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Picture postcards, travel brochures and holiday photos are all this merrily caustic collage needs to portray moods and desires between the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification. In spring 1990, the first Inter
No stunt is too daunting or dangerous for this tenacious troupe of Chinese acrobats who personify the agility and precision of an ancient tradition that's lasted 2,500 years -- and they aren't afraid to show off. Their d
An attempt to emulate in video the experience of watching Minnelli’s film on film.
Produced around 1991-1992 by the Peking Opera.
Shot in Brooklyn during the 2023 summer of collective grief and forest fire smoke, three artists sought shelter indoors to express feelings of doom, anarchy, and hedonism. This visceral film is a cathartic response to en
Ping opera film.
Having existed for over two thousand years, the Guqin is one of China's most original string instruments. In the year 2019, the 82-year-old Guqin master, Wong Duo, reluctantly performed in his hometown of Suzhou, where h
A certain Takabei house. In the dark, mansion, a perverse show unfolds between a beautiful woman with a birthmark (Shima Izumi) and a girl in a sailor uniform (Yamaji Miki). The gazes of men stare at them...
Getting dressed for a night out in Lagos is serious business. The Nigerian megatropolis is home to one of Africa’s most vibrant party scenes, one where the best dressed peacocks in town strut their stuff to the wildly po
This is the story of beginning of Tomioka Silk Mill in Meiji Era. Young Ladies who came from all over Japan struggle to obtain skills of yarn-making and they matured through various experiences at the Mill.
In July 2007, a three-member expedition set off in a Trabant along the Silk Road to the deserts of Central Asia. The odometer of the small yellow Trabant has clocked up 15,000 kilometers. Half of Europe and most of Centr
What China has baptized 'The New Silk Road' allows a pair of trainers to be transported by train from China to France in under two weeks. On the Horn of Africa, the Chinese state has recently set up a military port and c
Shot in Brooklyn in the summer of 2023, amid collective grief and the Canadian forest fires whose smoke blanketed New York, SILK ON SKIN WHILE THE WORLD BURNS was a way for three artists to seek shelter indoors and expre
2003 film
A travel documentary along part of the Chinese Silk Road.
Follow several talented members of the ensemble as they gather in locations across the world, exploring the ways art can both preserve traditions and shape cultural evolution.
The documentary, filmed during ethnographic field research, shows three portraits of ‘ordinary’ personalities — Mala, a young weaver sharing a one-bedroom house with nine siblings; Santa Cruz, once a fishtrader and now a
Part two of the Mysterious China series chronicles Marco Polo's adventures and discoveries along the Silk Road as he heads toward the Mongol Empire in China. This documentary reveals the pivotal trade route as experience
FFF - Ludwig van Beethoven instigated a musical revolution of such historical proportions that we still know his name today. And yet the man bearing that name was visited by misfortune of all kinds: lost love, loneliness
A documentary about the Australian fiction writer Gerald Murnane's love of writing and horse-racing. The film is an interwoven mosaic of still imagery, archival footage, dramatic recreations, and talking head, reflecting