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"Ollie's Army" examines the passion and the fury of the grassroots support behind Oliver North's historic 1994 Virginia Senate campaign. Although there was intense local and national media coverage of North's maiden political voyage, it took a neophyte filmmaker to uncover the campaign's most unsett ...
A short 1996 documentary about drum & bass featuring Squarepusher, photek & Source Direct.
Vijayakumar and Shashikala have a baby girl through artificial insemination. However, the little girl struggles to lead a happy life, as her father expresses hatred towards her.
Super 8mm black and white film of Baltimore performer Joe Medusa. Set to the music of ‘the Dramatics’.
A comedy directed by Helmut Förnbacher.
At an early age, Jang-ha learned from the death of his grandmother that once people pass away, you cannot meet them again. This coming-of-age film examines the memories of life and death Jang-ha collects as he grows up.
Jay Clay and Blue are wanderers in the wilderness. Blue vanishes and Jay is lost and alone. The anxiety in his mind and soul manifest in the form of the mighty giant, Canhead. Jay must overpower the giant if he is to live on and be reunited with Blue.
The American mountaineer Gary Hemming marked the era of the 1960s. The story of this "exceptional" character is intimately linked to that of the rescue of the two German mountaineers on the west face of the Drus, in 1966, a rescue which he had took the initiative. While the official emergency services of the EHM try to reach them from above, a pirate rope made up of Gary Hemming, René Desmaison, Lothar Mauch, Gil Bodin, Mike Brurke, François Guillot, the filmmaker Gérard Bauer organizes to join them from below and succeeded after a fierce struggle the rescue. The press seizes the event and elevates Gary Hemming to the rank of national hero. All the newspapers feature this big guy with a cool attitude, mismatched clothes, jovial smile and long blond hair on the front page. From then on, he was nicknamed: "the beatnik of the peaks".
Vahid is making a movie about the war. He invites a musician friend of himself Ali to compose a theme music for this film. But Ali can not make his mind. So they go to visit the real places...
Doctor, maid, slave, sister, father, mother, sick person, old people, wounds... Film is about perception and misperception and all kinds of loss. Based on the Franz Kafka story "A Country Doctor".
This documentary provides an excellent introduction to the art of thangka, sacred Tibetan Buddhist painting, in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. Carefully filmed, it takes you through every step of the painting process of thangkas. It offers insight into the symbolic and religious meaning of thangkas and their importance for Tibetan Buddhist life.
A black & white experimental short film from 1996
A psychiatrist tells his story to a police detective investigating a murder. He went to Bulgaria in search of his wife's past and met a beautiful young doctor who introduced him to a patient with amnesia.
The film delves into the remarkable artistic legacy of Leo Tolstoy.
Promotional Video for the Murradweg.
Nayat, a young Sahrawi girl, fantasizes about seeing the waves of a sea she has never known in the desert dunes. She knows that her colonized country has an immense sea and lives in a refugee camp in the Saharan desert. Marián, a young Sahrawi girl studying in Paris, returns to her village and establishes a strong emotional bond with the little girl.
Chronicles the last days of Eötvös Kollégium between 1945 and 1950.
Tina Krause is an 18th Century huntress who’s after some very dangerous game. She thinks she’s in control, but learns how wrong she really is! The hunter becomes the hunted! Tina starts out dressed in a very proper skirt, jacket, hat, and blouse only to find herself struggling for survival dressed only blood splattered and shredded undergarments. This is a supernatural thriller not to be missed!
An Italian actress arrives in Belém do Pará, to stage the last moments of Carlos Gomes, author of “O Guarani”.
A group of chamber musicians rehearse Bach at their homes.
Few people realize that the great movie-character archetypes over time have become real people and walk among us. At least that is the premise the filmmakers of this off-beat and comical parody of old films would have viewers believe. With a nod towards film noir, the story centers on a missing television western sheriff who inexplicably disappears mid-season. This greatly upsets Monica "Mo" Fitzgerald who is in charge of the huge entertainment conglomerate that invented the sheriff, so she hires hard-boiled detective "Same Follow" to find him. In true Raymond Chandler fashion he begins his search and even gets entangled with a blond femme fatale who explains to him how Mo' has brainwashed all the actors working for her into becoming their characters or "sprites" as she calls them. In looking more closely, Follow discovers that it is increasingly difficult to tell the sprites from real people.
1906 - Original cinematographer unknown. 1996 - New arrangement by Ken Jacobs. Shots shown as found in "A Trip Down Mount Tamalpais", the Paper Print Collection, Library of Congress. Optically copied by Sam Bush, Western Cine Lab., Denver, from l6mm to 35mm letterbox format to allow double-image mirroring in 1:85 ratio projection.
What is Cosplay? Well, Cosplay is short for costume play, and it occurs when thousands of anime fans crowd a convention center dressed as their favorite anime characters. This encyclopedia gives Western anime fans a detailed experience of this slightly bizarre phenomenon. Features characters from series like Magic Knight Rayearth, Sailor Moon, Sorcerer Hunters, and Evangelion.
