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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.

Katawan mo, langit ko (Kamandag ni Margarita): Directed by Roland Ledesma. With Pyar Mirasol, Alvin Anson, Mike Magat, Camille Roxas.

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.

Work on speed, rhythms, flickers and color, whose «main tendency should be to serve Expression as fully as possible». The idea for this film was born during experiments on the film strip, with the Nominoë collective.

In December 1997 the Schengen Agreement came into effect, as a result of which Austrias eastern border became the outer border of the EU. The securing of this border was called Operation Limes by the Ministry of the Interior, presumably after the ancient Roman limes which divided the continent...

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.

Interviews of disciples of Sri Ramana Maharshi, recorded in 1989. These devotees lived with Sri Ramana Maharshi. This DVD of interviews was published by Arunachala Ashrama in 2002. M.S. Subbalakshmi's songs on Bhagavan were removed because of new copyright holder's objections.

A documentary drama based on the personal archive of Ekaterina Alekseevna Furtseva (in 1960-74 — Minister of Culture of the USSR), recently opened materials of party archives, rare film footage and chronicle, which gives a sense of the rise of our art and culture in a period that is commonly called stagnation.

It's "Best in Show" meets "Strictly Ballroom" via "Kids in the Hall". It's a unique movie filled with surprises. It's a dance-comedy about mouth guards. It's an anti-drug story that's funny. It's charming and independent and everything Hollywood is not. It's Steps, a film that draws its inspiration from the Marx Brother to Monty Python and it was done on such a shoe-string budget, it would make a studio executive blush.