Local Color (1977)

The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, King Boy D and Rockman Rock, try to find and gain access to the mystical White Room. They leave a party at their house and drive in their 1968 US Cop Car through night-time London and the dusty plains of the Sierra Nevada region of Spain. There they face judgement: will they be allowed to enter the White Room? Meanwhile their lawyer David Franks tries to find a loophole to free them from their contract with Eternity.

A country girl and her boyfriend arrive in Shanghai for a better life. They soon find only desperation. She is raped and falls into prostitution as he drifts into revolutionary circles. Her access through her trade grants her greater access which she uses to aid her revolutionary lover with tragic results.

KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS follows uber myco visionaries Gary Lincoff and Larry Evans (two of the more expert and unforgettably mercurial characters in the community) as they lead us on a hunt for the wild mushroom and the deeper cultural experiences attached to the mysterious fungi.

An experimental film matching shifting colors with audio taken from an NPR radio interview with a mother who lost her son in the Iraq War.

William S. Hart stars in this 1925 silent film as a cowboy intent on claiming land during the 1889 land rush in the Oklahoma Territory. Though hardened from years of taming the new frontier, he falls in love with a beautiful woman. Before he settles down, however, he must contend with men who wish to bring him harm. In the prologue of the 1939 Astor Pictures revival of this film, Hart gives a moving eight-minute introduction-- the first and only time he appeared in a film accompanied by his striking voice.

Short experimental film by Stephen Dwoskin.

Naomi Kawase collaborates with Shinya Arimoto, a Taiyo award-winning photographer she knows from university, to create a photo album of Machiko Ono (who Kawase scouted for her previous feature film Moe no Suzaku) and Mika Mifune (daughter of famous actor Toshiro Mifune) with the idea to contrast these two aspiring actresses, Ono coming from the rural Nara and Mifune from Tokyo. Kawase documents the photo shooting and interviews Arimoto, Ono and Mifune as the work progresses, while the tension between her and Arimoto increases over disagreement on the direction of the project.

준은 22세로 부모로부터 물려받은 바를 경영한지 3개월이 되었다. 가게를 도와 주고 있는 것은 어렸을 적부터 친구인 케이코이다. 하지만 어머니는 그에게 "케이코와 함께 하는 것은 너에게 좋지 않은 일"이라고 말한다. 아버지는 준에게 케이코가 강간 당해 귀가 먹었다고 이야기하자 준은 아버지를 죽인다. 돌아온 어머니는 자수하겠다는 준을 말리는데...

건설현장에서 덤프트럭을 운전하는 고조는 태연하게 강간을 저지르는데, 심지어 동료와 함께 사장의 딸을 윤간하기도 한다. 어느 날, 고조는 머리카락을 빨갛게 물들인 여자를 트럭에 태우는데, 이 여자는 고조에게 들러붙어 끊임없이 섹스 하기를 요구한다. 시간이 흐르자, 고조는 끝나지 않는 섹스에 지치고, 여자의 존재 자체가 그에게 고통이 되기에 이른다. 구마시로의 최고작으로 꼽히는 작품. 운명적으로 만난 두 남녀에게 섹스는 사랑의 몸짓이 아니라 자기파괴의 도구가 되어버린다. 여러 면에서 오시마 나기사의 <감각의 제국>(1976)을 떠올리게 하지만, 더욱 비관적이다. (2014년 영화의 전당 - 세계영화사의 위대한 유산 - 월드시네마 XI)

Young Chinese-American filmmaker Wei-ming travels from New York to his childhood home on Lamma Island to make a video documentary about the imminent opening of a Disneyland theme park in Hong Kong. While doing research for the project, he meets Larry, a dancer/choreographer.

중국의 한 산골 마을, 세 자매의 일상이 시작한다. 낡은 집에서 부모 없이 살아가는 어린 소녀들은 가까운 친척 집에서 끼니를 때우며 노동으로 날을 보낸다. 기다리던 아버지가 돌아오지만 형편이 더 나아지지는 않는다. 소녀들의 지루하고 힘겨운 일상은 마치 한편의 극영화처럼 전개된다. 나이 어린 소녀들이 등장하지만 귀엽고 순박한 모습을 기대할 수 없다. 소녀들의 일상은 끼니를 해결하고, 다른 곳으로 보내지지 않기 위한 노동으로 채워진다. 소녀들을 돌보는 친척들이 털어놓는 가난한 생활의 고단함과 가난으로 인해 해체되어가는 가족의 모습이 가슴을 서늘하게 한다.

Iskyss is a strong and poetic love story based on Gunvor Galtung Haavik’s double life through 30 years. During the Cold War, she was employed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and assigned to the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow. With the information she had access to in the capacity of her position as interpreter and secretary, she frequently fed the KGB secret information.

A widowed English heroine (Malù) recalls her life, from marriage to an affair with the gamekeeper.

I love Vienna is a social comedy that explores the clash of cultures and values.

This half-hour documentary focuses on Medvedkin and his CineTrain of the 1930s, a sort of mobile film workshop, complete with post-production facilities, animation stations and a large laboratory. Traveling thousands of miles across the Russian countryside, the train stopped to have its filmmakers document Ukranian harvest practices, steel production facilities in southern Russia and other industrial / agricultural matters; With each crew member living in 1 square meter living quarters, all individuals on the train were responsible for various odd-jobs and other practical matters in addition to their own film-making concerns.

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.

A humorous and satirical comedy, which places a man from the year 2222 one day in the (then) present day life in GDR, East Germany under Communist regime. Using a crystal for mind reading he uncovers some improprieties and moral weaknesses in the "Beautiful future" professed by VEB ("Volkseigener Betrieb" – "State Owned Holdings").

뉴욕 거리를 종횡무진으로 질주하면서 오스틴이라는 노숙자의 이야기를 들려준다. 우스꽝스러운 강박증을 가진 흉악범이기도 한 오스틴은 록 음악 평론가이자 철학과 학생인 윌리암스를 만나 의기투합한다.

A look at the Baath party's project to construct a system of dams.

In the film that marks the emergence of auteur cinema in Syria, a young widow and her children are forced to move to Damascus, where the boys come of age against the backdrop of the military coups that punctuated the 1950s.