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Image - Seven by Compagnie Pal Frenak

artfilmsdigital Contemporary dance performances from Australia: Chunky Move and Lucy Guerin and from Europe: superb, electric choreographies.

Dance of Film: special fusion of dance and film for film studies and for choreographers. Classical and contemporary techniques, masters of dance, ethno dance, world dance and dance in education.

DANCE ON FILM | CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE | DANCERS | PERFORMANCE WORLD | HISTORY | HEALING ART | JAZZ/HIP-HOP/TAP | BALLET INSTRUCTIONAL/TRAINING | DOCUMENTARY | BALLROOM/SOCIAL | K-12

DANCE ON FILM Video Dance Lectures: Parts 1 & 2

Maya Deren Dance Films

AFT-Danlec | 80’ | DVD & Streaming

In Australia six choreographers, six directors and eighteen dancers gathered together in Sydney to participate in the 1st National Dance Video Course. Under the direction of BBC Director of Dance, Bob Lockyer, the two week workshop aimed to encourage the exploration of choreography specifically for the camera. This programme presents some of the dance experiments that came out of this event.

Video Dance Lectures Part 1 The relationship between dance and the screen. The viewer is taken on a journey through the world of rehearsals and television studios, when choreographers, dancers and directors come to terms with the formidable aspects of video technology and the process of creating dance for the camera.

55 mins.

Video Dance Lectures Part 2 Explores in greater detail the practical craft of the dance/ television director. 25 mins.

RV-Maya2 | 45’ | DVD & Streaming

Dance on Screen

Sue Healey: In Time 3 DVD Series 2004 - 2007

LM-Dance | 20’ | DVD

SH-Intime | 158’ | DVD & Streaming

By Lila Moore. Demonstrates that dance on screen, originating from the contexts of modern and postmodern art and culture, constitutes a unique art form and phenomenon reflecting current concerns with the notions of hybridity and performance.

DVD 1: Inevitable Scenarios Live Performance 2006

A Study in Choreography for the Camera 1945 b/w 2:30 mins.

Ritual in Transfigured Time 1946 b/w 14:30 mins.

Meditation on Violence 1948 b/w 13 mins.

The Very Eye of Night 1952-55 b/w 15 mins.

“In this film, I have attempted to place a dancer in a limitless, cinemato-graphic space. This is a dance which can exist only on film.

The movement of the dancer creates a geography that never was. With a turn of the foot, he makes neighbors of distant places. Being a film ritual, it is achieved not in spatial terms alone, but in terms of a time created by the camera.”

DVD 2: As You Take Time Live Installation 2007 DVD 3: Short Dance Films 1/ Three Times 2/ Once in a Blue Moon 3/ Will Time Tell? 4/ 13 & 32

DANCE ON FILM Dance with Me - Volume 1&2

MP-Dance | 280’ | DVD & Streaming

Screendance 3

Cine Dance: The Butoh of Tatsumi Hijikata (by Takahiko iimura)

Dance Defying Gravity

CL-Screen | 20’ | DVD & Streaming

TI-Cinedance | 33’ | DVD & Streaming

CAM-Grav | 34’ | DVD & Streaming

Three short films

by Chris Lewis-Smith: Mirrorland (2010) Bodmin Whale (2009) Watergate Bay (2007)

Anma (The Masseurs) is realized not only as a dance document but also as a Cine-Dance, a term made by Iimura, that is meant to be a choreography of film..

Rose Color Dance, choreographed and performed in 1965 by Hijikata with guest dancer.

Featuring Claudia Alessi, this compilation offers a unique perspective on contemporary dance and choreography. Excerpts from her acrobatic performances on stilts and in the air and two short experimental dance films “Wandering” and “Threads”.

Suzon Fuks #2

Filming Ballet

The Brasso Railway Station

IG-Suz2 | 42’ | DVD & Streaming

CAT-Film | 26’ | DVD & Streaming

AP-Brasso | 40’ | DVD & Streaming

This experimental collection spanning more than 20 years, highlights Fuks’ interest in the moving image, using light to reveal movement. Texturally layered, her imagery draws parallels and connections, analogies between the abstract and the mundane.

An examination of the special problems involved in bringing classical dance to the film screen, including considerations of lighting, camera movement, costuming and framing the shot to emphasize the whole body or details of technique.

In Transylvania apart from the ancient Hungarian inhabitants, Szekelys and Csangos, other ethnic groups like Saxons, Romanians, Gypsies and Jews have been living together for centuries. This film is about the dance and music of this culturally rich area.

Produced in association with Bravo!, DANCE WITH ME is a hip, two volume exploration of dance, choreography and space. The two volume set consists of six episodes each: dance pieces by leading Canadian contemporary dance companies in a variety of locations. The director, Albert Girard, found six very particular and different ambiances for the dancers to work in. The visually stunning locations are part of the concepts. The 12 x 24 minutes films are shot in a sport shop, warehouses, a church and an empty swimming pool amongst others. The locations and the spaces influence the choreographical choices. The dance pieces are colourful, hectic, sensual and poetic comments on human relationships.

The dance companies presented are: Danse Carpe Diem, Louise Bedard Danse, Dance Cite, Systeme D, Manitowapan, Les Sortileges Sinha Dance, Creation Cafeine, Lucie Gregoire Danse, Montreal Dance, Lina Cruz (adult themes), Danse-Cite / Manon (adult themes) The volumes are excellent resources for choreographers and dance students as well as Cinema Studies for their exceptional visually rich filming techniques. Great examples what dance can be presented on film.

The volumes are available individually or save 10% when buying the set.

CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE Chunky Move: Connected

Chunky Move: I Want to Dance Better at Parties

Chunky Move: Mortal Engine

Chunky Move: Two Faced Bastard

Chrissie Parrott Dance Architect

CM-Connect | 60’ | DVD & Streaming

CM-Iwant | 74’ | DVD & Streaming

CM-Mortal | 60’ | DVD & Streaming

CM-Two | 60’ | DVD & Streaming

NJ-Parrot | 47’ | DVD & Streaming

Chunky Move transcended the limits of earthly form by immersing dancers in an illusory world of motion tracking and projection technology. In Connected, this dynamic is flipped on its back and digital technology is side-stepped in favour of pure mechanics.

I Want to Dance Better at Parties begins as a live documentary about five individual men’s relationship to dance. These men are represented on stage by five dancers and also appear on film projected on screens suspended above.

Mortal Engine is a dance-videomusic-laser performance using movement and sound responsive projections to portray an evershifting, shimmering world in which the limits of the human body are an illusion.

A cleverly staged work, Two Faced Bastard reveals our constant state of duality and capacity for treachery in the desire for individual gain. A tantalising look at two duplicitous worlds of fiction and reality, this production exposes its cast with often hilarious consequences.

This candid interview reveals trade secrets and offers alternative approaches to fundamental skillbased ideas to aspiring choreographers. It talks about striding through the physical architecture of musical scores, hand in hand with composers and conductors.

Chunky Move: Just Add Water

Lucy Guerin Inc: Aether

Lucy Guerin Inc: Love Me

Firebird and Other Legends

Graeme Murphy’s Swan Lake

HC-Chun | 26’ | DVD & Streaming

LG-Aeth | 50’ | DVD & Streaming

LG-Love | 55’ | DVD & Streaming

AB-Fire | 105’ | DVD & Streaming

AB-Graeme | 140’ | DVD & Streaming

It is a half hour documentary about innovative contemporary Australian choreographer Gideon Obarzanek. The film focuses on his creative process in devising the full length dance work ‘Hydra’ with the internationally acclaimed dance company Chunky Move.

Guerin generates intricate and chaotic dance which exists in a texture of signals, messages and data created by award winning motion graphics designer Michaela French. It is a new full-length dance work that explores the integration of projection, sound and movement.

A triple bill of duets featuring the acclaimed Melt, On and Reservoir of Giving with visual artist David Rosetzky and motion graphics designer Michaela French.

A celebration of three timeless ballets - Firebird, Petrouchka, and Les Sylphides - performed by The Australian Ballet at the Sydney Opera House. Australia only.

In master storyteller Graeme Murphy’s hands, the world’s favourite ballet becomes a witty, dramatic and ultimately devastating story of love and betrayal.

It’s a familiar tale – a love triangle between a princess, her prince, and a woman with a prior claim on his heart. Australia only.

CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE Seven

InTimE

K.áO.sz!

The Yellow Wallpaper

European Dance Theater

PFR-Seven | 63’ | DVD & Streaming

PFR-Intime | 45’ | DVD & Streaming

PFR-Kaosz | 48’ | DVD & Streaming

YB-Yellow | 54’ | DVD & Streaming

PB-Eurdan| 60’ | DVD & Streaming

In Seven, Pal Frenak addresses the issue of becoming an expatriate, the individual’s breaking with his own culture and integration into a foreign society. It uses contemporary elements of visual arts, and ventures out to the ultimate

Solitude, desire, love, physical contact, violence, power, subjection, possession, honesty, dissimulation… struggles fought by everyone throughout their life, even if maybe not so desperately as the dancers on the stage in this choreography of Pál Frenák.

K.áO.sz! was originally inspired by Bizet’s Carmen, the famous romantic melodrama of wild passion, debauchery and betrayal, but it is definitely not a mere remake or paraphrase of this classic opera.

The performance is based on the famous short story written by the American feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892. It depicts the story of a woman who is locked up by her husband in a room decorated with yellow wallpaper.

Features dance exerpts and interviews with: Johann Kresnik: includes Frida Kahlo, Macbeth, Pasolini; Pina Bausch: rehearsal of Le Sacre du Printemps; Dance Stage Laban: Demonstrations of Laban’s work in the early twentieth century.

Sue Healey: As You Take Time

Sue Healey: Fine Line Terrain

Sue Healey: Inevitable Scenarios

Sue Healey: The Curiosities

Tess de Quincey : NERVE 9

SH-Asyou | 60’ | DVD & Streaming

SH-Niche | 88’ | DVD & Streaming

SH-Inevitable| 60’ | DVD & Streaming

SH-Curios | 90’ | DVD & Streaming

TDQ-Nerve | 63’ | DVD & Streaming

From the In Time Series 2004 2007 The IN TIME series is dance about time and timing. How we sense time; how we move through it, how it inevitably slips past us.

As You Take Time is an Installation performance.

From the Niche Series The series is devoted to the choreographed body and its intricate occupation of space. Fantasies on habit, habitat and habitation, this work has traversed film, video, live performance, gallery installation and international collaboration.

From the In Time Series 2004 2007 This is dance about time and timing - in a world that seems to accelerate by the second - Inevitable Scenarios explores the puzzles, paradoxes and our inevitable surrender to this slippery subject.

From the Curiosities Series 2008 2011 At the heart of the series is a curiosity for form. It looks at the architecture of the human body its intricate structure and evolution, and physical and emotional complexities.

Weaving between the work of three of Australia’s most acclaimed women artists and in response to writings by Julia Kristeva, dancer Tess de Quincey invites you into a feminine space, an environment where body and word coexist.

CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE IT Dansa: Following the Footsteps

Ochres - Bangarra Dance Company

Sensing

Stephen Page Interviewed by Andrew Denton

Igneous Overview

AB-Dansa | 55’ | DVD & Streaming

AB-Ochres | 60’ | DVD & Streaming

AB-Sensing | 30’ | DVD & Streaming

AB-Stephen | 25’ | DVD & Streaming

IG-Over | 38’ | DVD & Streaming

IT DANSA is a stepping stone, offering a two year Masters which enables the young artists to continue their formation while, bit by bit, getting used to the rigours of the life of a professional dancer.

Australia only.

Bangarra Dance Theatre was established in 1989 as a dance company that embraces, celebrates and respects Australia’s Indigenous people and their culture.

Ochres, a dance theatre performance by Bangarra Dance Theatre.

Australia only.

Created by Graeme Murphy and performed by the internationally acclaimed Sydney Dance Company.

Sensing is a journey of discovery of the five senses. Sensing is an erotic and sensual voyage from innocence to experience.

Australia only.

At just 26, Stephen Page became the artistic director of the internationally acclaimed Bangarra Dance Company. His work since at the 2000 Olympics, last year’s Adelaide Festival and on stages all over the world has marked him out as an exceptional talent.

Australia only.

The compilation gives an overview of the work of Igneous, using excerpts of their dance and multimedia productions. Documentation of some of the company’s workshops and training classes about the use of multimedia in performance is also included.

The Hands Project

Fragmentation

Liquid Skin

Mirage

Thanatonauts Navigators of Death

IG-Hand | 178’ | DVD & Streaming

IG-Frag | 44’ | DVD & Streaming

IG-Liq | 60’ | DVD & Streaming

IG-Mira | 55’ | DVD & Streaming

IG-Than | 68’ | DVD & Streaming

A performance in which the audience moves from room to room. Presented in various versions with a cast of up to 17, aged between 7 and 70.

An installation performance created in a Line of Enquiry artist residency at Dance4 Nottingham, UK, 2002, on the theme “Even though technology links people, it can also fragment their lives”.

A dark pool of water is a source from which faces emerge and dissolve. Mutation arises. Glistening transparent plastic forms and computer-generated video merge with the human body.

A movement-based performance installation with video art, sound art and a series of mirror-booths.

Taking phantom-limb sensation as a “body-mirage”, and inspired by the work of neurologist V.

Originally a “serial” multi-site performance delivered over 7 days and later adapted to a screenbased video, Thantonauts takes Death as a land that can be visited, layered with interviews of people sharing their personal perceptions and experiences.

DANCERS The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky

Is This Art? - Vol 1: Elevate and re-define Contemporary Dance

Is This Art? - Vol 13: Robotics, Intimacy & Melodious Beats

The Black Swan Meryl Tankard

PCO-Nijin | 92’ | DVD & Streaming

EX-Is1 | 32’ | DVD & Streaming

EX-Is13 | 45’ | DVD & Streaming

AB-Black | 57’ | DVD & Streaming

Is This Art? is a fascinating film series featuring interviews with leading practitioners and conceptual artists from media, performance, visual art, music and sound.

Blurring the boundaries between the fine and applied arts.

Is This Art? is a fascinating 17 Vol. series featuring interviews with leading practitioners and conceptual artists from media, performance, visual art music and sound.

Is This Art? is a fascinating film series featuring interviews with leading practitioners and conceptual artists from media, performance, visual art, music and sound.

Portrait of Australian choreographer Meryl Tankard, formally artistic director of the Meryl Tankard Dance Theatre, which explores her early life and works. We see how she has developed her own unique style, integrating dance, theatre, voice, imagery and music. Australia only.

VOL 1 LUCY GUERIN & GIDEON OBARZANEK

Astonish Me Graeme Murphy

Image of a Dancer

Haunting Douglas

Speaking for Myself

AB-Astonish | 51’ | DVD & Streaming

CG-Imag | 32’ | DVD & Streaming

SPA-Doug | 75’ | DVD & Streaming

PE-Speaking | 75’ | DVD & Streaming

Australia’s choreographer and founder of the Sydney Dance Company, Murphy, returns to his childhood home in Tasmania where he talks about his childhood adventures, his inspiration for dance and his early days at the Australian Ballet. Australia only.

The rigors of the ballet world are fascinatingly explored in this behind-the-scenes look at three promising young dancers studying with the Marin Ballet in California.

Haunting Douglas tells the story of contemporary dance choreographer Douglas Wright.

A tortured genius, Wright’s work explores difficult themes including AIDS, isolation, homosexuality, death and redemption.

This documentary film captures the core of New York City on a human scale, focusing on the work of eight widely varied performing artists: A dancer, a concert pianist, an actress,a singing poet... etc.

DANCERS

Art of the Choreographer: James Clouser CAT-Art | 27’ | DVD & Streaming

Paul Draper - Choreographer and Dancer CAT-Paul| DVD & Streaming

Yuriko: Creation of a Dance CAT-Yur | 25’ | DVD & Streaming

Anna Sokolow, Choreographer PB-Sok | 20’ | DVD Antony Tudor PB-Ant | 60’ | DVD Charles Weidman On His Own PB-Cha | 60’ | DVD Hanya : Portrait of a Pioneer Murray Louis In Concert

PB-Han | 60’ | DVD

PB-Mur | 45’ | DVD

When the Fire Dances Between Two Poles, Mary Wigman 1886-1973 PB-Mar | 41’ | DVD

PERFORMANCE Isadora Duncan Masterworks 1905 -1923 PB-Isa | 52’ | DVD

Anna Sokolow: Dreams CAT-Anna | 28’ | DVD & Streaming

Donald McKayle: Early Works CAT-Donald | 49’ | DVD & Streaming

John Butler Dance - Ozark Set CAT-But | DVD & Streaming

Jose Limon and Dance Company CAT-Jose | 27’ | DVD & Streaming

Sophie Maslow Dance: Poem CAT-Sop | DVD & Streaming

Stravinsky’s ‘L’Histoire Du Soldat’ CAT-Strav | 27’ | DVD & Streaming

The Coach with the Six Insides CAT-Coach | 27’ | DVD & Streaming

The Norman Walker Dance Company Performance CAT-Nor | DVD & Streaming

Tribute to Lester Horton CAT-Trib | 27’ | DVD & Streaming

Doris Humphrey Legacy: Water Study PB-Doris | 91’ | DVD

Doris Humphrey Technique PB-Dor | 45’ | DVD

The Dance Works of Doris Humphrey Part 2: Ritmo Jondo, Day On Earth PB-Rit| 43’ | DVD

WORLD Dances of India

by Nala Najan

Seraikella Chhau The Masked Dance of India

Dances of India Bharata Natyam Arangetram Dances

Dances of India Learning Bharata Natyam

The Darpana Dance Company

CAT-Dan | 28’ | DVD & Streaming

MS-Sera| 38’ | DVD

PC-Dan1 | 60’ | DVD & Streaming

PC-Danlea | 60’ | DVD & Streaming

CAT-Darp | 28’ | DVD & Streaming

Classic dances of India are performed by Nala Najan, teacher and dancer who studied for years in India. Mr. Najan performs each dance in traditional costume.

Kedar Nath Sahoo, Director of the State Government Training Centre of Seraikella Chhau, performs excerpts from choreographed pieces. With demonstrations of many of the basic movement patterns adapted from the martial arts tradition of the region.

Traditional Bharata Natyam dances performed during the formal performances. It also has all the dances used during Arangetram (solo graduation recital). Includes the songs, meaning of the songs and descriptions of the dances for easy reference.

Padma Chebrolu demonstrates Bharata Natyam: Salutation, Basic Positions, Single Hand Gestures, Warm up Exercises, Steps, Head Movements, Eye Movements, Neck Movements, Double Hand Gestures, Poses, Costumes & Make Up, Ananda Natanam Dance.

Mrinalni Sarabhai and her troupe of Indian dancers and musicians - The Darpana Dance Company - perform a classical Kathakali piece, and her own “Song of Creation.” Asian dance expert Faubion Bowers provides commentary and interviews Sarabhai.

The Bali Dances: A Veil Between Worlds

Dances of Bali

Masks and Faces: Dance and Drama in Bali

Ram Thai: Dance Art of Thailand

Dancing from Ceylon

JUN-Bali| 64’ | DVD & Streaming

CAT-Dances | DVD & Streaming

DG-Balcd | e-book

CAT-Ram | 29’ | DVD & Streaming

CAT-Cey | 27’ | DVD & Streaming

Eleven of Bali’s most dramatic dances to show how intimately culture, religion and life are intertwined in Bali. Content: Legong Kraton, Aria, Sanghyang Jaran & Kecak, Baris, Topeng, Joged, Palawakiya, Terunajaya, Condong, Calonarang.

Several important classic Balinese dances are performed by six dancers and twelve musicians, artists celebrated in their own culture yet hardly known abroad.

Interviews in Malay with two leading dancers are included: Raka and Sukraka.

A comprehensive guide to Balinese dance and drama by Dr. David George. Dancing for the Gods; Trance and Dance; Masks and Faces; Shadows Of The Past (Topeng). With more than 100 unique slides.

An exploration of various types of Thai dance, conducted by Asian dance authority Faubion Bowers, and illustrated with performances by dancers from the royal dance school. The dances are seen with traditional instruments and costumes.

Ceylonese dances, each with an explanation by T.P. Amerasinghe, dance authority from Sri Lanka.

The fire dance, cobra dance, mask dance, harvest dance, a dance of exorcism, the butterfly dance, and the ritual dance Ves Natuma, which was originally the prelude to a sacrifice.

WORLD Masterpieces of Kabuki Theatre Series Vol. 1-33.

Tamasaburo Bando Kabuki Dance Collection

MG-Mast2 | 33 Volumes Set | DVD

An outstanding series of Kabuki Plays first broadcast on NHK, Japan’s Public Broadcasting Company. All filmed at Tokyo’s famed Kabuki-za Theatre. All DVDs with optional English Translation and Commentary.

Since the earliest days of television in Japan, NHK has recorded and broadcast all major Kabuki performances. Now many of these important historical and contemporary video recordings are available on DVD. Many of the most widely admired Kabuki stars, several declared Living National Treasures of Japan, are included in this 33 Volume selection of Kabuki masterworks.

Physical Theatre: Butoh and Beyond

Cine Dance: The Butoh of Tatsumi Hijikata (by Takahiko iimura)

Fuji Musume

An excellent and discrete English translation and commentary by Kabuki scholars Paul M. Griffith, Ronald Cavaye and Valerie Durham follows the stories and provides additional information to help international audiences appreciation of Kabuki performance, history, music and dance. This commentary is optional and can be activated as desired.

MG-Fuj | 70’ | DVD

Some DVDs also contain English subtitles.

MG-Mus | 70’ | DVD

Butoh Piercing the Mask

Butoh Body Weather Farm

Kagamijishi

MG-Kag | 70’ | DVD

Musume Dojoji Onatsu Kyoran MG-Onat | 119’ | DVD

Sagi Musume MG-Sag | 70’ | DVD

Yokihi

MG-Yok | 70’ | DVD

KD-But | 39’ | DVD & Streaming

TI-Cinedance | 33’ | DVD & Streaming

NBD-But2 | 49’ | DVD & Streaming

STA-But | 20’ | DVD & Streaming

The video is a documentary of a workshop presented by Cheryl Heazlewood in Perth in 1996.

Cheryl presents powerful and inspiring training exercises which are drawn from her eclectic training in occidental and oriental movement and theatre.

Anma (The Masseurs) Dancers: Tatsumi Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno, Yoshito Ohno, Akira Kasai, and others. Rose Color Dance Dancers: Tatsumi Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno, Yoshito Ohno, Akira Kasai, Mitsutaka Ishii, and others...

This documentary pierces the mystery and mystique of a dance movement adored by the West and largely ignored by the Japanese. It uses archival and modern footage of leading Butoh performers Dairakudakan, Hakutobo, Kazuo Ono - and interviews.

An insight into the training practices and life on Body Weather Farm the home to one of Japan’s most enigmatic Butoh practitioners, Min Tanaka and his dance company, Mai Juku. Featuring previously unpublished photographs.

WORLD African Acrobatics of Dance: Sierra Leone Dance Company

Dance and Drama in Uganda, The Pearl of Africa

Kumpania

CAT-Afr | 27’ | DVD & Streaming

SB-Afr | CD-Rom

NM-Kump | 60’ | DVD

Flamenco Dance

CAT-Flam | 27’ | DVD & Streaming

A concert of flamenco dance which includes commentary about the origins of flamenco as a meeting of East and West (Spanish guitar, gypsy dance, Hindu movements, sounds from Sephardic chanting).

Moroccan Dance

CAT-Mor | 29’ | DVD & Streaming

F. Bowers takes the viewer through a variety of dances, and an interview with the company’s director, who explains that thirteen different tribal and language groups are represented in this group. Dances are shown from several different tribal traditions.

Contemporary and historical perspectives on Ugandan dance and drama. By Ugandan playwright, researcher, teacher and folklore exponent, Dr Mercy Mirembe Ntangaare and New Zealand teacher, playwright and researcher, Susan Battye.

The mysterious pull of an old Spanish Romani art on a group of contemporary musicians in Los Angeles is the essence of the documentary Kumpania. These artists love flamenco and are devoted to keeping it alive in the city.

Dance, Voodoo, Dance (Benin)

Nigerian Music and Dance Drama: Oba Koso

The Brasso Railway Station

Cambodian Royal Ballet

Quest

FFH-Vood | 15’ | DVD

CAT-Nig | 28’ | DVD & Streaming

AP-Brasso | 40’ | DVD & Streaming

CAT-Cam | 27’ | DVD & Streaming

SOA-Que | 48’ | DVD

Excerpts from the famous Yoruba folklore drama about a wicked man who tries to overthrow the king. Intricate dance steps, brilliantly colored costumes, Yoruba instruments and singing.

Performance by The National Theater of Nigeria.

In Transylvania apart from the ancient Hungarian inhabitants, Szekelys and Csangos, other ethnic groups like Saxons, Romanians, Gypsies and Jews have been living together for centuries. This film is about the dance and music of this culturally rich area.

Classic dances of India are performed by Nala Najan, American teacher and dancer who studied for years in India. Mr. Najan performs each dance in traditional costume. Classic dances of India are performed by Nala Najan, American teacher.

An eloquent union of storytelling, music, First Nation mythology (Canadian Indian) and modern dance interpreting the stories of Mother Earth and the rite of passage of the soul. The story examines how modern life has led to the loss of rituals, a lack of respect for nature and spiritual emptiness.

This program explains who the voodoo practitioners are as well as the mythical origins of their cult; it also shows the music and dance of these two groups-wild and furious, acrobatic and physically demanding, beautiful and harmonious, rhythmically infectious.

This program is a survey of different types of Moroccan dance as performed by The National Dance Company of Morocco, comprised of dancers from various tribes, in a staged studio performance.

HISTORY The Makers Of Modern Dance In Germany Part I

The Makers Of Modern Dance In Germany Part II

PB-Make1 | 100’ | DVD

PB-Make2 | 100’ | DVD

Part I begins with Rudolf Laban (1879-1958). It continues with two of his most gifted and influential students, Mary Wigman and Kurt Jooss.

Part II begins with the 1936 Olympics and the cancellation by Josef Goebbels of Laban’s massive opening choreographic piece The Spring Wind and the New Joy and Laban’s consequent downfall and escape from Germany.

Early Dance Part 1: From the Greeks to the Renaissance

Early Dance Part 2: The Baroque Era

PB-Eardan1 | 22’ | DVD

PB-Eardan2 | 30’ | DVD

A concise history of dance unfolds in this first section of a two-part series. Demonstrations detail the works of early Greek theatre and English masques. Music, narration, costumes and performances tell the story of dance.

Beginning with the burlesque entertainments of the Louis XIII era, this video traces the evolution of dance through a theatrical tradition that culminates in ballet. Even Louis XIV performed in these ballet spectacles.

How to Dance Through Time 6 DVD set

CT-Howall | DVD

Vol I: 19th Century Couple Dances Vol II: The Ragtime Era 1910-1920 Vol III: The Majesty of Renaissance Dance Vol IV: The Elegance of Baroque Social Dance Vol V: Victorian Era Couple Dances Vol VI: A 19th Century Ball: The Charm of Group Dances

HEALING ART Healing Steps - Healing powers of music and dance

Body In Question

CG-Heal| 41’ | DVD & Streaming

IG-Body | 71’ | DVD & Streaming

Profiling four artists who have had to cope with adversity, while persevering in their respective performing arts careers, this documentary celebrates the healing and restorative powers of music, dance and friendship.

A diary come to life, portraying the true story of an Australian dancer who – after paralysing an arm in a motorcycle accident – journeys through the worlds of medicine, rehabilitation and disability, in recovery of self-expression.

The Music in Me

Soul Dance KF-Soul | 90’ | DVD & Streaming

AB-Music | 47’ | DVD & Streaming

The performance is the outcome of joint work by blind, partially sighted, physically handicapped and unhindered dancers. It is an artistic inquiry and research in disability and art without being emotionally caught in pity or sympathy. It is a powerful performance which shows the infinite possibilities that arise from the limitations and freedom of the human body and spirit.

This the story of the Merry Makers who refuse to be defeated by the enormous challenges life has dealt them. Their dance and performances inspire even the most cynical. Australia only.

Soul Dance, the Documentary Director, Yvette Bozsik, dancers of her company, Ildikó Bóta, art and movement therapist, dancers of her company, and other Hungarian artists talk about their abilities and disabilities

JAZZ / HIP-HOP/ TAP

Jazz Dance of Matt Mattox

Over the Top to Bebop: Honi Coles & Cholly Atkins

Paul Draper Choreographer and Dancer

Tap Dance #1

Hip-Hop Dance History and Concept

CAT-Jaz | 28’ | DVD & Streaming

CAT-Over | 27’ | DVD & Streaming

CAT-Paul | DVD & Streaming

CAT-Tap | 28’ | DVD & Streaming

CAT-Hip | 43’ | DVD

Matt Mattox --choreographer, dancer and teacher --leads his group of nine dancers through jazz exercises and performance to his own choreography. Music is by an on stage jazz combo.

In a remarkable half hour, two masters of the tap dance demonstrate its development. The evolution of this dance form took place in America, but with influences from around the world -- including native African and Irish dances.

Choreographer-dancer Paul Draper talks about his life, ideas and art, teaches a class, and works on a new piece which is shown.

In this program Richard Lamparski guides a tour of the history of the tap dance form, with archive film and demonstrations by two great names in the field of tap: Chuck Green and Ralph Brown.

Explores the history and scope of the Hip-Hop dance phenomenon.

One of the most frequently asked questions about this dance form is, What is Hip-Hop dance? HISTORY AND CONCEPT OF HIP-HOP DANCE explores this world-renowned style of dance.

BALLET A Thousand Encores: The Ballets Russes in Australia

Béjart + Boulez = Ballet

Firebird and Other Legends

Graeme Murphy’s Swan Lake

La Danse, The Paris Opera Ballet

AB-Thousand | 56’ | DVD & Streaming

BAC-Bejart | 50’ | DVD & Streaming

AB-Fire | 105’ | DVD & Streaming

AB-Graeme | 140’ | DVD & Streaming

MAD-Danse | 159’ | DVD & Streaming

The story of how the greatest ballet company of the 20th century, the celebrated Ballets Russes, came to Australia and awoke a nation, transforming the cultural landscape of the conservative 1930s. Australia only.

BBC Documentary. In one of the greatest challenges of his career, the brilliant and con-traversial choreographer Maurice Bejart was invited to present the world premiere of his ballet of Le Marteau sana Maitre by Pierre Boulez at la Scale in 1973.

A celebration of three timeless ballets - Firebird, Petrouchka, and Les Sylphides - performed by The Australian Ballet at the Sydney Opera House. Australia only.

In master storyteller Graeme Murphy’s hands, the world’s favourite ballet becomes a witty, dramatic and ultimately devastating story of love and betrayal. It’s a familiar tale – a love triangle between a princess, her prince, and a woman with a prior claim on his heart.

Australia only.

The Paris Opera Ballet is one of the world’s great ballet companies. La Danse shows the work involved in administering the company and the coordinated and collaborative work of choreographers, ballet masters, dancers, musicians, and costume, set, and lighting designers.

Australia only.

15 Days of Dance: The Making of “Ghost Light”

Swan Lake: Themes and Styles

Art of the Ballerina

Art of the Choreographer: James Clouser

Anna Paskevska Conducts Intermediate, Advanced Pointe Class

PSF-15Days | 101’ | DVD & Streaming

CAT-Swan | 26’ | DVD & Streaming

CAT-Bal | 27’ | DVD & Streaming

CAT-Art | 27’ | DVD & Streaming

PB-Ann | 40’ | DVD

Multi-award winning Elliot Caplan and his fellow cameraman caught the choreographic process at different angles, in varying light, in close up and in long shot. New York City peered through the room’s large windows as they filmed, and inside a powerful intimacy reigned over the action.

This program is an analysis of the classic ballet “Swan Lake”, in performance and commentary, by the celebrated dancers Maria Tallchief and Nicolas Magallanes.

The dance excerpts in this program illustrate how dance body language defines the characters in the story.

James Clouser, composer, choreographer, premier danseur and Ballet Master of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, performs on the piano and dances to music of his own composition.

Warm-up, Barre and Center Combinations, and Classical Variations: The video concludes with coaching and full performances of Aurora’s variation from Act III of Sleeping Beauty and Swanhilda’s Variation from Act III of Coppelia.

INSTRUCTIONAL / TRAINING Journey Through Dance: Technique, Improvisation, Choreography, Performance

Dance Masterclass (4 Workshops: Ashton/ Dowell/Dudley/Wright)

Erick Hawkins Modern Dance Technique 2 DVD Set

PB-Jou | 73’ | DVD

BAC-Dance | 180’ | DVD & Streaming

PB-Erick | 102 ‘ | DVD

Based on Gay Cheney’s book, Basic concepts in modern dance, this video is an overview of modern dance training that takes the viewer from the basic elements of technique through improvisation and performance.

A BBC production. Sir Frederick Ashton and Anthony Dowell impart their knowledge to stars of The Royal Ballet preparing for The Dream, Jane Dudley works with students at the London School of Contemporary Dance, and two films follow Peter Wright’s direction of Giselle at Sadler’s Wells.

Gives viewers the rare opportunity to share a master class with Erick Hawkins as he teaches, rehearses and dances with his company.

Volume I: Principles & Floor Warm Up. Volume II: Movement Patterns & Aesthetic Applications.

Basic Principles of Partnering

Basic Principles of Pointe. Patricia Dickinson

Il Ballarino

Pointe to Pointe: Ballet Barre Exercises

Warm Up: Anatomy as a Master Image

PB-Bas | 45’ | DVD

PB-Bas2 | 45’ | DVD

PB-Ilbal | 30’ | DVD

PB-Pointe | 40’ | DVD

PB-War | 60 ‘ | DVD

Patricia Dickinson and Densil Adams.

Preparation for partnering involves strengthening exercises for both the male and female so that each will be powerful enough to lift his/her own weight, back lengthening and abdominal stretching for women, etc.

Pre-pointe students learn to strengthen their feet, ankles, and calves in a series of exercises using Therabands, scarves, and bottles.

Includes a glossary and demonstration of steps followed by performance and instruction for three dances: So Ben Mi Chi Ha Buon Tempo, Allegrezza D’Amore and La Caccia D’Amore.

This introductory video for beginning and intermediate students starts with general information about pointe shoe preparation and balance points, as well as medical advice on preventing and treating common foot problems.

Begins by focusing on the spine and the long psoas muscles that connect it to the lower extremities; then moves out through the legs, feet, arms, to even the small muscles in the face.

The use of breath and sound to release tension is incorporated throughout.

DOCUMENTARY Dances of Ecstasy

A Good Man

Art During Siege

LP-Dances | 58’ | DVD & Streaming

KAR-Good | 86’ | DVD & Streaming

AB-Siege | 15’ | DVD & Streaming

Dances of Ecstasy is a sensory journey into the mesmerising world of trance and ecstasy that binds dancers from Manhattan to Morocco. Filmmakers Michelle Mahrer and Nicole Ma travelled to traditional and modern day rituals to discover what is the altered state experience which people seek through dance. In these rituals, Whirling Dervishes from Turkey, Orisha priestesses from Nigeria and Brazil, and shaman healers from the Kalahari and Korea, pulse to the same beat as thousands of young people at an all night techno dance party in an Australian forest.

A Good Man follows acclaimed director/choreographer Bill T. Jones (Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Still/Here, FELA!) as he and his company create their most ambitious work, an original dancetheater piece in honor of Abraham Lincoln’s Bicentennial.

Josef Brown has turned his talents to documentary making. His short form documentary Art, During Siege, is the third in the ABC TV Arts commissioned dance-art documentaries to screen on Sunday Afternoon.

Australia only.

Dance to Live

The Sunshine Club Days of Old Darwin

CG-Dance | 57’ | DVD & Streaming

AB-Sunshine | 25’ | DVD & Streaming

Personal stories of the dancers at Philadanco, the Philadelphiabased African-American modern dance company. peek into the world of dance that is normally hidden behind curtains, costumes, posters and the glamour of the stage.

During the Post-War era of the 1940’s and 50’s in Darwin emerged the rich and culturally diverse music and dance scene of ‘The Sunshine Club’.

Australia only.

Dances of Ecstasy celebrates the universal human experience where rhythm and dance unite us. Throughout history states of ecstasy were a way of conneting with a divine power. The film explores the many levels of trance and discovers what links them together is the human need to connect with a spiritual dimension - a living part of many traditional cultures, which modern culture seeks to recapture.

BALLROOM / SOCIAL Let’s Tango

Kizomba : For Beginners & Intermediate

Tango Mio

PE-Tango| DVD & Streaming

LQ-Kizomba | 130 ‘ | DVD & Streaming

BAC-Tango| 90’ | DVD & Streaming

Enter the world of tango, with its welcoming community, irresistible music, closeness and joy that brings everyone together.

Kizomba is a new, increasingly popular, dancing phenomena.

Kizomba, meaning ‘to party’, originates from Angola. It is a fusion of Semba from Angola and Zouk from the French Caribbean Islands. It is characterised by smooth, seductive rhythms and is a very sensual dance.

BBC documentary. Award-winning producer/director Jana Bokóva travels to the back streets of Buenos Aires, where the tango was born almost 100 years ago.

Crackling records, rare archive and choreographed sequences by Juan Carlos Copes.

From Ballroom to Broadway

How to Dance Through Time 6 DVD set

Dancetime! 500 Years of Social Dance - Vol 1

Dancetime! 500 Years of Social Dance - Vol 2

CAT-Ball | 27’ | DVD & Streaming

CT-Howall | DVD

CT-Dance1| 45’ |DVD

CT-Dance2 | 45’ | DVD

Three ballroom dance teams, and founder/director Lee Theodore of The American Dance Machine, and a group of its students demonstrate dances derived from social dancing that have influenced Broadway dance styles.

Vol I: 19th Century Couple Dances Vol II: The Ragtime Era 1910-1920 Vol III: The Majesty of Renaissance Dance Vol IV: The Elegance of Baroque Social Dance Vol V: Victorian Era Couple Dances Vol VI: A 19th Century Ball: The Charm of Group Dances

15th-19th Centuries. Includes Balli, So Ben Mi Chi Ha Bon Tempo, La Votta, Galliard, Minuet, Contradances, Folies d’Espagne, Country Dances, Quadrilles, Durang’s Hornpipe, Polka, Mazurka, Gallop and Waltz Cotillion.

20th Century. Includes Animal Dances, Castle Walk, Apache, Tango, Black Bottom, Charleston, Marathon, Movie Musical, Big Apple, Jitterbug, Rhumba, Swing, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Mambo, Twist, Mod, Psychedelic, Disco, Break Dancing, Punk, Moonwalk, Vogueing, Hip Hop and Country Western.

K - 12 Dance With Us

Boys Dance

Behind The Scenes With David Parsons: Pattern

Dance and Drama in Uganda, The Pearl of Africa

Dancing Science

CG-Dan | 25’ | DVD & Streaming

NJ-Boys | 22’ | DVD & Streaming

BS-Par | 30 ‘ | DVD & Streaming

SB-Afr | CD-ROM

EGP-Dansci | CD-ROM

The video, accompanied by the music of Carl Orff, provides a wonderful opportunity for children to expand their physical capabilities, sharpen their minds, and open their hearts to their own creative genius.

It follows a group of students as they progress. It covers everything from encouraging group cohesion by allowing the boys to choose their own name, using role models, keeping the pace fast and the adrenaline rush, the performance.

`Choreographer David Parsons shows how movement is transformed into pattern and how dance can begin with the simplest everyday movements. Students explore movement through activities which develop their skills of concentration, imitation and observation.

Ugandan playwright, researcher, teacher and folklore exponent, Dr Mercy Mirembe Ntangaare and New Zealand teacher, playwright and researcher, Susan Battye, the e-book provides many contemporary and historical perspectives on Ugandan dance and drama.

Dancing Science is a teaching resource packed, aimed at young people with highly effective, practical dance ideas that can assist with the delivery of the Key Stage 2 science curriculum in an innovative and creative way.

NRG: Be Healthy Through Dance

Dance and Grow

EGP-Nrg | CD-ROM

PB-Dangr | 50’ | DVD

NRG: Be Healthy Through Dance is a programme of creative dance ideas that directly address the Be Healthy outcome of Every Child Matters. It is directly aimed at young people aged 11 - 14 years.

This video shows the viewer how primary grade children can learn activities to heighten awareness of the basic components of dance: rhythm, space, and quality of movement, while at the same time demonstrating the relationship to language development and number concepts.

ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN 2014

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artfilmsdigital Image: Design Interviews - Richars Sapper

OVER 170 TITLES - See

films about the world’s most powerful architectural designs and Japanese architecture. Also in this module interviews with some of the world’s leading designers and artists and documentaries on Design, Fashion and Jewellery.

MECHANICAL DESIGN| OBJECT / FURNITURE / INTERIOR DESIGN ANTIQUES / FINE ART | DESIGN | GRAPHIC DESIGN | FASHION & TEXTILE JEWELLERY | ARCHITECTURE

DESIGN INTERVIEW COLLECTION WATCHES Sven Andersen John McGonigle Nicolas Hayek (Swatch Group) Bernhard Lederer (Atelier BLU) Bernard Richards (BRM Watches) F. Baumgartner & M. Frei (Urwerk Watches) Gerd Lang (Chronoswiss) Jean-Claude Biver (Hublot Watches) Jerome De Witt (De Witt Geneva) Jorg Hysek (HD3 Complications) Kari Voutilainen (Voutilainen TVC) Marco Lang (Lang Heyne Watches) Peter Speake-Marin Roger Smith Severin Wunderman (Corum) Stephen Forsey (Greubel Forsey) Thierry Nataf (Zenith Watches) Thomas Prescher Vianney Halter Volker Vyskocil Osvaldo Patrizzi (Patrizzi & Co Watches) Antoine Preziuso Maximilian Busser (MB & F) Carlos Rosillo Bell Ross (Bell & Ross) Kees Engelbart (Cornelius) Steve Clerici (Rebellion) Camille & Claire Berthet (Charles Oudin) Eva Leube Frank Jutzi Alain Mouuawad (Blacksand) Guillaume Tetu (Hautlence) Dr Helmut Crott (Urban Jürgensen & Sønner) Steven Holtzmann (Maitre du Temps) Thomas Pruvot & Edouard Meylen (Celsius) Scott Devon (Devon) Christiaan Van der Klaauw & Daniel Reintjes Eric Giroud Jean-Francois Mojon (Chronode) Patrik Hoffmann (Ulysse Nardin) Christophe Claret Giuseppe Aquila (Montegrappa) Aaron Becsei (Bexei) Robert Bray (Sinclair Harding) Georg Bartkowiak (Grieb & Benzinger) Tim & Bart Gronefeld Vincent Perriard (HYT)

MECHANICAL DESIGN & LUXURY GOODS Over 21 hours of exclusive interviews with Designers from all around the world.

