OBSCENITY seeks to find a common history among men. This examination uses animation derived from men's magazines, 'documentary' footage of working men, and personal commentary. The aggression that men in this culture are conditioned to act out, in all its gaudy and ultimately lethal manifestations, is considered with a unique syntax of filmic expression. –D. L.
Short film.
Breathtaking… A man dives off the 10-meter platform into the pool like the Rolling Stones play the crowd. A play with schemes of virility, establishing the political context of the cult of beauty beyond the psychological denotation of narcism.
Hryhoriy Porytsky, also known as Greg, was one of the central figures in the Lviv hippie movement in the 1970s. Together with other freedom-loving young people, he was a member of a non-conformist association called the Holy Garden Republic, which met in an abandoned garden of the Discalced Carmelites monastery in the centre of Lviv. The film shows the participants of the Republic, their apartment parties, walks, talks, and, basically, their lives.
This colourful stop-motion animation utilises Essendon Airport drummer Paul Fletcher's collection of dolls and nick-nacks.
Gay women from different generations discuss their experiences in this revealing TV documentary.
A film inspired by The Bible and filmed in the Sinai Desert, which stages the music contained within Popol Vuh's album Sei Still, Wisse Ich Bin
Short film by the basque filmmaker Iñigo Botas.
The film explores the Ghana bird sanctuary, the Ranthambhor game sanctuary and the desert regions of Bikaner and Jaisalmer in Rajasthan where a variety of birds from various parts of the world and India come. The lordly Siberian cranes fly in from Siberia after breaking their journey at Kabul. Out of the around two thousand surviving members of the species, one section spends the winter in China while another camp with their young ones for five long months at Bharatpur. Other birds in these areas include the Black Necked Stork, the Pintail, the Adjutant Stork, the Old World Spoonbill, the Egret, the White Ibis, the Darter, the Little Dabchik, the Cormorant and the Pheasant.
A serial killer’s sequence of events of high aesthetic understanding, in a black-humor-filled tale resulting from Mauro Mingardi’s outlandish talent.
A strange experimental thriller set in Nancy (France), with yellow tones, whose technical mastery sometimes gives us the illusion of watching the reverse side of a Hollywood film, and which was awarded a joint award in Clermont-Ferrand with the first film of Leos Carax. (CJC)
Aspects of life associated with Lake Manzala.
U2 at The Hague in 1981. Pro Shot footage
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.
