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Documentary on cinema of the 'belle époque' (1900-1920), commissioned by Cinématheque Française. Assemblage of 154 film extracts gives a kaleidoscope of emotions and situations bearing witness to the history of cinema from that period.
Direct-to-video tokusatsu kaiju short included with a pair of monster toys.
Experimental documentary by Lulu Keating
Documentary directed by Ulf von Mechow
Variazioni features three-dimensional objects and stereo sounds set in relation to each other.
Ever wished you had someone to show your knickers to? Lonely heart Muriel does in Fast Spin Fling, a romantic comedy about a young woman who takes pity on her housemate's boyfriend and begins to secretly fancy him. Featuring a refreshing style of computer drawn animation, an up-tempo soundtrack and inventive storytelling, the film spins a lively tale of dirty washing, crosswords and frumpy underpants.
The Wild West heroine Calamity Jane roams through time. Excluded from history, she revels in lore. “I dreamed it better. I dreamed it big.” North American Western mythology is subverted, celebrating an alternative outsider position. Featuring a scratched and mixed score by contemporary audio artist Michelle Irving.
Oil on glass, short animated film about changes in life, 2000.
A film by André Lehmann
Kassim Dada is Comorian. However, he is condemned to live alone in Mauritius, far from his family. He is obliged to undergo this situation: sick, he must be regularly dialyzed. However, the necessary devices do not exist in the Comoros. His country, and especially his children, miss him terribly. Loneliness wins him play after day.
A multilayered treatise exploring queer culture, AIDS politics, life and death, traced through the near-death experiences of a beloved rescue dog.
Begins and ends with a textile motif. A pattern of ribbons on a damask tablecloth becomes a broad network extending into the depth of the image. Guests are gathering for the wedding of friends. A picture of relationships shines through the smallest of gestures.
Circa 1999 surrealist mixed media 16mm film noir based on script written using cutup methods.
Australia's underground comedy scene is exploding and Sydney is Ground Zero. Sydney Underground Comedy takes you inside Sydney's hippest comedy venue, showcasing some of Australia's funniest comedians at their hilarious best!
SAND CASTLE grasps for visual memories of home in the midst of a sense of displacement. In the film, paint, clay, sand, and jello, combined with images of houses embody the textures and impression of the past.
Documentary on Nashville evangelist The Prophet Omega
Sand-animated adaptation of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.
A twisted, moralistic little plot develops as we go on a drug induced bike ride through the countryside with the film's two characters, a burly mean-spirited biker on a tweaked 1300cc Harley and a little old lady on a moped.
An experimental work using Blanche Yurka's portrayal of Madame D. in A Tale of Two Cities to create a collage of Frenchness, the guillotine, feminism, turn-table-ism, and animation.
The story concerns a heartbroken woman who splits herself from the relationship she used where she used to live.
Experimental short by Sirio Luginbühl.
Part documentary, part fiction, the story of three brothers (Antonio, Sybil and Zed) aged five to seven as they try to find their way in the world. Combining elements of Super-8 diary work, documentary and drama, the stories are told by actual subjects talking about their own lives and range in scope from religious transformations to heroin overdoses.
Witness the testimony of Greg Withrow, once a fanatical rising star in the white supremacist movement, as he struggles with the legacy of hatred handed down across generations.
A life-insurance salesman finds out over the car radio that his car is about to explode. Trying to evade his fate, he becomes stuck in a time loop.
The inherent violence that is intimated at in this handprocessed film, can only offer a clue of past interventions.
Describes the arrival of the traveling cinema in a Chiapas village. Interviews with the village authorities on the political and social situation, then Kino Mekapal projects until late at night.
A childhood memoir recalling impending parental loss. Using humor and haunting simplicity, Bond infuses the memoir with intelligence and grace that transforms the personal into a powerful cinematic experience—delving into the complexity of family dynamics, death and dying, and the germination and growth of the creative process. The memoir interweaves animations of seventh grade drawings with vintage TV footage, lost and found sound, and metaphoric imagery.
the second part of the life-cycle of a Lotus and its surround; a song of natural artifice.
HF489, Super 8 (Black & White)
60 years ago Antonin Artaud started on a voyage to the North of Mexico to get to know the rituals of the Tarahumara indians. He described this voyage in several papers. Many travellers to the Sierra Tarahumara followed his traces. After his return he was locked up in psychiatric clinics until shortly before his death. The film reconstructs authentically Artaud's route: from the dances behind the mission settlements to the Peyote rituals of the shaman. Behind the fear and fascination of the unknown Artaud senses another order. "I shall find the real drama" he writes. "It need not be on the stage".
An old man finds the act of simply sitting on the toilet is fraught with peril.
This documentary examines whether UFOs are real. It examines over 250 amateur video clips, evaluates several recent revelations about Roswell, and examines footage of the removal of an alien implant.
A documentary about the life in a gypsy ghetto in Bulgaria. Unemployment among the people reaches up to 90 %. The only hope for some of them is the church. There they pray for miracle to happen. And a miracle has happened. A real prince is coming to the ghetto....
