Cinematic Era: 2002 Vintage

Derived from found super-8 footage of night-time cityscapes shot in London and Berlin in the early 1970s, this once-silent amateur film of lights and neon signs has been reorganized through editing, superimposition and colour inversion, with Helliwell's soundtrack combining electronics, computer sounds and short wave radio signals.

“FIGURES IN THE LANDSCAPE…refers to older media, in that it was shot with a pinhole camera, a form of camera obscura. The images show a sprawling Chicago suburb, while texts refer to earlier inhabitants – the Indians. The tentative, not completely sharp pinhole image combines with text to suggest that the landscapes shown, like all the landscapes we create, are themselves impermanent.” – Fred Camper

The lonely life of an African immigrant who is locked up in big apartment building. Based on a text by Dutch writer W. F. Hermans.

On an ordinary afternoon in a beauty salon, Xu Feng suddenly develops a kind of anxiety and uneasiness that is unique to that of a woman. Xu is an urban, white-collar worker, and uncertain about the origin of these emotions, and neither her work achievements, the love of her father from afar, nor her boyfriend's comfort can help her rid herself of this psychological malaise.

The director tells the story of Boris Grebenshchikov through the image of Leo Tolstoy. According to Viktor Tikhomirov, both heroes are similar "in their delusions and achievements". The film has a lot of chronicles and, of course, Grebenshchikov's songs sound, and George Gunitsky described the tape after its premiere at Pushkinskaya 10: "A completely untethered and insanely surreal film in a good way. And it is gratifying that all this postmodern film improvisation is involved on a cool aquarium basis. We need to look at the picture again once or twice, get a better understanding of it. And savor it. A very worthy work."

PATCHING is the metaphoric intermingling of a journey, a flat tire, a break-up and tips for getting back on the road. PATCHING is the second tape in a series known as BICYCLE DIARIES.

Formally, an intriguing depiction of video as forward motion, or as technology of road movies and dreams. Alshaibi intercuts footage of a Southeastern Asian trip with a young man’s venereal disease-influenced fantasies of a strange young woman.

A short film showcasing the artist’s maturation in experimental video which would culminate in his debut feature film – “A Family Finds Entertainment.”

A forbidden movie. It's difficult to live with humans because it's difficult to fall silent.

Fiction film about a young migrant worker who struggles to live an honest life in the city.

Brainy Baby is university studied and published in JOCAM Journal of Children and Media. Brainy Baby interactive DVDs feature live action and real children. Parents tell us their children love to watch Brainy Baby DVDs again and again learning something new each time. Interactive ABCs DVD features live action and real children to help teach upper and lower case ABCs and multiple letter sounds using everyday objects in familiar surroundings to make fast learning connections. Your child will hear lively music with a gentle, instructional voice describing what your child is seeing. Brainy Baby ABCs DVD uses the teach, repeat, review method throughout. DVD includes special features such as, Baby Bloopers, Behind the Scenes, Video Sing a Long and an interactive activity. This teaching tool is designed to complement the Brainy Baby ABCs Board Book and Flashcards to help reinforce the learning process. 45 minutes in length. For ages 1 to 4 years.

Documentary

From barely getting off the ground to the super technology of today's cutting edge aircraft, the battle history of the United States Air Force is an adrenaline-packed history of one of the most vital branches of the American military.

Straits of Mackinac shipwrecks presents the stories behind four fabled shipwrecks-- the Sandusky, the William H. Barnum, the Eber Ward, the Cedarville.

Mormon settlement and railroad construction meet when the railroads meet at Promontory Point, Utah.

LBJ and Vietnam offers an extraordinary inside view of a presidency in crisis and the personal torment of a man torn between completing the task at hand and the unbearable cost of doing so. LBJ and Vietnam: In The Eye of the Storm is the agonizing story of a leader left to carry on an unwanted conflict.

Explore each park - Clingmans Dome, Linn Cove Viaduct, Skyline Drive. Learn about the folklore of Appalachian settlers with visits to historical sites, including Cades Cove, Oconaluftee, and Mingus Mills, Brinefer and Puckett Cabins, and more.