A must have collection of 104 interviews with makers of luxury cars, designer watches, unique collectables, fine clothing and more.

Each interview is between 5 - 20 minutes on avarage.

Subcribe to the entire collection! Contact us for a price.

Also available on DVD - see page 5.

CARS

OBJECTS OF DESIRE

Francois Sittler (Gumpert Sportwagen) Alberto Giovanelli (Pagani Automobili) Dagg Hoili (Koenigsegg Automotiv) Friedhelm Wiesmann (Wiesmann Roadster) Miguel Rodriguez (Linx Cars) Mino Camilotti (FM Autos) Oliver Brinkmann (K1 Sports cars) Roman Weber (Weber Sportscars) Volker Sichler (Hollister Motorcycles) Peter Boutwood (Noble Sportcars) Sepp Melkusn (Melcus Cars) Emile Pop (Savage Rivale) Leonard Yankelovich (Dartz Armoured Vehicles) Anthony Keating Andreas Schwarz (Gemballa) William Maizlin & Seth Feller (Conquest Vehicles) Andreas Tirrito (Tirrito) Bård Eker (Koenigsegg) Domingo Ochoa (GTA Spano) Michael Trick (Veritas) Konstantin Andreev (Marrussia) Aljosa Tushek Adhar Srivastava (Solei) Michiel Mol (Space Expedition Curaçao - SXC) Mate Rimac (Rimac) Robert Maier (Roding) Christof Wurgler (Helvetica) Sebastien Forest (HTT) Paolo Spada

Georges Quellet (Stellavox Tape Recorders) James Whishaw (Gieves & Hawkes Finery) John Lobb ( John Lobb Shoes) Nigel Beaumont ( James Purdey & Sons) Patrick Lamb ( James Lock Hats) Peter Finer (Peter Finer Antiques London) Raymond Massaro (Massaro Shoes) Rowland Lowe-Mackenzie (Turnbull Asser) BOYTOYS Francois Paul Journe (Watches) Mark Levinson (Audio System) Willy Bogner (Luxury Clothes) William Asprey (Luxury Goods) Giulio Cesare Ricci (Fone Records) Frank Muller (Watches) Richard Purdey (Guns) John Lobb (Luxury Shoes) Pascal Courteault (Automobiles) John De Brunyi Charles Morgan (Automobiles) Ashley Dormeuil (Luxury Clothes) Karl Frederick Scheufele (Chopard) Marie Streichenberger (Luxury Clothes) William Christie Patrick Lamb Kostas Metaxas Raymond Massaro (Luxury Shoes) James Whishaw James Roumeliotis (Luxury Goods) Anna Zegna (Luxury Clothes)

Streaming

DESIGN INTERVIEW COLLECTION Streaming

OBJECT / FURNITURE & INTERIOR DESIGN

Over 7 hours of exclusive interviews with Designers from all around the world. A must have collection of 46 interviews with world-renown object, furniture, interior and architectural designers and more.

Each interview is between 5 - 15 minutes on avarage. Subcribe to the entire collection!

Contact us for a price. Also available on DVD - see page 5.

DESIGN GALLERIES

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

Anne Lahumiere (Lahumiere Galleries) Daniele Lorenzon (Tingo Gallery) Paola Colombari (Colombari Gallery) Sergio Riva (Dilmos Gallery)

Hans Hollein Glen Murcutt David Grainger

PORCELAIN & CRYSTAL Michel Bernardaud (Bernardaud Porcelain) Brian Haughton (Haughton Gallery) David Cameo (Sevres Porcelain Manufactory)Sophie Le Tanneur (Daum Crystal) Nathalie Colin-Roblique (Swarowski) Glass, Ceramics and Crystal Robert Aronson (Aronson Gallery) Hedwig Rotter (Mano Design) Andreas Rath (Lobmeyr Glassworks) Adrian Sassoon (Sassoon Gallery) Claudia Uth (Augarten Porcelain) Franco Deboni (Rita Fancsaly) Guillaume Gellusseau (Baccarat Crystal) Marie Retpen (Glass Design) OBJECT DESIGN Marloes Ten Bhomer Andreas Eberharter Fritz Maierhofer Marion Courtille Ashika Adriano Gemelli Eileen Gordon

FURNITURE Dejana Kabiljo Michael Bihain (Bihain Design) Ferdinand Brau (Bosendorfer Pianos) Claus Lorenz (Friedrich Otto Schmidt Furniture) Maximo Riera (Maximo Riera Art) Fidel Peugeot & Karl Pircher (Walking Chair) Jacques Garcia Gary Galego INTERIOR DESIGN Christian Salez (Delvaux) Jordy Fu Christian Liagre Anouska Hempel Andree Putman Tina Engelen & Ian Moore Juan-Pablo Molyneux John Stefanidis Angelika Frescobaldi George Freedman Mario Buatta

DESIGN INTERVIEW COLLECTION Streaming ANTIQUES

ANTIQUITIES, ORIENTAL & ASIAN ART

Simon Morris (Charles Beare Violins) Richard Purdey ( James Purdey Guns) Luca Baroni (Colnaghi) Stavros Michalarias Franco Maria Ricci (FMR Magazines/Books) Claude Lombard (Puiforcat) Bernard Steinitz (B&B Steinitz) Didier Aaron (Didier Aaron) Gerard Tavenas (Lalique) Konrad Bernheimer Egbert von Maltzahn (Nymphebourg Porcelain) Kendall Murray (Kendall Murray) Francois Curiel (Christies Jewellery) Jean-Marie Rossi (Aveline) Henri de Quatrebarbes (Daum) Anne Lahumiere (Lahumiere Gallery) Michel Bernardaud (Bernardaud Porcelain) Jean Lupu ( Jean Lupu Antiques) Emanuel Moatti (Moatti) David & Leon Dalva Karl Kemp Soledad Lorenzo Carlo Orsi (Orsi Galleries) Frank Partridge Bernard Steinitz Jean Lupu Jean-Marie Rossi (Aveline Antiques

Rupert Wace Bernard De Grunne (African Art) Robert Bowman Fabrizzio Moretti Philip Rylands (Peggy Guggenheim) Mark Schafer (A la Vieille Russie Jewellers) Jerome Eisenberg (Royal Athena Gallery) Floris Van der Ven Mieke Zilverberg Gisele Croes Tomaso Piva Jean-Luc Baroni Philippe Perrin Dirk Endlich Georg Laue Cesare Lampronti

Antiquities and Indigenous Art Bernard Dulon Maureen Zarember (Tambaran Gallery) Hicham Aboutaam (Phoenix Ancient Art) Prof. Nicholas Stampolidis (Museum of Cycladicart)

Over 8 hours of exclusive interviews with collectors of antiquities and fine art, gallery curators and indigenous art experts from all around the world. A must have collection of 51 interviews.

Each interview is between 5 - 15 minutes on avarage.

Subcribe to the entire collection!

Contact us for a price.

Also available on DVD see page 5.

CONTEMPORARY & FINE ART GALLERIES Wolfgang Bauer (Belle Etage Gellery) Anne Moreau (Boutique Talents - Ateliers d’Art de France) Artur Ramon Michael Goedhuis Gilbert Lloyd (Marlborough Fine Arts) Richard Feigen Gerfried Stocker (Ars Electronica) Robert Landau Curators and Collectors of Fine Art Gerard Vaughan (National Gallery of Victoria) Jeremy Howard (Colnaghi Gallery) Axel Vervoordt

ANTIQUES & FINE ART

MASTERS OF ART, DECORATION AND DESIGN Find detailed descriptions and lists of featured designers online.

Masters of Art, Decoration and Design 2011

Profiles of the artists and curators who sculpt and influence the art and design in galleries, architecture, interiors and furnishings around the world.

Set of 4 DVDs Code: EX-DesSET11

Masters of Glass, Ceramics & Crystal

Code: EX-DesGlass

Masters of Interior Design, Objects and Furniture 2011

Masters of Anti-quities, Oriental and Asian Art

Code: EX-DesAntiq

Masters of Contemporary and Fine Art Galleries 2011

Mechanical Design Handmade Watches and Automobiles

World-class features, elegance, speed and obsession with perfection: this DVD series introducing designers and makers of exclusive cars and watches from UK, (London), Italy, USA (New York), Ireland, Germany, Switzerland and France.

Handmade Automobiles 2 DVDs Code: EX-Auto

Code: EX-DesContemp

Handmade Watches 4 DVDs Code: EX-Watch

Super Cars 2011

3 DVDs Code: EX-Cars11

Luxury Watches 2011

Interviews with designers and makers of exclusive watches from all around the world.

4 DVDs Code: EX-Watch11

Mechanical Design Handmade Watches and Automobiles

Code: EX-DesInter

2 Volumes on 6 DVDs Code: EX-Handset

Masters of Art, Decoration and Design 2009

Profiles of the artists and curators who sculpt and influence the pinnacle of art and design in galleries, architecture, interiors and furnishings around the world.

Set of 5 DVDs Code: EX-Design09

Antiquities and Indigenous Art Code: EX-Indig

Porcelain and Crystal Craft and Design

Code: EX-Porcel

Curators and Collectors of FineArt Code: EX-Cur

Design Galleries

Code: EX-Desgal

on DVD

Antique Galleries

Code: EX-Antgal

Boy Toys, Masters of Design & Antiques 2004

More cars, watches, bespoke tailoring, furniture / object design and the finest antiques. Interviews with their makers and collectors.

Objects of Desire

2 DVDs Code: EX-Objects

Ultimate Boy Toys

2 DVDs Code: EX-Boy

Masters of Design 2004 2 DVDs Code: EX-Design

Masters of Antiques 2 DVDs Code: EX-Ant

DESIGN INTERVIEWS A SERIES BY MUSEO ALESSI What is design? The interview series which was lauched in New York’s MoMA reveals the answers of four masters of design in this historical collection. Co-edited by Edizioni Corraini and Museo Alessi in 2008, the interviews portray masters who have made Italian design famous across the world.

This exclusive collection of interviews featuring Andrea Branzi, Alessandro Mendini, Richard Sapper and Ettore Sottsass is the result of Museo Alessi’s eagerness to share the experiences and methods of the most important Italian designers with the general public. Brief conversations, reflections and anecdotes that describe with spontaneity and great eloquence the teachings that have shaped their personal and professional lives.

Andrea Branzi

Alessandro Mendini

Richard Sapper

Ettore Sottsass

MUS-Branzi | 33’ | DVD & Streaming

MUS-Mendin | 31’ | DVD & Streaming

MUS-Sapper | 29’ | DVD & Streaming

MUS-Sottsa| 43’ | DVD & Streaming

DESIGN CLASSICS 1 Volkswagen Beetle

2 Aga Cooker

3 Barcelona Chair

1980s documentary series looking at revolutionary pieces of Design.

BAC-DesVolkswag | 25’ | DVD & Streaming

BAC-DesAga | 25’ | DVD & Streaming

BAC-DesBarce | 25’ | DVD & Streaming

The Volkswagen car from its beginnings in the 1930, when Hitler instructed Dr Porsche to design a vehicle which would fulfil his dream that everyone should be able to afford a car. The Beetle became more than a means of transport, it is an icon.

The Aga cooker, which was created by the blind Swedish designer Dalen in the 1920s and has become a symbol of English country life.

The Barcelona chair, designed by German architect Mies van der Rohe for the German pavilion at the 1929 Barcelona exhibition.

Using chrome and leather, he refined the design to the purest form, creating a cult object.

4 Levi Jeans

5 Coke Bottle

6 The London Underground Map

BAC-DesLevi | 25’ | DVD & Streaming

BAC-DesCoke | 25’ | DVD & Streaming

BAC-DesLondon | 25’ | DVD & Streaming

How Levi’s 501 blue jeans, originally designed for California god miners in 1874, have become the fashion garment which today constitutes the acceptable uniform of nonconformity.

How Alex Samuelson’s bottle design won a competition held by the Coca-Cola company in 1915, and how it has come to symbolise the American Dream.

The London Underground map, with Harry Beck’s 1933 design still hanging on the walls of the London Underground and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The map has become a symbol of London all over the world.

Using archive film, commercials and interviews with key figures, the series looks at the contribution to design of some of the most successful products to be marketed this century.

Buy all 6 episodes as a set of 6 DVDs and receive a 20% collection discount!

DESIGN Designers Volume 1

Designers Volume 2

Designers Volume 3

Eames: The Architect and the Painter

Future Wave: Japanese Design

AB-Design1 | 45’ | DVD & Streaming

AB-Design2 | 45’ | DVD & Streaming

AB-Design3 | 45’ | DVD & Streaming

MAD-Eames | 85’ | DVD & Streaming

CG-Fut | 58’ | DVD & Streaming

Explores the design process from conception to realisation in a broad range of settings. How working designers formulate their ideas and bring them to life as products. ICE CREAM, WEBSITE & TIMBER FURNITURE. Australia only.

Explores the design process from conception to realisation in a broad range of settings. How working designers formulate their ideas and bring them to life as products. CAR, FASHION & SHOPPING COMPLEX. Australia only.

Explores the design process from conception to realisation in a broad range of settings. How working designers formulate their ideas and bring them to life as products. JEWELLERY, AGRICULTURE & PLASTIC BOTTLE. Australia only.

The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames were America’s most influential and important industrial designers.

Admired for their creations and fascinating as individuals, they have an iconic status in American culture. Australia only.

It features interviews with Japanese design managers, fashion designers, marketing executives, authors and commentators.

Design - 3 DVD Set

Icons of the 20th Century Design

Design: Understanding the Elements

Design: Understanding the Principles

ART-Design | 442’ | DVD only

AH-Icons | 60’ | DVD only

IM-DesElem | 20’ | DVD only

IM-DesPrinc | 20’ | DVD only

The DS 19 , The Bubble Club Sofa The Bic Crystal Ballpoint Pen, Akari Lamps, The Hoover 150 Vacuum Cleaner, The iMac, The Concorde, The Bookworm Bookshelf, The Walkman, The Jaguar e-type, The Bakelite Telephone, The Conica Coffee Machine, The Vespa, The Swatch The Leica, The Wassily armchair

Six ten-minute programmes focus on some of the icons of 20th century design, analysing their conception and considering their impact: the Coca-Cola Bottle, Gerrit Rietveld’s Red and Blue Chair, the London Transport Underground Map, the Volkswagen Beetle, Tapio Wirkkala’s Composition cutlery and the Swatch.

Featuring a professor from Parsons School of Design, this program examines the elements of design.

It discusses line; shape; visual and tactile textures; size; and such color terms as value, hue, complementary, analogous, triadic, additive, subtractive, and primary. Examples from such fields as architecture, fashion, interior design, and art.

Outlining the elements of design (color, size, texture, line, and shape), this DVD teaches how to combine them to achieve such design principles as unity, dominance, contrast, and rhythm. The program features professor John Roach and students from Parsons School of Design and offers design examples

GRAPHIC DESIGN The Beauty of Books - BBC Arts Documentaries More than just a collection of words From philosophy, religion, art, science, politics and the rise of ideologies all the way through to fantastical fictions, books have enabled new ideas to reach eager audiences across the globe. However, they are not simply conveyors of story, knowledge and belief. Some of the most important books in the world are also stunningly beautiful, iconic masterpieces in their own right. Just as you don’t judge a book by its cover alone, you don’t judge a book by its story alone - the outer and inner make up the whole.

The Beauty of Books shows us that from the first bibles to medieval masterpieces like Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and from children’s stories such as Alice in Wonderland to the beauty of the humble paperback, this series combines human stories, expert interviews and historic archive, to reveal the astonishing, the absorbing, the arresting, beauty of books. OFFER FOR DVDS

Ancient Bibles BAC-Beauty1 | 30’ | DVD & Streaming Medieval Masterpieces BAC-Beauty2 | 30’ | DVD & Streaming Illustrated Wonderlands BAC-Beauty3 | 30’ | DVD & Streaming Paperback Writer BAC-Beauty4 | 30’ | DVD & Streaming

Typeface

The Universe of Keith Haring

John Whitney and his computer-driven technique

Helvetica

Aubrey Beardsley

KAR-Type | 61’ | DVD & Streaming

MAD-Har | 82’ | DVD & Streaming

CAT-Whitney | DVD & Streaming

PPR-Helv | DVD only

BAC-SenBritain| DVD & Streaming

The Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, WI personifies cultural preservation, rural re-birth and the lineage of American graphic design. What is the responsibility of artists and historians to preserve a dying craft?

Perhaps the most celebrated personality in the decade of personalities, the 1980s, he built his reputation - as painter, graffiti artist, designer - outside the closed world of the art establishment, amidst the vitality of street culture. Features interview with artist. Australia only.

One of the fathers of computer graphics and animation, early pioneer in films made by computerdriven cameras explains and demonstrates his work. Shot on location at Whitney’s home in California, includes excerpts from his films “Matrix 3”, “Catalog”, “Permutations” and “Lapis.”

A feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture.

It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives.

Britain’s art nouveau heritage is excavated as cultural correspondent Stephen Smith unearths the bright, controversial but brief career of Aubrey Beardsley.

The Allure of Art Nouveau: BRITAIN

FASHION & TEXTILE

Eco Luxury: Fashion and Conscience

The Tapestry Workshop

Woven Lives Vidas Enretejidas

Manufactured Fibers to Fabrics and Beyond

Natural Fibers to Fabrics and Beyond

CO-EFash | 54’ | DVD & Streaming

SCA-Tapestry | 9’ | DVD & Streaming

CK-Woven | 76’ | DVD & Streaming

IM-Manuf | 21’ | DVD only

IM-Natural | 20’ | DVD only

ECO LOGIKA®, stylish resort wear specialises in combining fashion and conscience, using natural and environmentally friendly textiles.

The film offers an insight to Charlene’s artistic philosophy and shows a wide range of examples of her work.

The Victorian Tapestry Workshop boasts an international reputation for the freshness, vitality and technical excellence of its handwoven tapestries.

A documentary by Carolyn Kallenborn, Woven Lives: Contemporary Textiles from Ancient Oaxacan Traditions examines how traditional art and design play an active role in the cultural sustainability of the Zapotec communities in Oaxaca.

This DVD introduces a variety of manufactured fibers, looks at their physical and chemical structures, examines their properties, and discusses their uses. The program covers such fibers as rayon, lyocell, acetate, nylon, polyester, and acrylic.

This program introduces such natural fibers as cotton, wool, silk, and bast fibers. It discusses their origins, examines their properties and uses, and explains how they are formed into fabrics.

FASHION DESIGN INTERVIEW COLLECTION Over 14 hours of inspirational conversations with Superstar Fashion Designers from all around the world.

A unique collection of 103 interviews. Also available on DVD - see page 13.

PARIS

LONDON

MILAN

Emanuel Ungaro Jacques Morabito Mariano Puig (Nina Ricci) Ashley Dormeuil Michel Gouten (VP Cartier) Daniel Tribouillard (Leonard) Christian Pays (Mahlia Kent) Coqueline Courreges Rosemarie Le Gallais (D. Swarovski) Christian Louboutin Bernard Lacoste Raymond Massaro Gianluca Brozetti (ex-Bulgari) Andree Putman Sophie Albou (Paul & Joe Fashions) Christophe Guillarme Eve Corrigan (Mahlia Kent Fabrics) Nathalie Colin-Roblique (D. Swarovski) Gaspard Yurkievich Felipe Oliviera Baptista Peechoo Datwani & Roy Krejberg Marcel Marongiu (Guy Laroche) Kenzo Takada Manish Arora

Munich Willy Bogner

John De Bruyni James Lock Arkadius Tanner Krolle Tomasz Starzewski James Whishaw (Gieves & Hawks) Bruce Oldfield Guvinda (McQueen, MacDonald & Lacroix) John Lobb Anouska Hempel Marie Steichenberger (Holland & Holland) Stephen Jones Amanda Wakeley Ben de Lisi Nicole Farhi Percy Parker & Amy Molyneaux (PPQ) Kinder Aggugini Osman Yousefzada Betty Jackson Mark Eley & Wakako Kishimoto Jasper Conran Ashish Gupta Emilio De la Morena Eun Jeong Edward Meadham & Benjamin Kirchoff

Ghirardini (Gaetano De Franceschi) Anna Masotti (La Perla) Romeo Gigli Anna Zegna Stefano Citron Stephen Vernon Greg Myler (Mila Schon) Vittorio Missoni Alessandro Dell’Acqua

Dublin

John Rocha

VIENNA Christina Berger Klaus Muelbauer Andreas Eberharter (AND-I) Dejana Kabiljo Amsterdam

Marloes Bhomer

MADRID Jesus Del Pozo (Golden Needle Award) Javier Larrainzar (ex-Oscar de la Renta) Devota Lomba Amya Arznaga

BRUSSLES

Lisbon

Christian Salez (Delvaux) Carine Gilson Jessie Lecomte

SYDNEY

Belgrade

KRUG 8

Fatima Lopez

Tina Kalivas (ex-Alexander McQueen) Wayne Cooper (“Bad-Boy”) Akira Nicky Zimmermann

Each interview is between 6 - 15 minutes on avarage.

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ATHENS Celia Kritharioti Samantha Sotos Konstantinos Simeoni Lakis Gavalas Daphne Iliaki & Evi Retziou (Delight) Lukas Alifragis Katerina Alexandrakis Harry Tsiarris (Nikos Takis) Victoria Kyriakidis Christos Hatzivasiliou (MED) NEW YORK Ralph Rucci Lambertson Truex Douglas Hannant Victor Lipko ( Judith Leiber) David Rodriguez William Calvert Eric Javits Dana Buchman Mary McFadden MELBOURNE Alannah Hill Bettina Liano Roy Christou Bettina Liano Jacob Luppino & Anthony Pittorino ( J’aton) Singapore & Paris Harry Halim

Streaming

JEWELLERY DESIGN INTERVIEW COLLECTION Streaming Over 15 hours of inspirational interviews with infamous jewel designers and master jewellery makers from all around the world. A collection of 93 interviews. Also available on DVD - see page 13.

PARIS Patrick Mauboussin Francois Curiel (Christies) Victoire de Castellane (Christian Dior) Gerard Tavenas (Lalique) William Christie (ST Dupont) Alberto Repossi Lorenz Baumer (Chanel, Cartier, Piaget) Michel Gouten (LANCEL - VP Cartier) Albert Bouilhet (Christofle ) Rosemarie Le Gallais (D. Swarowski) Dominique Watine Arnault & Yan Sicard Francois Mellerio Isabelle Guichot (Van Cleef & Arpels) Pascal Courteault (French Haute Horology) Jean-Claude Le Rouzic (Boucheron ) Gianluca Brozetti (Bulgari, Louis Vuitton) Stanislas de David StaurinoQuercize (Van Cleef & Arpels) Munich Marcus Mohr (Faberge) Christian Hemmerle VIENNA Kochert Maierhofer Florian Wagner Switzerland

Century [Swiss]

Amsterdam

Bernadette Van Gelder

BRUSSLES

Patricia De Wit (Epoque)

Copenhagen Ulrik Garde Due (Georg Jensen) MADRID Maria Eugenia Giron Manuel Carrera (Carrera y Carrera) Spain

Deborah Elvira

LONDON Laurence Graff William Asprey Stephen Webster Jeremy Morris (David Morris) Robert Mouawad Leo Devroomen David McCarty (McCabe McCarty) Alisa Moussaieff Mark Evans (Bentley & Skinner) Geoffrey Munn (Wartski) Stephen Webster (Stephen Webster) Sean Gilbertson (Faberge) Hancocks Moira

ATHENS Lina Fanourakis Ilias Lalaounis Joanna Lalaounis (Ilias Lalaounis) Marianne Papalexis (Zolotas) Lina Fanourakis (Fanourakis) Maria Lalaounis (Ilias Lalaounis, Staurino) NEW YORK Henry Dunay Ward Ladragin-Verdura (ex-Chanel) Rob Lee Morris (Donna Karan) Victor Lipko ( Judith Leiber) Barry Kieselstein Cord Sami Habijay (Piranesi) Robert Bielka Helene Fortunoff Stan Silverstein (David Webb) Henry Dunay (Henry Dunay) Mark Schafer (A La Vielle Russie) Hong Kong

Michelle Ong (Carnet)

MILAN Roberta & Alessandro Terzano Fulvio-Maria Scavia Piero Sabadini Silvia Damiani Maria-Cristina Buccellati Gavello Scavia Cesare Settepassi (Faraone) Rome

Francesco Trapani (Bulgari - CEO)

Bologna

Stefan Hafner

VALENZA Pietro-Luigi Illario, Mario Dessi Maria Gaspari Maria-Carola Picchiotti Pasquale Bruni Gianluca Buttini (Luca Carati) RCM Vicenza Roberto Coin Padova

Padova Jewellers

FLORENCE Leopoldo Poli (La Nouvelle Bague) Riccardo Renai (Annamaria Cammilli) GENEVA Carlos & Franklin Adler Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele (Chopard)KarlFriedrich Scheufele (Chopard Luc) Franck Muller Edmund Avakian Francois-Paul Journe Fawaz Gruosi (De Grisogono) Van der Bauwede Sydney

Stefano Canturi

Moscow Jewellery Theatre Lebanon

Mouawad

Each interview is between 8 - 15 minutes on avarage.

Istanbul

Sevan Bialecki

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MASTERS OF FASHION & JEWELLERY on DVD Find detailed descriptions and lists of featured designers online.

Masters of Fashion

Over 14 hours of inspirational conversations with Superstar Fashion Designers from all around the world.

Masters of Fashion 2008: 2 DVDs

Interviews with Superstar Fashion Designers from PARIS: Paul & Joe Fashions, Christophe Guillarme, Mahlia Kent Fabrics, Daniel Swarovski.

From LONDON: Amanda Wakeley, Nicole Farhi Fashions, Percy Parker & Amy Molyneaux - PPQ. Code: EX-Fash08

Masters of Fashion 2004: 5 DVDs Interview with designer from New York, Milan, Paris, London, Madrid, Munich, Athens, Sydney, Melbourne Code: Ex-Fash04

Masters of Fashion Set 2004-2008: 7 DVDs Code: EX-FAshSet

Masters of Fashion 2011: 6 DVD Set

Six hours of inspiration! Interviews with Superstar Fashion Designers from around the world. An invaluable snapshot of the international fashion world in 2011.

VOLUME 1. Fashion Europe 2011 VOLUME 2. Fashion Europe, India, Indonesia, Australia 2011 Code: EX-Fash11

Masters of Jewellery

Interviews with designers: the jewellers behind the most exquisite, multi-million-dollar collections of flawless stones, meticulous cuts and virtuoso craft that are fit for a queen.

Interviews with the world’s most famous and multi-award-winning jewellers and gold-smiths from London, New York, Sydney, Paris, Milan and Munich.

Masters of Jewellery 2004: 4 DVDs Code: Ex-Jewel

Masters of Jewellery 2008: 3 DVDs Code: Ex-Jewel08

Masters of Jewellery 2011: 4DVDs Code: EX-Jewe11

ARCHITECTURE BBC Arts Documentaries Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloody-mindedness: Concrete Poetry

Art of Spain: The Moorish South

Art of Spain: The Mystical North

Bauhaus Myth of the Modern

Built With Light

100’ | BAC-Bunkers | DVD & Streaming

50’ | BAC-ArtSpain1 | DVD & Streaming

50’ | BAC-ArtSpain3 | DVD & Streaming

103’ | SB-Bauhaus | DVD & Streaming

27’ | SB-Built | DVD & Streaming

Jonathan Meades explores the story of the Brutalist movement across Europe. he looks for its precursors in the Baroque and Modern Gothic movements, the martial architecture of Freidrich Tamms and the highly influential post war work of Le Corbusier.

Andrew Graham-Dixon looks at Muslim political and cultural influence as he travels from Cordoba to Granada, seeing classic buildings such as the Great Mosque in Cordoba, the Alcazar in Seville and the Alhambra in Granada.

Spain’s turbulent history has shaped artists from Francisco Goya to Pablo Picasso. Graham-Dixon argues that Spanish architecture is the art form now taking the nation forward in the new millennium.

The film is considered the most far-reaching, critical evaluation of the artistic and political ambitions and influence of the Bauhaus. A fascinating insight into the spirit of the school and its history with interviews and archive footage.

A documentary about one of the most striking houses of architectural modernism, the Schminke house designed and built by the architect Hans Scharoun.

Sex and Sensibility The Allure of Art Nouveau: VIENNA

Sex and Sensibility The Allure of Art Nouveau: PARIS

Sex and Sensibility The Allure of Art Nouveau: BRITAIN

The Golden House of Nero

Fagus: Walter Gropius and the factory for modernity

50’ | BAC-SenVienna | DVD & Streaming

50’ | BAC-SenParis| DVD & Streaming

50’ | BAC-SenVienna | DVD & Streaming

50’ | SEV-Nero | DVD & Streaming

26’ | SB-Fagus | DVD & Streaming

In a story that combines scandal and revolution, cultural correspondent Stephen Smith explores how Vienna’s artists rebelled against the establishment in the late 19th century and brought their own highly-sexed version of Art Nouveau to the banks of the Danube.

Uncovering how the luscious decorative style first erupted into the cityscape, Stephen delves into the city’s Bohemian past to learn how some of the 19th century’s most glamorous and controversial figures inspired this extraordinary movement.

Britain’s art nouveau heritage is excavated as cultural correspondent Stephen Smith unearths the bright, controversial but brief career of Aubrey Beardsley. In Scotland, he celebrates the innovative art nouveau of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Combining new archaeological evidence, comprehensive historical research and high-end CGI, this film reconstructs for the viewer the unparalleled wonders of Nero’s Golden House.

The film looks at a living monument of cultural history, reflecting the connections between an avantgarde movement in architecture and social and ethical ideals of the early twentieth century.

ARCHITECTURE Kochuu: Japanese Architecture / Influence & Origin

Great Expectations

The Summer Palace Vol 1

The Summer Palace Vol 2

What’s Wrong with this Building?

53’ | SO-Kochuu | DVD & Streaming

52’ | SO-Great | DVD & Streaming

52’ | IC-Summer1 | DVD & Streaming

52’ | IC-Summer2 | DVD & Streaming

28’ | CG-Wha | DVD & Streaming

Winding its way through the future and traditional concepts, gardens and high-tech spaces, the film explains how contemporary Japanese architects unite the ways of modern man with the old philo-sophies in astounding constructions.

A visual journey through the history of visionary architecture. It’s about architecture projects and visions which have brought changes in our ways of living and dwelling that challenged our concepts of the good, the true and the beautiful.

Qianlong and the Splendors of the Middle Empire. Discover the secrets of the extraordinary imperial garden, recognized as a World Heritage treasure. Recognize why it is called the Versailles of the Orient.

Cixi and the decline of the Qing Dynasty. This part is built around the legendary figure of Empress Cixi, which accompanies the decline of the Qing dynasty and with it, China as an Empire.

This film, which documents a controversy over plans to alter the original architectural design of the Whitney Museum of American Art, examines some of the problems raised by the decision.

The Crystal Arch Project

The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan

Houses of the Finnish Gods

Inside the Square

Life Architecturally

56’ | CG-Crystal | DVD & Streaming

82’| CG-Tall | DVD & Streaming

27’ | AB-Houses | DVD & Streaming

55’ | AB-Square | DVD & Streaming

28’ | AB-Life | DVD & Streaming

This video chronicles, from inception to completion, the creation of a commissioned art work, showing how one community comes together to make a vision a reality.

This film tells the story of the unstoppable rise of the skyscrapers.

Starting in 1869, in New York and Chicago, elevators, steel, and electricity combined to create a frenzy of tall and taller buildings.

Michael Garbutt explores Finland through the world of Finnish myth rediscovered in the 19th century, to the 20th century understanding of Finnish architecture in the work of master designer Alvar Aalto.

Australia only.

The building of the Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia.

Peter Davidson and Don Bates was trusted to build one of Australia`s biggest landmarks with no previous building experience.

Australia only.

Follows internationally-acclaimed husband and wife team, Robert McBride and Debbie Ryan to discover what inspires their groundbreaking concepts, designs and architecture. Australia only.

ARCHITECTURE Rem Koolhaas: A Kind of Architect

How much does Your Building weigh Mr. Foster?

George Nelson: Illustrated Essay on Evolution of Cities

Paolo Soleri: The City in the Image of Man

Philip Johnson, his life and work

97’ | MAD-Kind | DVD & Streaming

79’ | MAD-How | DVD & Streaming

27’ | CAT-GNelson | DVD & Streaming

113’ | CAT-Sol | DVD & Streaming

55’ | CAT-Philip | DVD & Streaming

An engaging portrait of a visionary man, which takes us to the heart of his ideas. The filmmakers have made a visually inventive thought provoking portrait of the architect, prompting Rem Koolhaas to state “it’s the only film about me that I have liked.”

Australia only.

Artist, innovator, visionary: architect Norman Foster is all this and more. Featuring interviews with Foster’s colleagues and friends such as Bono, this film is a fascinating insight into the mind of arguably the world’s greatest living architect. Australia only.

Nelson roams over many topics, all based on his view that we must learn accurately to see our environment.

Illustrated with film and still photographs. “Our cities, the newest ones, create an instant impression of movement and tremendous nervous energy and don’t really have much else to be said for them.”

An illustrated series of interviews about Paolo Soleri’s ideas. Themes: architecture, the future of urban centers, the Earth’s ability to sustain itself under the increasing load of human population, the interaction of art and utility, the future of ideas we take for granted,( such as progress and technology) and more...

Philip Johnson, leading American architect, interviewed by art critic and lecturer Rosamond Bernier.

Filmed over a period of ten years, Johnson was 70 years of age (1976) at the time of the last interview.

Illustrated with filmed tours of many examples of his work.

The Pompidou Center (Beauborg) Design and Construction

In The Mind Of The Architect - Vol 1

In The Mind Of The Architect - Vol 2

In The Mind Of The Architect - Vol 3

55’ | CAT-Pomp | DVD & Streaming

56’ | AB-Mind1 | DVD & Streaming

56’ | AB-Mind2 | DVD & Streaming

56’ | AB-Mind3 | DVD & Streaming

The planning, construction, scope and controversial reception of the Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture in Paris, called “Beaubourg” from the name of the land it occupies in the old Marais district. Filmed on location, the camera explores the building and the public that uses it.

KEEPING THE FAITH. We cross the country to examine how architects use ideas to change the way we live and think. We look at a crematorium, a law court, a public hall and two private houses.

Australia only.

THE PUBLIC GOOD. In this episode we look at the tough and brutal politics of getting buildings built who is paying and what they get for their money. And where do we, the public, stand in all of this?

Australia only.

CORRUGATED DREAM. Some say there is no such thing as “Australian Architecture”, emphasising the role of landscape and climate as mediating factors in the way buildings find their individuality.

Australia only.

NEW MEDIA DIGITAL ART Total of 37 films This module includes interviews with more than fifty contemporary artists working in electronic art, installation, conceptual art blending poetry, science, technology, sound and video art, music and visual art. See unique examples of animation, sound art and video art by prominent artists.

CATALOGUE NEW MEDIA & DIGITAL ART VISIONARIES 21 electronic arts Is this art?

Animation Takahiko iimura

Artfilms-digital is a unique collection of contemporary art films ideally suited for coursework, research and reference.

Subscription to Artfilms-digital allows students, faculty, and public library members to watch high quality streaming videos anywhere, anytime. Choose from hundreds of art documentaries, interviews with artists, production recordings and instructional films across all art subject areas.

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VISIONARIES 21

NEW MEDIA DIGITAL ART

Visionaries 21 - Vol 1: The Music Machines by Bosch & Simons

Visionaries 21 - Vol 2: Blurring the boundaries

Visionaries 21 - Vol 3: The aesthetic of sensory overload

Visionaries 21 - Vol 4: Holographic Perspective

Visionaries 21 - Vol 5: Stelarc - The Body is Obsolete

82 mins | BOS-Music | A$280 / 1 yr

40 mins | CWA-Craig | A$220 / 1 yr

69 mins | UL-Ulf | A$220 / 1 yr

20 mins | MAM-Holog | A$220 / 1 yr

36 mins | KD-Stel | A$290 / 1 yr

A unique compilation of the works conceived and created by Peter Bosh and Simone Simons between 1989 – 2012. A series of works based on vibration and resonance inspired by the physicist Nikola Tesla’s legendary experiments.

The works of Craig Walsh. Hybrid and site-specific projects and alternative contexts for contemporary art. Walsh often utilises projection in response to existing environments and landscapes.

Ulf Langheinrich’s projects utilise photography, sound and video, light, and technology, to create sensory environments that seek to question the conventions of multimedia.

This 2 disc set is a compilation of Langheinrich`s work between 2002 - 2010.

Artist Martina Mrongovius takes us through her work with holography.

As the holographic perspective is animated by the viewer’s own movement the images trigger a proprioceptive spatial experience of the recorded scene.

An interview with Stelarc about his major artworks. He has acoustically and visually probed the body. He has performed with a THIRD HAND, a VIRTUAL ARM, a VIRTUAL BODY and a STOMACH SCULPTURE.

PAUL FLETCHER / KISS OF ART

NEW MEDIA DIGITAL ART Electronic Arts | Animation The series

“Kiss of Art” is about a romance between art and technology, it is a

tale of a human in love with a machine. Each episode attempts to capture the fleeting moment of fascination and genius present in the process of artistic exchange. The contemporary muse breaks free of conventions, her kiss of art does not discern between robot engineers, conceptual animators or graphic designers.

Kiss of Art - Volume 1: Challenges and Choices

Kiss of Art - Volume 2: Hallucination and Landscape

Kiss of Art - Volume 3: Generation Next

Kiss of Art - Volume 4: Corrupt Mythologies

30 mins | EX-Kiss1 | A$180 / 1 yr

30 mins | EX-Kiss2 | A$180 / 1 yr

30 mins | EX-Kiss3 | A$180 / 1 yr

30 mins | EX-Kiss4 | A$180 / 1 yr

Bio – Ecological - Art Commentaries.

Interview with Eduardo Kac, Michael Burton, Shen Shaomin.

Ambient Sound Sculptures.

Interview with Bill Fontana, David Haines, Joyce Hinterding, Angelica Mesiti.

Knowledge Engineering and Evolutionary Programming. Interview with Hiroshi Ishiguro, Momoyo Torimitsu, Chris Henschke.

Glamorized violence, Consumerism and Sense of wonder. Interview with AES + F, Serge Spitzer, David Eliott.

Kiss of Art - Volume 5: Animated Identities

Kiss of Art - Volume 6: Intuitive Interfaces

Kiss of Art - Volume 7: The Intimacy of Touch Screen

30 mins | EX-Kiss5 | A$180 / 1 yr

30 mins | EX-Kiss6 | A$180 / 1 yr

30 mins | EX-Kiss7 | A$180 / 1 yr

Disguise, Resistance, Fear and Liberation. Interview with Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine, Jemima Wyman.

Gentle human touch or close proximity Interview with David Kousemaker, Laurent Mignonneau and Christa Sommerer, Grégory Lasserre and Anaïs met den Ancxt.

Conscious technology - anything can happen Interview with Jean DuBois and Chloé Lefebvre, Lawrence Malstaff.

NEW MEDIA DIGITAL ART Is This Art? 1: Elevate and re-define Contemporary Dance

2: The Artists–Scientists or Scientist - Artists

3: Digital Dreams and Old World Photography

4: MEART The Semi Living Artist

5: Poetic Science

30 mins | EX-Is1 | A$180 / 1 yr

30 mins | EX-Is2 | A$180 / 1 yr

30 mins | EX-Is3 | A$180 / 1 yr

30 mins | EX-Is4 | A$180 / 1 yr

30 mins | EX-Is5 | A$180 / 1 yr

Interview with Lucy Guerin and Gideon Obarzanek

Interview with Stelarc and Drew Berry

Interview with Justine Cooper and Ulf Langheinrich

An account of a geographically detached, bio-cybernetic research and development project exploring aspects of creativity and artistry in the age of new biological technologies.

Interview with Mari Velonaki and Martina Mrongovius

Blurring the boundaries between the fine and applied arts.

Is This Art? is a fascinating 17 Volume series featuring interviews with leading practitioners and conceptual artists from media, performance, visual art music and sound. Each episode presents a series of interviews with contemporary artists intercut with images and recent footage of their work.

