Cinematic Era: 2002 Vintage

Three monitors played Mini DV footage that had been edited specifically for the Installation. Broken down into three elements: Landscape, People and Animals, it was then edited into three separate vhs time lines and presented on three separate monitors within the Gallery space.

A beautiful submissive slave girl emerges from her gilded cage to submit to the slow and deliberate attentions of her ravishing mistress, who rains delicate tortures on her tender white flesh.

What would you do if you found out Earth is threatened by an alien race sleeping for the last 70 years?

Moses, an old bum arrives at a small town. Silence. Nobody around. Signs of life but no human presence, as if the town were recently deserted. Moses gets scared and runs looking for somebody... nothing...just dogs. After a few drinks in the bar Moses realizes he is free to do anything. Moses fullfills his wildest fantasies. The townspeople observe him from a nearby hill. They try to warn him of the immenent danger. Moses is too busy in his destructive game.

Ken Ham, in his dynamic and captivating style, exposes the foundational reasons for this collapse and challenges the church with a powerful solution to rebuild its foundation. This well-illustrated DVD presentation will uniquely equip you with the answers to defend your faith... and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ in today's culture! The Bible-the "history book of the universe"-provides a reliable, eye-witness account of the beginning of all things, and can be trusted to tell the truth in all areas it touches on.

Adrienne is not my mother. She is not Jewish. I met her five years ago, at Edouard’s, where I’d gone to ask my friend to lend me a dinner jacket for the premiere of my film “Life Lessons”. She came to see the film and we began to meet often (Boris Lehman).

A Japanese salaryman attempts to discover why he has no memory of the previous day.

Francisco Sanchez: Paco de Lucia, is the definitive documentary on the myth of the flamenco guitar. It not only provides information about his life and musical art, but it also offers a previously unknown intimate portrait of the artist than makes us 'feel' and understand the human being beneath the world wide known genius. Retired in the Mexican jungle, Paco de Lucía shows in this program his creative doubts, the reasons for his silence and other secrets of his genius. It is the first time that the 'master' invites a television team to share with him a world tour and allows it to record his daily life in Mexico and his meetings with other artists, like Chick Corea.

One and a half years in the making has resulted in the Studio One Story, which happens to be almost the definitive guide to Jamaica's greatest ever record label and its founder Clement 'Coxsone' Dodd. Studio One is the foundation label of Jamaican Reggae. Often described as the Motown of Jamaica, Studio One is where the career of literally hundreds of Reggae artists began ­ Bob Marley and The Wailers, Alton Ellis, The Heptones, Ken Boothe, The Skatalites, Burning Spear and Sugar Minott, to name but a few!

Before acclaimed author Piri Thomas could write his famous novel "Down These Mean Streets", he had to live on them. This biopic shows how his childhood in Spanish Harlem, a six-year prison stint and other key events shaped his artistic development. The film combines rarely seen footage, still photos and mixed-media images to illustrate Thomas's life and an influential career that focused on revealing the injustices of poverty and racism.

It was an innocent time, a time for pastel dresses, jukebox music and Elvis worship. Life in Bangkok then was a very different from now, when the boys did their hair like James Dean and the girls wore outfits with an eye towards prudence. At one of the local dances, attended to by all the young people in town, a boy meets a girl. As they dance together for the first time, a love is born. And first loves, in a way, always last forever. But is everything as it seems in this idyllic place and time? For, as she is soon about to discover, looks can be deceiving, and the young man she has just become devoted to may be a lot more vicious, and dangerous, then she ever could have imagined. Is an era of peace and innocence about to end?

A charming and meditative ode to the city of Madrid, where Guzmán studied directing and filmmaking during the 1960s, and escaped to from Chile after the military coup. Traveling through the streets of contemporary Madrid, Guzmán’s essayistic film freely draws inspiration from the landmarks, the music, the people, and the culture to evoke experiences, reflections, and insights in order to relate the nature of his historical and personal connection to the city.

Registration of the third theatre program by the Dutch comedy duo (Erik) van Muiswinkel and (Diederik) van Vleuten. One day a man has to go. Away from family, away from home and hearth. Away from the drudgery of his work, out to look the world straight in the eye! In short: one day a man has to go to a equipped holiday cottage. Diederik van Vleuten asked his friend Erik van Muiswinkel to come along. The result was their theatre third program in which two men, one with a house and one with a bunk bed, clash. What are two Dutch friends in their forties discussing in a house on a Dutch Frisian Island?

