All Films

In After Laughter, VanDerBeek constructs a rapid-fire montage depicting the evolution of the human race and the haunting specter of its destruction.

Documentary about the special friendship between the 72-year-old music machine collector Johann Bartisch and the 12-year-old farm boy Gerd from the village of Arnsgereuth. As a child, the Romanian Johann played "O sole mio" on the piano while his brother accompanied him on the violin. Even then, he was fascinated by the music machines that could be found at fairgrounds, in cinemas and on trains. As an adult, Johann began his passion for collecting in Bucharest, rescuing self-playing instruments from barns, cellars or even garbage dumps. With great attention to detail, Johann restores his found treasures in his 250-year-old schoolhouse in the village of Arnsgereuth.

On a coffee plantation near Havana in the early 19th century, a slave’s impossible love for the owner’s daughter.

Documentary on the rural world and the city in the Basque Country.

AC/DC performing live at Capital Center, Landover, Maryland, USA and shot across December 20th and 21st of 1981 during the For Those About To Rock tour. 01) Put The Finger On You; 02) Back In Black; 03) Highway To Hell; 04) Let's Get It Up; 05) Let There Be Rock; 06) For Those About To Rock (We Salute You); 07) T.N.T.

Bal is a pensive self-portrait by Dominique Willoughby and his most dazzling film. His face in extreme close-up is slightly anamorphosised. This is a tête-a-tête between Dominique Willoughby's face and his camera lens whose position the viewer assumes, and during which his eyes follow the movements of his own face. The movements of the face are short and sampled, multiplied and super-imposed filling the screen with a multitude of faces, with abrupt movements, turning, and yet nonetheless connected. But the jolting of the faces has a reflex brutality, as if they were activated by a mechanical force.

"Dearest Dziodzio" was filmed using quotes from letters Rosa Luxemburg wrote to her lover, the revolutionary labor leader Leo Jogiches, during her stays in Poland, Germany, France and Switzerland in the years 1893-1905. With historical photo and film montages, mixed with newly shot material, the film tries to give an insight into the life problems, the thoughts and feelings of Rosa Luxemburg. The film is enriched by the recordings of the original letters, which are read out by the director, as well as by drawings, watercolors and herbaria by Rosa Luxemburg.

In its narrow and winding streets, there are still churches, the old and rich houses in ruins and the houses of the poor, recalling the lavish past of the city of Laranjeiras, in Sergipe.

The townspeople of Meinung inherited their Hakka ancestors' stamina, diligence and optimism. They continue treasured traditional practices, notably the production of oiled-paper umbrellas.

An animated story about a farm girl whose father will not allow her to keep a stray puppy until an event occurs that makes him reverse his decision.

Rarely screened documentary on West-German anti-communism and the Deutsches Friedenunion [The German Peace Union]. Made in collaboration with Kristian Romare and produced by SVT (Swedish Public Television).

Intimate view around the life of the famous political leader, Simón Bolivar.

Fruit Fair is the title of a parody, through a satirical redub, also known as Bátima Fruit Fair, in which an episode of the 1960s Batman series had its audio completely replaced by comical and vulgar dialogue.

A film set to the songs of Bruce Springsteen. Conceived and choreographed by Marta Renzi in 1981 for the WGBCH New Television Workshop.

A computer-animated paper airplane.

Introducing the world's most unusual occult detective, Harry Gross, who must battle the evil Dr. Morbid and his army of hungry flesh eating zombies

In a few minutes, all four seasons of the year will flash by in the forest, where a spruce tree grew, which decorated someone's house for the New Year holidays.…

This short documentary was created by painter Taeko Tomiyama—who consistently resisted various forms of injustice around the world through her art—and film director and producer Katsuhiro Maeda, who was inspired by her. The film centers on the Gwangju Uprising that occurred in South Korea in May 1980. The Gwangju Uprising saw the Chun Doo-hwan regime declare martial law and violently suppress student and citizen protests, resulting in many casualties. Tomiyama responded immediately to the tragedy by organizing a traveling exhibition featuring her print series Prayer for the Fallen. Moved by Tomiyama’s intense anger toward the dictatorship and her deep mourning for the victims, Maeda created this film in 1981. Combining news footage that documents the reality of the events with Tomiyama’s print works—unfolding like shadow play—the film powerfully conveys the nature of state violence and human sacrifice. The music was composed by pianist and composer Yuji Takahashi.

A young woman takes a job as a laboratory assistant at a research institute. The established relationships among the staff strike her as artificial. Her spontaneity exposes the underlying tensions and leads to conflict.

The strange events surrounding the closure of a cinema in Melbourne and the sacking of one of its ushers.

Shot at Liberty State Park in New Jersey and in lower Manhattan, "New York 1981" exemplifies the sensitivity and artfulness that small-gauge filmmakers were capable of achieving through the dreamlike treatment of place, time of day, weather, and movement.

A Stop Motion Short Film

Outtakes from the movie

A raw documentary of New York "language poets" in their milieu.