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Publisher
Kathy Brew
Language
English
Description
An experimental video collage that incorporates found footage, performance, interviews with young girls, documentary, animation, images from advertising and television, and a dream narrative in a work that examines gender-stereotyping in popular culture, concluding with a post-modern version of the Pandora myth..
Publisher
Filmmakers Showcase
Language
English
Description
PICTURING A METROPOLIS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema.. Since the beginning of cinema, filmmakers have been infatuated with capturing on film dynamic images of New York City. Avant-garde experiments pop up in the most unlikely of places including turn of the 20th century actualities, and commercial and radical newsreels. City symphonies are represented by the landmark American...
43) Intolerance
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Language
English
Description
D.W. Griffith's epic intercuts between four separate stories about man's inhumanity to man. In Babylon, pacifist Prince Belshazzar is brought down by warring religious factions. In Judea, the last days of Christ (Howard Gaye) are depicted in the style of a Passion play. In France, Catherine de Medici presides over the slaughter of the Huguenots. And in California, a woman (Mae Marsh) pleads for the life of her husband (Robert Harron) when he is sentenced...
44) Rock guitar
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Language
English
Description
Want to infuse a little rock-and-roll attitude into your guitar playing? This book is here to help, with simple explanations and fun exercises to teach you essential rock guitar techniques. You'll also learn how to get the right gear, set up your space, and maintain your equipment. Plus, this updated edition includes over 150 audio tracks and video clips, so you'll hear and see exactly how it's done.
Publisher
Canyon Cinema Foundation
Language
English
Description
Immigrant residents of a "shift-bed" apartment in the heart of New York City's Chinatown share their stories of personal and political upheaval. As the bed transforms into a stage, the film reveals the collective history of the Chinese in the United States through conversations, autobiographical monologues, and theatrical movement pieces. Shot in the kitchens, bedrooms, wedding halls, cafes, and mahjong parlors of Chinatown, this provocative hybrid...
47) Mur 19
Publisher
Mark Rappaport
Language
English
Description
Mark Rappaport's first film commences with Gerald Mur "studying the cinema" in the form of a blow-up glamor shot of Garbo. Then "the cinema" studies Gerald (from numerous angles) followed by a standoff as filmmaker and subject circle one another, dueling with cameras to determine who's watcher and who's watched.. Gerald's philosophical soundtrack musings ("People don't ask for beauty, they'll settle for less ugliness," "To live together destroys integrity")...
48) The Scenic Route
Publisher
Mark Rappaport
Language
English
Description
An experimental drama that spins the tale of a woman, her sister, and the man who completes the triangle. Told through such fertile sources as grand opera, classical painting, and Victorian melodrama.. Winner of the Sutherland Trophy at the British Film Institute Awards.
Publisher
Artless Media
Language
English
Description
Masculinity/Femininity is an experimental documentary that challenges normative notions of gender, sexuality and performance. Experimental filmmaker Russell Sheaffer's Masculinity/Femininity takes over where his short film starring James Franco, Masculinity & Me, left off...Shot mainly on Super 8mm film, this is not a typical documentary. Sheaffer asks filmmakers, academics, gender theorists, and artists to present their concepts of gender construction...
Publisher
Canyon Cinema Foundation
Language
English
Description
UNBOUND transforms and explodes the idea of documentary and biography. The result is an inversion of narrative, re-siting Romanticism through an infinitely caressing yet ruptured and painterly lens...In Rome for a year at the American Academy, Child created imaginary home movies of scenes from the life of Mary and Percy Shelley. She was attracted to these authors-their life of poetry, politics and sexual invention- inspired by previous fictionalizing...
51) Nebel
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Language
English
Description
A station in thick fog, tracks that disappear into the white mists and a figure, waiting. In between patches of mist a fox appears, looking for a scent in the wind. And then: bluster, shimmer, silence. And more fog. Views of nature merge with brief encounters. People living in their own worlds: an astronomer who, looking to the sky, would welcome the idea that we might not be alone in the universe. A musician hoping to meet the right woman one day....