The Vietnam War from the North's viewpoint. Air raids on Hanoi stiffen the resolve of the population to strike back against a far more powerful enemy.

A late night infomercial promoting homosexuality allows a young man to see his sleeping buddy in a different light.

In the blue-green light of the tropical rainforest, among the creeks and boulders and fallen trees, humankind's closest relatives drift in and out of meditative states. Also features a hippo and a tapir.

A mysterious film making one think what was real or unreal, visible or invisible.

One of Rock Ross' most overtly experimental films, PSYCHO PORPOISE is a playful, static-filled glimpse at the interior life of horizontal lines. Electronic waves morph into hand-drawn, hand-scratched patterns and then full-fledged animation as an alarming red background gradually gives way to a more inviting green. - Michael Fox

Claymation short film.

After being imprisoned for many years, Yerol decides to change his life and live like a human after being released. So he visits his old friends, but there is no one to trust him except a stranger he has been corresponding with through letters while in prison. Although everything was good after meeting that woman, one thing always bothered him: his promise to his mother to be a good person. However, his dream of becoming a human and returning to his mother was not liked by his prison colleagues.

Deportation... Russians, Kazakhs, Germans, Ukrainians, Chechens, Crimean Tatars, Koreans, Poles — entire peoples turned out to be outcasts and traitors in the eyes of their state. Tens of thousands of people in the 30-40s of the XX century were torn from their roots and brought to the North Kazakhstan steppes in the vicinity of the city of Akmolinsk.

A clear-eyed view into the lives of contemporary Mexican American migrants and their struggles to educate their children while obtaining employment.

These are two of men who are cursed with lycanthropy. One, in Montreal, stalks his estranged sister, insisting that "The Beast" is telling him to kill her friends. And that she may be next. Then there's Jonas, whose astronaut father brought back a genetic inheritance from the moon, which might be affecting his now-adult son.

shatter something beautiful with perverse ugliness

Sebastian Ivanovich Bakhov is a violin teacher at the Gnessin School. He is also a great leader, a great comedian, a great racer and fighter. In any case, this is how he sees himself in his fantasies. However, the measured course of the teacher's life is interrupted by a talented and beautiful first-year student Katya, who came to the city from the province. Gradually, a touching friendship and full mutual understanding arises between the student and the teacher, a sincere, bright and subtle feeling is born. In his fantasies, Bakhov, under various guises, constantly saves Katya from the attacks of desperate robbers, but in reality he becomes a Teacher for Katya with a capital letter and makes her a master...

Peas boil in effervescent spume. An unintelligible preacher is heard from off-screen.

Szilvi deals in drugs and cannot decide between Tamas who offers her love in this world and the priest who offers her the chance of ethereal harmony.

Abstract painting and modern music create an animated soundscape. A succession of tangled, non-figurative images is punctuated by playful character animation.

Biography of the American Painter and Illustrator, Norman Rockwell.

Based on an excerpt from the award-winning play White Biting Dog by Judith Thompson. A young woman kills herself in an attempt to save her emotionally dysfunctional lover.

Nubia Train, takes its passengers on a train trip originally designated for transporting the Nuba residents living in Cairo to Aswan. This journey is repeated once every Hijri year, specifically on the day before Eid Al-Adha, a journey that has become one of the Nubian traditions of the feast. This journey is the meeting point between music and games that take place over a 16-hour night trip.

Reverend Billy, a.k.a. Bill Talen, is an actor/performance artist and a leading figure within the anti-globalization movement. His work combines the ideas of social and political change with the means of theater arts to counteract our media-laden culture. The film follows the Reverend's "shopping interventions/actions" into cultural dead zones such as Starbucks, Disney and the New York University construction site at Poe House.

They are 50 years old today. Over the last thirty years, they have fought against Paris and its various governments. Since their first student demonstrations demanding the creation of a university in Corsica in the 70s, they have constantly pushed back the frontiers of protest. They created the Front de Libération Nationale de la Corse (Corsican National Liberation Front), and carried out hundreds of bombings and commando operations to violently assert the existence of an identity claim. Many have chosen to hang up their rifles, while a few are still adept at the murky game of clandestinity, but for all of them the time has come for an explanation and an initial assessment. This film is their story.

Two jewish lesbians hold a naming ceremony for their baby in a melding of old customs and new ideas.

