Cinematic Era: 1999 Vintage

3D Frottage animation. Translation between timeline and depth. Translation between 50 seconds and 2500 mm. Translation between film and lath.

...sol y lluvia is a study in beauty. Flaca, a young Venezuelan woman, dreams of becoming a "Miss". In traveling from her small village to the big city, she experiences fluctuating paths that lead to an unexpected atonement.

Based on the book "The Blind Trapezeist's Diary"

The story of how a giant of science was erased from history by the jealous rival Isaac Newton.

Writer: Gay Rosenthal (creator) (co-writer) Stars: Bobby Blotzer, Bobby Dall, C.C. DeVille |

Tracklist: 01. Black Town 02. Save Me 03. Things I'm Saying 04. Hard To Handle 05. Words Of Wisdom 06. Myself With You 07. Process 08. To Live 09. Restrain 10. Watching You 11. Shattered Grounds

A few months after her old husband died, Nida goes out to bars to have casual sex with men. One day, she reluctantly takes in Celia, a young lady who is on the run from her abusive boyfriend. She gives her a job as a housemaid but pretty soon, Manuel, Celia's ex-boyfriend comes looking for her. Nida, however, takes a liking to Manuel and makes him her lover. This complicates the situation because Manuel still wants Celia. And to further complicate the situation, Nida's stepson arrives and falls in love with Celia. Soon, the story about what really happened between Nida and her deceased husband will be revealed.

The film is comprised of two interviews: with art critic Li Xianting and poet Xi Chuan. Li is an independent critic and curator of contemporary Chinese art. Xi is also a critic. In the interviews, each present their opinions on the avant-garde arts in China, culture, and politics.

A harrowing and brave response to dictatorship.

For more than three hundred years, the King James Version of the Bible had been dominant. Then, in 1952, a Revised Standard Version (RSV) was published to a firestorm of controversy. Some dubbed it the "Red Bible" and called it a Communist plot to undermine American society. At the same time, the RSV broke sales records. This film tells the story of the RSV against the backdrop of American history, both secular and sacred. It was the first to incorporate the discoveries of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the first distinctly American Bible to be a success and the first to be successfully promoted by an advertising agency.

Like Wu Wenguang's Bumming in Beijing, Liu Xiaojin's documentary focuses on independent artists wandering the Chinese capital, but with an obvious female perspective. Liu shoots a group of female artists, including Yunnan dancer Wen Hui, Xinjiang painter Yang Keqin, artist-curator Liao Wen, and others. The "Cobra" in the film's title references the name of a women's rock band at the time. "The climax of the film finds 12 female artists organizing their own joint art exhibition...a female public space is formed among them, bringing them together." -- Zhang Zhen.

The view out the window of a train toilet is reflected in the mirror, and vice versa.

Documentary about the search for Gus Grissom's Mercury capsule, the Liberty Bell 7, that was lost in the Atlantic after splashdown.

An historic film, set in the 16th century. There are two characters, the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and Irbahim the Makbul, his favoured one. Ibrahim, as the chief caretaker of the royal chambers, comes into the room where the Sultan is awaiting him and brings the neccessary material for foot washing. The royal feet are washed and the toenails cut. These functions are practiced as a silent homo-erotic ceremony.

An American soldier stationed in Germany receives a visit from a girlfriend.

The most celebrated and magnificent flying machine ever built, Hindenburg was a luxury liner in the sky. Stretching 804 feet in length and lifted by seven million cubic feet of hydrogen, the legendary German airship was a stunning technological masterpiece. Including rare, never-before-released footage, this historic video features fascinating details about the first airships used as weapons by the German military during World War I, amazing images onboard Hindenburg where passengers enjoyed breathtaking views of the world - less than 800 feet below, and incredible first-hand accounts from actual crash witnesses and survivors. New scientific evidence from a former NASA engineer whose research - more than 62 years later - reveals what may have actually caused the explosive fireball which killed 36 passengers and crew members.

Examining the nature of quicksand, a potentially deadly combination of sand and water. Included: interviews with quicksand survivors and survival tips.

A PBS documentary recounting Bloody Sunday.

Dr. Robert Ballard, the famous adventurer who discovered the Titanic, is profiled alongside other contemporary explorers in this National Geographic documentary. Deep-sea researcher Sylvia Earle, Egyptian archaeologist Dr. Zahi Hawass, star mountaineer Heidi Howkins, and a new generation of cartographers and dinosaur hunters all contemplate what it means to be a modern explorer, to push oneself beyond physical and mental boundaries and into the unknown. One spectacular sequence follows a group of men into the jungles of Tibet to find the "mythical" waterfall of Shangri-la.

Experimental film by media artist Paul Ryan

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

In Memoriam is a gloomy, intimate and scriptless - like life itself - visual poem born of a love disappointment. Motion painting, introspective photography and the closing of a personal episode, it is a game of images in which abstractness enters the sensible reality of body and vice versa. In its dark journey from the brain to the heart there is no logic. It is a requiem for someone that doesn't already exists - as I remember her - that may be just lived in my memory and that now lives shrouded in these images. As it was being made, the method used was more in common with the development of a painting or a poem, in which time and chance influence in many ways. (...) The influence of the "cineplastica" and the first avant-gardes is a constant of the work.

