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Poet, political activist, and former addict Bud Osborn tells his remarkable story of survival and how it has inspired his struggle to defend Canada's most impoverished community, Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, where the worst epidemic of HIV/AIDS among drug users in the western world is occurring.
Two Canadians come to the small village of Barvas on the Isle of Lewis to track their long-lost relatives. One of a series of ten animation films made by children in small village primary schools in Scotland, also involving the local community. The series was broadcast on Scottish Television and Grampian Television, and distributed on video through schools and libraries.
"La Mera Frontera" is a meditation on the border and memory which takes as its point of departure the last battle between the United States and Mexico. In 1918, neighbors from the border towns of Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora shot at each other for a day. Among the many citizens who lay dead was Maria Esquivel, who "returns" in the present to interview surviving witnesses, all now 80 to 90 years old. As a stymied historical detective Maria wrestles with the failure of Nogales' citizens' accounts to coalesce or recollect her and her absence in the local archives and films. Unable to uncover her past, Maria takes history into her own hands.
An investigation and reflection on the figure of the Senegalese poet and politician Léopold Sédar Senghor. The filmmaker collects his memories, explores his own memory and that of his family to write a “letter” to Léopold Sédar Senghor the poet, the academician, but also the former head of state of Senegal. Words and images are addressed to the ancestor, the grandfather in the African sense of the term, the one to whom we can tell everything, the most secret words, the most sincere confidences like the most biting pikes. , provided you know how to respect the codes that allow this game of truth.
Romantic drama by Kai Kinnert.
Experimental short by Nobutaka Yamaoka.
Short film.
A trio of short films by Janice Inskeep. Stories include "Urine Sample", "Potential Christ Cabaret" & "Lethal Injection".
Told from the perspective of a returning native, Witch City is an uncompromising documentary about Salem, Massachusetts, a town that put the phrase "witch hunt" into the American vocabulary and a place where today a Disneyesque version of history serves the purposes of both commercial and religious interests.
Short film by Frank Berry. Premise unknown.
Documentarian Steven Lipscomb explores an intense rivalry between two divergent factions of Southern Baptists. The more conservative Christians, who oppose the idea of women becoming religious leaders, find themselves at odds with the more progressive group, who want to see females leading services. Lipscomb interviews those on both side of the debate, including his own mother, who hopes to maintain a longstanding family tradition by becoming a Baptist pastor herself.
Over a century, the saga of a Lorraine lineage of wood industrialists. Rise and fall, through the vicissitudes of a province torn between its French identity and its annexation to Germany.
A photograph of a tomb sculpture of a young angel with a copper rose in his hand. Reanimating the copper rose lends this abandoned sculpture a new liveliness. This work is a comment on photography and its magic.
A sonnet, the fifties family travel, through, say america, or time, a fascination with the exciting future, the image is purposefully jerky and toy-like with the casio keyboard beats a (faux, dated) take on the serial pieces to come later. The entirely is falling apart, or so close to falling, toy machines. There's not so much really put down, but a lot of pointing and elbowing.
Doron Maizel is not an ordinary soldier, but a respected and esteemed colonel and doctor, who has been having a love affair over the past seven years with a handsome young man, Adir Steiner. In this way, he challenges the rules and conventions and risks compromising his own chances at a career. The army understands and tolerates a strange and contradictory relationship like this, where the being of one part of the couple the soldier walks the line between duty and passion every day. The relationship goes on until disease enters the scene.
Two couples, along with a hired help, go to a secluded island to hunt. Complications arise when the girlfriends seem to fancy the hired help and the group encounters a young lady who is living on the island with her father.
Hawak Ko Buhay Mo is a 1997 Philippine action film starring Ronnie Ricketts, who wrote and directed the film under the name Ronn Rick.
Director Mauro Gia Samonte, Writer Mauro Gia Samonte(story and screenplay), Stars Rey 'PJ' Abellana Perla BautistaElvira Camacho
Angela: Sabik sa pagmamahal: Directed by Cesar S.B. Abella. With Angela Berenguer, Patrick Dela Rosa, Dick Israel, Janice Jurado.
Stories told by sailors who spend a life of loneliness and nostalgia several months of the year sailing a ship to support their homes. And they look forward to being able to reunite with their families. Through the testimony of Hector Murillo and his companions, this documentary addresses the life of a sailor in his usual environment, a ship.
What do you say when you are picked up by a giant bird, dropped in it's nest, fall from a very high height, smash into buildings and crash face-first into the sun? It wouldn't be "Happy Valentine's Day"! The Pipe Cleaner Family is at it again as Dad tries to cross the street with the very best Valentine present for the very best Valentine.
