The Loser Takes it All tells the story of Israeli band Ping Pong. Their song "Be happy" (Sameach) was chosen to the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, Sweden. The band insists to raise Israeli and Syrian flags on stage in their song as a symbol to the peace Israeli and Syrians are wishing for. Head of the delegation and Israeli broadcast association threaten that the band will not perform.
"The Bathers" lets a woman happily bathing in a swimming pool disappear into the decomposing grains of the holiday film.
Drama of brother and sister facing and passing difficult obstacles.
How does bipolar disorder - manic depression - impact on relatives of sufferers? Storyville charts the changes in one such family.
Salman Ahmad is the charismatic lead singer for the popular Pakistani rock group, Junoon. Following the ancient Sufi tradition, the band's music and lyrics reflect the moderate, liberal side of Islam. Salman has also become UNICEF's chosen spokesman for AIDS prevention, and he and the group have publicly advocated the cause of peace with India. But a coalition of fundamentalist Islamic parties has made recent gains in Pakistani elections, and Junoon's high profile places them in conflict with the hardliners. WIDE ANGLE follows Salman as he journeys to the tolerant, ancient city of Lahore and the fundamentalist stronghold of Peshawar to reveal the internal religious and political conflicts of the Islamic world. The mullahs want to ban the music but Junoon's fans, among them Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, have made Salman a rock idol. From this trip emerges a rich portrait of modern day Pakistan, a pivotal nation in the war against terror.
Village Khoroshee in the Siberian outback. Here the hero of the film lives and works as an ambulance driver. At the gate of his house is a small plane in which our hero once tries to take off ...
My grandmother was forced to leave her birthplace at the age of three. She never had the opportunity to return. My uncle and I decided to set off in search of this town. We even found the old Mill building that my great-great grandparents lived in.
An old woman negotiates the hectic streets of London fearful of being knocked over. At a pedestrian crossing her worst fears are realised as she collides with a rollerblader.
A young woman moves to Tokyo. Her quest to find spiritual values hidden in the modern city leads her to take photographs and ends in a pilgrimage to a remote cemetery in the mountains. Shot amongst the neon lights and crowds of Tokyo and the ancient graves and forestry in the Buddhist monastery town of Koyasan, The Mountain of Signs is a film homage to the essay form of zuihitsu in traditional Japanese literature. Its nameless female protagonist illustrates her surroundings through a diaristic monologue that combines poetry and philosophy.
4:3 Variations is composed of struts, grids and gaps. Handheld camera movements and various inversions suggest temporal and spatial cues that complicate the graphic abstraction.
The perfect soundtrack to the holiday season. Enjoy the unique musical stylings of Acoustic Eidolon complimented by breath-taking footage of winter scenes. Also included is a special telling of the Christmas story by Worship host Paul Williams.
The Wichí inhabit a wide geographic region, but their settlements are primarily located in the provinces of Formosa and Chaco, and in the eastern part of Salta. Formerly, they were hunter-gatherers who lived in small bands, with a strong tendency toward isolation from other bands. Today, the impossibility of exploiting the surrounding environment as they once did, the persistent Anglican preaching, economic pressure from whites, and their illnesses constitute a context in which many young people view abandoning their groups in search of a better future in towns and cities positively.
If you follow a double yellow line far enough you will reach the traffic control HQ, a hellish place where all yellow lines are created. Greta, a not-so-wicked witch, gets a job as a traffic warden to try and uphold her old fashioned evil values. “These days it seems turning milk sour is just not enough for a witch to make a living!”
"Jours en fleurs" is a reclamation of flower-power in which images of trees in springtime bloom are subjected to the floriferous ravages of menarcheal substance in a gestation of decay. The title is based on an expression from my coming-of-age in Acadian French Canada where girls would refer to having their menstrual periods as “être dans ses fleurs”. As a result of incubation in menstrual blood for several months, the original images inscribed on the emulsion undergo violent alterations. The shedding of the unfertilized womb depredates the fertilized blossoms and substitutes its own dark beauty.
Martin Caparros follows on the steps of Hernan Cortez during the conquest of Mexico.
Climate scenario where temperature rise causes hallucinogenic heat-stroke resulting in tropical mirages and double vision. The main focus in the videoworks ‘Level’, ‘Temperature Rising’ and ‘Bloomberg’ has been image and sound as equal units. This means that I’m trying not to put sound to image or image to sound but to work with the two in a parallel process where a motion can start in a picture and end up moving through sound. My interest in movements travelling through time in image and sound developed during my studies in visual art and electro-acoustic music.
Animated misadventures of Alick, our trans/2spirit/intersex teen hero when they fall in love for the first time with Kay, our junior high school siren.
