All Films

From the earliest point when I started to make film one of the biggest influence on my way of thinking came from Franz Kafka. In particular the titles ‘Castle One’ and ‘Castle Two’ made symbolic reference to Kafka’s book ‘The Castle’. In this book, like ‘The Trial’ the central fictitious but ‘first-person’ existential character was ‘K’ – clearly in part an oblique but intentional reference to Kafka’s own name. The short video sequence used in ‘For the Benefit of Mr. K’, was shot in the little street in Prague showing the small house in which Kafka wrote ‘The Trial’. The title is also a direct reference to the song by the Beatles. The sound track is a short sequence discovered by my son of the Beatles rehearsing this song in the Abbey Road recording studio.

Café Tacuba was the first Latin rock band to ever appear on MTV Unplugged. The live performance was recorded in 1995.

An exploration of homoeroticism in male nude photography as told from the point of view of the photographer and his models.

A year in the life of Richard, Sylvain, Nono and Calou who are squatting an unused railway tunnel in the 13th ward in Paris. They have created an entire domestic interior with television set, fridge, washing machine... With their four dogs, they live as a kind of highly organised urban tribe. But Nono is sent to prison, Sylvain meets a woman...

8mm film by Maeda Toshiyuki

"Lyrical and full of mirth, this filmmaker wonders out loud in her first film: 'How do I make myself at home in a landscape made foreign to me?' Wilkinson looks at her self - black - and ponders in the white landscape called Canada how can she 'enjoy the flowers' as she cartwheels with great panache through fields of them. What kind of relationship to the land can she have in a place where she sees herself but where others constantly ask: Where are you from? Wilkinson's existence vis a vis the land seems to lie somewhere in between the extreme long shots and the close-ups that make up the film, giving at once the feelings of intimacy and estrangement." - Marian McMahon

Having discovered the infidelity of his wife, the sultan falls into mental disorder. Only Scheherazade, with the help of her sister, will calm his destructive madness.

A one hour special broadcast on Comedy Central hosted by Bob Saget and Marilu Henner. Includes many Andy Kaufman clips from SNL/David Letterman, and commentary from the Kaufman family, Richard Belzer, Jim Carrey, Rodney Dangerfield, and many other comics.

Street-life at a busy intersection beneath a freeway in San Francisco. An urban landscape film with an underlying formal structure.

A pseudo-scientific analysis of a cartographical enigma which arose when the frontier between East and West Germany was erased. "The Border" delivers an intelligent study of an age-old German problem of borders and walls long since gone which nevertheless remain in the head.

A 37-minute documentary from KRO TV in 1995. What was it like to live in the shadow of this transit camp? How did they react to it then and how do they look back on it now? Why did only 210 of the many Jews who worked as seasonal workers on the surrounding farms escape?

A kaleidoscope of rabbits, doing their thing.

This edgy, raw documentary explores the politics of disability through the performances, debates and late-night conversations of activists at a national conference on Disability & the Arts. Including interviews with well known disability rights advocates such as Cheryl Marie Wade, Mary Duffy and Harlan Hahn, Vital Signs conveys the intensity, variety and vitality of disability culture today. Open-Captioned. Contains strong language and nudity.

A two-part program looking at the making of the film Thunderball (1965). Part one, The Making of Thunderball, is followed by The Thunderball Phenomenon.

Faulty plumbing in the home of a painter causes an old woman to be covered in red paint while she showers. The painter's neighbours engineer his fate in a bathtub of aubergines.

A young woman rehearses a speech for her mother.

Maine humorist Alan Smith explains how to eat a lobster. Was featured briefly on a Black Spine Edition of Best of the Worst. Uploaded to the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/how-to-eat-a-lobster-with-alan-smith-full-vhs-w-tlu-8lu-8-dg-8

Passages, crossings, a last door that will not open, conceived and realized by Simone Massi.

This film is on the 'Tarana' gharana of Indian classical music. A Tarana Bandish normally does not use words instead it employs men monic syllables. Some of these are borrowed from tabla bols,some from the moment of her instruments. It has been suggested that these syllables may have religious origin both from Hindu and Sufi faith.

This film was a test of an idea for bi-pack shooting. I used some outtakes from Trigger Happy and had a positive and negative high-contrast print made. I had access to an Oxberry animation camera which had the ability to shoot “bi-pack,” which is to say two strands of film could be loaded into the camera gate at the same time, sandwiched together. By shooting through the black-and-white high contrast film, I could use it as a sort of filter, or contact print. This lets one fill in all the white or clear areas of the film with whatever artwork was under the camera. By shooting the same raw film through the negative and then winding it back and re-shooting it through the positive, I could replace both the black and the white of the film with whatever was on the stand. It was done very quickly in a spontaneous exploratory way. The resulting film test, one hundred feet of 16mm film had the original Trigger Happy outtakes now colored very vividly.

“Now I am happy, I am very well... I am cooking.” Six years after Jane Gabriel made the documentary “Island Οf Outcasts” revealing the inhuman conditions in the adult asylum on Leros, she returned to meet some of the men who had been kept naked in block 16 for decades, and women who had lived in filthy conditions. Now living freely with support in the community they talk about their new lives. This film records how Leros was transformed for both the ex-inmates and the staff - from being an island of incarceration and misery, into an island of liberty.