6: Poetry – visual poetry

7: Manipulated and synthesised

8: Temporary Antimonuments for Alien Agency

9: Vibration, Resonance, Bent Leather Instruments

10: Hypersurface Multimedia

30 mins | EX-Is6 | A$180 / 1 yr

30 mins | EX-Is7 | A$180 / 1 yr

30 mins | EX-Is8 | A$180 / 1 yr

30 mins | EX-Is9 | A$180 / 1 yr

30 mins | EX-Is10 | A$180 / 1 yr

Interview with Julien Maire and Philip Norton

Mixed media installation Interview with Mike Stubbs and Gina Czarnecki

Interview with Craig Walsh, sculptor Brett Graham and audiovisual artist Rachael Rakena and Rafael LozanoHemmer

Interview with Peter Bosch, Simone Simons, Stuart Favilla and Joanne Cannon

Interview with Brian Gothong Tan and Shilpa Gupta

NEW MEDIA DIGITAL ART Is This Art? 11: A Clay Animator and a Media Art Satirist

12: Opera Diva and a Jazz Royalty

13: Robotics, Intimacy & Melodious Beats

14: Mixed Realities and Inanimate Life

15: Cultural Portraits and Animated Transitions

30 mins | EX-Is11 | A$180 / 1 yr

30 mins | EX-Is12 | A$180 / 1 yr

30 mins | EX-Is13 | A$180 / 1 yr

30 mins | EX-Is14 | A$180 / 1 yr

30 mins | EX-Is15 | A$180 / 1 yr

Interview with Adam Elliot and Ian Haig

Interview with Merlyn Quaife and Mike Nock

Interview with Garry Stewart, Anouk Van Duk and Goyi Tangale

Interactive New Media Art Interview with MINIM++, Jeffrey Shaw and Alex Davies

New Media Art Interview with Keiko Kimoto, Peter Callas and Liz Hughes

16: Film Archeology and Legends

17: Race, Politics and Dispossession

Changing View(s) Inevitable Loops

Carol Rudyard: Video Installation

Suzon Fuks #1

30 mins | EX-Is16 | A$180 / 1 yr

30 mins | EX-Is17 | A$180 / 1 yr

45 mins | MF-Chan | A$180 / 1 yr

75 mins | CR-Info | A$240 / 1 yr

43 mins | IG-Suz1 | A$180 / 1 yr

Interview with KUBRICK (Jan Harlan - Malcolm McDowell - Christianne Kubrick) and Werner Nekes

New Media in Film Interview with Berni Searle, Isaac Julien and Dennis Del Favero

Include short videos: SEHFAHRT Elevators, LOOP, TRIPTYCHON, REQUIEM, CHINARAP and LENINS

Following a period of painting, prominent Australian artist Carol Rudyard began to develop a particular form of video installation which, for her, became a vehicle for an oblique and poetic commen-tary on contemporary society.

This collection spanning more than 20 years, highlights Fuks’ interest in the moving image, using light to reveal movement. Texturally layered, her imagery draws parallels and connections, analogies between the abstract and the mundane.

NEW MEDIA DIGITAL ART Animation

Animation Games Series

Departures, Delays and Returns

Video-Animation & Sound Art - Paul Fletcher

Animation Ambiences

51 mins | AFT-Ani | A$180 / 1 yr

40 mins | PF-Depart | A$250 / 1 yr

75 mins | PF-Fletcher | A$350 / 1 yr

78 mins | PF-Animation | A$240 / 1 yr

Four programs in one: The Animation Game, Puppet Animation, Cutout Animation, Professor Bunruckle’s Guide to Pixillation. This award winning programs gives you an overview of animation technique plus puppet, cutout and pixilation.

By Paul Fletcher. New Film Work that creates a fusion of the creative fields of animation, abstract film, visual music, sound art, video art and visual poetry.

(2 parts) The production presents a selection of the most significant works of video/animation & sound artist, Paul Fletcher incorporating animation, visual poetry, narrative and sound compositions.

A collection of short films exploring new contexts and forms for animation, including; ambient animation, animated light sculpture, virtual sculpture, custom made audiovisual instruments and modified devices...

TAKAHIKO IIMURA / XX CENTURY ARCHIVE

NEW MEDIA DIGITAL ART Takahiko iimura

Takahiko iimura

Air’s Rock 29 mins | TI-Air | A$250 / 1 yr 56 mins | TI-New| A$300 / 1 yr New York Day and Night 18 mins | TI-Yoko| A$380 / 1 yr Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here 15 mins | TI-John | A$380 / 1 yr John Cage performs James Joyce 30 mins | TI-Fluxus| A$380 / 1 yr Fluxus Replayed 28 mins | TI-Film | A$310/ 1 yr Filmmakers Cine Dance: The Butoh of Tatsumi Hijikata 33 mins | TI-Cinedance| A$480 / 1 yr 60s Experiments 49 mins | TI-Experiment | A$480 / 1 yr OBSERVER/OBSERVED 22 mins | TI-Observer | A$300 / 1 yr Early Conceptual Videos 23 mins | TI-Early | A$300 / 1 yr MA, A Japanese Concept 46 mins | TI-Ma| A$480 / 1 yr Experiments in New York 31 mins | TI-Exp | A$250 / 1 yr Talking Picture and Shadowman 23 mins | TI-Talking| A$380 / 1 yr Early Film Poems 44 mins | TI-Poem | A$380 / 1 yr

FILM & CINEMA 2014

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artfilmsdigital Image - Facades by Paul Winkler

OVER 352 TITLES - A remarkable collection of Australian independent films produced / directed by Paul Cox, Peter Tammer, Nigel Buesst, Tom Cowan, John Hughes. It also includes interviews with filmmakers, award winning festival short films, lessons and seminars from Australian Film, Radio and Television School and rare films such as the experimental films of Garry Shead and UBU Sydney Underground Movies.

FILMMAKERS| LESSONS & SEMINARS | EXPERIMENTAL FILMS | DOCUMENTARY WORLD CINEMA | ARTHOUSE MOVIES | SHORT FILMS | DANCE ON FILM |AUSTRALIAN

FILMMAKERS Lindsay Anderson: Is That All There Is?

Susan Seidelman: Confessions of a Suburban Girl

Bertrand Tavernier: Lyon, Insdie Out

DIRECTOR’S PLACE SERIES BBC Arts Documentaries

50‘ |BAC-DirLindsay| DVD & Streaming

50‘ |BAC-DirSusan| DVD & Streaming

50‘ |BAC-DirBertrand| DVD & Streaming

Award winning Anderson’s last film. An autobiographical “mockumentary” on Anderson’s daily routine, social and professional life. He also discusses his passions, inspirations, his time as a film critic and stage director...

Seidelman takes a detour from Hollywood — back to the old neighbourhood — to conjure up this delightful doco-drama, which mixes slick reportage, interviews with school friends and 60’s memorabilia, with black and white recreations of teen memories.

An autobiographical documentary by Bertrand Tavernier, French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer.

Dušan Makavejev: A Hole in the Soul

John Boorman: I Dreamt I Woke Up

Nagisa Oshima: Kyoto, My Mother’s Place

50‘ |BAC-DirDusan| DVD & Streaming

50‘ |BAC-DirJohn| DVD & Streaming

50‘ |BAC-DirNagisa| DVD & Streaming

Makavejev’s last film, a rarely seen, hard to obtain selfportrait by the Serbian AvantGarde. Part autobiography, part meditation on a his struggle of national identity, this triptych documentary illustrates how his homeland’s violent demise has left him feeling robbed of his soul.

The director talks about his life and work while wondering around his neighbourhood and the Wicklow Mountains linking the places to the films they inspired. The documentary features scenes from Excalibur (1981) and other Boorman films.

With John Hurt and Janet McTeer.

An autobiographical documentary

by Nagisa Oshima, Japanese film director and screenwriter.

Oshima’s work includes titles such as In the Realm of the Senses (1976), Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983).

A nugget for film buffs: six original autobiographical features by top international film directors, revealing the events, locations and impressions that influenced them.

Visual essays about a locale that has some private significance for the filmmakers featured.

Available as a Set of 6 DVDs with 20% collection discount.

FILMMAKERS Bob Weis Australian Filmmakers

Lindsay Anderson -

John Seale and Peter Weir

Richard Lowenstein Australian Filmmakers

Jane Campion - Australian Filmmaker

34 ‘ | AFT-Weis | DVD & Streaming

40‘ | AFT-Lin | DVD & Streaming

27 ‘ | AFT-Pete | DVD & Streaming

33 ‘ | AFT-Low | DVD & Streaming

23 ‘ | AFT-Jane | DVD & Streaming

Bob Weis is the producer of many successful films and television programs. In this interview he discusses the workings of Open Channel in Melbourne, and the film and television industry as a whole. Interviewer Karin Altmann.

British director, actor, producer discusses his approach to Ghandi, with particular reference to Ghandi.

These filmmakers talk about their individual roles while filming Dead Poets Society. Weir expands on the philosophy of the film. Seale talks about the crew.

Director of Strikebound. He talks about the background to making his first feature film and comments on the reactions to it from around the world.

Interviewed by Peter Thompson.

Jane Campion reflects on her film school experience and talks about her feature film Sweetie.

Lex Marinos Australian Filmmakers

Jill Robb Australian Filmmakers

John Seale Australian Filmmakers

Fred Schepisi Australian Filmmakers

Bob Connelly/ Robin Anderson

35 ‘ | AFT-Lex | DVD & Streaming

20 ‘ | AFT-Jill | DVD & Streaming

27 ‘ | AFT-John | DVD & Streaming

40 ‘ |AFT-Fred | DVD & Streaming

26 ‘ | AFT-Bob | DVD & Streaming

Actor/Director - his credits as a director include An Indecent Obsession, Bodyline, Remember Me, and Perhaps Love. Interviewed

by George Danikian.

A discussion of the role of the producer, the skills necessary to initiate a film project and the relationship between producer, scriptwriter and director.

Interviewed by Sally Semmens.

World renowned Australian cinematographer discusses his work on Gorillas in the Mist and Rainman and compares the working methods of American and Australian crews.

A fascinating insight into the work and phylosophies of this major Australian director. The interview covers his career from his first work in Melbourne making advertisements to the present day.

Bob Connelly and Robin Anderson discuss their approach to documentary production and their award-winning film Joe Leahy’s Neighbours, prequel to the award-winning Black Harvest.

FILMMAKERS Oliver Stone: Inside Out

Karl Brown’s Adventures with D.W. Griffith

Working With Jane

Nicolas Roeg

70 ‘ | CG-Oli | DVD & Streaming

30 ‘ | CG-Karl | DVD & Streaming

30 ‘ | AB-Work | DVD & Streaming

34 ‘ | AFT-Nic | DVD & Streaming

This video profiles the life and work of the controversial, Academy Award-winning filmmaker through comments by friends, associates and family members, as well as in-depth interviews with Stone himself, on the set of JFK.

At the age of 90, cinematographer Karl Brown discusses his early work with D.W. Griffith, in particular the making of ‘The Birth of a Nation’ and ‘Intolerance’.

An entertaining portrait of Jane Campion and her special qualities as a film director. It is also a poignant recording of the truly unique process that created her latest film Bright Star.

Australia only.

The director of “Performance”, “Walkabout”, and “The Man Who Fell to Earth” talks about his role as a visionary filmmaker, discussing his pre-occupation with fame as a theme and his experience of the border between tragedy and farce.

Two Friends

This is Not a Film

Two in the Wave

Man With a Movie Camera

Machete Maidens Unleashed

75 ‘ | AB-Two | DVD & Streaming

75 ‘ | MAD-This | DVD & Streaming

91 ‘ | MAD-Two | DVD & Streaming

68 ‘ | MAD-Man | DVD & Streaming

55 ‘ | AB-Mach | DVD & Streaming

From acclaimed New Zealand director Jane Campion, this is the story of two friends Louise and Kelly, told in five separate periods over one year.

Australia only.

A day-in-the-life documentary of Jafar Panahi’s (internationally acclaimed Iranian writer/director) experience of being under house arrest as he creatively expresses his frustration of not being allowed to do what comes so naturally to a filmmaker: make films. Australia only.

The Friendship that Defined French Cinema. Comprised of rarely-seen archival footage and interviews with Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut, Two in the Wave is the story of a unique and ultimately destructive friendship.

Australia only.

An extraordinary piece of filmmaking by Soviet avantgarde, Vertov. An exuberant montage of urban Russia, it represents the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that keep the city going with energetic lyricism.

Australia only.

Interviews with cult movie icons Roger Corman, Joe Dante, John Landis, Sid Haig, Eddie Romero, crew and critics, each with a story to tell about filmmaking with no budget, no scruples, no boundaries and - more often than not - no clothes.

Australia only.

LESSONS & SEMINARS Fiction into Films

Lessons in Visual Language Series

Film Continuity

Scriptwriting - A Seminar with Sandra Levy

Script to Screen

33 ‘ | GA-Fic | DVD & Streaming

106 ‘ | AFT-Les | DVD & Streaming

28 ‘ | AFT-Con | DVD & Streaming

34 ‘ | AFT-Scr2 | DVD & Streaming

30 ‘ | AFT-Scr | DVD & Streaming

Classic cinematic works help illustrate how the elements of a novel, short story or play are retained, altered or deleted in the translation to film. Starting with the very beginnings of the moving images. Stills from many early films.

This award-winning series of 10 short programs made by the Australian Film, Television and Radio School is an excellent introduction to film grammar.

It deals with the language of moving pictures.

Film continuity errors, such as inconsistencies in hairstyles and clothing, can distract the viewer.

It explains and illustrates the importance of correct continuity and will provide anyone undertaking this role with the skills they need.

The head of drama at the ABC, Sandra Levy, outlines the stages to be followed in writing a script, the relationship between writer, script editor, director and producer, and the way in which each scene should be evaluated.

This program follows television director Brian Bell as he adapts a stage play for television. Discover how information and emotions communicated on the stage through lengthy dialogue can be communicated on the screen through visual means.

How to Create Low-Budget SFX Makeup

The Industrial Landscape The working environment of the film

Design: An Introduction - for film and television

Video Dance - Relation-ship b/w dance & screen

95 ‘ | MRG-How | DVD & Streaming

23 ‘ | AFT-Ind | DVD & Streaming

18 ‘ | AFT-Des | DVD & Streaming

80 ‘ | AFT-Danlec | DVD & Streaming

The film features real-time makeup application for a number of scenarios including cuts, bite marks, bullet holes and stitches.

The aim to incorporate stunning SFX makeup with very little resources or finances.

A sharply realistic picture of the working environment of the film, TV and video industry from the actor’s point of view. Includes interviews with actors, casting directors, producers, agents and Actors Equity as well as visits to exterior locations and studio shots.

A lively introduction to the concepts of design for film and television with respected film designer Dennis Gentle.

Awards: Television Society of Australia, Penguin Award 1982, Certificate of Commendation for Educational, Non-Broadcast.

Video Dance Lectures Part 1: The relationship between dance and the screen.

Video Dance Lectures Part 2: Explores in greater detail the practical craft of the dance/ television director.

LESSONS & SEMINARS The Film Score: Music for ‘The Delinquents’

Bruce Smeaton Film Scores

Recording Film Music with Gerry Nixon

James Horner Seminar

The Dub: Mixing Soundtracks for Motion Pictures

25 ‘ | AFT-Filsc | DVD & Streaming

36 ‘ | AFT-Bru | DVD & Streaming

30 ‘ | AFT-Recf | DVD & Streaming

52 ‘ | AFT-Jam | DVD & Streaming

18 ‘ | AFT-Dub | DVD & Streaming

The program follows the process of recording the music score of The Delinquents and looks at the people who make it happen.

The composer discusses working with directors and his philosophy of using music to counterpoint or highlight the emotional and dramatic development of the storyline.

Recording engineer, Gerry Nixon discusses methods of recording musical soundtracks for films.

He details the microphone placements and mixing for an orchestral recording, he also discusses the role of the engineer.

James Horner talks about how he goes about composing a score for a film, his relationship with the film director, film politics, and the use of songs and other pre-written music within a film score.

The techniques involved in creating soundtrack for feature films. It uses The Fringe Dwellers (by Bruce Beresford) to illustrate various stages of the sound dubbing process and the complexities of creating a rich, full stereo sound which adds atmosphere and mood to the film.

Microphones and Their Uses: Location Sound Recording

Feature Film Lighting

Multicam Direction Planning

Non-Linear Editing with Avid

Post Synchronisation: The Editor’s Role

37 ‘ | AFT-Mic | DVD & Streaming

56 ‘ | AFT-Feat | DVD & Streaming

30 ‘ | AFT-Mult | DVD & Streaming

64 ‘ | AFT-Nonli | DVD & Streaming

28 ‘ |AFT-Post | DVD & Streaming

Presented by Ross Linton, this is a detailed study of microphone types and their use in relation to film and television location recording.

Russell Boyd, director of photography on “Picnic at Hanging Rock”, “Tender Mercies” and “White Men Can’t Jump”, discusses the lighting of scenes from his work in technical terms, including such specific problems as rain scenes and the use of nets in interiors and exteriors.

We steps along the way include the first read through, the design meeting, setup of the rehearsal space, rehearsals, planning of camera coverage, final camera scripting, the production meeting, and the shoot day.

Takes viewers through basic Mac concepts, AVID system and file management, editing techniques, menus, project set up, logging, digitizing, synching, trim mode functions, audio tracks, picture and audio dissolves, EDL output, video mastering and file backup.

Follow three possible dialogue replacement procedures including the original method in which the film and guide track are cut into short loops, the “rock and roll” procedure using synchronous rollback, and the modern Automatic Dialogue Replacement or ADR method.

LESSONS & SEMINARS KODAK Cinematography Master Class Series Great value to both students and working cinematographers.

(The series contains 8 films.)

“An invaluable source of information and insight!”

Lighting of ‘Dead Poets Society’ with John Seale

Location Lighting With Geoff Burton

Shooting For Black & White

Shooting For Drama

28 ‘ | AFT-Dea | DVD & Streaming

29 ‘ | AFT-Locli | DVD & Streaming

55 ‘ |AFT-Shobl | DVD & Streaming

55 ‘ | AFT-Shodr | DVD & Streaming

Even more important than the technical knowledge it contains is the insight this program gives into Seale’s working philosophy.

Geoff shows how to work with the limitations of location space and design rather than against them. He demonstrates how fast stocks and fast work can be critical to success.

Allen Daviau painstakingly recreates the shooting style by employing the filtration, vignetting, aspect ratios and shot coverage of the period. Denis Lenoir creates an comparison to the work of Daviau by using modern techniques.

Both Robby Muller and Peter James prove to be generous teachers, sharing many creative and technical insights that come from years behind the camera.

Shooting for Fantasy

Shooting For Realism

Studio Lighting: Comparative Workshop

Lighting ‘Dances with Wolves’ with Dean Semler

55 ‘ | AFT-Shofan | DVD & Streaming

55 ‘ | AFT-Shorea | DVD & Streaming

59 ‘ | AFT-Stud | DVD & Streaming

29 ‘ | AFT-Wol | DVD & Streaming

This program explores the techniques that make magic on the screen, but more importantly the cinematographer’s creative thought process behind the magic.

Computer graphics of the lighting setups as well as side-byside comparisons of the finished scenes help you to better understand the techniques and appreciate the results.

With two internationally renowned cinematographers Don McAlpine and Denis Lenoir. This program is packed with technical information, demonstrations & insights into the role of the cinematographer.

This workshop recreates the lighting of an interior fireside scene from “Wolves”, using an exact replica of the teepee set.

EXPERIMENTAL FILM

DVD & Streaming

RV-Ado Adolfas Mekas - Hallelujah the Hills

RV-Zanjac Jackie Raynal - Deux Fois

RV-Dada Dada Cinema

RV-Jonwal Jonas Mekas - Walden

RV-Zanzi1 Serge Bard - Détruisez-Vous

RV-Flux Fluxusfilm Anthology

RV-Jonlos Jonas Mekas - Lost Lost Lost

RV-Cin1 Cinexpérimenteaux # 1 Martine Rousset

RV-Jonpar Jonas Mekas - The Sixties Quartet

RV-Zanzi2 Serge Bard Fun and Games for Everyone

RV-Cin2 Cinexpérimenteaux # 2 Nicolas Rey

RV-JonLet Jonas Mekas: A Letter from Greenpoint

RV-Cin6 Cinexpérimenteaux # 6 Marcel Hanoun

RV-MekAs Jonas Mekas: As I was Moving...

RV-Conrad Conrad/Losier: The Flickers & DreaMinimalist

RV-Cin7 CinCinexpérimenteaux # 7 Stéphane Marti

RV-MekSleep Jonas Mekas: Sleepless Nights Stories

RV-Ball Films by Gordon Ball

RV-Cin8 Cinexpérimentaux #8 Light Cone Cooperative

RV-MekRem Jonas Mekas: Reminiscences of...

RV-Cin9 Cinexpérimentaux #9 Stephen Dwoskin RV-Dyn Stephen Dwoskin - Dyn Amo RV-Docpat Patrick Bokanowski - Documentaries RV-Ber Berthold Bartosch - L’Idée RV-Maya2 Maya Deren - Dance Films RV-Maya3 Maya Deren - Experimental Films RV-Maya4 Maya Deren - Divine Horsemen RV-Bor1 Boris Lehman Looking for my Birthplace

RV-MekScen Jonas Mekas: Scenes from Allen’s...

RV-MekShort Jonas Mekas: Short Film Works RV-Guns Jonas Mekas: Guns of the trees RV-Brig Jonas & Adolfas Mekas - The Brig RV-Lebel Lebel: Les Avatars de Venus RV-Han Hans Richter - Early Works RV-Ana Peter Rose - Analogies RV-Mau2 Maurice Lemaître - Films d’amour RV-Pau Paul Sharits - Mandala films

RV-Brown Brown: Air Cries “Empty Water”

RV-Garrel Garrel: Le Lit de La Vierge RV-GreenCin Greenfield: Cinema of the Body RV-GreenClub Greenfield: Club Midnight RV-Isou Isou: Traite de Bave RV-Shoot Shoot Shoot Shoot RV-Steichen Steichen RV-Maclaine Christopher Maclaine - Beat Films RV-Jim1 Jim Davis - Horizons of Light RV-Abbott Abbott: A View of the 20th Century RV-Cecile Cecile Deroudille - L’Affaire Dubuffet RV-Gunvor Gunvor Nelson - Departures

RV-Bor2 Boris Lehman - Life Lesson

RV-Perlov Perlov: Diary

RV-LehBab Boris Lehman - Babel

RV-Snopres Michael Snow - Presents

RV-Adolpho Adolpho Arrietta La Imitacion del Angel

RV-Story Boris Lehman - The Story of My Hair

RV-Snoram Michael Snow - Rameau’s Nephew

RV-Ace Acéphale by Patrick Deval

RV-Rose Rose Lowder - Bouquet d’images

RV-Stan Stan Vanderbeek - Visibles

RV-Dis Dissolution - 6 solutions

RV-Len Len Lye - Rhythms

RV-Zan Philippe Garrel - Le Révélateur

RV-Jur Jürgen Reble - Passion RV-Jef Jeff Scher - Reasons to be Glad

EXPERIMENTAL FILM Includes educational license

VALIE EXPORT: Invisible Adversaries

an exceptional collection of newly re-mastered experimental film on DVD & Streaming. The Collection features historical Austrian and International film, video and media art, born out of the European Avantgarde.

Kurt Kren: Which Way To Ca?

INDEX FILMS

Jan Peters: ...But I Still Haven’t Figured Out The Meaning of Life Leo Schatzl: Farrago Dietmar Brehm: Black Garden Oliver Ressler: This is what democracy looks like! / Disobbedienti Sonic Fiction

Tscherkassky: Films from a Dark Room

Gertrude Moser-Wagner: Concept & Coincidence

Ferry Radax: T. Bernhard - Three Days

Gustav Deutsch: Film ist. (1-12)

VISIONARY

Lisl Ponger: Travelling Light

Maria Lassnig: Animation Films Dariusz Kowalski: Optical Vacuum

Constanze Ruhm: Video Works From 1999-2004

Flaming Ears

Volks Stohnende Knochenschau

Martina Kudlacek: Notes On Marie Menken

Mara Mattuschka: Iris Scan

Hans Scheugl: The Seconds Strike Reality I. L. Galeta - Obsession: Structuring Time and Space Michael Pilz: Facts For Fiction / Parco Delle Rimembranze

Manfred Neuwirth: [ma] Trilogy

Grzinic/Smid: A Selection of Video Works VALIE EXPORT: 3 Experimental Short Films Granular Synthesis: Remixes for Single Screen Kurt Kren: Structural Films

Purrer/Scheirl: Super-8-Girl Games

Kurt Kren: Action Films

Linda Christanell: The Nature Of Expression

Siegfried A. Fruhauf: Exposed

Peter Weibel: Depiction Is A Crime (Video Works)

MARA MATTUSCHKA / CHRIS HARING: Burning Down the Palace Peter

As She Likes It

Tscherkassky: Attractions, Instructions and Other Romances

Jozef Robakowski: The Energy Manifesto!

Norbert Pfaffenbichler: Notes on Notes on Film

EXPERIMENTAL FILM Paul Winkler Experimental Film Collection German-born Australian filmmaker who lives and works in Sydney. He was associated with Corinne and Arthur Cantrill, Albie Thoms and David Perry in pioneering local experimental film production in the 1960s.

His artwork was purchased by MOMA in New York and frequesntly screened in the USA and around the world.

Winkler characterises his films as “a synthesis of intellect and emotion, filtered through the plastic material of film”.

“I try to let ‘imagines’ flow freely to the surface”.

Vol. 1 Paul Winkler Films 1964-1974

Vol. 2 Paul Winkler Films 1976-1979

Vol. 3 Paul Winkler Films 1980-1983

Vol. 4 Paul Winkler Films 1984-1991

106 ‘ | PW-Vol1 | DVD & Streaming

114 ‘ | PW-Vol2 | DVD & Streaming

139 ‘ | PW-Vol3 | DVD & Streaming

111 ‘ | PW-Vol4 | DVD & Streaming

Mood (1964, 8:00), Isolated (1967,17:00), Red & Green (1968, 15:00), Requiem No.1 (1969, 8:30), Neurosis (1970, 9:00), Scars (1971, 15:00), Dark (1973/74, 19:00), Chants (1974/75, 15:00), Brick Wall (1975, 22:00)

Brick Wall (1975, 22:00), Backyard (1976, 14:00), Red Church (1976, 17:00), Bark-Rind (1977, 30:00), Sydney Harbour Bridge (1977, 13:00), Window (1978/79, 3:00), Bondi (1979, 15:00)

Cars (1979, 15:00), Taylor Square (1980, 19:00), Sydney-Bush (1980, 14:00), Urban Spaces (1980, 27:00), Ayers Rock (1981, 21:00), Brick & Tile (1983, 14:00), Traces (1983, 29:00)

Incongruous (1984, 19:00), Australian Bush (1986, 24:00), Facades (1987, 9:30), Faint Echoes (1988, 17:00), Glitter (1990, 24:00), Long Shadows (1991, 17:00)

Vol. 5 Paul Winkler Films 1993-2000

Vol. 5 Paul Winkler Films 2004-2011

114 ‘ | PW-Vol5 | DVD & Streaming

75 ‘ | PW-Vol6 | DVD & Streaming

Elevated Shores (1993, 20:48), Green Canopy (1994, 22:43), Time Out For Sport (1996, 18:52), Capillary Action (1997, 16:00), Rotation (1998, 17:26), Turmoil (2000, 17:39)

Fishtank (2004, 12:30), Pop kitsch (2006, 17:00), Many Buddhas (2008, 18:00), Drums + Trains (2009, 12:00), Shooting Arrows (2011, 15:00)

EXPERIMENTAL FILM TAKAHIKO IIMURA Since the 1960s, Takahiko iimura’s explorations of the moving image have probed the relationship between media, time and language and have strived to redefine the exhibition of cinema as a mode of performance. He has worked closely with the giants of experimental film such as members of the Hi-Red Centre and Fluxus, Yoko Ono, Jonas Mekas, John Cage, Stan Brakhage and Stan Vanderbeek. His uncompromising work, here presented on DVD, bridges boundaries between film and performance art.

29 ‘ | TI-Air | DVD & Streaming

23 ‘ | TI-Early | DVD & Streaming

33 ‘ | TI-Cinedance |DVD & Streaming

31 ‘ | TI-Exp | DVD & Streaming

Air’s Rock

Early Conceptual Videos

Cine Dance

Experiments in New York

49 ‘ | TI-Experiment | DVD & Streaming

28 ‘ | TI-Film | DVD & Streaming

30 ‘ | TI-Fluxus| DVD & Streaming

15 ‘ | TI-John | DVD & Streaming

60s Experiments

Filmmakers

Fluxus Replayed

John Cage performs James Joyce

46 ‘ | TI-Ma| DVD & Streaming

56 ‘ | TI-New| DVD & Streaming

22 ‘ | TI-Observer | DVD & Streaming

44 ‘ | TI-Poem | DVD & Streaming

MA, A Japanese Concept

New York Day and Night

OBSERVER/OBSERVED

Early Film Poems

23 ‘ | TI-Talking| DVD & Streaming

18 ‘ | TI-Yoko| DVD & Streaming

Talking Picture and Shadowman

Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here

EXPERIMENTAL FILM UBU (1965-1970) Sydney Underground Movies

Garry Shead Experimental Films

Black Symphony Genet on Film

Triptych

Experiments Dirk de Bruyn

237’ | AT-Ubu | DVD & Streaming

200’ | GS-Exp | DVD & Streaming

29‘ | AP-Black | DVD & Streaming

57‘ | PT-Trip | DVD & Streaming

55 ‘ | DDB-Experiments | DVD & Streaming

This digital collection of selected 16mm films made by the Ubu Films group presents a unique opportunity to reconsider the wealth of invention that signifies one of the most important cultural periods in Australia.

Garry Shead is one of Australia’s most famous and acclaimed lyrical figurative artists. The films represent a journey through his life, one which reflects a serene beauty, a profound lyricism and the ability to celebrate the joy of life and of love.

This unique experimental film is a rare example of avantgarde – underground film culture in the 1960-70 in Eastern Europe. It also contains invaluable archival footage of a ritualistic physical performance style.

Three experimental, impressionist films by Peter Tammer. Includes: MY BELLE, HEY MARCEL..., QUEEN OF THE NIGHT

Projected on two screens, with two separate soundtracks, the always exceptional, and occasionally brilliant, photographic images are enhanced by de Bruyn’s rigorous control over a wide variety of experimental techniques.

The Quest of Carmen d’Avino

Experimental Films by David Perry

Penelope

Bastian Clevé: Journeys

Paul Winkler Australian Icons

30‘ | CG-Ques | DVD & Streaming

171‘ | DP-Exp | DVD & Streaming

80 ‘ | APR-Penelope |DVD & Streaming

100‘ | RA-Bastian | DVD & Streaming

94‘ | RA-Paul | DVD & Streaming

It chronicles the life and work of Carmen d’Avino - filmmaker, painter, sculptor and photographer.

Using interviews, archival footage and excerpts from d’Avino’s films, the video traces his early experiments with film animation.

David Perry is unique among Australian artists in that he is equally competent in making paintings, drawings, prints, posters, photographs, films and videotapes.

The film is a lyrical treatment of Homer’s tale of Penelope, depicting her psychological struggle as she waits twenty years for her husband to return from the Trojan War.

Schau ins Land (1976) Nachtwache (1976) Lichtblick (1976) Die Reise (1977) Empor (1977) Nach Bluff (1978) Fatehpur Sikri (1980) The Art of Personal Filmmaking (1983)

Sydney Harbour Bridge (1977) Bondi (1979) Ayers Rock (1981) Time out for Sport (1996) Rotation (1998) Bonus: © Paul Winkler (2005)

DOCUMENTARY / WORLD CINEMA Conversations with my Mother

The Dinner Party

Fencing: The art, science, and the passion

Get Together Girls

Cinema in Senegal

100 ‘ | DDB-Convers | DVD & Streaming

55 ‘ | PCO-Dinner | DVD & Streaming

30 ‘ | PE-Fenc | DVD & Streaming

75‘ | VC-Girls | DVD & Streaming

27 ‘ | CAT-Sen | DVD & Streaming

An intense and sometimes disturbing series of encounters between the filmmaker Dirk de Bruyn and his mother as they relive the traumatic years of his childhood and adolescence.

This powerful documentary by Paul Cox provides a unique insight into the lives of organ recipients, their time spent on waiting lists, their operations and the everyday realities of living with an organ from a deceased person.

Through exiting close-ups, the fast moving action of duelling weapons are captured with a clarity rarely seen on TV or in movies. Slow motion segments let you see that magic moment of a “hit” or a “near miss”.

Takes audiences inside the lives and everyday struggles of the members of Get Together Girls (GtoG), a community project helping former street girls to become fashion designers.

Senegalese film director Ousmane Sembene discusses filmmaking in Senegal, and by extension filmmaking in subSaharan Africa with Paulin Soumanou Vieyra and Larry Kardish.

Detroit: Ruin of a City

Dreams on Spec

The Passion: Films, Faith and Fury

Velvet Hangover Czech New Wave

New Cinema Latin

92 ‘ | MCH-Detroit | DVD & Streaming

117 ‘ | NM-Dreams | DVD & Streaming

45 ‘ | AB-Passion | DVD & Streaming

144 ‘ | CG-Vel |DVD & Streaming

100 ‘ | MCH-New |DVD & Streaming

The film looks back over the history of the city in the XX century: over the rise and fall of the social system identified by social theorists as ‘Fordism’; the way the city was shaped by the automobile; and its decline following the deindustrialisation, leaving it ill-adapted to the postFordist society of the epoch of globalisation.

This feature-length documentary delves into the lives of three aspiring Hollywood screenwriters as they pour their hearts into their spec scripts, pitch their ideas to anyone who will listen, go to meetings, hold table reads, and work at low-level day-jobs all in the hopes of one day seeing one of their beloved creations made into a movie.

British theologian, Robert Beckford traces the rollercoaster relationship between faith and film, from the first Bible movies, made more than a century ago, to the present day.

Australia only.

It features candid interviews with the filmmakers - including Vera Chytilova, Jiri Menzel, Jan Nemec, etc. - who created the Czech New Wave. Their comments reflect the moral and spiritual crisis that pervades the Czech Republic today.

Michael Chanan’s documentary on ‘New Cinema of Latin America’, made for the UK’s Channel 4 in 1983, is now an historic document of the first twenty-five years of a continental movement which revolutionised cinema.

ARTHOUSE MOVIES RSH-Bright Bright Star - Jane Champion RSH-Artist The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius AN-Tabloid Tabloid - Errol Morris MAD-Step The 39 Steps (1935) - Alfred Hitchcock BFC-Mad Mad Bastards - Brendan Fletcher BU-Beneath

Beneath Clouds - Ivan Sen

MAD-Hidden

Hidden - Agnès Varda

MAD-POT-Don

I, Don Giovanni - Carlos Saura

MAD-POT-Happy

Happy Together - Wong Kar-Wai

MAD-POT-Hell

Anatomy of Hell - Catherine Breillat

MAD-POT-Human

The Human Resources Manager

MAD-POT-Kanda

Kandahar (Safar-e Ghandehar) - Mohsen Makmalbaf

MAD-POT-Lemon

Lemon Tree - Michelangelo Frammartino

MAD-POT-Metro

Metropolis – Reconstructed & Restored!

MAD-POT-Mistres

An Old Mistress - Catherine Breillat

MAD-POT-Peace

Peaceful Times - Neele Leana Vollmar

MAD-POT-Romance

Romance - Catherine Breillat

MAD-POT-Russian

Russian Ark - Alexander Sokurov

MAD-POT-Volte

Le Quattro Volte - Michelangelo Frammartino

MAD-POT-Wendy

Wendy and Lucy - Kelly Reichardt

MAD-POT-Yes

Yes - Sally Potter

MAD-POT-You

You, the Living - Roy Andersson

MAD-Safe Safe MAD-Samson

Samson & Delilah - Warwick Thornton

MAD-Ten Ten Canoes - Rolf de Heer MAD-Waltz

Waltz with Bashir - Ari Folman

POT-Darwin Darwin’s Nightmare - Hubert Sauper POT-Glean The Gleaners and I - Agnès Varda POT-Soeur A Ma Soeur! (For My Sister! a.k.a. Fat Girl) TF-Fish

Fish Tank - Andrea Arnold

MAD-Rules Australian Rules - Paul Goldman MAD-Howl Howl - Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman Available in Australia only.

ARTHOUSE MOVIES

THEO VAN GOGH COLLECTION Dutch director/producer/screenwriter Theo Van Gogh was planning an English language remake of his renowned film Interview when he was violently murdered by an Islam extremist in 2004. He had dared to criticize Islam fundamentalism in his short film Submission Part 1. Sadly, proving a point has cost him his life. Following Van Gogh’s tragic death his producers accomplished to adapt not one but three of his films in English with American actors.

Artfilms is pleased to present the “TRIPLE THEO” collection, all the originals alongside their remakes in sets of 2 DVDs.

Interview (Original + Remake)

Blind Date (Original + Remake)

06 / Somewhere Tonight (Original + Remake)

90 ‘ | CF-Interview | DVD & Streaming

90 ‘ | CF-Blind | DVD & Streaming

90 ‘ | CF-06| DVD & Streaming

By drawing parallels between fiction and reality this is film is about fakery. (In the original version the actors share a name with their characters creating a subtextual essay on the nature of celebrities and how we can never know for sure who is really behind the million dollar smiles.)

Contradiction, scheming, prejudice, fear, love and hate. These are all emotions bubbling under the unglamorous surface of Interview, a film whose title is even something of a lie, seeing as Pierre never completes his assignment.

Interview (Original) by Theo Van Gogh is also available for streaming.

Unlike Interview, Blind Date has no political concerns, it is an intimate examination of the painful grief of two parents, in some sense it is an appropriate choice of film to adapt in Van Gogh’s memory.

Both the original and the remake of the film is a unique experience, a one of a kind cinematic investigation of genuine emotions, love, grief and the our sometimes limited capacity to cope with pain.

Blind Date (Remake) by Stanley Tucci is also available for streaming.

Characters of humour and sadness emerge, the woman is happy with what the relationship is providing her - a once a week fullfillment of fantasy and retreat from who she is in real life. The man wants more, wishing and pressuring her to realize their odd bond. The film is themed around this conflicting tension, truth and lies, depth over distance, intimacy between two complete strangers.

The US remake is titled Somewhere Tonight and is set in New York City.

06 (Original) by Theo Van Gogh is also available for streaming.

ARTHOUSE MOVIES MARWENCOL

BON-Marwen | DVD & Streaming

Available in Australia only.

A multi-award winning documentary. After being beaten into a brain-damaging coma outside a bar, Mark builds a 1/6th scale World War II-era town in his backyard. He populates the town, “Marwencol” with dolls representing his friends and family and creates life-like photographs detailing many relationships and dramas. When suddenly Mark’s homemade therapy is deemed “art”, he is forced to choose between the safety of his fantasy life in Marwencol and the real world that he’s avoided since the attack.

BON-Wehave We have a Pope BON-Big Big Bad Wolwes BON-Lennon LENNONYC BON-Chinese Chinese Puzzle BON-Blue Blue is the Warmest Colour BON-Frances Frances Ha BON-Made Made in America BON-Railway Railway Man BON-Hemel Hemel BON-Ginger Ginger & Rosa BON-Inthehouse In the House BON-Dead Dead Europe BON-Amour Amour BON-Lore Lore BON-Delicacy Delicacy BON-Thedeep The Deep Blue Sea BON-Woody Woody Allen: A Documentary BON-Route Route Irish BON-Theeye The Eye of the Storm BON-Kon Kon-Tiki BON-Thanks Thanks for Sharing BON-Tiny Tiny Furniture BON-20feet 20 Feet from Stardom BON-Renoir Renoir BON-Thebest The Best Offer

SHORT FILM John Hughes Short Films (2 parts)

Paul Cox - Early Work 1965 - 1980 (3 parts)

Five Short Films of Nigel Buesst

The Dancing Class & Other Short Stories (2 p)

Hand & Eye

119 ‘ | JH-Short | DVD & Streaming

211 ‘ | PCO-Shorts | DVD & Streaming

70 ‘ | SUP-Five | DVD & Streaming

99 ‘ | TC-Short | DVD & Streaming

25 ‘ | PE-Hand | DVD & Streaming

Nowhere Game / Cybernetik Synergy: The Kinetic Art of John Hansen / November Eleven / Is It Working? George Seelaf for the Record / Howard’s History / Howard’s Blemish

Matuta / Time Past / Skin Deep / Marcel / Calcutta / The Journey / The Island / We Are All Alone My Dear / Ritual / The Kingdom of Nek Chand

All of these films were made with minimal resources so it’s no surprise that they look fairly basic. The Destruction of St.Patrick’s College 1971 / Fun Radio / Global Village / Black Sheep gather No Moss / The Twentieth

Part 1: 1962 – 1970 - Nimmo Street / The Dancing Class / Signature / Helena of Sydney / Australia Felix Part2: 2000 – 2010 - Jenny Kee – Waratah Artist / School Photo / Wind Section / Support Me Not / Tippisandra Road

It’s is a series of award winning short-form documentaries focused on skills that could disappear in the high-tech 21st century. 1/ The Noodle Man, 2/ Oysters, 3/ Hand Rolled on 29th Street, 4/ An Appointment with Mr. Robert

The Soapboxers,The Ringers and Auction Day

Showreel 2003

urbanandsuburban

Award Winning Shorts: Volume 1

Award Winning Shorts: Volume 2

46 ‘ | PE-Soap | DVD & Streaming

338 ‘ | AFT-Show | DVD & Streaming

‘ | NY-Urban | DVD & Streaming

51 ‘ | AFT-Awa1 | DVD & Streaming

59 ‘ | AFT-Awa1 | DVD & Streaming

This film is a tour of serious oddball characters jumping up and down on their soap-boxes with their unique Londoner’s humor as they threaten, cajole and entreat us to mend our ways.

Australian short films: Ash Wednesday - Tolsher /Car Park - Yuille / Dojo - Price / Evicton Dolman / Ex - Kalceff & Soo / The Hit - Mulholland / Love’s Labourer - Grierson / Painless - Glasson / The Passion of Her Schneider / A Simple Song - Wills / Smith - Schneider / Time of Death - Chadd... and a lot more.

Urbunsuburban features a selection of works on video and film by David Pledger made in five instal-ments from 2001 to 2010: The edition looks at the influence and relation-ship of the Australian Landscape on the psyche of its inhabitants.

Features short films which won several prestigious international and national awards. PALACE CAFE / RESTORATION / THE DRIP / UNIVERSAL APPLIANCE CO. / WEEPING WILLOW / ZIPPER.

Features short films which won several prestigious international and national awards. CLOWN DOCTORS / BEHIND THE MASK / RUBBERMAN ACCEPTS THE NOBEL PRIZE / THE GREAT SASCHA.

DANCE ON FILM Dance with Me - 1

Dance with Me - 2

Niche - Dance Films

In Time - Dance Films

Dance on Screen

145 ‘ | MP-Dance1 | DVD & Streaming

144 ‘ | MP-Dance2 | DVD & Streaming

28 ‘ | SH-Nichefilms | DVD & Streaming

38‘ | SH-Intimefilms |DVD & Streaming

20‘ | LM-Dance |DVD & CD-Rom

A hip, two volume exploration of dance, choreography and space.

