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Archival footage and interviews with 22 lesbians and gay men give an overview of gay history in the UK from the 1920's. Clause 28, the Well of Lonliness, AIDS, the Pet shop Boys, it's all there in some form or another.
The movie ‘Shankar’ released in 1997 was a super hit movie of the time. The movie established the image of Rajesh Hamal as Shankar. was a hit movie of the time.
A new teen drama starring pop group MAX (Mina, Lina, Nana, Reina).
Beautiful, ragged animation, all flowing lines morphing one thing into another. Land becomes bull becomes man becomes cat, set to propulsive music by Goran Mikulec.
Seventh and last Wittstock film.
A portrait of the first year of peace in Bosnia. This is a human story played out before a background of a war which still makes itself felt, a story of a possible life together, which has on the other hand become impossible in many cases. Rajko, the Serbian mechanic and his family must leave their home for the second time. Nermin, the actor, lost both legs in the war and might have the chance to learn a new role. Halid, a shepherd from the Muslim-controlled region, risks his life to visit friends on the western (Croatian) side of Mostar.
Elisabeth Subrin’s masterful film is a shot-by-shot reenactment of an unreleased 1967 documentary portrait of SAIC student Shulamith Firestone, who, a few years later, would become a central figure in the rise of radical feminism. Through its meticulous staging, the film expresses in Subrin’s words, “the residues of the past,” and the resonance of issues around gender and class today. (Gene Siskel Film Center)
If Proposition 187 makes it through the courts, will hall duty become border patrol in California public schools? Fourth-grade-teacher-turned-filmmaker Laura Simon puts human faces on the issue as she takes us inside her classroom and into the faculty lounge at Hoover Elementary in Los Angeles. Law and learning converge as students, teachers and parents grapple candidly with the impact of policies that would deny public services to undocumented immigrants and their children.
Tom Patterson’s vision transforms a quiet railway town into a world-renowned cultural destination.
STEINA: “My background is in music. For me, it is the sound that leads me into the image. Every image has its own sound and in it I attempt to capture something flowing and living. I apply the same principle to art as to playing the violin: with the same attitude of continuous practice, the same concept of composition.
Play by Georg Buchner in Lensovet Theatre, directed by Yuri Butusov.
It is the story of Ajani, an undergraduate at the University of Ibadan who is in his final year. He is under pressure from his mother to find a partner, and unwittingly finds himself in a love dilemma - dating three women simultaneously; Asake, a secondary school teacher, is his long-term girlfriend. He meets Lola, a fresher who is tall, slim, and pretty. The situation gets complicated when he meets a childhood acquaintance, who eventually takes center stage in the 'drama of love'. Asake's father badgers her to sever her relationship with Ajani but she however falls pregnant and Lola finds out and Ajani has to choose a wife under duress from his mother.
Documentary showing viewers how pervasive sexually oriented programming is on foreign broadcast and cable TV, presenting outrageous clips from talk shows, game shows, cartoons and soap operas in Sweden, the Netherlands, England, Russia, Hong Kong, Thailand, and other countries.
from the civil war to the end of the 1800s, this is the story of the pistols, rifles & shotguns & those who used them.
An excursion into the world of hand-made film emulsion and an exposition of some formal possibilities of using three images side by side. A dancer's brief gesture is treated, repeated, and juxtaposed, becoming the fabric of visual construction that is less about representation than rhythm and time. Originally a work for three projectors, it is here composited onto a single strand of film.
The time of major social changes and social upheavals inevitably entails a chain of personal dramas and tragedies. The hero of the film is an actor and director, a Yerevan resident, for whom the priority of the Spirit over the physical "I" is an axiom. Life without serving art, reduced to a struggle for survival, is unacceptable to him.
A parody of experimental video, Ted Mills and Gary Tseng's short mixes Japanese and Taiwanese television, straight and gay porn, and educational films into an insane, heady brew, scored by Dave LaDelfa.
Edward James Olmos hosts this inspirational documentary, chronicling the lives and careers of six of the greatest Latin boxers of all time. Dazzling footage and interviews illustrate the ups and downs of fighters Roberto Duran, Julio Cesar Chavez, Alexis Arguello, Carlos Ortiz, Kid Gavilan and Salvador Sanchez, and shows how these formidable brawlers beat the odds through hard work, clean living and perseverance -- both in the ring and out.
