Out Of The Blue

On the eighth floor of a run-down motel, through the door of room 817, a janitor quietly goes about her chores, blending unassumingly into the backdrop. In the room next door, a prostitute is lying in bed next to a stranger, turning her back to him in order to feel alive.

Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981) was a German film director and animator best known for The Adventures of Prince Achmed, which was released in 1926 and is the oldest surviving animated movie. (It came out a full eleven years before Disney's Snow White!) As a little kid, Reiniger loved reading fairytales and fell in love with puppetry. At school, she learned about paperschnitte, or papercuts, which helped her create her signature style of silhouettes. She grew up to make more than forty films throughout her long career, most of which were fairytales that used her stop-film animation technique of hand-cut silhouettes. Reiniger is now seen as the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation and the inventor of an early form of the multiplane camera.

A LGBT family moves to 'Happy Valley' Utah to open a coffee shop.

A raven becomes a family pet after it saves the life of a little girl. Later, the family repays the favor by saving the bird from their neighbors who demand its immediate destruction.

OUT OF THE BLUE is a typically thought-provoking and contemplative work constructed from seemingly disparate elements: imagery recorded from the window of a plane during her trans-Atlantic travels, diary-like footage, found imagery and sound, and onscreen texts. The result is a highly personal, open-ended meditation on the passage of time, historical trauma, and liminal physical and emotional spaces that embodies Fisher’s radically multilayered approach: she juxtaposes multiple layers of visual and aural materials not only to create a rich visual experience, but to bring into play a dizzying and cross-pollinating array of ideas. The soundtrack features composer Lois V Vierk’s long-form piece, “Words Fail Me,” a work inspired by Vierk’s experience as an eyewitness to the fall of the World Trade Center, twenty years ago.

On January 8, 1989 a Pickering, Ontario flea market was robbed. Witnesses reported the robbers consisted of one white male and four Blacks. Later that day, police disrupted a Scarborough church service, arresting one South Asian boy and four Black youths including a girl of thirteen. All were later released when it was proven that they were in church when the robbery occurred. Julien Didier was twenty at the time and the oldest of the arrested. This tape follows his experience of the events.

Howe Gelb is a musician with a philosophy: Music must evolve. So he never plays his own music the same.

Three days after the death of the viking king, his two sons fight for the crown.

In a time of global turmoil, scientists Clay and Terra have left society to build a machine that will regenerate all human life. However, when this machine begins to make their daughter sick, Clay is forced to choose between his family and the fate of the world.

Out of the Ashes is a powerful and evocative work which utilises pagan and christian images to explore the mythologies of blood and fire, taboos around menstruation and the persecution of witches.

Faith’s life is shattered when her lover dies. Her brother Job locks her away in a lighthouse, but she jumps from the tower rather than be imprisoned. Faith's daughter, however, lives on. The girl Eve grows into her teens, sheltered from the world by her puritanical uncle. But Eve nevertheless manages to encounter a young man, Phillip Blake. When Phillip returns for Eve, he has to deal with her crusty, malevolent guardian….

Three stories of mental health and recovery, starring Hannah Lucas, AKeem Rollins, and Raven Saunders.

Lady Luck smiles on a reckless secretary who takes a punt on the Irish Sweepstake … but not everyone’s a winner.

A psychological thriller about the very different experiences two men have while on their way to the same mysterious destination. One, enjoying the ride from the Driver's seat as the other fears for his life from the trunk.

On the 7th of February 2009, devastating bushfires tore through Victoria, Australia. Swathes of prime forest were destroyed and it's wildlife incinerated. But, against all odds, there were survivors of 'Black Saturday.'

Ruth Minchin is unhappily married to her father's former business partner, a drunken brute. She contracts a friendship for Severino, a pianist, who lives in the same apartment house, and Minchin, discovering them together, orders the pianist from the room and knocks his wife down. Severino kills Minchin in a delirium following pneumonia, and Ruth is suspected of the crime.

After a surgical operation on a radio that proves it's healthy again when an Arthur Tracy broadcast comes through, Krazy takes it on a flying carpet trip through the clouds where radio stars appear in caricature such as Kate Smith, Eddie Cantor, Bert Gordon,The Boswell Sisters, The Mills Brothers, Rudy Vallee,Ed Wynn, Morton Downey and Chandu the Magician.

Out of the Storm is a 1926 silent drama.