Consists of six episodes: Danse Carpe Diem, Louise Bedard Danse, Dance Cite, Systeme D, Manitowapan, Les Sortileges.

A hip, two volume exploration of dance, choreography and space.

Consists of six episodes: Sinha Dance, Creation Cafeine, Lucie Gregoire Danse, Montreal Dance, Lina Cruz (adult themes), DanseCite / Manon (adult themes).

The Niche series is devoted to the choreographed body and its intricate occupation of space. Fantasies on habit, habitat and habitation, this work has traversed film, video, live performance, gallery installation and international collaboration.

The IN TIME series is dance about time and timing. How we sense time; how we move through it, how it inevitably slips past us. 6 works have been created in this series; comprising film, video, live performance, gallery installation and international collaboration in Japan.

The DVD consists of the PhD thesis of Lila Moore including a link to her YouTube channel listing films and artists mentioned and discussed in the thesis. Also on the DVD: a dance on film, Gaia – Mysterious Rhythms.

Screendance 3

The Curiosities Dance Films

Video Dance Lectures: Parts 1 & 2

20 ‘ | CL-Screen | DVD & Streaming

26‘ | SH-Curiosfilms | DVD & Streaming

80 ‘ | AFT-Danlec | DVD & Streaming

Mirrorland (2010), Bodmin Whale (2009), Watergate Bay (2007)

At the heart of this series is a curiosity for form. As a collection of works The Curiosities looks at the architecture of the human body - its intricate structure and evolution, and physical and emotional complexities.

The relationship between dance and the screen. Choreographers, dancers and directors come to terms with the formidable aspects of video technology and the process of creating dance for the camera.

AUSTRALIAN CINEMA Innocence

Kalaupapa Heaven

Kostas

Man of Flowers

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien

91‘ | PCO-Innocence | DVD & Streaming

90‘ | PCO-Kalau | DVD & Streaming

100‘ | PCO-Kostas |DVD & Streaming

91‘ | PCO-Man | DVD & Streaming

120‘ | PCO-Molokai |DVD & Streaming

After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as intense as when they were young lovers.

The connection they shared is still there so they soon involve in a rekindled love affair.

Kalaupapa, a peninsula on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, with its swaying palms, unspoiled beaches and stunning mountains, is a paradise on earth - but with a dark and dramatic history. Kalaupapa is a leprosy colony.

A love story about a Greek and an Australian struggle with the barriers of their cultural differences. It is set against a background of Melbourne’s Greek community and the lifestyle of an Anglo-Saxon divorcee.

Man of Flowers is both erotic and richly amusing, with a tragic afterglow. The essence of the story is the confrontation between modern art and traditional art; or between modern love and traditional love; or even between modern life and traditional life.

Paul Cox’s ambitious portrait, the true story of a 19th century priest who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.

A Woman’s Tale

Fear of the Dark

Mallacoota Stampede

Flausfilm

Journey to the End of Night

93‘ | PCO-Woman | DVD & Streaming

59‘ | PT-Fear | DVD & Streaming

60‘ | PT-Mallacoota | DVD & Streaming

99‘ (Complimentary for research only)

70‘ | PT-Journey | DVD & Streaming

Martha is a modern, spirited woman trapped in an old and decrepit body. At almost 80 years of age, she has seen the good and the bad, and now offers her love and wisdom to all who are willing to listen to her.

Peter Tammer explores the this film through the person of the actor Robert Ratti, holding together the hopes and fears of the performer who is facing survival on a day-to-day basis for the opportunity to work in the future.

A slice of life, summer in Australia.

The quiet seaside resort of Mallacoota is flooded by tourists seeking their holiday paradise.

How can they know that their very search destroys everything they yearn for?

A portrait of the actor, film teacher, critic, and legendary cinephile, John Flaus, in a unique film mosaic structured around cryptic crossword clues and solutions suggesting the content of the twelve sequences.

It is the diary of a soldier.

Although it was filmed forty years after the event, it is a timeless universal testimony because of its power and emotion. It is the voice of an individual raised against the violence, the horror and the futility of war.

AUSTRALIAN CINEMA Carlton + Godard = Cinema (2 parts)

Darwin Harbour

The Rise and Fall of Squizzy Taylor

Jacka V.C.

Come Out Fighting

145 ‘ | SUP-Carlton | DVD & Streaming

60‘ | SUP-Darwin | DVD & Streaming

50‘ | SUP-Rise | DVD & Streaming

45‘ | SUP-Jacka | DVD & Streaming

50‘ | SUP-Come | DVD & Streaming

Buesst’s leisurely, intimate and at times quite personal documentary on the ‘60s & early ‘70s independent Melbourne filmmaking scene centred in Carlton is one of the most significant cinematic contributions to Australian film history.

Explore the events that led to the establishment of Australia’s main northern city. Images from the past and present reveal the struggles to establish a permanent settlement.

Culminating in the untold story of the epic voyage of the Forlorn Hope.

Melbourne’s first celebrity criminal, set the pace in the early days. It is about the life of the notorious 1920’s Melbourne Australian gangster Squizzy Taylor including interviews and re-enactments.

Documentary about the First World War hero and later St. Kilda Mayor. Jacka was a soldier, decorated for his service at Gallipoli, and this documentary about his life tells not only his story but much about Australian identity and history.

A young Aboriginal fighter, played by trained boxer Michael Karpaney, is torn between his career, his mates & the demands of a group of students campaigning for Aboriginal rights. A gaze on the difficulties a blackfella must face in Australian society.

Bonjour Balwyn

Jazz Scrapbook

Gerry Humphrys: The Loved One

Benny Featherstone Prince of Good Fellows

Talking With Ade

55‘ | SUP-Bon | DVD & Streaming

70‘ | SUP-Jazz | DVD & Streaming

66‘ | SUP-Gerry | DVD & Streaming

66‘ | SUP-Benny | DVD & Streaming

46‘ | SUP-Ade | DVD & Streaming

Kevin Agar has left a job in insurance to start his own magazine, called Bolo. His middle class parents dont understand it, and very few people buy it. As his debts mount, Kevin loses his girlfriend, his friends and his secretary.

The only doco to record the early years of Australian jazz.

This lovingly compiled celluloid history of the Melbourne jazz scene is a fascinating study of an era and a social milieu, as well as a music documentary.

Features interviews with Humphrys’ bandmates and performance footage of the man in his prime, both testifying to his talent and influence; Nigel Buesst also tracked down Humphrys at his home in suburban England to find out the truth behind his vanishing act.

The life and times of a legendary Melbourne musician who lived life with the brakes off. Arguably the first notable Australian jazz improvisor, he mastered many instruments, but most of all he was and excellent drummer.

A rare interview with one of Australia’s most revered jazz practitioners. Looking back over the early years, reminiscing on a lifetime spent playing a multitude of instruments with undiminished excellence.

AUSTRALIAN CINEMA What I Have Written

Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens In Australia

Film-Work / Menace (2 parts)

The Archive Box / Archive Project (3 parts)

All That is Solid

98 ‘ | JH-What | DVD & Streaming

90 ‘ | JH-Indonesia | DVD & Streaming

111 ‘ | JH-Filmwork |DVD & Streaming

178 ‘ | JH-Archive |DVD & Streaming

54 ‘ | JH-Allthat | DVD & Streaming

The story of a man at the end of a loveless marriage. His intensely erotic association with another woman.Includes a number of extras, such as writer and director commentary, cast commentary, stills gallery, etc.

Recalls the birth of Indonesia, and the impact of a small film, made at a moment of crisis, on Australia’s relations with its northern neighbor and its legacy for Australian documentary film culture.

1. Film-Work: Examines and discusses scenes from four films about their cultural and historical significance. 2. Menace: We see the experience from the perspective of those who defended democratic freedoms.

It provides an in-depth encounter with the stories, sources and contexts of Melbourne’s Realist film movement, including the feature documentary The Archive Project.

It was made in the context of Australia’s contested BiCentennial celebrations and financed through the Documentary Fellowship program. This film initiates a new category, ‘the speculative documentary’.

One Way Street: Fragments for Walter Benjamin

Traps

River of Dreams

Orange Love Story

The Office Picnic

54 ‘ | JH-One | DVD & Streaming

86 ‘ | JH-Traps | DVD & Streaming

52‘ | JH-River | DVD & Streaming

83 ‘ | TC-Orange | DVD & Streaming

74 ‘ | TC-Office | DVD & Streaming

Scholars discuss the impact of Benjamin’s work, and the combination of interviews, stylized reconstruction and archival film results in a dynamic portrait of one of the 20th century’s most influential thinkers.

Carolyn Howard plays a fictional journalist pursuing investigative political stories through actual tally rooms and newsrooms, meeting journalists, politicians and artists. A provocative blend of fact and fiction, news and disinformation.

River of Dreams explores the radically divergent approaches to ‘country’ between indigenous and non-indigenous people, conservationists and developers at Fitzroy River, in the ‘remote’ Kimberley region of northwest Australia.

A tale of a town called Orange and the people who live there. A story too, of longing and courage, which unveils some of the different faces of love. All brave love and loss, together weaving a story - a country love story.

A group of tormented public service wage-slaves decide that they are not clockwork monsters, so the steamy Australian nights and raucous party games and brief belligerent punch-ups and beery romps on the Holden bonnet all ensue.

AUSTRALIAN CINEMA Palm Beach

Sunshine City

Kit Guyatt Films

An Interview with David Perry

An Interview with Albie Thoms

88 ‘ | AT-Palm | DVD & Streaming

118 ‘ | AT-Sunshine |DVD & Streaming

67 ‘ | KG-Forest | DVD & Streaming

57 ‘ | KD-Perry | DVD & Streaming

63 ‘ | KD-Albie | DVD & Streaming

It’s an innovative and underrated film.

A lowbudget feature with a complex structure, but a very open feel.

It combines various elements with the kind of experimental risk-taking that has rarely been possible in Australian cinema.

Features interviews with influential members of the Yellow House scene and other significant characters of the Australian Avant-Garde, including Mick Glasheen, Martin Sharp, Aggy Read, Brett Whiteley and Germaine Greer.

President Johnson’s Visit (1966), Balmain: An enquiry into the reality of the inner Sydney suburb. The Phallic Forest: The story of Oliver and Julia and their relationship falling apart. He starts an affair with somebody else and she retreats further into a fantasy world.

David Perry is unique among Australian artists in that he is equally competent in making paintings, drawings, prints, posters, photographs, films and videotapes. This rich illustrated interview is about his artv and ventures in life.

A conversation about Thoms` early theatre experiments with absurd plays, becoming a film maker, the UBU experimental film group’s work, government politics, rebellion, and the emerging of Sydney’s counterculture amongst others.

Richly illustrated.

Blue Notes

Lovesick

Between Us

When Evil Reigns

The Refracting Glasses

93 ‘ | BM-Blue | DVD & Streaming

70 ‘ | BM-Lovesick | DVD & Streaming

37 ‘ | BM-Between | DVD & Streaming

93 ‘ | MRG-When | DVD & Streaming

94 ‘ | DP-Refract | DVD & Streaming

A multi-layered narrative drama about ordinary people and their struggles and joys with life. Blue Notes is composed of five tales about people who are “blue”:

A couple, Steve and Louise, quit their respective office jobs, deciding to follow their inner desires and their aspirations to be artistic. They shut themselves off from the world, but eventually begin to re-connect with it.

The story of Rick, a washingmachine serviceman, and his relationships with two very different women, a teenage working-class girl, and a singer in a band.

When Evil Reigns is the debut feature film for Australian brothers Luke and Alix Jackson.

With a budget of only $5000, Luke and Alix fought for more than six years to develop the film from an ambitious dream into a finished product.

In Russia, artist and filmmaker Malernik films his partner’s first meeting with her family. He also unearths some little-known facts about Tatlin’s flying machine, the Letatlin.

HEALING ART Total of 13 films Drama, music, dance and visual arts - powerful tools for expressing and healing mental illnesses, physical disabilities, social displacement and personality disorders, challenges that affect many artists.

CATALOGUE HEALING ARTS THEATRE / DANCE DOCUMENTARY / EDUCATION / FILM & MEDIA

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HEALING ART Theatre | Dance Soul Dance + Documentary

90 mins | KF-Soul | A$290 / 1 yr The performance is the outcome of joint work by blind, partially sighted, physically handicapped and unhindered dancers. It is an artistic inquiry and research in disability and art without being emotionally caught in pity or sympathy. It is a powerful performance which shows the infinite possibilities that arise from the limitations and freedom of the human body and spirit.Soul Dance, the Documentary: Director, Yvette Bozsik, dancers of her company, Ildikó Bóta, art and movement therapist, dancers of her company, and other Hungarian artists talk about their abilities and disabilities

Somebody’s Daughter Theatre

On the Edge: Madeleine

Kitten

Abnormally Funny People

51 mins | SD-Som | A$180 / 1 yr

77 mins | JK-Madel | A$180 / 1 yr

80 mins | JK-Kitten | A$180 / 1 yr

45 mins | ABF-Funny | A$180 / 1 yr

It provides an insight both in their work inside women’s prisons and with particularly marginalised teenagers on the outside. Take the journey from workshops to performance, and see why their work is so inspirational and transformational.

Madeleine is an exploration of schizophrenia and it’s effect on a young woman and her family. It is the second in a cycle of new works, by Black Sequin Productions, exploring mental illness.

“A bi-polar soap trip – opera. A drama in three acts: from tragic, to manic, to sonic “ The play attempts to capture the Bi-Polar experience in it’s form as well as content. This is achieved by the externalising of the internal experience of Kitten.

The film follows the trials and tribulations of a group of disabled standup comedians rehearsing, producing and performing a groundbreaking comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the summer of 2005.

Dance to Live

Healing Steps - Healing powers of music and dance

Dances of Ecstasy

The Music in Me

57 mins | CG-Dance | A$240 / 1 yr

41 mins | CG-Heal | A$240 / 1 yr

58 mins | LP-Dances | A$250 / 1 yr

47 mins | AB-Music | A$167 / 1 yr

The documentary tells the personal stories of the dancers at Philadanco.

Dance to Live brings viewers into the world of dance that is normally hidden behind curtains, costumes, posters and the glamour of the stage.

Profiling four artists who have had to cope with adversity, while persevering in their respective performing arts careers, this documentary celebrates the healing and restorative powers of music, dance and friendship.

Throughout history states of ecstasy were a way of conneting with a divine power. The film explores the many levels of trance and discovers what links them together is the human need to connect with a spiritual dimension - a living part of many traditional cultures.

This the story of the Merry Makers who refuse to be defeated by the enormous challenges life has dealt them. Their dance and performances inspire even the most cynical. Australia only.

HEALING ART

Documentary | Education | Film and Media

Alone in a Crowded Room

The Dinner Party

56 mins | AB-Alone | A$176 / 1 yr

55 mins | PCO-Dinner | A$220 / 1 yr

What if you were highly intelligent, but remained trapped within a disorder that made others see you as inarticulate, odd or disabled? This program explores the line between ability and disability by following four Australian adults who are autistic.

Australia only.

A powerful documentary by Paul Cox, this film provides a unique insight into the lives of organ recipients, their time spent on waiting lists, their operations and the everyday realities of living with an organ from a deceased person.

CPR: A Life Saving Skill

Ken Paul Rosenthal’s “Crooked Beauty”

9 mins | IV-CPR | A$100 / 1 yr

34 mins | RV-Paul | A$240 / 1 yr

This video production is both a realistic and visually stimulating learning aid for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.

A poetic documentary that chronicles artist-activist Jacks McNamara’s transformative journey from childhood abuse to psych ward inpatient to pioneering mental health advocacy.

Beneath the Hood

What is it like to be 15 years old, living in Hackney, east London and excluded from mainstream school? Beneath The Hood is a challenging documentary telling the stories of students at Daniel House Pupil Referral Unit in Hackney. Through rap, MC-ing, poetry and music, we are given a unique insight into their lives following exclusion.

Commissioned by Creative Partnerships London East, this film is the culmination of a year-long project involving Eelyn Lee Productions, headteacher Annie Cornbleet and the students and staff at Daniel House.

Referencing music videos, graffiti, martial arts and cooking programmes as well as observational filming and interviews, Beneath the Hood experiments with the form of documentary whilst providing triggers for discussion around exclusion. The film gets to the heart of this topical issue, raising questions 82 mins | EE-Ben | A$180 / 1 yr on In the spirit of Hip Hop, Beneath the Hood puts different styles and genres ‘in the mix’ to create an ambitious portrait of life at Daniel House and what it is like to re-integrate into mainstream school. Following in the footsteps of Feltham Sings, Beneath the Hood sought to further develop the musical documentary style. Professionals from the music and performance industries, such as performance poets Jonzi D and Adisa, graffiti artists Dane and Tizer, composer and music producer Kew and Capoeira teacher Simon Atkinson were brought in to work closely with students, a process that has successfully inspired and validated creativity within the Pupil Referral Unit.

HISTORY & CULTURE

Total of 107 films Documentaries from around the world, includes series about the revolutions that have shaken the world, political assassinations that have changed the course of history, the rise of China and more..

CATALOGUE history & culture Political assassionations politics Revolutions xx century archive / sports China screen documentary classroom / junior

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POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS

HISTORY & CULTURE

Politics POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS Murder in Stockholm: Who killed Olof Palme?

The End of an American Dream: The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

Fratricide in Burkina: Thomas Sankara and French Africa

Death in Rome: The Case of Aldo Moro

Coup D’Etat in Santiago: The Last Days of Salvador Allende

52 mins | IC-Palme | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Kennedy | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Sankara | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Moro | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Allende | A$240 / 1 yr

On February 28 1986, in the heart of Stockholm, Palme was shot dead as he walked home alone without bodyguards, as was his habit.

Robert F. Kennedy embodied the hopes of immigrants, the blacks in the suburban ghettos and the impoverished white communities in America’s forgotten regions.

October 15, 1987. Automatic gunfire kills President Thomas Sankara, who remains fondly remembered as one of the great African leaders.

On May 9th 1978 Police discover president Aldo Moro’s body. He had been shot in the heart eleven times after being kidnapped by terrorists of the Extreme Left.

This remarkable and moving film exposes most impressive footage about the events, some of which has never been exposed before.

Death of a Pharaoh: Anwar al Sadat and the Holy Warriors

POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS: The Murder of God’s Banker: Roberto Calvi and the Vatican

Death of a Populist: Pim Fortuyn and the Dutch Consensus

The End of a Colombian Dream: Denying The Assassination Of Jorge Gaitana

A Death for Peace: Mahatma Gandhi and the Impossible Quest

52 mins | IC-Sadat | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Calvi | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Fortuyn | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Gaitan | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Gandhi | A$240 / 1 yr

Anwar al Sadat, successor of Nasser and President of Egypt, was the 1st Arab leader to try and break the wall of enmity between two peoples who laid claim to the same land.

For many years Roberto Calvi had been in a secret Vatican operation to transfer money to Poland, supporting the Solidarity trade union in its anticommunist uprising.

May 6th 2002. Populist Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn seems set to win the upcoming elections when he was shot dead as he leaves a radio studio after a live interview.

Jorge Gaitàn, the popular opposition leader and fierce opponent to the Colombian oligarchy, is shot dead. This film is the first investigation into the killing and the events in the days and years that followed.

On January 20, 1948, Gopal Godse, the man who promised himself to eliminate Gandhi ridicules himself in a failed attempt to kill the mahatma.

POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS

HISTORY & CULTURE

Politics POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS Night Flight to Death: The Violent End of Dag Hammarskjold

Assassination Colonial Style: Patrice Lumumba, an African Tragedy

Death in Memphis: The Mysterious Assassination of Martin Luther King

Death in Geneva: The Poisoning of Felix Moumié

Bloody Monday : The Assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten

52 mins | IC-Hammars | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Lumumba | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-MLKing | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Moumie | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Mount | A$240 / 1 yr

In Sep. 1961, the power blocs of the East and West vied to control the vast mineral resources of the former Belgian colony The Congo.

In early Dec. 1960, Patrice Lumumba was killed by members of the Belgian Secret Service. None of the murderers has ever been indicted.

In April 1968, Martin Luther King was at the height of his popularity. He had mobilised the black masses of America against apartheid and won Civil Rights concessions.

The film looks critically at France’s dirty war in Cameroon and investigates in minute detail the evidence of the murder and the reactions of both French and Swiss authorities.

Mountbatten was a naval war hero and the last Viceroy of India. He had supported Mahatma Ghandi’s bid for independence.

Carbombing in Beirut: Who Killed Rafic Hariri?

Duel in Pakistan: Benazir Bhutto between the Mosque and the Military

Murder in New York: Malcolm X and the birth of Afro-Americanism

Black Tuesday in Baghdad: Who killed Sergio Vieira de Mello?

The Cradock Murders

52 mins | IC-Hariri | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Bhutto | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Malcolm | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Mello | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Cradock | A$240 / 1 yr

This assassination marks the beginning of the Cedar Revolution. This film recounts Rafic Hariri’s political career till his tragic death.

This film tells the story about the turbulent history of Benazir’s country and its ever-present struggle for power.

On the Feb. 21 1965, whilst he delivers a speech in NYC to mark the opening of the “National Week of Fraternity”, he is shot in the pre-sence of his wife and his children.

This compelling film looks at the events as they unfold, and attempts to shed light on the context of this surprise attack on one of the more difficult UN missions.

This documentaries takes an indepth look at 20 of the most monstrous killings. Viewers will dive into the heart of inquiries often exceeding the scope of a murderer.

HISTORY & CULTURE

Politics POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS Murder in Kinshasa

52 mins | IC-Kinshasa | A$240 / 1 yr January 16th 2001, Laurent Desire Kabila is murdered by a soldier-kid who had become his bodyguard. We are in the Congo, where four years earlier Kabila had seized power, putting an end to Mobutu’s dictatorial reign of several decades.

HISTORY & CULTURE Politics Palestine Post 9/11

Shtetl - Mayer Kirshenblatt

Babakiueria

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

Voices in Exile

73 mins | CG-Pal | A$240 / 1 yr

23 mins | CG-Shtetl | A$240 / 1 yr

30 mins | AB-Baba | A$240 / 1 yr

91 mins | MAD-Ai | A$380 / 1 yr

65 mins | NM-Voice | A$215 / 1 yr

In the wake of the terrorist attacks on the twin towers and the Pentagon, the world witnessed a number of Palestinians celebrating on the streets of Jerusalem. The film is an examination of the tragic events of 9/11 from a Palestinian perspective.

World renowned folk artist Mayer Kirshenblatt recounts the story behind his paintings, which evoke his childhood in a Polish shtetl. His words and images recreate the sights, sounds and smells of these small Jewish communities.

This satirical examination of black-white relations in Australia to widespread acclaim with both critics and audiences alike. Now finally, this is the story of the fictitious land of Babakiueria, where white people are the minority and must obey black laws. Available in AU only.

Ai Weiwei is China’s most famous international artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic. Against a backdrop of strict censorship and an unresponsive legal system, Ai expresses himself and organises people through art and social media.

Most film and photography on Tibet is from the West looking in. Voices in Exile

by Tibetan first time director Tenzin Wangden Andrugtsang, presents the Tibetan Exile Community from the rarely seen Tibetan point of view.

The battle of Algiers (La bataille d’Alger)

The Road to Guantánamo

Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead

Living with Glasnost and Perestroika

Communication is Power: Mass Media & Mass Persuasion

121 mins | MAD-Battle | A$500 / 1 yr

95 mins | MAD-Road | A$350 / 1 yr

85 mins | NM-Tov | A$235 / 1 yr

60 mins | GA-Gla | A$170 / 1 yr

60 mins | GA-Com | A$170 / 1 yr

The Revolt that Stirred the World!

One of the most influential films in the history of political cinema, Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers focuses on the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria’s struggle for independence from France.

Three young friends travelling from the UK to Pakistan. Unaware of the US invasion they crossed the border into Afghanistan.

Swept up in a terrifying ordeal they were captured and through a series of events beyond their control held for two years in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay.

Garri Urban, survivor of Holocaust and Gulag revisits the sites of his horrors and triumphs, 50 years later. The film details the Urban’s tireless quest to procure evidence that his family was imprisoned by the Soviet Secret Police before discovering what grim fate they ultimately met during Holocaust.

What effect do glasnost and perestroika have on the everyday life of Russians? A Russian professor offers intriguing perspective into the economic and domestic history of Russia.

Understanding the techniques of advertising can give insight into many other forms of mass persuasion. For the methods used to sell us products are also used to sell us candidates, ideas, even life styles.

HISTORY & CULTURE Revolutions Revolution Argentina: The Pots’n Pans Revolution

Revolution Haiti: An Endless Revolution

Revolution Madagascar: Seven Months of Chaos

Revolution Georgia: as a Model for “Soft” Revolutions ?

Burkina Faso: A Revolution Rectified

52 mins | IC-Thepots | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Haiti | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Madag | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Georgia | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Burkina| A$240 / 1 yr

The film shows images of the revolt until the present, it also includes archived clips dating back to 1912.

It explores the historical roots and events before and after that Christmas and what the future holds for this young democracy in danger?

An interview with the deposed president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Pretoria, South Africa, is juxtaposed with the views of a wide range of supporters and critics, including US Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega.

Dec. 16, 2001: Madagascar. One of the world’s poorest countries falls into chaos. For seven months Madagascar is asphyxiated by this turmoil: barricades are set up, tortures take place, and the crisis escalates into a true civil war.

The film shows an inside glance at a successful revolution, one that remained non-violent and served as an inspiration for events which led other former soviet republics, like Ukraine towards democracy.

After Burkina-Faso`s failed revolution, the film reveals the price for the country’s stability: no democratic change - Compaoré is still in power since 1989-, no access to the wealth of the country -the ruling class owns it all-, and no real independence from the former colonial power of France.

Paraguay: The Revolution was in a Ballot Box

Vietnam: A Contagious Revolution

52 mins | IC-Paraguay | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Vietnam | A$240 / 1 yr

By listening the newly elected president, specialists of the Paraguayan history , and the people itself, this film helps us to understand why the Paraguayans, after so many years of dictatorship and unopposed governing, have entrusted their destiny to a religious figure who believes in democracy.

Using powerful, often new archives, the surprising itinerary of the Father of the Vietnamese nation will unfold in front of us. A series of on-site testimonies of Vietnamese veterans and highly respected historians. A clear overview of the recent History of Vietnam.

HISTORY & CULTURE XX Century Archive | Sports Fencing: The art, science, and the passion

Soul of the Samurai

30 mins | PE-Fenc | A$180 / 1 yr

46 mins | CG-Soul | A$240 / 1 yr

Through exiting close-ups, the fast moving action of duelling weapons are captured with a clarity rarely seen on TV or in movies. Slow motion segments let you see that magic moment of a “hit” or a “near miss”.

The time of the Samurai in ancient Japan was unique and violent; a life filled with tradition, honor, and legend.

Throughout many centuries of war, the Samurai developed one of the most revered weapons of all time –the Samurai sword.

A$220 / 1 yr each CAT-Bor Borobudur explored CAT-Ken Kendo: The Path of the Sword CAT-Sim The Rescue of Abu Simbel

Language / Literature CAT-Ana Anais Nin reads from her diary CAT-Ann Anna Akhmatova, Recitations & Reminiscences, with Irene Moore, Irene Kirk CAT-Asp Aspects of George Bernard Shaw CAT-Ric Richard Burton reads Dylan Thomas’ ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’

Philosophy / Religion CAT-Ritu Ritual Athletics of Iran CAT-Zen Zen and I: The Life of Zen Priest Tachibana Taiki

HISTORY & CULTURE World China - China Screen Chronicles from a changing empire...

For a few years now China has been undergoing considerable changes. The implosion of the Soviet Empire, the reforms and opening- up polic y, t he advent of consumerism and the emergence of modernity: important challenges to meet, both socially and economically.

Although the country has gained co n s i d e r a b l e i n t e r n at i o n a l influence, it’s inner mechanisms actually remain largely unknown.

Between the < yellow peril > and an economic miracle, one often forgets to considerthe 1.3 billion Chinese citizens attempting to findtheir place in a completely new context.

That’s why it is important to t a lk a bout “ t he New China” differently: through an exceptional portfolio of humaninterest stories, filmed from the inside by young independent Chinese filmmakers. By observing its diversity, in the cities and in the countryside, with the young and families, with rich and poor, but always with ordinary people. The curious viewer will find here a compelling mosaic revealing a mysterious, complex and authentic China.

A Better Life

Hard Old Rock

The Yangtze River`s Green Sailors

Flavour and Affinity

52 mins | IC-CSBetter | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-CSHard | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-CSSailor| A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-CSFlavour | A$240 / 1 yr

My Last Secret

The Secret of the Roast Pigeon

The Graduates

The Final Migration

52 mins | IC-CSSecret | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-CSPigeon | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-CSGraduate | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-CSFinal | A$240 / 1 yr

From one Patient to the Next

The Travelling Court

An Ordinary Season

A Village Life

52 mins | IC-CSFrom | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-CSTravel | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-CSOrdinary | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-CSLife | A$240 / 1 yr

HISTORY & CULTURE World China - China Screen The Christians of Caichong

Lost Sentence?

The Last House Standing

The Big Family

Nu Shu

52 mins | IC-CSChristian | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-CSLost | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Newlast | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Newbig | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Newnu | A$240 / 1 yr

Piano Dream

Nobodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Child

Three Strings for Two Storytellers

The New Shelter

Of Mothers and Daughters

52 mins | IC-Newpia | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Newno | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Strings | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Shelter | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Mothers | A$240 / 1 yr

HISTORY & CULTURE

World China - Global Citizen Dioxin’s Children

If Cities Could Fly

Heavy Metal

Documentaries on the issue of the Future of our Planet

52 mins | IC-GlobDiox | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-GlobCities | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-CSHeavy | A$240 / 1 yr

Organic, against all odds

Murky Waters

Dust

52 mins | IC-CSOrganic | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-CSMurky | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-CSDust | A$240 / 1 yr

Hell in Paradise

The Last Village

52 mins | IC-CSHell | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-GlobThelast | A$240 / 1 yr

Environment, energy, the diversity of species and peoples, food security, world governance... given today’s complexities, the list is long.

While refusing to draw alarmist conclusions, to provide a platform for pessimistic speeches or obtrusive slogans, those films are a space for Citizens who chose to objectively open their eyes on the world around them. They fight in one way or other for an acceptable Tomorrow. There is a good chance they have in mind the Indian saying “the earth is a gift of our parents and a lending of our children”.

HISTORY & CULTURE World China The Summer Palace Vol 1

The Summer Palace Vol 2

China: The Ancient Tea Route

52 mins | IC-Summer1 | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Summer2 | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | IC-Chtea | A$410 / 1 yr

Qianlong and the Splendors of the Middle Empire. Discover the secrets of the extraordinary imperial garden, recognized as a World Heritage treasure. Recognize why it is called the Versailles of the Orient.

Cixi and the decline of the Qing Dynasty. This part is built around the legendary figure of Empress Cixi, which accompanies the decline of the Qing dynasty and with it, China as an Empire.

A 3 part series about Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legendary Tea Road. It crosses the roof of the world, winding more than 4,000 tortuous kilometers across 20 mountain chains and two desert plateaux.

It spans four great rivers, and cuts through the territory of 26 different ethnic groups.

This is the ancient Tea Route, which opens Southwest China onto Tibet ­and thereby Nepal, India, Persia, Mongolia and Russia, and then Europe. The legendary Tea Route, crossed

by Marco Polo during his travels, but used by innumerable horse trains for countless centuries before him. Their tracks are beaten deep into the rocks.

This series of High Definition films follows in the hoofprints of those caravans which hauled their baggage of tea across the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas to be sold in the markets of South West Asia and dispersed to the entire world.

NORTH KOREA

HISTORY & CULTURE Documentary

North Korea - Crossing the Line Series

Crossing the Line - a rare portfolio of investigative documentaries, where engaged filmmakers look at what a certain number of North Korean defectors have experienced to escape their country. At the risk of their lives and those left behind.

VOL 1. Accross Land, Across Sea 55 mins | IC-Crossing1 | A$240 / 1 yr 2012 INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL EMMY® AWARDS NOMINEE - BEST DOCUMENTARY. Songgook and Sueryun are a newly wed North Korean couple now living in the south. As is the case for an estimated 20 000 defectors who have built or are trying to build a new life in South Korea, they are attempting to secure their entire family’s freedom by arranging their defection along with them to the South. Songgook puts his life at risk, making a dangerous trek to the Tumen River, a border zone between China and North Korea. He makes plans to lead a daring escape: to smuggle his family into the South by boat. Because of the extreme danger associated with this journey, this kind of attempt is very rare. And this is the first ever to be filmed.

VOL 2.

Itinerary of A Rebel

VOL 3.

Crossing Three Borders

VOL 4.

Seeking Haven

VOL 5.

Phantoms of the Border

50 mins | IC-Crossing2 | A$240 / 1 yr

30 mins | IC-Crossing3 | A$240 / 1 yr

57 mins | IC-Crossing4 | A$240 / 1 yr

101 mins | IC-Crossing5 | A$500 / 1 yr

Tracing a North Korean`s citizen`s quest for dignity.

The story of nine defectors in an attempt to cross from China into Vietnam.

Youngsoon is a North Korean girl has been determined to arrange her sister’s escape.

On the border of China, North Korean women are offered to Chinese brokers to be sold on the human market.

HISTORY & CULTURE Documentary

Everyday Art Cuban Folklore

Gandy Dancers

Fire Within

American Splendor

50 mins | CG-Everyd | A$240 / 1 yr

30 mins | CG-Gandy | A$240 / 1 yr

57 mins | CG-Fire | A$240 / 1 yr

101 mins | RIA-American | A$500 / 1 yr

This video portrays tradotopma; folklore in Cuba, focusing on the everyday life of musicians and dancers.

Shot in homes as well as on the streets and stages, the video captures the connections between African and Latino culture, religion, daily life and art.

Features the musical traditions and verbal recollections of eight retired African-American railroad track laborers, whose occupational folk songs were once heard along the railroad lines that crisscross the South.

Fire Within documents an incredible journey, and reveals how ordinary teenagers confront their fears and prejudices, forge long-lasting friendships, and tackle issues such as religion, equal rights, racial profiling, identity, politics, etc.

The documentary directing team of Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman makes their narrative feature debut with this biographical comedy drama.

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work

My Winnipeg

Falling Up

Skid Row

120 mins | MAD-Gonzo | A$380 / 1 yr

84 mins | MAD-Joan | A$380 / 1 yr

80 mins | MAD-Winni | A$500 / 1 yr

56 mins | NM-Fall | A$206 / 1 yr

80 mins | NM-Skid | A$230 / 1 yr

The film is distinguished by its unprecedented cooperation of Thompson’s friends, family and estate. The filmmakers had access to hundreds of photographs and over 200 hours of audiotapes, home movies and documentary footage of the man.

The film takes us on a year long ride with the irreverent comedian and pop icon Joan Rivers, peeling away the mask of the legendary performer, laying bare both the struggle and thrill of living life as a groundbreaking female performer.

Guy Maddin does for his Winnipeg what Terence Davies does for his Liverpool in Of Time and the City; he uses cinematic arts and crafts to convey his feelings about his home town, and it’s the images that are the overlay.

Documents the transformation of Johnny Popp, a Vietnam Veteran who is a crack addict on the streets of “Skid Row”.

While rehabilitating, he meets a formerly homeless woman, who suffered years of domestic violence. The two meet in an unexpected place for romance, deciding not to return to the streets.

An investigation of the US homelessness crisis on constant display in Los Angeles’ 5-block radius dubbed “Skid Row”.

International music sensation Pras Michel (The Fugees) chose to explore this topic as few would do - he lived on the streets of Skid Row for nine days as a homeless person.

HISTORY & CULTURE Documentary The Fourth World

The American Who Electrified Russia

Jesus, You Know

Animal Love

Detroit: Ruin of a City

55 mins | NM-Fourth | A$205 / 1 yr

105 mins | MCH-Russia | A$290 / 1 yr

87 mins | CPO-Jesus | A$500 / 1 yr

114 mins | CPO-Animal | A$500 / 1 yr

92 mins | MCH-Detroit | A$290 / 1 yr

One out of every six human beings lives in a very hidden world - the world of slums. Filmed on five continents, ‘The Fourth World’ takes viewers deep inside this hidden world, a world the United Nations says could triple in the next 30 years.

Explores the relationship between history and family memory through the biography of an individual, Solomon Abramovich Trone unrecorded in the history books whose life was nonetheless intertwined with history, but in a paradoxical fashion.

This award winning film follows six Catholics in different churches as they pray to Jesus. He is father and friend, saviour and rescuer, guide and confidant. Each of these people provides us with their view of God through the intimacy of their lives.

By Ulrich Seidl. People in big cities, people in Vienna: human closeness has become a rarity, but dogs, cats, rats and other pets fulfill their purpose as conversation partners, lifetime companions, cuddly toys.

With the participation of Detroit artists and a variety of local residents, the film looks back over the history of the city in the twentieth century: over the rise and fall of the social system identified by social theorists as ‘Fordism’.

Big Dreamers

Flowering of the Pacific

Stamp of Australia

Unveiled Views

55 mins | AB-Bigdream | A$175 / 1 yr

55 mins | AB-Flower | A$178 / 1 yr

120 mins | AB-Stamp | A$330 / 1 yr

52 mins | AB-Unveiled | A$172 / 1 yr

Once upon a time there was a tiny sugar-producing township called Tully in Far North Queensland, Australia.

Tully is renowned for its endless sugar fields and...rain. One day the townsfolk were shocked by the devastating news that Brazil had dumped its sugar on the world market... Available in AU only.

Robert Hughes presents an insight into the work of Joseph Banks, the botanist who accompanied Captain James Cook on his first voyage of circumnavigation.

Available in AU only.

a snapshot of 200 years of Australia’s history viewed through the prism of the Post Office and the remarkable letters it delivered. Available in AU only.

What’s life really like for women in the Islamic world? To what extent is our opinion of them based on Western prejudice? We profile five remarkable women who challenge conventional stereotypes. Available in AU only.

HISTORY & CULTURE Classroom / Junior Holocaust

The Elizabethan Age

Tasaday

In Search of Ancient Mysteries

The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond

33 mins | GA-Hol | A$170 / 1 yr

29 mins | GA-Eli | A$170 / 1 yr

30 mins | GA-Tasa | A$170 / 1 yr

52 mins | GA-Mys | A$170 / 1 yr

31 mins | GA-Har | A$170 / 1 yr

Traces a complex historical path of European anti-Semitism and examines increasingly determined persecution of the Jews in Nazi Germany, including the violent turning point of Kristallnacht, and the formulation of the Final Solution.

This colorful program relates Elizabeth I’s personality, economic and cultural growth. It explores period art, music and writings by authors such as Shakespeare, John Davies and by Elizabeth herself.

This program uses actual on-location photographs of the Tasaday and tape recordings of their talking and singing to help students understand and examine their Stone Age way of life.

Additional evidence to support the theory that man on earth had his genesis somewhere in outer space is offered in this thought-provoking film.

The viewer is left to decide whether or not outer space beings may have settled here and colonized the Earth.

Gives students a deeper appreciation of the African American literary tradition.

Man and Woman: Myths and Stereotypes

Man as Symbol Maker: Creating New Meanings

Mythology: Gods and Goddesses

Myths and Legends: Mirrors of Mankind

36 mins | GA-Man | A$170 / 1 yr

31 mins | GA-Symb | A$170 / 1 yr

41 mins | GA-Myth | A$170 / 1 yr

48 mins | GA-Mytleg | A$170 / 1 yr

This timely program examines how literature, art, movies, media and music perpetuate artificial male and female roles. The history of sexual stereotypes is traced through the writings of Sylvia Plath and Simone de Beauvoir.

A penetrating analysis of how humans since earliest times, used symbols to express basic ideas about themselves and the world in which they live; the impact of symbols and images used in art and literature to describe people’s most profound thoughts and feelings.

For students who are not already familiar with the classical myths, this program provides an informative and memorable introduction, lavishly illustrated with photographs, reproductions and original art.

Students will be facinated with this colorful program that focuses upon the myths and legends that were created to explain the nature of the universe and people’s place in it. They’ll learn that myths and legends often reflect a connection between the life cycles of man and nature.

HOSPITALITY

Masters of Gastronomy An Exclusive Interview Collection with 89 world-renown chefs, choclatiers, masters of fine food and wine.

HOSPITALITY

Masters of Gastronomy - Interview Collection

An over 12 hours long exclusive interview collection with world-renowned chefs, choclatiers, masters and experts of fine food and wine from Europe to Australia. Each interview is between 6 -15 minutes on avarage.

Subscribe to the entire collection! Contact us for a price.