Everyone dreams of winning the lottery, but what would really happen if you did?
In Maas Observation Doing and Pope demonstrate their fascination in the bizarre landscape of the port of Rotterdam, a stretch of 'neo-nature' with little place for humans, where huge machines seem to move around according to a logic of their own. The film begins with images of windmills on the edge of the Maas plain in a montage sequence based on the steady rhythm of the rotating sails. The focus gradually shifts towards activities on the river further upstream. The montage tempo slows down as the mechanical motion gives way to the play of reflections in the water.
The secret story of Evita Peron's dead body.
This compelling and thought-provoking documentary provides riveting portraits of a diverse group of six men who once were women and chose to change their gender. The award-winning film is an unforgettable story of self-discovery and challenges all of us to re-examine the foundations of our ideas and feelings about gender, sexuality, and identity.
A document of the Riot Grrrl and Queercore scene in the 1990s.
One-of-a-kind film, photographs and audio recordings were found in a private collection in Prague. This material documents life in the Theresienstadt concentration camp from the perspective of a woman who would now be 124 years old.
Arising from the earth, a body discovers its nakedness. A suit of armour becomes a metaphor for the trappings of identity. Pixilated to produce the effect of a human marionette, accompanied by a good-natured verse.
Suzanne and Albertine, her daughter, return to Omaha Beach, one of the D-Day beaches where their family has spent holidays for a Long time. The place is the scene of major family events. This time, Albertine has something to tell her mother.
In the village of Doupo, Pianxian Township, Pengyang County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, there is a villager named Xu Wenwen. He is a Feng Shui master and who goes by the name “Yin Yang.” Due to the drought in the mountainous areas, it is difficult for farmers to use water for both domestic and agricultural purposes. In order to solve the problem of farmers' water use, Pengyang County Water Conservancy Bureau plans to help farmers repair the water cellar through government subsidies, so that the rainy season can be stored in the cellar and then used for farming, but due to limited funds, it is not Every family can receive subsidies, so everyone decides the right to play in the cellar by grasping the way. The cellar is laid, the water storage is increased, and the corn is also planted. The life of the mountain people seems to have hope.
HIV positive comic Steve Moore talks about his world view, his life and the disease that has become a major part of his life.
Fashion & Romance
Portrait of the Swedish folk rock group Nordman.
The film is a documentary about Angola. It tells of the heavy cost of war to women. After ten years of struggle for independence, the war in Angola had continued for another twenty years. The film explores the motives of the combatants, including Cuba and South Africa's apartheid government. In this film, Folly lets women tell their own stories. She shows the women from mid- or close-range, forcing the viewer to focus on their faces rather than their bodies or surroundings, and takes the time to let them say what they have to say, giving a unique women's perspective of the conflict. Folly participates in the film through her voice-over, giving a subjective element. She admits that she is not familiar with Angola, and certainly is not an authority. The film thus becomes a record of Folly's own journey of discovery.
A lesbian breakup, lusty Barbie dolls, and the hope of a new day.
“Presents scenes from the life of William Heirens, dubbed the “Lipstick Killer” .. Trainor imagines Heirens’s private moments through a series of dreamlike vignettes. Taking cues from a study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry in 1946, Trainor depicts the juvenile Heirens’s pathological obsessions and behavioral abnormalities—his penchant for stealing women’s underwear, his compulsion to break into apartments and defecate in them .. “I got interested in a process of rote, uncritical tracing, where my drawings would get bent out of shape without much attempt to control them...I like Sharpie pens because the thick line, though unforgiving, goes down quickly; I can draw lots of pictures quickly. I stopped being concerned about their awkwardness.” These strategies, he explained, allowed the violent disturbances of Heirens’s psyche to be articulated through trembling visual designs, a fitting marriage of style and subject." - Light Industry
Fernando and his wife are a current marriage with its joys and sorrows. One night, the moonlight inspires the desire to dawn with a different woman every day.