The artist sets up his camera in front of a run-down shack. He will attempt to penetrate his subject with a series of agile and inquisitive camera movements. Although open to the four winds, the building is presented to us as an impenetrable castle: there are bars on the windows, locks and pulleys: a series of obstacles blocking our access. Lange launches his attack by panning horizontally, then vertically, across the walls; these are scarred with broken windows, which provide the principal motif for the film. This panning movement continues, with a series of variations based on the geometric patterns offered by the half-broken windows: a series of backlit triangles and rectangles, which at times suggest an anthropomorphic motif. The use of different shooting speeds and of in-camera double-exposure causes the film to fluctuate between documentation and abstraction. L'Ailleurs - Somewhere Else - is the interior which the film never penetrates.

Light Dance is one of those wallpaper DVDs, the kind you leave on to add to the atmosphere of a party or to unwind after a stressful day. Inspired by and featuring the music of Santana, the film offers landscapes matched with mood music.

Four gay men stopped and interrogated by immigration authorities.

Short film in 2 parts: a pelican flies, ... and nothing seems to be working anymore.

At 24 glasses per second, Jules the wine goblet and Pierre the beer mug face each other in a duel to conquer Laurence, the pretty champagne flute. It's an action film complete with breathless combats and amazing stunts where there is only one rule: Don't get broken! But sometimes the heart is more fragile than glass.

A bunch of Norwegian youths get lost in the mountains. Unfortunately for them is that these mountains are the home of Butcher Bob and his equally murderous brother Bill. Together, the brothers have a huge fervor for sadistic murders, homebrews and anal sex. This is something the youths will soon be aware of ...

On September 15, 1977, a blind couple and their three-year-old son, Iván, disappeared from their home in a repressive operation led by the Army, the Police, and the Gendarmerie. The child was later handed over to the couple's relatives. The house was occupied for 17 years by the Guarnic Center for Retired Non-Commissioned Officers and Gendarmes. The documentary aims to rescue memory; it focuses on a single character, Negrita, the mother of the disappeared blind woman, and her struggle. The intention is to shed light on an event that was kept hidden by the official narrative, and to highlight, in Mostar, the irreparable damage it causes.

Exploitative labor practices at Northen-Argentina sugar plantation/refinery, documented in the wake of the "desaparecidos" protests of the 1980s.

What is declared normal by some and accepted as such by the majority sometimes represents a concrete threat to others. Normality 1-10, a series of short video essays, registers everyday neo-fascist violence as being an instrument of such "normalization." In a matter-of-fact and at the same time insistent manner, Hito Steyerl offers a richly detailed report on the growing number of anti-Semitic and racist attacks - on cemeteries, monuments and human beings - in both Austria and Germany. In a sober visual language, she develops a number of forms and styles of commentary to pose questions concerning the social structures inherent to this variety of violence and their representation. From sixpackfilm.com

"Todd's poetic documentary excavates the history of a family home that has been passed down five generations. It uncovers a sort of violence done in the course of carving up the land and trying to purify one's family histories." - Chris Gehman, Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, 2001

A film poem. At first the camera dives into ordinary gestures, glances and movements of an urban shopping street. This choregraphy condenses more and more to become an interplay of shadows and light. Eventually, we arrive at an interzone - the border between wilderness and civilization. Inner landscapes open up and urban elements (streets, houses, construction buildings, etc.) melt in an image/sound montage into a system of mythical signs.

An entertaining and authentic review of the campaign, election, inauguration, and post inauguration events and more.

"human tragedy on a grand scale" is a response to "never confuse movement with action" and the struggle of dealing with the Hemingway family. What results is a piece very different from its predecessor - a visual poem, episodic in nature, made up of travel diaries compiled while working with Patrick. The issue now is the reconciliation and cathartic transformation from a Hemingway biography to a re-consideration of autobiography. The biographer takes us on a journey away from Patrick Hemingway - the cool, controlled persona - to East Vancouver, documenting lives stripped bare of pretension. The scope is broadened. Patrick Hemingway and all things Hemingway become insignificant.

This movie is an attempt to document a place; not only its image as lensed, but its weather, its soil, and its toxins. The organisms in the water and the soil have made their marks on it; even the leached metals in this exhausted quarry pit's waters can be seen in the film.

Shot on 16mm with a soundtrack by Sparklehorse. With "Sparklehorse", Gariné Torossian returns to the collage style of filmmaking explored in her earlier films, "Visions," "Girl From Moush," and "Drowning In Flames." "Sparklehorse" subtly conveys, with characteristic poetry, the ways in which people communicate with and value each other in a world of spiralling meditation. The film is divided into three distinct sections: "Happy Man," "Good Morning Spider" and "Hundreds of Sparrows."

"The film, which lasts six minutes, is silent and consists almost entirely of one scene: Arke crawling naked across a giant black-and-white photo of Nuugaarsuk Point, a spit of land at the terminus of a C-shaped bay. The artist lived there, outside the small town of Narsaq, Greenland, with her parents and siblings in the late 1960s. In the film, Arke strokes the artificial landscape, rolls across it, and sniffs it like an animal. Then she methodically rips the entire thing to shreds, gathers the curled shards of paper, and lets them fall across her shoulders and thighs." - Vanessa Gregory

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho