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Mortice is the tale of a young couple whose search for a suitable property takes an unexpected turn. They unwittingly find themselves trapped in a world of terror, suspense and wall-mounted ceramic ducks. The story is a potent cocktail of horror and black comedy that will entertain and alarm in equal measure.
The film tells the story of two young assassins' first assignments. The mysterious contractor wants his wife dead. The task seems easy, but the abandoned house of the victim's father hides terrible secrets. Vampires, monsters, and other delicacies. The two cheerful newcomers get into big trouble, but eventually the truth comes out.
In 1978, Robakowski moved into a new flat in a newly-built high rise in the center of Łódź. That’s when he began filming the people and events he could see from his kitchen window. The film was made on the basis of a dozen or more hours of footage shot during 1978–1999. The artist filmed the front yard of his block of flats in a part of Łódź called “Manhattan”—a cluster of tall, cement housing buildings vaguely resembling New York’s skyscrapers. The images are accompanied by the artist’s commentary, which brings the viewer closer to his neighbors and family, including his then-wife, Małgorzata Potocka. The film comments on the gradual yet profound political and social transformations that took place in Poland over these two decades.
Famed American writer Ambrose Bierce disappeared in Mexico during the revolution of 1913-1914 and was never heard from again. This short film interweaves a thread from Bierce's most famous story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" with speculation as to a possible scenario for Bierce's fate.
The architecture of city windows at night, lives glimpsed at a distance—a man talks on the phone as his wife reads the paper, another watches TV, a woman stares out into the dark. Are these scenes set-up? Are the people actors? Do they know they are being watched?
What kind of habits does one develop when confronted with extreme situations on a daily basis ? In a geriatric department, the management of this borderline state becomes the structuring element of everyday life. The staff focuse on technical gestures to keep bodies at bay. Nurses use a specialized vocabulary, which serves less to express a feeling than to domesticate the violence of it, reducing the disorder of emotions to a reduced number of formulas. Patients use devious means to assert their independence. A woman fiercely refuses to take a shower. This is an ultimate form of resistance, to feel that she still has decision-making power over her body. Raymond withdraws to an inner world. He creates stories about the objects he sees in his room, confusing past and present, dreams and reality.
A character with no head chases his soul that guides and precedes him in Wonderland.
The story is set in Romania, in the years following the fall of Nicolae Ceaușescu. Young Nelu lives in a remote peasant village. The death of his grandfather marks the end of his youth. The day after his grandfather's funeral (a ceremony preceded, a few hours earlier and in the same church, by his sister's wedding), Nelu travels to Bucharest, the Romanian capital that after the fall of Ceaușescu is going through a tumultuous period of economic development, to find work.
Two sets of twins, both named Heeralal and Pannalal, set out in search of love and adventure, quite unaware of the presence of the other set.
"Filmed in 16mm and hand processed in a week at Phil Hoffman's Film Farm in Canada, this film was a treasure map to lead my husband to his gift, a little pet pig." — Helen Hill
Take a big bite of an Oram's Donut. Go for a refreshing swim at Ligonier Beach. Sit and stare at the dinosaur bones at Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Oakland. Then you might start to understand some of the enduring charms of western Pennsylvania. The area around Pittsburgh is full of intriguing old places, unusual family-owned businesses, a wacky set of colored "belts" that sometimes circle the city, and lots of other unexpected pieces of our past. In this delightful documentary, Rick Sebak celebrates some interesting old buildings, classic artifacts like Fiesta dinnerware, hand-painted movie posters and assorted other things that have survived in spite of our local civilization. Find out about ancient evidence of human habitation at Meadowcroft Rockshelter. Learn about hidden luxuries in Braddock's Carnegie Library, and discover surprises like the Warner Brothers' first movie theater, the old Sewickley Train Station and the Calder mobile hanging at the Pittsburgh airport.
Germany's oldest rock'n'roller lives on welfare in Berlin-Neukölln. He used to be a "star", shook hands with Elvis and performed with the Beatles. Today he lives on the poverty line, but still performs with his band "Jacky and the Strangers". His small but loyal fan base helps him to cope better with the adversities of everyday life.
The last of the BILLABONG CHALLENGE series; Challenge Four, in Indo, and Challenge Five, in Australia. Indo did not deliver the surf necessary to complete one round so it was cancelled until the following year. Starring Rob Machado, Kalani Robb, Luke Egan, Shane Dorian, Tom Curren, Sunny Garcia, Mark Occhilupo, Taylor Knox, Pancho Sullivan, with appearances by Margo and Kelly Slater. Winner of "Surfer Magazine’s Video of the Year Award" 2000 Best Cinematography Award.
In this stop-action animation, a mournful bride sits alone on her wedding night wringing her hands. The wood floor is unadorned, the organ music sorrowful. The imposing groom enters the room, she shudders, and he strikes her. Later that night, she walks down the grand staircase of this large manor house, past family portraits of past generations: she notices that in each the mum is pale, the father dominant, his hands tight around the shoulders and necks of his children, and the children have no mouths. She turns and runs back to her room to find a way to set free herself and someone else: what is this life-affirming action?
