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Emptiness is a visually striking experimental documentary that explores the complex intersections between body, power, and faith. Through a sequence of dense, symbolic compositions, the film unfolds as a thunderous meditation on the abuses of capital and the collapse of language. Mercado constructs a stark visual and sonic architecture where medicine and religion appear as intertwined systems of biopower—structures that discipline, sanctify, and ultimately exhaust the body. Minimal yet overwhelming, Emptiness confronts the spectator with the material presence of the “body-thing,” situating the human form at the center of a critical reflection on control, belief, and emptiness itself.

Documentary film.

"Little Movies" is a lyrical and theoretical project about the aesthetics of digital cinema, and a eulogy to its earliest form—QuickTime. The project began in 1994 when the World Wide Web was just beginning to gain mass exposure. Manovich's intention was to create cinema for the Web, employing the network limitations as a new aesthetic. The project was begun in 1994 when the World Wide Web was just beginning to gain mass exposure. From the beginning, my intention was to create cinema for the Web. I wanted to turn the network limitations into a new aesthetic. Is it possible to create films with the resolution of 1 pixel? Is it possible to have a meaningful and emotional experience under 1 MG in size? This "Little Movies" Web Site presents Volume I, and contains six movies, created between 1994 and 1997. All movies are set to loop indefinitely. You may click on a movie at any time to go back to the catalog page.

"Little Movies" is a lyrical and theoretical project about the aesthetics of digital cinema, and a eulogy to its earliest form—QuickTime. The project began in 1994 when the World Wide Web was just beginning to gain mass exposure. Manovich's intention was to create cinema for the Web, employing the network limitations as a new aesthetic. The project was begun in 1994 when the World Wide Web was just beginning to gain mass exposure. From the beginning, my intention was to create cinema for the Web. I wanted to turn the network limitations into a new aesthetic. Is it possible to create films with the resolution of 1 pixel? Is it possible to have a meaningful and emotional experience under 1 MG in size? This "Little Movies" Web Site presents Volume I, and contains six movies, created between 1994 and 1997. All movies are set to loop indefinitely. You may click on a movie at any time to go back to the catalog page.

A short documentary revealing a quarter century of the queer Latinx community in the Mission District from the early 1970s to the mid-1990s.

The video is an aerial view of Colorado from a Cessna 180 flying over the cities to the mountain peaks, over rivers, farms, canyons and deserts.

Saca una Foto was completed several months after the Zapatista Revolution in January of 1994. Filmed throughout Chiapas and Yucatan the film juxtaposes the Western influences on the Maya and the filmmaker’s own sense of intrusion. The sounds of Spanish opera interwoven with the shaman chant through the corridors of an ancient Mayan palace, and the reoccurring voice of a young Mayan girl asking to have her picture taken for money - ”Saca una foto” - take my picture, depicts the complexities the filmmaker has towards making the film. The clashing of modern day Mexico with ancient tradition is reflected in the awkwardness of the eye of the camera.

Hilarious send-up of psychoanalytical propaganda films, illustrating every absurd cliche about the 'lesbian nature' and raising issues of self-representation and media production. Witness the witty appropriation of the 'mannish lesbian' into a sexy drag king and see the lesbian filmmaker as the ultimate action hero(ine).

Recording memories of houses for ordinary people as scenarios of post-war Japan, composing images of destruction by stills and films with multiple exposure.

The concert "The Best of Maanam" took place in Krakow in 1994, where the band performed their greatest hits. The whole thing was recorded by Telewizja Polska and broadcast on TVP Kultura.

Experimental short film by Mike Dando

In July 1987, Palestinian cartoonist Naji Al Ali was shot by an unknown assassin. This documentary traces his life and work from his birth in Galilee to his death in London. It examines the forces that shaped Naj Al Ali as an artist and as a human being and shows how his experiences mirrored those of other exiled Palestinians.

"'The People in the House' examines the dynamics of a family in crisis and questions the role of religious devotion in the perpetuation of dysfunction. The exterior of the house is never seen, and the family's anxiety, as is often the case, plays out within the confines of four walls. Filmed with a dreamy, surreal quality, 'The People in the House' dwells within the tension between harmony and chaos." - Liz Czach, Toronto Film Festival Catalogue, Canada, 1995

Documentary about Vietnam.

This is a free adaptation of the myth of Perseus, of which only the central aspect was retained: the takeoff of Medusa, queen of the Gorgons who petrified all those who met his gaze.

Garden of Regrets is an experiment in making a film that feels as if it has percolated up from the subconscious; a dream you can watch with your eyes open. It’s one of those big cathartic dreams, a labyrinth of fleeting moments full of metaphor and mischief. I wanted it to feel like a bumpy roller coaster ride in and out of the dark side of the brain where discomforting images are stored away. And, as with all dreams, the meaning and significance are open to interpretation.

A visual and musical celebration of beautiful, sweet, sad, noble, adorable, glamorous and abominable things.

The film focuses on the so-called "French group" – a group of Latvian intellectuals arrested by the Soviet authorities in early 1951. Elza Stērste, Kurts Fridrihsons, Ieva Lase, Maija Silmale, Mirdza Ersa, Milda Grīnfelde, Miervaldis Ozoliņš, Irīna and Arnolds Stubauus, Alfrēds and Eleonora Sausnes, and Skaidrīte Sirsone were accused of treason for reading French literature and showing an interest in Western culture, and were sentenced to 10–25 years in Siberian camps.

Bradley explores her own phobia of being identified as a butch in this diaristic examination of internalized lesbophobia.

A little girl dreams of her future life.

Disneyland Paris VHS presentation

Hijab: in Arabic, the veil, that which hides, that which separates.

A documentarian approaches strangers at a Chinatown grocery — all immigrant women — and joins them at their homes for dinner.

3D animation by Ignacio Pardo