Interview with director Robert Altman about "Rashomon."

Gregor Seyffert as Vaslav Nijinsky runs barefoot across frozen leaves at the beginning. Then he enters one of the empty, half-ruined halls on the grounds. The room is a metaphor for Nijinsky's body.

Tito Merelli, world-famous tenor, greatest singer of all time, audience favorite, and star on every continent, is making his first guest appearance in Cleveland – only: he's not there, having been overdue for hours. When he finally arrives, the opera director's relief is short-lived – marital trouble, digestive problems, fatigue, a mix-up of pills – the end result: Merelli sleeps like a baby, the opera director is furious, and the performance threatens to be canceled. – A lively comedy centered around the world's most famous stage, where recognizable similarities to favorites of the operatic stage are likely neither unintentional nor coincidental.

“The sound is the ape of the light”, wrote Jesuit Father Athanasius Kircher. Can the laws of optics be transposed to the world of sound? Can one see the sound? Through relationships between image and sound, voice and music, noise and performance, the film “The Ape of Light” shows a series of actions freely inspired from lesson-books and treatises on acoustics.

Young Aidan may have tried to follow all the rules, but in a moment of carelessness, his own crayon creation will go horribly wrong...

This is the third in a new series of short horror-cinema films depicting contemporary fears with Junji Inagawa as the storyteller. It includes "Peony Lantern," a traditional Japanese ghost story performed with beauty and sadness by Nanako Okochi, as well as "Kuma Onna," "Yamamba," and "Nurarihyon," a total of four stories.

This feature-length documentary brings together six of the rare television interviews given by Gilles Groulx between 1966 and 1983. Through these interviews, the filmmaker's ethical and aesthetic concerns are revealed. A striking coherence emerges in his thinking regarding his conception of cinema and the role the filmmaker should play in his culture and society.

A city woman drives on a small country road and hits a duck. In her attempts to release the animal from its suffering, she only makes things worse, both for the duck and herself.

Sweatin' to the Oldies is a live album and video by the southern California punk rock band The Vandals, originally released in 1991 by Triple X Records. It consists of a live concert recorded at the Ice House in Fullerton, California, as well as interviews with the band members and an overview of their history. The original version was released both on CD and VHS. With most of their back catalogue out of print, the album and video were seen as a retrospective of the band's past, as performed by its most recent stable lineup.

Two Norwegian women are on their way home from vacation. There is a dark skinned boy sitting in the backseat. A short film inspired by the Norwegian christian political party KrF.

The Best of Vulva Massage gathers easy-to-learn teachings and demonstrations from ten different world-class sex educators. This collection curated by Joseph Kramer teaches the full spectrum of vulva touch: lovemaking with a partner, self-loving, ritual healing, genital therapy, sex coaching, performance art and good old-fashioned pleasuring.

Officer John Halloway arrives home on his 45th birthday, only to find no surprise birthday guests waiting for him. Frustrated and alone, with a day old cupcake, John makes no wishes and goes straight to bed. Suddenly John is awakened by a camera man who has barged into the back door of his home at 2:00 AM, unannounced, ready for a ride along.

Suzu lives with Furuta, her fiance, but one day she leaves home without saying a word. She moves into the apartment of her friend Abe, but he has gone abroad and Yoko now lives in his apartment. Suzu and Yoko, who have known each other since childhood and have both always loved Furuta, thus find themselves sharing the same home.

Documentary that examines life and dissent in East Germany from 1949-1989.

Working Stiff is a black comedy about one zombie's lonely pursuit of unrequited love. Bill has a crush on Sheryl, the Goth girl who frequents the video store where he works. When he ends his life to prove his love for her, things go from bad, to worse.

Residents struggle to pay their rapidly rising rents on Wellington Street in Montreal.

Poet Taalam Acey, 2000 Grand Slam Champion, indicts the Hip Hop industry in this blistering rendition of his slam epic, Smoke Clearz.

This documentary follows the journey of two journalists to the occupied territories of Western Sahara where they are monitored constantly by the occupying Moroccan forces.

I walked around Trondheim, shooting this and that, and at one point I saw these girls walking across a little footbridge. After I got the shot of them, I spent a little time trying to imagine what they might have seen on their little walk. This is the result. I don't know if it was the light, or the architecture, but I was reminded of Edvard Munch's paintings and graphics, and decided this was a modest electronic homage to him. (Jon Jost)