All Films

This glance at Bob Burns' Alien movie collection is featured on the 9th bonus disc for the Alien Quadrilogy, released in 2003.

Gavin Turk is a leading figure in British contemporary art. His 1991 degree show work Cave, a blue ceramic plaque commemorating his occupancy of a studio, and Pop, the waxwork figure of himself as Sid Vicious, are among the iconic artworks of the 1990s. His “self-portrait” signatures and his finely crafted sculptures of everyday objects (such as cardboard boxes cast in bronze) bring the commonplace into an art space and challenge the viewer to engage in new ways.

Images of home, and city, and a written message. '…consider that it is no longer so easy to view the (often) depopulated public and private spaces Todd observes as merely the manifestations of a particular aesthetic preference, sensibility or tradition, personal or otherwise. These spaces are, perhaps inevitably now, endowed with a latent off-screen presence, with a sense of gathering incident or the after-ripple of event that can no longer be ignored.’

A puppet boy follows a marble into a museum of dreams

A young couple discovers that their 8-year-old son is possessed by an evil spirit.

Pascal Baes experiments with the reflecting feedback of a video projector in a meticulous interaction with a performance by his life companion Aï Suzuki. In post-processing, the images were digitally edited, which results in an expressionist, abstract study of the human body. With the help of various effects, Baes radically intervenes on the images, mutating shapes, penetrating textures and reconstructing his visual experiment into a psychedelic phantasm of the ‘corpus humanis’ and distorted sensuality. Demographical lines fuse together with shreds of human body and facial traits in a restless outburst of colour, lighting and movement, expanding in interaction with an electronic composition of sliding and lashing sounds into a claustrophobic experience.

This documentary is a vision of the Spanish civil war seen by the children of that time: sometimes as a game and other times as a dangerous adventure. A mixture of fascination and fear that was captured forever in the form of drawings.

With the campus-wide dance competition looming over their strong, toned shoulders, the men of Closson pull off their gutsiest move yet: they ask someone else to help.

A report on the famous French legion, formed from contract soldiers. There are among the legionnaires and immigrants from Russia.

The film is dedicated to the outstanding Russian engineer, inventor, scientist Vladimir Shukhov. Under his leadership, about 500 bridges were designed and built, the first oil pipeline in Russia, the Kievsky railway station in Moscow. The callsigns of the first Soviet radio station, and later the first television programs, were transmitted from antennas installed on the Shabolovskaya radio tower in Moscow, built according to Shukhov's design. In Samarkand, after the earthquake, a beautiful monument of medieval architecture, the minaret of the Ulugbek Madrasah, was restored according to his project. 63 years of engineering work, and more than ten projects completed each year.

Members of the Society of Amateur Canary Breeders are all male. On Sunday afternoon, they come to Moscow from different parts of the country, united by a single desire to win a canary singing competition.

The boss commissions a quartet of gangsters to rob a casino. An ambitious reporter broadcasts the robbery live on television. After the job is done, the thieves reach their hideout, but things get out of hand. Suddenly the dead come back to life!

Eighth "The Most Fearful Stories" film by Junji Inagawa.

Korean parents' extreme fervor for education is exposed as a child undergoes a tongue operation to enhance his ability in spoken English.

Described in Art Review as the world’s most influential and expensive living artist, the German painter Gerhard Richter was enjoying enormous success in London with his retrospective show at Tate Modern entitled Panorama in 2011. This particular film was made some years ago at the time of his equally successful American retrospective at MOMA entitled “40 Years of Painting” and charts his entire artistic career. Born in Dresden in 1932, the year before Hitler came to power, Richter later grew up in communist East Germany, before escaping to the West just before the Wall went up in Berlin. Since then he has produced a large diverse body of work from his blurred photobased paintings to his gigantic abstractions, from his Baader Meinhof pictures to his perceptual installations using sheets of glass. Gerald Fox’s film caught up with the artist at his home in Cologne where he was undergoing a period of quiet reflection and preparation before beginning a new series of paintings.

In 1941, the writers Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet fled the Nazi-occupied zone of France, arriving in Nice. There they met and befriended Henri Matisse. Aragon resolved to write a book about the great painter, but it wasn't until 1970, just after Elsa's death, that he finally completed "Henri Matisse, roman".

This is composition reacting to a whinging zeitgeist, threatened with the possibility of war. A still-life in time, a means of having hope. The Allam house is in Esfahan was being renovated when we were there. It had been damaged during the Iran-Iraq war.

William Dalrymple makes an epic journey along a well-worn route travelled by thousands of pilgrims before him to find the source of the River Ganges.

The Lama Mani is a storytelling technique that is used to illustrate the Buddhist view of the universe, including ethics and cosmology, often told with thangkas as visual supports.

Bright, genial, and intensely energetic, Narayan Wagle is one of Nepal's most widely followed journalists. Now the man, who has made a career writing about others, finds himself as a character in a story. Bhedako Oon Jasto, or Like Sheep's Wool, an hour long documentary, is named after the song he first heard in a highland village north of Kathmandu. It is his deeply personal odyssey in search of the elusive tune. For eight long years, Wagle would sing Bhedako Oon Jasto - to his friends, and then singers and musicians, to check if they were familiar with the tune, but to no avail. Early this year, Wagle has his calls answered. Wagle sings the song to Amrit Gurung of Nepathya. Amrit shows interest to sing the song, and requests Wagle to give him the lyrics in writing. Wagle puts forward a clause - he tells Amrit - " Both you and me have to revisit the place where I heard this song.

Video by Matt Blevins & ZaK Arctander. Early 2000's. featuring: Gary Rzeszutko, Steve Fauser, Jarret Berry, Jacob Kraft, Jim Habrel, Leroy stevens, Matt Rzeszutko, Josh bouton

This installment of the "Just the Facts" documentary series covers the early decades of the 1900s.

A single-screen video installation featuring footage of men driving four-wheel drive vehicles in the dusty coastal hills outside Tel Aviv. Sequences of cars trying to negotiate tricky gradients are interspersed with shots showing the gathering crowd as the day progresses. (via TATE).