Jero on Jero: A Balinese Trance Seance Observed

Jero on Jero: A Balinese Trance Seance Observed 1981

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In 1981, anthropologist Linda Connor and filmmakers Tim and Patsy Asch returned to Bali with video cassette recordings of A Balinese Trance Seance. The resulting film presents some of her reactions to Connor as she watched and listened to herself for the first time. Jero had a unique opportunity to spontaneously and consciously react to and reflect upon the experience of possession. Her comments provide insight into how she feels while possessed, her understanding of sorcery, and her humility in the presence of the supernatural world. More mundane thoughts are revealed as well, for example the importance of the fine appearance of her house. Jero On Jero could most fruitfully be used as a companion to A Balinese Trance Seance, which would be shown first and followed by a discussion, before screening Jero Tapakan's own response.

1981

Image and Games

Image and Games 1981

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This time the confrontation Teresa Tyszkiewicz with the matter proceeds in a close analysis, although the artist's strategy is still based on the spontaneous expression of subjective experiences and impressions. Tyszkiewicz creates situations in which surrender may conduct on their premises all kinds of "tests" in order to locate their conceptual center and create the archetypal image. Starts at the numerous references and meanings, which includes formal, visual and semantic game. The artist uses the most mundane matter, and its original power of symbolic interaction, to create aesthetically refined images with his characteristic abstract beauty. Among those addressed in the film political themes (presentation of the issue of the weekly "Solidarity"), and the fight that at the end she goes with a heavy, linen sackcloth. The film ends with colored feminist scene serfdom after a failed attempt to revolutionize the fossilized perception of gender and female sexuality.

1981

Adaptacja

Adaptacja 1981

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The registered activity, the artist uses a wide range of physical and visual expression to refer to the issues of birth, physicality and sexuality, both in the semantic and iconic. It also refers to "shocking" the language of performance art operating with nudity, violence, or, as here, using dead animals. Despite the physical and sexual striking impression share, the artist remains all the time in the garment. At the end of disguises, but from the eyes of the audience hides her tight cocoon. Constructing a symbolic expression of a structured situation is accompanied by a strong emphasis on the visual dimension of the action. Sophisticated structure semantically-formal Tyszkiewicz present in the films are played in the material world and translated into performance art.

1981

Breath

Breath 1981

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The film is a reflection on the cultural and psychological space attributed to women in the collective consciousness, and above all in contemporary iconosphere. The artist creates characters and situations arranged in a complex in meaning and visual variation on the theme of erotic symbols and incarnations and sexual stereotypes, revealing thus their influence on essentialist vision of women in modern life and visual culture.

1981

In Search of the Castle

In Search of the Castle 1981

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This symbolic journey evokes the personal creative wandering of the Vasulkas. The landscape, shot from a car window while driving in the Santa Fe area, is gradually transformed with more and more complicated imagery techniques.

1981

Un moment de bonheur

Un moment de bonheur 1981

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The heroine in this domestic drama is a woman with middle-class angst (Jeanne Goupil) married to an acerbic film critic with little in the way of interpersonal skills. The woman has had it with endless, meaningless twaddle from each of her husband's friends about what they think, feel, or do. She needs something more than what she faces each day, and finally blows up at her husband like a pressure cooker venting steam. The aftermath is not without its effects on both husband and wife.

1981

Xénogénèse

Xénogénèse 1981

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An attempt to confuse the relationship between the film's material surface and the images recorded on it. As a man continues to walk in circle, where three scratches are made on the film. Xenogenese is a biological term meaning heterogenesis.

1981

Indio

Indio 1981

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Official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1981 directed by Carlo J. Caparas and starred Dante Varona, Chiqui Hollmann, Lirio Vital, Romy Diaz, Subas Herrero, Rodolfo 'Boy' Garcia, Odette Khan, and Dave Brodett.

1981

Time Spent

Time Spent 1981

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Art film part of the REWIND + PLAY, An Anthology of Early British Video Art box-set.

1981

In the Home

In the Home 1981

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Art film part of the REWIND + PLAY, An Anthology of Early British Video Art box-set.

1981

Working Women

Working Women 1981

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The various phases of work in a spinning-mill, and the harsh working conditions of the women spinners, cause them physical pain and breathing diseases, not compensated by low wages.

1981

Fight at Hong Kong Ranch

Fight at Hong Kong Ranch 1981

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In the fight against Ma Sa-Keol, or the head of gang, to protest Ma's exploitation at a business district at Hong Kong, a Korean youth named Han Seok is killed by Ma's subordinates. Since then, Wang, who is the owner of a store of business district, has been bothered by Han Yong's careless action. On the other hand, Ma threatens Su-Ryeon, or the owner of a ranch at new development site, to deprive him of the ranch, while both Han Yong and Wang are chased by Ma and his followers to go to the ranch. Han Yong, who is Han Seok's younger brother, disguised himself as a chief cooker at a restaurant to look for the one who killed his elder brother. The owner of the ranch is also Korean. In the fierce fight at the ranch, they defeat Ma and his followers.

1981

The Warm-hearted Girl Gok-ji

The Warm-hearted Girl Gok-ji 1981

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Tap-ji lives with his father, mother, older brother, and younger brother, who are instrumentalists. Yang Jong-ha, a friend of Tap-ji, is a popular baseball star. Yang Jong-ha becomes friends with Tap in a lonely environment. However, when Kok-ji hears that Yang Jong-ha has a girlfriend, he is heartbroken and dedicates all his heart to helping a struggling student to forget Jong-ha.

1981

Secret Bandit of Black Leopard

Secret Bandit of Black Leopard 1981

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A skilled martial artist takes a job as a security escort. But after an important shipment is stolen under suspicious circumstances, he discovers a racket that is cheating the locals out of their money and seeks to set things right.

1981