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Monty Rachmaninoff is an astoundingly beautiful Hereford bull, owned by a group of Welsh farmers. The selling of Monty from preparation to auction.

“The Promised Land” is a video essay that intentionally captures the conditions of poverty in Panama City and questions the reasons for a progress that, despite its abundance, failed to reach the people. In the filmmaker's words: “Dedicated to that pain made flesh, called the People; to that martyr, made of scars and rags, with hands bound by the iniquity of all laws made in their name, and mouth sealed by the blasphemous stone of Force, placed upon it like the claw of a basalt sphinx…”

With renewed fighting through Ulster, has the conflict gone back to square one?

A short feature on the city of Gorky in the year of its 750th anniversary.

Pregnant after being sexually violated by her stepfather as a punishment for starting a relationship with a professor, Tran Thi Diem Chau runs away from home to live with her friend Thu Hong, a sympathetic nightclub dancer who pays for her abortion and education at a Catholic boarding school. Just when Diem Chau begins to leave behind her painful past, the young woman receives the news of Thu Hong's injuries from an acid attack.

The much-yearned-for adventure presents itself to a prince and his friends: a mission to liberate a young man’s kidnapped beloved. But her personal description leads them to a different woman with whom the prince now falls in love. Suddenly, they find themselves at war and see their true task here: to rescue culture from the barbarians.

A young man has communication problems, his only contact with the outside world is the telephone.

A film by Fritz André Kracht

The film focuses on Black writer Carolina Maria de Jesus, who lived in a favela.

A documentary that describes the situation of a migrant worker family in EEC Germany. Through interviews with workers, unions and business leaders, it is explained that labor must be moved to where the capital is.

Access to video technology had largely been limited to corporate-run TV studios until the Sony Portapak, a battery-powered video tape recorder that could be carried by one person, was popularized in the early 1970s. This device also allowed artists to see what they were recording in real time and to immediately play it back, prompting investigations of technology’s increasingly fluid relationship to the body, language, and time itself.  Shigeko Kubota’s ”Self-Portrait” embodied the boundless potential of the new medium and the freedom from precedent it represented. This work, in which Kubota interacts with her own image, contains some of her earliest known experimentation with video. Here, she used new tools to manipulate the electronic signal, creating previously unimaginable colors and patterns, and unraveling established conventions of image-making right before our eyes. [Overview courtesy of Erica Papernik-Shimizu via MoMA]

Animated labor protection film about the dangers of driving a tractor while in a state of ebriety or tiredness. Produced with the support of the Ministry of Labor.

A leisurely video journey through London, featuring uncommon footage from an early Gay Pride parade.

While looking for help with his burning house, a terrified man meets many surreal people and creatures and discovers that they too are threatened by fire.