I-Omante -The Bear Ritual-
This film focuses on I-OMANTE ritual that is to liberate the souls of the Gods from the furs and meat and send them back to the Land of the Gods. The Ainu believed that bears were Gods. The Gods come to the Land of the A
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This film focuses on I-OMANTE ritual that is to liberate the souls of the Gods from the furs and meat and send them back to the Land of the Gods. The Ainu believed that bears were Gods. The Gods come to the Land of the A
Ritual for Third World Women Artists
A recorded play performed live and also screened at the 2024 New York City Fine Arts Film Festival. Creative energies will unite as a diverse group of performance artists comes together in a powerful collective act, expl
1. It Takes No Guts 2. The Alcoholik 3. F**k Your Enemy 4. Everyone Hates Everyone 5. 4 Songs 6. Drug Your Love 7. Haunted / Hated 8. Anti-faith 9. Ozena 10. Starvation Trip 11. Superjoint Ritual
documentary on the production of Hammer's The Stranglers of Bombay
Excerpts from edited home movies that are part of the collection of the Memory Archive of the Cineteca Nacional (National Film Library)
A woman applies make-up in an attempt to change her appearance to more closely resemble an ideal of feminine beauty. As the camera closes in, the ideological and commercial images that determine her goal are literally ji
Breakfast Ritual presents a speculative glimpse into a post-Anthropocene future in which human civilization as we know it no longer exists. Over breakfast, an AI in the form of a young girl performs a ritual in semblance
Vision Quest depicts Marcus Coates’ three-year collaboration with a neighbourhood in Elephant & Castle (South London) that is suffering from a violent gentrification scheme. In this period the artist engaged in a shamani
A complex video piece for 1/2" video thru 4 video decks: Record-Play-Record2-Play2. Performance at Gutman Library, Harvard; 16mm camera by Andrew Harmon. A 2nd camera recorded the 4 monitors. Quad decks were used to reco
Ordo Virtutum is an allegorical morality play, or sacred music drama, by Hildegard of Bingen, composed around 1151, during the construction and relocation of her Abbey at Rupertsberg. It is the earliest morality play by
Conjoined fables are told, one Japanese, the other African, a ghost story colliding with farcical folklore.
A ritual for creating new worlds and situations for fragmented bodies, signals pass through the joints of animated and genderless bodies and body parts entangling the body-signal-actions both materially and conceptually
Made in collaboration with performer Yolanda Vidato, Water Ritual #1 examines Black women’s ongoing struggle for spiritual and psychological space through improvisational, symbolic acts. Shot in 16mm black-and-white, the
In the 25th year of the TSYN Era, the earth is threatened by an invading liquid of a milky white colour. It flows, forming translucent puddles identical to water. These liquid mirrors are deadly. Looking at your reflecti
For four hundred years, the Honmoku Shrine in Yokohama’s Naka Ward has hosted the Oumanagashi Horse Running Festival to ward off evil. The day before the festival, ouma horse figures made from sedge grass and placed o
After going through a rough patch, Cirilo discovers that his night would be even longer after having to ask a psychic for help.
The documentary shows how a grand Subanen ritual 'Buklog' was held and the preparations that went with it in Kumalarang, Zamboanga del Sur, with interviews from Subanen community leaders and balyans or shamans.