Shadow Of The L

Interviews with trapped non-believers an d with Ex-Mormons who have escaped the oppressive cult. Exploring and challenges the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' power to exploit the family as a weapon against those who choose to no longer accept what the Mormons believe to be 'the One, True Church'.

Once compared with heaven, now a land eclipsed by a dark and terrible cloud. As Arif floats aloft this swamp of despair, Kashmir too is taking its first unsteady steps to emerge from a shadow of doom, with a tentative semblance of peace between the two Nations in recent times.

The structures of our thought filter what we see, and in fact there is no seeing apart from those structures. This film is part of an ongoing project to show where I am in a (here, natural) landscape in a way that reflects those structures of thought. It is "hypnogogic," not so much perceptually (although to some extent that too) as conceptually. Our eyes see constantly, but what do we actually notice? That vision is excessive, wasteful, even; in paring down, it becomes both more spare and more concentrated. It is also a meditation in process of how my marvelous son Marcus has changed my life and my way of being in the world, recoloring a place where I was already.

In the Shadow of the Revolution, an independent U.S.-Venezuelan collaboration by writer-directors J. Arturo Albarrán and Clifton Ross, gives voice to much-needed alternative perspectives on the country’s Bolivarian Revolution. Heavily disseminated Bolivarian propaganda presents a narrative of a popular, left-wing government that has brought great benefits to the population in the face of attacks from a right-wing, “fascist” opposition. Through interviews with social movement activists, journalists, and academics, the film provides a counternarrative that helps explain the current rebellion against a corrupt, inefficient authoritarian government that has created a catastrophe in Venezuela that has brought it to the brink of civil war.

In the Shadow of the Palms (2005) is a documentary produced and directed by the Australian filmmaker Wayne Coles-Janess. He filmed it in Iraq prior to, during and after the fall of Saddam Hussein after the United States invasion of 2003. An Arab-language film, it documents the changes in Iraqi society and the lives of ordinary Iraqis by focusing on a cross-section of individuals.

In a dry, flat desert, five new humans grow from under the soil around a crow and a chair, which calls to them.

In the Shadow of the Condor documents an expedition in January of 2002 into the spectacular pristine Corcovado wilderness in Southern Chile.

A documentary looking at how tenants and residents in Bermondsey and Rotherhithe in the London Borough of Southwark are organising in the face of the enormous change happening in London.

After a long day at work, a young man's night goes wrong.

Documentary

Markelle Taylor started running as a way to turn his life around. Today he runs free in the oldest trail race in America, on a mountain which was once unreachable.

In this picture it is shown how a convict's life still remains under the ban of the law, even after the expiration of his term. With the detective continually on his track, he is able to save both a young woman's honor and her weak brother from the hands of a designing employer.

Documentary about a Pole expedition.

A film about a Dogon funeral and enthronement ritual. In Mali, 800 kilometers northeast of the capital of Bamako, the cliffs of Bandiagara stretch about 300 kilometers and reach a height of 300 meters. It is here among the Arou, one of the four tribes of the Dogon population, that Amma, Lord and creator of the world, chose the supreme religious chief who was responsible for fertility, rain and order on earth.

This film is a glimpse of the traditional life of the Afghan people, their culture and their music, just before the Russian intervention in 1979.

An old man lives in a cabin in the shadow of a big tree. He can't sleep at night due to the loud creaking sound of the branches. Memories of his past torment him and when a branch starts picking of the roof tiles of the cabin he decides to do something about his situation.

Jonas Mekas, sometimes called the godfather of the avant-garde cinema, actually dislikes documentary, because he feels the genre pretends to divulge everything about a subject. Still, the 85-year-old does not object to being filmed in the dusty Anthology Film Archives in New York, which he established in 1970. The packed storehouse is a fantastic treasure trove for lovers of the experimental film. The excitement of a young Italian, writing a paper on Harry Smith, when he comes face to face with a huge stack of film reels by his idol is contagious. Especially when he and a staff member start unpacking the psychedelic animation Mahagonny that was believed lost. We do not get to know everything about him and the experimental film genre, but this documentary, also related in form, is intriguing enough to make us want to.

Filmmaker Karen Cho travels from Montreal to Vancouver to uncover stories from the last survivors of the Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act, a set of laws imposed to single out the Chinese as unwanted immigrants to Canada from 1885 to 1947. Through a combination of history, poetry and raw emotion, this documentary sheds light on an era that shaped the identity of generations.

Resemblance to Chuck Norris changed the life of Jacek Pieniazek. As an impresario he employs in his agency other look-alikes such as Jerzy Maksymiuk, Lech Walesa, and Elvis Presley.

Made with a rudimentary pinhole technique, traces of a mountain landscape are captured in black and white.