For Rachel and June, the only way out is D.O.A., Dead On Arrival. Money runners and assassins for a powerful drug lord, they know way too much to just wash their hands and walk away from all the violence, death and destruction. But when Rachel is brutally murdered in a drug deal gone bad, June calls it quits and takes to the open road for survival. Escape isn't that easy, and her life becomes a living hell as she is sadistically "persuaded" by the FBI into setting up her ex-boss. Forced back into the game, yet driven by a righteous code of honor and a killer's instinct, June finds herself at the dead end of a one-way street ... from which the only way out is with both guns blazing!
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Documentary on the 18-month renovation of the large Pathé Wepler cinema on the Place de Clichy in Paris. This 1,600-seat cinema is a landmark in the heart of a working-class district of Paris. The cinema becomes a twelve-screen multiplex.
A lonely man talks to his camcorder and tells it everything he'd have liked to do if he hadn't fallen ill.
This is the story of a woman whose name has become synonymous with love and fidelity. In a moving tale, Ruth follows her mother-in-law Naomi back to Naomi's native Bethlehem after the sad deaths of both women's husbands. Working hard in the fields to feed herself and Naomi, Ruth finds her feelings for her kinsman Boaz run deeper than gratitude for his help with the work. Prepared to marry him for Naomi's sake, Ruth's loyalty touches Boaz and he decides to challenge the claim of a closer relative for Ruth's hand. The grace and simplicity of Ruth's story are conveyed perfectly by wonderful model animation.
A short documentary on the life and art of Steina and Woody Vasulka, produced in 1996. The Vasulkas speak candidly about their work and worldviews, and the piece features excerpts from their early works and a glimpse into their '90s output.
The story of Jack McBride Neill, the Ulster cinema architect who throughout the 1930s and 1940s designed some 16 cinemas around Northern Ireland.
A company helps people by arranging romantic dates, offering them to find for the ideal lover.
Three nude women do various stretches.
A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Jean-Pierre Limosin, originally aired 26 January 1996.
Prelude 19 begins with hand-painted swatches of variable colors encompassed eventually by vertical strokes of reds and blues, followed by sudden clearings which are counterpointed by sections of multiple blobs of color, these effects alternating again and again to then become contrasted with pale washes of color deepening to end on blacks.
Omnibus vehicle for Lisa Cook, featuring monsters, masked home invaders and vampires.
Three men, who have lost faith in law and order, decide to fight for justice on their own terms.
Cima goes back to dealing with mankind and nature… The twenty-three minute long video balances in the two times the Odolo people’s united, laborious humanity, home and breeding ground for survival instincts but also for love of work and things. (Alberto Pesce)
This film recounts a political fight led by men and women with an uncertain future. Men and women affected by AIDS and who do not accept fate. Activists who are part of Act Up-Paris, an association fighting against AIDS.
Though perhaps best known for his star turn in Broadway's "The Phantom of the Opera," Michael Crawford has more than 30 years' worth of credits to his name. He also has plenty of stories to tell, as Tony Palmer's witty documentary reveals. Clips from rehearsals, performances, films and home movies illuminate Crawford's reflections on "Phantom," the Vegas spectacle "EFX," "Barnum," his work with Benjamin Britten, international success and more.
Five film-loving friends are ready to fully experience the 1995 Cartagena de Indias Film Festival, and since they want to be documentary makers, they simultaneously begin making one, about the city, about the characters they become, as they discuss the course of chance encounters that, for an intense moment, determine their lives.
Cemal, who went to Germany, leaves his wife with his conservative family. The young woman, who is under great pressure, looks for economic freedom and ends up in a brothel and starts working there. Cemal, on the other hand, is given a gun and said to his wife, "Clean your honor," despite his family. He takes off his wedding ring and gives it to the food, he says "Tell Him I Love You".
A guy tries to prove the existence of daywalking vampires roaming the streets of Sandusky, Ohio.
“In 1989 I finished the film Kitchener-Berlin and put a close to a cycle of work which dealt directly with myself, and how self is expressed/constructed cinematically. At the same time I took my old super-8 camera out of the closet, and began collecting images, using the single-frame-zoom. Cubist in its visual delivery, the single-frame-zoom builds a splayed reality that brings together disparate vantage points simultaneously, and serves as the glue that blends and bonds peoples, places and spaces in Chimera.” (PH)
This 45 minute documentary by Mark Hejnar is a sort of Whitman's Sampler of sickness, chronicling such wildly diverse and extreme personalities as G.G. Allin, Mike Diana, Full Force Frank, GLOD, Annie Sprinkle, and others. This collection of short clips and vile moments is certainly NOT for the squeamish, as these are the artists and performers who have taken the term "free expression" to it's limits--and beyond.
The docu-drama takes place during the war in the former Yugoslavia. A young journalist arrives in destroyed Sarajevo and finds out how people live in the middle of war. He encounters everyday problems that an individual, especially young people, has to deal with.
Circumstance compel Gita to marry Siddhant/ Raju. But the marriage is a contact one for one year. After the contract elapses Raju left Gita. But He can't forget Geeta's Love & sacrifice and wants reunite, but Gita refuses.
It's between a family drama movie.
The life of a poor guy who falls into drugs and decides to move on, pursue his dreams of being the best lawyer.
Dušan Hanák's final film: a bitter documentary about the history of Communism in Czechoslovakia.
A young man intrigued by the Neo-Nazi movement inadvertently takes a time-traveling trip back to the Holocaust and finds himself on a heart-wrenching, eye-opening journey with Anne Frank.