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When Suman has to go to her mother's house, Bharat asks her to write which she refuses saying that he doesn't know how to keep it to himself. Bharat promises to find the right place for it. She is adamant but writes nonetheless and Bharat has to keep his promise now. And so begins his search for his corner in the space that belongs to many.

HF815B - Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl

This piece, the very first of my photogram experiments, I made on digital video. Effigy explores the potential of the abstracted film image to stand in for the human body, in a piece that calls to mind medical anxiety and questions the illusion of scale.

Jarno Mahlberg's very first short film, shot on video during one night in 2000.

Several young people meet their murderer in the forest. The first film from Fist–Productions and thanks to its old unfortunately only available in poor quality. Not a sensible one Script, no acting qualities, pure trash! Only for real Hardcore fans recommended!

12-channel installation. The videos show several people chewing bubble gum; a normal video speed is used during chewing and slow motion is used for the blowing of the bubbles.

The mighty machine empire “Nebula” seeks to dominate a desolate future world. To thwart it, scientist Kate sends her own creation— the ultimate combat android “Mighty Venus”— along with the android girl Haruka who pilots it, into the present day. The solitary and harrowing battle of Haruka, an innocent girl possessing a complete emotional circuit, begins now!

At dawn a black Porsche 911 is pulled over by police just south of Stockholm. This marks the beginning of one of the most brutal car chases ever-past the Stockholm Globe Arena, through the alleys of Old Town, past the Royal Castle and the Royal guards, right through downtown and the harbor to run from the law.

The bulls are on the loose in a small town in northern Germany—101 bull figures are hidden throughout the town. The background and production of the art objects are discussed.

Live shows recorded in Rio De Janeiro. This DVD includes versions of their biggest hits never heard before including 4 unpublished tracks. This is an excellent chance to watch the exciting Adriana Calcanhotto in action.

Exercise your First Amendment Right to see this video! These are the shocking images the censors don't want you to see - and this tiem, we've saved the worst for last!

A trilogy of coming of age stories based on the short stories of Kentucky writer, Gurney Norman. The shape of young Wilgus Collier's life described in encounters at three different ages; with a fast-talking trickster at age 9, with a hell-raising uncle at age 14, and with the woman of his adolescent dreams, only he is now 23 and she is 37.

2000 short by Dietmar Brehm

The Jesus Trilogy and Coda is composed of the four following parts: (1) IN JESUS NAME presents an almost continuous fluttering movement midst the complexity of multiple small shapes in mostly autumnal colors, like unto a wind moving through fall leaves. (2) THE BABY JESUS begins with pearl-pinks and gold-flecked shapes midst 'garden greens'. (3) JESUS WEPT utilizes a variety of shapes and colors so fretted and interlocked with darkness as to create the sense of a glamorous terror within which palpable shapes of 'tears' appear and weave a counterbalance of sorrowful calm. (4) CODA: CHRIST ON CROSS contains the most easily nameable of all the shapes in this trilogy: it is, thus, an aesthetic 'summing-up' with full emphasis upon the crucifixion which is visible again and again as a mass of twisting lines and tortured forms, flecked with vermillion blood-likeness. Optical printing by Brakhage and Mary Beth Reed.

2000 short film by Håkan Dahlström.

A woman drinks tea, washes a window, reads the paper: simple tasks that somehow suggest a kind of quiet mystery within and beyond the image. Sometimes one hears the rhythmic, pulsing symphony of crickets in a Baltimore summer night. Other times jangling toys dissolve into the roar of a jet overhead, or children tremble at the sound of thunder. These disparate sounds dislocate the space temporally and physically from the restrictions of reality. The small home-movie boxes within the larger screen are gestural forms of memory, clues to childhood, mnemonic devices that expand on the sense of immediacy in her “drama.” These miniature image-objects represent snippets of an even earlier media technology: film. In contrast to the real time video image, they feel fleeting, ephemeral, imprecise.

The film builds up a surface tension that seems quite rocky and solid. This surface gradually begins to crumble and a bubbling of dusty gold begins, like a geyser, to break up this tension. The surface of paints and rhythms flows with the water and everything inside of the body of work spills out until electrical creative charges accompany the liquid gold and rock. Suddenly, out of this storm comes a red and yellow explosion of warmth and creativity, spilling out over the body like a lava flow.

A penetrating, no-holds-barred video film in three parts about the crime that dominates and destroys Brazilian society. Part 1 shows four young thieves and drug dealers from the favela in Rio de Janeiro, who try to justify their lives as gangsters. In part 2, two Brazilian policemen talk about their 'moonlighting', including hit jobs. Part 3 is about a Brazilian evangelist who has given up his vocation to lead a life of crime.

The toddlers in a Russian playgroup are showing a striking number of adult traits. Here and there, serious romantic relationships are budding, and some tots are determined to marry. One infant may urge her friend to keep his voice low, or else the filmmakers will hear everything they say, but most pre-schoolers are undisturbed and continue their everyday activities. They play with dolls, hang around on the playground and chatter a lot, particularly about who is whose friend and who is whose lover. In this environment, the direct cinema style seems even more natural than it usually is. Two years ago, IDFA screened Victor Kossakovsky’s film Pavel and Lyalya (a Jerusalem Romance), which dealt with the profound and unselfish love of an elderly couple. In contrast, the infatuations of young kids are volatile and playful, because ten minutes later you can be married to someone else.

AnnLee, a manga character originally created as a silent one-dimensional extra, reveals her voice.

For a long time Saint Patrick has been touted as the redemptor of Pagan Ireland: the man who rid the country of its snake population. We felt it was time the snakes got their due – You Can’t Keep A Good Snake Down redresses this historical imbalance.

DV / 22 min. / Color

A look at the lives of the urban poor living in "Las Colonias", a group of over 1500 unincorporated settlements along the Mexican-American Border Region.