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The third and final chapter in the short film "Tran-ilogy of Terror", Whatever Happened to Peaches Christ? finds a drunken Peaches desperately trying to hang on to a career in show biz while her sidekick and ex-friend Martiny's rise in popularity eventually sends Ms. Christ over the edge. A horrible accident catapults us forty years into the future where we find the "women" stuck in a roommate situation truly from hell.
Plastic city suffers from the big chill. The extreme weather conditions prohibits and human existence on the ground surface. An hostel is under this deserted landscape. A doorkeeper of the hostel Kirin is an orphan and nobody knows exactly where he is from. People named him Kirin simply because he earns his life by collecting emptied Kirin beer cans. One day he meets a woman nomad Lanian.
Jazz sax pioneer Steve Lacy shares the inspirations and influences that drove him to become one of the greatest soprano saxophonists of all time. Lacy discusses his heroes, including Sidney Bechet, John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, Gil Evans and Thelonious Monk, and the film features performance footage of all of these sax masters. Onstage, Lacy performs with Irene Aebi, Steve Potts, Bobby Few, Jean-Jacques Avenel and Oliver Johnson.
This jam-packed retrospective includes highlights from 10 years of concert footage featuring Finnish rockers Brazen Abbot performing in Europe, as well as backstage footage and interviews with the band's rotating lineup of singers. Tracks include "Mr. Earthman," "One Life to Live," "Slip Away," "Guilty as Sin," "Supernatural," "Can't Let You Go," "I'll Be Free," "I Surrender," "The Road to Hell" and more.
A frog tries to impress a shapely gazelle by transforming into various animals, each with a different attempted appeal.
There is not a single person in the world who has chosen their place of birth. Sometimes it only takes an outstretched arm to cross a border. But what is the purpose of a border? (Teresa Villaverde contribution to Visions of Europe, shown separately as part of retrospectives.)
This work was created using film from the LUX archive by artists Alan Berliner, Lawrence Jordan, People Like Us, Semiconductor and the Estate of Stan Vanderbeek. The aim of the commission was to further promote work in the LUX archive. Permission was sought from the artists and their work was then collaged, rearranged and altered to create a new work Resemblage. Commissioned by LUX.
Sparks perform the album plus other classics from their discography
A young boy fighting for his mother's love.
Experts believe that there are ten pairs of European rollers (Coracias garrulus) in Latvia. In 1997, one of these birds was hit by a car. Biologist Edmunds Račinskis is trying to encourage green magpies to nest in Latvia by putting up artificial birdhouses, but people are too busy to pay attention to rare birds and think that the green shrike is a symbol rather than a real bird species.
A video by Bianco-Valente
Two advocacy groups, The Million Moms and the Second Amendment Sisters, are diametrically opposed on gun control, but they agree on one point: mothers will and should have a voice in determining gun control policy in America. Guns & Mothers explores the grassroots beliefs of both movements by focusing on two different women, living in two different Americas.
They say that love is blind and there must be some truth in it, because in this comic tale, a good-looking frog falls for the velvety skin of an imitation lady-frog that graces a pair of slippers belonging to the farmer's wife. But their happiness is short-lived, because real frogs can't really fall in love with imitation frogs... can they?
Five-channel video installation which responds to German art historian Aby Warburg’s essay about his visit to the American Southwest.
From Fenslerfilm Vol. 2
A young Japanese boy is on a quest to discover the perfect bowl of ramen to feed to his dying grandfather. Short film featured on the R2 DVD of Battlefield Baseball.
Two friends, two Viennese, two poets, two unusual women. They have known each other for 30 years. Elfriede Jelinek is the better known of the two, the great author with her analytical mind and her social commitment against the whole "politician's docks." The now deceased lyricist Elfriede Gerstl remains rather tender with her poetry, although her poems do not miss a certain amount of sharpness, albeit ironically packed. When the two Elfrieden sit in their Viennese coffee house and drink the little brown, they usually talk about clothes, they talk about the fashion that Elfriede Gerstl has just collected again.
Part of a feature length narrative compressed 3 differnt times into 3 separate films of diminishing duration until the synoptic is synopsized (The Two Minutes to Zero Trilogy). A crime story told 3 different ways concerning the events of a two month period leading up to, and immediately following a bank robbery. The imagery has all been appropriated (the fancy, art world sanctioned term for stealing) from 4 issues of an early 1960's comic book version of the then popular, American TV show "77 Sunset Strip".
An explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant kills 56 people while the health of thousands more continue to be affected.
Sit back and relax with this program that turns your TV into a virtual aquarium, complete with four unique underwater environments to choose from, each accompanied by natural sounds and peaceful music. Crisp computer animation brings the colorful marine scenes to life, and programmable options allow you to loop one scene over and over, or play all the scenes sequentially for nearly two hours of gentle entertainment.
Groundbreaking snow-sports filmmaker Greg Stump presents this classic film that captures some of the best skiing and snowboarding action ever caught on tape, with a pulse-pounding soundtrack that will have you itching to hit the slopes yourself. Stump combines his trademark humor and dazzling camerawork to bring these jaw-dropping downhill exploits to life.
