All Films

The landmark work of early Chinese documentary. Examines the survival status of the Ningxia Loess Plateau in the 1980s from a more comprehensive perspective, applying the key words of the popular rock song "Nothing": The first part, "Nothing"; the second part, "This is you / The tears are flowing"; the third part, "The ground under your feet is shaking"; the fourth part," You follow me." In the film, the author also clearly discusses the life in the Plateau from several aspects: water, food, poverty alleviation, education, and labor exportation. A large number of interviews were conducted with local farmers, government officials, poverty alleviation working groups, etc. — trying to find the main factors leading to infertility and the methods that can be adopted to get rid of it, discussing the feasibility and effect of "going out" in the second half. The whole film objectively reflects the living conditions of the countryside at that time.

Anthology of vignettes about various anthropomorphic animals who sing and teach their kids valuable life lessons about such topics as self-control and perseverance.

"A diary or collage film, ranging from snow in the Catskills, with stop-overs in Boulder, Colorado and San Francisco, to Easter in New York, flowers and cows in Maine, a Caribbean carnival in Brooklyn, country fairs with men splitting wood and women weight-lifting; and a last section with all these combined and more. The film is also about Venus – two of them actually – one a classic Renaissance Venus, the other a Nordic, Gothic one, the Venus of the Broken Trees. The music is a collage too, ranging from Spike Jones to Hector Berlioz' "Nuits d'Ete." - Ron Padgett

A film by Hugh King and Lamar Williams - a powerful mix of archival material, news clips and documentary footage chronicles impassioned community response to decades of deadly force against people of color by members of the Philadelphia police force. Community leaders, politicians, police officers, survivors of police brutality and sympathizers unravel a pattern of biased violent police behavior from the tenure of Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo to the bombing of Osage Avenue. This documentary is a testimony to long-standing tensions between police and people of color in communities throughout the United States.

Documentary short about crisis in Soviet service and economy system.

Released as part of the "Comic Strip" video lineup. Contains "The Fish Tank" and "Sark to the Rescue."

With "Presidential Bid" Andrews asks questions about how power is acquired, and how this relates to class and race in the United States during the late 1980s. It asks these questions indirectly, as everything the artist actually says in the video is a statement. The conceptual and political energy of the piece exists between these firm statements and implied questions.

Second in a series of paper films made from strips of color Xerography. In these films, the filmmaker is concerned with the film as an object or motion picture "soft sculpture" constructed of 16mm-sized strips. The paper (or emulsion) could be a kind of skin complete with hair and pores, half-tone dots, paper fiber - through which the world is viewed.

Experimental film by Yoshitaka Shimano

Working Week - Inner City Blues Working Week - Sweet Nothing Jaki Graham - Heaven Knows Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow Dave Gilmour - Run Like Hell Dave Gilmour - Out Of The Blue Dave Gilmour - Comfortably Numb Pete Townshend - I'm One Annie Lennox - Blame It On The Sun Pretenders - Little Latin Loopy-Loo Pretenders - Property Of Jesus Annie Lennox/Pretenders - Give It Up

"The film is a visual poem about the unseen dimensions, 'wisdoms' of black women. Interweaving myth and documentary drama, the piece gives expression to the dreams and histories that are the legacy of black women. As film-makers coming from different cultural traditions - Afro-Caribbean and Latin American, we are interested in exploring themes and visions shared by these cultures, using conventional formats of film-making." - PD 16mm, black & white

By animating three decades of LIFE Magazine, "The Orientation Express" humorously guides us through the sexism of North American media. Hosts such as The Quaker Oats Man, Colonel Sanders, and The Kool Aid Jug explore "the feminine mystique." This film highlights how attitudes towards women have changed and works to eliminate stereotypes which still persist today.

Blood and transcendence are themes that permeate Sucker, with its incarnations of religious iconography and sexuality. Life and death, good and evil are evoked as the incantatory voiceovers and sordid images make reference to communion, transfusions, bloodbaths, bloodlust, vampires and the specter of a virus loose in contemporary culture. Steeped in paranoia and dread, this work describes a subconscious search that is, in Oursler's words, "based on a movie, based on a book, based on a poem, based on a myth, which is based on the quest for human immortality."

Based on the novella "Mustaja Love" by Estonian writer Arvo Valton. Residents of large modern cities are often unfamiliar with their neighbors, even though they have lived under the same roof for many years. The film's protagonists, a man and a woman who dream of having a family and children, live very close to each other. They could easily have met and fallen in love. All their dreams could have come true, but the meeting of two lonely hearts never happened.

(for Ernst Schmidt jrs. trilogy Memories of a Nervous Illness, part 1 & part 2) 1987/88, 16mm (S 8 blow up), á 4 min, colour & b/w

"The lush and mysterious realm evoked by SHELLS AND RUSHES recalls the uncanny eclecticism of the surrealists. Strange, flesh-like sea shells, restlessly turning and quivering; enigmatic allusions to classical mythology, such as the Birth of Venus and Leda and the Swan; and paradoxical uses of positive and negative space variously bring to mind Man Ray, Dali and Cornell. But Couzin's film creates its own rich, secretive world and provides its own astonishing pleasures. Accompanied by an otherworldly soundtrack of ancient throat-singing, this deftly edited film is by turns seductive, humorous and serene." – Rafael Wang

Driven by their mutual admiration of classical architecture, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown have worked together to create a space of unique post-Modernist construction. Filmed during the design and realization of the Sainsbury extension to the National Gallery in London, the husband and wife team discuss their past work and the shared principles that led to their precise, historically inspired approach to modern architecture.

Slime Face wanders through a barren landscape, until-- Suddenly, it's not barren anymore. Slime Face experiences visions of crystals. Music by Jud Ehrbar of Space Needle and Reservoir.

A beautiful woman, a mysterious man, a lipstick. An experiment with two solutions.

The Chicano nuclear family dines on angst, cold cuts, and fishy propositions. (3/4 in. video; color)

Short documentary on Chilean poet Jorge Teillier (1935-1996), who comes back to Lautaro, on the south of Chile, the place where he was born.

A room in a shabby flat in Kita-Shinjuku. The artist, who lives there, faces the camera and gives a solo performance. He photographs his own face. He takes a picture of his own face, or of his fingers cut by a knife. He looks out of the window and keeps staring at the player abandoned in the corner of the building. He fills a 1.5-litre bottle of Coke with water and tries to drink it all at once. The artist doesn't say a word and the darkroom becomes an eerie space, isolated and lost in time, filled only with the sound of the camera driving. The final scene, in which we witness the senseless, almost insane act of a man who repeatedly tries to chug a bottle and finally finishes 1.5 litres, is a chilling experience. This is a personal film that shows the essence of fear that lurks in our everyday lives, through the artist's strong will and painful acting.

In 1987, a Berlin couple hits the small stage with rock'n'roll - petticoat, stripped socks, ducktail and all. A laid-back study of a GDR slice of life.

A 1987 live concert by the American R&B recording artist Anita Baker, who performs all of the songs from her multi-platinum album "Rapture". The performance was recorded live at the Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.