Based on his own video documentation, Atlas constructs a delirious montage of New York club performances from the late 1990s. Impersonators of pop-culture figures, including Martha Graham, Kurt Cobain giving a "final performance," and Sid Vicious lip-syncing to Nancy Sinatra, are emceed by two matronly (and bitingly sarcastic) upper-crust women. Featuring legendary drag, transgender, and queer artists, It's a Jackie Thing celebrates the flexibility of performance art's boundaries: "high" and "low" culture, "good" and "bad" taste, amateurism and professionalism, and, ultimately, gender and identity.
Jonathan Ross interviews the (living) members of Monty Python on its 30th anniversary. Deleted scenes from Life of Brian are shown.
Digital stills and video footage of a child on a beach in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, are manipulated and obscured to create a nostalgic atmosphere of remembrances. The Amiga computer has now been replaced by the Macintosh. The editing program is the Media 100.
Includes a interview and the last concert of the original line-up of The Garden of Delight in Derby 27/10/1997
As legend has it, there is an ancient curse associated with the mummys and tombs of the Egyptian pharaohs. Disturbing these embalmed remains has been said to bring bad luck, illness and death. Shortly after unearthing King Tut's tomb, Carnarvon was found dead.
It is an elite honour roll. Glorious football names. Men who have captained back-to-back premiership teams at the highest level in the land. In 1998 Mark Bickley added his name. "Bicks" is the story of a man who leads by example.
The story is as imposing as the man himself. the 16 year old kid from Ballarat who has become the most talked about AFL footballer of his time.
This is the story of time passing, at the slow pace of Ousmane Sow, and of time rushing by, from the birth of a work to its unveiling one spring day in Paris on the Pont des Arts. For a year, while preparing the exhibitions in Dakar and Paris, Béatrice Soulé witnessed the creation of Two Moon, Sitting Bull, Chief Gall, and Crazy Horse by Ousmane Sow—Sioux and Cheyenne chiefs who, gathered along the Little Bighorn River, won the most important Native American victory against the American army in 1868, a victory that led to the death of General Custer. In the intimacy of the sculptor's home in Dakar, a home itself a place of creation, she shares with us her emotion at seeing works emerge from the sand, works that seem to journey from death to life.
Behren’s unreleased hand painted film
Full webcast from the 9/27/1999 gig.
A plain suburban street is transformed into a chaotic nightmare. Sebadoh's "Crystal Gypsy" guides the way.
A little girl plays the violin in a cemetery. Just afterwards, a fisherman collects in his boat a young woman, exhausted from swimming, who is asking for a violin. We guess it's the same person. Space-time has been shattered. The young lady has lost her memory, but not her purse, which contains a real fortune. A romance begins between the enigmatic belle and her saviour, she in search of her identity, he who has given up his profession as a photographer and France to reconnect with his Tunisian origins. She without a past, he has a clean slate.
The Millennium Factor Y2K Conspiracy changes the world as we know it. In a small urban community Professor Eric Chase will try to make his peers understand that the largest computer manufacturer in the world conspired to seize control of the world. Bo Gritz understands the danger Eric has encountered and saves him from an attempted kidnapping.
A documentary about the wondrous passion of Carmen Martinek, who takes movie theaters as her lovers.Carmen does a little of everything at Vienna's Schikaneder cinema: She cleans and caresses it, and runs the projector. She strokes its seats and even sleeps there after long nights at the bar. It is, she admits, just like being with a person you couldnŽt live without. Anja Salomonowitz made a quiet little film about Carmen, observing her as she moves through the empty theater, as she puts in only brief appearances at home and immediately returns to the base station. After being forced to watch as her last theater was transformed into a supermarket, Carmen considers movie theaters to be erotic but also endangered environments.
Asymmetric resource allocation.
Interviews with teenagers and people in their early 20's who have come out in their small, rural Nebraska hometowns. They have faced prejudice and negative stereotypes as they revealed their sexual orientation to family and friends, and although some of them receive family support, their small town environment poses unique challenges that many urban gays do not face.
A trip to the zoo in a Sunday Afternoon pits two lovers against one another for the benefit of the eavesdropping penguins.
Woman raped by aliens gives birth to a hybrid, captured by mobster Al Pacheco after her birth. Subjected to various tests in the laboratory, the extra-terrestrial cub escapes and terrorizes farms by attacking mainly goat herds. Hence the myth of the so controversial Chupa-cabras. Peter Jones is a tough cop, able to risk his life to destroy the crime empire dominated by Al Pacheco. Pacheco tries to recover the monster at any cost and commits crimes, while being chased by the cop Peter Jones. However, the strange creature begins to attack human beings. Ufology and the press are also interested in the infamous mutant. But fury still stings the Chupa-cabras' eyes and no one knows how to stop their bloodthirsty.
In 1976, Olympic rower Chris Ernst and Yale's female crew protest the shabby conditions under which they had to compete.
