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Will the apartment that brought two mothers together push two mothers apart?

Erosion is a symbol of change and regeneration in the land. The Homestead Act, based on the United States Federal law that gave an applicant freehold title to 160 acres of undeveloped land, is a short experimental film about erosion and the results of decay.

Statues of saints and bare flesh sit by side. Rudy, a young sculptor, and Tootsie, a stripper, live in seemingly opposite realms yet only divided by a thin wall no one ever dared to cross since for them, it is taboo. But everything changes after Rudy rescues Tootsie from a police raid at the bikini bar beside their shop. Rudy hides her inside their shop; fondly called by his father as heaven on earth, there they are forced to face their differences and test their principles. A tragic event will lead them to a journey that could change them forever.

The story takes place in the alternate world slightly different from ours. In United Republic of Great Japan; which has become the world’s strongest nation; it is reported that a new breed of athletes is setting a phenomenal new world record, winning every sports game. Prompted by the pressure from other nations, the organization that supervises the country’s sports events, decides to look into the matter; but the entire investigation team goes missing just when it started the mission. What the investigation team witnessed was “Athlete-roid. Koumoto executive director of Great Japan Heavy Industries is planning to dominate the world market for special military-use robots by promoting the army of invincible “Athlete-roid.”...

This is the story of the evolution of the starship "Enterprise".

2009 --- Digital Video --- 19 minutes --- Color --- Sound Sound Mix: George Lockwood

On the right stills and video of the 2009 Canadian Rockies International Rodeo in Strathmore, Alberta. On the left stills and titles/text of rodeo bronzes from the Glenbow’s collection. Wong’s work is an impressionistic portrait, which explores this alternative part of Alberta’s history. It is not meant to be a documentary/literal portrayal of the gay rodeo but rather it situates it in the context of the story of the west and the construction of identities. Wong’s work uses these frozen gestures to explore the complexities of gender and sexuality. In-relation-to the bronzes, the videos introduce movement to their very static image and highlighting our constantly evolving and shifting society.

A stop-motion celebration of Christmas (and exercise in ethics) by SpongeBob SquarePants, with appearances from all your favorite residents of Bikini Bottom.

Short film about zombies invading a shopping mall. How original.

Giorgia O’Brien (born Giorgio Montana) was one of the greatest divas on the Italian stage in the 1950s and ’60s. She had the clear voice of a soprano, but could also reach all the registers of a baritone, bewitching the public for thirty years. The story of an existence forged by diversity and challenge, but also shaped by love, friendship and research.

Jazz Icons: Art Blakey boasts an exceptional one-hour concert by Art Blakey from Paris in 1965. This performance showcases one of the few undocumented Blakey bands, the New Jazzmen, featuring the incomparable Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, as well as Jaki Byard on piano, Reggie Workman on bass, Nathan Davis on sax and, of course, Art Blakey on drums—truly a powerhouse quintet! Freddie Hubbard’s incendiary playing on “Blue Moon” and the blistering 24-minute version of his own “Crisis,” serves as a cogent reminder that he was one of the most innovative trumpeters in jazz history. Setlist: The Hub / Blue Moon / Crisis / NY Theme

Versions is an ongoing project by Oliver Laric that deals with historical and contemporary ideas relating to image hierarchies. It proposes that present methods of creative production challenge the hierarchy of an authentic or auratic ‘original’ image. Rather than privileging a primary object, Versions suggests a re-direction for image making, one in which bootlegs, copies and remixes increasingly usurp ‘originals’ in an age of digital production.

A woman faces an uncertain future. She recounts her life in shorts, summaries, broad strokes, and seemingly disconnected episodes. One by one, the scars and bitterness left by a life of obligations, sacrifice, and scarce joy emerge inexorably. Díario del fin is a visceral, moving record; filled with liberating and brutally honest confessions, in which every sentence is permeated with a profound introspection and a clarity of perception that seem to surface only in extreme situations—those with no point of return.

Dacil and Roberto are classmates in the faculty of Fine Arts. Their relationship starts to change when Simon, their video arts teacher, gives them as a final project a self-portrait, using video as the means of expression.

Sweet Karolynne tells the tale of the little one who lends her name to the title of the film, her relationship with the pet rooster Jarbas, the singer Elvis Presley and her family.

Short claymation from Marcelo Marão about a little boy with dreams

After a series of failures in relationship, a young woman decided to give up on men and forget about love... until a best friend suggests a new quest to find love, only this time it'd be with other women.

Charlie Marx and the Chocolate Factory started as an investigation of the link between politics and chocolate, at the Karl Marx Confectionary Factory in Kiev, Ukraine. Since access to the factory was denied, the project had to be re-considered, re-invented or re-enacted. Mostly made of archival footage and re-enacted performances based on the company's website, the film merges what was left of the initial idea with what has been collected and realized instead. It borrows from the genres of video art, 'Man on the street' interview, direct address, corporate film, essay, and music video, without legitimately belonging to any of them. The film unravels as a reflection on its own failure, and yet keeps on investigating what has always been at stake: the shift from public to private property (and from analog to digital technology), dialectics of permanence and change, language as a mirror of ideology, and post-Soviet oligarchy culture.

The Scorpion King: The King before Pharaohs. Learn more about the king who likely united ancient Egypt, organized the world’s earliest phonetic writing system, and inspired the creation of the pyramids. Mace heads, a stone mounted on a wooden shaft, were an early weapon of war. They were used like a club to strike enemies on the head. The scorpion mace head was too large to have been used as a weapon, and was clearly reserved for ceremonial purposes. Archaeologists believe they have found the tomb of the Scorpion King at the ancient burial site of Abydos. He was buried with 700 wine jars, several of which had come from as far away as ancient Palestine. The Scorpion King may have presided over the birth of phonetic writing earlier than any other civilization in the world—200 years before the first pharaohs.

Mad in France uses a new way to show what freeski is all about; madness through the mountains around the world. The best french freeskiers meet together around this new project to share their passion.

After 88 years, O.W. Houts — a family-owned general store in Central Pennsylvania — surrenders to market pressures and shutters its doors, leaving behind a devastated community. Follow the workers and patrons throughout this final day to witness what happens when an iconic American business leaves town.

Blue Wall Red Door analyzes the way people in Pristina orient themselves, and what is for them the main object or building which they use for their orientation. Since the last decade, street names were changed many times and today it seems like nobody is oriented by the street names.

Lewis Klahr has started a new series of short animation films under the title of 'Couplets'. The project is intended to eventually result in a feature-length animation film. The theme is love, and each part focuses on a pop song. Wednesday Morning Two A.M., the powerful opening of this huge project, tells the story of a lost love. The music is by The Shangri-Las.

Some memories from a painter.