The Angel of History deals with the troubling presence of unsolved past events in actual and imagined realities. It takes place in various public and private arenas like the artist's studio, the arena of murder, the photographic frame, the museum, the body or the cemetery. The Angel of History offers new perspectives for understanding the complex relations which are spun around the museal space. The movie probes beyond the standard and limited museal relationships between artist and work or viewer and work, exposing the fragile, troubled and intimate relations between the various protagonists who participate in the becoming-public of the work of art: between a daughter and her mother, between an analyst and his patient, between father and son, between photographer and photographic subject, between a ghost from the past and contemporary figures, and between hangman and victim.
AIDS, Discrimination. Big questions that, in the voice of the Lady of the Night - A pansexual character that mixes in unbalanced doses political consciousness with poetic extravagance - acquire originality in front of an audience frantic and thirsty for a lot of joy and some ideology.
Set in a washroom, "The Toilet Suite" is a funny look at the intersection of public and queer space. A series of washroom encounters between men looking for sex are punctuated by show tunes and disco songs.
A juicy, salacious, expose of an internal fluid pushing the envelope between what is nasty, profane, and sexy.
Short by Nicole Blachon.
Burador (Ang babaing sugo): Directed by Harry James. With January Isaac Bodlovic, Kier Legaspi, Jess Lapid Jr., Gabriel Romulo.
Antonio Lorenzano was an acclaimed musician, shamanic healer and craftsman, and the leader of the Warao community of Morichito on the Winikina River, in the lower Orinoco Delta, Venezuela. The film follows anthropologist Dieter Heinen, who knew Lorenzano well, as he returns to Winikina, some six months after Lorenzano's death in November 1996 to pay his respect to his relatives. From the testimonies of his children, grandchildren and others who knew him, it becomes clear that even post-mortem, Lorenzano's view about the proper conduct of Warao cultural practices carry great weight. However the cultural tradition that Lorenzano represented was a hybrid, a fusion of the old with new ideas and practices which he introduced from outside his community.
A documentary about the destruction of the childhood landscape.
Walter Lee, aka Vivien, provides voice over for this short documentary. Stills, vintage footage, and re-enactments paint an amazingly vivid backdrop to exhibit the life of a "squishy" drag queen through wartime service and 1950s repression.
This documentary goes behind the scenes of traditional weddings to talk to lesbian bridesmaids and their various experiences. Topics include struggles over bringing their girlfriends/partners and standing up for their ex-gay lovers.
Begun in 1996, the Mut Vitz organic coffee cooperative currently has more than 1000 members. The video was shot and edited by videomakers who are also members of the collective. Over a year in the making, Mut Vitz shows us the entire organic coffee production process: from seedling to transplant, cultivation to the roasted bean. Members of the collective talk about the challenges that the collective faces in processing their coffee for market and Mut Vitz's achievements using a fair trade model of distribution.
This is a story about the friendship between two girls. In the modern dance class, the beautiful and bold Ye Hong and the delicate and introverted Xiaomi are a pair of good friends. Xiaomi secretly falls in love with the handsome Yaming. They know that Yaming and Ye Hong used to be their first lovers. Yaming still loves Ye Hong, but Ye Hong falls in love with Shen Fang, a painter who has just been disappointed in love. Shen Fang was very indifferent to Ye. Ye Hong saw Yaming with Xiaomi and felt that she had been deceived by Xiaomi. Yaming told Xiaomi that he used to love Ye Hong, but now he loves Xiaomi. Xiaomi doesn't believe it and said...
An abstract work originating from experiments in the early 1990s, using bleach, ink and scratching directly onto super 8 film. The recurring circular image was formed by placing droplets of bleach onto each frame with a pin. The electronic music, made with Helliwell's prototype customised circuits, has layers of sound changing phase during the course of the film.
Sounds of Love and Sorrow lets the eerie sounds of the Paiwan flutes including the nose flute, which legend says imitates the call of the deadly hundred-pace snake, mix in with the recollections of tribal elders and traditional tales to present a rich background of Paiwan life in Taiwan. Tribal elders recall the days of the youth and their romances. They tell of the creation of the Paiwan people, and lament the end of tribal life, crushed by the irresistible and contradictory forces of government policies and alien cultural influences. Talking of love, both the charm and cruelty of a traditional society are revealed. For many of the Paiwan, love may be a high point of a young life – but it is also the gateway to sorrow. But in the end, it is the high spirits, the playful romances and the family spirit of the Paiwan which shine through.
The lives of children in the orphanage change after finding an enchanted frying pan.
Sociocultural anthropologist James Eder documents the Batak tribes' eco-friendly hunter/gatherer way of life on the Philippine island of Palawan. Increasingly driven to take part in the island's growing cash economy, the tenacious Batak struggle to maintain their cultural and spiritual identity. Can conservationists, who approve of their sustainable methods of harvesting, help to secure the tribe's ancestral forest before it is lost?
16mm stop-motion animated film