All Films

In the late 70s/early 80s, the so called "skomakarligan" (shoemaker league) was a drug smuggling operation with a shoemaker business as a front. This documentary follows the group whose job it was to track down and arrest the people involved.

The story of Baltazar, a man convicted of sodomy by the Inquisition in colonial Brazil.

What happened to a certain American school bus full of not-so-decent American children when an act of vandalism and a stolen cigarette lighter wreak havoc and mechanical failure results in a…. school bus fire.

Made for Italian national television, Ellis Donda’s Il Corpo Rubato (The Stolen Body) is an experimental documentary on psychoanalisis in 70s/80s Italy, its analytical practices and forms of suggestion.

Drawing Houses consists of two parts. In each part performers make drawings of houses. The first part is filmed at a high angle looking down at a floor. The scene opens with a close-up of the back of a Hawaii-an shirt. The Hawaiian shirt wearer moves out and a performer enters and begins to draw on the floor. A drawing of a house is made on the floor. The drawing is made so that it appears to be on the plane of the projected image and not on the receding floor plane. In the second part of the film the camera is placed so that the scene is viewed straight on. This scene opens with a black line grid on the screen. A large facial profile appears when the perfomer removes some paper that covers it. He draws in the facial details. The performer then draws a line drawing of a house. This drawing looks similiar to the one from the earlier scene. Another house is drawn in the background. However parts of each house are drawn on different planes.

"A silent, in-camera improv that contemplates the early autumn colors and forms of some weathered, wild blackberries growing along a rural Maine railroad track. The berries themselves are gone - into many mouths or fallen to earth. Winter, as yet unseen, approaches from afar. The superimpositions were done in the camera and there was no further editing of the film." —Abbott Meader

A visit to the zoo with an unauthorised Pink Floyd soundtrack.

Glass Gardens is an animated allegory of the role creativity plays in the survival of the human spirit. The protagonist wanders the dystopian ruins of a consumer culture, gathering relics, and creating new works.

Little Panda learns carpentry from Grandpa, but he lacks concentration. So when he goes out to do carpentry by himself, he makes many mistakes.

Initially the subject of this film was the multiple threats constantly implicit in cinema ... especially in the perceptual acts of unifying with which we respond to the discontinuities of editing. So the basic images were knives and salamis. But as the music was reworked, highly charged objects began to appear and reappear; instinctual navigation took over, as always, in the editing room ... and the film seemed to adopt another subject entirely. As in all our work, many issues are in uneasy balance, and the film refuses to find a center. Words in the film refer to its own intertextuality. Who is speaking here? And who is addressed?

Imaginative experimental film about the collision between a young man's inner and outer landscape.

A figure performs a dance to disco and beautiful abstractions are created.

Reel 5: Mourning (23 to 30 January 1982) follows in the wake of the death of Richard Robertson, the filmmaker’s father. [It] covers … seven days of the family going through their father’s papers, taking walks in the snow and huddling inside watching football. (Anjo-marí Gouws)

Shot in Beirut and released during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, the film both portrayed the brutality of the siege and the indiscriminate attacks as well as people’s survival. The film is rhythmed by the urgency of sirens, communicating the human toll of the violence to a wider world in an attempt to rally support for the Palestinian revolution. Simultaneously, the film is loaded with the specter of an unclear future, the seeds of a massacre that was yet to come.

Experimental film projected over a sculpture

The death of a loved one is always hard, but when that loved one is a young child, the death seems all the more difficult to handle. The Fosters’ seven year old son died just before Christmas, Margo’s faith in God died, too. Now, one year later, she is constantly reminded of her loss. In order to help her deal with her grief, Dennis suggests a holiday backpacking trip. Alan, a dedicated young Christian boy is on the trip. He is able to lead Margo to a better understanding of Christmas.

Toad, the primeval inhabitant of the earth. One of the first living creatures who dared to venture from sea to land and some of whose species are now finding their way to the books of endangered species. Who are they really, these witch's creatures?

"... portrays the views of a first generation Italian-American woman though her life experiences as immigrant, factory worker, and as the 'emotional heart of the family.'" – Fabrice Ziolkowski

The video works 'Traumasyl' and 'Jukai, the Sea of Trees' are characterized by a cinematic and associative style, in which atmosphere plays an important role. There is certainly no word of a plot or unambiguous content. Influenced by the Italian film maker Michelangelo Antonioni, he draws a picture here of mental and physical oppression. A monitor in an empty room alternately shows the faces of a woman and a man. Their lips are moving, but you cannot hear their voices. Their faces are 'blindfolded', and 'tied up' with a rope which is fastened around the monitor. Then there are images of the woman in the empty room in which she looks at herself on the screen and in a broken mirror. Locked up in this circuit and her own thoughts, she is unable to make contact.