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2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Emmy Verhey, top violinist, decides to quit after 54 active years of performing, starting at 14 years old. Documentary follows her through her last concert to her training another young gifted woman, only 15 years old.

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A cameraless film made with my dental impressions.

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Poster for The Shadow of Utopia

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In my memory, Brazil is a film with few images and long stretches of darkness. While the screen remains black, my fears and longings are projected onto it, combining the images and attempting to give them meaning. Brazil has wormed its way into my imagination in a form the country has never assumed in real life.

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Poster for Jesus Por Um Dia

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This documentary follows a group of prison inmates as they prepare to perform the annual Easter ritual, the Via Crucis, with a community of villagers in the northeast region of Portugal. We witness, from the first rehearsal to the day of the procession, the solemn and surreal moments that lead convicts and members of a rural community to take real and symbolic communion together.

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Poster for Joana Vasconcelos: Coração Independente

2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Documentary on the work of Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos.

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Poster for Tell Us the Truth Josephine: A Bitter Immigrant Story

2006 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Tell Us the Truth Josephine is an experimental Drama about a Maltese woman's search for 'Home'. Josephine walks across Canada on stilts. And for Josephine to find home she must accept the 'Truth'. And once she does she can come off her stilts and land. Her journey is haunted by fragmented voices and images of her bloodline - bitter immigrant stories.

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Poster for Silence... Broken

1993 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Silence...Broken is an experimental narrative short about an African American lesbian's refusal to be silent about racism, sexism and homophobia. Featuring the poetry of acclaimed poet Jourdan Keith, this video is dedicated to the memory of self-defined Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Mother Poet Audre Lorde who died in 1992 after a fourteen-year battle with breast cancer. This experimental short was created out of the filmmaker's personal need to see on screen the internal and external struggle Black lesbians go through when they constantly fight against choosing between their race, their gender and their sexuality in a racist, sexist and homophobic society. Silence...Broken is strongly influenced by award-winning filmmaker Marlon Riggs' masterpiece Tongues Untied about Black gay men.

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Poster for Creating a Different Image: Portrait of Alile Sharon Larkin

1989 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A jubilant affirmation of self-identity, Creating a Different Image is Alile Sharon Larkin in her own words defiantly declaring, "I am an artist." Learn more about the personal life and professional aspirations of the filmmaker behind Your Children Come Back to You (1979), A Different Image (1982), Dreadlocks and the Three Bears (1991) and many more. —Samuel B. Prime

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1978 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Ritual for Third World Women Artists

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1977 · ★ 0.0 (0)

film it is yes it is

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Poster for Fired-Up or How I Turned My Rage Into Art

1992 · ★ 0.0 (0)

O.Funmilayo Makarah crosses the country interviewing people about their reactions to the "not guilty" verdict in the 1992 Rodney King beating case and the resulting unrest in Los Angeles.

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Poster for By the Time We Got to Expo

2015 · ★ 6.0 (1)

A kinetic journey through Expo 67, revisiting Canada’s centennial through the symbols, choreographies, and built environments of the World’s Fair and its construction of (inter)nationalism. Reworking archival footage, By the Time We Got to Expo creates a vibrant collision of textures and forms in order to explore the surfaces, ideologies, and implications of the ‘meeting place’ that was Expo 67.

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Poster for Eat the Kimono

1989 · ★ 5.5 (2)

EAT THE KIMONO is a brilliant documentary about Hanayagi Genshu, a Japanese feminist and avant-garde dancer and performer, who has spent her life defying her conservative culture's contempt for independence and unconventionality. She denounced Emperor Hirohito as a war criminal, and dismissed death threats made against her by right-wing groups.

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1979 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The Kangaroos Who Forgot (1979, 6 min.) is about two kangaroos in Australia who get lost and are adopted by a platypus family. They’re raised as good platypuses, but have they remained true to themselves?

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Poster for Creativity: Simon's New Sound

1978 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Simon’s New Sound (1978, 8 min.) is about a young boy who is searching for a new instrument with which to celebrate Trinidad’s pre-Easter Carnival. He fashions a steel drum from the carefully indented bottom of an oildrum. Poet Opal Palmer is the voice of Simon.

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Poster for New York Film Diary

1995 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"During the 13 months, I spent in New York, I always had my camera with me. This film concentrates on direct visual impressions of my daily life in New York. It is a sketchbook more than a documentation of my life. New York Film Diary is a very personal, silent inventory of what I saw, of what attracted my attention there." (MG)

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Poster for Heart of a Mountain

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The chasm between languages is explored through a photograph of a volcanic stone slice in Taiwan. As technology attempts to foster translation and understanding, it also produces new meanings.

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1994 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Weaving a narrative of a jilted lover with footage of a train in motion, this video is a darkly comedic study of the physical, psychological and emotional traumas jilted lovers go through.

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1983 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The second short by Zeinabu irene Davis

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Poster for Toying with Strings

1999 · ★ 6.0 (1)

"Toying with string" is painting transformed into film. Color, threads, stones, various natural elements give birth to images constantly changing in form. This metamorphosis is made visible – we see one thing arising from another and giving birth to something new. “Toying with string is by two sisters, one is a painter, the other a filmmaker. A new quality develops from the knowledge each one brings. The film is lively and leaves a free and happy feeling”

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