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The first in a series of 9 Films investigating subjective languages, languages of subjectivity, and interpretive modes thru coded polyphonic articulate signals. A cinema for illumination and reflection. Exploring travel from east to west and from west to east. Reflecting on the setting Sun of the Winter Solstice, the crux of increasing light… seen thru apertures…setting over the Pacific. Yes it is here…it is here, where we are…

These Words Here Are Meaningless...

A filmmaker takes revenge on a festival that has rejected her year after year. But her revenge will not be bitter, cruel or violent. Instead she will use emotional manipulation to prove a point.

Recorded on 08/11/19 at Catton Hall and Gardens, Walton-on-Trent, England Once Upon Atrocity Thirteen Autumns and a Widow Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids Malice Through the Looking Glass Heartbreak and Seance Summer Dying Fast Nymphetamine (Fix) Saffron's Curse Her Ghost in the Fog Blooding the Hounds of Hell

A Film about Anna Akhmatova is not a biopic. Rather, it is a live process of recreating a story akin to ancient tragedy. Before the viewer's eyes it emerges from archival and modern footage, unique sound recordings of Akhmatova's voice, her poems and photographs, and the many paintings and portraits of her, with the commentary of the poet Anatoly Naiman, who knew Akhmatova in her last years.

Motorway, roads, villages of Northern France, Flanders. A man with a Super 8 camera films his route, the villagers and himself. Portraits, self-portrait. As the images unfold a young villager, Josse, is intrigued by the camera’s presence. For the cameraman the lens is an eye with which one films reality, for the villager the camera represents CINEMA, the magic of fiction. Josse accosts the cameraman and leads him across the fields where his girlfriend joins them. The outing becomes their production, with themselves in front of the camera. Games. Gradually diverted by Josse’s enthousiasme the film slides into moments of fiction, until its inevitable breakdown.

A re-construction of the lost Charlie Chan's Courage.

An examination of the historical and global politics surrounding Black hair.

Fils unique details the emotive relationship between a father and his son who can only communicate their mutual feelings via unspoken words or provocation. It's the confrontation of an adolescent looking for his limits and a father who, through love or cowardice, refuses to set him any. No one is taken in by their silent game in this place "at the end of the world" where apparently nothing could possibly happen to them.

Originally shot on 16mm film and presented at Maki Gallery, this work primarily focuses on traffic traveling up and down the major traffic artery Omotesandō in Tokyo. Prefaced by the Wittgenstein quotation included below, the image focuses on the vanishing point—aligning it with the top of the frame in wide shots—and movements of vehicles up and down the boulevard. While the film's first half presents a stationary shot, the second half follows individual cars and motorbikes, zooming in to frame them at a consistent size even as they advance toward and recede from the camera.

Plehouse Films Save DVD – With the threat of global warming not only effecting the entirety of the planet, but locally the snow in which we play, Plehouse has brought us a film in which some of the biggest names in the business come together with a message to join the fight against global warming and protect the sport we love so much. By sensitizing the viewers, Plehouse believes that Save will make a big difference in helping with the global warming threat. Save will inspire you to go out and sign up to be an active member with your fellow snow-lovers and start paving the way to change. It doesn’t hurt that Save also features some of the sickest riding you’ve ever seen. Pick up Plehouse Films Save DVD and get ready to make a difference.

VICE meets up with Joe Nickell, a longtime paranormal investigator who’s been called the real-life Scully. We travel with him to Roswell, NM on the anniversary of the 1947 UFO Crash to talk to believers, skeptics and UFO witnesses alike to see if the truth is really out there.

A compilation of black and white excerpts from five previous color films by Jean Rouch: Yenendi, the Rainmakers, Cemeteries in the Cliff, The Millet People, The Circumcision, Battle on the Great River.

In CINEVANGELIST: A LIFE IN REVIVAL FILM, film historian and artist George Figgs tells the story of his life's work in bringing revival cinema to Baltimore and beyond. From his role in Baltimore's underground film scene of the 1960s and his involvement with the Orson Welles Cinema in Cambridge during the early '70s, to helping manage Baltimore's celebrated Charles Theatre in the '80s, owning and operating the Orpheum Cinema during the '90s, and continuing with the "third wave" of revival cinema today, Figgs has made it his mission to bring alternative films to the audiences who want to see them, in the way they were meant to be seen.

Eight groups of children from around the world, assisted by adult instructors, animate their interpretation of the question: What does love mean to you?

Bio-drama capturing the spirit of the New York Dada artist Barones Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927) in grand experimental fragments. She once appeared to apply for a visa in the French embassy in Germany dressed as a birthday cake, complete with more than 50 lit candles.

This is a story of America’s land. The public land we all own and where we resolve our conflicting interests. Since 1905, the United States Forest Service has been at the forefront of this ongoing experiment of democracy on the ground. An experiment which asks: What is the greatest good?