All Films

A documentary about the Chornobyl disaster.

A short documentary.

A short documentary.

Alien phalangies visit the planet to make off with the furniture in this finger puppet short film.

King Ulysses has just won the Trojan War. All he wants now is get back to his wife Penelope and their young son. But his journey home becomes a long and dangerous adventure. Ulysses will have to test his courage and ingenuity to the limit if he’s going to see his family ever again! Meanwhile, Penelope and her son use their own wits and loyalty to keep evil Antinous from taking over as king and stealing all that is dear to their family. Let CCC’s featured hosts–mischievous Barney Owl and Grandpa Owl–give you the ride of your life into THE ODYSSEY: A JOURNEY BACK HOME. It is a delightful, exciting and hilarious adaptation of Homer’s timeless tale of family, love and unity.

A man shows up to a drum audition and puts to shame the other drummer who has better equipment. He gets the gig and plays surfer-style music. Later, the other drummer attacks him and messes him up, but his new girlfriend helps him to regain his drum skills with electricity.

Acoustic live Radio show 1992 - Interviews - The idol - Hold on to your heart - The great misconceptions of me

A collection of first person stories which reveal the physical, emotional and legal consequences of having or providing an abortion when it was a criminal act.

An introduction to the great film critic Raymond Durgnat's appreciation of the nature of cinema.

This music biography portrays the life of the legendary blues singer and songwriter Alberta Hunter. After 40 years of show business success beginning in the 1920's, Alberta became a nurse. Twenty years later, when the hospital thought she was 70, she was forced to retire. Still anxious to do something with her life, she returned to singing, to enjoy an acclaimed comeback. Her age was really 82! MY CASTLE'S ROCKIN' traces Alberta's remarkable career through the 20th Century, incorporating her best live performances from New York's famous downtown night spot, The Cookery. Ms. Hunter opened her personal archives to the producer for this documentary, sharing never before seen photos and other momentos from her celebrated career. The film features Alberta Hunter's final interview before her death in 1984; plus interviews with her manager, nightclub entrepreneur Barney Josephson; her record producer, the legendary John Hammond, and others.

"A rubbish dump in the mountains of southern France. Camera-editing results in a suggested but untold story." —Milena Gierke

An experimental short by Barbara Freund and Rainer Bellenbaum shot in and around East Berlin in 1990.

Some particular spaces, inhabited awhile ago. Looking back into the Parisian courtyard, looking at the ladies at the villa, looking into the secrets of the chapel of the delinquents. Light sculpts space; shadow describes form.

A superlatively crafted film which uses the psychology of sight deprivation to keep the viewer in suspense: you are allowed only the merest glimpses of what is really going on. The cumulative effect as a mental picture starts to grow, is at once titillating and disturbing.

Based on skits from SNL. A cat who can drive a car, among other things. Homages to Terminator and a skit involving Abe Lincoln and a time machine.

"Sometimes I ask myself what KIND of films I make + and I think they are horror films. Do I make horror films?"

A shy woman with a talent for painting meets a young man with similar attributes. Bad things happen.

William S. Burroughs, footage of the Shotgun Paintings from the 1980's.

A wryly humorous excavation of history and personal memory, Moose Jaw is a reflexive view of the filmmaker’s childhood town in the Canadian west, as a mythic symbol of nation-building and the ‘manifest destiny’ of North America. With its revitalization motto, ‘There’s a Future in Our past,” this post-colonial crash site ingests the filmmaker in its museumizing process as a once thriving rail head on the margins of (British) Empire.

The work of art in the age of genetic reproduction-- Based on the practice of lip-reading, this short animated film explores the visual "code" of verbal pronunciation by animating pairs of lips cut out from magazines according to the position of the mouth in pronouncing a sound of spoken language.

Shadowed by the death of her mother, Julie Kumagai's life with her widower father is marked by pained, turbulent exchanges. Indifferent to a break-up with her boyfriend and the lure of a long-planned trip, she finds some refuge in her workplace where she meets Tetsuro, a young Korean man newly emigrated from Japan who is obsessed with all things American. But together they discover no easy resolutions.

A structuralist collage assembled from archival documents.

1992 Peter Rose short work

Short film by Leighton Pierce.