Complet Thing

A woman wakes to find a stranger in her bed who claims he is her husband. Is he?

Thingvellir actually means “Parliament Grounds”. But extensive scientific research has shown that the Thingvellir area is one of the wonders of the world and is indeed unique. The American plate and the European plate separate exactly at Thingvellir so the area and Lake Thingvallavatn are positioned between two continents. This is shown in detailed video graphic as well as in extensive aerial and close-up shots of the area. At Thingvellir we are standing on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge – we can see the ground split, Thingvellir sink and Lake Thingvallavatn grow. In flora and fauna – here is the meeting place of the East and the West. Lake Thingvallavatn is a very young – no more than 10,000 years old. However, four varieties af Arctic Char have evolved in it, and that is a world wonder. The lake is extremely clear which makes the underwater pictures of the Arctic char in their natural habitat very real.

Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words but in the meantime let’s be careful about the words we use.

"17 Things I Wish I Could Tell You Since You Died" is a film that honors the filmmaker's brother, who died of AIDS at the height of the crisis in the U.S. The film recalls things the filmmaker wishes she could relay to her late brother, including her own move to New York City and her belief that he would have really liked Hettie Macdonald's "Beautiful Thing." The film is an experimental exploration of loss and grief and unsaid things.

The first in the series of works in various media which I call VISIBLE INVENTORIES. Edited in the camera, an assemblage of subtle motions of objects in the wind (flags, ribbons, leaves) which speak delicately to the senses.

Inspired by the themes explored in the films of Hong Kong film director Wong Kar-Wai, this is a checklist of what to expect from modern love. Sex...longing...rejection... and pain.

An experimental film based on the poem of the same name by Rachel Rabbit White.

Karnataka’s Hakki Pikki tribe and its oddly named people

Our Favorite Things is a new DVD/CD release from reigning Kulture Kut-up Kings Negativland. Twenty-seven years of the group's "greatest hits" have become all-new moving pictures in this amazing, years-in-the-making package. Created with 18 other filmmakers from all over the USA (and one a capella group from Detroit), Our Favorite Things is a collaborative project that takes Negativland's sound explorations into the world of film and video. What emerges is a darkly cracked look at 21st century America, juxtaposing paranoia, torture, control, power, weapons, fear, suicide, cola wars, mental illness, and intellectual property issues with the lighter side of dopey advertising, cartoon characters, cleaning products and Jesus.

In "The Way Things Can Happen," extras from "The Day After," a 1983 made-for-TV movie depicting a nuclear attack on Kansas, recollect their original scenes, now 34 years later. Having been filmed in the midst of the Cold War on location in Lawrence, Kansas and with a cast of five thousand locals, "The Day After" blurred the distinction between extras’ everyday existence and the movie and in doing so achieved the urgency and magnitude of live coverage of a national crisis - all with vast political and social implications. In their retelling of their scenes from "The Day After," the extras omit references to the movie itself, further obfuscating the distinction between what happened in the film and in reality. A portrait of a city that once performed its own fictional destruction, "The Way Things Can Happen" queers time by stepping outside of linearity, creating a space for considering life where our country was destroyed by nuclear war and choosing a different path.

"There are things in this world that are yet to be named" centers around Solanum plastisexum - an Australian tomato whose sexual expression is unpredictable and unstable, challenging even the fluid norms of the plant kingdom. Footage of the team of botanists who recently used their Solanum research to explode notions of sexual normativity in any plant or animal is combined with a voiceover of letters sent between science writer Rachel Carson and her lover Dorothy Freeman. "There are things in this world that are yet to be named" is a meditation on erasure, indefinability, and the intersection of queer and environmental histories.

Satire on everyday life. A reflection on the value and personal relationships between individuals. How to act in front of current reality?

Peggy Lee was a performer without peer----a singer, songwriter, actress and artist who spanned genres and generations with music that remains vital and captivating. Sultry and swinging, Peggy's biggest hits are featured here: Fever; I'm A Woman; Alright, Okay You Win; Lover: Big Spender; It's A Good Day and the Grammy Award winning Is That All There Is. This special collection of Peggy's television appearances also offers an enticing variety of more favorites: I Can't Stop Loving You, Unforgettable, I Don't Know Enough About You, Somebody Lovers Me, Manana, Me & My Shadow, The Lonesome Road, He's Gone Away, So What's New, Louisville Lou and Things Are Swingin' ---- Plus duets with Johnny Cash, Petula Clark, Stever Lwarence & Eydie Gorme, a Featurette with Michael Feinstein and a salute from Paul McCartney.

An experimental mix of thriller and documentary exploring the scandal centred on the one-time Newcastle Council Leader, aka The Mouth of the Tyne, who was sentenced to six years imprisonment in 1974 for corruption. A dynamic and visionary politician, Smith collaborated closely as Amber unpicked the story of a leftwing group of ex-war resisters who took control of the city council in 1960, the socialist and civic ambitions and the betrayals; the claims of MI5 involvement, of ministerial cover-ups and the unseen role of the Privy Council. With Smith appearing as himself and filmmakers Murray Martin and Steve Trafford as two journalists, the film interrogates the interviews and archive footage, weaving them together with a fictional scandal unfolding on the streets around them…

A series of things you'd better not mix up.

Documentary by Mike Dooley, Katharine Leis

This tape is the first of Hill’s works for which he deliberately wrote a screenplay. The title defines the piece’s starting point: Alice in Wonderland asks her omniscient father why things get in a muddle. They then talk on a metalinguistic level. A glimpse through the looking glass reveals an inversion of the customary order of things. The father ingests the smoke from his pipe, Alice does not so much blink her eyelids momentarily open as stare wide-eyed, and the playing cards fall out of the air in an orderly manner into the girl’s hand. (Gary Hill: Selected Works and catalogue raisonné, edited by Holger Broeker)