All Films

Travel with top Canadian and Chinese paleontologists as they search for dinosaur fossils in the remote Gobi Desert in China, Canada's beautiful Alberta, and the bone-chilling Arctic tundra, attempting to unravel the incredible mystery of the dinosaur age. Also, watch as the daily struggles of dinosaur life are vividly shown in nearly two dozen animation sequences, bringing you right into this dangerous and fascinating world.

Short film about federalism

A film about the end of the world: the myth that has been with us since the beginning of civilization, and the possibility made real at Hiroshima in 1945. The journey takes us from medieval paintings to 50s sci fi movies and leaves us better able to understand and deal with our destructive urges.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Paul Keres is considered the strongest chess player of all time who has not achieved the title of world champion, which is why he has earned the nickname Eternal Second. With his game mastery, tact and correctness, Keres was valued among the world's chess elite, and for Estonians he was a national symbol. His career is surrounded by unexplained mystery that reflects the tragic confrontations of big politics. The life of Paul Keres is shed light on by his famous rivals, ex-world champions Mikhail Botvinnik, Boris Spasski, Mikhail Tal and others.

"My first film, shot at art school on a crappy Super 8 camera I bought from the market. At the time I was obsessed with Universal Studios horror films, and Dreyer’s Vampyr, and I had just discovered three films by George Kuchar, and Alain Resnais. So it’s a mix of those, sort of. It was shot over many months, as I had to coerce my friends to give me their time, especially the lead, who required many hours of make-up before he killed my friends. It’s a play on Jekyll and Hyde, though how clear this is to the viewer I’m pretty uncertain.” - Ben Rivers

Mike Cartmell builds a cottage for Susan and himself. At least, I think that's what it is about. I wonder... I'll watch it and come back to you.

Biogenesis shows the evolution of artificial life forms in a synthetic universe where 'survival of the fittest' is replaced by 'survival of the most aesthetic'. We see cellular evolution and the replication of mutations forming chain-like structures resembling coral. The artist is like a gardener, breeding, selecting, marrying and steering the course of evolution for creative ends. The film is a record of this evolutionary process. It can be viewed as a psychedelic experience or a more subtle parody of a man's relationship with the natural world through modern technology.

Edward Said, a Palestinan writer, academic and exile, talks about his book "Culture and Imperialism" and explains how the attitudes forged over the last 200 years continue to enforce the relationship between the west and the developing world.

A man sets up a scarecrow in a field to scare away birds. But something goes wrong...

Chen Jin and Zhang Yuan

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada.

A report on Pedophilia

Short stop motion clay animation by Fusako Yusaki

In Papa, Please Get The Moon For Me, a young girl asks her Father for the moon, but Papa discovers that the moon is very, very big. Taken from The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Stories collection. Based on Eric Carle's picture book.

The Mixed-Up Chameleon learns an important lesson about being itself when it wishes it could be more like all the other animals it sees, but soon decides it would rather just be a chameleon. Taken from The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Stories collection. Based on Eric Carle's picture book.

I SEE A SONG invites audiences on a magical musical journey. But can you really see a song? Taken from The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Stories collection. Based on Eric Carle's picture book.

Two sisters working for the French underground who are captured and interrogated by two sadistic Nazis.

REVOLVER incorporates diary observations, found and physically manipulated images as well as experiments of shooting through handmade pinhole lenses. This film is an attempt to come to terms with the isolation and displacement that confronts the contemporary urban dweller; a personal journey through social, physical and psychic landscapes that are both beautiful and tragic. Light motivates growth and decay. Abstractions push and pull in the passage of time toward an exceedingly anxious future.

Jasmine has mixed feelings about her visit in the United States. Her friend Julie has taken her on her first camping trip, and so far it has been more than either of them had bargained for. Just two days ago, they had been captured, tied and tickled by a deranged woodsman (See The Happy Woodcutter). They managed to escape only to find their car wouldn't start. Now they have to make their way back to the village on foot. This means two more days of camping out. To make matters worse, there's another lunatic prowling the woods. When he spies the beautiful oriental Jasmine, he has a flashback to his tour duty in Vietnam. Unable to distinguish reality from delusion, sees Jasmine as a Viet Cong. He captures her, ties her up and subjects her to a cruel interrogation. Julie is soon captured and treated in a similar manner. What started out as a fun camping trip has turned out to be an ordeal of bondage and terror.

Shot in Firminy-Vert, a Le Corbusier Unité, or housing project, in south-central France, this work traces the building’s history through an engagement with the lives of its residents and traces of its past. Called “Le Corbu” after its renowned architect, the complex was built after his death. Here is the space for an unspoken text about architecture and the warring interpretations of Le Corbusier’s idea of what might constitute a human, humane, humanizing space.

Made by the Glasgow Film and Video Workshop Community Projects team, this video tells of the award-winning recycling activities undertaken by staff and children at the Rutherglen Day Nursery in 1992 - 1993. The young children offer their views on the project, as well as people in the paper and can recycling businesses the nursery has been working with.