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- Agnès Varda interviews two subjects from a photograph she took 30 years earlier.
- A documentary about Tommy Jarrell, a fiddler from North Carolina. This films shows a bit of his current life and those around him and includes a lot of his Appalachian Old-Time music.
- A Hawaiian teen has visions connected to an ancient bone fishhook that has been passed down through generations that transports him back to ancient Hawaii, were he meets his ancestors and learns the true meaning of the dances he has been taught through generations of ancestors to his modern self.
- For a few weeks each year, in the depths of winter, senior students at the National Ballet School of Canada are treated to a style of dance that is unlike any other - flamenco.
- The documentary is about the ceremony dedicated by American people to John Lennon after his murder. The 10 minutes of silence in New York's Central Park allows a deep observation of the particularly immobile people.
- This documentary is related to an art show directors Wollen and Mulvey organized for London's Whitechapel Gallery, attempting to pair the rather different work of two female creators, painter Frida Kahlo and photographer Tina Modotti.
- Five former U.S. Servicemen and a prison camp survivor give accounts of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps in 1945.
- A profile of the East Village personality John Sex.
- A comedic look at the history of the British coastline.
- See the full spectrum of the Showscan process. Magic sequences, special effects, miniature photography, high speed thrills and suspense.
- A short film which documents the lives of women in a rural Senegal.
- The story of a woman who is village activist in the Chipko Forest Conservation Movement in the foothills of the Himalayas. In this area, people depend entirely on the forest for their daily needs of firewood, fodder and water, which are threatened by powerful timber traders.
- Brad and Kath stop riding their bikes to eat, and Kath starts choking, turning dark blue. He saves her with a simple technique known as the Heimlich Maneuver. The inventor of the procedure goes through several dramatized examples, based on actual cases. Frank Ramirez is saved by his best friend at a barbecue. Jeff saves smurf-blue Mrs. Price using a variation for children with the victim lying down. Dr. Heimlich shows a child named Cindy demonstrating on a doll called Jennifer, and Wendy saves her sister's 2 year-old Jamie when he chokes on a small toy after trying to jump on a cat. He also shows a young woman who knows how to do the procedure for herself when alone.
- A poetic vision of the city Brasília.
- In July 1982, the Israeli army besieged Beirut. Four days earlier, Jocelyne Saab sees her house burn and 150 years of family existence go up in smoke.
- Short film on the dance phenomenon of "Electric Boogie", and about 4 boys, 2 black and 2 Puerto Rican, who dance it together in the streets of the South Bronx.
- A short educational documentary on early electronic composition and synthesizers.
- Farocki gives us a short behind the scenes look at Straub and Huillet as they work on a film , based on America by Kafka.
- Sean Connery's impressions of the city where he was born.
- A document of Minor Threat, a "hardcore" band from Washington D.C., in a performance at CBGB in New York, Dec 18, 1982. Distinguished from punk music in that it developed in suburban areas, hardcore, as typified here by Minor Threat, is seen by Graham as a tribal rite, a catalyst for the violence and frustration of its predominantly male, teenage audience. The raw quality of Graham's documentary style mirrors the crude energy of his young subjects and the hardcore subculture of the 1980s.
- This documentary recreates a genuine sense of the personal presense of the late modern architect, Paul Rudolph, and the ambience of his studio. Mr. Rudolph was widely recognized within the architectural profession as spontaneously brilliant, and the unchallanged master of space and the manipulation of form. The episode during the construction of the chapel at Emory University gives insight into the kinds of frustrations artists often suffer at the hands of short-sighted patrons. A fine film, based upon the reality it conveys, if for no other reason.
- TOOLS FOR RESEARCH erases our comfortable assumptions about the importance of animal research, and carefully documents answers to the questions we should ask about the use of animals in laboratories. How many animals are used each year? Are hey protected by law? Aren't animals used only in research to save human lives? Is it necessary to use animals? Who profits?
- Alternating sequences of live action and colorful clay animation explain the eye's structure and function. The importance of regular eye examinations is stressed.
- The film is a portrait of an adult kapellmeister-soloist of oboe and English horn. His daily life is spent in the funeral orchestra of the central Sofia cemeteries. Evenings at home, he shares with his wife and with carefully preserved memories.
- Profiles the career of Roy DeCarava, the first African-American photographer to receive a Guggenheim fellowship.
- A confrontation between Paris' cultural "monster" on the plateau Beaubourg and the enigmatic-smile lady down the street. Looks at the architecture of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and its unconventional approach to art display. Parisiens and tourists voice favorable and unfavorable opinions as they are shown viewing the museum's modern art collection.
- Despite his disability, Jerzy Orlowski leads a normal life as a sportsman, an artist and a family man. The lack of both arms has not stopped him from being physically strong.
- Filmed in 1983 of Iron Maiden prepping for the nights show in San Antonio, Texas and relaxing and being interviewed at The Alamo.
- Faith is examined in the lives of a family. Their fundamentalist beliefs shape their encounters with the emergencies and the ordinary problems of daily life.
- "Anthem" originates in a single piercing scream emitted by an eleven-year-old girl standing in the hall of Union Railroad Station in Los Angeles. The original scream of a few seconds is extended and shifted in time to produce a primitive "scale" of seven harmonic notes, which constitute the soundtrack of the piece. Related in form and function to the religious chant, "Anthem" describes a contemporary ritual evocation centered on the broad theme of materialism - the architecture of heavy industry, the mechanics of the body, the leisure culture of Southern California, the technology of surgery, and their relation to our deep primal fears, darkness, and the separation of body and spirit.
- Nederland (The Netherlands) is a short film depicting the landscape, mostly shot from the air, and the Dutch themselves. The aerial shots are cleverly combined with shots taken at the Madurodam miniature version of The Netherlands at The Hague. It was commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- Consists of multiple short vignettes: Witches Song (1979), Broken English (1979), Ballad Of Lucy Jordan (1979), Pirate Tape (Derek Jarman, 1983) and T.G.: Psychic Rally In Heaven (Derek Jarman, 1981).
- Cass recalls the old days of the pearling industry when there would be 40 or more boats operating from Broome, Australia. Now there are only 5 or 6.