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Kozara
In June of 1942 Germans and their collaborators decide to get rid of partisans and their stronghold in the woods of Mount Kozara in Northern Bosnia. They encircle the mountain and begin the mop up operation. Out gunned and outnumbered the partisans must not only take care of themselves but try to protect thousands of refugees too.
The Red Thread
Mostly shot in San Francisco and Northern California, material filmed (using the camera almost as a p[r/a]inter, a means of shaping the visual world as film, but without reflection) in response to what that world was opening in me. "Material!" - analogies between weaving and spinning thread and images already a pattern within film history (e.g., in Deren) is here carried into further ramifications of unraveling and patterning in fabric- and cinema-making, as well as in personal and mythic dimensions. The open unfolding structure, which pulls away from the balanced design of much of my work, gives equal weight to the sound composition. Involves "opening" with its perils and ambiguities.
Retour Madrid
Documentary about Ajax Amsterdam in 1968.
Paithrukam
The film revolves around a traditional Brahmin family and the fight between their beliefs and atheism.
City in Darkness
Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..
Der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren
In order to be able to marry the princess, the miller boy Hans has to find his way to hell. If he fails to steal three golden hairs from the devil, all is lost.
Wind Water
In Wind Water, Ruiz stages a three-way dialogue between three great cultures: the West, China and Arabia. He imagines what might occur if Shih-T’ao’s six poetic procedures for attaining the primal respiration or cosmic breath in painting were applied to one of the flagships of Western art, Velazquez’s Las Meninas. Ruiz wants the three cultures to interact and test each other like the paper, stone and scissors of the children’s game. The result is an insoluble dispute, a différend. No reconciliation or compromise is possible between these cultural outlooks.
The Perfect Man
A mustachioed dandy gallops up and scales a high tower to "rescue" a sweet, innocent-looking damsel. She captures him and ties him down, for what he thinks will be a kinky little tryst...
Goldeneye: The Secret Files
Made for TV documentary including interview and behind the scenes footage from the James Bond movie GoldenEye (1995).
An Insignificant Affair
In high school, a boy and a girl are caught holding hands. The whole school is drawn into the resulting furore, with Kafkaesque results.
Kids + Money
Money talks. Teens in Los Angeles discuss money: getting it, spending it, and learning to live without it.
Dead & Company: 2023-06-27 Ruoff Music Center, Noblesville, IN, USA
Set 1: Bertha(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Good Lovin'(The Rascals cover) It Must Have Been the Roses(Robert Hunter cover) (Tour Debut) Big River(Johnny Cash cover) (>) Dark Star(Grateful Dead cover) (verse 2) Next Time You See Me(Junior Parker cover) (>) Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Bird Song(Jerry Garcia cover) (>) Don't Ease Me In(Henry Thomas cover) Set 2: Iko Iko(Sugar Boy and His Cane Cutters cover) Sugaree(Jerry Garcia cover) China Cat Sunflower(Grateful Dead cover) (>) I Know You Rider([traditional] cover) (>) Uncle John's Band(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Drums(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Space(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Hell in a Bucket(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Wharf Rat(Grateful Dead cover) (>) Turn On Your Love Light(Bobby “Blue” Bland cover) Touch of Grey(Grateful Dead cover)
Kenneth Anger: Film as Magical Ritual
Anger discusses his Aleister Crowley-inspired theories of art: How he views his camera like a wand and how he casts his films, preferring to consider his actors, not human beings but as elemental spirits. In fact, he reveals that he goes so far as to use astrology when making these choices. This is as direct an explanation of Anger’s cinemagical modus operandi as I have ever heard him articulate anywhere. It’s a must see for anyone interested in his work and showcases the Magus of cinema at the very height of his artistic powers. Fascinating. (Dangerous Minds)
Small Lights
Valerie is a self-confident and modern woman - she commutes between L.A., where she works, and Berlin, where she lives with her partner above the rooftops of the city. When he falls ill and falls into a coma, she wakes up at his bedside. Valerie decides to return to L.A. one last time, burn all her bridges there and move to Berlin for good. She decides to record a video diary for her absence and begins to narrate for her loved one the day before her departure. Intended as simple messages of love, Valerie's memories are suddenly unleashed in the midst of the recordings. Playfully, she loses her shyness in front of the camera, her emotions burst forth and allow her to relive the story of her great love. What began as a game becomes a reckoning with life and love.
Róg Brzeskiej i Capri
A story about the inhabitants of Warsaw's Praga from the late 1970s. There are representatives of the social margin among them, but there are also a collector of works of art, an ex-peasant who keeps raising peacocks, an old woman collecting dolls. This extremely colorful company lives in old, demolished tenement houses.
Longitude
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
3-2-1 Penguins!: The Amazing Carnival of Complaining
Jason and the crew go on a leisure trip to a carnival, but are confronted by carnival barker Uncle Blobb and his diabolical interplanetary real estate scheme as he attempts to turn them into "Seeds of Discontent."
Luminescence
A thinking about light and how it surrounds our lives.
An Ache in Every Stake
The stooges are icemen who, while delivering ice to a house on the top of a high hill, destroy several cakes that a wealthy man is trying to bring home. When their antics cause the servants at their customer's house to quit, the boys are hired to take their place and prepare a dinner party. What they don't know is that the party is for the man whose cakes they wrecked. When Moe's gas filled cake explodes and the man realizes who they are, they must leave in a hurry.
Death Park: The End
There is a killer slashing his way through a public park. Cable TV Bounty Hunter, Hunter Murdoch and Investigative Reporter Gail Storm join a group of locals to try and stop the killers bloody trail of dead bodies........Will they?