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- Nicky escapes from prison somewhere between Alabama and Utah, sometime in the future. He looks for his girl in the bars and hotels. All he can see in his new freedom is that no one cares for the future of human culture.
- Aleksander Sokurov brings the treasures of the Hermitage back into the light by making films about artists and their paintings. He has chosen the painter Hubert Robert, who spent a long time in Italy, and whose preference was for creating ancient ruined landscapes and naturalistic portrayals of times past. He was successful with the wealthy, who bought his works from him. The camera pans across the paintings while Sokurov speaks of a happy era, when the artist was at one with the spirit of the times, and agreed with the taste of his clients. Just how far removed from us this is, is shown by pictures of a "Nô" performance which are inter-cut on the screen. No words are necessary to describe what everybody knows today.
- Germany 1937. Paul v. Kammer has lived with his grandfather in Germany for ten years. He has just finished school and faces a difficult decision: His mother, who is French, urges him to leave Germany and start university in France. His grandfather demands that he enters into the family business which would also mean conscription for Paul. Only one day left to make his decision. Paul meets his friend Max. A decisive day? Two friends and a girl in the summer of 1937.
- A man is released from prison. All he wants is to live in peace with his wife. His former partners intercept him since as an accessory to their crime he is a risk. The man is not intimidated. His "friends" kill his wife to make him change his opinion. The man cracks up and gets himself a machine gun to fight the killers who destroyed his life.
- Snake Feed is a glimpse into the lives of Irene and Rick, two people struggling with life-long addiction and marginal employment. The film follows a day in their lives at a time when Rick is dealing in the small-time pill trade and Irene is intent on rebuilding her life. In the course of the story, Rick betrays Irene's trust, which causes her to take action on behalf of herself and her children. The setting, a small town in upstate New York, is woven into the film through the inclusion of details of daily life.
- Because the driver is unable to fulfill correctly his order to kill somebody, he and his friends have to pay the price. "Alabama" is a road-movie. The camera is constantly in the back of the car shooting through the back window... But more important than this story is how the song "All Along the Watchtower" by Bob Dylan is changing when it is interpreted by Jimi Hendrix. And the recurring album of the Stones "His Satanic Majesty's Request".
- The destruction of a home for the building of a road is captured and contrasted with quotations from the residents.
- A work produced for the Morimura Yasumasa Exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art, (April 6 to June, 1996). It was shown in an old-style theater constructed within the exhibit space that featured photographs of Morimura playing famous foreign and Japanese actresses.
- The events occur during the Armenian-Azerbaijanian/Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Because of a corpse in a zinc coffin with an arguable address two families get excited. Having cut the lid off the coffin for identification of a dead soldier they find out that he is not Azerbaijanian but Armenian - former dweller of Baku.
- On October 9th, 1972 an exhibition of John Lennon/Yoko Ono's art, designed by the Master of the Fluxus movement, George Maciunas, opened at the Syracuse Museum of Art, curated by David Ross, presently Director of Whitney Museum, in New York. On the same day an unusual group of John's and Yoko's friends, including Ringo, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Krasner, and many others, gathered to celebrate John's birthday. This film is an visual and audio record of that event.
- For 11-year-old Tino, being the eldest of five children in a Samoan family is no easy task. Tino plays guardian and protector to his younger siblings. As Tino strives to cope in an adult world, the birth of yet another baby brings about more burdens and responsibilities. The children endure in silence, their world a weave of vision and sound.
- "Crush" is the story of a man who wants to turn into animal as told by the man himself, and one or two observers. He employs a variety of techniques to transform himself into a beast. He cuts off parts of his body. He exercises. He swims. He wants to return to the water; to speed up evolution a little. Has he gone mad, or is he just tired of being human?
- The camera pursues the life of two Dutch brothers, Herman and Egbert over the course of several months. Their mother wanted to disassociate herself from the petty bourgeois atmosphere in Holland during the fifties. In 1959 she took her two boys and left for Marnhac, a deserted village in southern France. After living in France for the the next 35 years both brothers have become almost fully alienated from society. They don't have the courage to leave their very aged and dominant mother.
- What Farocki Taught is a stubborn film, containing a perfect replica, shot-for-shot, in color and English, of Harun Farocki's 1969 b/w German film 'Inextinguishable Fire' - about the production of Napalm, the abuses of human labor, and filmmaking. The film radically questions the significance and conclusiveness of "found footage" or handed-down material by denying any historical distance to the political situation criticised by Farocki.
