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A story about love and death. And those left behind, when nothing will ever be the same again. Unable to share their grief, three people clash out of desperation, even though they all have the same problem: they miss the same person.
The Earth is at war against Planet Gray in the far future. Nozomu, a soldier, goes after a Gray alien in space but misses him. Cut to the modern-day Japan. Yurie, a graduate student majoring in mineralogy, is doing research about a mysterious ore. It seems no one has written anything about it. When she checks its components, the Gray alien suddenly shows up.
A short documentary on the band „The Whitest Boy Alive“ produced by Channel4 in the UK.
"Overdosed Nightmare" is Kidlat Tahimik's "Perfumed Nightmare" without the perfume, a pure nightmare set in wounded Manila, a close-up view of all that gangrene and pus. A gang of rat-munching, homophobic bums kill the night clumsily. Jesus H. Christ gets crucified for the nth time in Dagger Island. A greaseman, the image model for Poverty, bums around the Edsa Revolution anniversary which ousts another corrupt president, Estrada the actor. And Tony D., the shrewd short-fused citizen of the Philippine ghetto, sets his sights on foreign classmate Steve Banners, a pompous self-righteous dude with delusions of America's grandeur at the expense of Third World inequity.
A surreal short film that Lynch made for the 2008 Twin Peaks Festival. It only screened once and is in black and white. In this film, Lynch is speaking backwards in what looks to be a cross between the floors of Eraserhead and the Twin Peaks Red Room. Sitting next to him is a plastic doll with the face of Laura Palmer.
Short doc surrounding Paul Rudd's clear glasses that came to Sam's door from a time when the world was different.
It promises to be quite an ordinary day. A day during which viewers have the opportunity to peep into the lives of seven couples. It may seem that the camera captures snatches of the lives of random characters. This is an illusion. These people, although they do not know each other, once witnessed a certain accident that left its mark on them. On each different, but still... The first couple: Maciek and Lena. He was involved in a car accident. He was traveling with his lover at the time. Now he is confined to a wheelchair. He suspects his wife of infidelity. His obsession, harassment and aggression ruin their lives. Couple two: Kasia has found the man she wants to spend her life with. When the boyfriend confesses to her that until recently he was a woman, she can't explain it to herself. Couples three, four, five, six and seven also have their own dramas, secrets.
In October 2007, Tommy Emmanuel spent 3 nights at the Sierra Nevada Brewery in Chico, California in front on 5 high definition cameras and 5.1 surround sound recording equipment and the edited result is Center Stage. The DVD features 5 previously unreleased tracks and 4 duets with "Dangerous" Bob Littell on the Harmonica. This DVD will be a public television pledge drive special around the United States and will be seen on various television outlets around the world.
On a cloudy day a group of passengers set out on a journey to their village. This trip will test their morals, faith, and spirit, while they will try to navigate on a misty road.
Meat Dog, a mutt made up of cold cuts, is pitted against an occult church of evil pigs while being pursued by a carnivorous rabbit and hounds. It's dogocide when everyone wants Meat Dog on their menus.
2008 release
Ana, Ollivia and Sally, are all searching to reconnect with something they have lost. they all are forced to face the consequences of defining themselves by their pasts. Only when they are confronted with the ultimatums and strict sentences of their cold realities, can they truly embrace the love that lay dormant, in each of them, for so long. After hitting bottom, each character finds that the Chicago streets continue to bustle; and despite coming from different places and cultures, they are all connected by the commonality of Human experience in the Modern World.
Terrific collection and review of Eric Clapton’s decades-long music career, from his time in Cream and The Yardbirds to solo superstardom.
Life story of world known Scientist and Scholar Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.
One war, ten days, three stories: the Old City of Jerusalem, at the dawn of a new Middle East. For the Brits, it’s the shameful end of 30 years Mandate. For the Jews, it’s the birthday of their State. And for the Palestinians, it’s a catastrophe. Only now, 60 years later, images can be shown from three opposing points of view, telling a whole new story.
Özgür‘s video I Can Sing (2008), depicts an Anatolian woman in a headscarf, standing before a backdrop of contemporary Ankara featuring minarets alongside the ever-expanding sprawl of urban development. The woman’s lips move in conflict with the soundtrack of Jeff Buckley’s cover version of Leonard Cohen’s classic song “Hallelujah”. Her personal lament becomes a lament for the disappearance of cultural traditions and identities in the wake of western homogenization.
Gombo, a young boy, lives in a tiny village on the banks of Lake Baikal in the Buryat Republic. He dawdles on his way home from school and doesn't get back to nightfall. No one is at home but sweets have been left next to a Buddha shrine on the wall. As he is about to steal one he hears a voice.
A documentary about the history of modern Danish Design and architecture and its worldwide impact on contemporary international designers.
