99 Pieces
When Joshua Licet wakes up with his wife missing he must decide whether to lock himself in his house for forty days and 40 nights of torture or to leave her to die..
When Joshua Licet wakes up with his wife missing he must decide whether to lock himself in his house for forty days and 40 nights of torture or to leave her to die..
Rip in Pieces America is an uncensored proclamation from an invisible USA. Dominic Gagnon turns no blind eye in his ultra-intense collage film which consists entirely of more or less anonymous webcam clips that due to their controversial or explicit nature have been flagged and meanwhile removed from video sites such as YouTube. Well-formulated conspiracy theorists, bad-tempered grass-roots activists and religious arms fanatics, who use the webcam as both a means to preach and to confess, have all been filtered by the censor, but stored by Gagnon, who neither comments nor embarks on any finger-pointing. For who decides what can be thought and said? And what is paranoia, if you know that you’re right? RIP is an uncensored, in-your-face assault on political correctness and on most American institutions. But it also has a bizarre performative element that develop in pure Hollywood fashion..
"Flag as inapproriate". This unconspicuous button with a flag icon appears underneath every single YouTube video we watch marking the limits of our freedom in the Internet. Once flagged by anonymous users, after being checked by the also anonymous YouTube team, a video quickly disappears forever. In exactly this process, Dominic Gagnon intervenes. He 'saves' the flagged videos before they are deleted and adds them to a dark and mythological collage of American survivalism. People have their say, who deeply mistrust the government, who warn their fellow citizens, and who arm themselves visibly. An unclear image emerges. While the protagonists are scared of the almighty American government, the viewer is irritated what to find the most threatening in this "hell": the United States of America, the critics armed to the teeth with conspiracy theories, or the anonymous censorship power of the companies which control the web..
Montage film made of short fiction and non-fiction clips, to celebrate the 100 anniversary of Kodak film manufacturing..
Algerian director Hamid Benamra turns his focus to Mustapha Boutadjine, a charming, mercurial collage artist in Paris whose very work methods embody resistance, and celebrate those who work to liberate others. Boutadjine creates his portraits of Third World artists such as Miriam Makeba, and Algerian figures such as Assia Djebar from pieces of paper torn from high end fashion magazines and other, glossy, glitzy publications. Using this material is as much an act of rejecting bourgeois standards, which are often anti-North African in France, as much as elevating these figures and making them the social and visual standard against which we should judge ourselves, not the runway models of Chanel..
This film consists of 70 minutes and 41 seconds of turquoise screen..
A set of three 'film poems' composed around the theme of the garden - the central one featuring hand scratched animated drawings. Margaret Tait described them as follows: 'Round the Garden' - right round and round again, 'Garden Fliers' - flighty cartoon and a stunner of a piano piece and 'Grove' - grave and sonorous..
Tanya, a lesbian sculptor living in Seattle hasn't seen her sister for over 10 years. When Ramona suddenly appears on her doorstep suitcase in hand the reception isn't a warm one. Tanya's male roommate Bold attempts to bring them together. Through a series of 'Therapy Sessions' with Bold, they begin to open up and rediscover the value of sisterly love..
Inspired to know more about his father's time at residential school, artist Carey Newman created the Witness Blanket - a national monument that commemorates the experiences of residential school survivors. The blanket is constructed from hundreds of everyday items collected from residential schools, churches, government buildings and cultural structures across Canada. Each object has a story to tell, each survivor has something to say. Narrated by the artist, this film weaves together those stories with his personal journey, examining how art can open our hearts to the pain of truth and the beauty of resiliency..
A human reincarnated as a maggot begins to explore the potential for his new existence and slowly succumbs to the routines of his form..
Changes in official attitudes to mental illness are reflected in the architectural history of the New Zealand psychiatric institutions in Kathryn Dudding's delicately layered, emotionally loaded essay film. Dudding's film takes off from an unfinished photographic project undertaken with a partner who didn't stay around to see it through. Photographs of the abandoned Porirua Asylum would, emulating a Japanese tradition, evoke the poignance of impermanence and the passage of human suffering..
Cassandra bounces from one disastrous encounter to the next as she tries to meet the recipients of her dead husband's organs..
Ceramics expert Lars Tharp, Antiques Roadshow resident and presenter of Treasures of Chinese Porcelain, has picked his six favourite pieces representing Chinese taste. He goes on a journey through a thousand years of Chinese history, travelling from the ancient capital of Huangzhou in the south to Beijing's Forbidden City in the north, to uncover what these six pieces tell us about Chinese emperors, scholars, workers, merchants and artists. To him, they are China in ceramic form. But can they help us to understand China today?.
Mid-length feature by Eric Dietrick..
A lonely creature and a little girl explore what it means to be accepted by the family we choose ourselves..
Three shocking tales of horror! "The Bootmaker": From the chaotic battlefields of Vietnam to the quiet calm of a small Southern town...Lucky tattoos and a tormented soul fuel the neighborhood bootmaker to spin a wicked web strung with adultery, deceit and mutilation. "Choice Cuts": A butcher shop is the backdrop for this tale of first love, intimidation, and lust. These elements are mixed together with a dash of jealousy and a pinch of lunacy resulting in a frightening culinary creation. "That's Showbiz": All the world may be a stage, but to be a player a price must be paid. A devilish deal is cut by a starstruck young man, only to be terminated in its inevitably disastrous manner. A chilling look at backstage treachery.....
Two homeless men meet in the subway. One waits for love, the other hopes for it.
This series of videos comes from the bands early days up to the "Rust In Peace" period in their history. This is a re-release from the earlier VHS video and as such is just a copy of that. The first three songs are "Peace Sells", "Wake Up Dead" and "In My Darkest Hour". All have Dave Mustaine and David Ellefson giving insights into the recording of the videos. The fourth track is a cover of the Sex pistols "Anarchy In The UK". Finally ending with two of Megadeth's most classic songs of all, "Holy Wars...The Punishment Due" and "Hangar 18". This DVD version was only released in the UK..
A story that uncovers the insanity of the ten years of violence which followed, and the terrible lasting impact of war on women, children and communities long after the killing has ended..