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  • Kenneth Branagh – Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

    1991-2000ComedyDramaKenneth BranaghUSAWilliam Shakespeare

    Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.Read More »

  • Whitney Horn & Lev Kalman – L for Leisure (2014)

    Whitney Horn2011-2020ComedyLev KalmanUSA

    L for Leisure is a comedy following a group of graduate students across 10 vacations in 1992 – 3 all around the world as they embark on a series of minor adventures: athletic, chemical, cultural and sexual. With a low-fi 16mm style that recalls 90s television, home videos and underground comic books, L FOR LEISURE is a unique piece of deeply independent filmmaking, reveling in excesses of both lush beauty and awkward humor.Read More »

  • Lewis D. Collins – Hot Rod (1950)

    1941-1950ActionDramaLewis D. CollinsUSA

    Plot: David Langham, the youngest son of a hot-rod hating father, Judge Langham, buys an old jalopy but, out of respect for his father, doesn’t convert it. He changes his mind when Jack Blodgett, the local speed demon, impresses David’s girl, Janie Pitts, and David makes his car the fastest in town. Jack steals David’s hot rod, and flees the scene of an accident he causes. The car is traced back to David, but the truth comes out in court, although David’s father is still unhappy about the car… until David and his friend, Swifty Johnson, use it to apprehend some escaping robbers. The Judge decides to back a movement for building a hot-rod race track for the town. Written by Les AdamsRead More »

  • Julie Dash – Four Women (1975)

    1971-1980Julie DashPerformanceShort FilmUSA

    With Four Women, renowned filmmaker Julie Dash collaborated with dancer Linda Martina Young to interpret Nina Simone’s song “Four Women.” Made during her studies at UCLA’s film school, Dash used “kinetic camerawork and editing, richly colored lighting, and meticulous costume, makeup and hair design . . . together with Young’s sensitive performance to turn longstanding Black female stereotypes to oblique, critical angles”—Jacqueline Stewart.Read More »

  • Fred H. Berger – Blood Countess [Propaganda Videozine: Volume 2] (1992)

    1991-2000ArthouseEroticaFred H. BergerUSA

    This video contains the short film Blood Countess with soundtrack by Foetus Inc., followed by music videos by gothic groups Requiem in White and The Shroud.Read More »

  • Joris Ivens – The Spanish Earth (1937)

    1931-1940DocumentaryJoris IvensUSAWar

    Plot/Description: from IMDB
    This documentary tells of the struggles during the Spanish Civil War. It deals with the war at different levels: from the political level, at the ground military level focusing on battles in Madrid and the road from Madrid to Valencia, and at the support level. With the latter, a key project was building an irrigation system for an agricultural field near Fuentedueña so that food could be grown to feed the soldiers.Read More »

  • Robert Greene – Bisbee ’17 (2018)

    Robert Greene2011-2020DocumentaryDramaUSA

    Synopsis:
    An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past.Read More »

  • Theo Anthony – All Light, Everywhere (2021)

    2021-2030DocumentaryTheo AnthonyUSA

    The film explores the past, present, and future relationships between technology, vision, and power. From arcane theories of sight to the emergence of virtual reality and police body camera programs, the film takes a kaleidoscopic investigation into how the reality of what we see is constructed through the tools that we use to see.Read More »

  • Cindy Sherman – Office Killer (1997)

    1991-2000Cindy ShermanComedyCrimeUSA

    Synopsis
    When Dorine Douglas’ job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn’t know how to cope. But after accidentally killing one of her co-workers, she discovers that murder can quench the loneliness of her home life, as a macabre office place forms in her basement, populated by dead co-workers.Read More »

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