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Texas Scramble is based on the notion of memory as the basis for our perception, it progresses through situations and moments consisting of repetitions of varying type. clinging outside narrative and letting chance associations form the path.
A pivotal moment in the lives of three people.
A short fiction in the mode of a 'diary', a film-maker's thoughts and feelings regarding his failure to obtain funding for his films.
Pre-schoolers are playing in a parc. Time stops and transforms their games into conflicts. 16mm / b&w / sound
Short film.
Miniature feature, based on Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett.
The “Friendly Letter” is what you get when you don’t care enough to send the very best.
A Scotland Against Drugs public information film.
Various graphic autopsies are examined in this mondo/shockumentary film.
In the closing years of the Yuan Dynasty in China, the courts were corrupted, natural disasters were rampant, there were uprising everywhere. The people live in fear. Many swordsmen and kung fu masters voiced their complaints, but they were not united. Rather, they fought for supremacy by trying to be the sole owner of the Dragonslayer Sword. Steven and Susan were from two different kung fu clans. Fate brought them together amidst chaos and mayhem for the Dragonslayer Sword. One driven by love, the other by doing the right thing, the two fought against all odds to live a normal life. Reality dealt them a hand that results in bloodshed and tragedy. It was up to their son Woody to discover the secret of the Sword...
"Pre X Factor, pre-digital, pre-#MeToo, The Making of a Boyband lurks in a creepier, more cynical time. Broadcast on the BBC in 1996, the documentary follows two wannabe Watermans as they audition 7,000 floppy-haired hunks for their new boyband. “It’s a product – you have to package and sell the product,” says the one who made his millions in car hire. The product this time is Upside Down – four really-too-nice-for-this lads who tickled the UK top 20 before hitting their best before date. The boys preen, they pose, they worry that their single is “too black” for the 12-year-olds besotted with them. The quality of the product never matters. It’s designed to break." (British Film Institute)
Take off on a ski adventure in Siberia with two of the world's best extreme athletes. The crew takes a harrowing ride by helicopter to their destination. Will the day be too extreme?
A boy's difficult childhood leads him down a path that is difficult to escape.
Golden Shoes is a dark picture of a melancholy dream inspired by old stop motion animation.
Mazal is faced with the impossible task of locating her hus- band, who disappeared in 1976 under politically delicate circumstances. In order to do so, she fights against Jew- ish-rabbinical law and the Israely authorities that apparently hide information about her husband’s whereabouts.
Originally found on a crusty old Windows 95 computer originally belonging to Lockheed Martin, this 3D aircraft screen saver featuring planes from the Blue Impulse aerobatic demonstration team was rediscovered in 2022 by Clint from LGR.
Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).
An aqtuqsi is a dream from which one must wake up, a paralyzing nightmare. “I decided to put my aqtuqsi in video. It’s so interesting because it is not a nightmare or a regular dream: an aqtuqsi is something that can paralyze you when you’re sleeping.”
16mm film by Tachibana Kaoru
A killer is lurking at a hotel window to kill a famous celebrity. Everything is ready, nothing is left to chance: the killer is a perfectionist. When the famous celebrity, escorted by bodyguards, comes out from the hotel, the killer, through the viewfinder, seeks his head: his life is hanging by a thread ... of a button.
A four-minute 16mm film of one of London's fruit and vegetable markets, made in 1995/96, a little while before its transformation into a temple of gastro-consumerism/gastro-tourism.
Short animation by Guttorm Larsen
After recording an Italian-American religious festival in Boston’s North End with her video camera, filmmaker Beth Harrington’s neighbors tell her that they see a miracle on the videotape — a statue of the Virgin Mary blinking its eyes. To Harrington’s amazement, and in spite of her lapsed religious beliefs, she must admit that her life has been transformed by the event. And when the press gets a hold of the story what ensues is a funny and touching look at what it means to believe and to belong.
This documentary looks at how queers in San Francisco identify as switches, moving through categories of butch/femme, top/bottom, and male/female.
Lower Austria, Vienna. Time frame: from 1961 to the present. The family: 19 children born between 1961 and 1989. The father: a deeply religious man. His wife and children: possessions.
The lonely wife of a doctor turns her life around when she has a love affair with her painting teacher.
