Civil Servant P327JUM

Terror in Times Square: A Guide To Nightmare's Grindhouse Kingdom

January 2015 •English

2015 featurette documentary behind the experience of Nightmare and grindhouse cinema.

Omelia Contadina

September 2020 •Italian

A farming community gathers on a plateau on the border of three regions for the funeral of traditional agriculture. It’s a film to ward off the disappearance of a millenary culture.

The Magic Sun

January 1966 •English

Multi-faceted artist Phil Niblock captures a brief moment of an interstellar communication by the Arkestra in their prime. Black turns white in a so-called negative post-process, while Niblock's camera focuses on microscopic details of hands, bodies and instruments. A brilliant tribute to the Sun King by another brilliant supra-planetary sovereign. (Eye of Sound)

The Junk King

March 2012 •English

The Junk King (Vince Hannemann) gives valuable insight regarding his art and the Cathedral of Junk in Austin, TX.

Refuge

January 1972 •English

A documentary about the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order in London.

Extreme Consequences: The Reality of Prison Life

January 2007 •English

A compelling look at the choices that lead to incarceration and the reality of being locked up in Pelican Bay State Prison.

Mild Madness, Lasting Lunacy

March 2020 •French

This walk in the daily life of several psychiatric institutions, allows us to meet extraordinary people who let us enter their privacy.

Big Bill Blues

July 1957 •French

This is the only film about Big Bill Broonzy, you can see him playing the blues in a Brussels cellar.

Min hemliga bror

June 2019 •Swedish

It was a family secret, hidden for decades - until now. With the help of commercial DNA bases, SVT's US correspondent Carina Bergfeldt sets out in search of her secret half-brother, who according to a rumour exists. The hunt came to affect her whole life.

On a Wednesday Night in Tokyo

May 2004 •Japanese

A regular Wednesday night in Tokyo's subway. The train is filled with more and more people...

Children of Wind River

October 1989 •English

A film made by Victress Hitchcock and Ava Hamilton in 1989 on the Wind River Reservation for Wyoming Public Television.

In the Lost City

February 2009 •Spanish

The city of Madrid as it appears in the Spanish films of the 1950s. A small tribute to all those who filmed and portrayed Madrid despite the dictatorship, censorship and the critical situation of industry and society.

Roxette

June 1978 •English

Documentary profiling young Roxy Music fans. They talk about the band and the music, are seen out and about in Manchester, they prepare for a concert at the Opera House. Includes footage of a tribute band, who, due to a lack of musical instruments, use household appliances to make music.

Sketch Film #1

January 2005 •English

Sketch Film #1 (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2005, 3 min., super 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, USA) As a painter carries a sketchbook and practices drawing, I carried a Super 8 camera and shot frame by frame, as an everyday exercise to make animations of lines and shapes found in the public space. The entire film was edited in camera and hand-processed afterwards.

Sketch Film #3

January 2006 •English

Sketch Film #3 (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2006, 3 min., super 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, USA/Japan) The third film in the series, which starts with a sequence of paired images: a focused image and a blurred image of the same subject, which was caused by a diagonal camera movement. Later, it shows an experiment to produce an apparent depth by rotating an apparent shape. It was edited in camera and hand-processed afterwards.

Blow Job

July 1964 •English

Andy Warhol directs a single 35-minute shot of a man's face to capture his facial expressions as he receives the sexual act depicted in the title.

H.P. Lovecraft - Ipotesi di un viaggio in Italia

March 2004 •Italian

A documentary about the possible ties between H.P.LOVECRAFT and the Polesine region (Italy), stimulated by the casual discovery of a mysterious manuscript attributed to the great American horror writer died in 1937.

Manzanar

January 1972 •English

Short film about the Manzanar Japanese American internment camp. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

Fashion Film

October 2019 •Portuguese

Summer's Tale

January 1941 •Swedish

A lyrical short documentary about animal life in a Swedish forest.