All Films

Estelle and Lily are two Jewish women for whom keeping a kosher home and marrying a nice Jewish boy are not on the agenda. Alienated from themselves and wondering why 'it isn't exactly trendy to be Jewish', Estelle and Lily meet each other and explore their Jewishness. They explore the stories of a mother and daughter in fifties Britain, a refugee from Vienna, and Israeli Iranian storyteller, a neurotic father, a Trinidadian woman, and finally the two women end up on a roof looking at Israel. Rootless Cosmopolitans mixes music, family and food to take a wry look at the myth of the Jewish princess and asks 'What is a Jew?'

A young South Asian woman walks through the city of Glasgow, once the second largest city of the British Empire. Her eyes reflect on the wealth symbolised in the textures of the city’s architecture. Signs of Empire ever present in the stone freizes, imposing cast iron statues of dead colonialists, ornate pillars and the opulence of marble. Against histories of colonial carnage, Asian people build our communities and cultures, forging identities of self-affirmation. Against echoes of colonial memories is the living memory of today’s cultures of resistance: through dance and music, young Asian people celebrate desire and self pride. Bhangra Jig disrupts dominant notions of European culture and offers new meanings of what constitutes national cultures and identities, of what it means to be Asian, British and European. It was a four-minute television intervention piece, commissioned by Channel 4 celebrating Glasgow as the European cultural capital for 1990.

Explores modern African art--art that is on the verge of being "discovered" by the world. African art is an art that incorporates elements from both Africa and the West in response to an awakening global culture. This program features extensive interviews with artists working in Nigeria, one of Africa's art centers.

Montage of some of David Daniel’s best stratcut animation sequences.

The Dance of Life features the extended monologue of a first-generation Canadian woman. This stream-of-consciousness reflects a discourse of existence fractured among the many "characters" seen in the film. A dizzying exploration of many people in the process of becoming many other people. Inevitably this cyclical dance, this tautology of existence, leads us to "la vie c'est la mort".

A man sees a ballerina dancing on the top of a tower block and he sets off to find her. Only to be confronted by a giant at the top.

Sara's bucolic pseudo-portrait, mother of the filmmaker, black and white photography and conceived for her projection in the interpretation of a huge choreographic piece by Catherine Diverrès.

This video juxtaposes scholar Ackbar ABBAS’s text on identity politics with images of Hong Kong throughout the decades before the 1997 handover, including the 1967 riots and the 1989 parade in support of the Tiananmen Square protesters. As quoted from the narration, ‘Only something that's about to disappear becomes an image’.

Five people play the game of ‘Simon Says’ with LI Peng as the leader; May FUNG ,Yau CHING, Arthur CHANG and Alice POON are supposed to follow LI’s actions. It seems to go well at the beginning, yet no one can stand dictatorship. Some walk off in a huff while some continue. After all, only the leader sticks it out.

A satire of the pitfalls of romance, from marriage, childbirth and upward mobility to the disintegration of a relationship.

An elderly woman walks in the snow-covered city. She buys pomegranates, grapes, pears in the market and comes home. She creates a warm Armenian still-life from this fruits and starts to paint. From the very first line on the white canvas till the ready painting we follow the work of artist Mariam Aslamazian in her studio in Moscow. She finishes the painting. Switches off the light, locks the door and leaves the studio.

In 1977, two scientific research satellites, Voyagers I and II, were sent into orbit to travel to the farthest reaches of the solar system. This documentary compiles the images beamed back to Earth by the Voyagers on their four billion-mile journey, including spectacular landscapes of Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and their moons, which capture a remarkable otherworldly beauty and helped redefine scientific notions of the look and climate of the planets. The Voyager Odyssey was declared one of the 100 Best Documentary Films Ever Made in Entertainment Weekly's "Guide to the Greatest Movies Ever Made."

Two demonic looking people wait in a park to accost unsuspecting victims: two men and a beautiful young lady. They kidnap them and take them to their lair where they tie them up, Sexually abuse, physically and mentally torture the three.

Some pervert peeks out his window at a hot brunette undressing across the way and starts to masturbate. She realizes that she is being watched and decides to take revenge.

A follow up to Nixon's Habit.

A video collage created as a backdrop for music.

Experimental, 16mm

Officially produced short movie for "GenCon 1990" promoting the popular Shadowrun tabletop role playing game. Three shadowrunners infiltrate a warehouse to hack a computer there and steal some information.

Join the original Tea Pot Pixies for a stroll through the ethereal mindbendy airwaves of Radio Gnome - Beamed straight to the heart of you from the planet invisible... Yes you can't kill me... because I've been stoned before. Recorded 1990 in Nottingham for Central TV.

A travel film.