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The Feast of St John the Baptist begins two or three weeks after Corpus Christi, on June 23rd. According to biblical tradition, St John lived in the desert, renouncing the pleasures of this world. But the people of Cuyagua think of him as a flamboyantly dressed young man, with a passion for making merry. Although men provide drum music and join in the dancing, the celebration of St John's Feast is a predominantly female affair in Cuyagua, based on a large body of women's songs. The Saint with Two Faces introduces some of the leading women followers of St John, both at work cleaning the beach for tourists, and at home with their children. A group of these women describe their beliefs about St John and the way in which they organise his Feast. But these preliminary scenes also serve to establish the themes that will underlie the Feast itself - an extraordinary conjunction of the sacred and the profane, of celebration and mourning.

The men of the Afro-Caribbean population of Cuyagua enact a ritual that occurs 60 days after Easter. The film is a portrait of two men who direct the devil dancing. They tell the history of the village, the organisation of devil dancing, and stories associated with the Devil. The film also focuses on the intriguing ritual of the dancing itself.

Short educational film by Vladimir Kobrin.

35mm experimental short film.

To this day, Sue Coe continues to shock and inform the art establishment with her graphic depictions of the world around her. This energetic and moving film introduces Coe’s passionate art and explores her vision and remains the only film on her work. In the tradition of Käthe Kollwitz, George Grosz, and Otto Dix, Coe’s visual journalism has a keen ideological thrust that identifies and addresses aberrations in our society. With a fierce precision Coe uncovers the base violence inherent in a range of political and social issues – from apartheid and the arms industry, to rape and gentrification. Yet, as the film reveals in a spirited exchange between the artist and young people, Coe’s work is accessible to everyone. The film features one of Coe’s most memorable works; “Woman Walks into Bar — Is Raped by Four Men on the Pool Table — While 20 Watch”. First exhibited at PPOW Gallery in 1983, this powerful and prescient painting now belongs to the Museum of Modern Art.

Short film by Christoph Janetzko.

The revival of Chinese classical theater after the Cultural Revolution. This report reveals the infinite richness of this dramatic art, a harmonious synthesis between literature, the arts of color, martial arts, song, dance and music. Young students explain their intense learning according to ancient tradition: physical training, knowledge of plays, diction lessons, singing and music... Extracts from plays illustrate the different genres of this art.

Twelve-year-old Hayley's parents are separated, but the girl still hopes they will reconcile. Her fantasy is evident in the contemporary video version of Cinderella she is directing with her friends. Hayley interferes with her parents' new relationships and runs away from home. When her parents find her, they realize how her resentment and anger could be lessened if they communicated. At the conclusion of the film, Hayley screens her modern-day fairy tale which reveals her newly-found acceptance of the changes in her family.

Made under the mentorship of Kathleen Collins, Iman Uqdah Hameen's short film tells the story of a woman who decides to return to college to pursue her dream of becoming a filmmaker.

A series of visual experiments made in collaboration with the performers in the film.

Erotic Psyche [Bradley Eros & Aline Mare] ELECTRAMORPHIC 1987, 14 min, Super-8mm-to-16mm Visions of creation & destruction: the birth of pyromania and explosive technology. Promethea’s homage to Reich & Tesla and the Orgone of Alternating Current. ‘Very Kali-graphic.’

An experimental film in which the viewer is hurtled through a series of dreamscapes. Optical printing is used to alter the experience of time, giving ordinary images a foreboding quality. By Gregory Anthon. 1987, 16mm, 5 mins., B&W, sound.

Experimental portrait of New York's 42nd Street in the late 1980s set to Miles Davis' "On The Corner."

Economic study of the different types of subsistence of the Lyasa who live in South Cameroon. The daily tasks are shared among women and men: women are in charge of the agriculture and the forest, which have no secret to them; men are in charge of the line fishing. Lyasa have an important monetary income, but they do not save a lot. They appreciate to live well and to celebrate.

Study of the feeding and of the daily life of the Massa and of the Moussey people who live in the North of Cameroon. These populations are made of hunters, breeders, and farmers. Their diet undergoes many seasonal variations.

This powerful study of the human cost of globalisation connects declining industry and growing social inequality in the UK to the exploitation of labour in the Global South.

Two friends, one a college student and the other a clerk for a local grocery store, play cat-and-mouse with the INS while struggling to make ends meet.

Short documentary about the peace and war tasks of the Naval Aviation Service.

Documentary about Senegalese novelist Aminata Sow Fall.

It is a strictly non-documentary work, a reinterpretation of Massimo Liviadotti's iconography born from a transversal reading of his works. An anti-exhibition on magnetic tape free from any celebratory emphasis. More than a videocatalogue, the other world is a work of visual anthropology that uses Liviadotti's paintings as pieces of an electronic inlay while shifting the terms of the static nature of painting into the dynamism of videos.

A homeless man lives in a makeshift shack made of cardboard and junk. At night he travels the expressway collecting waste from the city and meets other nocturnal characters.

A haunting document of what was once the worlds most famous amusement park beach resort. –Naked Eye Cinema

Short film about nutritional medical advisors

A fantasy using hand movements, involuntary gestures, attitudes and habits. With the absence of words, these movements become choreographies. A musical passage alerts them and guides them like a punctuation, or carries them towards unexpected fictions. At times calm, curious, anxious or very nervous, a parrot appears among the various monologues and dialogues which form and come undone...