This collection of shorts and film excerpts from illusionist and cinematic innovator Georges Méliès showcases his groundbreaking techniques that paved the way to modern filmmaking. Considered to be the father of cinematic special effects, Méliès used time-lapse and other methods now fundamental to Hollywood. "The Music Lover," "A Trip to the Moon," "The Infernal Cakewalk" and other examples of Méliès's influence are included in this compilation.
Contained inside this box are the spirits of the Dark Carnival. To watch this video is to unleash ICP's voodoo magic into your life forever, A brave camera crew follows ICP and their deranged fans throughout Detroit and all across the country to try to capture some of the deadly insanity that surrounds ICP on film. This Shockumentary is the best mortal man can do to explain what happens in the bizarre and twisted world of ICP. With never-seen-before UNCENSORED and UNEDITED ICP interviews, concert footage and naked chicks, this video documents the true hardcore reality about the most hated band in the world: The Insane Clown Posse.
Experimental short shown at OMSK.
Filmed in London in 1997, this documentary chronicles a series of lectures given by the 14th Dalai Lama. Over the course of six hours, he covers the four basic principles of Buddhist thought: The existence of suffering, the cause of suffering, the cessation of suffering and the way that leads to the cessation of suffering. He then explains the Buddhist worldview and how one can reach the path to inner peace through meditation.
The comic story of Jack, Pat and Brian, three friends in search of the meaning of life, love and happiness. The film follows Jacks' efforts to win the affections of Eileen, the new hairdresser in town during Tubbers first annual "Queen of the Heather Festival".
James Fotopoulos’ first feature film is a two and half hour endurance test about a lonely man’s decent into horror, mutilation and psychological collapse. The lines of reality and fantasy blur when the man’s hand-tinted primordial dreams of humanoid sex and violence manifest in his everyday reality as cancer, abuse and mannequin love.
Noriko Kitazawa, who at the young age of 28 manages operations as a capable section chief. Although she is beautiful, she is reputed to be manly, but when she is alone in the company, it is her daily routine to immerse herself in masturbation while playing a song that reminds her of her deceased lover, Kenji, as background music. To vent her sexual frustration, she subjects her subordinates, Gōda and Isomura, to relentless sarcastic remarks.
ASTROTURF is a 3D computer animation which tells the story of how humans are devolving through their interaction with technology. ASTROTURF presents a number of test cases which explore the themes of technological dystopia and devolution.
Two figures, strapped to each other at the leg, try to avoid being hit by tennis balls fired from a machine.
Documenting the efforts ot save the architecture of Uchch Shareef in Lahor.
MS-DOS demoscene short film that showcases computer animation, art and music.
One night at a seedy dockside pub, a crusty old pirate tries to earn a free tankard of ale by telling a scary sea story to his mates, but he is thwarted by a young sailor who claims to have already heard every story. The youngster finally goes too far when he prevents the telling of an especially risque tale, and the other pirates take their revenge.
Man vomits and feeds on his vomit with great joy.
A film by Edgardo Cozarinsky.
A dazzling film version of three favourite ballets from the Diaghilev Ballets Russes seasons in Paris.
A short created by John R. Dilworth involving the daily lives of a yellow man and a purple cat.
This is the story finally revealed one of the greatest French writers of the twentieth century. A writer who, in a world that is wary of ideology, has finally found the place that was due to him and respect for those who prefer justice and truth to dogma and extremism.
Registration of the theatre program by the Dutch comedian Youp van 't Hek.
The “Women in Black” have been protesting against the Serbian regime's war policy in the center of Belgrade for five years - in black clothing, silently and with banners. They support deserters from all former Yugoslav republics, organize aid campaigns for refugees and publish books and their own magazine. The film portrays some of these strong personalities in the form of travel notes, beginning with the last international congress of the “Women in Black” in the summer of 1996 and ending with the large demonstrations in Belgrade in the winter of 1996/97.
Highly acclaimed UK skateboarding documentary. Starring; Mark Channer, Ben Rodriguez, Alex Moul, Mat Fowler, Colin Kennedy, Danny Wainwright, Frank Stephens & more. Originally released on VHS in 1997. Digitally remastered and released on DVD in 2013.