During the 1980s the Guatemalan army launched ruthless counter-insurgency campaigns against indigenous communities, killing or displacing thousands. This film documents the struggle of a group of Maya-Q’eqchi’ villages to reconstruct their communities and come to terms with their violent past.
The adaptation of Molière's comedy-ballet in three acts.
One Filipino and three Chinese families and their gay & lesbian children engage in dialogue about shame, grief, love, growth, living with HIV/AIDS, the acceptance of homosexuality by family members, & the cultural perceptions of homosexuality. The Gay Asian Pacific Alliance in San Francisco awarded this documentary with the 1997 George Choy Memorial Award.
"In this piece, the figure of a person is transforming into the chunks of black and white, and the black area and the white area start to move around by themselves. Maybe I was interested in the relationship between the internal world (body) and the external world (environment), as well as the relationship between the existence and nonexistence." - Tamami Asada
Antics of a computer animated snowman.
Computer animated short that explores the physics of cartoons.
Standard 8 found footage featuring a home movie wedding sequence in the 1960s. The film then goes behind the scenes to capture what happens afterwards in the newlywed`s honeymoon hotel room.
Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance
In 1994, Caroline Leaf accepted the Sir Allen Sewell Fellowship to give a series of studio workshops and lectures to animation students at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University in Brisbane. In this film she talks about her work and demonstrates such techniques as sand animation, paint and cut-out animation and scratch animation.
After failing to get into college, Lu Lin has to take up the same job as his father, a railway mechanic, when his dream is to work in the Air Force. Lu Lin takes it one day at a time and lives in constant fear of what the future will bring.
A homage to the Austrian experimental filmmaker Kurt Kren, his two films "1000 Years of Cinema" and "Snapspots" and his way of working; and that with a slight wink.
Ryan is a drifter going from town to town looking for the perfect girlfriend. When he meets Kylie, he is instantly smitten. Only problem is, Kylie already has a boyfriend named Rick. But Ryan won't let anyone stand in his way to be with Kylie. How far will Ryan go for love?
Somebody reads a copy of The Necronomicon while the room around him reacts.
The girl isn't bad. She's just taken her life into her own hands.
In the 1990s, foreign migrant workers began to occupy the Taiwanese workforce under the government’s new policy. Many indigenous labourers lost their jobs and were forced to return to their homelands, squeezing out a living on odd jobs, frustrated and powerless. Please Give Us a Job records their unheard voices against a backdrop of economic growth, and observes the rivalry and tension between foreign workers and indigenous workers.
Recorded live in Melbourne, Australia, at the National Tennis Centre in November 1989, this concert film captures the Bee Gees’ “One for All World Tour,” celebrating their eighteenth studio album One. This fully restored, newly mixed and mastered show features the Gibb brothers performing tracks from as far back as their 1966 breakthrough hit “Spicks and Specks” as well as their classic seventies and eighties songs.
The film investigates how allegations of racism are handled by the Brazilian justice, reporting the unprecedented story of persistence and dignity of a black man: Vicente do Espírito Santo became an exceptional case for being the first victim of racism to break the siege and arriving victoriously at the Superior Labor Court and at Rede Globo's prime time.
Four honest cops, who are also best friends, consider their duty to the nation above everything. They discovered that one of them is a traitor and has killed the Police Commissioner. The friendship between the four suddenly turns out to be sour. How will the friends find a traitor among them?
Multimedia artist Jiang Zhi's first video art film. From his website: "Man is living humbly like a slave submitted to himself and his surroundings. But this humble life, living in solitude, silence, fantasy, weariness, and passion are sometimes so overwhelming that at times we really just want to fly. It’s one way to transcend or escape. Can we really escape this gravity and lift up? Which direction will we choose to fly?"
Documentary about the abuse of psychiatry for political purposes in the former Soviet Union. Hanna Michailenko, an Ukrainian schoolteacher from Odessa was locked up in a psychiatric ward from 1980 until 1988 for refusing to work for the Soviet Secret Service, the KGB.
In its present discourse Ivory Towers embodies and reflects concepts that contest the dialectics of power games and power structures that permeate narratives of individual development under fascist regimes.
SHIFT explores the loss associated with movement from one place to another and the loss associated with an intimate experience of death. Death deconstructs. Things fall apart including the sense of a unified self. Ideas of continuity and stability are eroded. Images shot in Scotland, Saskatchewan and Montreal are combined with studio footage to create an associative narrative about an experience for which ordinary language is inadequate.
Tender and unflinching, four characters’ struggles, wounds and romantic entanglements are gradually revealed in the context of their everyday lives. Filmed in Mogul’s Highland Park neighborhood, a predominantly Latino area of Los Angeles. Produced in association with the Independent Television Service for public television with major funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.