In the second half of the 1970s, the squatters' movement emerged as a result of the housing shortage while a mass of property was empty. The squatters soon acquired a bad name for their violent outbursts, such as during the inauguration of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. It Was Our City unravels the history of the Amsterdam squatters' movement through interviews with the squatters, for whom the political battle was more important than creating living space.
In the middle of the computer era, Holland receives a visit from an old-fashioned Japanese film monster. A devastating tourist visit.
This time around its a Spook-0-Rama Spectacular from the Golden Age of the Drive-In and Movie Theaters dedicated to King of Come-ons, DONN DAVISON! Thrill to chilling coming attractions and promotions for: House of Exorcism (with a scary lead in by the master himself!) Spook Show attractions with Frankenstein, The Beatles, Monsters, Ghosts’ promo for IT, I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF, INVASION OF THE SAUCERMEN, THE SPIDER, WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST, Squeal to Mad Daddy’s Shock Theater; Kara-Kum of Hollywood and Lady Godiva! Count down the minutes to showtime! See an amazing assortment of celebrity endorsements featuring Elizabeth Montgomery for US Savings bonds, Julie Andrews for the Motion Picture Association, John Wayne for Will Rogers Memorial Hospital, Eddie Fisher for the National Education Association, Tyrone Power for the American Red Cross; the Roy Rogers Riders Club, Cary Grant and Gary Cooper for Christmas Seals,
The amateur films shot on 9.5mm film by László Rátz, standard bearer of the Hungarian army, constitute extraordinary documentary material on the defeat suffered by the Magyar troops during the Russian campaign, a consequence of the catastrophic alliance between the collaborationist regime in Budapest and the Third Reich.
Based on a vision by Hildegard von Bingen.
Twenty minutes of inventive puppet animation, it was finished in January 1996. The story, taken from an Icelandic saga, tells of the adventures in Norway of Hreidar, a "big, ugly and slowwitted" Icelander. Hreidar wants to meet King Magnus, whom he impresses with his enormous strength and candid behavior; then he has a fight with a soldier of another king, Harald, and kills him.
Hungarian documentary mini-series.
8mm film by Maeda Toshiyuki
In this short two young black men live together in France. When one decides that he's pregnant and the craving that he has for caviar must be satisfied, his lover goes in search. While he may not be pregnant he does reward his boyfriend upon his return for being such a good provider.
The family have come to Wellington, New Zealand for a combined holiday and business trip. They are met by Bill's friend, another agent, called Dennis.
A short documentary about brazilian miners.
A passionate memoir, gently tracing the tribulations that accompany love, loss, and family relationships. VHS: sd., col. ; 1/2 in
The main characters in the political scene during the seventies in Argentina tell their stories for the very first time.
Singly-printed multi-colored watery "blobs" and "feathery" streaks of painted color, dominated by yellows and reds interweaving in complexity until there's an evolution of hard-edge autumn leaf patterns which dissipate into patterns similar to the beginning of the film.
Oscar winner Charlton Heston narrates this thought-provoking documentary that takes a creationist view to human history. The program originally aired on NBC amid a considerable cloud of controversy in 1996. Among its most provocative assertions is that humans actually lived with dinosaurs, a conclusion based on artifacts recovered from Peruvian grave robbers and other evidence that has long been locked away in museum storage.
Eyewitness accounts of death and destruction wreaked by two killer tornadoes! This program also includes interviews and impressions of survivors, as well as emergency drills and civil defence techniques, that are now being used to prepare for such natural disasters.
Short documentary directed by Joseph Bitamba.
A BBC pirate radio documentary about Kool FM's origins plus interviews with the DTI and those associated with Kool FM.
A gang of degenerate metalheads dabble in the occult, make enemies with local toughs, and embark on a revenge plot after they are transformed into vampires.
At the house on Golden Pond, where an elderly couple lives, their daughter Chelsea arrives with her fiancé and his son Billy. This changes the couple's life. The boy brings joy and chaos into the home of the elderly couple.
A film that tackles the taboo subject of menstruation. A compelling source of information that is essential for all teachers, mothers, daughters, and the men who love them. It challenges society's thoughts on such issues as safety, Toxic Shock Syndrome, tampons, pads, different cultures, and misconceptions. Author Judy Blume and The Museum of Menstration curator are featured in the film.
James Bond infiltrates the lair of evil mastermind Curd Stromberg.