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Documentation of a performance art piece about the artist’s mother, incorporating video, audio recording, and photography; performed live in Studio 9 at the San Francisco Art Institute.

In 2010, an interactive animation based on Zdeněk Sklenář's illustrations for the book The Monkey King (Czech 1961) was created for presentation at the EXPO in Shanghai. One of the co-authors of the animation was Martin Búřil. The basis of the video Monoscope no. 3 is the basis of the flat animation of the stories of The Monkey King, from which all graphic data of the original illustrations has been removed. His fights with the Jade Emperor are converted into collisions of colored rectangles of a generic monoscope, a calibration pattern that automatically replaces missing data in the After Effects software. Búřil's Monoscope is a technical ready-made and an animated film of pure form devoid of content. If the original Monkey King was an extension of Sklenář's drawings with a media superstructure, Monoscope is a pure manifestation of this superstructure, everything that was added to the original artistic content.

Rukani (Yamazaki), a middle-aged man with a cosplay fetish, tries to shoot an adult video featuring a woman named Karinpa (Komoda) as his model. However, whenever things start to get erotic, a mysterious red bat suddenly appears out of nowhere and gets in the way.

With special access to the site of the San José, Chile, mine, the mining engineers and the miners families, NOVA chronicles the miners 69-day ordeal and the work of a global team of engineers who struggled tirelessly around the clock in a desperate bid to bring the trapped miners safely to the surface.

This was the first work I shot using stop-motion photography on 8mm film. I was conscious of not wanting to create any predictable movement between each frame.

A documentary about simultaneous interpreters. Two interpreters sit in a booth. Using headsets, they listen to prerecorded English interview passages (these "originals" are inaudible to the viewer), which they simultaneously translate into German. The source interviews are conversations with translators, translation scholars, interpreters, politicians, philosophers of language, neurolinguists, and others. Approaching the process of translation from a great variety of perspectives, the film also allows the viewer to become part of that process.

An alchemy of one man’s image and another man’s words. A portrait that maintains its right to stay a mystery. A song, a riddle, an owl, frozen shoreline, urban savannah: fragments of brief encounters with wild and urban creatures and tender gestures in unsettling environments. A tribute to men full of secrets.

Short film by Shinkan Tamaki.

Charismatic, outspoken, and often controversial, Brian Clough is widely considered to be the best manager England never had and one of the best English managers the game of football has ever seen. This frank documentary tells the story of an unforgettable career, including heady days with Derby County, unprecedented European success with Nottingham Forest and a notorious 44-day tenure as Leeds United boss, fictionalised in the novel and film 'The Damned United'. For many his like will never be seen again. Martin O'Neill and Sir Michael Parkinson are among those who remember the man they called 'Cloughie'.

James Holland presents an analysis of the legendary 1943 Dam Busters raid.

2011 release

Postcards from the Desert Island documents a 3-week workshop with students from the École Vitruve, an experimental, self-run elementary school in Paris. Inspired in William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies, the artist asked the pupils to turn the school hall into a desert island, and to relate themselves to such new territory. The video documents the children's organisational methods, their approaches to the problematics raised by self-governance and by the possibility of imagining institutions and social relations from scratch.

Manfred Neuwirth’s “Lunar Society“ is a little city symphony of only four minutes of length: a music video accompanying the song of the same name by Viennese band Modell Doo. The Lunar Society of Birmingham, founded in 1765, was a circle of scholars who only met at full moon to be able to get home afterwards with a little light in the streets. Quite in spirit with the intellectual lunarticks of the 18th century, “Lunar Society“ celebrates the various dances of light, water, and colour.

“Northern Rain” is a documentary that stems from the experience of the Moroccan association Assaida Al Horra and was made in collaboration with them. One of the association's many current projects is to recover the stories of some Moroccan women who participated in the struggle for the country's independence in the 1950s. The documentary focuses on these particular stories that make up Morocco's recent history. “Northern Rain” aims to show today's Moroccan women who seek their image in the mirror of time and who gratefully recover for the collective memory the history of struggle, risk, and courage of other women who until now remained hidden.

This is a dark comedy about a solo film maker trying to figure out how he will complete a film he started with no help or resources.

Three old men travel to a strip of green bush in the desert, where a permanent spring feeds a large waterhole. They share stories of the rainbow serpent, Kulunada, which lived in the waterhole, and also the violent past of white settlement.

Hello Hulk Hogan, don't worry we will be ok in the end.

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2011 release

The film captures suspension performances in a Kharkiv nightclub, a subculture involving body suspension through piercings. Participants, often teenagers interested in heavy music and body art, use this practice as a protest against societal norms and a form of youth radicalism. Unlike political activism, it symbolizes a desire to escape social ties through pain. Five years later, Ukraine’s war shifted pain’s symbolism from escape to a new normality, as many young people joined military and volunteer efforts.

Playdead sheds light on its modern classic.

Peter and the Wolf has charmed audiences of every age since Prokofiev composed his score in 1936. In The Royal Ballet's production Will Kemp, as the Narrator, guides us through Prokofiev's famous musical representations of the animal and human characters - a brave young boy (danced by Royal Ballet School student Kilian Smith) does battle with a big bad wolf (danced by Royal Ballet Principal Sergei Polunin), assisted by a mini-carnival of animal friends, all danced by students in Matthew Hart's joyful choreography.

A young boy has the werewolf curse. His parents pray for a cure.

I watch tv so you don't have to. Like the short description summaries that often accompany tv programs though an on-screen cable guide, Don't Ask Don't Tell Gay, Gay, Gay is a jump-cut/short-cut edit that summarizes the content of Season 4, episode 4 of Boston Legal. All excess footage has been removed to capture the mainstream reflection and tone of American discourse around DADT.