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- The destruction of a home for the building of a road is captured and contrasted with quotations from the residents.
- 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.
- "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?
- 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".
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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."
- '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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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".
- 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'.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.