Voodoun Blues
A black and white, 16mm film featuring a pernicious practitioner of black magic performing a malevolent voodoo ritual, in order to seek some morbid retribution from a reclusive ex-lover. The motive behind the exhibition
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A black and white, 16mm film featuring a pernicious practitioner of black magic performing a malevolent voodoo ritual, in order to seek some morbid retribution from a reclusive ex-lover. The motive behind the exhibition
Adventures of a Dutchman in the Mississippi Delta. Cheesehead Blues Re-Cut is a music documentary on the state of the blues set in Clarksdale, Mississippi, birthplace of the delta blues and second home of Theo Dasbach, f
Also called Pisces, this rarely-screened work is part of Belson’s Synchronicity Suite along with Apollo’s Lyre, Seapeace, and Eleusis/Crotons. It is listed by the Center for Visual Music as one of Belson’s unfinished and
A dead musician’s widow seeks revenge against the gun trafficker who betrayed them.
Life often presents a sad surprise. No, a person doesn’t die or get sick, it’s just that the world around him becomes boring and ordinary when, as they say, the soul has nothing to cling to. Moreover, a person is envelop
Different faces show us an Iran where tradition and modernity coexist and confront each other. Erfan Shafei invites us to discover a country through its music and its people. Erfan is a funny and ironic young Kurdish man
African student Omar would like to return home to Angola, but he is enrolled in a three-year postgraduate research fellowship at a clinic in Prague. One day while seeing off a friend at the airport, he and a girl named
In Cold War-era West Berlin, Lola (Julia Migenes-Johnson), an American blues singer with a nightclub band, falls for the piano player, David (Jose Coronado). Their romance is cut short when David must return to his nativ
A woman copes with loss and anxieties through the love of her best friends.
Prague 9 has taken a different approach. The district has offered homeless residents modest housing in construction units along with work opportunities within the community. Instead of treating homelessness as a social p
Caiti Lord had always dreamt of being a singer. A born-and-bred New Yorker, she studied at the best music schools and performed on Broadway. Her future was sparkling bright . . . But today, the only thing that glitters i
In 1966, CBC Television invited some of North America's greatest blues performers to gather in a studio in Toronto, recording together and individually in sessions that lasted three days. The result was originally televi
King Ferdinand of Sodonje (King Ferdinand Saronoff) is threatened with an attack. When a tourist who resembles him shows up at the palace, the king suggests that they switch clothes with each other. The fake king signs a
Spike, an aspiring rapper, gets sucked into a criminal environment and ends up in jail for smuggling drugs.
An aspiring musician is released from prison to find that a song he had written while locked up has been stolen and made into a hit record by a country music superstar. When his confrontation with the star takes a violen
Zine and Rayanne plan to flee to a dreamland, a fantasy haven on the north shore of the Mediterranean. The crossing is commonly made in fishing boats and other small craft; hundreds of harragas die each year. Zine embark
Mads and Kristian spend a summer weekend with their girlfriends at a summerhouse by the sea. When Mads and his girlfriend have a fight we find that Mads may love someone else more.
A Bonnie & Clyde criminal couple rob a movie theater on Christmas Eve, and have time to kill before their train, and escape plan, leaves the station; what's the worst that could happen? Enter the detective pair, Brooks a
John and Helen have moved into a house in Brixton, sourh London. John then gets to know a couple of his neighbours, his next door neighbour, who is black, and a white neighbour and his young leather-clad son.
Amaro tells the story of a teenage saxophonist who lives in the capital and earns a living as a goldsmith. One day he meets Catherine, a woman unhappily married to a diplomat who soon falls for the musician.