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Cantor reimagines Kenneth Anger’s Invokation of My Demon Brother (1969) as if it were a paean to Hindu goddess of destruction Kali instead of Lucifer. In Cantor's take, Anger's hypermasculine imagination of the occult is replaced by that of an ironic depiction of female "hysterics"; a romantic strings section sweeps over the Mick Jagger Moog soundtrack; and Anton LeVay and Bobby Beausoleil are replaced by Sissy Spacek in Carrie and Christine Noonan in Lindsey Anderson’s if….

"In her day-in-the-life portrait of an African-American woman, Simpson uses tropes of cinema, diary, and surveillance. The portrait appears on 31 12-by-9-inch flat video screens arrayed on a gallery wall to resemble a month on a calendar: a row of three screens tops four rows of seven screens. Each video runs about 20 minutes and appears to chronicle the events of a single day; most shots last around five seconds and the streams of imagery are not synchronized, so viewers face a kinetic panorama." -Bill Stamets

Poe's poem told with stop-motion animation.

An experimental music video where shadow-like people move in a rhythm of reggae in the spaciousness of a snow-white chilled jungle touched by a cool sunlight.

Derived from found super-8 footage of night-time cityscapes shot in London and Berlin in the early 1970s, this once-silent amateur film of lights and neon signs has been reorganized through editing, superimposition and colour inversion, with Helliwell's soundtrack combining electronics, computer sounds and short wave radio signals.

What does an American ambassador really do, and how does he or she deal with the dangers of serving in a potentially hostile nation? In this unique program, National Geographic ventures past the heavily guarded gates of four American embassies to find out. Among those profiled is single mother Wendy Chamberlain, who was the new ambassador to Islamic Pakistan when al Queda terrorists attacked America on September 11. She relates how, with family and staff members sent back to the U.S. for security reasons, she held talks with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to determine whether the one-time Taliban ally would support President Bush's war on terrorism. It was a turning point in the crisis, and one of several dramatic moments in this fascinating, highly personal look at American foreign policy.

This video, created for ‘Crépitation’, a song included in Ápeiron’s (a band from Orense) album Todo sigue intacto recorded for Barcelona music company Foehn Records, depicts rural Galicia in 2002, mixing bucolic images of green landscapes, clean rivers, free-ranging animals… with others of drastically contrasting ‘progress’.

A Devonshire pensioner fights against yobbos, Death Wish-style.

My Father's Daughter is the story of a family that moves from Delhi to Dallas and the adjustments they endure as a result of their changing environment. The story explores many facets of family dynamics.

“FIGURES IN THE LANDSCAPE…refers to older media, in that it was shot with a pinhole camera, a form of camera obscura. The images show a sprawling Chicago suburb, while texts refer to earlier inhabitants – the Indians. The tentative, not completely sharp pinhole image combines with text to suggest that the landscapes shown, like all the landscapes we create, are themselves impermanent.” – Fred Camper

At different times, people look at the camera in different ways: at the beginning of the 20th century not the way they did in the 1920s, in the 1940s differently than now... The cinematic look, developing, begins to influence the human perception of all reality. A certain character, on whose behalf the narration is being conducted, searches in the film archive for frames in which people look at the camera, and carefully examines them, trying to discover the hidden meaning of these gazes from the past.

On an ordinary afternoon in a beauty salon, Xu Feng suddenly develops a kind of anxiety and uneasiness that is unique to that of a woman. Xu is an urban, white-collar worker, and uncertain about the origin of these emotions, and neither her work achievements, the love of her father from afar, nor her boyfriend's comfort can help her rid herself of this psychological malaise.

Audiovisual manifesto about the trajectory of black people in Brazil, from the slave house to the outskirts of the big cities. Make up your mind.

On April 4-5,2000, Delores Stevens and the Ives String Quartet became the first chamber music ensemble to have their performance of the Brahms Piano Quintet recorded, mixed and mastered at 96kHz/24bits. The recording took place in Zipper Auditorium at the Colburn School of Performing Arts in downtown Los Angeles. With high-resolution Euphonix equipment capturing 16 channels at 96kHz/24bits and five locked off cameras trained on the performers, one of the most well known chamber music works became the first project for AIX Records.