Créatures

Immerse yourself in a world of mud dwellers, algae-eaters and expert predators all fighting for survival in Florida's Indian River Lagoon.

Via the persona of Clawdette the black cat, Kathleen Turner narrates this not-for-the-squeamish documentary from National Geographic. From a Komodo dragon's virulent bacterial bite to a black widow spider poisoning her victim and a cobra devouring a rat (tail first), viewers get to see skin-crawling close-ups of Mother Nature's creepiest critters. Intriguing tidbits about each creature make the program as enlightening as it is hair-raising.

Toad, the primeval inhabitant of the earth. One of the first living creatures who dared to venture from sea to land and some of whose species are now finding their way to the books of endangered species. Who are they really, these witch's creatures?

Mystical creatures from all around the universe travel great distances to stay at Oscar's Hotel. Oliver attempts to team up with some of the hotel's finest to track down a dangerous intruder.

Bacteria are often used as a model organism for evolutionary biology, but there are many reasons this is not appropriate. This interesting DVD uses a creationist perspective to help us understand God’s original design and purpose for microbes and how various genetic mechanisms since the Fall have led to bacteria that cause disease.

Bagas returns to his village after a long time at the Islamic boarding school to revive religious activities and realign social norms that have been lost in his village. He was accompanied by his best friends, Ayu and Hadi. But Bagas's effort is met with extreme opposition from Wirya, a rich man in his village, because he feels it is interfering with their interests. Finally Wirya and his men agreed to get rid of Bagas, with the help of six other people they persecuted Bagas to death. Bagas' body was then thrown into the river under the bridge. But how surprised they were, from the mosque they heard the Asyghil prayer that Bagas usually sings before the dawn call to prayer. They were curious and immediately went to the mosque. They were scared to see Bagas who was still alive! They were increasingly frightened when two of them were found dead in a terrible way. Since then, the terror of Bagas, who always rides his bicycle and rings the bell, has haunted them.

“Creatures of the Wind” blurs the frontier between nightmare and reality in a dreamlike journey with a teenage girl. Visions follow one another in this horror-style short, with a polished aesthetic mixing black and white costumes, shoulder camera shots in a dense dark forest, and an ominous children’s song. The forest appears as a prison hiding one’s most personal fears, anthropomorphized in seemingly inescapable apparitions.

Creatures of the Lines is an artist film and collaboration with anthropologist Heather Anne Swanson. It explores how desires for economic growth and linear progress has produced straightened forms in England’s watery terrains and asks what risks are associated with the conversion of once-curvy and braided worlds into a linearised landscape.

Creatures of the Amazon brings you face to face with some of the most fearsome animals in the world -- the dwellers of a jungle known as Green Hell. The Amazon Basin boasts an incredible variety of wildlife, brought before you in intimate detail by the cameras of the legendary Bill Burrud. Cave ceilings covered with blood-thirsty vampire bats, army ants decimating the nest of their neighbors, boa constrictor falling victim to a school of ravenous piranha -- this is the Amazon. From the mighty jaguar to the shock of the electric eel, Creatures of the Amazon is an adventurous journey through the most savage ecosystem in the world.

Short experimental film.

A futuristic vision of a world after a catastrophic disaster. In this dark parable mutated limbs are looking for cooperation, but due to miscommunication this mission is doomed to fail.

One of Jeff Keen's diary films. Keen made many diary films with his daughter, wife and friends in the late 60s and 70s. These were edited in camera and used multiple exposures. They would then be projected in various combinations though usually as a four-screen.

A grieving man tries to find the cause of his young wife's suicide by spending the night next to her dead body and bringing back memories from their past.

This is a continuation of the sex education films by Oswald Kolle. The entire Kolle family appears nude and openly discusses sex among the parents, two daughters and one son. The father recommends masturbation for children unless the act would be traumatic for the participant. Some mention of the Oedipal complex is discussed, but no details are given because individual situations may vary.

Strange Creatures of the Arctic highlights five animal winter specialists who brave the harshest winters with amazing evolutionary adaptations. These inhabitants of the Arctic and Subarctic deal with extreme temperatures, predators, and a changing environment through a variety of unique tools. Explore their environments and the evolutionary pressures that have caused them to develop these adaptations.

Créatures Divines is a satirical critique of the hypertextualization of women, male gaze and forced hyperfeminity on girls from a young age through the medias of fairytales, commercials, reality TV, video games and videoclips. We see in this film a young girl growing up in a world in which she doesn't have ownership of her body and self.

These warm and fuzzy short films follow friends who prove that with determination and passion they can do just about anything. Kids connect with characters as they stand up for themselves, make music, and even blast off into space!

A mother abandons her two sons in the woods. Is it an act of pure evil - or misguided love?

After Stefan mysteriously disappears, Ryan and Scottie film a new episode of Ryan's House while tensions arise throughout the nation following an alleged UFO sighting...