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virocrypsis
virocrypsis
Cynthia and Celinde are two and one. They share the same space, inhabit the same bodily form, in a perennial embrace, yet have separate personas. Located in the surfaces and membranes of the visual, virocrypsis displays their desires, identities and gestures.
virocrypsis 2015
Invasion Of Poland By The German Army
Invasion Of Poland By The German Army
Footage shot by German troops and confiscated by Allied forces of an attack in Warsaw.
Invasion Of Poland By The German Army 1943
Sooyii
Sooyii
A Young Pikuni Man, the lone survivor of a deadly curse that decimates his village, joins forces with an unlikely ally to finally face the unknown.
Sooyii 2021
The Red Valentine
The Red Valentine
When a pair of young lovers are discovered dead, a tangled web of deception unravels revealing that behind the passionate tragedy lies a dangerous truth.
The Red Valentine 2013
We Like It Like That
We Like It Like That
Latin boogaloo is New York City. It is a product of the melting pot, a colorful expression of 1960s Latino soul, straight from the streets of El Barrio, the South Bronx and Brooklyn. Starring Latin boogaloo legends like Joe Bataan, Johnny Colon and Pete Rodriguez, We Like It Like That explores this lesser-known, but pivotal moment in Latin music history, through original interviews, music recordings, live performances, dancing and rare archival footage and images. From its origins to its recent resurgence in popularity, We Like It Like That tells the story of a sound that redefined a generation and was too funky to keep down.
We Like It Like That 2015
Le trésor de guerre de Napoléon
Le trésor de guerre de Napoléon
Le trésor de guerre de Napoléon 2021
Raiders of the Lost Art Special: Art of the Silk Road & Tang Dynasty
Raiders of the Lost Art Special: Art of the Silk Road & Tang Dynasty
In the 1960s, archaeologists working in China made an extraordinary discovery. They unsealed the twelve-hundred-year-old tomb of a princess. Its walls were covered in magnificent murals - an unprecedented glimpse into life during the Tang dynasty. This documentary tells the fascinating story of the great Empire that made those murals, of the Silk Road that connected it to the world, and of the rebellions and disaster Cast Charles Darwent Charles Hill Martin Bailey Calandra Caldecott Tabitha Becker-Kahn Mark Steere Jonathan Kydd Nicholas Audsley Joseph Lindoe
Raiders of the Lost Art Special: Art of the Silk Road & Tang Dynasty 2016
Backstory
Backstory
'Backstory' investigates the highly skilled art of 'Rear Projection', a widely used tool in film making in the mid 20th century employed in films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo or Marnie. In 'Backstory' Lewis invites the Hansard family, which has been instrumental in the provision and development of Rear Projection for hundreds of Hollywood productions over several decades, to tell their own story of the heyday of the techniques and their decline and disappearance as the they are replaced by new technologies and new tastes in visibility.
Backstory 2009
To Believe
To Believe
The film describes the story that takes place among the prisoners in the camp, who are secretly praying and being bullied by the guards. At the same time, the screen shows the lives of believers who, while remaining in the Vinnytsia region, continue their quiet struggle for the faith. The film is based on real events.
To Believe 2021
Tajouj
Tajouj
The film is set a hundred years back in the eastern part of Sudan in a place of total isolation. Tajouj is the beautiful cousin of a young tribal man who is deeply in love with her. He publicly declares his love for her in a song. The traditions of the tribe denounce such an act and as a consequence his uncle refuses his proposal of marriage. But after the young man departs and declares his repentance, the marriage is finally allowed. In the meantime, however, another man has staked his interest in Tajouj, which drives the young man to jealousy. This sets the stage for a series of transgressions which will result in tragedy and send the young man into exile as a wandering bard of the deserts.
Tajouj 1977
Encylopedia of the 20th Century, Days that shook the world
Encylopedia of the 20th Century, Days that shook the world
Encyclopedia of the 20th Century documents the Political turmoil, horrors of war, medical breakthroughs, scientific advancements and social upheaval that made this century one of the most critical and turbulent periods in human history.
Encylopedia of the 20th Century, Days that shook the world 1
The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
Watch the Blackhorse squadron move their massive vehicles from the road into the trees. Part of "The Big Picture" series.
The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment 1969
Prince and the Revolution: The Makings Of Rain
Prince and the Revolution: The Makings Of Rain
On the 3rd of August 1983, Prince played a benefit concert for the Minnesota Dance Theatre Company at First Avenue, Minneapolis. The concert was instigated by Loyce Houlton, artistic director of the long-time modern dance troupe. She had met Prince during the band's dance classes and asked him to play a benefit show. Prince's concert raise $23,000 for the financially beleaguered MDT dance company. The concert is generally regarded as one of the most excited shows he has ever played. The basic tracks of three songs from the concert were used on Purple Rain.