- On a different level than the magnetic tape in a video recorder runs a stream through my hands. These opposing realities result not so much in a video but rather in a sculpture. The sculptors have been working on it since the beginning of world history; we have met while searching as channel and medium. This strip, part of the exchange between one's own and the strange, completed by relationships of the seemingly impossible to a sculpture. A sculpture, which is existent as long as these relationships are maintained.
- Begun with a speech by Vito Russo, Letters enjoins a chorus of speakers to sound off on aids, love and death. Impelled with a variety of formal procedures, this series of mini-portraits are generously furnished with found footage extracts, hand processed dilemmas, home movies, super-8 psycho-drama, pixillated phantasms, intergalactic warfare and a hot kiss in a cool shower.
- A man faces his approaching death. He takes a journey, his last perhaps, and ends up at the Pensão Globo in Lisbon, where he sets out on an aimless excursion through the city. The film depicts a life in a state of transition. "Sometimes it's like I'm already gone, become a ghost of myself."
- We regard minor news as economical, social, ideological and political micro crisis'. We put emphasis on the way mass media handles it, making it appear as daily life's impact on history. We do think, as a matter of fact, that democratic societies are based on the management of all these parasite crisis'.
- 'Black & White' is a story about seven women living in a remote mountain village during the war, waiting for their husbands. Their children don't survive the hunger and cold. Their husbands perish on the battlefields. Now, the war is over and only one man comes back to this village of widows. But life and love are unbearable, poisoned by death and solitude.
- Come as You Are is a stylised and colourful exploration of three individuals who have created an alter ego which offers an outlet from their normal daily lives. Each is a separate journey into the terrain of sexuality, identity and fantasy within the urban landscape. A drag queen, a sexual outlaw and an urban cowboy reveal what lies behind the 'mask'.
- In brief flashes, as if a snapshot is taken, the face of one person changes to that of another, developed into a lookalike or remembrance of a face ever known. The installation "Blink" shows how we generalise apparent differences and agreements and poses questions about personal identity. Each pair has its own sound identity that exposed on two projections grows into the acutal musical scene.
- Vera lives in Argentina in 1978 during a dictatorial government. She is being persecuted. Ariel lives in the same apartment as Vera, but in 1996. Their telephone lines connect in between times and a very special story develops between them.
- You take several mixed reels of old Soviet negative film, then mix: Elvis Presley, Jesus Christ, Frank Zappa, pinball, drugs, girls, crime, American dream, jokes, Bulgarian superstitions, NBA stars, motorbikes, a ghost and a porcupine. Remix all this. Reel it till it blends movie-like.
- Fifteen individuals tell how it was to be children of dissidents killed, imprisoned or "disappeared" by a Brazilian military dictatorship. The camera becomes a kind of confessional as these survivors time-trip back to childhood. The directors themselves participate in this testimonial.
- In 1987, I went to Yugoslavia as a sound engineer for a film about the bear-keeper Gypsies. One day, while Yugoslavia had sunk into barbarity for two years already, the pictures and sounds of those gypsies had come back to the surface of my mind again.
- B/Side is a poignant and intelligent exploration of the urban homeless, combining sensitive footage of their exterior situation and entering imaginatively into interior deliriums. Framed by footage of the encampment locally known as Dinkinsville on New York's Lower East Side, where some of the homeless of Thompkins Square Park settled after the riots of June 1991, the movie begins with the encampment's first night and ends with the fire and subsequent destruction of the lot in October of the same year. Applying rhythmic construction, poetic license and a generous eye to bodies in poverty, B/side documents beautifully a gritty vision of late 20th century urban life.
- Crystal Aquarium was the name given to tanks set up on Music Hall stages for underwater performance, at the turn of the century. There are four performers - a drummer, a swimmer, an ice skater and a fourth woman. Although the protagonists never appear together they are inextricably bound up by their actions.
- Babette is a collage made of pictures, talks, sounds, poems and music. A video of confrontation, war and art, fiction and documentary, facts and fantasy, experiences and second-hand information. These different poles wander very naturally through the space of this video without disturbing each other or taking itself ad absurdum; no, they stand very close together, because they are closely acquainted.
- Chronic is an experimental narrative which explores the life of Gretchen, a woman who began using self-mutilation as a coping mechanism when she was a girl. The visually surreal scenes, which are comprised of both scripted and documentary footage, illustrate the culture Gretchen lives in, her inner life, and various relationships. A number of optical printing techniques and different film stocks were used to create different levels of perception so the viewer might experience Gretchen's story on an emotional or visceral level. The elements of the film are assembled together in attempt to create an understanding of the suicidal mind that goes beyond intellectual knowledge.
