US China relations are at its worst in modern history, how did the two countries get to this point? Understand the historical forces driving the conflict - from China’s Century of Shame to the slow decay of deindustrialisation in the US. Further adding to tensions is China’s perspective that US meddled in Hong Kong’s internal politics, and the American perspective that China is in part to blame for the coronavirus pandemic. After 4 years of escalating conflict under a Trump administration, what will Biden’s approach to China be?.
The south London five-piece deliver a blistering post-punk set..
A young woman, suffering from loneliness, attempts to create a beautiful, meaningful opera with the help of her talking teddy bear..
Documentary that explores the destructive impact that dogfighting has on the immediate community..
Michael Engel's curiosity about anthropology took him to the Xingu National Reservation in the Lower Amazon Basin, where he lived with the natives for a month. Aided by Brazil's top anthropologist, João Americo Peret, he created XINGU LAND OF NO SHAME - A PERSONAL JOURNEY. In it he explores the daily rituals and culture of the Xingu inhabitants..
"Traumatized by body shaming during her childhood, a mother struggles to separate her past from her daughter’s present. ".
A cosmic cruise anchored by performance artist Stefan Fae and figures of Dublin’s creative queer underbelly including Lady K, Vickey Curtis, Pradeep Mahadeshwar and Attracta Tension to name but a few in this horn of plenty. In an Ireland that’s post-Marriage Equality, post-Repeal and a city engulfed in the power of the corporatocracy, what does it mean to be radically queer in this Brave New Éire? Shame // Less invites you to peer through the gloryhole and bear witness..
After Roger Laroque maims Louversan, his look-alike, in an honorable duel during the Franco-Prussian War, Louversan swears revenge on his better. In Paris, Roger falls in love with Julia, who he later discovers is married to Lucien, his close army friend. Out of duty to Lucien, Roger ends the affair and leaves for the country where he meets and marries Marie Greville, his uncle's ward. Furious at Roger's desertion, Julia vows revenge and joins forces with Louversan..
Excess Is Not Enough. This documentary follows the band the Shamen, one of Scotland's most controversial exports, from Barrowland in Glasgow to San Francisco and includes footage of tracks from their current album Boss Drum..
The friendship between 3 girls is tested when they find one of them is moving..
The film starts off with an eight minute concert sequence shot in the summer of '84 at a club called Eight BC in NYC. The band consists of Lydia Lunch, Pat Place and Connie Burg all playing guitars onstage, shot from skewed diagonal angles. Then a series of shots taken off the TV. Then two films Zedd made in 1976 or '77 when he lived in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn..
Andy Sandford is one of New York's most sought after comedians. In his first hour special, he tackles important issues such as burrito privacy, farting on airplanes and how a mixup at McDonalds can lead to the greatest day of your life..
A slapstick comedy with Charles Murray & Louise Fazenda..
A forbidden love story played out in a decade that would soon spawn the sexual revolution. Part historical documentary and part experimental narrative the film reconstructs a mesmerizing and erotic narrative from 60 hours of reel-to-reel audiotape discovered in a suitcase. Recorded in the 1960's by a Mid-western woman and her lover they chronicle the details of their adulterous love affair. Reliant on recording devises to document and memorialize their affair the tape recorder evolves as a confidant, witness and participant, always omnipresent creating a welcomed threesome. Mirroring the compulsion to confess ones indiscretions in today's Internet world these captivating recordings speak to an audience that can remember Bert Parks as well as one who has never set finger to a rotary phone..
In this documentary, filmmaker Johanna Jackie Baier tells her story. It begins with Chantal’s escape to Berlin from the confines of a small country town in southwest Germany in 1980. Interweaving interviews and portraits, but also on- and off-stage stories, backstage gossip, copious amounts of music and excerpts from her shows, the film allows Chantal’s story to unfold before a backdrop of recent and very recent history. House of Shame takes us to the squats of Oranienstrasse of the early 1980s; to Martin Kippenberger’s newly founded club ‘SO36’; to the studios of the artists of the ‘Neuen Wilden’ movement, and the epicentre of gay emancipation. The film also takes a look at the lives and deaths of transsexuals. No amount of colourful parades and riotous parties can conceal the fault lines in a personality: a body can thwart everything and lead to apartheid among sex workers, in bars and even in everyday professional life..
A Machine Performance by: Survival Research Laboratories, staged May 28, 1989 in SF at 4th & Perry St..
Male and female actors are less likely to be housewives and cooks anywhere in the world, but when other artists are their guests, compatriot or foreign, they can certainly create conditions for their guests to enjoy and, of course, vote for them. Persian dinner is a reality show..
Live version of Fame czy Shame.
