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Documentary on the making of Guillermo del Toro's 'Pan's Labyrinth.'

The Pope is in town and the night of his stay is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin′s inhabitants. Rich and poor, down-and-outs and policemen, street kids and taxi drivers - in their search for a little bit of happiness, they all end up on an amusing and at times harrowing odyssey through the labyrinth of the big city.

Exploration of the way of life of the Q’eros Indians of Peru, who have lived in the Andes for more than 3,000 years.

One-time teen lovers reunite when the woman reveals the man to be the father of her daughter.

An experimental film by Phieu Trung Ham.

It is always hard like this, not having a world, to imagine one, to go to the far edge apart and imagine, to wall whether in or out, to build a kind of cage for the sake of feeling the bars around us, to give shape to a world. And oh, it is always a world and not the world. – William Bronk

During the 1995 Summer Institute at The Geometry Center, a team of undergraduates, middle and high school mathematics teachers and Center staff developed curriculum materials supporting The Shape of Space video. The team developed a comprehensive curriculum, covering many areas related to the video. The following materials were selected for distribution based on their direct relevence to understanding the video itself.

Join experts Lowell North, John Marshall and Dick Deaver as they guide you through this comprehensive look at various sail shapes and boat-handling techniques. Whether you're racing or cruising, this program will help you move faster through the water by teaching you all about mainsails, headsails and spinnakers. The advice and knowledge gained through this informative video will lead to greater speed and improved results on the sea.

A cyclorama installation where artist Carrie Mae Weems addresses conditions of race in the United States. 'The Shape of Things: A Film in Seven Parts' includes old and new footage projected on a 180 degree curve, reminiscent of 19th-century theatre and spectacle to comment on the “pageantry” and “circus-like” quality of contemporary American political life.

A singular cinematic figure, San Francisco’s Mike Henderson became one of the first independent African-American artists to make inroads into experimental filmmaking in the 1960s. Henderson’s work throughout the 1970s and 1980s, from which this program of 16mm films is culled, thrums with a sociopolitical, humorous sensibility that lends his small-scale, often musically kissed portraits (which he later dubbed “blues cinema”) a personal, artisanal quality. - Film Society of Lincoln Center. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.

A sensory and cinematic work from the Sonoran Desert in the southern US, where a man lives in a lonely pact with a brutal nature and in the shadow of the apocalypse.

When a couple meet illegally for a booty call during lockdown, they end up getting more than they bargained for.

Optically printed, hand processed and painted: the film process is manipulated to disrupt viewing expectations on a textual and aesthetic level. This repositions the subject and discourse of gender ambiguity available in the gaze. By shifting the discourse of the gaze, the film implicates viewers in the gazes operating between the filmmaker and her self-identified lesbian butch subjects. -Canyon Cinema

Documentary portrays what an eventual Palestinian-Israeli peace settlement could look like, filmmaker Lynn Allen Scheid addresses the resolution of contentious issues, from settlements to the right of return and everything in between. The core idea is to examine, in an even-handed way, the aspirations of both Israelis and Palestinians and to show that agreements are possible that do not threaten the national existence of either party.

A story of love in which people are drawn to each other, even though they know it will hurt them.

Half-hour special in support of Governor Jerry Brown's campaign during the 1979-80 Democratic Primaries

The Shape terrorizes Arcadia, CA on Halloween night.