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This musical film explores the origins of Russian opera at the Kirov Theatre and a deep commitment to the finest traditions of the operatic art.

Produced in the educational center of Cinema-ye Azad, the seventh filmmaking workshop.

Summer Medley uses realistic footage to create an organic pattern of bold colors, horizontal movements, and simplified forms. Inspired by Steve Reich's tape loops, the film is constructed from four out-of-sync film loops that combine and recombine to form variations of changing images. An 8mm collection of footage from a summer vacation in positive and negative color, is layered with a hi-contrast pairs of legs dancing to the music of Hamza El Din "Song With Tar," creating a puzzle where shapes add, subtract, and multiply in a medley of color-motion-form in time.

Many animals live in the forest. They all have their own characters and ambitions, the relationship between themselves and the settled way of life. One day a Bear decided to prove to everyone that he is the most important one. How will animals perceive such brazen statements? Will they be frightened and obey or put the high-handed insolent in his place?

Early colour video recorded on ½ in. Part of The Mainstreet Tapes (1976-1980) a series of autobiographic tapes documenting Wong & friends “youth & angst”. 7 day Activity – 7 days of facial treatments for acne. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the vainest of them all. 1970′s body/art. Digitally Re-Mastered & Re-Edited in 2008, the process of restoring the picture & sound elements included shortening the work from the original length of 13 minutes to 8.5 minutes.

A cautionary tale about a dishonest builder who realized that all jobs should be done conscientiously. And this understanding came to him after he found himself in bygone centuries. The people of those times did not forgive hack and obvious flaws promised the most severe punishment and even penalty. It is so good that everything that happens was just a nightmare...

Malkhaz is very fond of cycling through the streets of the city - it is always connected with the unexpected.

Recovered Zulueta short.

A poetic reflection on the passing of time and youth.

Tribute to the Druze Kamal Jumblatt, Minister of Economy and Agriculture (1946) and founder of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) in 1949. He was one of the architects of the departure of President Bechara el-Khoury (1952), before playing a major role in the events of 1958. From 1960 to 1964, Kamal Jumblatt assumed, under the presidency of Fouad Chehab, various ministerial functions . . After the conflict of June 1967, he gradually approached the Palestinian organizations. In 1969 he became Minister of the Interior; in August 1970, he supported the election of Soleiman Frangié as President of the Republic. Following the Lebanese-Palestinian clashes of May 1973, he took sides against the head of state, established himself as the leader of the National Movement in 1975 and engaged in a revolutionary armed struggle against the Lebanese Front. Hostile to Syria's intervention in Lebanon, he broke with it (March 1976). He was assassinated near a Syrian checkpoint in 1977.

In Vanishing Point Left, the "vanishing point" is an analogy for the metaphysics of watching the video screen, which assumes such forms as a mandala, flower or gyre.

One day, an ever-growing man goes out for dinner in a posh restaurant. He devours everything around him, from the food on his plate to buildings, cities, and planets, ultimately eating the entire universe.

A naked man keeps himself busy throughout an infinite space.

BBC TV Special broadcast on Apr 26, 1977. Recorded live at Old Grey Whistle Test Studio. Setlist: (1) Bob Harris Introduction, (2) Hello Old Friend, (3) Sign Language (4) Alberta, Alberta, (5) Tell The Truth, (6) Can't Find My Way Home (vocals Yvonne Elliman), (7) Double Trouble, (8) I Shot The Sheriff, (9) Knocking On Heaven's Door, (10) Further Up The Road, (11) Badge. Musicians: George Terry (Guitar), Dicks Sims (Keyboards), Carl Radle (Bass), Jamie Oldaker (Drums), Sergio Pastora Rodriguez (Percussion), Yvonne Elliman (Backing Vocals), Marcy Levy (Backing Vocals)

The film consists of two identical prints shown simultaneously, one projected inside the image of the other. The inner image is out of sync one second in advance of the larger image creating a dynamic inter-play between the overlapping frames.

On June 14, 1977, the eve of the first democratic elections after Franco's regime, Llorenç Soler and his crew go out into the street and ask passers-by which party they are going to vote for.

A cartoon adventure featuring Captain Goodvibes, the pig of steel, and his sidekick Astro.

Sculptor Makolies is filmed working on a sculpture in the middle of a quarry in Swiss Saxony. The quarry workers go about their work around him. Both the work in the quarry and the work on the large figure in sandstone require strenght and conscientiousness. This film observers both types of work, without comparing them.

"STREET FILM PART IV is an odyssey. In its search for the greater meaning of things, the camera portrays (rather than reports) essential human handiwork. Corn is pressed from the cob by worn thumbs, practiced hands spin twine. Doors open. Cattle are branded. A small sparkling plane takes us through the clouds and into the mountains. Everything and nothing is within our grasp. Simple acts are either full of meaning or devoid of meaning. The longest scene in this rarefied look at simple pastimes is of a native woman patting and baking tortillas." - Barbara Kossy

A performer enters carrying a bucket of what appears to be black paint (the film is in negative). He begins to paint lines on what seems to be a white wall. The lines become a 2D representation of a cube. The next image is a "wall" of paper. It is cut away from behind and another cube is gradually revealed in the background. The performer leaves the scene to the side. He re-enters the scene from the left, in the foreground. He then destroys parts of the foreground cube by cutting it away. This reveals the fact that the cube is not flat but suspended in space. He again leaves the scene from the left only to re-appear in the rear of the scene. He then draws in the lines of the foreground cube at the rear of the space. He then returns to the foreground and completes the cutting away of the foreground cube. Upon completion of this he returns to the rear and fills in the foreground lines. The film ends after he fills in one side of each cube with solid black

A magically abstract triportrait of Estonian kannel master Eduard Uibo, dancer Elonna Spriit and folk dance pedagogue Kai Leete.

A lyrical report about passengers on the Tallinn commuter train. A meditative film about life's journey and the change of generations, which is born by observing the train passengers. The spring landscape, buildings and slogans opening from the train windows mix associatively with what is happening in the carriage. Paul-Eerik Rummo wrote the words for Tõnu Naissoo's music in the film, Urmas Alender sings.

The documentary "Two Seasons of Urartu," the third film in the Traces of Anatolian Civilizations series, is about the magnificent Urartian civilization, founded 2,800 years ago in Eastern Anatolia, centered around the present-day city of Van.