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Vezdekhod
Image by Carlos Casas. Double screen projection with live soundtrack. Images and sound captured on location. Somewhere in the tundra, Chukotka Region, Northeastern Siberia, Russian Federation. Music by Prurient. Published by Von Archives. N 66° 37’ 916, W 172° 40’ 353, Sept 2006.
Remembering 'Rosemary's Baby'
Retrospective documentary on the making of 'Rosemary's Baby' (1968).
Speak
About the fear of public speaking and chronicles several characters as they prepare for the World Championships of Public Speaking. One leaves behind a job and his wife and 6 kids on his quest to be the best. Another spends 6 weeks writing and rewriting his speech only to write it once more 72 hours before the contest. For another, it is a fight for life that gives her the strength to speak and tell her story while she still has time. They all want to share with the world their very personal stories of triumph over adversity. But only one will be named the World's Best Speaker.
Diving Into Noah's Flood
Archaeologist Jeff Rose is on a journey to understand how the power of water might have become the inspiration for one of the greatest stories known to man: the story of Noah’s Ark and the biblical flood. Here he is standing for a portrait in the desert outside of Dubai, UAE.
Behind a Hill
This documentary is a journey into our own fascination, a collection of portraits of folk musicians living in New England, and a study of the ground on which their music is founded. We listen to them as they tell their stories and play their music. First and foremost, Behind a Hill is a tribute to these musicians and a rare peep into the house parties and basement jams of New England, in the northwestern corner of the USA, with the vain hope attached that maybe you, the viewer, will grow as fond of the music as we have. When we first encountered these musicians, we were overwhelmed by the quality of their musical output. We were entranced by the melodies, harmonies, rhythms, and tempos and every other element that constitutes a song (or, as is often the case, a piece of abstract drone music, heavy feedback, or someone banging a steel pipe against a bag of dirt while chanting in a yet undiscovered language, or...).
A Body Without Organs
'A Body Without Organs' was shot intimately with the director's father and mother over a one and a half year period at their home in Florida. It is a portrait of their lives in the present, along a continuous present marked by frequent incursions into various pasts, real and imagined. My father has no colon. He is a narcoleptic. His friends are all dead. His life is dreamt. In the house there is my mother. There are the cats. And then there is a body without organs.
Objeto encontrado
Life and work of Antonio Perez, important personality of Spanish culture because of its relationship with key artistic and social events that occurred in Spain since the early fifties. Unique character, Antonio Perez developed an interesting activity as an artist-editor-collector. It is precisely this aspect of "search objects" which he equated with contemporary artists such as Duchamp.
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The Secret Disco Revolution
Why won’t Disco die? Might it contain hidden depths? Politically correct revisionists are trying to recast disco as a misunderstood culture of protest. Through interviews with Gloria Gaynor, The Village People, Kool and the Gang and others, along with a goldmine of stock footage and speculative reenactments, The Secret Disco Revolution presents a comic-ironic investigation into disco and its mysterious longevity.
Spring from my window
The mountain in my window enters spring. Part of the "Haiku" series.
Stasi auf dem Schulhof
At the end of the GDR existence, around 8,000 children and young people were so-called "unofficial employees" of the State Security. They were approached and recruited in youth clubs, churches and schools. They were assumed to spy on their friends or report on their parents.
Les Gazolines
Founded in 1972, this loose Parisian movement is known for having given radical visibility to homosexuals during the 1970s in the wake of student and proletarian uprisings of 1968, which had given little space to the liberation of women and homosexuals.
Children of Socialism - Replace My Head
A mid-length documentary about cult band Otroci Socializma (Children of Socialism), Slovenian version Joy Division. Without being sentimental, with just a hint of nostalgia, the movie tells the story of the band, being reunited at a concert almost 30 years later.
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
The behind-the-scenes story of how "Casablanca" became an American film classic.
Eighteenth Birthday
A girl from Youth Educational Center in Lodz will soon turn eighteen. After coming back home, she is planning to throw a birthday party.
The Lebanese Rocket Society
Lebanon's brief flirtation with space travel in the 1960s becomes a poignant metaphor for the Arab world's utopian dreams in this riveting documentary.