It is nighttime. In Croatia, a young woman cannot sleep because her baby keeps crying. Her mother-in-law is also being kept awake by the baby's crying and she is not shy about offering unwanted child-rearing advice to her daughter-in-law. In Spain, a young husband and wife are also wide awake in the dead of night: they are in the middle of a turbulent argument. She is Spanish, he is Croatian and their marriage is in crisis because they simply do not understand one another. Back in Croatia, the young man's elderly mother is also awake, plagued with indigestion pains. The old woman is also worried about her lodger, a young Spanish girl who happens to be the sister of the old woman's daughter-in-law in Spain. The young girl comes home with her new lover. He is a taxi driver who drifts aimlessly through the night while his own wife endures a sleepless night with a crying baby and a nagging mother-in-law.
Nadya ( Monique Henry ) spotted eagle, his girlfriend was making out with his best friend Wanda ( Ratu Felisha ). Great quarrel between Nadya and the Eagle, causing Nadya must undergo torpor result was thrown from a height of buildings But God still gave him a second chance. Nadya bangkit from torpor. Trying to forget and avoid Eagle and Wanda, Nadya was rented an old house that is 70 years old. And Nadya did not want anyone to know where his new address In fact, Lucky ( Miller ), general manager of the café where Nadya worked today and attentive to her, did not know where to stay Nadya Since living in the house, Nadya find various peculiarities horrible and terrifying. People call it the Ghost of the Virgin Kaffir Lime. Even so, Nadya did not want to move out of the house Until one when, Nadya guided through supernatural powers who the real ghost of the woman's head.
In his directorial debut Mad Chad Taylor, the renowned Venice Beach chainsaw Juggler, has created a one of a kind documentary that goes deep inside the hidden world of street performers. Amid rare footage of the most shocking and inspired street acts from around the world, one performer after another pulls back the makeshift curtain. Their acts are astonishing; their stories, more amazing still. Here is the tightrope walker, the razor blade muncher, the sidewalk samurai, the tattooed man. Meet The Fireman who lost his teeth to his fire-eating act, and the Calypso Tumbler who's buying up real estate in the Caribbean. This is the human condition at its most freakishly wonderful.
A coming-of-age comedy about a teenage boy whose life is thrown into chaos when he discovers adult magazines, girls and the embarrassment that goes with both.
An Animated short film about the man was transforming into Paper Man
School's out for summer and Pacific Palisades popular girl Cassidy Flowers is throwing her first summer bash. With the help of her tight knit clique, Bianca, Tori and Mischa, two athletes with fake IDs, Mario and Scott , DJ Antwon and some kick ass live bands on the bill, this party should go off with out a hitch. Unfortunately for Cassidy's perfect plans, the universe has something else in mind for her and her friends.
After an accident, Li Xin ends up with her deceased school friend’s parents. She stays there for a couple of days to recover. Her stay brings consolation, but also rips open old wounds.
The story of a rich powerful man who an accident cause his life to change forever.
With more than 120 performances a year, Yuja Wang lives a nomadic lifestyle. Travelling the world, two extra small trolley suitcases carry the essentials for a two week trip: dresses, shoes, iPad, iPod, and Smartphone. The 27-year-old Yuja leads a new generation of pianists who can comfortably play anything thanks to phenomenal technique and healthy self-confidence. Even so, she stands squarely in the tradition of great piano virtuosi, offering much more than just technical wizardry alone...
"Getting into North Korea was one of the hardest and weirdest processes VBS has ever dealt with. They finally said, “OK, OK, you can come. But only as tourists.” At the airport, the North Korean consulate brought us to a restaurant and these women came out and started singing North Korean nationalist songs. We were thinking, “Look, we were just on a plane for 20 hours. Can we just go to bed?” but this guy with our group who was from the LA Times told us, “Everyone in here besides us is secret police. If you don’t act excited then you’re not going to get your visa. So we got drunk and jumped up onstage and sang songs with the girls. The next day we got our visas. A lot of people we had gone with didn’t get theirs. That was our first hint at just what a freaky, freaky trip we were embarking on…" -VICE Founder Shane Smith
'Yeah.... Yeah! .... YEAH!!....' and so starts our rollercoster ride of a DVD with Tony Law. And things just go up from there. Hear the truth about subjects others are too afraid to discuss like black bears, Belgians and the digeridoo. He was mentioned in our very first release as 'the most reasonable guy I know' by TV's Stewart Lee. See just how reasonable for yourself in a little over an hour.
Ryan and Sean get discovered as Internet Celebrities, and are given the opportunity to be in a movie, but meet some wacky situations.
A comedy about Orlando stuck in a failing relationship. Sexually frustrated, he goes on a dating quest with the help from his buddy.
On the morning of 3rd March 2004, Spain experienced the worst terorist attack in Europe since the Lockerbie bombings of 1988. A series of explosions in Madrid killed 191 people and injured over 1, 500.
A tale of two male hunks undergoing the different stages of realization and of falling in and out of love. Their story reels off in their minds and is carried out in a rather sensual and provocative manner. What actually goes on...? And what are the complexities in the process of carrying out, staying in and moving on from this kind of relationship? Masterfully crafted as the previous M2M features- this video shows the intricacies and dynamics of male to male relationship.
