Miss T is the centre of a series of short, humorous sex sketches in pin-up style à la Betty Page. She fights with the male member, which first knocks her out, but which she later rides triumphantly. The elementary special effects (a huge dildo and a giant vagina) and cartoonish decors give the scabrous scenes a pleasant atmosphere.
This is the second installment in the documentary series that scientifically elucidates psychic phenomena. This time, the singular psychic Koryu Watanabe and his team thoroughly analyze the true nature of the ghosts that haunt the tunnels.
Tatsuo Ikeda, a psychic organizer, and Kenji Ryu, an Okinawan feng shui traditionist and exorcist, make a pilgrimage from Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, to Tohoku, Kyoto, and Hokuriku, and experiment with spirits at psychic spots. The film is packed with chilling never-before-seen footage and scenes that were filmed successfully for the first time.
A short documentary on Kiltro - name for Chilean street dogs.
Programme following the late Canadian novelist Carol Shields at home in Canada, on tour in the UK and undergoing treatment for breast cancer, of which she died in 2003.
A short film by Rhee Hun
Video presentation of Paco Torrent-Guasp's groundbreaking discovery of The Helical Heart. This new understanding of heart structure reveals how the helical heart muscle causes normal and abnormal cardiac performance. Winner of the 2005 Freddie Award from The International Health and Medical Media Awards for health and medical videos (the bio-medical equivalent to the Oscars and the Emmys). It won both the Basic and Clinical Science Category, and the overall Surgeon's General Award for Outstanding Health Professional Entry.
An experimental animation film preserving the collection of old-time life at home. The "circle" in the film represents the passage of time, symbolizing the woman’s day-and-night long wait for the return of her partner. The film attempts to illustrate the persistence and resilience of women in the old days.
2002 DCI World Championships held in Madison, WI on August 10, 2002 1. Cavaliers (1st Place 99.15) 2. Blue Devils (2nd Place 97.30) 3. Cadets (3rd Place 96.75) 4. Santa Clara Vanguard (4th Place 95.65) 5. Boston Crusaders (5th Place Tie 92.40) 6. Phantom Regiment (5th Place Tie 92.40) 7. Bluecoats (7th Place 91.50) 8. Glassmen (8th Place 91.00) 9. Crossmen (9th Place 89.10) 10. Spirit of Atlanta (10th Place 85.45) 11. Magic of Orlando (11th Place 84.85) 12. Seattle Cascades (12th Place 84.05)
Two hundred years after the first Africans were transported to America against their will, their descendants sailed back to the land of their ancestors. Soon, thousands of freeborn Blacks and former slaves settled on Africa's west coast, in the land that would become Liberia, named for the liberty they so dearly sought. Liberia's growth from a "colony" with a coastline barely 600 miles long to a modern state was not without challenges, but nothing prepared Liberians for the country's devastating civil war that began on Christmas Eve, 1989, and lasted seven long years.
Betty Hollingsworth aka "Squeege" was a children's performer. She became a mentor for me by showing many ways of creativity unknown to me. Her star lives on. This was my first 16mm film project. I was assisted by Lori Felker. Partial funding provided by a Pittsburgh Filmmakers First Works Grant.
16mm short by Masaru Noto.
On Réunion island, inhabitants of Malagasy origin perform a ceremony in honor of their family's ancestors twice a year. The ritual in this film takes place at the home of Madame Sautron, a soothsayer-healer. The film follows the four stages of the ceremony, which lasts for 24 hours in all.
In Nigeria, in the villages of Apir and Fiidi in the state of Benue, the women of the Tiv ethnic group struggle daily to improve their lives. As a result of their work in the fields and the sale of their harvest at market, most of these women have been able to attain economic independence. In 1987, the Nigerian government, prodded by the United Nations and women's organizations in Nigeria, developed a program for supporting women in rural environments called the "Family Support Programme," which encouraged them to organize more effectively and to form co-operatives. Several representatives of the government and the Programme present the broad outlines of this project, and talk about the women's investment and the problems they have encountered. The women describe their role in these co-operative associations and how they view this collective work and its benefits, which enable them to improve their socio-economic situation.
When a guy decides to change his name to "Ass Hat", he gets mocked and ridculed to oblivion, then tries desperately to change it back.
Radio Schizo is the story of a bunch of young people suffering from schizophrenia. They are preparing a radio show to discuss their illness. As their project develops, they communicate with lucidity and sincerity the difficulty of living with this illness that encumbers, disrupts and muddles the mind and social relations. This is a film that shatters prejudices.
1300 meters, blue, sky and sea. During the fall, strange feeling of suspension: the screen is monochrome, no activity or direction is perceptible. We come to desire the irruption of an action. At the end, we realize that we have never stopped falling.
Michael Engel's curiosity about anthropology took him to the Xingu National Reservation in the Lower Amazon Basin, where he lived with the natives for a month. Aided by Brazil's top anthropologist, João Americo Peret, he created XINGU LAND OF NO SHAME - A PERSONAL JOURNEY. In it he explores the daily rituals and culture of the Xingu inhabitants.
Single-channel video, 4' 54"
"Bayini is a great spiritual woman she started to talk, to dance, to sing. She made everything around, all that comes from history. The vision and the dream she was seeing is the Anchor". Murrmurrnga Burarrwanga, his grandmother Gaymala Yunupingu, and their family established at Bawaka, Port Bradshaw, in North Australia, tell a story related to a precolonial (at least several centuries ago) experience of trade between their people, the Yolngu from Arnhem Land, and "fishermen from South-East Asia: the Macassans who used to collect trepang in exchange for rice, tobacco, pipes, knifes and canoes". Body language, paintings, songs and dances accompanied by the didjeridu give us an insight into their system of knowledge based on a very complex network of spiritual connections between people and the environment.