Neil Murphy returns to his hometown, after an eight year absence, to attend the wake of his best friend Danny Sherman. However Neil doesn't quite receive such a warm welcome on his return as he is led to believe his friend was murdered. With the help of Danny's sister Lisa and her friend Roger. Neil may soon uncover the mystery surrounding his friend's death.
Join two scientists and an explorer as they travel to Lebanon to find out more about the ancient Phoenicians. The scientists are using genetics to determine the link between the current Lebanese population and the early Phoenicians from bone excavations made at ancient sites. Meanwhile, the explorer tries to retrace the shipping and sailing routes of the Phoenicians, who were aggressive explorers that discovered and conquered other Mediterranean lands.
The macula is commonly known as the yellow spot, located near the center of the retina at which visual perception is the most acute. A photosensitive body rises from shadow to burn out in light.
In an achievement of imagination, trance master musician Mr. Peculiar teams with visual artist The Shapeshifter to create a sensory feast of sight and sound. Top-quality 3-D animations are perfectly synchronized and integrated with the audio tracks, capturing the hypnotic energy and varied flavors of trance music in a deliciously psychedelic swirl. Special features include a picture gallery and information about the artists.
Lawrence Jordan used forty-six engraved Gustave Doré illustrations from "Idylls of the King" as settings for his extravagantly romantic saga. As Enid, the protagonist, is seen in a vast array of scenes from deep forests to castle keeps. Her champion is sometimes with her, sometimes away fighting archetypal foes. Backed by Mahler, Jordan explores themes of love, death and resurrection.
On May 25 and September 26, 1970, as promotion for their first two studio albums, Black Sabbath made two appearances in the city of Bremen, Germany, for the music program Beat-Club, performing the songs Paranoid, Black Sabbath, Iron Man and Blue Suede Shoes. The performances were officially released on DVD as part of the Black Box set in 2004.
Chronicle of an installation Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, where Uruguayan artist Marco Maggi employed 400 reams of white copy paper to carpet a concrete floor. Shuffled, scattered, stratified, slipped, toppled, and shifted in a “techtonic” terrain with geological faults and urban plans, 200,000 empty pages awaiting inscription travel in all directions to survey what is absent, and quiet the space like snowfall. Strickland’s camera explores Maggi’s landscape myopically, from macroscopic to microscopic perspectives, tracing the surgical precision of the artist’s hand and contemplating his intrepid enterprise through the fragile experience of paper.
56 emcees face off for the title of Brainstorm 3. Defending champion Presence seeks to repeat against former foes such as Geologic and Surge Spittable along with up-and-comer Bad Luk. Rhode Island's Frankie Riptide and a lethal California contingent of NoCanDo, MC Orukusaki, Bo-Rat and Franco also have something to say about who gets served. Ultimately, only a judging panel that includes Canibus, Jake One and J-Live holds the power to Brainstorm. Performers include J-Live, Massive Monkees, Lifesavas, One Man Army and more.
An ironic story about the unpredictability of human existence. The heroes of the film: two bloated grandmothers riding a velomobile, a young photographer capturing moments of sadness and joy, and his new acquaintance, a beautiful girl. Grandmothers think about impending death, young people - about eternal love. Unfortunately, not everything in life can be predicted in advance.
A film about the Argentine opera
From 1941 to 1944 tens of thousands of people, most of them Jewish, were shot in the killing pits in the Ponary Forest. The murders were documented in the diary of Kazimierz Sakowicz, a journalist from Vilnius who moved to the village of Ponary during the war.
The European Showerbath is a short film directed by Peter Greenaway for the DVD anthology collection Visions of Europe which was made in 2004 for the European Union.
DVD with multichannel mixes of the album originally released in 1980.
A family man lives happily in his ranch with this sons. One of them is about to get married until a violent incident occurs, leaving only revenge to be found.
A singer begins a love triangle with an actress and a bar girl.
A man is attacked by a werewolf and tries to save his town from the monster he transforms into.
Get lost in this slightly surreal animated short composed of exquisite black-and-white illustrations. As we move through the landscape, we pass elaborate topiaries, dust-devil ballets, horses traversing the horizon, and wild reflections in the water. It's a lyrical film that carries you through a visually-rich tapestry of incredible hand-drawn images.
A masterless Samurai seeks retribution for the slaying of the Royal family and his own murder.
A look at the 2003/2004 Celtic season
This faux-documentary profiles a married couple's quest to cure their sexual doldrums.
The life and times of a Casablanca cafe waiter.
Soap Opera is composed of several independent short stories. The characters range from a student who kidnaps his neighbor’s child, a middle-aged person who can’t fall asleep because of the disturbing noise from the apartment upstairs to a Dad who is a good cook and one day makes an unexpected dish.
A closeted homosexual phones a crisis line from inside his closet.
Living in the beyond, there is a lot of time to count seconds, in Amsterdam there is a lot of water but there is no sea, in Amsterdam time is bigger than memories. I wish I can build an additional memory for this same time.
The American flag as a symmetrical form with shifting hues, emblematic of complexities and contradictions. 3:22 or continuous installation
Johnathan Watson live