Complet Garde

The work was revolutionary; it broke with the traditions of the previous generations of video artists. Thaterʼs subject matter was simple and the use of structural methods helped to articulate the medium of video projection. Thater created a jewel box with footage of Monetʼs garden broken into the primary video colors. The image was not broken apart in post-production but inside the Barco projector. Also critical to the work was Thater addressing the existing architecture of the gallery. She allowed the outside to be present and turned the window into a front and rear screen. The viewer was present, often being projected upon.

Here, Thater took three projectors, each one projecting only one color (red, green or blue) and reconstructed the image. The footage was the same as Oo Fifi Part I, but the result was an installation that accomplished its inverse. Instead of separating the projection into three component parts, Thater used three projectors to create a single composite image, thereby forming an analog approximation of a digital projection.

Andy Panda and his dog Balmer plant a victory garden, while a pesky rooster eats their plants. Andy wants to plant a new garden with the help of his dog. Unfortunately, everything goes wrong for both of them. Andy finds that the ground is hard as rocks and he can't dig; he has to use a drill. The dog chases a worm and gets stuck in a rake. The worm whacks him and leads him on a merry chase through a garden hose, turning it into a snake which blasts the poor dog in the face with water. Meanwhile, Andy's seeds are vacuumed up by a rooster, which he attacks with a sickle. The rooster lands on the dog. The battle rages with everything in a heap. The garden is ruined... or is it? The super-grow fertilizer is working wonders.

A future imaginary scenario set up in rural Palestine in the form of a garden with 50 flowers representing 50 Palestinian villages: Nothing is conventional in this garden. Not aware whether one is at the scale of the village, the city, or the room, the garden negotiates a new experience within the informal and the periphery that has been created as a result of a fragmented geography; a status of in-betweeness; in between the real and the imaginary, surface and bellow, absurdity and irony, physical and virtual.

A Soundie with the Song Spinners.

Toby Tatum's "The Garden" opens a window onto a realm of enchantment. Here wraiths flicker on moss-bearded rocks, rain washes the spoor-filled air and metamorphic flowers glow with supernatural potency. In this place beyond the screen time languidly dilates, returning us to new rhythms. Here priorities of scale shift, allowing the microcosmic world of small things to assume larger proportions. As darkness descends a surging aurora of prismatic colour arises, dancing on the threshold between worlds.

A paradise is emerging on earth. It is neither a dream nor a utopian delusion but an opportunity for a new kind of society. A step beyond the human as it has been known. A step we don’t dare to consummate.

A Traveltalk visit to Portugal's autonomous island group in the Atlantic Ocean. We learn that many of the things associated with the islands were actually instituted by British explorers who visited the island several hundred years before the Portuguese. This includes embroidered fabrics, wicker chairs, and the islands' world famous wine.

“Freud established that jokes were structurally akin to dreams in their use of condensation, displacement, representation by opposites, punning and ‘nonsense’. All of these strategies are much in evidence in (Land’s) marvelously duplicitous ON THE MARRIAGE BROKER JOKE… [...] so clever and original a filmmaker as to make most others – not to mention his critics – seem flat-footed by comparison. ON THE MARRIAGE BROKER JOKE harks back to Bunuel’s early work. Not only is it structured like a dream and filled with sexual imagery, but like Un Chien Andalou, it smacks of being an insider’s joke played upon the avant-garde. Where Bunuel used the insights of psychoanalysis to satirize Christianity, Land– with an almost equal perversity – reverses the process and uses Christianity to send up Freud.” – J. Hoberman, American Film

The Cure 2008-06-20 Madison Square Garden NYC, NY 01. Underneath the Stars 02. Pictures of You 03. The Perfect Boy 04. Hot Hot Hot!!! 05. The Only One 06. The End of the World 07. Lovesong 08. Sleep When I'm Dead 09. Push 10. Friday I'm In Love 11. In Between Days 12. Just Like Heaven 13. Baby Rag Dog Book

Documentary short film depicting the work of the United Service Organizations (USO) in providing recreational and morale-boosting services for American troops.

This poetic ensemble of personal stories converging over the course of a full year is a cinematic portrait of contemporary Israel: multifaceted, diverse, contradictory, complex. At Sakhne, one of the most popular parks in Israel, a varied collection of characters—recent immigrants, Zionist pioneers, Christians, Arabs and non-believers—coexist in an intricate microcosm of Israeli society. There are stories of camaraderie, loneliness, tolerance, intolerance, alienation and love. And each one, despite religion and politics, reminds us that we are, after all, one and the same. As summer turns to fall and winter, then spring, stories renew themselves with each new visitor that passes through the park gates.

A formerly incarcerated woman catches the sun as she nourishes a garden with her new community.

Commissioned by Pathé Frères, Alfred Machin shoots several local stories in Belgium, in a typically Belgian setting. Machin produces not only historical dramas, but also some comedies mainly portraying the Brussels "zwanze", the typical humour of the city's inhabitants, which is characterised by a finely-balanced mix of self-deprecation and exaggeration. In doing so he made his films accessible and recognizable to his audience. Mr Beulemeester, notorious member of the local militia and very possessive when it comes to his daughter, is in this film fooled by charmer and suitor Van Soest.

Glimpse phantasmagoric gardens: warped, improbable and fantastic. An abandoned Eden has grown strange.

In this film, 24 LGBTQIA2* gardeners show their gardens and explain how their queerness affects the design of the spaces. They also speak about how they are queering ecology, as well as the natural-cultural relationship. Ella von der Haide has been visiting community gardens in North America for several years with her camera. It is the 6th film in her documentary series Another world is plantable! about community gardens, and their social-ecological activism worldwide.

Set I: Ripple, Shakedown Street, Bertha, Loser, They Love Each Other, Tennessee Jed, Terrapin Station. Set II: Playin’ in the Band > Truckin’ > Uncle John’s Band > China Doll > Eyes of the World > Drums > Space > The Wheel > Standing on the Moon > Sugar Magnolia. Encore: Werewolves of London

In the second instalment of the Straight Boys Gay Boys series from director Toby Ross, open-minded straight boys get manipulated by smart, clever and very cute gay boys. Guess what... they love it! Rarely has a sequence of shorts been hot, sexy and funny at the same time. This criss-crossing, carnal bridge between straight and gay is where it all happens. This is a small, fun ride for your fantasies to come alive told in six well-scripted, fully developed (and delightfully raunchy) stories.

Donald Sutherland talks about how moved he was by the script, which reminded him of Kubrick's Paths of Glory, his role as a repressive leader, and he reads from a letter he sent to director Gary Ross about the role.

Set in a Referendum torn Quebec between two languages, between two cities drawn between two cultures, a young immigrant tries to find his way while simultaneously dealing with the loss of his own father.