All Films

Two man and a woman move around naked in a neuter space.

This video examines the sorts of propaganda that a corporation might distribute internally to communicate an over-arching mandate or vision to its workers in order to boost morale. Bernadette Corporation slyly turns the notion inside out, yielding a document that at once subverts and expresses the form. Write the artists: "An early self-portrait of Bernadette Corporation and an in-house film whose purpose was to inspire and motivate members of the New York-base artist collective cum underground fashion label. Corporate propaganda for a subculture-obsessed youth market."

Once a year a ritual is held in a Javanese village. After a distribution of food, men dance with professional female dancers. Their allegedly sexual ethos makes these ‘tayuban’ unacceptable as national culture, but the dancing is a gift to the protective spirit in exchange for well-being, and represents community identity.

A coming of age story about the friendship between two young Black girls growing up in 1957 Harlem, Phyllisia Cathy from a newly arrived, upwardly mobile Caribbean family and Edith Jackson, Harlem-born and raised. Their friendship is a microcosm of the intercultural conflicts and accomodation between African Americans and Black Caribbeans in the US, as well as a tale of two girls' struggle to build a friendship.

A terminally ill teenage boy sues for the right to stop his medical treatment.

What makes the holiday season truly special? Lights? Cards? A crushed tree? The house on fire? A crash into the neighbor's door with head? While the Pipe Cleaner Family tries to enjoy the Christmas season, Dad insists on re-creating the holiday exactly as he remembered it as a boy, forcing his traditions on everyone else with disasterously comic results.

"In God the Pugilist—The 13th Protocol Stiglicz animates cutouts from a painting of Adam and Eve amid the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza; his commentary is as puzzling as his attempt to join European and Mesoamerican imagery, which is interesting for its over-the-top weirdness alone." - Fred Camper

An archival record film of life at the small Madarrpa clan settlement of Bäniyala on Blue Mud Bay, some 200 kilometres south of Yirrkala.

Dance, time and love united years later by a pair of shoes that will reveal an important secret.

Journalist Maggie O’Kane returns to Iraq five years after Desert Storm to try to understand why she was not able to report the war freely and to investigate some of the stories which did not stand up.

FROM THE NAKED EYE CINEMA - INTRODUCING MR. DIANA, a video short documenting the arrival of controversial comic book artist and illustrator Michael Diana–the hottest astral flame to scorch New York City's creative underbelly–to New York City. Mike's soft spoken, gentle character is in sharp contrast to the harsh illustrated images of bloody sexuality he creates. His persona combines the raw innocence of Melvile's Billy Budd with the lusty ingenuousness of Voltaire's Candide. The video features the "three faces of Mike": Artist, Political Scapegoat, and Object Of Desire. Explore the territory "Inside Michael Diana", as the film makers survey his surfer-buff physique.

1990s Drug Addiction Documentary, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NYC with Pastor Bill Wilson. You may not choose to look for it, but your town has a street called "pain." Every community in America, from big cities to small towns, have streets of pain, streets of violence, drugs, prostitution, abuse and filth. You want to look away' it's your natural reaction because it's just too hard to face. And as a society, that's what we've chosen to do, look away, turn away, ignore it. But we've turned our backs far too long and we can't ignore it anymore. What were once considered just symptoms of a deteriorating society is now a disease infecting our entire nation. And no neighborhood, not even your is immune. It's time you took a closer look at the real Street of Pain. Difficult to watch? Yes... it's even inappropriate for younger views. Hard to believe? At times. But, this is the painful life on the streets of America.

From the craggy, surf-beaten coastline to the majestic forests of the north, this stunningly beautiful documentary presents every corner of the state of Maine as seen from the sky.

A documentary film about a country where Tibetan Buddhism has preserved its original culture. When steel birds begin to fly in the sky, when horses begin to ride on wheels, the time will come when Buddhism will begin to spread to the western countries," predicted in the eighth century the Tibetan saint and magician Padmasambhava. After many centuries of an impregnable and isolated land of monks living in countless monasteries, Ladakh has been made accessible by cars and airplanes. A unique cultural and religious heritage of the world has been revealed in the former kingdom, lying on the western edge of the Tibetan Plateau guarded by the high ranges of the Himalayas and the Karakoram. its ancient traditions and knowledge of the hidden powers of the human soul and the highest knowledge are mortally threatened. It depends only on humanity whether these riches of the world will disappear forever or become the spiritual property of a future higher civilization. (distributor's official text)

Camera movements on a pine (“Songshù” in Chinese) at dusk when the light is so soft. Film with nuanced hues and Chinese painting graphics.

A day-by-day animated diary of a year's sunsets, recorded directly onto a continuous strip of 35mm film using a variety of materials such as magnolia petals, net stocking, lacquer and ink, to create a dazzling expression of the visual music revealed by 365 setting suns.

Experimental work with minimized black and white images.

It begins with cheers but almost always ends in tears. Yet, as the election looms, competition for the top job grows ever more intense. Why? The hours are terrible, money so-so, job security non-existent. On the plus side, there's free accommodation in central London and probably more power over your country than any other leader in the western world. With the help of the present and previous incumbents, Michael Cockerell offers the first "how to" guide to the job of prime minister.

Profile of the American sculptor Claes Oldenburg. Although born in Sweden, he was brought up in the USA and moved to New York in the late 1950s. Contemporaries Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein and James Rosenquist reminisce about their experiences with the artist. Art dealer Arne Glimcher, museum director Tom Krens, and critic Hilton Kramer, among others, discuss with the writer Coosje van Bruggen, to whom the artist is married, the development of Oldenburg's career from the early cardboard and plaster pieces to the large-scale public works executed over the past twenty years. Oldenburg is filmed drawing in the couple's Manhattan studio, while van Bruggen and Oldenburg together retrace the conceptualisation of a recent urban project, the `Torn Notebook'. The latter part of the programme is devoted to the complex installation of the nine-metre long `Giant Soft Shuttlecock' in the Guggenheim Museum in New York in October 1995, for the exhibition entitled `Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology'.

Biography of Yuri Saito, who was blinded after contracting measles at the age of three and became a social activist for the blind

The year is 1973. A sleepy small town is turned upside down in a matter of weeks. It all begins when six young men return to Norway after many years abroad. The life as hippies around the USA and Europe has left its clear marks. However, it will soon prove to be difficult to lead the same lifestyle in Norway.

Imagine a "sea" of 200 billion stars. That's our Milky Way, one of the most brilliant and beautiful of God's creations. Travel deep inside to its very core. Experience its pulsars, quasars and mysterious black holes as captured exclusively for NASA by the orbiting Hubble space telescope. Marvel at the order of it all. The grand design. Only the Master Planner could have created it with such precision and loving care.