- The film project under the working title of "Nightwalk", about the jazz music of the Afro-American Cassandra Wilson, was born of the idea to really create a fusion between music and pictures. The film team concentrate the contents of the film on the actual theme of the music, "Children of the night". This is not, however, a conventional plot rather an atmospheric series of pictures surrounding a figure who is wandering through the city streets at night.
- In late autumn 1941, German troops were close to Moscow. On November 7 that same year, the parade of special soviet units was staged on the Red Square: the traditional parade boosted the population's morale and played a major role in reversing the course of the war. A ballad about the people who unconsciously became the heroes and victims of history.
- Nineveh is a transmedia drama of image, text and sound, a philosophical adventure integrated in an exalted and streaming operatic testimony. While exploring introspection, self-evaluation and intellectual-fulfilment with critical irony, amusing wit and challenging intelligence, it comments on the multi-dimensional existence of individual organisms and their alternative living style within today's trans-technological society.
- To be on the road without a map, As time flows back to the past. To bleed without a cause... to run without a heart. As fate rains without a warning. To fade without dying... to speak without echoes. As fathers become sons and sons become fathers. To sing without light... to sleep without dreams. To live... To be Homeless.
- The newest work in a series of works employing 16mm film to exchange correspondence between the two filmmakers Nobuhiro Kawanaka and Sakumi Hagiwara. The principal theme of the series, begun in 1979, was "the landscape of memory", and the theme of this film is "travel". The thoughts of the two filmmakers intersect as Nobuhiro Kawanaka presents a return to the past through "time travel" and Sakumi Hagiwara uses a narrative method to portray "the destination of travel".
- When Rosa came to this place the earthquake had just happened and the building was one enormous ruin. People say it was a cinema, but Rosa, who has lived here for many years, has never seen a film in her life. So many things happen in "Cinema Alcazar" that it's all Rosa can do to keep up.
- A black father and son discuss the ways in which popular myths have shaped their everyday experiences. Go West Young Man, created on an Amiga home computer, parallels their dialogue with a montage of historical moments that have influenced Western perceptions of black masculinity.
- The village is preparing for the big event: its French twin town Villeneuve is coming to visit. Only Paul, the little village rebel, does not seem to care too much for the French - until he sees Catherine. A film about the missed right moment.
- Ms. Pak Suet-sin's adoration and devotion to the Cantonese opera awakened the souls of the dainty actresses in many classic plays. Together with the characters, she laughed, cried and experienced the sorrow and joy of life. At the time when she faded out from the stage, the characters were forced to return to quietness and loneliness. On what ground do the arts rest?
- If 6 was 9 tells a story about girls and sex. It shows a point of view to the sexual fantasies, habits, actions and wishes of teenage girls. The film shows the metamorphosis of five young women to a sexual being with the softest organs for taking and grasping. They move from inside and they want to have the world and touch it with their feet, cheeks, tits and arse.
- The Great Sin of Being Alive is a chilling and ominous visual lamentation about the sins of the Stalinist era in Mongolia which seem to stain the desert sand with blood. The mass murderer who became the monk Mishigdorj narrates his tale of humanity and subsequent guilt in a voice over.
- In the beginning there was a hand, and this hand drew other hands, then shoulders, heads, legs and finally, the animator himself. Inspired by a wide range of works of art and styles of illustration, this is a film which is constantly reinventing itself in one continual motion - after all, to draw a "still life" would be like creating an image without life.
- Seethalakshmi was born in an uprooted tribal family, now settled on the banks of a river in North Kerala, India. She grew up adhering to the traditionally well-defined roles of a girl child in the society that gave prominence to male children. About three years back, she discovered a strange transformation she had been undergoing. Her sexuality was in an ambiguous flux, and she was slowly becoming a male child. Later the feminine self in her slowly vanished and she was 're-born' a male child, now re-christened Sreedharan. With the transforming sexuality and gender relationship he had a re-defined role in his family and society.
- Gift was shot in the notorious post-industrial lunar landscape of the Wolfen-Bitterfeld district of former East Germany, where composer Ulf Langheinrich was born. The area is famous as a great environmental disaster, a product of uncurbed open-cast mining and chemical production. Although the devastation belongs to a past era of massive state industry, some coal mining continues, using vast mobile diggers built in the 1930s. This object lesson in environmental vandalism, is now an eco-tourist attraction, reflecting the tensions between the old East Germany and the new, post-unification Germany. The hypnotic electronic music is constructed and mixed from the industrial sounds recorded on location.