How Far Is Heaven
The Sisters of Compassion have lived in the remote village of Jerusalem / Hiruharama on the Whanganui River in New Zealand for 120 years. Today, only three nuns remain - their legacy on the river is coming to an end. This is a complex world of powerful dualities; Maori & Christian spirituality, parties & prayers, pig hunting and perfume appreciation... Over the course of a year, the film follows the journey of Sister Margaret Mary, the newest Sister to Jerusalem, who is a regular volunteer at the local school. Through an intimate, observational gaze, the film is captivated by the spellbinding personalities of the local kids, whose humour and unique philosophies transcend the harsher realities of life. Throughout all seasons, the Sisters’ daily practice of compassion engages with the traditions of local Maori. Together they must learn to navigate lifeʼs heartbreak and joy.
Time of My Life
Time of My Life is a movie documentary project born and initiate in spring 2011 in West Switzerland. Ski, skateboard and snowboard movies are usually made to impress and show only one aspect of these sports: impressive tricks and bluebird skies. Skiing and snowboarding are much more than that. With this film project project, we want to explore the back stages of the show and wish to give a more complete and authentic vision of the riders experience. The movie guideline is to catch and film what is behind skiing, snowboard and skating, what is behind these passions.
2 Lines
Is ‘marriage’ anything to choose in Korean society? Ji-min and Cheol are a couple living together. One day they find Ji-min is pregnant and get to confront another stage of life. The director questions the essence of marriage by telling her own story of having a baby as an unmarried woman.
Mount St. Elias
A dramatic feature documentary following three of the world's greatest ski mountaineers to the Mount St. Elias in their attempt to realize the longest ski descent in the world.
2 Lines
Is ‘marriage’ a choice in Korean society? Ji-min and Cheol are a couple living together. One day they discover that Ji-min is pregnant and prepare to confront another stage of life. The director questions the essence of marriage by telling her own story of having a baby as an unmarried woman.
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller traces the career of twentieth-century futurist, architect, engineer, inventor, and author R. Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983). An early proponent of environmental stewardship, Fuller spoke persuasively about contemporary design and architecture’s ability to tackle issues of sustainability and conservation, and to stimulate radical societal change. At every screening, Green narrates the film in person and cues images from a laptop while Yo La Tengo performs their original score. The performance is a follow-up to Green’s internationally-acclaimed live film Utopia in Four Movements, which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. This new work features the same unique combination of film clips and live music, as Green’s in person cinematic narration draws inspiration equally from old travelogues, the Benshi tradition, and TED talks.
Obama 2012 Convention Film
2012 Democratic National Convention Video about Obama, narrated by George Clooney and featuring music by Keith Kenniff.
Laylou
Between the end of adolescence and the beginning of adulthood, Lou and Laylou go through the summer of their 17th birthday. A poetic, singular and strong look at a pivotal moment in adolescence.
Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective
Crime writer Ian Rankin invites BBC to follow him as he writes his next novel, and as he ponders what to write about after retiring his most famous creation, Rebus.
He Was a Giant with Brown Eyes
After her parents' divorce, Sabina was forced to follow her mother to Switzerland while her sister, Narmina, stayed with their father in Baku. Five years later, the 17 and 19 year old sisters are reunited when Sabina comes to spend he summer in Azerbaijan. Yet Sabina's vacation has a secret motive: she wants to move back home to live with the father she loves so deeply. He, too, has a project of his own: he wishes to marry for the third time and has to break the news to his daughters.
Watchers 5: Let Me In
The Watchers series has reached new, extraordinary heights, presenting one thrilling segment after another. LA Marzulli and Richard Shaw's ongoing adventures continue with the story of black-eyed children who appear at hotels and car windows, even on boats at sea! They appear with a singular purpose—they want to be invited in! Demons? Alien hybrids? Urban legends? Speaking of legends, our host interviews the leading expert on The Spear of Destiny, the weapon that pierced the side of Christ and supposedly gives its owner the power to rule the world. What significance does the word OBAMA have in the Bible codes, referencing the Gog and Magog war? And what secrets does the North Pole hold? Were Admiral Byrd and Adolf Hitler's suspicions right? Is the Hollow Earth theory credible? There's even more—the latest news from Israel—an interview with David Brennan, author of the Israel Omen—Russian UFOs and new, laboratory revelations from alien implant physician, Dr. Leir.