Viktor, 15, and his family go to their summerhouse in the North of Sweden. On a bright, sleepless morning Viktor walks to a lake nearby. Things start disappearing, one after the other, like something in the forest was watching him and wanted to tease him.
Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto, backed by Ensemble Modern and a live "visual score", perform their fourth collaborative work "utp_" at the National Theatre in Mannheim, Germany on November 16, 2007.
The hierarchy is clear: Ralay holds the power. The Pastor lives for trouble and Randrenja has completely lost his mind. To make matters worse, Rajao is finally losing the special treatment he once took for granted. It is a world of schemes and stolen status, proving that in this life, there is a sucker born every minute.
While arranging their deceased father's funeral and inheritance, two brothers and their women are forced to make confessions in the oppressive atmosphere of the parental house.
Linn is a model who started playing hockey at the age of ten. Now she plays with a bunch of guys. But it is difficult to combine the model job with hockey.
Through the memories and confessions of some of the most important names in Uruguayan music, the film brings back to life the stories of the songs that defined a country and that, in some cases, helped change history.
A lot of us have gone through times in our lives that are difficult. Some have been small and hard to understand and some have been big and overwhelming. During these times we want answers, don't we? We want to know why. Why do we have to suffer? Why do bad things happen to good people? We just want someone to make sense of it all. But we don't always get the answers, do we? Sometimes we are left wondering. And those can be some of the most difficult times. Maybe there are times we need to be released from having to have all the answers. And maybe it's when we're released that we are able to see there may be more going on here than we realize.
Amy keeps the monster under her bed away at night with her magic torch but one night the batteries run out.
Waiting for Sancho is an ontological investigation into a place where cinema becomes something more than cinema. Filmed in high-definition colour over five days in the Canary Islands of Fuerteventura and Tenerife, Waiting for Sancho is a kind of experimental “making of” the critically acclaimed El cant dels ocells (Birdsong_/_Le chant des oiseaux). A particular take on the Biblical story of The Three Kings en route to the baby Jesus, El cant dels ocells premiered at the Quinzaine des Realisateurs at Cannes 2008.
Sam & Faye return to Kefalonia, this time with Grace.
Taking language, the most important means of social interaction as his starting point, Mellors has created a visual spectacle which leads the viewer through the various phases of a script. As theatrical as it is absurd, the script relates the course of an expedition that set out in the year 1213. A band of starving explorers is trapped within a giant's body. Sent off by his followers the group's spiritual leader, The Father, attempts to find a way out through the giant's entrails. The Father returns to the group 'born-again', having survived by cannibalism and coprophagia (eating faeces). He 'recycles' himself and becomes potentially everlasting. This leads to reflections on his ontological situation and has bad implications for his followers as he becomes increasingly cultish and manipulative, claiming the group is not lost inside the body of a Giant, but inside the bowels of God...
Three stories about vampires intertwined during a night in the city of Buenos Aires.
Beginning at the fabulous coral reef of Ningaloo in Western Australia, intrepid marine biologist Mark Meakin attempts to unravel the mysterious wanderings of the biggest fish in the sea. Whale sharks grow to over 12 metres long but are gentle, filter-feeding giants; even Mark's five-year-old son can swim alongside them. Yet no-one knows where they go once they leave Ningaloo's turquoise lagoons. Using satellite tags and photo IDs, Mark tracks them to the white coral beaches of the Seychelles and the tropical jewel of Christmas Island, where bright-red land crabs begin their annual migration. It's hard work, taking in 20 failed satellite tags and countless frustrating dives, before Mark makes a breakthrough which doesn't just add to our understanding of these huge 'dinosaur fish' but offers crucial information about how the whale sharks of Ningaloo can be protected better.
In a dirty, decaying slum in the Philippines, single mother Maria is torn between her love for her 10-year-old son Santiago and providing a better life for him. In order to give Santiago a chance to have a decent home and a good education, she decides to send him away for adoption. But what start out as an innocent journey to the market quickly turns into a devastating loss for both mother and son.
Plasterer Cor has been an introvert all his life. When he is retrained to become a taxi driver, he is forced to crawl out of his shell, but it also put his marriage under a lot of stress.
1, 2 y 3 Mujeres addresses the issue of women and their relationship with their social and geographical environment from different perspectives and aesthetic proposals through the stories of Eloína, Rosario and Gregoria. Eloína shows the greatness and value of assuming certain positions in the role of mother. Rosario exposes the experience of candor to the woman in the context of loneliness and Gregoria shows weakness versus strength and impetus in decision making to guarantee emotional stability.
In her dream her father is there caressing her hair. She wakes to a hard day. Her mother's milk has dried up and her young brother is sick. She needs to go fetch some milk. This is the story of Emine, set somewhere between a village and a town, herself between childhood and womanhood.
This project follows various individuals as they train for and prepare to compete in the World Series of Beer Pong.