Most people credit Norseman Lief Erikson or Genoese Christopher Columbus with first probing the shores of the ‘new world’. But it could be argued that an earlier explorer (by many centuries!) actually deserves the honor: PYTHEAS. In the 4th Century B.C. this intrepid sailor, navigator,…
Caveh Zahedi takes a road trip to Las Vegas with his father and half-brother to try to prove the existence of God.
Documentarian Caveh Zahedi films himself one minute a day, every day, for an entire year. The result is a candid, self-reflective journey into his mind and quirky personality. It's also an attempt by Zahedi to break through his own ego in order to chronicle the real person behind the public persona.…
This documentary explores the UFO contactee case of Eduard Billy Meier, who claims to have had extensive conversations with beings from the Pleiades in the 1970s. Meier documented these conversations in journals, captured hundreds of photographs and videos of UFOs, known as "Beamships," and…
This movie is a collection of still pictures of residents of Russian countryside. Not a single word. Only long look into the camera. Landscape. Flow of time.
É um road-movie em nossas mentes e nas estradas da Palestina, na companhia da psiquiatra, psicoterapeuta e escritora palestino Dr. Jabrsamah. @jabrsamah Seguindo os passos do psiquiatra anticolonialista Dr. Frantz Fanon, ela descreve as estratégias e as consequências psicológicas…
Ellen Altfest is known for her still life paintings in which she renders every detail of her subjects on a one-to-one scale. The World Must Be Measured by Eye follows the meticulous, repetitive and painstaking creative process of Altfest — the painter studies the subject, mixes paint, matches colors,…
“De Lola à Laila” prend pour tremplin le récit personnel de la mère de la réalisatrice, durant les années d’après guerre en Espagne, pour parler peu à peu d’émancipation, de lutte, de mouvement, de grains, de cinéma.…
Samuel Cohen has been called 'The Father of the Neutron Bomb'. In this film made by the Dutch television company he is asked about his reasons for developing what has been called the 'perfect capitalist bomb' and his moral justification of the proposed use of the bomb. He also describes…
Made 40 years ago the language and medical terms are somewhat out of date but the content is still valuable. Takes the format of a television news programme with reports linked by two studio presenters (Nick Ross and Sue Smith). The film includes: an original and entertaining explanation of cerebral…
This 1972 Danish film looks at the Danish pork industry and the welfare of the pigs behind the pork product. Denmark produces 10 million pigs a year, a large proportion of which are exported to Britain. This report on a well organised pig factor shows what a terrible price is paid by animals unfortunate…
Shows a group of mothers and babies aged 3 - 6 months who come together at their doctor's surgery to sing and play rhythm games. These simple activities bring a flow of contact between mother and baby which draws them close as they tune in to each other. The mutual responsiveness is central to a…
