All Films

The first in Wang Haibing’s ‘Three Families’ trilogy (which also includes 1993’s Deep Mountain Boatman and 2000’s Days in the Mountains) -- all of which won the Sichuan International TV Festival “Golden Panda” award in their years of premiere.

The bayous of Louisiana have combined French, German, West Indian, native American and hillbilly ingredients into a unique cultural gumbo. Cajun Country investigates Cajun's roots in Western France, visits their cattle drives, horse races, and barroom dances in rural Louisiana, and listens to the salty tales and raunchy songs of its black, white, and Indian music-makers. Performancers include Canray Fontenot, Bois Sec Ardoin, Michael Doucet, Octa Clark, Dewey Balfa, and Dennis McGee.

Take a lesson from hilarious "professor" Bernard Fernandes, as he teaches his audience to speak Trinidadian style English. Using typically Trinidadian humour, this work turns a few stereotypes upside down and questions what is "correct".

“I was fascinated by the distance Australia has travelled in the past 50 years, and by how this evolving complexion continues to be indelibly, almost unconsciously, recorded by simple family and tourist images (today via video camera). History, place, time...and how we feel compelled to endlessly photograph one another. We’re all in a way little ham actors...a wave, a smile, doing a little dance...performing for the camera in front of landscapes and monuments. I worked with some old 16mm home-movie footage I’d been given, shot in the Blue Mountains [a favourite tourist destination and wilderness area close to Sydney]. Through optical printing and camerawork in the field I managed to combine the feel of then and now. [...] I used a prism in front of the lens, which chased the images (including some of me, photographing) ‘round and ‘round...mirroring the way history endlessly repeats itself.” (Paul Winkler)

"This video was recorded live in "real time". The audience saw the dancer and cameraman (me) on stage. The output of the camera went to a special computer controlled frame buffer (256x240 resolution) that I built. My assistant Richard Greene controlled the pre-programmed effects. The output of the frame buffer was projected live, and was captured to video." -ET

A Self-Portrait is the story of the art teacher Qiu Sha, told in photos and the words of Qiu Sha, about his youth, the changes in his family and in society. Director He Yi: 'What I remember now is the material that I came to mind of a man who has lived through the different eras in China. From all this material I not only read the history of a man and his family, I also learned something about the demands placed on life in a society over several decades.

This video opera incorporates improvised singing and some unusual instruments. The narrative centres around a Queen who, fearing revolution, seeks to find out what goes on outside her castle walls. Her personal joys and emotions and those of her people are woven into a collage of sound and imagery climaxing in the attempted murder of the young crown Prince and the siege of the castle.

In modern warfare massmurder is just another number in the papers. The count-down for the next war already started. A film and an installation made as protest against the first gulf-war.

A surreal encounter set in a restroom.

Documentary about Waldemar Iglésias, a man living in Sorocaba, Brazil, who has been to the movies on a daily basis for 58 years. He talks about his childhood, his dreams, his favorite actors and actresses and the classic movies and cartoons.

The reality of pregnant teenagers from popular sectors, the absence of information about how to prevent pregnancy and the lack of knowledge of how their own sexuality works. Their dreams, hopes and the strength they display to assume a radical change for which neither they nor their environment are prepared.

Made when the director was at the Royal College of Art, an animated film illustrating that life is made up of a succession of meeting and partings.

The example of the Roma camp in the village of Pidvynogradiv, at the border between Ukraine and Hungary in Zakarpattia Region, illustrates unresolved problems faced by the Roma communities during the Soviet period. “Widowstreet” is the name given by the inhabitants of the poorest part of the village to the street where they live.

Molin is a tailor who tells a lot of tall tales.

A film about one bird's melancholy about the impossibility of flight.

Documentary film about Polish airmen who fought in the British Air Force during World War II. The narrative frame of the documentary consists of excerpts from a mass in one of the churches in London in honour of the airmen. The middle part of the film is a series of interviews with veterans.

In his Video Griots Trilogy, Jenkins creates a series of video meditations on history and culture. Using archival footage, photographs, image processing, and an elegiac soundtrack, he pulls together diverse strands of thought to construct an "other" history. "The Nomadics" takes a sweeping overview of peoples from across the world and develops an intuitive and aesthetic sense of history which can posit a global identity amongst people of color.

A crafty prisoner plots his escape.

The movie "Alive" by Ziad Rahbani, released in the early nineties, includes various video concerts that were held in the late eighties, after the release of "Relative Calm" CD.

"This is Freud's Dora told by Dora: a fresh revelation, a successful voyeurism. We are allowed to sit on three therapeutic sessions to hear the confessions as M.M. reenacts her past: becomes demure, becomes hurt, disassociates. Her "Mum" is indicted: peasant, barely literate, wanting her daughter to be happy, "to be married" as she says in her last letter. The irony is immense: defining the abuse as secret shame, never confronting "Mr. Goertler," Mum wishes her daughter to attain social liberation in the shape for a happy (mythic?) marriage." -- Abigail Child

This tape focuses on the nature of urban development in Chicago, the centre of American architecture. We encounter three people who relate some of the hard realities of life in the city, through a haze of historical and cultural phenomena.

Deep South 1990: what changes and what does not. Whites of Their Eyes focuses on four people : Richard, a student at Tulane; Mack, a resident of Selma's projects, and Charlie and Verna May who trap and skin alligators. In the free form dialogue which emerges, each addresses complex issues with candor and humour, forming a mesh that belies standard notions of race, class and consumption.

A short film based on a concept for a scrapped feature.