Also available on DVD. PARIS

LONDON

Pierre Gagnaire Guy Savoy (*** Michelin) Michel del Burgo Jean-Michel Nomicos Dominique Bouchet Eric Frechon Alain Passard (*** Michelin – l’Arpege) Armen Petrossian (Petrossian Restaurant) Helene Darroze Alain Senderens Dominique Bouchet (Restaurant DB) Jean-Louis Nomicos (2-star Michelin Chef) Manuel Martinez (Restaurant Louis XIII) Christian Petrossian Robert Linxe (Maison du Chocolat) Guy Monier (Maison de Truffe) Pierre Lienard (Stohrer) Jean Claude Rouzaud (Louis Roederer Champagne) Dominique Heriard Dubreil (Remy Martin) Deutz Ghislain de Montgolfier (Bollinger) Massenez Eau de vie Christian Pol Roger (Pol Roger Champagne)

Gordon Ramsay (*** Michelin Chef) Anton Mosimann John Burton-Race Sean Osborne Phil Howard Eric Chavot Fergus Henderson Michel Roux (Le Gavroche Restaurant) Marcus Wareing Anton Mosimann Michel Roux (Le Gavroche Restaurant) Shane Osborn(e) (Pied-a-Terre Restaurant) Simon Berry (Berry Brothers & Rudd) MILAN

MADRID

Aimo et Nadia Carlo Cracco Sergio Mei Danilo Ange Claudio Sadler Pietro Leeman Pietro Leeman (Restaurant Joia) Enotecco Ronchi (MGM Truffles) Remi Krug (Krug Champagne)

Sergi Arola

GENEVA

ATHENS

Thomas Byrne Roberto Caraguti Henri Roure (Roure Chocolates)

Christoforos Peskias (48 Restaurant) Arnaud Bignon (2 Michelin Star - Spondi) Chearcus Wareing (Petrus)

MUNICH Heinz Winkler Bernhard Diers Hans Haas

NEW YORK Tom Colicchio Christian Delouvrier Jean-George Vongerichten Daniel Boulud Eberhard Muller Charles Masson & Ian Scully Sirio Maccione (Le Cirque) Jean-Jacques Rachou

SYDNEY Tony Bilson Neil Perry Tim Pak Poy Tetsuya Wakuda Liam Tomlin Peter Doyle Nori & Suki (Restaurant 7) Greg Doyle (Pier) Justin North (Becasse) Mark Best (Marque) Guillaume Brahimi (Guillaume @ Bennelong) Matt Moran (Aria) Ryuichi Yoshii (Yoshii) MELBOURNE Walter Trupp Geoff Lindsay Teague Ezard Paul Wilson Michael Lambie Jacques Reymond Michael Lambie (Taxi Restaurant) Robin Wickens (Interlude) Shannon Bennett (Vue de Monde) Tadashi Takahashi (Nobu)

CATALOGUE Artfilms-digital is a unique collection of contemporary art films ideally suited for coursework, research and reference.

Subscription to Artfilms-digital allows students, faculty, and public library members to watch high quality streaming videos anywhere, anytime. Choose from hundreds of art documentaries, interviews with artists, production recordings and instructional films across all art subject areas.

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LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Total of 51 films Documentaries and invaluable classroom materials.

From 20th Century Literature Masters trough translation to various junior literacy themes.

CATALOGUE LANGUAGE & LITERATURE XX century archive Translation secondary education (k-12)

Artfilms-digital is a unique collection of contemporary art films ideally suited for coursework, research and reference.

Subscription to Artfilms-digital allows students, faculty, and public library members to watch high quality streaming videos anywhere, anytime. Choose from hundreds of art documentaries, interviews with artists, production recordings and instructional films across all art subject areas.

This catalogue is updated monthly.

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SHAW / HEMINGWAY / DYLAN THOMAS

LANGUAGE & LITERATURE XX Century Archive Anaïs Nin reads from her diary

Anna Akhmatova: Recitations and Reminiscences

Aspects of George Bernard Shaw

Hemingway: In the Autumn

Pablo Neruda: Poet

27 mins | CAT-Ana | A$220 / 1 yr

28 mins | CAT-Ann | A$220 / 1 yr

54 mins | CAT-Asp | A$220 / 1 yr

51 mins | CG-Hem | A$240 / 1 yr

30 mins | CG-Pab | A$240 / 1 yr

Filmed at the point in her life when Nin was passing from being a bohemian writer to being a widely read figure taken up by a new generation, reads selections from volume one of her just (1966) published Diary.

With Irene Moore & Irene Kirk.

Perspectives on the poetess, the celebrated Russian poet who bridged Tsarist and Revolutionary Russia, was adored and called “the soul of her time,” and who suffered desperately under Stalin’s disfavor.

Margaret Webster presents her insights into the great Irish playwright G. B. Shaw. This onewoman show illustrates aspects of the many-sided Shaw: his humor, his irascibility, Shaw the lover and social reformer...

This video memoir of one of the most talented and fascinating writers of the 20th century features rare archival footage and photos, plus interviews with Hemingway’s son, Jack, as well as friends, Hemingway biographers and scholars.

Examines the life and work of the Nobel Prize-winning poet. In an interview conducted shortly before his death, Neruda discusses his worldview and explains his writing methods. Features readings from Neruda’s poems and commentary tracing the development of his poetic vision.

Richard Burton reads Dylan Thomas’ ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’

With a Stroke of the Chaveta

27 mins | CAT-Ric | A$220 / 1 yr

28 mins | CG-With | A$240 / 1 yr

Richard Burton recites Dylan Thomas’ poem “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” while walking in lower New York City, sitting in the kind of bar Thomas favored, looking at the Hudson river. Effectively handled by the young Burton, who like Thomas, is a Welchman.

Don Quixote, Les Misérables, One Hundred Years of Solitude. The practice of reading classic works of literature to workers at cigar factories dates back to the mid-1800s. With a Stroke of the Chaveta explores this rich tradition that continues to flourish in Cuba.

AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF INTERPRETERS & TRANSLATORS

LANGUAGE & LITERATURE Translation

Synergise! Lectures Series This 4 part series comprises 12 lectures presented in November 2010 at the Synergise! Conference organised and hosted by AUSIT, the Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators. The presentations were selected for the purpose of enhancing T&I education as a resource in course-work or self-directed learning.

The length of each segment is about 30 minutes.

AUS-Language | A$150 / 1 yr

PART 1: Language Invention & Creativity

AUS-Cross | A$150 / 1 yr

PART 2: Cross-Cultural Issues In Translating

AUS-Training | A$150 / 1 yr

PART 3: Training, Surviving And Thriving In The T&I Industry

AUS-Interpret | A$150 / 1 yr

PART 4: Interpreting In Legal Settings

Presentations from the 2012 JubilaTIon 25 Biennial AUSIT Conference This 6 part series comprises 12 lectures presented in 2012 at the JubilaTlon 25 Biennial Conference.

The presentations were selected for the purpose of enhancing T&I education as a resource in course-work or self-directed learning. Each part contains several independent segments that address the same topic.

AUS-Long | A$150 / 1 yr

PART 1: Longer Chains? The Relative Freedom of Literary Translation

AUS-Crowd | A$150 / 1 yr

PART 2: Crowdsourcing - What are the implications?

AUS-Rewriting | A$150 / 1 yr PART 3: Rewriting the AUSIT Code of Ethics: local interests and international comparisons AUS-Delighting | A$150 / 1 yr

PART 4: Delighting in Translation

AUS-Versatil | A$150 / 1 yr

PART 3: The Versatility of Interpreters

AUS-Inter | A$150 / 1 yr

PART 4: Interpreters in Tight Corners

SECONDARY EDUCATION (K-12)

LANGUAGE & LITERATURE An Introduction to Russian Literature

Introduction to French Literature

The Romantic Age in English Literature

Shakespeare is Alive and Well in the Modern World

Science Fiction: Jules Verne to Ray Bradbury and Beyond

55 mins | GA-Rus | A$170 / 1 yr

55 mins | GA-Fren | A$170 / 1 yr

32 mins | GA-Rom | A$170 / 1 yr

47 mins | GA-Shake1 | A$170 / 1 yr

30 mins | GA-Sci | A$170 / 1 yr

Early 19th century Russian history and culture through Pushkin and Gogol. Profound changes in 19th century Russain life are reflected by the works of Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky. 20th century excerpts from Pasternak, Sholokhov and Solzhenitsyn.

Fougeres, de Nogent, Heloise and Abelard, Villon, Rabelais, Montaigne, Henry IV, Descartes, Pascal, Moliere, Racine, Louis XIV, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hugo, Balzac, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Mallarme, Proust, Sartre, Camus and de Beauvoir.

The periodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s literary themes and social currents are explored through extensive excerpts from Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley and Keats; biographical notes on each poet; and introductory analysis of their work.

This program compares Shakespearean themes with similar themes from modern works, enabling students to penetrate complex Elizabethan vocabulary and experience insight into characterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feelings, motives and actions.

Using screen adaptations of Frankenstein, 20,000 leagues Under The Sea, The Time Machine, and The Martian Chronicles, this program illustrates some major themes of science fiction.

Poetry of Rock: A Reflection of Human Values

Poetry

Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath and the Depression

The Poetic Experience

What is Satire?

40 mins | GA-Rock | A$170 / 1 yr

41 mins | GA-Poe | A$170 / 1 yr

26 mins | GA-Stei | A$170 / 1 yr

40 mins | GA-Poet | A$170 / 1 yr

44 mins | GA-Sat | A$170 / 1 yr

A novel way to teach students about the emotional content and poetic techniques found in rock lyrics, this program introduces the universality of human values and the poetic tools of similie, metaphor, hyperbole, symbolism and allegory.

The enormous possibilities of poetic expression are explored through works by cummings, Shakespeare, Edward Lear, Wordsworth, Millay, Donne, Corso, Dorothy Parker, Homer, Keats, Roethke, Hart Crane, Pound, Yeats, Coleridge and Pablo Neruda.

The program features an expert who provides backgrounds for both the novel and movie; covers social concerns suggested by the novel; the relationship of the novel to the movie and to documentaries and photography of the period.

A simple, lyrical introduction to word selection, rhythm, form, imagery, meter, simile, metaphor and rhyme. Instructive points are demonstrated by examples from Shakespeare, Cummings, Whitman, Ciardi, Ferlinghetti, Booth, Horne and more...

In this program, songs, essays, poems and works of fiction drawn from many periods illuminate the origins, development and results of this genre. Satirists such as Swift, Shaw, Woody Allen, and Dorothy Parker are presented.

SECONDARY EDUCATION (K-12)

LANGUAGE & LITERATURE Tragic Flaw: Not in the Stars but in Ourselves

The Short Story

Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn and the Mississippi: A Video Commentary

Literature with a Message: Protest & Propaganda, Satire & Social Comment

Literature of the Supernatural: Worlds Beyond Reason

35 mins | GA-Trag | A$170 / 1 yr

59 mins | GA-Sho | A$170 / 1 yr

28 mins | GA-Mark | A$170 / 1 yr

35 mins | GA-Lit | A$170 / 1 yr

41 mins | GA-Litsu | A$170 / 1 yr

Examines the imprefections of tragic heroes, the qualities of character that determine their choices and the consequences of those choices.

Characters such as Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Fitgerald’s Gatsby illustrate this story of the tragic hero.

Help students understand the key elements of the short story and the various methods and objectives of short story writers.

Includes terminology, definitions, and techniques of writers such as Poe, Thurber, Sillitoe, Updike and Saroyan.

Background information about Mark Twain and his work in this interview with noted scholar Lee Chlesinger.

The program focuses on the deeper implications of Huckleberry Finn and makes an ideal introduction to the book.

Literary propaganda is examined in the Horatio Alger stories and the wartime speeches of Churchill ; literature of protest is illustrated by ‘Cry, the Beloved Country’. ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ and ‘Animal Farm’ exemplify satire; Death of a Salesman illustrates social comment.

exploration of the literature that deals with gods, angels, demons and spirits - beings who take an active and sometimes frightening interest in human affairs. Shows the high price that many fictional characters have paid for dabbling in the supernatural.

Brontes: Fantasy and Reality

Bible as Literature

Edgar Allan Poe: Literature of Melancholy

Exploring the Novel: For Entertainment and Comprehension

Jack London: A Life of Adventure

32 mins | GA-Bron | A$170 / 1 yr

39 mins | GA-Bib | A$170 / 1 yr

30 mins | GA-Edg | A$170 / 1 yr

48 mins | GA-Exp | A$170 / 1 yr

25 mins | GA-Jack | A$170 / 1 yr

Excerpts from journals, letters, poetry and prose enrich this narrative biography of Anne, Charlotte and Emily Bronte. The program introduces the sisters’ major works and illuminates their basic, recurrent themes.

Through art, drama and analysis, this program shows the Old & New Testament origins of many contemporary literary forms, styles & devices. Explores elements of the short story, biography, fable, adventure, tragedy, parable and novel.

Examines Poe’s personality and his view of the intellectual as a superior but isolated being. It also investigates the invention of the detective story, his understanding of horror, violence and paranoia, and his use of poetry to reveal melancholy and romantic love.

Explores the traditions of realism and romanticism. Dramatized selections illustrate elements as charaters, plot, setting, style, point of view and theme. Excerpts from the writings of Dickens, Salinger, Huxley, Hemingway, Tolkien and others.

Extensive readings from Jack London’s works- combined with his own photographs, illustrations from his books, historical documents and on-location photographs-help students comprehend the life experiences that shaped his writing.

SECONDARY EDUCATION (K-12)

LANGUAGE & LITERATURE Geoffrey Chaucer: Poet and Pilgrim

More Than Words Series 2 Parts

Signing Songs

Writers on Writing series Writers

Writers on Writing series - Playwrights and Composers

25 mins | GA-Geof | A$170 / 1 yr

150 mins | AB-More | A$650 / 1 yr

21 mins | NM-Sign | A$230 / 1 yr

150 mins | AB-Writer | A$460 / 1 yr

150 mins | AB-Playwright | A$430 / 1 yr

The Canterbury Tales. Through explanatory narration, dramatized readings and medieval art, the video reviews the role of Canterbury pilgrimages, Chaucer’s career, his usage of vernacular English, his wit, descriptive genius and power of characterization.

Children’s literacy program exploring aspects of communication which go beyond words. The series is designed as a resource to support the English Curriculum Statement and Profile for Australian Schools.

Australia only.

Demonstrates how to teach signing to babies or children with special needs and works for all children.

This approach was developed by board certified music therapist, Lesley Ketcham and the caring father of a child with special needs.

Looks at the creative process of writing for publications. It features interviews and readings from national and international writers attending Adelaide Festival of Arts Writers’ Week, as well as younger and up and coming writers.

Australia only.

Writing for the stage. Interviews with noted playwrights during the National Playwrights’ Conference. Workshop excerpts. The Composers follows young composers as they workshop pieces for performance during the Festival.

Australia only.

Classroom Classics 1 Literary Themes

Classroom Classics 2 Literary Themes

Classroom Classics 3 Literary Themes

Classroom Classics 4 Literary Themes

29 mins | GA-CC1 | A$170 / 1 yr

25 mins | GA-CC2 | A$170 / 1 yr

32 mins | GA-CC3 | A$170 / 1 yr

33 mins | GA-CC4 | A$170 / 1 yr

Program features dramatic clips from these popular classics: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank & A Separate Peace by John Knowles. Identify major literary themes and see how characters and plots are developed.

Program features dramatic clips from these popular classics: Lord of the Flies

by William Golding & The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.

Identify major literary themes and see how characters and plots are developed.

Program features dramatic clips from these popular classics: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee & The Miracle Worker by William Gibson.

Identify major literary themes and see how characters and plots are developed.

Program features dramatic clips from these popular classics: Animal Farm

by George Orwell & The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Identify major literary themes and see how characters and plots are developed.

MEDIA & TELEVISION

Total of 25 films A large selection of instructional films on Television and Radio production and Advertising.

CATALOGUE MEDIA & TELEViSION Instructional & Training Advertising

Artfilms-digital is a unique collection of contemporary art films ideally suited for coursework, research and reference.

Subscription to Artfilms-digital allows students, faculty, and public library members to watch high quality streaming videos anywhere, anytime. Choose from hundreds of art documentaries, interviews with artists, production recordings and instructional films across all art subject areas.

This catalogue is updated monthly.

Do you have a question?

Contact Customer Service at info@artfilms.com.au

INSTRUCTIONAL / TRAINING

MEDIA & TELEVISION

Australian Film Television and Radio School production

The Critics: Stories from the Inside Pages

Approaches To Interviewing

Announcing & Presentation

Current Affairs Journalism

75 mins | DDP-Crit | A$280 / 1 yr

25 mins | AFT-Appro | A$180 / 1 yr

27 mins | AFT-Anno | A$180 / 1 yr

13 mins | AFT-Current | A$180 / 1 yr

In this educational documentary, 21 renowned music critics, television critics, film critics and books critics share the secrets of their craft.

Interspersed with their stories are media clips to illustrate their ideas.

Anne Deveson, Allan Hogan, Jack Pizzey and John Temple discuss their attitudes towards film and television interviews.

Introduced by Bryon Quigley.

Six announcers from news, music and talk shows provide insights into the requirements of their particular formats and into their personal approaches to gathering, organising and presenting material.

Four Corners producer, Jonathon Holmes, discusses the important aspects of the television interview and the methods of conducting an interesting, thorough interview.

Sitcom Seminar in 3 Parts

Script to Screen

Introduction to Television Studio Lighting

Introduction to Floor Managing

Floor Managing a Television Drama

360 mins | AFT-Sit | A$550 / 1 yr

30 mins | AFT-Scr | A$180 / 1 yr

20 mins | AFT-Tvlig | A$180 / 1 yr

25 mins | AFT-Flo | A$180 / 1 yr

34 mins | AFT-Flman | A$180 / 1 yr

What is sitcom? with Norma Safford Vela and Russ Woody / Comic toolbox / Writers craft / Sitcom rules / Dramatic structure and characters / Survival guide - Russ Woody / AU sitcoms with John Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Grady, Geoffrey Atherden and Gary Reilly / The writing process / The production process.

Follows television director Brian Bell as he adapts a stage play for television.

Discover how information and emotions communicated on the stage through lengthy dialogue can be communicated on the screen through visual means.

Lighting director Bob Forster Demonstrates 3-dimensional lighting on a set. Learn how to create both day and evening lighting effects for an interior and color correction alternatives for scenes combining interior and exterior lighting.

A detailed explanation of the work of the studio floor manager. Looks at floor managing a straightforward studio interview also deals with a simple studio drama. The program covers the basic skills of cueing, time signals, working with cast and crew.

This program was shot during the making of the ABCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rock drama series Sweet and Sour. It looks at the duties and responsibilities of a senior floor manager both in the studio and on location.

INSTRUCTIONAL / TRAINING

MEDIA & TELEVISION

Australian Film Television and Radio School production

Macro and Real Time Photography

Television Make-Up: The Basics

Talking Back: Radio Talkback

Radio Writing - 2 Parts

Radio Copywriting

15 mins | AFT-Macro | A$180 / 1 yr

28 mins | AFT-Make | A$180 / 1 yr

37 mins | AFT-Radtalk | A$180 / 1 yr

47 mins | AFT-Radwr | A$180 / 1 yr

27 mins | AFT-Radco | A$180 / 1 yr

The program considers issues such as research and dealing withproblem callers and also covers operational skills, with a special instructional segment examining telephone operation, delay systems and dumping calls.

Examines the issues and the craft of three distinct writing styles in detail: Juliette Brodsky (2SERFM) and Nick Pisani (2BL) - news & current affairs; Kevin Best(2WS) - commercial copywriting, and, Greig Pickhaver (alias H.G. Nelson) and Gary Reilly - radio comedy writing.

with Lois Baird. The craft of the radio copywriter is one that calls for creativity and imaginationa. Lois Baird, Head of AFTRS Radio Unit, talks about the special skills a copywriter needs.

A presentation of the spectacular effects that are now possible in wildlife filming. Peter Parks, director of Research and Development at Oxford Scientific Films, describes the most recent technological advances in this area.

The essential skills of television make-up.

The program is broken into clear modules with step by step tuition and revision sequences. Modules cover: the purpose of make-up; eyes, rouge, lips, powder; make-up for men; make-up for different skin types; make-up for faults; handy hints; make-up removal; hygiene.

The Radio Interview

Radio News

The Radio Studio

Edit, Cut and Dub

Radio - Advertising Concepts: Bert & Baz Down Under

21 mins | AFT-Radint | A$180 / 1 yr

37 mins | AFT-Radnews | A$180 / 1 yr

31 mins | AFT-Radstu | A$180 / 1 yr

15 mins | AFT-Edit | A$180 / 1 yr

20 mins | AFT-Radad | A$180 / 1 yr

The basic technical requirements of the audio interview are covered, plus how to prepare your questions, how to get the subject to relax, how to deal with subjects who take over the interview, or respond in monosyllables, or evade your questions altogether.

Broadcast news and mass communications.

An introduction to the operation of all the hardware of a radio studio: the console, microphones, telephone talkback, turntables and CDs, cart players, tape recorders, cassette decks, DAT recorders and more.

A straight forward presentation of the two basic audiotape editing techniques: splice editing and dub editing. Clear graphics and overlays make the procedures clear, and examples of music and voice edits are performed.

Advertising concepts.

ADVERTISING

MEDIA & TELEVISION Communication is Power: Mass Media & Mass Persuasion

The Making of the MMM Commercial

The NIKE TV Commercial

60 mins | GA-Com | A$170 / 1 yr

40 mins | AFT-MMM | A$180 / 1 yr

33 mins | AFT-Nike | A$180 / 1 yr

Understanding the techniques of advertising can give insight into many other forms of mass persuasion. For the methods used to sell us products are also used to sell us candidates, ideas, even life styles. Advertising seldom tells the whole truth. It often employs exaggeration, or “puffery” to impress customers.

The first TV commercial for new FM radio station ‘MMM’. Explores technical elements of concept development, complex animation, special visual effects and light manipulation, together with a shot-by-shot explanation of how the commercial was made.

Every aspect of a NIKE ad is dissected to reveal the extraordinary path of the making of a TV commercial. Creative aspects are followed by an explanation of the production of the commercial itself.

The Role of Research in Advertising

The Role of the Advertising Agency

Rhetoric of Advertising

38 mins | AFT-Res | A$180 / 1 yr

25 mins | AFT-Agent | A$180 / 1 yr

50 mins | AFT-Rhet | A$180 / 1 yr

Looks at the role of research into public attitudes to advertisements and how the results of this research can affect both the sales of the product and the ways in which the product is advertised.

This program features Australianowned agency Box-Emery & Partners, offering a privileged look at the way an agency works and how it produces the materials that will promote the products and services of its clients.

Dr. Philip Bell presents an analysis of the way advertisements and television commercials use linguistic devices to express their meaning.

MUSIC

Total of 80 films A collection of unique interviews with some of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most interesting contemporary musicians, and samples of the music they create.

JAZZ

MUSIC

In Concert Andrea Keller Czech House

Erik Griswold Chapel off Chapel

Pascal Schumacher Ormond Hall

Adam Simmons With Tony Overwater 2005

Adam Simmons Incinerator

52 mins | EX-CONJAZZ1 | A$125 / 1 yr

52 mins | EX-CONJAZZ2 | A$125 / 1 yr

52 mins | EX-CONJAZZ3 | A$125 / 1 yr

46 mins | EX-CONJAZZ4 | A$125 / 1 yr

52 mins | EX-CONJAZZ5 | A$125 / 1 yr

Freshly returned from 3 months in New York and Poland, Adam Simmons re-unites with all-original ASQ members Andrew Ogburn, Simon Starr and Matt Earl for some feisty and delicate music.

Freshly returned from 3 months in New York and Poland, Adam Simmons re-unites with all-original ASQ members Andrew Ogburn, Simon Starr and Matt Earl for some feisty and delicate music.

With strong influences from Keith Jarrett’s 1980’s work, MCA Freedman Fellowship winner pianist/ composer Andrea Keller won her first ARIA [Australian equivalent of a GRAMMY] in 2002.

Erik Griswold is an eclectic Australian-American musician, who fuses experimental, jazz and world music traditions to create works of striking originality.

In 2004, Pascal Schumacher wins with his quartet the First Prize as well as the Public Prize at the famous Tremplin Jazz Avignon (F). In October 2005, Pascal receives the Belgium Jazz Trophy Django d’Or in the category “New Talent”.

Adam Simmons - BMW EDGE Nov 2004

Aaron Choulai Bennets Lane

Anita Hustas Trio - BMW EDGE Nov 2004

Aaron Choulai Trio - BMW EDGE Nov 2004

Andrea Keller - BMW EDGE Nov 2004

50 mins | EX-CONJAZZ6 | A$125 / 1 yr

52 mins | EX-CONJAZZ7 | A$125 / 1 yr

60 mins | EX-CONJAZZ8 | A$125 / 1 yr

65 mins | EX-CONJAZZ9 | A$125 / 1 yr

45 mins | EX-CONJAZZ10 | A$125 / 1 yr

At an early age Aaron was exposed to a wide range of music from traditional Motuan mourning chants, to the songs sung around the table at Passover, to Beethoven, Brahms and Bach played to him by his grandfather.

With strong influences from Keith Jarrett’s 1980’s work, MCA Freedman Fellowship winner pianist/ composer Andrea Keller won her first ARIA [Australian equivalent of a GRAMMY] in 2002.

Freshly returned from 3 months in New York and Poland, Adam Simmons re-unites with all-original ASQ members Andrew Ogburn, Simon Starr and Matt Earl for some feisty and delicate music.

At an early age Aaron was exposed to a wide range of music from traditional Motuan mourning chants, to the songs sung around the table at Passover, to Beethoven, Brahms and Bach played to him by his grandfather.

Anita Hustas specializes in improvising double bass performance and composition. Anita draws from music from many diverse cultures, and influences from many art forms.

JAZZ

MUSIC

In Concert Jex Saarelaht BMW EDGE Nov 2006

Diane Peters - Downstairs 45 Flinders Lane

Leigh Barker Quintet BMW EDGE Aug 2005

Peter Knight - BMW EDGE Aug 2005 HDV

Allan Browne - JAZZ BMW EDGE Sept 2005

61 mins | EX-CONJAZZ11 | A$125 / 1 yr

57 mins | EX-CONJAZZ12 | A$125 / 1 yr

87 mins | EX-CONJAZZ13 | A$125 / 1 yr

65 mins | EX-CONJAZZ14 | A$125 / 1 yr

52 mins | EX-CONJAZZ15 | A$125 / 1 yr

Peter Knight is a Melbourne based trumpeter, composer and educator.

He features as a sideman on over 20 albums in a variety of genres, and on numerous film soundtracks.

Initially self taught, drummer Allan Browne has worked extensively with many musicians. He led the contemporary jazz group Onaje, which was selected to represent Australia at the prestigious Montreal Jazz Festival in 1992.

In 1986 Jex’s trio was selected to be the support act for legendary jazz vocalist Betty Carter’s perfor-mance in June ‘95. Jex played a year long solo piano residency at Jazz Café, Newington Green.

Diane has developed an original style of playing and composition, performing solo and in diverse combinations, in Melbourne, Australia, Italy and Internationally.

Bassist, composer and bandleader Leigh Barker was born and raised in Canberra, where he spent his formative years studying with American bassist Eric Ajaye at the Canberra School of Music.

Jamie Oehlers - JAZZ BMW EDGE Sept 2005

Jenny Game-Lopata BMW EDGE Oct 2005

Alison Wedding - BMW EDGE Oct 2005 HDV

Mike Nock Trio - BMW EDGE Nov 2005 HDV

Frank Di Sario BMW EDGE Nov 2005 HDV

25 mins | EX-CONJAZZ16 | A$125 / 1 yr

54 mins | EX-CONJAZZ17 | A$125 / 1 yr

49 mins | EX-CONJAZZ18 | A$125 / 1 yr

57 mins | EX-CONJAZZ19 | A$125 / 1 yr

60 mins | EX-CONJAZZ20 | A$125 / 1 yr

New Zealand born pianist/ composer Mike Nock is one of the acknowledged masters of jazz in Australasia. His reputation rests partly on his imposing international experiences.

DiSario Hopkins Gander – Jazz Trio, at BMW EDGE, Melbourne Frank DiSario-bass Colin Hopkins-piano Andrew Gander-drums

As a result of his win in the 2003 White Foundation World Sax Competition at the Montreux Jazz Festival, tenor saxophonist Jamie Oehlers was based in the U.K. in 2004 to take advantage of various opportunities flowing from the win.

Jenny Game-Lopata is a formidable talent in the Melbourne jazz scene, performing her own works, playing soprano and tenor saxophones was well as leading her own ensemble.

Recipient of the Gibson-May award in the 2006 London International Jazz Competition, expatriate USA vocalist Alison Wedding has built an impressive reputation among both musicians and the public.

JAZZ / ALTERNATIVE

MUSIC

In Concert Daniel Gassin BMW EDGE Nov 2005 HDV

Julien Wilson BMW EDGE Nov 2005 HDV

Paul Van Ross BMW EDGE 2006 HDV

Speak Percussion - BMW EDGE July 2005 HDV

Phil Gelbach Ensemble BMW EDGE Nov 2004

60 mins | EX-CONJAZZ21 | A$125 / 1 yr

60 mins | EX-CONJAZZ22 | A$125 / 1 yr

62 mins | EX-CONJAZZ23 | A$125 / 1 yr

54 mins | EX-CONALT24 | A$125 / 1 yr

54 mins | EX-CONALT25 | A$125 / 1 yr

Speak have become Melbourne’s best percussion ensemble. They are strong supporters of new music and have appeared in everything from experimental hybrid-arts projects to regular music festival concerts.

Pianist and composer Phil Gelbach performs live with accompaniment in Melbourne, Australia.

Daniel Gassin began playing piano at age 3 and received classical tuition until 10. He then switched to jazz and received regular tuition for the next 6 years, primarily from Helen Jowsey.

1995 National Jazz Saxophone Award winner Julien Wilson has been referred to as “one of the most exciting musicians in the country” (Sydney critic John Shand) and “almost everyone’s favourite side-man” (Joe Chindamo).

Paul has been involved with music since the tender age of 6. He began playing woodwind instruments in high school and continued to study music at the Victorian College Of The Arts and even pursued further study in New York.

Zulya Kamalova

Veronica Zahra - Cocoa Jackson Lane

Fritz Hauser

Andrew Shakuhachi

Rae Howell - Transcendental - BMW EDGE HDV

52 mins | EX-CONALT26 | A$125 / 1 yr

53 mins | EX-CONALT27 | $125 / 1 yr

52 mins | Ex-CONALT28 | A$125 / 1 yr

62 mins | EX-CONALT29 | A$125 / 1 yr

61 mins | EX-CONALT30 | A$125 / 1 yr

Sunday 10th December 2006 - Anne Norman, Andrew Shakuhachi and Peter Hagen, harpsichord featuring new works by Pertout, March, Czaplowski, Vaughan, Seki, Carter and Simons.

Artistic Director and leader of the Sunwrae Ensemble, Rae Howell, is a Melbourne-based composer and performer on piano and vibraphone.

Multi award-winning ZULYA KAMALOVA is the leading proponent of Tatar music in Australia as well as one of the most versatile and accomplished vocalists on the world music scene today.

Veronica went on to study opera singing at the University of Queensland. She began performing as a guest artist with local Jazz bands, ensembles and orchestras in Australia and overseas.

Experience a rare collaboration between some of the world’s finest artists, musical and visual. Fritz Hauser “shouldn’t on any account be missed” Richard Cook & Brian Morton (Penguin Book Guide to Jazz)

ALTERNATIVE / CLASSICAL

MUSIC

In Concert Cath Connelly - Irish Folk/ Harp BMW EDGE

Rae Howell 2 Pro Arte Chamber Transcendental BMW EDGE Orchestra

Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra

Grainger Quartet 2006

51 mins | EX-CONJAZZ31 | A$125 / 1 yr

50 mins | EX-CONJAZZ32 | A$125 / 1 yr

53 mins | EX-CONCLASS33 | A$125 / 1 yr

40 mins | EX-CONCLASS34 | A$125 / 1 yr

58 mins | EX-CONCLASS35 | A$125 / 1 yr

1. Alfred Hill String Symphony “The Allies” [1921]

1. Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra BACH Concerto for Two Violins & Orchestra BWV 1043

1/ Dvorak’s String Quintet No. 2 in E flat 2/ Janacek’s String Quartet No. 2 3/ Haydn’s Quartet in C from the Opus 54

Cath has been sharing and teaching the art of Celtic harp for many years.

She has developed an extensive repertoire of harp music from Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Artistic Director and leader of the Sunwrae Ensemble, Rae Howell, is a Melbourne-based composer and performer on piano and vibraphone.

2. Bach Concerto for Piano & Orchestra in D minor, BMW 1052

2. Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra Beethoven Grosse Fuge Op.133

Johanna Selleck “Turtle Dreaming”

7 String Quartet No 2 Borodin - Caerwen Martin

Johanna Selleck Ensemble - BMW EDGE

Merlyn Quaife - Opera recital - Allerseelen

Grainger Quartet: Brahms Opus 51 Baptist Church Melbourne

31 mins | EX-CONCLASS36 | A$125 / 1 yr

29 mins | EX-CONCLASS37 | A$125 / 1 yr

43 mins | EX-CONCLASS38 | A$125 / 1 yr

65 mins | EX-CONCLASS39 | A$125 / 1 yr

30 mins | EX-CONCLASS40 | A$125 / 1 yr

Selleck is a composer, flautist and writer. She has composed a wide range of chamber, orchestral and electronic works.

Silo String Quartet was founded by Cellist and Composer Caerwen Martin in 1998. Silo has performed regularly at the Melbourne International Jazz Festivals and Melbourne International Women in Jazz Festivals.

Selleck is a composer, flautist and writer.

1. “Becoming” 2. “Looking Back” 3. “Fortune’s Smile”

A performer of great versatility, the distinguished soprano Merlyn Quaife has performed opera, oratorio, Lieder, chamber music and contemporary music to great acclaim throughout Australia and Europe.

Grainger Quartet: Natsuko Yoshimoto - Violin James Cuddeford - Violin Jeremy Williams - Viola Peter Rejto - Cello

CLASSICAL

MUSIC

In Concert Benaud Trio - Amir Farid

Benaud Trio - Kenji Bunch - Antonin Dvorak

Benaud Trio - Ross Edwards - Franz Schuber

106 mins | EX-CONCLASS41 | A$125 / 1 yr

68 mins | EX-CONCLASS42 | A$125 / 1 yr

42 mins | EX-CONCLASS43 | A$125 / 1 yr

The Benaud Trio rose to national prominence after winning the prestigious Piano Trio prize at the 2005 Australian Chamber Music Competition.

Benaud Trio

Benaud Trio:

1. Kenji Bunch - Swing Shift: Music for the evening hours 2. Antonin Dvorak - Piano Trio Op.90 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Dumkyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

1. Ross Edwards - Piano Trio (1999) 2. Franz Schubert - Piano Trio No.1 in Bb D.898

Instructional / Training

Music Moves Series Volume 1.

Music Moves Series Volume 2.

Zulya & Friends

45 mins | AB-Moves1 | A$165 / 1 yr

135 mins | AB-Moves2 | A$165 / 1 yr

27 mins | AB-Zulya | A$191 / 1 yr

Episode 1 - Ostinato Episode 2 - Rap Episode 3 - Music and Movement Available in AU only.

Episode 4 - Music and Computer Technology Episode 5 - Percussion Episode 6 - Sounds for Storytelling Available in AU only.

Glottal stops and strange consonant combinations of the Tatar language set to exotic tones and rhythms of African instruments. Songs of love, yearning and just plain fun played by a group of innovative musicians.

Available in AU only.

PERFORMANCE ART

Total of 12 films Stelarcâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obsolete body, underwater performances, large scale installation at public spaces. Films from the 80s performance art to the conceptual live art of today.

CATALOGUE PERFORMANCE ART PERFORMANCE ART / INSTALLATION LIVE ART

Artfilms-digital is a unique collection of contemporary art films ideally suited for coursework, research and reference.

Subscription to Artfilms-digital allows students, faculty, and public library members to watch high quality streaming videos anywhere, anytime. Choose from hundreds of art documentaries, interviews with artists, production recordings and instructional films across all art subject areas.

This catalogue is updated monthly.

Do you have a question?

Contact Customer Service at info@artfilms.com.au

MIKE MULLINS / DAVID PLEDGER

PERFORMANCE ART

Performance Art | Installation Politics of Change

Long Long Time Ago

Shadowline II

Bells - 5 Angry Men

Not Quite Kosher

120 mins | MM-Politics | A$290 / 1 yr

34 mins | MM-Long | A$180 / 1 yr

65 mins | MM-Shadow | A$180 / 1 yr

27 mins | WEL-Bell | A$120 / 1 yr

105 mins | BB-Notquite | A$240 / 1 yr

It is a multi-media presentation on the work of Mike Mullins. The presentation contains a chapter on the 1984 ‘Ceiling Funding Debate’ which became national news and divided the performing arts community across Australia.

Long Long Time Ago is a metaphor about modern Australia and the search for an identity in the post multicultural era. Three travellers face the common need for survival that they begin to find respect, recognition and shared ground.

The first part explores the relationship between HIM and HER against a background of Catholic religious iconology. The second part explores the idea that a solution can only ever be found by reaching ‘inside’ of ourselves.

An extremely physical performance, The Bells performance moves through a series of images and composed musical pieces that explore the human capacity to hold a paradox : suffering and joy, death and celebration, etc.

Not Quite Kosher is a performance and installation piece based on an Elisabeth M Eitelberger play. It focuses on how integration and exclusion play out in different urban environments.

Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present

Great Wall of Books

Eavesdrop

The Meaning of Moorabbin is Open for Inspection

104 mins | MAD-Marina | A$380 / 1 yr

105 mins | WEL-Wal | A$180 / 1 yr

mins | NY-Eaves | A$250 / 1 yr

mins | NY-Meaning | A$250 / 1 yr

The sculpture is an interactive and responsive space in which the public store written and oral stories via visual text, vocal recording and multimedia. These stories are solicited in real time in the street and via workshops with the community.

Eavesdrop opens up a continuum of possibility. There are no full stops, no grand gestures. The user’s interaction with the material and the viewing audience creates a communal imagination of the actual and the virtual, a portal from what is to what might be.

Using photography, film, video and design, The Meaning of Moorabbin is Open For Inspection is a site-specific installation work that plays with Australian notions of family and suburbia. The house is a metaphor for the Australian imaginary.

Follows the artist as she prepares for a major new retrospective of her work, taking place at The Museum of Modern Art. For Marina, it is the chance to finally silence the question she has been hearing over and over again for four decades: “But why is this art?”

STELARC

PERFORMANCE ART Live Art

Eudosia Domenico de Clario

Sarah Jane Pell - Walking with Water

Stelarc The Body is Obsolete

Human Exhibit

30 mins | DdC-Eud | A$180 / 1 yr

54 mins | SP-Walk | A$240 / 1 yr

35 mins | KD-Stel | A$290 / 1 yr

19 mins | MM-Human | A$180 / 1 yr

Great opportunity to gain an insight to artistic processes and to witness the unique way performance arts conceptualizes text, place, colour, sound, light and “beyond invisible”.

Live art works confronting and exploring human performance limits and behaviours in under-water environments. These performances are complimented by alteristic landbased works that allude to varying states of ‘immersion’.

The video features an interview with Stelarc as well as descriptions and images of all his major artworks.

He has acoustically and visually probed the body-having amplified brainwaves, blood-flow, muscle signals, etc.

Performance artist Mike Mullins spent twenty days in a cage at Taronga Park Zoo in Sydney as the official Homo sapiens exhibit. He lived in the cage twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week for twenty days. Mike’s concept was to present the human animal in the context of a zoo to raise a number of issues about the human condition.

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OVER 450 TITLES - Contemporary performance, acting and directing, devising, physical theatre workshops and documentaries, theatre makers and 20th century visionaries in theatre, puppets and a unique collection on asian theatre.

ACTING / DIRECTING | ACTING / DEVISING | CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE WORKSHOPS | PHYSICAL / VISUAL THEATRE | VOICE & BODY | THEATRE MAKERS PUPPETRY | PRODUCTIONS | K-12 | ASIAN THEATRE COLLECTION STAGECRAFT / BACKSTAGE

acting / directing Director and Actor: Passions, Process and Intimacy

How To Use The Stanislavski System

Beyond Stanislavski Oyston directs Chekhov

Shifting and Sliding

Working Forensically: Collaborative Directing in Contemporary Theatre

83’ | ALP-Direct |DVD & Streaming

68’ | PO-Stan | DVD & Streaming

110’ | PO-Chekhov |DVD & Streaming

54 mins | JK-Slid | DVD & Streaming

50’ | RMU-Working | DVD & Streaming

An in depth exploration of the complex and intimate relationship between Actor and Director when working on a play-text. The core of the process presented in the film involves working with physical and (subsequent) emotional intensity in the space, and crucially not imposing any preconceived ideas onto the work.

Peter Oyston reveals how he combines Stanislavski’s techniques in a systematic approach to provide a full rehearsal process or a drama course in microcosm. An invaluable resource for anyone interested in the making of authentic theatre.

Using an abridged version of Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD, Oyston reveals how directors and actors can apply the techniques of Stanislavski and develop them to suit contemporary theatre.

The works examine and challenge the social, temporal and gender constructs within which women in particular live. They offer a positive vision of the feminine psyche as creative, productive and resourceful.

A discussion between Richard Murphet (Director/Writer) and Leisa Shelton (Director/Performer) about their years of collaboration in directing, during which they have produced 5 new theatre works.

The Making of a Monologue

Supporting Actors

ONE: Healing with Theatre

How to Audition

Char∙ac∙ter

62’ | CG-Wilson2 | DVD & Streaming

34’ | CG-Sup | DVD & Streaming

90’| PAN-One | DVD & Streaming

100’ | PO-Audition | DVD & Streaming

88’ | NM-Char | DVD & Streaming

This video draws on rehearsal and performance footage, reveals how Wilson created his unique oneman performance of Hamlet and captures the rich texture of Wilson’s multi-dimensional theatrical style.

Supporting Actors will be an invaluable tool for aspiring actors and a fascinating behind-the -scenes view for those interested in the thinking of theatre, television and film industry pros. Directed by Suzannah Warlick.

It is a large scale performance project centred around the opportunity of facilitating one-toone meetings between audience and performer and designed to create a fulfilling and lasting quality of contact

Peter Oyston addresses a number of questions and demonstrates how to shape a speech, how to learn lines, how to prepare, how to place images in space how to be flexible, daring and confident.

A raw and candid dialogue about the life and craft of acting between longtime colleagues and friends Dabney Coleman, Peter Falk, Charles Grodin, Sydney Pollack, Mark Rydell and Harry Dean Stanton.

acting / directing An Obsession with Hamlet

The TEAM Makes a Play

The Art of Theatre, Film and Television - An Introduction

Making War Horse

Teachers on Acting

55’ | AB-Obses | DVD & Streaming

92’ | RPP-Team | DVD & Streaming

45’ | OBB-Art | DVD & Streaming

48’ | SEV-Making | DVD & Streaming

21’ | AFT-Teach | DVD & Streaming

John Bell has stamped the role of Hamlet as his own, having played it numerous times over 35 years. Now he is handing on the baton to talented young actor Leon Ford (Changi) who moulds it into something fresh and exciting as Bell directs. Australia only.

