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Carving the Cadaver Volume 1
Spanning nearly four decades of archival footage from all over the world, the Carving the Cadaver trilogy is an uncompromising exploration into the world of embalming, autopsy, and human dissection. Offering an uncensored look into all aspects of human anatomy from inside and out.
t 1/2
t 1/2 continues the topic of post-human mythology and fictional visual meditation about contemporary science from future archaeology perspective. t 1/2 is the symbol of the term ‘half-life’, commonly used in nuclear physics to describe how quickly unstable atoms undergo radioactive decay, or how long stable atoms survive. t 1/2, shown as a large-scale video installation that consists of architecture envisioned by the artist through remote sensing 3D scans and the mirrored ceiling, traverse an epic landscape of geography.
Terza passeggiata - Sulla neve
Soft steps mark the snow. They follow a blackbird, then find the sea. The third walk gets lost in an echo of childhood games.
The Sound Drifts
Hypnotising audio tracks dance to the soundtrack of Canapa’s previous film Jérôme Noetinger, for which Canapa filmed a solo performance by the French sound artist. As a member of the renowned Cellule d'intervention Metamkine, Noetinger manipulates magnetic tape creating bewitching sounds, now enriched with stroboscopic effects. Cinema for your ears!
Deceive with Belief
We are faking, lying, performing, stretching, translating, doctoring, manipulating, mistaking, working, earning, trying, reporting, deceiving, interpreting, demonstrating, sinking. "We're surrounded by images. Most art is in a frame, you know it isn't real, it's in a frame. But in addition to just referring to being surrounded by images, it's to a feeling of being immersed in the scene, not being separate from the scene, not being an external viewer, of something that happens, but being part of it." - Dan Sandin (edited and taken out of context). Commissioned for "Countering Fake News in Russia and the US" by Media Burn Video Archive
Notre Guerre
Our War is a film about childhood, a film in history. The "Events" of New Caledonia seen by children of the 80s. Now in their forties.
Memory Is Our Homeland
What happens to history’s forgotten people? How did a young Polish woman manage to spend years living in a Tanzanian village in the 1940s? Through this ambitious, highly personal film, Jonathan Durand exposes the tragic fate of nearly 1,000,000 Poles who were deported to Siberian labour camps during the Second World War, and the thousands of them who wound up in Africa after periods of exile in Iran and India. Featuring the unforgettable recollections of his own grandmother, meticulous historical research and a gripping personal quest, the film exposes a deliberately erased chapter of history, and questions the nature of identities rooted in exile.
Mahakaleshwar - Legends of Shiva
In the city of Ujjain, history and mythology align. It was once the capital of a great kingdom that sought to unravel the mysteries of time and space. This special follows life in the city and its temple, leading up to the celebrations of Mahashivratri.
Black in Blue
A look into the four athletes from the University of Kentucky who broke the color line in the South Eastern Conference in the 1960s.
Practical Dreams
“Practical Dreams” is an experimental documentary which examines the existential outlook on life of Antony, a long-time UAE resident who builds houses for a living but is at a loss when it comes to explaining what home really means to him.
Clean With Me (After Dark)
Hundreds of women film themselves on YouTube cleaning the house.
Yo Soy Tu Mismo: Michael James discusses why we should observe only the observer
On the second day of a retreat organised by ‘Yo Soy Tu Mismo’ (a group of Spanish devotees of Bhagavan Sri Ramana) on 27th September 2019, in reply to the final part of a long email Michael James discusses the creation and reabsorption of phenomena, explains why we cannot eradicate ego so long as we continue to observe phenomena, why ego is described as the ‘witness’, and why we should observe only the observer or witness only the witness, and then answers questions on these and other aspects of Bhagavan’s teachings.
We Waited Until Nightfall
The film revisits repurposed movie theaters through haunting images and sounds that trace the practices of belonging still embodied in the ruins.
Theater Behind Barbed Wire
The history of the unique theater, founded in 1943 in Vorkutlag by the will of two Muscovites – the chief and the prisoner (Mikhail Maltsev and Boris Mordvinov). Actors and musicians came out of the barracks to the stage at gunpoint every day to play a play and save their lives. During the war, the Vorkuta Camp Music and Drama Theater showed 600 performances a year, and the troupe consisted of 150 actors. Their children, grandchildren and friends became the heroes of this film.
The Last Becak's Sepatbor Painter
Tjipto Setiyono, 85, is a rickshaw painter. Despite being past his prime, he lives alone in a 3-by-3 meter square boarding room, in which Tjipto’s brush strokes give birth to his paintings.
Big Chips
A short documentary about Kember Walker in his young days of playing basketball at Rice High School.
