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Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons
Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian woman in myth. It asks,…
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi/Heraklea
The film introduces the history of one of the oldest towns in Macedonia: Heraklea Linkestis, which has been built in the IV century B.C.
A Bigger Splash
A fictionalised biopic about the end of David Hockney’s relationship with Peter Schlesinger which was named after Hockney’s pop-art painting ‘A Bigger Splash’.
Pourquoi Israël
Using interviews and other footage shot especially for this documentary, French director Claude Lanzmann investigates the state of Israel in 1972. This movie concentrates on Israelis going about their business…
A Story of a Man Who Filled 552% of the Quota
A movie quintessential to Wiszniewski’s artistic output. Its protagonist, Bernard Budgol, is a miner and a legendary leader of socialist labour in the 40s and 50s. Structured around a dissonance…
The Last Grave at Dimbaza
Made clandestinely by a group of exiled filmmakers known as Morena Films, The Last Grave at Dimbaza is an unflinching document of Apartheid at its height.
Born to Boogie
By 1972, the seminal English glam-rock band T-Rex was at the height of what came to be known as “T-Rexstacy:” they had already scored three of their soon-to-be ten straight…
Scarborough Bluffs
A short documentary produced for Canadian public television.
Chinese Ping-Pong
An experimental sports film made partly during the Scandinavian Open Championships in Halmstad in 1970, partly during the Chinese players’ exhibition tour in Denmark immediately after the SOC. First of…
An Examination of Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange
An examination of Kubrick’s ‘A Clockwork Orange’ on Camera 3 (1972)
200 Motels
“Touring makes you crazy,” Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring. The story, interspersed with performances by…
We Have Come for Your Daughters
Documentary of a 154-person bus and truck tour that set out to spread the gospel of flower power to the hinterlands of the U.S.
Blue Streak
An adroit expansion on the notion of a “blue” movie, Mark Rappaport’s early short BLUE STREAK contrasts the rarified realm of classical composition with an unspoken assortment of words predisposed…
The Chomsky – Foucault Debate: On Human Nature
Three Domestics
In each scene, police respond to a different domestic abuse calls.
The Hellstrom Chronicle
A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.
Red, White and Blue
A documentary about the hearings of President Nixon’s Commission on Obscenity, featuring adult-film producer David F. Friedman (one of the producers of this film) testifying before Congress, and involved in…
Quick Billy
A psychedelic montage of home movie footage gives way to a silent western story in this film by Bay Area avant-garde filmmaker Bruce Baillie.
The Day We Landed on the Most Perfect Planet in the Universe
A documentary taking its cues from children’s imaginative flights of fancy.
Plumb-Loco
Aspects of the precision and drama of locomotive manufacture, composed to form a lively pattern in picture and sound.
Encounter on Urban Environment
This feature documentary takes a look at how the Halifax/Dartmouth community in Nova Scotia was stimulated by a week-long session held by a panel of specialists from different fields who…
Huey P. Newton: Prelude to Revolution
Hear the inside story of Huey Newton and the Black Panthers with this documentary that examines their efforts to promote the rights of African Americans as well as the organization’s…
7 Plus Seven
After a 7 year wait, director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born children from Seven Up! The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in…
Spiral Jetty
This film, made by the artist, Robert Smithson, with the assistance of Virgina Dwan, Dwan Gallery & Douglas Christmas, Director, Ace Gallery, (the aforementioned Dwan & Christmas also assisted Smithson…
Sexual Freedom in Denmark
Starting as a documentary on the sexually liberated culture of late-Sixties Denmark, Sexual Freedom in Denmark winds up incorporating major elements of the marriage manual form and even manages to…
Satanis: The Devil’s Mass
The film is a study of Anton Szandor LaVey, leader of a cult of devil worshipers in San Francisco. He and his Church of Satan are shown performing a black…
White Angel… Black Angel
Witness devilish rituals from around the globe. Satanism! Voodoo! Majicks Black and White! Shocking Truths, etc.!
Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny
In this, the first of his 58 documentary films, John Pilger combines candid interviews and amazing frontline footage of Vietnam to portray a growing rift between the US military bureaucrats…
During and After the Air Raid
The precautions to be taken during and after an air-raid by the people, are shown in this film.
At Your Fingertips: Cylinders
Instructive short on using cylinders to construct all manner of fun objects.
The Nashville Sound
Interviews and performances with Nashville celebrities and hopefuls from the late 1960’s era of the Nashville music scene. Featured performers include Porter Waggoner, Tex Ritter, Dolly Parton, Roy Acuff, Lester…
Hiroshima: A Document of the Atomic Bombing
A documentary about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.
Teleologic Telecast from Spaceship Earth: On Board with Buckminster Fuller
Mick Glasheen, an architect and pioneer of early cinema and experimental film, created work that was heavily influenced by media theorists. His video Teleologic Telecast from Spaceship Earth: On Board…
The Language of Persuasion
Short documentary about the ideology of publicity and mass medias.
Red Arrows
The British Royal Airforce’s Red Arrows show off their skills.
Silver City Revisited
A series of street views filmed in Munich throughout 1968.
In the Year of the Pig
Both sober and sobering, producer-director Emile de Antonio’s In the Year of the Pig is a powerful and, no doubt for many, controversial documentary about the Vietnam War.