The inside story behind the making of the TEAM’s award-winning Edinburgh and National Theatre hit, Mission Drift. An exclusive view behind the scenes and inside the process and the people.

The basic elements of theatre, film and television performance - are explored in this educational video.

This program visually develops and explains the concepts of art on stage and on the screen, the basic concepts of dramatic conventions and how all this impacts the audience.

Making War Horse is the story of how Michael Morpurgo’s award-winning and captivating children’s novel, War Horse, became one of the most popular and acclaimed productions in the National Theatre’s history.

Leading Australian teachers Hayes Gordon, Dean Carey and Murree Hutchinson discuss their approach to the teaching of acting, with emphasis on specific improvisational techniques and the building of a character step-by-step.

Actors on Acting

Actors on Acting (Australian)

The Shakespeare Sessions

27’ | CAT-Act | DVD & Streaming

28’ | AFT-Act | DVD & Streaming

55’ | RI-Shakesp | DVD

Murray Hamilton, James Earl Jones, Jack Klugman and Rip Torn give opinions on the lack of good roles, the incursions of television, Hollywood vs. Broadway, rehearsal and experimentation, keeping your day job, acting as a sophisticated form of showing off, and why these stars went into acting themselves.

Australia’s leading actors critically deconstruct their process, with particular emphasis on TV and film: John Bell, Lorraine Bayly, Noni Hazelhurst, Angela Punch McGregor. With absorbing candour they discuss their techniques for making a character come alive and evoking authentic and believable emotional responses on stage.

With founders of The Royal Shakespeare Company and Kevin Kline, Dustin Hoffman, Cynthia Nixon and David Hyde Pierce, in intimate workshop settings with John Barton and Sir Peter Hall. Focusing on the language as the way into Shakespeare’s magical world, these workshops bring Shakespeare’s characters to life on stage.

Acting / devising Devising Performance

Devising Celebration:

186’ | KD-Crossing | DVD & Streaming

Engineers of the Imagination

Walyalup Dreaming

Devising 1 - Documentary

Devising 2 - Performances

23’ | CSU-Dev |DVD & Streaming

30’ | RS-Wal | DVD & Streaming

This documentary follows the journey of a group of young people, from all corners of the globe, who were selected to work together for 3 weeks before the IDEA 2007 Congress began.

Three performances from three different “CROSSING” projects one of which is documented on Part 1. The performances are the outcomes of 3 weeks intensive devising and rehearsing. It is a truly intercultural experience about and for young people in the world.

Forced Entertainment Australia.

This film explores how a traditional indigenous story is translated from an oral story into a performance involving dance, puppetry, music and voice. This can be used as a tool to bring together ideas and the right people to create original performance.

Speaking for Myself

In Transit Hidden Directions

The Great Deviser Devising Work

Ensemble Building

How to Teach Artaud

75’ | PE-Speaking | DVD & Streaming

45’ | OD-Tran | DVD & Streaming

100’ | PUM-Dev |DVD & Streaming

45’ | PUM-Ens |DVD & Streaming

25’ | PUM-Artaud |DVD & Streaming

This documentary film captures the core of New York City on a human scale, focusing on the work of eight widely varied performing artists: A dancer, a concert pianist, an actress,a singing poet... etc.

Directors explain their processes and principles: women directors who are seeking a new way of working, their own way of working, alternatives for the developing generation of directors.

Filmed with companies from 3 continents, this disc contains a feature film’s worth of edited interviews, demonstrations, rehearsal footage and performance outcome clips from some of the world’s most creative devisers - Goat Island (US), Forced Entertainment (UK), Ushio Amagatsu/Sankai Juku ( Japan).

Overcoming feelings of inhibitions and creating an environment of intimacy, trust and communication in an educational setting. contains extensive footage of workshops, interviews, examples of work and advice from some of the world’s leading theatre practitioners. provides a wealth of examples, ideas, games and methods taken from professional practice.

Practical approaches to working with Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty.

It provides examples of student’s work that are used as examplars of excellence for post 16 examinations.

These are combined with a wealth of performance footage from professional companies, as well as interviews and practical exercises from leading Artaud practitioners.

visits

The film is a useful introduction to the theatre of image, large scale dramatic construction techniques, processional theatre, outdoor performance and mask, ritual and spectacle.

Contemporary Performance Nigel Kellaway in Sleepers wake! wachet auf!

The Rameau Project

Nigel Kellaway (2 parts)

“Brief Synopsys...

82’ | NK-Sleep | DVD & Streaming

90’ | NK-Rame | DVD & Streaming

150’ | NK-Works | DVD & Streaming

84’ | NK-Brief | DVD & Streaming

A man is at recollection, harboring a nagging desire to connect with the present. Adrift from cultural and historical specifi-cities where nostalgia for Glenn Gould and Dean Martin washes up alongside political anxiety and an unreliable memory.

A sprawling, multi-layered music theatre work, reveling in the grandeur, delicacy, complexity and underlying wit of the French Baroque, it employs seductive improvisations on a complex layering of sophisticated deceits.

The set of excerpts from ten major works by Nigel Kellaway (1994 2004) has recently been assembled, edited by Kellaway and his long-time associate, video artist Peter Oldham.

... a beautiful naked woman ‘of a certain age’ brutally stabs a young man to death”. Rich elements of music, physical space, visual arts, text and movement. It contemplates violence, without relying on sensational anecdote. Explores issues in more abstract ways, creating something at once funny, scary, sumptuous, provocative… Brings together director and composer Nigel Kellaway with longtime fellow performer Katia Molino, acclaimed photographer Heidrun Löhr and lighting designer Richard Montgomery.

Jenny Kemp: Still Angela

Jenny Kemp: The Black Sequin Dress, Remember

Blowback

K

Mac-Beth 7

66’ | JK-Still2 | DVD & Streaming

45’ | JK-Black | DVD & Streaming

90’ | NY-Blow | DVD & Streaming

76’ | NY-K | DVD & Streaming

35’| PAN-Mac | DVD & Streaming

A multi-sided portrait of a contemporary Australian woman at three ages. Using film shot in the out-back, choreography, an original score and a cast of performers, It paints a picture of a woman in transition on a surreal journey.

Part 1. Black Sequin Dress An investigation into the psyche and its ability to function creatively.

Part 2. Remember A young woman has been raped and believes she has killed her assailant...

Part 3. Interview with Jenny Kemp

Using the body and video as double agents, not yet it’s difficult investigates the dark and violent world of an Australia subject to a new imperial master. BLOWBACK tracks the story of cultural activists who hack into New Australia’s joint communications facility.

K fuses hard-core physical action, digital technology, sonic achitectures and new texts to portray the dark, humorous and violent world of democracy in the Information Age. It is a performance recording of the 2002 Melbourne season.

A play about self-love and self-loathing.

Mac-Beth 7 is a contemporary performance for theatre with a cast of actors, opera singers, a contemporary dancer and an eight-year-old girl.

The Sydney Front Over the course of the seven years they worked together (1986-1993), the performers of The Sydney Front transformed themselves from the extravagant display of frenzied divas in their first work, Waltz (1987), to stage managers invisibly influencing the actions of the audience as they enacted The Stations of the Cross in Passion (1993).

An extraordinary collection of contemporary theatre work...

Contemporary Performance

Staging the Audience: The Sydney Front

The Sydney Front: Don Juan

The Sydney Front: First and Last Warning

63’ | CGR-Sydney | DVD & Streaming

63’ | CGR-Donjuan | DVD & Streaming

63’ | CGR-First | DVD & Streaming

This film presents a kaleidoscope of images and archive footage from all seven of The Sydney Front’s major works.

In Don Juan, The Sydney Front created what Le Soir (Brussels) described as a ‘chiaroscuro of taboo desires’ and the Rheinische Post (Dusseldorf) ‘a wild cacophonous yearning’.

‘The audience is divided. Those who can afford it are escorted to their private viewing area, to be served champagne and smoked salmon throughout the show. The rest risk the edges of the performance space, clad only in black lingerie.

The Sydney Front: Waltz

The Sydney Front: John Laws/Sade: a confession

The Sydney Front: Passion

The Sydney Front: Photocopies of God

The Sydney Front: The

59’ | CGR-John | DVD & Streaming

73’ | CGR-Passion | DVD & Streaming

58’ | CGR-Photocopy | DVD & Streaming

90’ | CGR-Pornography | DVD & Streaming

67’ | CGR-Waltz | DVD & Streaming

In John Laws/Sade the world is colder, the genitals sit tight. We are in densely occupied territory. The telephone rings, the radio is always on.

Passion takes up the theme of SACRIFICE that plays through all the work of The Sydney Front, leading its audience into a re-enactment of the Stations of the Cross.

The film presents images of a theatre struggling to move beyond the exchange of desires, beyond even the carnal itself. The performers attempt to break the endless cycle of impersonation and to submit themselves to the supreme gaze.

A frenzied meditation on theatrical obsession, a festive overture of histrionic suffering and flapping genitalia.’ - Poster for The Pornography of Performance, 1988

Built from a series of entrances and monologues chopped up from the Greek canon, this show began as a work about women and war but turned into a work about the diva performing the monologues.

Pornography of Performance

WORKSHOPS

Physical / visual theatre

Physical Theatre 2: A workshop in Biomechanics

Physical Theatre: Butoh and Beyond

Expressive Gestures

Self Discovery in a Silver Room

In practice: Frank Suzuki Actor Knowhow

75’ | KD-Biomech | DVD & Streaming

50’ | KD-But | DVD & Streaming

33’ | KD-Gest | DVD & Streaming

120’ | OF-Silver | DVD & Streaming

53’ | OF-Fsak | DVD & Streaming

A documentary of a workshop.

The aim of the workshop was to introduce the basic principles and the vocabulary of Biomechanics to the participating actors, teachers and students in theatre arts.

A documentary of a workshop by Cheryl Heazlewood in Perth in 1996. Cheryl presents powerful and inspiring training exercises which are drawn from her eclectic training in occidental and oriental movement and theatre.

Alternatives to realism Gestures carry messages, very often unintentionally. Expressive gestures reflect the person’s inner emotional or mental state. The focus of the film is on GESTURES and their “imaginative” application in nonrealistic performance.

The Frank Suzuki Actor Knowhow is an occidental variant of the original Suzuki Actor Training Method, with extra exercises that add Western zing to the Asian depth, proving Suzuki’s universal application.

It’s a rather humorous explanation of the Frank Suzuki Actor Knowhow done in full HD, using Ozfrank’s schematic almanac as a backdrop.

It has 3 tracks, an explanation of the exercises, an advertorial and an exposition of the various inspirations.

Neutral Mask (4 parts)

Ryszard Cieslak: The Body Speaks

Corporal Mime

Training at Grotowski’s “Laboratorium” in Wrozlaw in 1972

Physical Training at Odin Teatret

4 hours | RE-Neut | DVD & Streaming

55’ | CAT-Rysz | DVD & Streaming

90’ | OD-Corp | DVD & Streaming

90’ | OD-Grot | DVD & Streaming

50’ | OD-Odin | DVD & Streaming

A Foundation for the Theatrical Experience. This film will take you through the learning process, as it was actually experienced by the students participating in a professional program in London.

The leading actor in Jerzy Grotowski’s “Polish Laboratory Theater”, demonstrates body exercises used by the avant garde company. Cieslak also discusses his approach with theater critic Margaret Croyden.

Yves Lebreton, who features in this film, was Etienne Decroux’s student for four years in Paris. He shows in two parts the training program of the famous French Mime. At the end of each part of the film he gives examples.

The evolution of Jerzy Grotowski’s training is shown in a pedagogical situation in which Ryszard Cieslak, the main actor of the Theatre Laboratorium works with two students.

Recommended for universities, libraries and professionals.

Recommended for universities, libraries and professionals. Odin Teatret’s physical training with commentary by Eugenio Barba, showing its evolution from collectively learned skills to the actor’s individualization of exercises.

WORKSHOPS

Physical / visual theatre

100 Pathways to Creativity

A Playwright’s Manuscript

Physical Acting: Characters

The Expressionist Theatre of OzFrank

196’ | DVC-100 | DVD & Streaming

45’| JD-Play | DVD & Streaming

KD-Acting | e-book

109’| OF-Theatre | DVD & Streaming

CIRCUS SKILLS The only available instructional video which teaches the basics of JUGGLING, STILLTS, UNICYCLING, ACROBATICS, WIRE WALKING. Reg Bolton explains all the secrets while teaching a groups of year 8 students.

Jenny de Reuck’s research and practice include the diverse fields of Theatre in Education and Shakespearean adaptations but her primary objective is to offer her students and their audiences a provocative theatrical experience.

Animal imitation. This book offers an approach, which is beyond the easy way of imitating a monkey, a bird or a snake. The revelation of a character in its physical and psychological complexity requires in-depth analysis, comprehension of non-verbal cues and most of all, imagination.

This film samples 5 minutes excerpts from Ozfranks 20 year repertoire.

16 plays directed by Jacqui Carroll from 1993 to the present , plus an example of its training system, the Frank Suzuki Actor Knowhow.

Martial Arts for Actor Training Kendo: The Path of the Sword

Fencing: The art, science, and the passion

The Practice of Arms

Actor Training and Kalarippayatt, Martial Art of India

Kalarippayatt, Martial Arts of India

28’ | CAT-Ken | DVD & Streaming

30’ | PE-Fenc | DVD & Streaming

138’ | CP-Sword | DVD

45’ | MS-Kala | DVD & Streaming

23’ | MS-Kalari | DVD & Streaming

An examination of Kendo, the “senior” Japanese martial art, a form of stylized sword fighting using bamboo staves. This documentary, shot on location in Japan, includes explanations of kendo formalities, its appeal at all levels of society, and comparisons with other martial arts.

This 6-part documentary introduces you to the intensely competitive actions of the sports fencer and the elegant traditional moves of the classical duelist. Through exiting close-ups, the fast moving action of duelling weapons are captured with a clarity rarely seen on T V or in movies.

An educational video dedicated to instructing the student or professional actor, stunt man, historical recreationist or sword aficionado in the use of the blade.

It teaches the basic footwork, defensive and offensive techniques for both cutting and thrusting weapons.

Supporting Actors will be an invaluable tool for aspiring actors and a fascinating behind-the -scenes view for those interested in the thinking of theatre, television and film industry pros. Directed by Suzannah Warlick.

Phillip Zarrilli explores a wide range of basic physical movements. Part I demonstrates the basic poses, steps, jumps and kicks. Part II shows how various weapons are incorporated into the advanced stages of physical training. Slides and a short film clip illustrate this section.

Physical / visual theatre

Creating Physical Theatre The Body in Performance

Andre Serban: Experimental Theater

Andre Serban: The Greek Trilogy

Black Symphony Genet on Film

Masters of Street Theatre

90’ | PUM-Crea | DVD & Streaming

27’ | CAT-Serbex | DVD & Streaming

54’ | CAT-Serban | DVD & Streaming

73’ | AP-Black | DVD & Streaming

62’ | EX-Street | DVD & Streaming

Strategies and methods used to generate physical action and looks at the relationship between text and movement. It also explores the choreographing and scoring of physical action, including proxemics and sequencing. Includes interviews, rehearsal footage, demonstrations and performance from some of the world’s best and most physical practitioners.

A profile of the experimental theatre director, including conversation with critic Margaret Croyden and reflections by director and theatre producer Joseph Papp and Ellen Stewart, owner of Café La Mama in New York City. With Excerpts from Serban’s workshop production of The Master and the Margarita.

Performance of excerpts from offBroadway experimental productions of Andre Serban’s flamboyant interpretations of classic Greek Theatre pieces: Euripides’ Electra, Medea and The Trojan Women. Margaret Croyden provides introductions and commentary. With music by Elizabeth Swados.

A physical theatre version of Jean Genet’s play The Blacks was performed in a cellar-theatre in Budapest by the alternative theatre company, Domino in 1970. The company was regularly banned by the Communist regime.

The Blacks was closed down after only a few performances after tickets were sold for triple price on the blackmarket.

A unique snapshot of the brilliant work of some of the world’s acclaimed street theatre groups: Grouppe F, Studio Festi, Le Quidams, Bambuco and Ulrich - Le Snob. Outdoor theatre with elements of sculpture installations, live music, pyrotechnology, extraordinary costums and open-air settings.

voice & Body Odin Teatret Vocal Training

Voice and the Core / White Dark (2 parts)

Dr Faustus (2 parts)

IAM NOCTE

The Third Space

40’ | OD-Voc | DVD & Streaming

40’ | RL-Voi | DVD & Streaming

103’ | RL-Fau | DVD & Streaming

45’ | RL-Iam | DVD & Streaming

45’ | RL-Third | DVD & Streaming

It focuses on Odin Teatret’s use of text as vocal action. It includes work with various body resonators, exercises which engage the voice as an extension of the body, and vocal improvisations based on a stream of personal associations.

The work is an integration of voice and body; the connection of thought, feeling, breath, voice and the core muscle groups. It demonstrates to the performer that tension and freedom are equally as important and are essential for performance.

An Exploration of Voice, Sound and Body. The production of ‘Dr Faustus’ explores abstract imagery through voice and body. It also includes training session focusing on vocal actions, energies and the image.

This adaptation is a theatrical experience that combines vocal sounds, physical theatre, vocal and physical expression of abstract imagery with preverbal expressions, holistic utterances, abstract use of English and Latin.

The film is a compilation of exercises that consolidate body, voice and imagination which have grown and developed since the Voice Theatre Lab inception in 2006. They have been refined through thorough extensive research, practice and exploration.

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Disappeariences

Living is a Horizontal Fall

Silent Moves

Crossing Body Shadow

35’ | STA-Disap | DVD & Streaming

54’ | STA-Living | DVD & Streaming

60’ | STA-Sil | DVD & Streaming

42’| STA-Crossing | DVD & Streaming

Disappeariences was the first work in a trilogy that explored elements of human experience and the ways in which they are translated or communicated through acts of performance, particularly focussing on those elements of experience.

An Adaptation of Jean Cocteau’s Opium: A Diary of a Cure. Living Is A Horizontal Fall was designed and produced as part of the International Theatre Festival in Casablanca, at Theatre De Sidi Belyout and the Institut Francais, September, 1995.

Moves was an assemblage of ideas and performances opened up during two weeks of collaborative workshopping that gathered around speculations about internal and external corporeal modalities.

The work gathered around investigations of internal and external corporeal modalities and explored their reverberations on and within disciplines of “performance”.

theatre makers

Augusto Boal & Theatre of the Oppressed in Rio De Janeiro

Meyerhold’s Theater and Biomechanics

Dario Fo and Franca Rame: A Nobel For Two

53’ | RM-Boal | DVD & Streaming

43’ | MB-Mey | DVD & Streaming

55’ | MGC-Dario | DVD & Streaming

It is a record of the work of a theatre maestro undertaking a daring and difficult experiment in overtly melding the concerns of theatre, therapy and politics. An account of a theatre company that is elected into public office.

Russian actor Gennadi Bogdanov is shown to present the most important etudes and principles of Biomechanics. The video also displays recent scenic work from Europe and the USA developed from the basis of Meyerhold’s Biomechanics.

The video features performance excerpts from classic Dario Fo plays such as Mistero Buffo and Accidental Death of an Anarchist, plus interviews with Fo and Rame, and numerous theatrical colleagues and associates.

Foreman Planet: Richard Foreman 75’ | KD-For | DVD & Streaming Video interview with 9 time “OBIE” winner Richard Foreman, writer, director, designer, choreographer and founder of Ontological Hysterical Theatre, in New York City. A visionary experimental theatre artist of four decades, Foreman talks about his creative processes, about psychic freedom, about reality, realism and realistic theatre, And about collisions of objects and words with primary impulse. Foreman also shares his private feelings and concerns about living and working as an artist in New York City today. The video interview is broken up by the fascinating images of Photographer Paula Court offering a visual feast and a “beyond-intellectual understanding” of Foreman’s work.

The Seven Faces of Robert Lepage 52’ | MP-Lepage | DVD & Streaming This documentary shows this brilliant artist at work. In a revealing interview, Lepage discusses how he works with actors and other members of his troupe. In addition, actors rehearsing one of Lepage’s creations, The Seven Streams of the River Ota, share their impressions of how their own work has evolved with the playwright. Throughout, Lepage’s plays - Vinci, The Dragons’ Trilogy, The Seven Streams of the River Ota and Needles and Opium - as well as his two films - The Confessional and The Polygraph - serve to both illustrate and complement the interviews. 1997, subtitled in English.

theatre makers Samuel Beckett As The Story Was Told

Arthur Miller

Interview with Eugene Ionesco

Interview with Henry Miller

Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir

110’ | BAC-Beckett | DVD & Streaming

75’ | BAC-Arthur | DVD & Streaming

30’ | SRC-Ion | DVD

60’ | SRC-Miller | DVD

60’ | SRC-Jean | DVD

Manuscripts of his most famous works, a series of previously unpublished letters and remarkable photographs contribute to making this programme an intimate portrait of a dramatic and original writer.

The life of Irish novelist, poet, and playwright Samuel Beckett is profiled in this two-part documentary.

Omnibus talks to playwright Arthur Miller at his Connecticut home about the political and poetic nature of his plays, about being a writer in the US today, and about his marriage to Marilyn Monroe.

Ionesco speaks about his childhood, his studies, the type of theatre he enjoyed in his youth, his original personality, and his constant need for solitude.He also discusses the absurdity of our world and our inability to communicate. His plays draw on parody and symbolism to denounce the absurdity of life and social relationships.

In this brilliant interview, Henry Miller (1891-1980) describes the motivation and inspiration that guided his writings. He talks about his selfimposed exile to Europe and Paris, his return to the U.S., censorship, fame and the importance of reading.

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) and Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), two of the most influential and controversial thinkers of our time, are presented in this unique documentary originally broadcast in 1967 and photographed

by Michel Brault, one of Canada’s most distinguished documentary cameramen and filmmakers.

Harold Pinter: Early Work

Jerzy Grotowski

Jerzy Grotowski 1973 Interview

David Mamet: The Playwright as Director

Peter Brook

27’ | CAT-HarP | DVD & Streaming

55’ | CAT-Jerzy | DVD & Streaming

27’ | CAT-Grotint | DVD & Streaming

27’ | CAT-Mamet | DVD & Streaming

27’ | CAT-Brook | DVD & Streaming

Performance of excerpts from two very early works: The Room and A Slight Ache, filmed in 1965 when they played at the Writers Stage in New York City. This program includes a brief interview with director Word Baker.

The director of the Polish Lab Theatre talks with theatre critic Margaret Croyden (translated by Jacques Chwat, theatre director). Grotowski discusses the relationship between director and actor, a playwright’s function and the idea of his “poor” theatre that renounces everything not essential to the work.

The man of 1969, neatly dressed in jacket and tie and with a conventional haircut, resembled, at the time of this interview in 1973, something of a “hippie.” Yet he speaks here with the same intensity, true to his personal search. Illustrated with photographs by Max Waldman.

Interviewer Margaret Croyden.

Playwright David Mamet rehearses Lindsay Crouse and Michael Higgins in scenes from two of his plays, Dark Pony and Reunion. Discussion of the art of directing and the Stanislavsky method.

An interview with the great director just after he returned from Africa with his Centre of Research, his group of young actors based in Paris. Brook explains his views on theatre, crosscultural performances, improvisation, Shakespeare and working with young actors.

BBC

Arts Documentaries

theatre makers American Theatre Conversations: Actors Studio 28’ | CAT-Ame| DVD & Streaming

Edward Albee’s ‘The Ballad of the Sad Cafe Examined’

Members of The Actors Studio and The Production Board of the Actors Studio Theater: Geraldine Page, Paul Newman, Frank Corsaro, Michael Wager, Rip Torn, and Fred Stewart discuss their training at The Actors Studio and goals for The Actors Studio Theater.

A vibrant discussion of Edwarde Albee’s new (1963) play “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe” shortly after it opened in New York City. In closely-reasoned dispute are the play’s director, Alan Schneider; and respected theater professionals Harold Clurman and Robert Brustein.

Athol Fugard: ‘Blood Knot’ 28’ | CAT-Ath | DVD & Streaming

German Theatre of Protest: 1918-1938

A rare filmed recording of excerpts from the original New York production of Athol Fugard’s first important play. With the original cast of that production: James Earl Jones and J.D. Cannon. South African playwright, director and actor Fugard (b. 1932) has been writing for several decades about the lives of blacks and poor whites in South Africa.

Between the two world wars, often considered part of the European “Expressionist” movement, was, in its most inventive aspects, a theater of opposition. The plays are “Gas” by George Kaiser, “Hoopla! Such is Life!” by Ernst Toller, and “The Private Life of the Master Race” by Bertolt Brecht.

27’ | CAT-Ed| DVD & Streaming

27’ | CAT-German | DVD & Streaming

28’ | CAT-Bri| DVD & Streaming

The Group Theater Discussion with Harold Clurman, Bobby Lewis, Lee Strasberg

Discussion of theater, acting, British versus American audiences, and schools of acting with Alexander Cohen, producer of the David Storey play Home and its two stars, the renowned British actors Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson.

Three distinguished theater producer-directors recapture the heady days of the famous Group Theater and discuss its origins, successes, failures, and eventual decline.

British Theatre in the United States

The Circle in the Square: The First 25 Years 85’ | CAT-Cir| DVD & Streaming

In honest, revealing and often humorous reminiscences Dustin Hoffman, Colleen Dewhurst, George C. Scott, James Earl Jones, Paul Rudd and Vanessa Redgrave discuss acting, ambition, and their life with The Circle in the Square.

Conversation with Playwrights: Arthur Miller & Israel Horovitz 26’ | CAT-ConPlay| DVD & Streaming Conversation between Arthur Miller and then (1970) quite young successful writer Israel Horovitz about theater, the writer, playwriting and politics, and the responsibility of the artist to society. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Miller’s plays included “The Crucible”, “All My Sons”, “Death of a Salesman”, etc.

Dudley Moore & Peter Cook Improvise 28’ | CAT-Dud | DVD & Streaming

British film and stage stars Dudley Moore and Peter Cook spend half an hour bantering and improvising, ostensibly in an interview by arts critic Leonard Harris in connection with their appearance in New York City to present their hilarious revue “Good Evening”.

28’ | CAT-Grou| DVD & Streaming

Gogol’s ‘Diary of a Madman’ 28’ | CAT-Gog| DVD & Streaming An adaptation of the off-Broadway production of Gogol’s work, “Diary of a Madman”, performed by William Hickey, about a clerk’s disintegration into madness.

Joseph Chaikin and the Open Theater 55’ | CAT-Jos | DVD & Streaming

The group in “Nightwalk”, its last performance piece before disbanding. The play is a collective theater work, the creation of writers Jean-Claude van Itallie, Sam Shepard, Megan Terry, and Open Theater director Joseph Chaikin, as well as the actors.

Joseph Papp and the Public Theatre: American Playwrights 54’ | CAT-Pap | DVD & Streaming Theater writer-critic Margaret Croyden interviews Papp and the playwrights whose works are seen. The plays highlighted are David Freeman’s “Jessie and the Bandit Queen”, John Guare’s “Rich and Famous”, and Myrna Lamb’s “Apple Pie”.

theatre makers Lee Strasberg Interview 28’ | CAT-Lee | DVD & Streaming Interview with performance segments from class of The Actors Studio at the Lee Strasberg Acting Institute. He teaches a class at Actors Studio, a lesson on walking, and analyzes two students rehearsing a scene from Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya.”

The Living Theater Performance 28’ | CAT-Liv | DVD & Streaming Conversation with Judith Malina, Julian Beck. The Living Theater Company performs two segments from their “Mysteries and Smaller Pieces”: “The Brig Dollar” and “The Plague.” The excerpts are introduced by founder-directors Julian Beck and Judith Malina.

Lotte Lenya sings Kurt Weill 25’ | CAT-Lot| DVD & Streaming Theater songs by Kurt Weill, texts by Bertolt Brecht, performed mostly in the original German by Weill’s widow, the celebrated actress/singer Lotte Lenya. Selections, from “Mahoganny”, “The Threepenny Opera”, also “Moon of Alabama”, “Surabaya Johnny”, “Bilbao Lied”, “Pirate Jenny” (in English), and “Lied des Ertrunkenen Maedchen”.

A Master of Burlesque 28’ | CAT-Burl | DVD & Streaming Many famous stage performers started in burlesque, including W.C.Fields, Fannie Brice, Mae West, Bert Lahr and Al Jolson. In this program one of the last masters of burlesque, Steve Mills, recreates a few of the famous set pieces that audiences knew and loved.

Masters of the French Stage: Jean-Louis Barrault and Madeleine Renaud 28’ | CAT-Mas | DVD & Streaming

They present the bittersweet jealousy scene from Moliere’s “Le Misanthrope” and recitations from other works of French drama and poetry, among them Jacques Prevert’s “Bird”, Paul Valois’ “Liberté”, and a charming fable about animal intelligence. Barrault performs his famous circus horse riding pantomine.

Max Frish 27’ | CAT-Max | DVD & Streaming Excerpts from the 1964 off-Broadway production of Max Frisch’s plays “Andorra” and “I’m Not Stiller”, with an interview with the celebrated Swiss novelist and playwright. His work has been described as “Kafkaesque”, coming at the terror of alienation obliquely. “Spare us the necessity,” says a jailer in one of the plays, “of condemning you to be yourself.”

The Open Theater: Andre Gregory Interview 29’ | CAT-Open | DVD & Streaming

Demonstration of acting exercises, and performance by members of the Open Theater of an excerpt from their new (1975) production, “Fable.”

Interview with director Andre Gregory about preparatory training at his Manhattan Project theater group. Themes: Sound and gesture, silence and movement are explored.

The Open Theatre: Terminal - Performance 28’ | CAT-Ope | DVD & Streaming

Performance of experimental theater pieces by the Open Theater Ensemble: Shami Chaikin, Tina Shepard, Jo-Ann Schmidman, Paul Zimet, Raymond Barry, Henry Smith. This group that prides itself on developing theater as a collaborative effort. The pieces are portions of the ensemble’s current offBroadway production “Terminal”.

Two Russian Stories of the 19th Century, Dramatized 40’ | CAT-2Rus| DVD & Streaming

Nikolai Gogol’s “A Night with Chichikov” is an excerpt from his novel “Dead Souls”, first published in 1842. Cast: Myron McCormick, Dorothy Greener, Gerald Hiken, Edith King, Salem Ludwig, Alice Pearce, Bernard West. Anton Chekhov’s “Enemies” was published in 1887. Cast: Michael Strong and Richard Waring.

A Sampling of French Theater 27’ | CAT-Sam| DVD & Streaming

Performance illustrated discussion of 20th century French theater and its importance, with some comparisons to American theater. Scenes from Anouilh’s “Ardel” and Giraudoux’s “The Enchanted” - at the time (1958) playing in New York City.

William Faulkner’s “As I Lay Dying”: Two Versions

Bertolt Brecht: Practice Pieces 28’ | CAT-Ber

DVD & Streaming

This is a videotaped recording of a performance, in English translation, of two of Bertolt Brecht’s largely unknown and seldom performed works, Übungstücke für Schauspieler and Practice Pieces for Actors.

Brecht: A Man’s A Man

27’ | CAT-Bre| DVD & Streaming Introduces scenes from Bertolt Brecht’s play-with-songs “Mann Ist Mann”. The performance seen here is the then (1962) current offBroadway production, at a time when Brecht’s popularity in America was high after the revival of his “The Threepenny Opera.”

Songs of Bertolt Brecht: Gisela May Sings Brecht

55’ | CAT-Will | DVD & Streaming

27’ | CAT-Son| DVD & Streaming

An excerpt from the celebrated novel is here interpreted in two different ways. Dramatization (1956). A sampling of the book’s fifteen narrators, in monologues and dramatic scenes. Dance/Drama (1965). Excerpts of a dance interpretation by choreographer/dancer/actress Valerie Bettis.

From “Threepenny Opera”: “Mack the Knife”, and “Pirate Jenny”. From “Happy End” the song “Surabaya Johnny.” From “Mother Courage”: “Lied des Solomons.”

From “Schweyk in the Second World War”: “Das Moldau Lied.” From “The Rise and Fall of Mahagonny”: “Alabama Song”. And more...

Puppetry Puppetry and Spectacle: Contemporary Performance Work by Jessica Wilson

The Lovers’ Exile

Behind The Scenes with Julie Taymor: Setting a Scene

Part 2 is a full performance of Dr Egg and the Man with No Ear. This theatre work has captivated audiences with its intriguing story, beautiful integration of art-forms, quirky aesthetic, and engaging performance style. Through a distinctive combination of puppetry, stop motion animation, original music and physical performance, this production playfully explores the ethical dilemmas faced by society, as new developments are made in health and fertility. A contemporary moral tale, it draws on the traditional structure of fables to raise questions about the remarkable futures and modern day miracles promised by science.

90’ | MG-Lov | DVD & Streaming

30’ | BS-Tay | DVD & Streaming

From Japan to contemporary cinema audiences, merging the artistry and grace of the legendary Bunraku Puppet Theatre with the power of the screen through the collective talent of many international contributors.

Performed entirely by the Bunraku Ensemble of Osaka, widely considered the most sophisticated puppet theatre in the world.

Taymor, one of theatre’s most inventive directors, transforms words on a page into verbal and visual magic using puppets, masks, music and actors. Children learn about the process of creation that shapes theatrical productions and practice creating their own imagery and characters through in-class activities.

Strings of Peace: The World of Puppets

Bunraku - Classical Japanese puppet art

Brother Bread, Sister Puppet - Street theatre and political satire

Puppetry: Worlds of Imagination

Puppets in the French Style

50’ | RP-String | DVD & Streaming

27’ | CAT-Bun | DVD & Streaming

60’ | CG-Bro | DVD & Streaming

44’ | CG-Puppet | DVD & Streaming

28’ | CAT-Pup | DVD & Streaming

By Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop, featuring puppets and puppeteers from Sweden, Denmark, Thailand, England, Pakistan, Italy, Belgium, Korea, Poland, France, Switzerland and India, the video offers a “cultural feast”.

Includes performances from two traditional Bunraku dramas and filmed scenes showing how the puppets are made and articulated.

This documentary profile focuses on Bread and Puppet Theatre annual Domestic Resurrection Circus.

They’re famous for street theater and political satire utilizing giant “papier-mâché” puppets, masks and 12 foot high stilt walkers.

This documentary surveys the revolutionary new developments in American puppet theater, profiling many of puppetry’s most imaginative contemporary artists, including Basil Twist, E Ralph Lee, Michael Curry, Cheryl Henson... etc.

The celebrated French puppeteers Compagnie Philippe Genty demonstrate their artistry with several different kinds of figures, ranging from the human to the dreamlike.

91’ | JW-Pup | DVD & Streaming Part 1 features excerpts of seven Sellected Works by Jessica Wilson, including: Stormy Night, Frankenstein, Dream Masons, Dr Egg and the Man with No Ear, The Western Ring Cycle, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Under the Big Sky.

Theatre Du Mouvement The Mutants

Another Short Hour

The Letter

Mime’s Great and Small Stories

37’ | TDM-Mutant | DVD & Streaming

65’ | TDM-Another | DVD & Streaming

46’ | TDM-Letter | DVD & Streaming

179’ | TDM-Mime | DVD & Streaming

The first professional collaboration between Claire Heggen and Yves Marc. Since its creation, it has obtained the Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s First Award and toured Africa, America, Asia and Europe.

Where acrobatics meets the musicality of movement, humanity meets tragedy and the game of acting meets the enunciation of musical texts. Three men, barefoot, in shirts and ties approach the edges of an unknown space in three wooden boxes...

Two actors continuously onstage.

A man carries a woman. A law of physics which becomes a dramatic game: she must not leave the sun.

This is a story of love in a time of war.

Part 1: Should We Take Mimes at Their Word? Part 2: Under The White Mask

The Seat, OR A Chronicle of Chronic Fear

The Lost Song of Little Nothings

Theatre du Mouvement Children’s Collection

The Theatre du Mouvement in Africa

Embodied Theatre

71’ | TDM-Seat | DVD & Streaming

61’ | TDM-Lost | DVD & Streaming

247’ | TDM-Children | DVD & Streaming

26’ | TDM-Africa | DVD & Streaming

243’ |TDM-Embodied|DVD & Streaming

This piece was born out of research into themes of fear. Exploring the physicality of this emotion, the actors created fascinating characters. They attempt to retain their seat, a place of comfort and security, their symbolic property, in a chorus that is moving, tragic and funny.

A spectacle which unfolds like the turning of pages, constructed as a succession of fleeting windows looking onto the usually unexamined occurrences of daily life. A show that combines the precision of anthropology with the imperfectness of subjective observation.

Includes: Catherine and the Wardrobe, A Funny Home, Krops and the Magiciel, Little Cepou, Bugs.

Black Masks and White Masks, 8 mins, 1986. Tezirzek, 18 mins, 1990.

Part 1: If the Mona Lisa Had Legs: A Show-Conference, Part 2: The Path is Made by Walking, Part 3: I Think Therefore It Shows

Established in 1975 by its present artistic directors, Claire Heggen and Yves Marc, the Theatre du Mouvement has been seen in sixty countries.

Expert and entertaining, their work has been a major influence in the development of contemporary mime and visual theatre.

ODIN TEATRET Odin Teatret: Ascent to the Sea

Odin teatret: The Castle of Holstebro

Odin Teatret: The Dead Brother

Odin Teatret: Dona Musica’s Butterflies

Odin Teatret: Dressed in White

36’ | OD-Ascent | DVD & Streaming

55’ | OD-Cas | DVD & Streaming

68’ | OD-Dead | DVD & Streaming

58’ | OD-Dona | DVD & Streaming

120’ | OF-Silver | DVD & Streaming

Spaces in the town, which normally went unnoticed, were transformed into a stage. The film follows the Odin Teatret’s street theatre production “Anabasis” in Peru - which typifies the Odin’s unique use of the urban environment as a theatrical space.

The sequence in HAMLET which begins with the dialogue of the gravediggers and concludes with the outburst of the Prince against Laertes has two more protagonists: Yorick and Ophelia, the skull of the jester and the maid from whose flesh violets will grow.

THE DEAD BROTHER is the performance about how performances are made at Odin Teatret. THE DEAD BROTHER describes the stages of the work, which starting from a poetic text become a “poem in space”: the performance.

It is the story of a character evaded from a performance - Kaosmos that tells the story of her origins and narrates her adventures with arguments of theatre entomology, with theories of modern physics and with poems and tales.

A strolling player arrives in a small village in southern Italy. She is masked. She always carries her drum with her... The public solitude of the actor’s journey is presented lyrically and realistically in this fictional film, whose title is taken from an Italian folk song.

Odin Teatret: The Echo of Silence

Odin Teatret: In The Beginning Was The Idea

Odin Teatret: Kaosmos

Odin Teatret: The Million

Odin Teatret: On the Two Banks of the River

72’ | OD-Ech | DVD & Streaming

71’ | OD-In | DVD & Streaming

83’ | OD-Kaos | DVD & Streaming

60’ | OD-Mil | DVD & Streaming

56’ | OD-On | DVD & Streaming

A performance which describes the vicissitudes of the voice of an actor and the stratagems she invents to “interpret” a text. The voice of the actor and the text presented to the spectators compose the music of a performance.

The film IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE IDEA is based on the performance

by Odin Teatret: “The Gospel According to Oxyrhincus”. Between 1985 and 1987 it was performed in 12 countries in Europe and South America.

A village in the heart of Europe; doors like walls and walls like doors.

Every Spring the villagers perform “The Ritual of the Door”. The theme of the performance is a common one in mythology and folklore.

Marco Polo was the first European to explore the Far East. He told about everything he had seen. His listeners laughed and called him “Millione”, because everything he described was a million times more incredible than anything they had imagined.

The film, which shows how Odin Teatret managed to play their performances and come into contact with people, in spite of the restrictive conditions, is essentially about the strategy of insubordination by means of theatre.

ODIN TEATRET

productions

Odin Teatret: Theatre Meets Ritual

Traces in the Snow

Odin Teatret: Whispering Winds

25’ | OD-The | DVD & Streaming

99’ | OD-Trace | DVD & Streaming

90’ | OD-Whis | DVD & Streaming

This film shows barters in Kuripe, a Venezuelan negro village, and with the Yanomami, an Indian tribe of the Upper Orinoco in Amazonia. It includes Yanomami dances and the shaman’s enactment of his tribal legend about the tortoise which killed the jaguar.

Every performance tells a story.

The actress carries on a dialogue with the secrets which precede and follow the building of a character and the creation of a performance - and in the process, she exposes these very secrets.

A film version of Odin Teatret ‘s “ Whispering Winds”, directed by Eugenio Barba. A performancedemonstration about the difference between theatre and dance.

A One Woman Show: Chinese Take Away

Black Rooster

The Pessoptimist

On the Edge: Madeleine

Kitten

60’ | AY-Chi | DVD & Streaming

140’ | SID-Bla | DVD & Streaming

113’ | SID-Pes | DVD & Streaming

77’ | JK-Madel | DVD & Streaming

81’ | JK-Kitten | DVD & Streaming

Based on the stories of performer/ writer Anna Yen’s grandmother, mother and herself, using a unique blend of storytelling, circus skills, clowning, movement and magic. The play travels from one generation to another.

With music based on the Sawung Galing myth from Java Indonesia, Black Rooster draws the audience into a wild and fantastic world where despots sow confusion and cultivate prejudices amongst the people to maintain their power.

The Pessoptimist - Saeed, the Donkey, & the Israeli Big Man... “a message to earthlings from outer space.” What is the difference between a pessimist and an optimist living in Israel? The pessimist says things can’t get any worse while the optimist says they can.

Madeleine is an exploration of schizophrenia and it’s effect on a young woman and her family. It is the second in a cycle of new works,

by Black Sequin Productions, exploring mental illness. The first was Kitten – a bi polar soap opera, premiered at the Melbourne International Festival for the Arts in 2008.

Kitten – a bi-polar soap trip – opera A drama in three acts: from tragic, to manic, to sonic. The play attempts to capture the Bi-Polar experience in it’s form as well as content. This is achieved by the externalising of the internal experience of Kitten.