The Nose Speed Record
For decades, an elite handful of climbers have competed for the coveted speed record on the 3,000-foot Nose of El Capitan, risking big falls to shave mere seconds off the fastest time. When a record held by superstar Alex Honnold is broken by little-known climbers Brad Gobright and Jim Reynolds, Honnold drafts fellow climbing legend Tommy Caldwell to establish a new mark that will stand the test of time. Honnold pushes for perfection while Caldwell, a family man, wrestles with the risk amid a series of accidents on the wall that lay bare the consequences of any mistake.
In the Autumn Before the Winter Comes Man's Last Made Surge of Youth
Optically printed fragments of film I shot in the autumn months in Seattle. -JB
This film was made in response to seeing some of Caryn Clines films. Caryn re introduced me to shooting my films outside. -JB
Boeing's Killer Plane: What Went Wrong?
This documentary unravels the events that led to two Boeing 737 MAX passenger jets falling out of the sky, and investigates how the fastest-selling aircraft in Boeing's history ended in tragedy
The US and Their Guns: An American Story
Tracing the story of a student uprising this documentary explores how the NRA manages to keep a permissive gun law alive, and why it has such a strong hold over American society.
Face The Music
Colored hair, earrings in ears, bright clothes - an image that is very different from the Kazakh standard of masculinity. This is how the main characters of this, members of the Kazakhstani group Ninety One, look like. Many will not find anything unusual in the image of the musicians, however, the group’s popularity among Kazakh-speaking teenagers caused a great indignation of part of society, which led to street protests, disruptions of concerts and pressure from the authorities. The appearance of Ninety One revealed a whole layer of social and cultural conflicts within Kazakhstani society - between urban and rural culture, between traditionalism and globalization, between the vertical of power and personal freedom.
Chef's Table, Volume 6
Find out what's inside the kitchens and minds of the international culinary stars who are redefining gourmet food.
Luxury: Behind The Mirror
With their beautiful shopfronts and finely crafted goods, brands like Gucci, Max Mara, Louis Vuitton and Prada are seen as being the height of luxury, conjuring images of master craftsmen finely crafting each item. But - as this investigation reveals - behind the glamorous exterior, all that glitters is not gold. From Haute-Couture at Paris Fashion Week to Chinese and Italian backroom boutiques, LUXURY: BEHIND THE MIRROR investigates the hidden side of luxury.
AJR's Neotheater World Tour: Live in Minneapolis
Live Nation's professionally filmed livestream of AJR performing at the Minneapolis Armory on their Neotheater World Tour.
One Mind: A Zen Pilgrimage
ONE MIND is an immersive cinematic meditation on Zen monastic life in China, where a communion of nature, meditation, and labor reveals a carefully crafted way of life that reflects the very wisdom it seeks to cultivate.
Nurken Abdirov: The Youngest of My Sons
Nurken with his crew on a plane engulfed in flames crashed into the thick of enemy tanks. Dozens of fascist soldiers and officers went into oblivion with him. A terrible explosion shook everything around. So Nurken and his friend Alexander Komissarov went into immortality. In Volgograd, on Mamaev Kurgan, the very first plate is a memorial plaque made of black marble, on which his name is carved. Hero of the Soviet Union Nurken Abdirov.
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Bird vs. Plane: Miracle on the Hudson
On the 10th anniversary of US Airways Flight 1549's miraculous landing on the Hudson River, Smithsonian Channel revisits the event to explore the impact of bird strikes in aviation accidents. See first-person accounts from survivors, flight safety experts, and leading scientists in the fields of ornithology and wildlife management as Bird vs. Plane: Miracle on the Hudson highlights the groundbreaking work to prevent future occurrences.
Moti Bagh
Vidyadutt Sharma has for decades nurtured his farm in a small Himalayan village. Around him, 7000 ghost villages bear chilling testimony to widespread migration for employment. Chronicling the changing landscape in verses of resistance, he persists, hoping to return Moti Bagh to its old glory.
The Universal S
People from all over the world have been drawing this S-shaped symbol for decades, yet no one seems to know anything about it. In this video, I explore some of the popular origin theories and showcase my own findings after five years of on and off searching.
The Vanishing of Flight 370
On the 8th of March, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished during a routine flight between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Beijing, China. The case has since grown into one of the most puzzling mysteries in aviation history. In this video, I examine the findings of the official investigation and explore some of the leading theories.
I Want Justice!
A portrait of 19-year-old Ekhlas Bajoo, who was captured by IS at the age of 14, survived the unimaginable, was finally able to flee after six months and finally came to Germany as a refugee in 2015.
In Dog Years
A portrait of 10 senior dogs and their owners who struggle with the thought of letting go.
Jeff Tweedy: Learning To Love The Music You Hate
Animated interview with Jeff Tweedy about musical taste
Ayen pa chanjé
On February 5th, 2019, thousands of Martiniquais took to the streets to demonstrate against the “high living costs” and for higher wages. The 38-day strike resulted in a memorandum of understanding that was partially respected, although it was not enough to erase the colonial burden that Martinique still carries.
SCHROTT ODER CHANCE - Ein Bauwerk spaltet Potsdam