All Films

In Victorian England, an old woman living alone is plagued by poltergeists.

We have evolved to perceive waveform; Light waves, sound waves etc. We continually build devices to produce and record these waves. This film creates a Cinematic Space to reflect upon some of these waveforms.

An army of yellow 2x4 plates are ordered by their emperor to hunt down "1xYs", red plate people consisting of three 1x4 limbs.

A young couple finally has the day off together. While their differing interests in the world causes them some tension, it also creates in them a desire to understand one another.

The story of Julia Mann, mother of the famous German writer Thomas Mann, is revealed in this documentary. Born in Brazil, crossing between Angra dos Reis and Paraty, at the age of seven she was taken to Germany, where she spent most of her life trying to adapt to customs very different from those she knew from her childhood. This tragic rupture marked her life and gave rise to one of the most unique families in the history of literature. It includes two of the most important German writers of the 20th century (Thomas Mann and Heinrich Mann), as well as characters marked by exile, death and flight.

HF781 - Super 8 (Black & White) film by Helga Fanderl

In Shanxi province (southwest of Beijing), farmers work, risking their lives, in coal mines to supplement the meager income the land brings them. These small mines, of which at one time there were nearly 6,000, are closing one after the other for safety reasons and because of the pollution they cause. The preparation and celebration of the ceremony of offerings to the mine gods will perhaps be the last in Zhong Village. This independent documentary, filmed in light video, reveals the discreet view taken by the director on women and men who are very close to him, since several are part of his family.

The spiral - like structure and unbroken momentum of the film/musical composition are somewhat suggestive to the artists of intersecting streams (or 'ribbons') of time. The concept is not simply the familiar (although perhaps illusory) forward, linear 'march' of clock time, but rather a nexus in which backwards time (e.g. , dreams, recollections together of segments of time are equally prominent. The visuals are animations and manipulations of hand-painted 35mm motion picture film, small objects, copier art, and liquid mixtures that are extensively interwoven and layered in digital post production. The principal sound sources of the music are generic samples (digitized recordings of instrumental and vocal tones and of environmental sounds such as ice cubes and ping pong balls). However, in re-synthesis the spectral structures (tones colors) of these sounds often have benne retooled and their attack and decay articulations have been altered.

This started as an idea about a crow that wanted to be a super hero and slowly morphed into this tale of peer pressure, death and regret.

A loving memorial of three friends who loved fishin'.

"Blood seeps through lace bandages around her wrists while McQuilkin carefully and contemplatively applies a thick rim of greasy black eyeliner." - Ana Finel Honigman via Artnet

A flickering interweaving of abstract imagery, homoerotic performance, text, and motifs of metaphysics and death.

An excerpt from Goodwin's 2003 installation 'Reveal' - published as part of the Time Unfolding project, produced by Picture This.

After 5-years' observation and recording, the director screened the entire process of villager autonomy of Dongpo Village in the suburb of Chengdu under the background of urbanization and the promulgation of organic law of villager committee. The film focuses on the villagers’ growing participation in political life and the running of their village.

Narrated by Susan Sarandon, and winner of the prestigious Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary at the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival, this beautiful, evocative documentary profiles the amazing adaptability and resilience of the nation's exiled women, and the vital role they play in preserving their country's endangered culture.

On the occassion of 25 years of the environmental movement, Chipko, the film revisits the Kumaon-Garhwal region in the northern Himalaya. It emphasises the active role of women in this grass-roots movement, which has been one of the major factors for its success.

This film documents a school reunion held at the centenary celebration of the founding of Dr. Graham's Homes, a school in northern Indian town of Kalimpong, near the border with Bhutan and Sikkim. John Anderson Graham, a Scots missionary who traveled to India in 1889, founded his boarding school for "destitute and abandoned Anglo-Indian children" in 1900. Graham was appalled by the condition in which he found children in the tea-growing regions of northern India, in particular the children who were offspring of the women who labored on the tea plantations and (male) British tea-planters who were not allowed to marry until they became managers. Later the school also began to take in disadvantaged children of other backgrounds, among then Lushai, Nepali, Naga, Assamese, and Tibetan children. The film maker and several others interviewed in the film are children of Tibetan refugees.

For centuries the Bhotias traded with Tibet. They brought much needed salt, borax, yak’s tails and woolen cloth and bartered it with Indian grains, jaggery and other goods. The trade routes cut through the western and eastern passes of the Himalayas. The Shaukas of Johar Valley of Uttaranchal were one such group of Bhotia traders.

This video tells the inspiring story of thirteen women who in 1978 did what no American had done before. They climbed Annapurna I, one of the world’s highest and most dangerous mountains. Filmmakers Marie Ashton & Dyanna Taylor joined the expedition to capture on film the drama of this historic adventure. Their compelling footage follows the expedition from the lowlands of Nepal, across glaciers and steep ice slopes, to the triumph of the summit and the tragic loss of two team members.

A short documentary by Hali Lee and Peter von Ziegesar.

The tragic story of the Great War is told through the accounts of the British and Canadian soldiers who were the first and last to die in battle. In Mons, Belgium during World War I, Private John Parr, aged 17, from Middlesex, England, was the first Allied soldier to die. Four years later, Private George Price, aged 25, from Nova Scotia, would be the last. Although the two men never met, the circumstances of their deaths linked their lives. FIRST AND LAST attempts to reveal the details of their lives while helping us better understand World War I.

Beijing impresses people with its great richness of historical culture and the flourishing growth of its modern economy. But isn't this in itself a beautiful fantasy that hides the reality of Beijing life? A pervasive flood of images and forms have become a substitute for something else, and they completely fill our world. A tide of media images pour in on us from every direction, overfilling our eyes and ears, rendering our real senses insensate, allowing no line of sight to the reality of life, leaving us powerless. Hussling and bustling, people just rush by it all, and in the flourish of today's consumer culture, just reach out and grab what they want for themselves.

On the left side filmmaker Mwangi Hutter slowly cuts away her dreadlocks. On the right side Mwangi Hutter wraps her dreadlocks around her face like a mask.

Twenty-two minutes of costume noise from darling Texas transplants Tarantism, as kids staying up past their bedtime to do a little circuit-bending. A political campaign is launched, a Chinese Dinner Theatre/German Dark-Wave party is held, then 2 nuns beat a log to death! Two secret agents control the atmosphere in dark suits, the popular daytime cooking show "Let's Eat!" demonstrates how to fry Twinkies, and Silly Sammy wants to sell you some stereo equipment to go with your new personal comfort system. The 1-800-HOT-GIRLS are ready to party with you! Then it's back to the beach for some California Dreamin'