Prince and the Revolution: The Makings Of Rain 1983
The Cockpit
The Cockpit
A World War II anthology film based on Leiji Matsumoto's Battlefield manga. Kawajiri's Slipstream follows a Luftwaffe pilot on his mission to protect Germany's trump card: the world's first atomic bomb. Imanishi's Sonic Boom Squadron explores the last hours of an Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka pilot on August 6, 1945. Takahashi's Knight of the Iron Dragon tells the story of two Japanese soldiers in Leyte as they attempt to keep a promise.
The Cockpit 1993
The First Motion of the Immovable
The First Motion of the Immovable
It all begins with a childhood memory: that day when the father of the future filmmaker Sebastiano d'Ayala Valva forces him to listen to certain music that initially terrifies him; a distant echo from the past that leads him to follow the trail of his mysterious ancestor, the Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), who claimed that his music was directly inspired by the gods.
The First Motion of the Immovable 2019
Pictures from a Revolution
Pictures from a Revolution
In 1981, Susan Meiselas published "Nicaragua, June 1978 to July 1979," 70 photographs she took documenting the Sandanista revolution. Ten years later, Meiselas returns looking for the people who appear in the photographs: where are they now, what do they remember, what do they think of their country and of the revolution? She finds a woman who buried her husband when she was 14; she talks to those who fought the Guarda Nacional - some are disillusioned, some still have the fervor of revolution; she talks to mothers about their sons; she finds a Guarda member who became a Contra. And she offers her own reflections on time and history and on the moment and meaning of a photograph.
Pictures from a Revolution 1991
Las Marthas
Las Marthas
Marthas is a PBS documentary about an extraordinary rite of passage in Laredo, Texas where teenage Mexican-American girls debut in a grand Colonial Ball dressed as American revolutionaries - a tradition that goes back 114 years.
Las Marthas 2014
Musical Insects
Musical Insects
Film time takes on book time. An homage to a Bette J. Davis' illustrated text, itself an homage to the small music makers of the insect world.
Musical Insects 2013
The Technique and the Rite
The Technique and the Rite
The narrative concerns the barbaric exploits of Attila The Hun and yet none of the characters ever leave the remote seaside stretch of land on which the film is set or do much of anything – with the ensuing moralizing interrupted only by the occasional (and equally obscure) music-infused rites.
The Technique and the Rite 1972
Legendary Champions
Legendary Champions
Documentary focusing on heavyweight boxing champions from 1882 to 1929.
Legendary Champions 1968
21 Brothers
21 Brothers
21 Brothers tells the story of the Canadian 21st Battalion as they prepare for the battle of Courcellette in WWI. Taking place in real time, the film follows Sgt. Reid as he must get his men ready for the impending battle. Not only must he prep his battalion Sgt. Reid must also deal with the day to day difficulties of Life in the trenches, including injuries to his men, supply issues, and an underage recruit who has recently been sent into the front lines.
21 Brothers 2011
Tamizhariyum Perumal
Tamizhariyum Perumal
Tamizhariyum Perumal 1942
The Mozart Story
The Mozart Story
The Mozart Story 1948
Block Party
Block Party
The image shows two faces of the story of hip-hop music, which submerged in the seventies in the New York outskirts of The Bronx. Two vinyl records are turning on a turntable. On the one hand the soundtrack is heard of three decades ago, on the other the voices of musicians today. The turntable is mounted at the foot of a block in the Bronx. It is the end of a Block Party, a ghetto party centring on hip-hop. In the same image those artists are brought together who stood at the cradle of this musical genre.
Block Party 2002
Auschwitz, the First Testimonies
Auschwitz, the First Testimonies
Auschwitz, the First Testimonies 2010
Behind the Blue Veil
Prime Video
Behind the Blue Veil
Beyond the mystical city of Timbuktu, Mamatal, the son of a Tuareg chief sets out on a journey across the Sahara to save his culture known as the blue people of the Sahara before they disappear. But when the North African government of Mali collapses, he finds himself and his people caught up in an international crisis,a battle between the Tuareg fighting for independence and Al Qaeda bent on taking over the Sahara to plot future terrorist attacks against the United States and Europe. documentary looks behind the international headlines of the crisis in the Sahara and exposes the government corruption and neglect of an indigenous people who might be the only hope for defeating Islamic radicals in the region.