Each morning Laura B., a school teacher, pays great attention to the goings-on in the courtyard, watching attentively from her window as mothers drop their children off at the school, giving them a bag with something nice to eat for the 10 o'clock break. On this particular morning, it is Loïc's mille feuilles that attracts the teacher's attention.
notes before the revolution is the first part of a film diary series postcards from Hong Kong. It documents the passing of the filmmaker’s father and the fateful historical changes of Hong Kong in the turmoil years of 1996-98. Personal and social events intertwined, destined to become parallel metaphors for each other. To record the personal is to make a testimony of time and space that is particular, lived as well as historical.
An adult going through a period of reevaluation analyzes his past life. The film is a sentimental journey into the world of emotions.
A high angle shot of light, colours and rhythms in the darkness of a rave party. Freedom of Super 8 (main material of most of my films at this time), slow motion intensity (Hong-Kong cinema convinced me about the profoundness), a flash of a male body outline (colour metamorphosis on the outline of the dancer’s naked shoulder), developing dance.
Created from contact sheets found in a thrift store in the East Village, Elsa Kirk consists of Xerox enlargements as backgrounds for a series of flat collages.
This video, directed at children, merges clay animation and real images to show the various dimensions involving urban waste: trash and sweeping the streets, and household waste, composting and recycling of materials. The gang formed by Vassourinha, Dr. Basket and Mr. Truck, stimulate correct habits for children and the responsibility of these issues.
A documentary of the Yuanda Song and Dance Tent Show, a wandering troupe from the countryside of Henan Province that is on the road all four seasons of the year.
Beyond Within, This Sacrament, The Seven Tongues of God, Silent Hedges (Bauhaus cover), I Am the Dog, The Death of Passion, Next In Line, What Tomorrow Knows, Dreaming Neon Black (female vocals by Pamela Moore), Poison Godmachine, Deconstruction
Chronicles the final night of existence for one rather dim vampire.
Gadi Abaje is a 23-year-old Ethiopian Jew who lives in the Tel Aviv's Central Bus Station. His mother was forced to stay in Ethiopia. The film follows Gadi as he returns to Ethiopia for an emotional encounter with his mother.
Go behind the scenes of the Tarzan Zerbini Circus, one of the last family-owned circus shows in America. As this high-flying documentary demonstrates, thrills, spills and lots of hard labor are all in a day's work for these dedicated performers. Following the troupe over its seven-month North American tour in 1996, the film provides an intimate look at the performers, workers and animals that keep the big top standing.
Mozart's classic opera "Don Giovanni" receives a fresh interpretation in this unique staging by Roberto de Simone filmed at the Wiener Festwochen in 1999. Riccardo Muti (musical director of the famed La Scala Opera House in Milan) conducts the Vienna State Opera ensemble in a vibrant and stirring performance that stars Carlos Alvarez, Adrianne Pieczonka, Michael Schade, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo and Anna Caterina Antonacci.
Poker may be hipper and the lottery may be more popular, but bingo is still one of the world's favorite games of chance, and filmmaker John Jeffcoat takes a look at the game and the people who play it in this documentary. Bingo! examines the way the game is played all over the world, from low-rent games run by and for convicted felons and recovering addicts to upscale European Bingo halls and a bingo-themed cruise to the Caribbean. Along the way, the movie also introduces viewers to the folks who play the game and lets them explain how they got hooked on the thrill of connecting a row for a prize. Bingo! won the Judges Award at the Northwest Film and Video Festival.
Canadian aviation history makes for fascinating viewing in this international award winning, nine part documentary. On Canadian Wings begins with Canada's first foray into the world of flight with experiments in aeronautics and acts of pilot bravery that set the stage for Canada's future excellence in military aviation. The video recounts the importance Canadian pilots played in the air battles of the First and Second World Wars, particularly Canada's extraordinary successes in the Battle of Britain. It also takes a look at Canadian air power in the Korean conflict and explores the technological superiority of Canada's world class Avro Arrow supersonic jet. Finally we learn about Canada's involvement, through the UN, in modern conflicts like the Balkans and Central America.
Trevor (Andrew McIntyre) has never had any particular difficulty in meeting beautiful women to spend time with, but his failure to find the perfect female has left him stymied. Shifting from sorority girls to sex fiends and models, Trevor remains uncomfortable with the idea of settling for just any girl. But after hitting it off with spirited punk rocker Janice (Marnie Robinson), he debates setting aside his quest for physical perfection in order to have a meaningful relationship.
Anthony DeMechi has always followed the orders of his Uncle Vincent who has carved out a postion for him in the family business. However, Vincent is a cruel crime boss and Anthony's new job is in the meat packing industry -- mafioso style. He is to work alongside his cousin Gino, former Green Beret Jerry, and philosophical butcher Doc, in an effort to come up with a more effective and space saving way to dispose of victims' bodies.
Features the last ever "Brainfreeze" set by Shadow and Cut Chemist in its entirety, along with performances by Z-Trip, Nu-Mark, Marvski, Dante, and others
a humorous film about how agents of foreign intelligence services attempt to kidnap and seize a drug discovered by Armenians against AIDS, and how the Armenian intelligence agencies fight against them…