52) Stride, Soviet!
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Language
English
Description
STRIDE, SOVIET! is a film intended to publicize, in the run-up to local elections, the work and accomplishments of the Moscow municipal council or "soviet." Dziga Vertov attempts a different kind of lecture film, one that disposes of staid commentary in favor of sharp visual conflicts that mimic the impact of a fiery orator. Developing the plan in 1925, Vertov envisioned the film proceeding as a montage of contrasts. For him, advertisement was best...
53) Nation Estate
Publisher
mec film
Language
English
Description
In Sansour's film, Palestinians have their state in the form of a single skyscraper: the Nation Estate. One colossal high-rise houses the entire Palestinian population - now finally living the high life. With a glossy mixture of computer generated imagery, live actors and an arabesque electronica soundtrack, Nation Estate explores a vertical solution to Palestinian statehood. Each city has its own floor: Jerusalem on the third floor, Ramallah on the...
Publisher
KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg
Language
English
Description
A 10-meter diving tower. 67 members of the public who have never been up there choose whether to jump off or climb back down.. The situation itself highlights a dilemma: to weigh the instinctive fear of taking the step out versus the humiliation of having to climb down. TEN METER TOWER is an entertaining study of the human in a vulnerable position.. A NY Times Op-Docs Selection with The Sundance Institute 2017. Nominated for top prizes at the Berlin...
55) A Space Exodus
Publisher
mec film
Language
English
Description
A Space Exodus quirkily sets up an adapted stretch of Stanley Kubrick's Space Odyssey in a Middle Eastern political context. The recognisable music scores of the 1968 science fiction film are changed to arabesque chords matching the surreal visuals of Sansour's film. The film follows the artist herself onto a phantasmagoric journey through the universe echoing Stanley Kubrick's thematic concerns for human evolution, progress and technology. However,...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Language
English
Description
The PLAY series... entertaining instructional programs illustrating the methods and techniques made famously recognizable by the world's greatest guitarists, this release concentrates on the one and only ROBERT JOHNSON. The legendary Robert Johnson is reputed to be the man who sold his soul at the crossroads to play the blues. During his short life, he enjoyed little success or recognition, and it would be 20 years after his death before his music...
57) Hi, Neighbor
Publisher
SPIA Media Productions
Language
English
Description
Thisexperimental short film is about a little girl who lost her home to urban renewal, and asks her wealthy neighbor, "why?"The film is aprequel to Andrade-Watkins' documentary trilogy about the Cape Verdean community in FoxPoint. "Hi, Neighbor"had its world premiere at the 2011 Cape Verdean International Film Festival and was awarded Jury Selection (first prize), in the 2012 Black Maria Film Festival.
58) Do Donkey's Act
Publisher
Carnivalesque Films
Language
English
Description
Narrated by Willem Dafoe, DO DONKEYS ACT encourages us to respect a major language barrier we might not otherwise consider, the mystery and intrigue of donkey utterances. We are invited to "step into their shade and listen closely" as we attune to a series of dramatic performances in which we eavesdrop on donkeys speaking amongst themselves.. Reclaiming the donkey from the indignity of a centuries old master slave relationship in which the dominant...
59) Fact Finders!
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
When is the best time to invite students to become actively involved in think-alouds? Join classroom teacher, Patrick Allen, in this 35 minute video, and watch as he engages the students in his fourth-grade classroom, demonstrating that you don't need to wait very long to make the most of your think-alouds. The importance of nonfiction literature in literacy instruction is. Using Seymour Simon's Animals Nobody Loves, Patrick demonstrates how comprehension...
60) Paradise
Publisher
SND Films
Language
English
Description
An Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival, PARADISE is the story of people heading for a better place on either side of the ocean. Although at times their paths do cross, they never really seem to meet.. Winner at the Anima Film Festival and Best Student Film Nominee at the Plymouth Film Festival.
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