Behind the Blue Veil 2013
Most 72
Most 72
Most 72 is the very first film essay directed and produced by The Markerists and the inaugural installment in the series 'Most'. The footage and the audio were recorded in a single day on June 17th, 2013 on location in Auschwitz-Birkenau with post-production being completed within 72 hours. Surbhi Goel, a professor of cultural studies from India on her first trip outside of her homeland, recorded extemporaneous impressions as she walked the grounds of the death camp with the filmmakers. These were later used as the voice-over narration. The project serves as the template in which future Markerists film essays will be produced--shot and recorded on location and completed immediately afterwards, staying relevant in this age of instant global communication.
Most 72 2013
Saul's 108th Story
Saul's 108th Story
As a teenager in 1950 Brooklyn, all Saul wanted to do was hang out with his friends and go to the beach. Instead, he got roped into a dangerous new job, and Saul got in a little over his head.
Saul's 108th Story 2018
Le 10 mai 1981, le jour du grand soir
Le 10 mai 1981, le jour du grand soir
Le 10 mai 1981, le jour du grand soir 2021
Charlotte Corday
Charlotte Corday
An early account of Marat's murder, and the subsequent arrest, trial, and execution of Charlotte Corday.
Charlotte Corday 1908
Double Happiness
Double Happiness
Double Happiness takes the Chinese copy of Hallstatt, a small idyllic town in Austria, as a starting point to explore China's fast urbanization. Chinese cities are built where histories and memories can be easily forgotten and thus rewritten. The film intersects the real and the fake through visual imaginary and commentary, interviews and songs.
Double Happiness 2014
Women Of Malolos
Women Of Malolos
A musical docudrama about the brave and outstanding Women of Malolos to whom Jose Rizal addressed his famous letter in Feb 22, 1898.
Women Of Malolos 2014
The Manzanar Fishing Club
The Manzanar Fishing Club
The Manzanar Fishing Club 2012
Royal Babylon: The Criminal Record of the British Monarchy
Royal Babylon: The Criminal Record of the British Monarchy
A video polemic, based on Heathcote Williams' investigative poem 'Royal Babylon: The Criminal Record of the British Monarchy' - every film a crime. The collective at Handsome Dog have used the best of new media to present a video polemic based on Heathcote William's investigative poem "Royal Babylon: The Criminal Record of the British Monarchy". Sixteen short films have been made the chronicle the crimes of the Royal Family and their ancestors: RB intro, Killing an Ibis, Mad Monarchs, Michael X, Harry Trouble, I Danced with a Man, Foot in Mouth, Folk on the Hill, Knight Hoods, Milton Gas, Swift Justice, Raj Doubt, Gaunt etc., Koh i Noor, Paine and Thoth, Blake Acres Zappa, Glitter Freeze. Written by Margaret Cox
Royal Babylon: The Criminal Record of the British Monarchy 2012
Destiny Fulfilled | The Gerwyn Price Story
Destiny Fulfilled | The Gerwyn Price Story
From giving up his rugby dream to fulfilling his darting destiny, this is the story of an unprecedented rise to the top...
Destiny Fulfilled | The Gerwyn Price Story 2021
A la recherche du trésor des Romanov
A la recherche du trésor des Romanov
A la recherche du trésor des Romanov 2021
SHADOW (VR)
SHADOW (VR)
SHADOW is a realistic virtual reality experience based on the British air raid against the Shell House on March 21 1945, during which a calamity led to the accidental bombing of Institut Jeanne d’Arc. The raid caused the death of more than 120 individuals, 86 of whom were children. Created as an original companion to the feature film THE SHADOW IN MY EYE by Ole Bornedal, depicting the life at Institut Jeanne d'Arc before, during and after the bombing, SHADOW simulates the tragic event, seen through the eyes of a young RAF-navigator.
SHADOW (VR) 2021
Battle for Korea
Battle for Korea
A detailed military history of the Korean War and preceding events, from 1945 to 1953.
Battle for Korea 2001
Secret Access: The Vatican
Secret Access: The Vatican
The film takes you on a journey inside the Vatican like you've never seen it before. From the ancient "City of the Dead" beneath St. Peter's basilica to the vaults of the Secret Archives, to the Pope's private offices and TV room. The show also explores the long and tumultuous relationship between the Vatican and the U.S., uncovering documents that date back to the Civil War and exploring Reagan's relationship with John Paul II in their quest to combat the Soviets during the Cold War.
Secret Access: The Vatican 2011
Baler
Baler
In 1898, a band of Spanish soldiers heroically defended Baler against Filipino forces for 337 long and grueling days. The battle, now referred to as the Siege of Baler, is the setting of a forbidden love between a Mestizo soldier and a Filipina lass who lived at the end of the 19th century.
Baler 2008