This is further augmented by the character of Kitten being played by three performers.

productions Hedda Gabler

The Bald Soprano

Three Experimental Short American Plays

Small Poppies

The Show

125’ | BAC-Hedda | DVD & Streaming

62’ | CG-Bald | DVD & Streaming

87’ | OBB-Three | DVD & Streaming

60’ | CG-Small | DVD & Streaming

162’ | AB-Show | DVD & Streaming

Fiona Shaw recreates her West End role in this intimate and bleak version of Ibsen’s classic, Hedda Gabler. Shaw plays a woman set uncomfortably out of her time, who is determined not to be restrained by her husband Tesman’s (Nicholas Woodeson) bourgeois values. It is her determination that brings the drama to its startling and brutal conclusion.

With music by American composer Martin Kalmanoff and state-ofthe- art video techniques. The young and talented cast offers solid vocal artistry and perfectlypitched comic acting, resulting in a delightful comic opera in English of a major theatrical work.

RATS by Israel Horovitz - Written 1969, Video Produced 2006, 25 mins.

This fascinating documentary gives a detailed insight into the staging of the successful play, “Small Poppies” in which adult actors play 5 year olds on their first day of school, through rehearsal and performance.

*WINNER Best Tertiary Educational Resource Award at the 2003 ATOM Awards. A fly-on-the-wall look at the personalities, challenges, triumphs and traumas of the world of community theatre. What are the skills and personal qualities needed to stage a piece of community theatre? Available in AU only.

Eden

After Midnight

Length of 100 Needles

Embodied Humility / Opus about Plain

Summer in Ivye

60’ | JN-Eden | DVD & Streaming

69’ | JN-After | DVD & Streaming

60’ | JN-Length | DVD

35’ | JN-Double| DVD

57’ | CG-Sum | DVD & Streaming

It powerfully illustrates the mental and physical harm produced by dictatorships in 20th century Central-Europe. It shows how ordinary people try to defend themselves spiritually and mentally.

It gives an insight into life on the sprawling puszta of Bácska. Melding percussion, dance, live music, motion picture and puppetry, Nagy uses a unique artistic language to portray human endeavor in all its glory and disappointment.

Josef Nadj plays a magician. Objects, sounds, spaces and people change their meaning and function at each moment on stage – in an almost imperceptible way. Still, deep down, they all remain themselves in this perpetual variation. Despite his use of myth, iconography and discontinuity, the characters become familiar and personal.

Part 1 documents Nadj’s creative method, from initial rehearsals through to the premiere. In Part 2 Nadj sets himself a new challenge as he digresses from the stage, building and devising theatre in an unaccustomed space.

With warmth and humor, the film captures the group’s attempts to transcend differences in language, religion and culture in order to tell a moving story of love and loss.

Produced by Lori Cheatle, Directed

by Tamar Rogoff and Daisy Wright.

OUR LITTLE TRIP by Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Written 1964, Video Produced 1989, 12 mins.

SOAP OPERA by Ralph Pape Written 1983, Video Produced 1991, 53 mins.

productions Heavy Metal Hamlet

Salome

Doll Seventeen

Hamlet Stooged!

Midsummer Night’s Romeos

91’ | OF-Heavy | DVD & Streaming

76’ | OF-Salome |DVD & Streaming

86’ | OF-Doll | DVD & Streaming

58’ | OF-Ham | DVD & Streaming

56’ | OF-Mid | DVD & Streaming

In behaviour veering between levity and solemnity; savagery and courtesy; irony and pathos; Hamlet reveals to us, in a series of images, the hysteria of his emotions.

In Salome the combination of dramatic form within a lyrical poetic framework draws the work into the fantastic. The myth blended with the symbolic create a heady mix. In this production this mix is recreated through a veil of sound & music.

This work has a mystical aura through the use of imagery that is both cartoon-like and surreal.

Ninety percent of the dialogue has been replaced by movement and music that is entertaining, poignant and witty.

In this short and sharp one-act take on Hamlet, Ozfrank respectfully turns Shakespeare to squarely face the standup comedy genre.

The boy/man, accompanied by dog Horatio and his air guitar, turns up in a bizarre dream/nightmare world.

Director Jacqui Carroll has twinned Shakespeare’s play to make a modern masque, a parade of dream like fantasy characters that disport themselves in the ancient and modern agonies and ecstasies of love.

Oedipus Rex

Manga Ulysses

The Romance of Orpheus

Rashomon

Everyman: The Reckoning of Badengood

55’ | OF-Rex | DVD & Streaming

96’ | OF-Manga | DVD & Streaming

58’ | OF-Rom | DVD & Streaming

75’ | OF-Rash | DVD & Streaming

65’ | OF-Every | DVD & Streaming

Oedipus, with passion and energy, battles against the forces of destiny.

Those eternal, implacable forces, according to the ancient Greeks, govern everyone’s lives.

Having greatly angered the gods, Ulysses, attempting to return to his home in Ithaca, faces many trials and tribulations on this journey.

This celebrated story is shown here within a big movement/theatre/ music event.

The age-old tale of Orpheus’ journey to the Underground to get back his beloved Eurydice, cruelly bitten by a snake and taken by Hades, is here told in a gripping ritual of movement and sound.

Based on a short story by Japanese author Akutagawa, it tells the tale of an encounter between a robber, a traveler and his wife.All three gi\ ve their version of an encounter on a mountain track which alters their lives forever.

With an amusing and common touch, the dialogue is rendered into a modern elastic vernacular. This is an old fashioned story given a succinct contemporary wit by Ozfrank Theatre.

Still true after all these years!

college / school

productions BAAL - by Bertolt Brecht

The Bulgar’s Tale Following Brecht’s footsteps

75’ | STA-Baal | DVD & Streaming

BC-Bulgar | DVD

Brecht’s argument seems to be that in a society, which is dominated by class, it is impossible to maintain an absolute individual moral code: ethics depends on what face you are dealing with, or presenting to the world.

Disc 1: PDF: including the Script and notes. Disc 2: a recording of the play performed by the students of Xaverian on DVD. The script for this version of the play was written

by Wynn Moran and Rob Faulkner especially for Xaverian College, Manchester, UK.

The Women of Troy

Woyzeck - in English

• Social Gestus, tableaux and archetypes

GAT-Wom | DVD

92’| FAN-Woyzeck | DVD & Streaming

• episodic form and the use of captions and narration

The drama department at Xaverian Sixth Form College in Manchester embarked on an ambitious project to produce a film version of ‘The Trojan Women’ by Euripides. Lead by director/ producer Phil Hawkins, a professional crew filmed for a week, and nine months later the film received its premiere to great reviews.

Produced by Francis Annan and Xaverian College, Manchester, this feature-length production is the world’s first English language version of Georg Buchner’s stage-play, Woyzeck (1837).

College Brecht 40’ | BC-Brecht | DVD & Streaming The film presents a series of workshops with college students, aged 16-18, to suggest approaches to Brecht as playwright and practitioner. The sessions could be adapted to suit high school, undergraduate or youth theatre groups. Rob Faulkner and Wynn Moran, who teach Drama at Xaverian Sixth Form College, Manchester, devised the structure of the workshops after successfully re-writing, staging and filming their own Brechtian version of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera. Two other staff members of the Xaverian Drama team: Katy Cairns and Stephen Hall, helped to conduct the workshops that cover topics such as: • a comparison of Stanislavskian naturalism and Brecht’s political theatre • the Street scene and the V-effekt

• Brecht and music The workshop film is recommended for secondary education.

K-12 Commedia by Fava: The Commedia dell’ Arte Step by Step (2 parts)

Black Comedy alla Pulcinella by Antonio Fava

258’ | AF-Commby | DVD & Streaming

148’ | CAM-Fava | DVD & Streaming

The 2 DVDs is the most complete, up-to-date method for learning Commedia dell’Arte as taught by Antonio Fava. The world-famous maestro explains and demonstrates in details the characters, movement, masks, and comic scenarios of Commedia dell’ Arte.

A real deal: an original performance with an internationally acclaimed Italian master, Antonio Fava. Little Opera in words, Lazzi and Music in the style of the Neapolitan Commedia dell’arte.

Commedia dell’ Arte

Mask

Mask Making

Mime

54’ | KD-Mask | DVD & Streaming

54’ | KD-Mmake | DVD & Streaming

54’ | KD-Mime | DVD & Streaming

Firstly, exercises explores the use of “neutral mask” to force students to learn to express emotions through posture and gesture, without facial expression. Then, exercises explore the use of masks as a way of inhabiting alternative identities.

The program demonstrates three basic mask making techniques, ranging from a simple plaster bandage technique to subtle and flexible latex masks and fanciful papier-mâché techniques.

In the earliest exercises students learn to isolate and articulate each body part. Later exercises provide students with a Mime vocabulary they can use to articulate objects, characters, environments, processes and stories.

Spirit of Commedia

The Hamlet in Commedia dell’ Arte style

Circus in Education

Dance and Drama in Uganda, The Pearl of Africa

53’| AF-Comm | DVD & Streaming

60’ | RJ-Comm | DVD & Streaming

27’ | CAT-Comm | DVD & Streaming

48’ | RB-Cir | DVD & Streaming

SB-Afr | CD-Rom

This documentary/ interview allows an informative insight into Antonio Fava’s teachings both theoretical and practical as the traditional character of Pulcinella is being performed by him and his students. In English and Italian.

This video introduction to the commedia dell’arte features Luoghi dell’Arte, one of Rome’s leading commedia dell’arte companies, in performance, in the studio and in discussion.

Michael Alaimo and his group perform several scenes from “Hamlet” in “Commedia dell’arte” style: his advice to the players, the encounter with his father’s ghost his confrontation with his mother, and Ophelia’s “mad scene”.

CIRCUS SKILLS The only available instructional video which teaches the basics of JUGGLING, STILLTS, UNICYCLING, ACROBATICS, WIRE WALKING. Reg Bolton explains all the secrets while teaching a groups of year 8 students.

The result of a unique three-year collaboration between Ugandan playwright, researcher, teacher and folklore exponent, Dr Mercy Mirembe Ntangaare and New Zealand teacher, playwright and researcher, Susan Battye, the e-book provides many contemporary and historical perspectives on Ugandan dance and drama.

SHAKESPEARE

K-12 Combat for the Stage 96’ | DVC-Combat| DVD Creative Drama & Improvisation 110’ | DVC-Creat | DVD

Your class is encouraged to participate along with the following exercises: -What is creative drama? -Dramatic play and exercises -The creative process -Improvisational exercises -Creative drama for rehearsals.

The Directing Process 90’ | DVC-Direct| DVD History of directing, Working with designers, How to select a play, Principles of staging, Text analysis, Blocking & Picturization, Successful Collaboration, Rehearsing the play.

Drama/Comedy 45’ | GA-DC | DVD & Streaming This program discusses comedy, its plot devices, stock characters, different forms, satiric goals and black humour and illustrates its diversity with lively excerpts from Shakespeare, Kopit, Simon, Friedman, Goldsmith and Shaw.

Shakespeare is Alive and Well in the Modern World 47’ | GA-Shake1 | DVD & Streaming This program compares Shakespearean themes with similar themes from modern works, enabling students to penetrate complex Elizabethan vocabulary and experience insight into character’s feelings, motives and actions.

Shakespeare’s Tragedies: A Video Commentary 28’ | GA-Shake3 | DVD & Streaming Explore the characters, stories and central themes Shakespearean tragedy. The program is based on interview with Suzanne L. Wofford, Assistant Prof.

English, Yale University, who describes the theatre Shakespeare’s day and the nature of his tragedy.

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The Stage Fight Director 33’ | TAV-Fi | DVD Voice Workout for the Actor 33’ | TAV-Voice| DVD

Drama/Tragedy 45’ | GA-DT | DVD & Streaming Defines tragedy and tragic conflict, explores the major aspects of character and structure in tragic drama.

Illustrated and explored through selections from such great dramatists as Tennessee Williams, Chekhov, Ibsen, Shakespeare, O’Neill, Sophocles and Arthur Miller.

Shakespeare at Sea

JD-Sha | e-book

Performing Shakespeare

A piece of theatre in education that offers the young playgoer an introduction to many of the characters from Shakespeare’s comedies. The tragedies are represented by characters in the subplots such as Hamlet (a mouse),Romeo (a dog) and Juliet(a cat) all of whom contribute to Will’s play in some way.

Move your way through any Shakespearean text with a highly physical series of exercises presented by Shakespeare specialist Kathleen F. Conlin. This video goes from the exploration of specific words and movements to the development of the ghost scene from Hamlet. Divided into ten easy-to-show segments.

On the plains of the Serengeti, Zak Zebra, takes on the task of the dangerous quest even as the adults in his community retreat from their responsibilities. The e-book contains a vast array of images, the entire play script, director’s notes and video clips.

Shakespeare: A Day at the Globe

Athena Emu at the Olympics JD-Ath | e-book

A Dynamic Vocal Workout 25’ | TAV-Speak | DVD 120’ | TAV-Perf | DVD

28’ | GA-Shake2 | DVD & Streaming

Discussion of early theaters and the operations of the Globe, its architecture, stage design and galleries.

Dramatic readings, authentic costumes and sound effects present Shakespearean drama as it may have looked to its original audiences.

Zak Zebra JD-Zak | e-book

Written and Directed by Jenny de Reuck This e-book with its blend of classical fact and fiction offers drama teachers a lively script for young performers and audiences as well as set and costume designs, the lyrics and musical scores for the songs.

asian collection

The Theatres of Asia: An Introduction

Asian Theater: Conversation with A.C. Scott

DG-Asia | 45â&#x20AC;&#x2122; | DVD & Streaming

MS-Scot | 28â&#x20AC;&#x2122; | DVD

Places the major forms of both Asian classical and folk theatre in their cultural context, this video introduces Asian theatre through the roles it plays in the lives of Asian people and its special relationship to young people.

A.C. Scott elaborates on his long years of experience in China and Japan and shows film clips and slides of his classes, rehearsals and workshop productions in which Asian performers have assisted him in the training of American student actors.

noh theatre Acting Techniques of the Noh Theatre of Japan

Noh, the Classical Theatre of Japan

The Japanese Noh Theatre Selected Scenes

Noh - Theatre & Music 2 DVDs

Music of the Noh Theatre

MS-Noh | 29’ | DVD

MG-Japan | 28’ | DVD

MG-Sel | 103’ | DVD & Streaming

MG-Noh | 194’ | DVD

MG-Music | 91’ | DVD & Streaming

With Akira Matsui. Basic posture patterns of walking and turning.

Variations of these depending on the sex, temperament, age and personality of a character. Symbolism of hand gestures and more...

Akiro Matsui, professional actor and master-teacher of the Kita Noh School of Tokyo, performs excerpts from the plays BENKEI ON THE BRIDGE and THE LADY HAN. The excerpts illustrate widely contrasting aspects of the Noh actor’s art.

Performance selections from the Five Main Schools of Traditional Japanese Noh; including: Takasago Yashima, Hagoromo, Tenko, Midare, Koi no Netori, Youchi Soga Ominameshi, Kazuraki. Interviews: Okura Genjiro, Fujita Rokurobyoue Umewaka Gensyou and more...

Musical segments from the following Noh plays and Dances: Okina Sanbaso, Kami-mai, Miwa Kakko, Nomori, Shishi, Utaura, Matsumushi, Kanjincho, Miidera.

Performance selections from the Five Main Schools of Traditional Japanese Noh.

Musical segments from the following Noh plays and dances: Okina, Sanbaso, Kami-mai, Miwa, Kakko, Nomori, Shishi, Utaura, Matsumushi, Kanjincho, Miidera. Performed by many of the most important musicians of the Noh theatre world.

Noh Play “Tale of Genji” excerpts

Noh Theatre - Dojoji

Asian Concepts of Stage Discipline and Western Actor Training

Bunraku Classical Japanese Puppet Art

The Lovers’ Exile

CAT-Noh | DVD & Streaming

MG-Dojoji | DVD

MS-Stage | 33’ | DVD

CAT-Bun | 27’ | DVD & Streaming

MG-Lov |90’ | DVD & Streaming

Excerpts from the Japanese dancedrama Noh play “Tale of Genji”, from the 14th century, performed

by Tatsuo Minagawa,Tei Ko, Shizu Nakamura, and Yuki Shimoda, with commentary by the leading Japanese scholar Donald Keene.

Featuring highlights and a complete performance.

Featuring Kanze Kiyokazu, at Obori Koen Nogakudo, Fukuoka; Umewaka Rokuro, at Nagoya Nogakudo; Shiotsu Akio, filmed on the outdoor Noh Stage of Misogi Shrine Nogakuden, in Yamanashi.

A.C. Scott draws on long years of experience in China, Japan, and teaching to present a clear philosophy of Asian stage discipline and its application to the training of western actors.

Includes performances from two traditional Bunraku dramas and filmed scenes showing how the puppets are made and articulated.

Commentary by Faubion Bowers, expert on dance and Asian arts.

Brings an engaging theatrical form from Japan to contemporary cinema audiences, merging the artistry and grace of the legendary Bunraku Puppet Theatre with the power of the screen through the collective talent of many international contributors.

kabuki Kabuki Techniques

Kabuki Acting Techniques 1: The Body

Kabuki Acting Techniques II: The Voice

Kabuki Classics: Onoe Baiko VII in The Salt Gatherer

Kabuki for Western Actors and Directors

CAT-Kab | 27’ | DVD & Streaming

MS-Kab1 | 60’ | DVD

MS-Kab2 |29’ | DVD

CAT-Kabcl| 27’ | DVD & Streaming

MS-Kabwes | 37’ | DVD

Two of the greatest stars of Japan’s Kabuki Theatre reveal the acting techniques used in this most difficult of theatre forms. Onoe Shoroku II and Onoe Baiko VII discuss and demonstrate their craft.

Includes footages of great Kabuki performances of the past.

Leonard Pronko demonstrates fundamental techniques in Kabuki acting. Male movement patterns, variations in the walk, poses and exits, female movement patterns based on age, temperament and social class. Excerpts from professional performers.

Pronko explains a range of voices appropriate for depicting the young girl, noble wife, evil warrior, young man, old woman and refined warrior. He demonstrates numerous specialized vocal techniques with filmed illustrations.

Performance by Kabuki actor Baiko VII of a famous 18th Century Kabuki dance based on a Noh drama. Baiko also grants a rare interview, explains his art and the origin of the dance he performs and gives notes on technique to his son, also a Kabuki actor.

Pronko outlines a multitude of ways Kabuki may be used by actors and directors in the West. He provides a range of filmed illustrations from his own productions and shows slides of his recent show, THE REVENGER’S TRAGEDY.

Kabuki-za Final Curtain

Tamasaburo Bando Kabuki Dance Collection

Fuji Musume MG-Fuj | 70’ | DVD Tamasaburo Bando dances Fuji Musume. Features the dances, Yukari no Tuki, Yasuna, Aoi no Ue, Kane no Misaki.

Kagamijishi MG-Kag | 70’ | DVD

Tamasaburo Bando displays his extraordinary versatility in this most demanding of roles; first as a shy maiden and then as a fierce lion. Also features Tamasaburo in the dances Kanaya Tanzen and Kosu no To.

Musume Dojoji MG-Mus | 70’ | DVD

Performed at Tokyo’s Kabuki-Za Theatre, Tamasaburo is seen here at the height of his powers as a dancer.

MG-Kabuki | 160’ | DVD Ichikawa Danjuro XII, Onoe Kikugoro VII, Nakamura Jakuemon IV, Nakamura Baiygoku IV, Kataoka Nizaemon XVI, Nakamura Kanzaburo XVIII, Nakamura Kichiemon II and many of the greats of the Kabuki world appear in this documentary.

Onatsu Kyoran MG-Onat | 119’ | DVD

Today it is one of the best surviving examples of early 20th century theatre reform, reform that sought to do away with much that was illogical in traditional Kabuki dance and to concentrate instead on the psychological realism of the characters.

Sagi Musume MG-Sag | 70’ | DVD Yokihi MG-Yok | 70’ | DVD

Part fairy tale, part ghost story, Princess Yôkihi (Yang Kwei Fei) is one of the most beautiful love stories in Chinese history.

kabuki Masterpieces of Kabuki Theatre Series

An outstanding series of Kabuki Plays. All filmed at Tokyo’s famed Kabukiza Theatre. Many of the most widely admired Kabuki stars, several declared Living National Treasures of Japan, are included in this selection of Kabuki masterworks.

Vol. 1-16 Code: MG-Mast Vol. 1-33 Code: MG-Mast2 Vol 1: KANJINCHO,The Subscription List Vol 2:TOGITATSU NO UTARE,The Revenge on Togitatsu Vol 3: KUMAGAI JINYA, Kumagai’s Battle Camp Vol 4: YOSHITSUNE SENBON ZAKURA, Yoshitsune & the 1000 Cherry Trees Vol 5: KOCHIYAMA, The Robber Kochiyama Vol 6: SHIRANAMI GONIN OTOKO, The Five Bandits Vol 7: FUINKIRI, Breaking the Seal Vol 8: ISE ONDO KOI NO NETABA, The Ise Dances & Love’s Dull Blade Vol 9: FUJI MUSUME, The Wisteria Maiden, Yasuna & Sagi Musume (The Heron Maiden) Vol 10: TERAKOYA, The Village School Vol 11: DATTAN, The Fire Ritual, Ninin Wankyu (The Two Wankyus) Vol 12: SUMIDAGAWA, Sumida River, Hanabusa Shujaku Jishi (Shujaku Lion Dance) Vol 13: JUSSHUKO, Ten Types of Incense, Kenreimonin Vol 14: YAMATO TAKERU, Super Kabuki Vol 15: IPPON GATANA DOHYO IRI, The Wrestling Ring and the Sword Vol 16: KANJINCHO, The Subscription List Vol 17: KANADEHON CHUSHINGURA Part 1 Acts 3 & 4 (2 DVDS) Vol 18: KANADEHON CHUSHINGURA Part 2 Acts 5 & 6 Vol 19: KANADEHON CHUSHINGURA Part 3 Act 7 Vol 20: KANADEHON CHUSHINGURA Part 4 Acts 9 & 11 Vol 21: SUKEROKU Flower of Edo Vol 22: KUROZUKA The Black Mound Vol 23: AKOYA - THE COURTESAN AKOYA Vol 24: THE RENOWNED BANZUI CHOBEI Vol 25: GOSHO NO GOROZO: THE GALLANT GOROZO Vol 26: KENUKI: THE WHISKER TWEEZERS and NARUKAMI THE PRIEST Vol 27: IBARAKI and SAKANAYA SOGORO Vol 28: IGAGOE DOCHU SUGUROKU - IN NUMAZU Vol 29: DATE NO JUYAKU: TEN ROLES OF THE DATE CLAN Vol 30: YOSHITSUNE SENBON ZAKURA: TOKAI-YA, DAIMOTSU NO URA Vol 31: ISHIKIRI KAJIWARA - STONE CUTTING KAJIWARA Vol 32: THREE KABUKI DANCES Vol 33: KINKAKUJI: THE TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PAVILION

butoh / bali theatre Physical Theatre: Butoh and Beyond

Cine Dance: The Butoh of Tatsumi Hijikata (by Takahiko iimura)

Butoh Piercing the Mask

Butoh Body Weather Farm

KD-But | 39’ | DVD & Streaming

TI-Cinedance | 33’ | DVD & Streaming

NBD-But2 | 49’ | DVD & Streaming

STA-But | 20’ | DVD & Streaming

The video is a documentary of a workshop presented by Cheryl Heazlewood in Perth in 1996.

Cheryl presents powerful and inspiring training exercises which are drawn from her eclectic training in occidental and oriental movement and theatre.

Anma (The Masseurs) Dancers: Tatsumi Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno, Yoshito Ohno, Akira Kasai, and others. Rose Color Dance Dancers: Tatsumi Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno, Yoshito Ohno, Akira Kasai, Mitsutaka Ishii, and others...

This documentary pierces the mystery and mystique of a dance movement adored by the West and largely ignored by the Japanese. It uses archival and modern footage of leading Butoh performers Dairakudakan, Hakutobo, Kazuo Ono - and interviews.

An insight into the training practices and life on Body Weather Farm - the home to one of Japan’s most enigmatic Butoh practitioners, Min Tanaka and his dance company, Mai Juku.

Featuring previously unpublished photographs.

The Bali Dances: A Veil Between Worlds

Dances of Bali

Acting Techniques of Topeng, Masked Theatre of Bali

Adapting Topeng, the Masked Theatre of Bali

Masks and Faces: Dance and Drama in Bali

JUN-Bali| 64’ | DVD & Streaming

CAT-Dances | DVD & Streaming

MS-Top | 39’ | DVD

MS-Adap | 45’ | DVD

DG-Balcd | e-book

Eleven of Bali’s most dramatic dances to show how intimately culture, religion and life are inter-twined in Bali. Content: Legong Kraton, Aria, Sanghyang Jaran & Kecak, Baris, Topeng, Joged, Palawakiya, Terunajaya, Condong, Calonarang.

Several important classic Balinese dances are performed by six dancers and twelve musicians, artists celebrated in their own culture yet hardly known abroad. Interviews in Malay with two leading dancers are included: Raka and Sukraka.

John Emigh introduces the masked theatre of Bali and shows how masks may be used as a guide to the interpretation of character. The walk, variations on the basic walk, variety of character types and voices that is possible to achieve with the masks.

John Emigh explains how he has incorporated mask training and improvisation.

Highlighted with humorous excerpts from LITTLE RED RIDING SHAWL. He discusses the ways he has combined ideas from the West and from the masked theatre of Bali.

A comprehensive guide to Balinese dance and drama by Dr. David George. Dancing for the Gods; Trance and Dance; Masks and Faces; Shadows Of The Past (Topeng). With more than 100 unique slides.

stagecraft / backstage Standby Cue 101

Affective Space: Theory and Practice

Stage Design: Praxis and Theory

How to Create Low-Budget SFX

The Make-Up Workshop 104’ | DVC-Makeup| DVD

The Basic Costumer 73’ | DVC-Cost| DVD

Shedding Some Light 95’ | DVC-Light | DVD

Basic Set Construction 72’ | DVC-Basic | DVD

Scene Painting Techniques

56’ | DM-Standby | DVD & Streaming

68’ | STA-Affec | DVD

STA-Stage | e-book & DVD-Rom

100’ | MRG-How | DVD & Streaming

An Introduction to Calling Live Performances is a first-of-its-kind training film for students and early career stage managers. The film focuses on the role of the stage manager in technical rehearsals and performances.

3 Disc account on the subject of Affective Space: includes a PhD dissertation by Serge Tampalini, Lecturer and Theatre Designer/ Director for two decades. Through the consideration of more than thirty theatre productions it investigates design outside of its decorative role.

From the perspective of art history and drawing on visual examples from more than 50 theatre productions that constitute the author’s oeuvre, the book traces the evolution of his theatre work and provides the reader with an inspirational insight into contemporary theatre direction and design.

The film features real-time makeup application for a number of scenarios including cuts, bite marks, bullet holes and stitches. Uses easy to find ingredients such as tissue paper and latex along with blood made from food topping and colouring to produce outstanding results.

Conducting Light

Affective Design: fuckCRASH

Affective Design: Richard III

Affective Design: Wittgenstein

Gertrude the Cry

Visual Effect Library for Multimedia Performance

50’ | STA-Crash | DVD & Streaming

85’ | STA-Rich | DVD & Streaming

90’ | STA-Witt | DVD & Streaming

26’ | STA-Gert | DVD-Rom

62’ | NJ-Mult| DVD

It’s an opportunity to enjoy a visually stunning sojourn into the imagination of Serge Tampalini whose works range from the evocatively beautiful to the more challengingly experimental and multi-media projects.

A Bollywood Musical . It’s an opportunity to enjoy a visually stunning journey into the imagination of Serge Tampalini whose works range from the evocatively beautiful to the more challengingly experimental and multi-media projects.

A musical adaptation of the Terry Eagleton play script and the Derek Jarman film by Serge Tampalini.

Documents the creative decisions that informed the reading, design, direction and staging of Howard Barker play Gertrude the Cry. Designed and directed by Serge Tampalini, this complex tale of the crime at the heart of Shakespeare’s Hamlet is staged with startling imagery that is as complex as the tale.

These multimedia pieces are originally designed for productions which used full screen projection as backdrop and/or frontal projection on the bodies of the performers. 1. Tools - images of industrial, mechanical tools were digitally manipulated 2. Sustainability - forest, water… nature’s images 3. Claustrophobia machines and threads

83’ | DVC-Paint| DVD

60’ | TAV-Cond | DVD

Play it Safe: Introduction to Theatre Safety 82’ | TAV-Play | DVD

VISUAL ART & photography

Total of 119 films Documentaries about Painters, Sculptors and Photographers from around the globe. From Community Art to large-scale installations, from the studio to the gallery, we are shown why and how Visual Artists create their work.

CATALOGUE VISUAL ART Australian Artist Australian Indigenous Museum | Sculpture Community / Public Art Installation | World African Art Documentary Photography SECONDARY EDUCATION (K-12)

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TONY WOODS / CHARLES BLACKMAN / GALLERY WATCH / JOHN RUSSELL

VISUAL ART Australian Artist Journey into Australia

More Than a Glance: Tony Woods

Charles Blackman Dreams and Shadows

Contemporary Australian Art - 6 Artists

Contemporary Australian Art - Robert Juniper

74 mins | JA-Journey | A$320 / 1 yr

15 mins | LD-More | A$180 / 1 yr

55 mins | RMO-Black | A$240 / 1 yr

85 mins | CTV-6Art | A$180 / 1 yr

34 mins | CTV-Rob | A$180 / 1 yr

Peter Sculthorpe and Garry Shead have explored a fascination with the Australian landscape and its cultural identity. They have responded in very personal ways to two significant events in Australia’s literary history.

Painter Tony Woods uses his Super 8 or video camera to record images that are a part of his everyday reality. His approach to art is an open dialogue that allows the viewer access to the creative act and encourages interpretation.

The documentary is first and foremost a celebration of Charles Blackman’s life and art. Charles explores areas of feeling that have traditionally been suppressed feelings of love, guilt, tenderness, sadness and isolation.

GALLERY WATCH is a multi-award winning series featuring Australian Artists in the gallery exhibition settings. 6 Artists: Bjorn Dolva, Douglas Sheerer, Tom Muller, Naomie Hatherley, Ken Done and Robert Dickerson.

GALLERY WATCH is a multi-award winning series featuring Australian Artists in the gallery exhibition settings.

Robert Juniper: Four Solo Exhibitions 2004- 2008 at Gomboc Gallery WA

The King of Belle-Ile John Russell (1858-1930)

Bohemians in the Bush

Annette Bezor

Art Nation - Selected Visual Artists Profiles

Art Show - Gascoigne Country 1917-1999

52 mins | AT-King | A$250 / 1 yr

58 mins | AT-Bohem | A$180 / 1 yr

53 mins | AB-Annette | A$163 / 1 yr

26 mins | AB-Artshow | A$136 / 1 yr

The life and art of Australia’s first Impressionist painter, John Russell (1858-1930), is celebrated in this documentary by Albie Thoms.

An examination of the Impressionist artists’ camps on the shores of Sydney Harbour in the late 19th Century. Part 1 looks at the Artists’ Camp on Edwards Beach in Mosman.

Part 2 looks at the later Curlew Camp on Little Sirius Cove in Mosman.

This valuable and insightful presentation

by Australian artist Annette Bezor, about her art, speaks eloquently to a wide audience about the cultural issues and social mechanisms of gender, sexuality, beauty, desire, the body, identity and their representation. Available in AU only.

13 x 5 mins | AB-Artnation | A$250 / 1 yr Ron Mueck, Shaun Gladwell, Tracey Emin, Street Art, Laith McGregor, New Wave Festival, Rupert Bunny, Sydney Biennale, Alfred Stieglitz, Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life 1990 - 2005, Otto Boron

An inspirational story about the life and work of the renowned visual artist, Rosalie Gascoigne, who died in 1999.

It’s a story of a woman who came to art late in life, after all the business of kids and family, but scaled the heights of both national and international recognition.

GALLERY WATCH

VISUAL ART

Australian Indigenous Contemporary Aboriginal Art - 5 Artists

Contemporary Aboriginal Art - Artist Communities

Contemporary Aboriginal Art - Norma MacDonald

Show us a Light: The Artistic History of Carrolup

Tjanpi Nyawa! - Look at the Grass!

64 mins | CTV-5Art | A$180 / 1 yr

53 mins | CTV-Artist | A$180 / 1 yr

51 mins | CTV-Norma | A$180 / 1 yr

28 mins | NJ-Show | A$200 / 1 yr

mins | SRA-Look | A$220 / 1 yr

GALLERY WATCH is a multi-award winning series featuring Australian Artists in the gallery exhibition settings. 5 Artists: Karen Reys, Lance Chadd, Bevan Thompson, Simone Struuman, Sandra Hill

Artist Communities: 4 exhibitions between 2004-2008 featuring the art and artists from Aboriginal communities: Cape to Cove, Genulla Groups, Pilbarra Art, and Looma Artists Group from the Kimberley in two different exhibitions.

GALLERY WATCH is a multi-award winning series featuring Australian Artists in the gallery exhibition settings. Norma Mac Donald: 4 Solo exhibitions between 2003 - 2008

The story of Carrolup is a remarkable one told through the words of the child artists of the forties and fifties and echoed in the hope and the optimism of today’s artworkers of the Marribank Family Centre.

In 2010 Dr Christiane Keller involved the Tjanpi Desert Weavers from Warakurna in a research project investigating the sensory and material aspects of Aboriginal fibre work. The aim was to capture and communicate experiences of fibremaking processes.

One Country, One People - Ngurra Kuju Walyja

Art and Soul: Home and Away

Art and Soul: Dreams and Nightmares

Art and Soul: Bitter and Sweet

Four Corners Art for Art’s Sake?

74 mins | FO-One | A$240 / 1 yr

55 mins | AB-Art1 | A$165 / 1 yr

55 mins | AB-Art2 | A$165 / 1 yr

55 mins | AB-Art3 | A$165 / 1 yr

45 mins | AB-Four | A$220 / 1 yr

This exceptional collection of short films explores the story of the Canning Stock Route told through the eyes of four emerging Aboriginal filmmakers: Clint Dixon, Morika Biljabu, Kenneth “KJ” Martin and Curtis Taylor with award-winning filmmaker and mentor Nicole Ma.

What does it mean to be ‘at home’ for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people? Is it where you live, or the ‘country’ you are exiled from?

Available in AU only.

From the ‘dreaming’ to the unsettling nightmare of colonisation, what is the role of memory, dreams and the spirit world in Aboriginal art?

Available in AU only.

How does the startling beauty - and humour - of Aboriginal art intertwine with reverberations of the past and our present? Available in AU only.

Explores these two ends of the Australian art industry - the big money auction rooms and the production chain of Aboriginal art - and finds both open to abuse.

Available in AU only.

GALLERY WATCH

VISUAL ART

Museum | Sculpture Curators and Collectors of Fine Art

Antiquities and Indigenous Art

Masters of Contemporary & Fine Art Galleries 2011

Mathew Barney: No Restraint

Kurt Schwerdtfeger: Reflecting Colour-Light-Play

40 mins | EX-Cur | A$240 / 1 yr

55 mins | EX-Indig | A$240 / 1 yr

72 mins | MAD-Mathew | A$380 / 1 yr

73 mins | RA-Kurt | A$250 / 1 yr

Gerard Vaughan – NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA Jeremy Howard – COLNAGHI GALLERY Axel Vervoordt – AXEL VERVOORDT

Bernard Dulon – DULON GALLERY Maureen Zarember – TAMBARAN GALLERY Hicham Aboutaam – PHOENIX ANCIENT ART Prof. Nicholas Stampolidis – MUSEUM OF CYCLADIC ART

2 hours | EX-DesContemp | A$240 / 1 yr Profiles of the artists and curators who sculpt and influence the art and design in galleries, architecture, interiors and furnishings around the world.

The documentary journeys to Japan with Barney and his collaborator Bjork, as the visual artist creates a “narrative sculpture” telling a fantastical love story of two characters that transform from land mammals into whales. Australia only.

1.Reflektorische Farblichtspiele (1968), 18 min 2.Making Reflektorische Farblichtspiele (1968), 5 min 3.Talking Backgrounds (2009), 50 min

2020

From a Ball of Clay

Contemporary Australian Art-Sculptures in the Park

Samurai in Space Shinkichi Tajiri

America Tropical

30 mins | SCA-2020 | A$180 / 1 yr

27 mins | CG-From | A$240 / 1 yr

79 mins | CTV-Sculp | A$180 / 1 yr

50 mins | PCO-Samurai | A$240 / 1 yr

30 mins | CG-America | A$240 / 1 yr

The film is a documentation of a large-scale, evolving installation that focuses attention on the future importance of environmental sustainability within artistic practice.

This fascinating and informative video details the step-by-step procedures involved in modeling a clay sculpture, showing how sculptor and art instructor Margot McMahon creates a portrait of her model over several sessions.

GALLERY WATCH is a multi-award winning series featuring Australian Artists in the gallery exhibition settings. Sculptures in the Park: Jean Pierre Rives, Rebecca Cool, Ross Miller, Greg James... And the making of the Bon Scott statue.

Materials were scarce and Shinkichi Tajiri became known for his innovative ‘junk sculptures’. He was soon admired for his incredible diversity as a sculptor, experimental filmmaker and photographer.

It tells the story of a controversial mural painted on a Los Angeles building in 1932 by Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros. Also includes interviews with others who worked with the great Mexican muralist.

JEANETTE JENNINGS

VISUAL ART

Community / Public Art Light Site-Ings

Creative Communities: Environment

Creative Communities: Public Spaces

Beautiful Losers

Exit Through the Gift Shop

13 mins | CG-Light | A$240 / 1 yr

26 mins | JJ-Creative2 | A$180 / 1 yr

26 mins | JJ-Creative3 | A$180 / 1 yr

86 mins | MAD-Exit | A$380 / 1 yr

Documents the making of a public art piece that raises questions about the meaning of private and public space and the role of public art.

It presents art teachers and educators the opportunity to take students work to another level, from assignment examples to public works that can be installed in school grounds or broader community places.

2 projects are included in this video: A History Pathway along the Yarra River that tells the history of the gold rush period and the creation of a public artspace in a shopping centre involving local schools, community and business groups.

90 mins | MAD-Beautiful | A$380 / 1 yr

Manga Mad

Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies

The Cats of Mirikitani

The Universe of Keith Haring

59 mins | NM-Mangal | A$209 / 1 yr

60 mins | MAD-Picasso | A$380 / 1 yr

74 mins | MAD-Cats | A$380 / 1 yr

82 mins | Code: MAD-Har | A$380 / 1 yr

Jimmy Mirikitani (80) survived the trauma of WWII internment camps, Hiroshima, and homelessness by creating art. An intimate exploration of the lingering wounds of war and the healing powers of friendship and art, this documentary won the Audience Award at its premiere in the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. AU only.

Keith Haring’s legacy is all around us.

His images are everywhere: on walls, posters, T-shirts, watches - in our memories and imaginations; modern icons. “Art is for everyone!” AU only

An insight into contemporary Japanese culture through the iconography of its biggest pop culture and explains why comics are not just for children, as depicted by the compulsive consumer obsessiveness of the otaku adult manga and anime scene.

Born at the same time as cinema itself and both avid cinephiles, Picasso and Braque were pioneering figures in the world of modern art. The film examines the possible aesthetic link between the advent of the cinema and the Cubist movement. Australia only.

Influenced by the popular underground youth subcultures of the day artists like S. Fairey, M. Gonzales, S. Jonze, M. Kilgallen, M. Mills, B. McGee, P. Frost, C. Johanson, H. Korine, and Ed Templeton began to create art that reflected the lifestyles they led. Australia only.

The film traces Thierry’s attempts to capture the world of graffiti art in thrilling detail, following many of the most infamous figures at work in the streets.

We trace Thierry’s efforts to locate and befriend Banksy only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner with spectacular results. Australia only.

VISUAL ART

Installation | World African Art The Tape Project

Great Wall of Books

30 mins | EX-Tape | A$220 / 1 yr

105 mins | WEL-Wal | A$180 / 1 yr

Tape Melbourne Federation Square 2011. The work was commissioned

by Melbourne’s main civic centre and cultural district Federation Square as a part of their Creative Program focussing on experimental large-scale public art and its social and communal relevance.

Performance, installation, interactive, temporary architecture. This work begins with a simple sculptural idea that is universally recognisable: the wall and the book. Conceived and Artistically Directed by Dario Vacirca, Meka Audet and Alex ben Mayor.

Eritrean Artists in War and Peace

Africa Between Myth And Reality

Masks, Fetishes and Other Obsessions

Persistent Women Artists

56 mins | CG-Eritrean | A$240 / 1 yr

28 mins | CG-Africa | A$240 / 1 yr

52 mins | VL-Masks | A$240 / 1 yr

28 mins | CG-Women | A$240 / 1 yr

Portrays the aesthetic develop-ment of twelve artists in Eritrea, whose contemporary art move-ment was born during the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front’s thirty-year war against Ethiopian control.

Shows the view of African life in the paintings, drawings and etchings of Betty LaDuke, one of America’s most accomplished multicultural artists. 10 years of travels in Africa have inspired her work as a composite of myth, magic, and reality.

A voyage into traditional African art.

Lekha Sarkar explores these hidden myths and stereotypes and takes us on a journey into these unique cultures.

She traces her journey to Togo and the Cameroon, to High priests, healers, and magicians.

Artist and art educator Betty LaDuke presents the lives and work of three American women artists of diverse heritages - Lois Mailou Jones, Mine Okubo, and Pablita Velarde.

VISUAL ART Documentary Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh

The Art of Resistance

Fourteen Stations

Lasting Impressions

Paul Cadmus: Enfant Terrible at 80

105 mins | PCO-Vincent | A$240 / 1 yr

26 mins | CG-Art | A$240 / 1 yr

30 mins | CG-Four | A$240 / 1 yr

30 mins | CG-Last | A$240 / 1 yr

57 mins | CG-Paul | A$240 / 1 yr

Paul Cox created this film as a personal contribution towards the centenary of Vincent’s death in 1990, and as a homage to Vincent himself. It also reflects Paul’s own Dutch origins, and his lifelong interest in Vincent’s life and work.