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The Queen's Mother in Law
The story of Prince Philip's mother, who fled revolution in Greece, was experimented on by Sigmund Freud, hid Jews from the Nazis, gave all her possessions away, and founded her own religious order.
Balance
The protagonist of the film, urban celebrity Iosif Grigorievich, developed his own unique balance system. Medical accuracy and a charge of good mood are guaranteed! But he was destined for a different name and a completely different fate.
Thousandth
Engelina Borisovna Tareeva is one of the most famous Russian bloggers, the oldest “thousander” of LiveJournal. She is 84 years old. She was born in Kyiv, at the age of 16 she was a tractor driver in a Kazakh steppe village in evacuation, she studied at the philological faculty of Moscow State University, worked in the journal Voprosy Literatury, knew well-known sixties and even a sixties woman herself. Most of Tareeva's nearly five thousand readers are young people. Paradox?
The Secret of the White Fugitive
We often forget the star artists who were once admired by the whole country. How are their fates? Egor was the first white whale in our country to start performing in dolphin shows, becoming a vivid childhood memory for hundreds of thousands of children. After twenty years of living next to people, he escaped. Studying the history of Yegor, we will get acquainted with unique animals, white polar whales, see their habitats in the wild. They are considered the smartest creatures on the planet along with horses, dogs, monkeys, but, perhaps, it is about beluga whales, Russian whales, that we know the least.
Stalin Street
The film is a reflection on the everyday life of an ordinary Ural village, in which one of the streets bears an unusual name for today, the name of Stalin.
World War Two: 1942 and Hitler's Soft Underbelly
The British fought the Second World War to defeat Hitler. This film asks why, then, did they spend so much of the conflict battling through North Africa and Italy? Historian David Reynolds reassesses Winston Churchill's conviction that the Mediterranean was the 'soft underbelly' of Hitler's Europe. Travelling to Egypt and Italian battlefields like Cassino, scene of some of the worst carnage in western Europe, he shows how, in reality, the 'soft underbelly' became a dark and dangerous obsession for Churchill. Reynolds reveals a prime minister very different from the jaw-jutting bulldog of Britain's 'finest hour' in 1940 - a leader who was politically vulnerable at home, desperate to shore up a crumbling British empire abroad, losing faith in his army and even ready to deceive his American allies if it might delay fighting head to head against the Germans in northern France. The film marks the seventieth anniversary of the Battle of El Alamein in 1942.
The Return of the Buffalo
The ‘Indians of All Tribes’ group occupied Alcatraz prison, which closed in 1963, from 1969 to 1971 in order to build a cultural and educational center. When Söderquist visited the island in 1970, the occupants had built up a functioning society with jobs, family life and schools. The text ‘Indian America Land’ was posted on the outside of a building. In a voice-over, school teacher Bob Bradley discusses political inequality, social problems and the difficult situation for the Native American population in the USA, as well as the background for the occupation. The Return of the Buffalo is a stylized and unique documentary (the only filmed material from the occupation), a black-and-white depiction in which architecture, former prison buildings, politics, music and dance are interwoven with local radio, conversations and discussions into a focused whole. The film became the starting point for Söderquist’s Alcatraz – The Return (2013).
Through the Needles of Coniferous Trees
The last wedding of an Udmurt. A year after his death, his soul says goodbye to the world of the living and becomes engaged to another, unknown world.
Crucifixion
On Easter Sunday 2012 the UK's Channel 4 showed a programme entitled Crucifixion in which Gunther von Hagens created his interpretation of the crucifixion of Jesus. The documentary examined the enduring iconic image of the Crucifix. A number of donors were used for the plastination of blood vessels to create the main structure of the body. At the end of the programme von Hagens announced that he did not expect to see the final work of art due to his ill health.
Killer Teens
Killer Teens is a one-hour crime series exploring the frightening phenomenon of murder committed by teenagers.