Tour of Grand Teton National Park, showing the park throughout the year.

Explains the importance of the battle of Gettysburg and concludes with Lincoln's Gettysburg address.

Wilkie, the deckhand from the Philippines, Lefteris, the cook from Syros, Dimitris, the lieutenant from Rhodes, Baksi, the sailor from India, Manolis, the captain from Athens, Nikos from Piraeus down in the engine room, and Giannis the sailor from Perama, have boarded a merchant ship leaving Piraeus for the Far East. With them are 18 other sailors, Greeks and Filipinos. The film follows their lives at sea for two and a half months, crossing seas and oceans and stopping at many ports on their way to distant Korea and back again.

A girl, a grandfather, an encounter and a rope.

Minor observations, confused and unconscious, run parallel to the perception of the whole. A sentence from Leibniz that defines my artistic trajectory.

A lonely old man lives in the countryside. The only thing left for him is to wait for the end of his days in the company of his family - his bees.

Based on the Book by: Sheila Walsh

The sublime, seductive landscape in Algonquin Park, Early March 2002 takes shape through a slow zooming out of the camera, starting with a monochromatic white screen (in fact a pure projection of light) and only revealing the full picture at the end. Location, subject, and especially the viewer’s position (a cliff high above a lake), evoke the effects of C. D. Friedrich’s Romantic painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818. The sequence of revelations moves from the pure abstraction of the film’s beginning to the actual scenery and culminates in the final scene of a group of skaters on a small, distant oblong of ice. Even as the movement of the skaters disrupts the contemplation of the motionless landscape, their position off-center reminds us of the background in Pieter Brueghel’s Hunters in the Snow, 1565.

Karel Doing follows the route taken by his uncle Ed Huis in ‘t Veld, who was executed in 1942 by Japanese forces on the Indonesian island of Tarakan. In this intimate travelogue, Doing visits the harbours where the mail ships stopped on their way to the Dutch Indies (Amsterdam, Genoa, Port Said) and films in Jakarta, Surabaya, Borneo and the oil-rich island of Tarakan. Fragments from his uncle’s letters, archival footage from the extensive Eye Filmmuseum collection and the director’s diary are combined in a fascinating mix.

Under the most complicated circumstances, when the world seems impossibly dark, a woman takes her life into her own hands. She risks everything to save her politically imprisoned husband - and sets herself free. The Birmingham Opera Company's production set in an enormous circus tent and mixing professional and amateur performers powerfully explores what oppression means today. The striking image of over 200 local people participating in their own imprisonments and experiencing freedom will stay with you for a long time to come.

A documentary on the activities of artists residing in the Villa Kujoyama French residence in Kyoto as part of a cultural exchange program.

Electronically generated images, including Lissajous patterns from a modified television, were captured on Super-8 film and then treated by hand with coloured inks and bleach. Each of the five sections is closely matched by electronic music from Helliwell's customized circuits.

An Investigative Reports (1991-2011) special, a double-length episode probes and analyzes the events that occurred on that terrible day of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, when America was attacked by terrorists.

A Film by Oriol Sanchez

A Film by Oriol Sanchez

Winner of the Nintendo Eternal Darkness short film contest. A man devises a way to be with his departed wife.

The story of the old Russians began in the XVI century, when the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, supported by the Czar, imposed religious reforms in Russia. Those who have refused to obey were brutally persecuted and forced to seek refuge in Siberia or in faraway places. Many hidden in Europe, and some of them settled down in China, Japan, America and Australia. The Russian Old Believers Community that settled down in Romania is one of the most numerous. The film explores the extraordinary power of this community to preserve their language, customs and religion, finding in their faith in God the source of strength to resist. This film tries to render the patriarchal air of the medieval Russia, from which these people came.

On hearing she may not have long to live, a woman in her fifties goes looking for love in all the wrong places.

From the Magic lantern almanac. A small Sparrow that cannot learn to fly, to the amazement of its parents, instead of taking off, begins to dance Irish dances.