All Films

Debbie gives a live concert in Pittsburg, PA on September 16, 1988.

Once, in the apartment of a modest designer named Peresukhin, an Unknown figure appears, offering him the chance to become the ruler of the planet Aldebaran. However, in order to transition to another spatial dimension, the film's hero must part with his life by jumping from the third floor. Peresukhin chooses his familiar existence over the temptation of becoming a dictator on a distant planet.

This portrait of the complex and charismatic "Mother of Modern Dance" traces the life and artistic development of San Francisco-born Isadora Duncan (1877-1927).

A man on his way home from a wedding. When he wakes up drunk, he finds himself in a park in the early morning. As he wanders the city in the early morning, he meets a girl on a mountain bike and is suddenly chased by the police instead of the girl. The camera, which had been following the lazy, fresh morning air, turns around and starts running away with the man. The police chase him relentlessly. As he struggles to outrun his pursuers, he finds himself becoming increasingly elated. As he runs, he finds himself becoming more and more elated, as if it is the start of a journey away from the boredom of everyday life. The camera work is superb, eloquently capturing the man running with all his might.

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. "Self-Divination" speaks poetically about origins and the realities of the African diaspora.

This animated short film was produced as part of the bi-centenary of the French Revolution, in 1989. A joyful visual creation inspired by the Caribbean song "give me a tibo..."

Produced by Campfire Video in 1989 to accompany their book, Movie Buff Checklist: Male Nudity in the Movies. (5th ed.), this is the complete guide to male nudity in cinema from the silent era through to the teenmovies of the eighties.

THE SPIRIT OF PITTSBURGH celebrates the human achievement of a city's continuing Renaissance. It is the heroic story of how Pittsburgh, once plagued by industrial pollution and urban blight, was transformed in just 40 years to what it is today. It is a story told by people who were intimately involved in its change - scientists, politicians, teachers, construction workers, business and community leaders. Unique archival footage dramatically portrays Pittsburgh's past; stunning photography captures the city today - from its hills, bridges and rivers to the medical, educational and artistic communities in its mosaic of neighborhoods. This is Pittsburgh, a place whose people take pride in their heritage and in their ever-changing home. THE SPIRIT OF PITTSBURGH was commissioned by The Pittsburgh Foundation of Dollar Bank. Look for this remarkable film at its permanent home in the Renaissance Theatre of the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.

Gao Fei firmly believes that he will become successful if he heads all the way to the West! He flew to New York, hoping to fly high and win big. Will his dream come true? The film features Ang LEE as the leading role, marking a rare performance of the great filmmaker on screen.

In The Thinker, Almy satirically envisions the evolution of human intellectual thought—from ape to yuppie—as a television event, with an emcee providing the play-by-play commentary of a sportscaster. Classical, Medieval and Renaissance theories flash by as catch-phrases. When this accelerated history leaps forward to arrive at contemporary man, accompanied by an animated explosion of media and consumer images, his contribution to the history of thought is a litany of advertising slogans and pop cliches that devolve, full-circle, into ape-like grunts.

Peruvian by birth, Haitian by profession, Crisanto is a professional healer and trickster. He deceives the people who come to him, offering them false medicines against their ills.

The film is dedicated to the memory of the victims of Babyn Yar. A memorial service and a requiem rally are shown. The writer I. F. Drach makes a speech. Photo and film documents from the Second World War are used.

The story of the mysterious discovery of a cactus injured by a boy.

In Learn to Presidents of the United States, you'll learn all sorts of interesting facts about the U.S. Presidents.

A collaboration between Cumbrian Artist Kevin Carr and director Michael Cumming. Shot around the Sellafield nuclear re processing plant on the West Cumbrian Coast. Kevin fearlessly put his case about the detrimental effects of the nuclear industry whilst living amongst a community that largely relied on it for employment.

The space of the museum as the visitor travels through it is a long sentence of sleep. But if suddenly this sleep is interrupted, if this space is torn apart, if the hydrometric devices go haywire, then like a sleepwalker who is awakened at the edge of a roof, the object decomposes as everything has decomposed before it. which allowed it to exist. When tuberoses decompose, Zola notes, they smell human.

This is the story of two cultures and two technologies. An American navigator is taught the skills of navigation by a traditional Micronesian navigator on Satawal island. The American tries to navigate a boat through dangerous waters, without Western technology, while the traditional navigator watches him. The making of the film brought out interesting conflicts within the Micronesian community and in the interactions with the American navigator.

The camera scans the typography of a book while the voice launches into a first attempt at reading: "Chapter one... The Passage..."; The camera freezes on the word Polynesia. In an abandoned waiting room, an ageless man keeps coughing. He is waiting. The voice resumes its attempt to read, but is interrupted by that of the witness (the writer Charles Juliet), who recounts his meetings with Jean Reverzy. The coughing man ventures into the apartment; Polynesia emerges from a television. At the origin of this series of essays, there is the desire to invite European writers of the 20th century to be read today. What they have in common is having lived and written in a Europe shaken by crises, wars and revolutions. Their works and their lives bear witness to this. Each film has the character of a very personal preface and expresses the pleasure of discovering a work.

Darren Lillywhite was 17, mischievous and high-spirited. He and his mates were a lively lot, always getting into scrapes around the village of Cranleigh, where they grew up. Darren had owned his prized Vauxhall Astra for just a few weeks. One August evening in 1987 he drove it into a roundabout and was thrown from the car. Now he is paralysed from the neck down and can do nothing for himself. Darren has been at Stoke Mandeville Hospital for ten months, but his family is determined to get him back home. Terry and Marilyn Lillywhite have built a special extension to their house. If Darren makes it, his family, neighbours and friends will all be joining in the celebration. No one can help liking Darren. 'I don't feel bitter about it at all,' he says. 'It's like being born again, really....'

Volume No 6

An experimental film with philosophical undertones, in which a boy paints cotton paper black, smudges his hands and draws black circles around his eyes. After a while, the boy disappears and only a black paper silhouette of a man remains on the easel.

A chronicle of the beginning of the century, images and people, are shown while B. Grebenshchikov performs Vertinsky's romances.

Based on French fairytales.