Joer 1997 - 368

Performances recorded as part of the American Dance Festival, at the Pilobolus Dance Theatre. Interviewees: Charles Reinhart, Stephanie Reinhart, Alison Chase, Michael Tracy.

In a Truku community in Hualien, students of a local elementary school were rehearsing for the upcoming sports day. The most challenging show––the 'Hunting Dance'––fell on the shoulders of grade one and grade two students. The ancient tunes and dance moves were passed down from elderly women of the community . Filmmaker and school teacher YANG Ming-hui (Umin Howa) captured the practices along with his regrets at how many of the Truku traditions were being forgotten.

A young man seeks advise from his psychic, the reluctant fairy dragmother.

A curious compilation of images with fast-paced and funny meditations on one Chinese mama.

Olga Sergeevna, along with her son Oleg and his army friend Sergei, first came to Amsterdam in 1991 and spent several summer months visiting director Lili van den Berg. Thus, Lily van den Berg got a unique opportunity to observe their acquaintance with Western society and decided to capture it on film. No one suspected that in a year Olga would lose her life in this city. On July 26, 1992, on the third anniversary of her husband's death, Olga's body was found in a canal in Amsterdam. Her sudden death forced the director to look at the footage in reverse perspective.

In its present discourse Ivory Towers embodies and reflects concepts that contest the dialectics of power games and power structures that permeate narratives of individual development under fascist regimes.

This critical/fictional narrative examines the Norse mythological warrior woman (Valkyrie) and attempts to locate evidence of her contemporary existence.

Juxtaposing wild clips from old science fiction TV shows with narration about an encounter with his 'favourite' brother. The director has created an amazing and surreal video work.