Penelope's Condition
A reinterpretation of the Greek legend of Penelope, ”the most faithful of wives”, who waited 20 years for her husband Odysseus to return from The Trojan War. In this animation, the two of them are presented in a more modern setting. While Odysseus is busy exploring the universe in his space rocket, Penelope is stuck at home, taking care of the children, showing how traditional gender roles say men should work, while women stay at home.
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Six widows demand compensation for the death of their husbands, who were killed during a worker's strike. The women are arrested and taken to the police quarters, where the authorities try to make them retract their statements, but it turns out they're not so easily intimidated.
A-Lad-In Bagdad
Hayseed Egghead arrives in the big city of Bagdad and quickly wins a magic lamp in a carnival coin-operated crane game. The shady character who was playing the game before him covets the lamp, and tries to steal it. Egghead sees a poster: The sultan is having a contest for his daughter's hand in marriage. With his lamp, Egghead thinks he's a sure bet; he conjures up a magic carpet, and he's off. After a couple bad vaudeville acts, it's Egghead's turn, but in the meantime, the bad guy swapped the lamp for a coffeepot. Egghead is thrown out, then sees the bad guy using the lamp; Egghead breaks in, steals the lamp and the girl, and flies off. But she uses the lamp herself to conjure up a real hunk to replace the nerdy Egghead.
Koi Jaane Na
A heartbroken writer struggling with writer`s block goes to a quiet hill station where he finds love again but uncovers a copycat serial killer who has mysteriously come alive and is killing everyone around him.
Maggie Black
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Cloud One
In a near future, a man wakes up in a hospital to find out he’s lost all his memories in a car accident. He is temporarily named Mickey and is placed in a state of the art rehabilitation center which uses the latest in virtual reality as part of Mickey’s therapy. However, the border between the virtual and the real starts to blur once Mickey falls in love with his virtual friend Natasha.
Our Need for Consolation
Swedish writer Stig Dagerman (1923-1954) was a literary sensation who after a few productive years, suddenly fell silent. Struggling with writer's block, Dagerman wrote the essay "Our Need for Consolation" about his inner demons and his quest for freedom. For the first time in English, featuring Stellan Skarsgard as an on-camera narrator, this film brings Dagerman's powerful words to life in the form of a visual poem.
Bury Me High
In a mountainous region in an Asian backwater banana republic, it is said that the descendents of all those buried in its earth will be blessed with fantastic fortune and good health. However, if a special ceremony is not performed on the grounds, then the luck will only last for 24 years. A trio of Chinese Americans decide to venture into these mountains hoping to change their luck; Anna Wong (Moon Lee) is an executive facing a corporate meltdown, Wisely (Chin Ka-Lok) is dying of brain cancer, and UCLA Prof. Chang (Tsui Siu-Ming) is an expert in feng shui. Tin can potentate General Nguen (Yuen Wah) also has designs on the grounds -- hoping to turn his third world, fourth rate country into a superpower. Along the way, the three heroes fall in with a group of local rebels, including the high-kicking Nguen Van Vong (Sibelle Hu).
Five Improvisations
The diagrammatic space first entered in Diagram Film becomes the stage for temporal, rhythmic, informational and spatial play with a single diagram (a 144-drawing cycle) that refers to the film and animation process, animation history, specific filmmakers and other encoded data. The arrangement of the drawings for each of the five sequences was improvised on the animation during the act of shooting, creating five variations and possible readings of the animated composition.
Bill
A widow employs the dark arts to see her husband once more.
Leslie Sansone: Walk Away The Pounds Express ~ 1 & 2 Miles
EASY WALK (1 mile): This easy-to-use, FUN routine will blast away the fat with an invigorating cardio routine, then we'll strengthen and tone those muscles, followed by de-stressing, stretching exercises that'll keep your body strong, lean, and flexible. Talk about complete: this is like a one-stop shop for your whole body! BRISK WALK (2 miles): Got a little energy going? This 2-mile walking workout builds strength endurance, and flexibility while boosting those energy levels and super-shaping your upper and lower body. It's 30 minutes of power-packed cardio, followed by a targeted body-toning routine, and a series of yoga-like stretching moves with The STRETCHIE that will leave you feeling both challenged and renewed. Your body will love you for it!
Brutality
Join your inhuman host, Festering Frank, as he digs out from his grave to bring you five brand new tales of gore-soaked glory. Featuring gooey graveyards, mutilated mothers, sicko Santas and copulating carve-ups. Finally an anthology that will suck the remaining goodness right out of your soul.
Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
A documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.
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Ultra low budget, shot-on-video Brazilian horror involves a devil worship cult sacrificing women to Satan.
Ghost Cell
Both a scientific and dreamlike documentary at once, Ghost Cell is a stereoscopic plunge into the guts of an organic Paris seen as a cell through a virtual microscope.
O Amanhã Será Melhor
The ups and downs in the lives of immigrants from post-war Europe, arriving in Brazil in search of a better future.
To Dance Like a Man
Identical triplets Angel, César and Marcos, age 11, are passionate about becoming ballet dancers. And they all want the same thing: to be picked for a role in an important ballet in Havana, Cuba. Who will be chosen?
The Private Life of Deer
Just a century ago, there were an estimated 1 million deer living on the North American continent; now their numbers exceed 30 million.