be viewed. With the performances of Berta, Walter Cornás, Dani The O, Diego Parés and El Marinero Turco.

Movie starring Vsihnuvardhan, Shashikumar, Vinaya Prasad and is directed by S Umesh.

A triptych of literary adaptations explores past, present and future in rural Turkey. “Düne Özlem” (from Hulki Aktunç’s Bir Yergöstericinin Hayatı): A once-famed traveling critic returns after years to the cinema that launched his career—and finds it unrecognizably transformed. “Bugüne Özlem” (from Kemal Tahir’s Arabacı): A horse-drawn cart driver picks up two stranger women en route to a village—unaware they intend to marry him off to their spinster relative. “Yarına Özlem” (from Zeyyat Selimoğlu’s Bıldırcınlar): An old captain haunted by a fatal shipwreck readies quail-hunting with his grandson, even as his daughter-in-law waits in vain for her migrant husband to return from Germany. Each segment poignantly probes longing— for what was, what is, and what might yet come.