Surveys the contemporary Chicano art movement by tracing its development during the height of Chicano political activism in the late 60’ and 70’, blending archival footage with interviews with the artists and samples of their work.

Fourteen Stations documents the effort, the time, the research and the personal toll the project exacted on the artist, who slowly reveals an unlikely connection to the heart of his unique work.

The video features interviews with profiles lithograph artist Robert Blackburn, fellow artists, art critics and curators, and many of his present and former students.

An award-winning documentary portrait of the controversial American painter, Paul Cadmus, best known for his drawings of the male nude and paintings in the ancient medium of egg yolk tempera.

Jack Levine: Feast of Pure Reason

Revelaciones / Revelations: Hispanic Art of Evanescence

Havana Postmodern: The New Cuban Art

120 Wooster Street

Maurits Escher: Painter of Fantasies

58 mins | CG-Jack | A$240 / 1 yr

28 mins | CG-Revel | A$240 / 1 yr

54 mins | CG-Havana | A$240 / 1 yr

58 mins | CG-Wooster | A$240 / 1 yr

27 mins | CG-Mau | A$240 / 1 yr

An award-winning documentary portrait of one of America’s foremost Social Realist painters, active since the 1930s, whose work skewers corrupt politicians and police, rages over social injustices, and satirizes the petty foibles of humankind.

Documents the Fall 1993 construction at Cornell University of site-specific installations by 8 acclaimed Hispanic artists, featuring interviews with the artists, scenes of the exhibit, as well as the controversy and protest on campus.

Examines the new Cuban art movement and its social and cultural roots, featuring interviews with artists and students at Cuba’s top art school, who discuss Cuban national identity, censorship and selfexpression.

It features comments by colleagues about Frederick Brown, his colorful and forceful personality, and his famous studio, plus footage recorded over a thirty-year period of Brown at work on various paintings and preparing major exhibitions.

Profiles the late, world-renowned graphic artist whose work is a curious blend of fact and fantasy, with mirror images and interlocking figures flowing from symmetrical shapes. Honors Award, American Film Festival

VISUAL ART Documentary

The Russian Concept.

Reflections on Russian Non-Conformist Art

The Cool School: Story of the Ferus Art Falley

Art City - Vol 1

Art City - Vol 2

Art City - Vol 3

56 mins | SIM-Russian | A$220 / 1 yr

85 mins | MAD-Cool | A$380 / 1 yr

58 mins | 12F-ArtCity1 | A$180 / 1 yr

58 mins | 12F-ArtCity2 | A$180 / 1 yr

58 mins | 12F-ArtCity3 | A$180 / 1 yr

Explores the conceptual trend in nonconformist art of 1960-1980s in the USSR. Also touches upon the issue of the history of one of the largest collections of art-works of the Soviet period – of American Professor Norton Dodge that numbers today more than 20 thousand pieces.

The end of 1956, med-school dropout Walter Hopps met artist Ed Kienholz for lunch at a hot dog stand on La Cienega Blvd. The two drafted a contract on a hot dog wrapper that stated simply, “We will be partners in art for five years.” And with that, the Freus Gallery was born.

Making it in Manhattan, Contemporary Artist in NYC. Featuring L. Bourgeois, B. Marden, C. Close, N. Jenney, E. Murray, A. Bickerton, G. Simmons, U. von Rydingsvard, R. Tiravanija, St. C. Cemin, C. Fonseca, and more...

A ruling passion, contemporary Artists in NYC. With Louise Bourgeois, Ed Ruscha, Michael Ray Charles, Elizabeth Peyton, Lari Pittman, Richmond Burton, David Deutsch, writer Dave Hickey & others.

Bacon’s Arena

Chris and Don: A Love Story

Artscape - Dame Elisabeth Murdoch in Conversation

Simplicity, Contemporary Artists. Featuring Richard Tuttle, Agnes Martin, John Baldessari, Robert Williams, Joan Snyder, Mike Bidlo, Amy Adler, Carolyn Martin, Mat Gleason, Marcia Tucker and Dave Hickey, the creative “act” is there to see and study.

95 mins | MAD-Bacon | A$380 / 1 yr

90 mins | MAD-Chris | A$380 / 1 yr

27 mins | AB-Dame | A$137 / 1 yr

This special edition film has been created to mark the centenary of his birth (2009) and is produced in association with the Estate of Francis Bacon. The film was nominated for an international Emmy, and is widely acclaimed as the definitive biographical documentary on Francis Bacon.

The true-life story of the passionate three-decade relationship between British writer Christopher Isherwood (whose Berlin Stories was the basis for all incarnations of the muchbeloved Cabaret) and American portrait painter Don Bachardy, thirty years his junior.

Portraying not just her trademark charm and no nonsense character, the interview also delivers lesser known and intriguing anecdotes from Dame Elisabeth’s vast experience as one of Australia’s highest profile arts patrons.

Australia only.

XX Century Archive

A$220 / 1 yr each CAT-Amer American comic strip art, with interviews CAT-Hen

Henry Moore discusses his life and work

CAT-Shod Shodo: Japanese Calligraphy in Daily Life

VISUAL ART Photography Photography Hijacked

The Art of Henson

Other Peoples’ Pictures

Long Shot Close Up: Andreas Gursky

27 mins | VA-Photo | A$240 / 1 yr

25 mins | AB-Bill | A$180 / 1 yr

53 mins | CG-Other | A$240 / 1 yr

100 mins | AH-Gursky | A$250 / 1 yr

A journey through the processes, techniques and outcomes of 12 unique photographers from Australia and America: G. Miller, D. Karr, S. Wei, J. J. Stratford, S. Small, T. Wilkinson, G. Willis, B. Rimmer, A. Stein, K. Bridges, A. Boatwright, B. Sullivan.

Henson photographs by night and spends most of the day in his darkroom meticulously labouring over his prints, studying them reworking minute sections for the right balance of colour and light, venturing out occasionally for a bite to eat.

Australia only.

Other People’s Pictures is a documentary about collectors who share an unlikely obsession – snapshots that have been abandoned or lost by their original owners and are now for sale.

The film traces the distinctly methodical approach used by Gursky when working with the large manmade spaces, such as commerce and tourism, he is drawn to and reveals his processes in researching his material at length before the final photograph is taken and often altered digitally before printing.

Masters of Photography: Diane Arbus

Objective Camera, Subjective Truth

28 mins | CAT-Phot | A$220 / 1 yr

28 mins | CAT-Obj | A$220 / 1 yr

The work of photographer Diane Arbus as explained by her daughter, friends, critics, and in her own words as recorded in her journals. Illustrated with many of her photographs.

W. Eugene Smith was already a renowned photojournalist, respected worldwide for his “Life” magazine essays, when he embarked on a personal journey to speak the truth as he saw it and shoot stories that would effect change.

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Secondary Education (K-12)

The Center For Humanities Seminars In Modern Art

Why Man Creates: Man The Measure of all Things

Art With a Message: Protest and Propaganda, Satire and Social Comment

Learning to See and Understand

Break with Tradition Impressionism

Exploring the Heart and the Mind

59 mins | GA-Why | A$170 / 1 yr

35 mins | GA-Art | A$170 / 1 yr

42 mins | GA-Lear | A$170 / 1 yr

20 mins | GA-CHSBreak | A$170 / 1 yr

20 mins | GA-CHSExp | A$170 / 1 yr

Using great works of art and selected passages from literature, this program helps students understand why the history of art is the history of civilization. Based on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Centennial Exhibition, “Masterpieces of Fifty Centuries”.

How various art forms are used to sway minds and to argue political causes. Examples include Napoleon and Hitler; artist such as Daumier, Hogarth and Shann; writers Dickens, Swift and Orwell; and pop artists who mock popular ideals.

Explores works by da Vinci, Goya, Lichtenstein, Bierstadt, Picasso, Wyeth, Kelly, Albers and Matisse to show students how great artists have expressed their feelings in their work.

Kurt Vonnegut offers contemporary comments on visual literacy.

Unit 1: The Break with Tradition introduces students to the origins of modern art. Explains one of the most revolutionary aspects of Impressionist painting-its use of color-as seen in the works of Monet, Pissarro and Renoir.

Unit 3: Discusses the Expressionist and Surrealist artists who sought to reveal deep feelings and subconscious thoughts in their paintings. Includes work by Rousseau, Redon, Ronault, Matisse, Nolde, Kirchner, Kandinski and others.

Picture’s Worth a 1000 Words: Interpreting Visual Information

Reality of Imagination: An inquiry into human creativity

The Reconstruction of Space

Contemporary Trends Art Scene

34 mins | GA-1000 | A$170/ 1 yr

32 mins | GA-Rea | A$170 / 1 yr

20 mins | GA-CHSRec | A$170 / 1 yr

20 mins | GA-CHSCon | A$170 / 1 yr

Demonstrates how visual images, photographs and illustrations are used to present one person’s view of reality. Special visual codes are explained and viewers are encouraged to discuss them.

Encourages the creative use of imagination and teaches how reason can organize dreams and fantasies into new forms of communication.

Unit 2: The Reconstruction of Space highlights a major category of modern art-Cubism-and traces the influence of Cezzane’s cubist style on Picasso and Braque.

Unit 4: The American art scene in the 1940s when painters in New York developed Abstract Expressionism.

Among the artists represented are Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Adolph Gottlieb and mark Rothko.

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behind the scenes series

metropolitan seminars in Art

Secondary Education (K-12) Composition

Expressionism/ Abstraction

Techniques

The Artist as Social Critic / Visionary

What is a Painting? / Realism

23 mins | GA-MSAComp | A$170 / 1 yr

25 mins | GA-MSAExp | A$170 / 1 yr

25 mins | GA-MSATec | A$170 / 1 yr

24 mins | GA-MSAArt | A$170 / 1 yr

25 mins | GA-MSAReal | A$170 / 1 yr

A Chronological exploration of the elements of composition, focusing on the element of pattern, from Gozzoli to Matisse; structure from Pollaiuolo to Cezzane; and expression from Sassetta to Degas.

Expressionism as the distortion of form and color for emotional interpretation, Abstraction as seeking to reduce solid objects to the flat plane surface. Contrast Mondrianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highly intellectual approach with Kandinskyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s emotionalized abstractions.

A detailed description of the technical aspects of working in various media: fresco, tempera, oil, watercolor, pastel, woodcut, etching and lithography.

How painters have expressed their ideas about relationships, protested vice or injustice. Includes examples of social criticism by Botticelli, Goya, Hogarth and Rivera, Blake, Bosch, Dali, DeChirico.

Introduces the fundamental principles of art appreciation and explains technique, composition and personal expression. Students trace realism from Van Eyck to Hopper.

David Hockney: The Illusion of Depth

Wayne Thiebaud: Line

Nancy Graves: Balance

Robert Gil de Montes: Colour

Carrie Mae Weems: Framing

30 mins | BS-Hoc | A$140 / 1 yr

30 mins | BS-Thi | A$140 / 1 yr

30 mins | BS-Gra | A$140 / 1 yr

30 mins | BS-Gil | A$140 / 1 yr

30 mins | BS-Mae | A$140 / 1 yr

How artists create the illusion of depth on a flat surface? Hockney explains his solution as he draws a chair from multiple perspectives.

Explores the many ways of creating a sense of depth on a two-dimensional surface.

When is a line more than a line?

Thiebaud demonstrates how artists use lines in unexpected ways. Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons and Futurama, demonstrates how lines can suggest movement in comic strips.

Sculptor Nancy Graves takes children from an understanding of balance in their own bodies to an understanding of balance in sculpture. Graves creates a work that is a surprising balancing act - then students have the chance to do the same in the classroom.

Montes reveals the ways artists use colour to express their ideas and emotions. Students learn how colours appear to change when placed against different backgrounds.

Expression through abstract colour painting.

Framing, as an element of composition, can change the focal point and meaning of a photo. Help your students explore the influence of framing and the power of light in creating images.

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Antiquities, Oriental and Asian Art

Great Tales In Asian Art

The Theatres of Asia: An Introduction

Asian Theater: Conversation with A.C. Scott

Buddhism as - in Performance

EX-DesAntiq| 130’ | DVD & Streaming

KU-Asia | 82’ | DVD

DG-Asia | 45’ | DVD & Streaming

MS-Scot | 28’ | DVD

DG-Budcd | e-book

The world’s most beautiful and fascinating antiques from the ancient Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Egyptian, and Near-Eastern sculptures and vases and also the masterpieces of the African, Asian and Oriental Art.

Filmed on location, four beloved stories of India, Indonesia, Korea and Japan are told through the masterpieces of visual art and the stirring performances these tales have inspired for centuries.

Places the major forms of both Asian classical and folk theatre in their cultural context, this video introduces Asian theatre through the roles it plays in the lives of Asian people and its special relationship to young people.

A.C. Scott elaborates on his long years of experience in China and Japan and shows film clips and slides of his classes, rehearsals and workshop productions in which Asian performers have assisted him in the training of American student actors.

Analysis of Meditation and Theatrical Practice by Dr David George.

“Buddhism as/in Performance is a commendable piece of painstaking research, presented in jargonless, compellingly readable style. It is certainly a pre-eminent contribution to drama studies, particularly of Buddhist theatrical practices.”

Edward Said: On Orientalism

Edward Said: The Myth of the ‘Clash of Civilisations’

Encounters: The Meeting of Asia and Europe 1500-1800

My Asian Heart

MEFW-Edw | 40’ | DVD

MEFW-Edw2 | 60’ | DVD

ILL-Enc | 50’ | DVD

FR-Asian | 70’ | DVD

In this lavishly illustrated interview Said talks about the context within which the book was conceived, its main themes, and how its original thesis relates to the contemporary understanding of “the Orient” as represented in the mass media.

In this important lecture delivered at the University of Massachusetts, Said takes aim at one of the central tenets of recent foreign policy thinking- that conflicts between different and “clashing civilizations” (Western, Islamic, Confucian) characterize the contemporary world.

Produced alongside the V&A’s landmark 2004 exhibition, the film explores both the western fascination for the exotic materials of Asia as well as the interest in European technologies in India, China and Japan.

In 1989 Blenkinsop quit his job on The Australian newspaper, sold his Austen Healey Sprite sports car, bought two Leica cameras... and a one way ticket for Bangkok.

He was escaping suburbia for the heartbeat and chaos of Asia.

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A Better Life

Hard Old Rock

The Yangtze River`s Green Sailors

Flavour and Affinity

IC-CSBetter | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-CSHard | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-CSSailor| 52’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-CSFlavour | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

My Last Secret

The Secret of the Roast Pigeon

The Graduates

The Final Migration

IC-CSSecret | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-CSPigeon | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-CSGraduate| 52’| DVD & Streaming

IC-CSFinal | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

From one Patient to the Next

The Travelling Court

An Ordinary Season

A Village Life

IC-CSFrom | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-CSTravel | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-CSOrdinary| 52’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-CSLife | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

Chronicles from a changing empire...

For a few years now China has been undergoing considerable changes. The implosion of the S o v i e t Em p i re, t h e re f o r m s a n d o p e n i n g - u p p o l i c y, t h e advent of consumerism and the emergence of modernity: important challenges to meet, both socially and economically. Although the country has gained considerable international influence, it’s inner mechanisms ac tually remain largely unknown. Between the < yellow peril > and an economic miracle, one of ten forgets to considerthe 1.3 billion Chinese citizens attempting to findtheir place in a completely new context.

T hat ’s w hy it is impor t ant to talk about “ the New China” differently: through an exceptional 22 volume portfolio of human-interes t s tories, filmed from the inside by young independent Chinese filmmakers.

By observing its diversity, in the cities and in the countr yside, with the young and families, with rich and poor, but always with ordinar y people. The curious viewer will find here a compelling mosaic revealing a mysterious, complex and authentic China.

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The Christians of Caichong

Lost Sentence?

The Last House Standing

The Big Family

Nu Shu

IC-CSChristian |52’ | DVD & Streaming

C-CSLost | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-CSLast | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-CSBig | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-CSNu | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

Piano Dream

Nobody’s Child

Three Strings for Two Storytellers

The New Shelter

Of Mothers and Daughters

IC-CSPiano | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-CSNobody | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-CSStrings | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-CSShelter | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-CSMothers | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

Titles are available individually or as a collection of 22 documentaries. Please e-mail digital@artfilms.com.au or info@artfilms.com.au for more info.

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Documentaries on the issue of the Future of our Planet Environment, energy, the diversity of species and peoples, food security, world governance... given today’s complexities, the list is long.

While refusing to draw alarmist conclusions, to provide a platform for pessimistic speeches or obtrusive slogans, those films are a space for Citizens who chose to objectively open their eyes on the world around them. They fight in one way or other for an acceptable tomorrow.

There is a good chance they have in mind the Indian saying “the earth is a gift of our parents and a lending of our children”.

Dioxin’s Children

If Cities Could Fly

Heavy Metal

Hell in Paradise

IC-GCDiox | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-GCCities | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-GCHeavy | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-GCHell | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

Organic, against all odds

Murky Waters

Dust

The Last Village

IC-GCOrganic | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-GCMurky |52’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-GCDust | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-GCLast |52’ | DVD & Streaming

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The Summer Palace Volume 1

The Summer Palace Volume 2

China: The Ancient Tea Route

Hand & Eye

On the Move: The Central Ballet of China

IC-Summer1| 52’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-Summer2| 52’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-Chtea | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

PE-Hand | 25’ | DVD & Streaming

DC-On | DVD

Qianlong and the Splendors of the Middle Empire. Discover the secrets of the extraordinary imperial garden, recognized as a World Heritage treasure. Recognize why it is called the Versailles of the Orient.

Cixi and the decline of the Qing Dynasty. This part is built around the legendary figure of Empress Cixi, which accompanies the decline of the Qing dynasty and with it, China as an Empire.

Three part series in HD follows in the hoofprints of those caravans which hauled their baggage of tea across the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas to be sold in the markets of South West Asia and dispersed to the entire world.

THE NOODLE MAN: Chinatown, New York City is a traditional village in the midst of downtown Manhattan, a tightly packed neighborhood of crowded, Tortuously winding streets. In the heart of this urban “village” for more than 60 years is the Hong Hop Noodle Company.

For the dancers of the Central Ballet of China their American debut means not only an opportunity to perform, but also the chance to create an intercultural exchange with other dancers. This film documents their journey as they introduce Chinese ballet to American audiences.

A One Woman Show: Chinese Take Away (Stage Play)

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

AY-Chi| 60’ | DVD & Streaming

MAD-Ai | 91’ |DVD & Streaming

Using a unique blend of storytelling, circus skills, clowning, movement and magic, Anna Yen embodies her grandmother’s stories of survival in 1930’s China and Hong Kong, to her mother’s dislocation and grief in 60’s surban Sydney, to her own grief, confusion and peace-making with her family’s histories.

The inside story of a dissident for the digital age who inspires global audiences and blurs the boundaries of art and politics. The detailed portrait provides a nuanced exploration of contemporary China and one of its most compelling public figures.

India

Artwork Jivya Soma Mashe - Sun and Moon and the God of Rain by Anna Pitscheider

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Dances of India

by Nala Najan

Seraikella Chhau The Masked Dance of India

Dances of India Bharata Natyam Arangetram Dances

Dances of India Learning Bharata Natyam

The Darpana Dance Company

CAT-Dan | 28’ | DVD & Streaming

MS-Sera| 38’ | DVD

PC-Dan1 | 60’ | DVD & Streaming

PC-Danlea | 60’ | DVD & Streaming

CAT-Darp | 28’ | DVD & Streaming

Classic dances of India are performed by Nala Najan, teacher and dancer who studied for years in India. Mr. Najan performs each dance in traditional costume.

Kedar Nath Sahoo, Director of the State Government Training Centre of Seraikella Chhau, performs excerpts from choreographed pieces. With demonstrations of many of the basic movement patterns adapted from the martial arts tradition of the region.

Traditional Bharata Natyam dances performed during the formal performances. It also has all the dances used during Arangetram (solo graduation recital). Includes the songs, meaning of the songs and descriptions of the dances for easy reference.

Padma Chebrolu demonstrates Bharata Natyam: Salutation, Basic Positions, Single Hand Gestures, Warm up Exercises, Steps, Head Movements, Eye Movements, Neck Movements, Double Hand Gestures, Poses, Costumes & Make Up, Ananda Natanam Dance.

Mrinalni Sarabhai and her troupe of Indian dancers and musicians - The Darpana Dance Company - perform a classical Kathakali piece, and her own “Song of Creation.” Asian dance expert Faubion Bowers provides commentary and interviews Sarabhai.

Actor Training and Kalarippayatt Martial Art of India

Kalarippayatt Martial Arts of India

Surpanakha - Producing a Sanskrit Drama

From India to East Lansing:

Acting Techniques of Kutiyattam - Sanskrit Theatre of India

Raga Revelry: A Journey Through North Indian Classical Music

MS-Kala |45’ 30’’ | DVD

MS-Kalari | 22’52’’ | DVD

MS-Sans | 31’ | DVD

MS-Ind| 54’ 55’’ | DVD

GL-Raga | 250’ | DVD & Streaming

Phillip Zarrilli explores the potential of studying selected aspects of this unique form of martial art as part of an integrated program of actor training. Demonstrated by students of the Department of Theatre, Michigan State University.

Phillip Zarrilli explores a wide range of basic physical movements.

Demonstrates the basic poses, steps, jumps and kicks, how various weapons are incorporated into the advanced stages of physical training.

Graphically describes the research, preparation and rehearsal process which led to performance of an Indian play by American theatre students.

Farley Richmond demonstrates the basic body posture for male and female characters, simple physical movements, the use of gesture as language. Indian instructors demonstrate the eye exercises and facial expressions.

Documentary and companion study tracks. An introduction to the centuries-old tradition of North Indian Classical Music, colloquially referred to as Raga music. The educational quality of the film is endorsed by India’s premier national arts academy.

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Sun and Moon and the God of Rain

Indigo: A World of Blue

Tana Bana: Wisdom of the Loom

Through The Eye of a Needle: Stories from an Indian Desert

In Search of Lost Colour: The Story of Natural Dyes

API-Sun| 41’ | DVD & Streaming

MH-Indi | 60’ | DVD

MH-Tana | 60’ | DVD

MH-Throu | 30’ | DVD

MH-Insearch | 90’ | DVD

With an emphasis on the changing face of traditions, the film explores Indian Warli art from the perspective of its essential functionality, its role within the tribal community and roots in rituals and worship.

Featuring warli artist Jivya Soma Mashe.

Follow the production of the dye from the fields of Sindh, Pakistan, through Laos, Indonesia, and Turkey to the famous Pitchi Reddy farm in India. Presents rare footage of the dye process in several unique village contexts.

What is the magic of the hand-loomed cloth? Shot in rural locations in Africa, Laos, Indonesia, India, and Pakistan, this documen­tary explores the world of looms, weaves, and artisans.

Stories of the women from the Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan co-operative are recorded here. The amazing landscape of the Indian Kutch desert, the remarkable diversity of the communities who live here, and the breathtaking colours of their textiles.

Documents the growing, harvesting, extraction and use of natural dyes.

From the Bogolanfini mudprint­ing of Mali to the madder-root of Turkey, from the cochineal insects to the rare shellfish purple, this film provides a look at some of the most exotic colours in existence.

Hinduism: An Introduction

Indian Mysticism

Bloody Monday: The Assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten

A Death for Peace: Mahatma Gandhi and the Impossible Quest

FFH-Hindu | 29’ | DVD

ZO-Ind | 135’| DVD

IC-Mount | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-gandhi | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

The history of Hinduism’s development and reformation; spiritual concepts such as karma, dharma, and God as both one and many; the numerous Hindu scriptures; and Hindu worship practices are explored in this intriguing educational resource.

A set of six documentaries, an in depth exploration of Indian culture, religion, rituals, spiritualism & society touching on Nadi Shastra, the Mahakumbh at Allahbad, Saadhana: The Art of Devotion, Aghoris and more.

Mountbatten was a naval war hero and the last Viceroy of India, the man who had supported Mahatma Ghandi’s bid for independence. On the morning of August 27th 1979 Lord Mountbatten’s motor boat was blown to pieces by an IRA bomb...

On January 20, 1948, Gopal Godse ridicules himself in a failed attempt to kill the mahatma. However, only ten days later, his brother Nathuram will put en end to the life of the Father of the Partition of the Indian Empire into India and Pakistan...

Japan

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Acting Techniques of the Noh Theatre of Japan

Noh, the Classical Theatre of Japan

The Japanese Noh Theatre Selected Scenes

Noh - Theatre & Music 2 DVDs

Music of the Noh Theatre

MS-Noh | 29’ | DVD

MG-Japan | 28’ | DVD

MG-Sel | 103’ | DVD & Streaming

MG-Noh | 194’ | DVD

MG-Music | 91’ | DVD & Streaming

With Akira Matsui. Basic posture patterns of walking and turning.

Variations of these depending on the sex, temperament, age and personality of a character.

Symbolism of hand gestures and more...

Akiro Matsui, professional actor and master-teacher of the Kita Noh School of Tokyo, performs excerpts from the plays BENKEI ON THE BRIDGE and THE LADY HAN. The excerpts illustrate widely contrasting aspects of the Noh actor’s art.

Performance selections from the Five Main Schools of Traditional Japanese Noh; including: Takasago Yashima, Hagoromo, Tenko, Midare, Koi no Netori, Youchi Soga Ominameshi, Kazuraki. Interviews: Okura Genjiro, Fujita Rokurobyoue Umewaka Gensyou and more...

Musical segments from the following Noh plays and Dances: Okina Sanbaso, Kami-mai, Miwa Kakko, Nomori, Shishi, Utaura, Matsumushi, Kanjincho, Miidera.

Performance selections from the Five Main Schools of Traditional Japanese Noh.

Musical segments from the following Noh plays and dances: Okina, Sanbaso, Kami-mai, Miwa, Kakko, Nomori, Shishi, Utaura, Matsumushi, Kanjincho, Miidera.

Performed by many of the most important musicians of the Noh theatre world.

Noh Play “Tale of Genji” excerpts

Noh Theatre - Dojoji

Asian Concepts of Stage Discipline and Western Actor Training

Bunraku Classical Japanese Puppet Art

The Lovers’ Exile

CAT-Noh | DVD & Streaming

MG-Dojoji | DVD

MS-Stage | 33’ | DVD

CAT-Bun | 27’ | DVD & Streaming

MG-Lov |90’ | DVD & Streaming

Excerpts from the Japanese dancedrama Noh play “Tale of Genji”, from the 14th century, performed

by Tatsuo Minagawa,Tei Ko, Shizu Nakamura, and Yuki Shimoda, with commentary by the leading Japanese scholar Donald Keene.

Featuring highlights and a complete performance.

Featuring Kanze Kiyokazu, at Obori Koen Nogakudo, Fukuoka; Umewaka Rokuro, at Nagoya Nogakudo; Shiotsu Akio, filmed on the outdoor Noh Stage of Misogi Shrine Nogakuden, in Yamanashi.

A.C. Scott draws on long years of experience in China, Japan, and teaching to present a clear philosophy of Asian stage discipline and its application to the training of western actors.

Includes performances from two traditional Bunraku dramas and filmed scenes showing how the puppets are made and articulated.

Commentary by Faubion Bowers, expert on dance and Asian arts.

Brings an engaging theatrical form from Japan to contemporary cinema audiences, merging the artistry and grace of the legendary Bunraku Puppet Theatre with the power of the screen through the collective talent of many international contributors.

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Kabuki Techniques

Kabuki Acting Techniques 1: The Body

Kabuki Acting Techniques II: The Voice

Kabuki Classics: Onoe Baiko VII in The Salt Gatherer

Kabuki for Western Actors and Directors

CAT-Kab | 27’ | DVD & Streaming

MS-Kab1 | 60’ | DVD

MS-Kab2 |29’ | DVD

CAT-Kabcl| 27’ | DVD & Streaming

MS-Kabwes | 37’ | DVD

Two of the greatest stars of Japan’s Kabuki Theatre reveal the acting techniques used in this most difficult of theatre forms. Onoe Shoroku II and Onoe Baiko VII discuss and demonstrate their craft.

Includes footages of great Kabuki performances of the past.

Leonard Pronko demonstrates fundamental techniques in Kabuki acting. Male movement patterns, variations in the walk, poses and exits, female movement patterns based on age, temperament and social class. Excerpts from professional performers.

Pronko explains a range of voices appropriate for depicting the young girl, noble wife, evil warrior, young man, old woman and refined warrior. He demonstrates numerous specialized vocal techniques with filmed illustrations.

Performance by Kabuki actor Baiko VII of a famous 18th Century Kabuki dance based on a Noh drama. Baiko also grants a rare interview, explains his art and the origin of the dance he performs and gives notes on technique to his son, also a Kabuki actor.

Pronko outlines a multitude of ways Kabuki may be used by actors and directors in the West. He provides a range of filmed illustrations from his own productions and shows slides of his recent show, THE REVENGER’S TRAGEDY.

Kabuki-za Final Curtain

Tamasaburo Bando Kabuki Dance Collection

Fuji Musume MG-Fuj | 70’ | DVD

Tamasaburo Bando dances Fuji Musume. Features the dances, Yukari no Tuki, Yasuna, Aoi no Ue, Kane no Misaki.

Kagamijishi MG-Kag | 70’ | DVD

Tamasaburo Bando displays his extraordinary versatility in this most demanding of roles; first as a shy maiden and then as a fierce lion. Also features Tamasaburo in the dances Kanaya Tanzen and Kosu no To.

Musume Dojoji MG-Mus | 70’ | DVD

Performed at Tokyo’s Kabuki-Za Theatre, Tamasaburo is seen here at the height of his powers as a dancer.

Onatsu Kyoran MG-Onat | 119’ | DVD MG-Kabuki | 160’ | DVD

Ichikawa Danjuro XII, Onoe Kikugoro VII, Nakamura Jakuemon IV, Nakamura Baiygoku IV, Kataoka Nizaemon XVI, Nakamura Kanzaburo XVIII, Nakamura Kichiemon II and many of the greats of the Kabuki world appear in this documentary.

Today it is one of the best surviving examples of early 20th century theatre reform, reform that sought to do away with much that was illogical in traditional Kabuki dance and to concentrate instead on the psychological realism of the characters.

Sagi Musume MG-Sag | 70’ | DVD Yokihi MG-Yok | 70’ | DVD

Part fairy tale, part ghost story, Princess Yôkihi (Yang Kwei Fei) is one of the most beautiful love stories in Chinese history.

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butoh & gagaku

Physical Theatre: Butoh and Beyond

Cine Dance: The Butoh of Tatsumi Hijikata (by Takahiko iimura)

Butoh Piercing the Mask

Butoh Body Weather Farm

KD-But | 39’ | DVD & Streaming

TI-Cinedance | 33’ | DVD & Streaming

NBD-But2 | 49’ | DVD & Streaming

STA-But | 20’ | DVD & Streaming

The video is a documentary of a workshop presented by Cheryl Heazlewood in Perth in 1996.

Cheryl presents powerful and inspiring training exercises which are drawn from her eclectic training in occidental and oriental movement and theatre.

Anma (The Masseurs) Dancers: Tatsumi Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno, Yoshito Ohno, Akira Kasai, and others. Rose Color Dance Dancers: Tatsumi Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno, Yoshito Ohno, Akira Kasai, Mitsutaka Ishii, and others...

This documentary pierces the mystery and mystique of a dance movement adored by the West and largely ignored by the Japanese. It uses archival and modern footage of leading Butoh performers Dairakudakan, Hakutobo, Kazuo Ono - and interviews.

An insight into the training practices and life on Body Weather Farm the home to one of Japan’s most enigmatic Butoh practitioners, Min Tanaka and his dance company, Mai Juku. Featuring previously unpublished photographs.

Gagaku: Music For Eternity

MG-Gagaku | 90’ | DVD & Streaming

Transcending time and space for hundred and thousands of years, Gagaku, the traditional music of the Japanese Imperial Court, represents the spirit of an ancient time.

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art & culture

A Zen Life - D.T. Suzuki

Dreams of the Projects DANCHI NO YUME

Kochuu: Japanese Architecture Influence & Origin

Getting Along in Japanese

The Visas that Saved Lives

MG-Zen| 77’ | DVD

MIC-Dreams | 78’ | DVD

SO-Kochuu | 53’ | DVD & Streaming

MG-Get | 300’ | DVD

MG-Visas | 115’ | DVD & Streaming

Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was one of the 20th century’s most important writers and thinkers. During his long and extraordinarily fruitful life Suzuki became the first voice of Japanese Buddhism, especially Zen, to the Western World.

Danchi No Yume: Dreams of the Projects, tells the story of Anarchy, a young man born into a hidden underworld of yakuza gangsters, immigrants and low income families struggling to survive in a strict Japanese society.

Modern Japanese architecture, its roots in the Japanese tradition, and its impact on the Nordic building tradition. Winding its way through visions of the future and traditional concepts, nature and concrete, gardens and high-tech spaces.

Video learning series which presents the Japanese language through familiar daily situations: Shopping, Asking the Way, Taking the Train and Bus, Getting Along with Neighbours, Going Out to Eat at a Restaurant, at a Japanese Home, Preparing a Meal etc...

The story of an extraordinary Japanese diplomat who sacrificed his own career during World War II to write the precious visas that saved an estimated 6,000 Jewish lives.

Soul of the Samurai

MA, a Japanese Concept

Japan Cultural Atlas

Kendo: The Path of the Sword

The Story of Sumo

CG-Soul | 46’ | DVD & Streaming

TI-Ma | 46’ | DVD & Streaming

HU-Jap | CD-Rom

CAT-Ken | 28’ | DVD & Streaming

MG-Story | 40’ | DVD

With unique 3D animation, ancient Japanese woodblock prints come to life. Soul of the Samurai is the story of their life and of a culture unfamiliar to most of the Western world.

Takahiko iimura experimental films. MA: SPACE/TIME IN THE GARDEN OF RYOAN-JI (1989), THE MAKING OF IN RYOAN-JI (1989), MA: THE STONES HAVE MOVED (2004), MA (INTERVALS) (1977)

A visual feast of Japanese culture.

Containing nearly 2000 photos it has a user-friendly thematic arrangement, of image and text, under headings such as Art, Religion, Martial Arts, Sport, People, Architecture etc.

An examination of Kendo, the “senior” Japanese martial art, a form of stylized sword fighting using bamboo staves. Shot on location in Japan, includes explanations of kendo formalities, its appeal at all levels of society, and comparisons with other martial arts.

The pageantry and ritual preparations by wrestlers and supporting staff in the days prior to one of the six annual Grand Sumo Tournaments.

The efforts of wrestlers, hairstylists, calligraphers and builders of the ring itself come together on opening day.

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Outsider Art has its origins in the French word art brut, which described art made by those outside the art scene particularly that created in 19th Century European Psychiatric Hospitals. In The 1940s, surrealists like Dubuffet and Max Ernst became interested in this art, and Outsider Art came to be more broadly interpreted as outside a didactic tradition and outside the boundaries of official culture. It was often unsettling and indecipherable, yet undeniably arresting. While it did not follow the artistic fashion of its time, Outsider Art nevertheless responds to the times in unexpected ways. For this reason Outsider Art has a growing following in world art circles.

Outsider Art has also had an influence on the introduction and development of art therapy programs around the world. In Japan’s art therapy programs, materials are typically made available to the participants without any instruction on what they should make or how they should make it. The results are astonishing and diverse. The work of Japanese outsider artists has now been featured in galleries in London, Lausanne and the Venice Biennale.

“Outsider Art in Japan” is a series of films that demonstrates the circumstances of some of these outsider artists, and how their art is created. With immense concentration, with zen like calm, methodically, obsessively, they create mysterious objects and fantastic drawings. The creation is ritual, reality into fantasy, fantasy into reality, revealing a logic that is perplexing yet strangely familiar.

Volume 1: Human Figures CAT-India | 23’ 12’’ | DVD & Streaming Masao Obota, Yoko Kubota, Kento Tamai

Volume 2: Writing CAT-India | 23’ 12’’ | DVD & Streaming Moriya Kishaba, Yoshimitsu Tomizuka, Takanori Herai

Volume 3: Urban Dreams CAT-India | 23’ 12’’ | DVD & Streaming Yuji Tsuji, Hidenori Motooka

Volume 4: Imaginary Worlds CAT-India | 23’ 12’’ | DVD & Streaming Shiho Ueda, Shinichi Sawada, Satoshi Nishikawa

Volume 5: Odd Shapes CAT-India | 23’ 12’’ | DVD & Streaming

Akane Kimura, Machiko Nishimura, Takashi Shuji, M.K., Hirotaka Hatana

Volume 6: Passion for Toys CAT-India | 23’ 12’’ | DVD & Streaming Keisuke Ishino, Masatoshi Nishimoto, Atsushi Yokoyama

Volume 7: Déformer CAT-India | 23’ 12’’ | DVD & Streaming

Shinichi Adachi, Kenshi Ito, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Hideaki Yoshikawa

Volume 8: The Realms of the Unreal CAT-India | 23’ 12’’ | DVD & Streaming Masaomi Kitajima, Shigemi Takahashi, Masahiko Tsuchiya, Kenichi Yamazaki

Volume 9: Figures of Solitude CAT-India | 23’ 12’’ | DVD & Streaming Norikazu Usui, Osamu Nadoyama, Yoshito Matsuo

Volume 10: Metamorphosis CAT-India | 23’ 12’’ | DVD & Streaming Kaoru Kudo, Takahiro Shimoda, Eijiro Miyama

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Potters at Work

The Leach Pottery, 1952

Samurai in Space Shinkichi Tajiri

MG-Pot | 41’ | DVD & Streaming

MG-Leach | 32’ | DVD & Streaming

PCO-Samurai| 44’ | DVD & Streaming

A contemplative study of life and work in traditional craft making communities. Filmed in the traditional pottery making villages, Onda and Koishibara in Southern Japan. The film presents the workshops of Shigeki Sakamoto in Onda and Kumao Ohta in Koshibara.

The only complete film available on the world-renowned artist potter Bernard Leach, one of the most influential craftsmen of the 20th century. The resulting documentary is a charming presentation of the daily activities at The Leach Pottery.

A film by Paul Cox about Shinkichi Tajiri Japanese-American sculptor, photographer, filmmaker.

His life story, the hardships of being Japanese in the USA during WW2, his career as an artist.

Shodo: Japanese Calligraphy in Daily Life

Future Wave: Japanese Design

Manga Mad

CAT-Shod | 29’ | DVD & Streaming

CG-Fut | 58’ | DVD & Streaming

NM-Mang| 59’ | DVD & Streaming

A survey of the varieties of writing styles, the place of writing as art in everyday life, examples of calligraphy filmed in kabuki theater, the shops that sell the inks and papers used in fine writing, monks executing sutras in the old temple of Nara and more...

Examines the economics, aesthetics, philosophy and personalities of Japanese design.

It features interviews with Japanese design managers, fashion designers, marketing executives, authors and commentators.

Contemporary Japanese culture through the iconography of its biggest pop culture and explains why comics are not just for children, as depicted by the compulsive consumer obsessiveness of the otaku adult manga and anime scene.

Southeast Asia

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Living Art in Papua New Guinea SCO-Living | e-book & streaming

An art book for the digital age. A multi-layered electronic book, it will enrich your imagination and visual experience with the living arts of Papua New Guinea.

Living Art presents artworks and cultural performances that are astonishing in their dramatic visual effect and virtuosity. It is a highly visual experience of Papua New Guinea’s spectacular cultures and artistic wealth for many readers and viewers who have not experienced Papua New Guinean art in its own setting and context.

‘Kastom and Contemporary Culture’ and ‘Village • Urban • Global’ are the interlinking themes through which Living Art presents ideas about art, artists, creative processes and aesthetics. Moving across Papua New Guinea’s diversity of environments and cultures we locate innovative artists from rural villages, to downtown Port Moresby, to the international stage. We see how Papua New Guinea artists network and negotiate the linkages between local, regional and global art worlds. As we explore the Living Art of Papua New Guinea of today our ideas about what art is may be challenged.

The interplay between text and interactive elements adds to the reader’s experience visually and intellectually. All individual interactive elements in Living Art have been carefully researched to extend the beyond the format of a conventional art book. The visual spectrum of images is greatly increased through virtual galleries. Hyperlinks to exhibition websites, online catalogues and essays extend the interpretation of images. With embedded video clips, you-tube links and image galleries, Living Art brings alive the multiple contemporary realities of art and life in Papua New Guinea.

This art book for the digital age is the culmination of thirty years research, writing and curating activities in Papua New Guinea.

Disc 1: Interactive e-Book - 243 pages (PDF) Disc 2: Video clips and image gallery (DVD & Streaming)

See e-book preview online or contact us at digital@artfilms.com.au or info@artfilms.com.au

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North Korea - Crossing the Line Series

Crossing the Line - a rare portfolio of investigative documentaries, where engaged filmmakers look at what a certain number of North Korean defectors have experienced to escape their country. At the risk of their lives and those left behind. Korea, orphan of the Cold War, remains even in 2011 a divided country.

VOL 1. Accross Land, Across Sea

IC-Crossing1 | 55’ | DVD & Streaming

2012 INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL EMMY® AWARDS NOMINEE - BEST DOCUMENTARY. Songgook and Sueryun are a newly wed North Korean couple now living in the south. As is the case for an estimated 20 000 defectors who have built or are trying to build a new life in South Korea, they are attempting to secure their entire family’s freedom by arranging their defection along with them to the South. Songgook puts his life at risk, making a dangerous trek to the Tumen River, a border zone between China and North Korea. He makes plans to lead a daring escape: to smuggle his family into the South by boat. Because of the extreme danger associated with this journey, this kind of attempt is very rare. And this is the first ever to be filmed.

VOL 2.

Itinerary of A Rebel

VOL 3.

Crossing Three Borders

VOL 4.

Seeking Haven

VOL 5.

Phantoms of the Border

IC-Crossing2 | 50’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-Crossing3 | 30’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-Crossing4 | 57’ | DVD & Streaming

IC-Crossing5 | 101’ | DVD & Streaming

Tracing a North Korean`s citizen`s quest for dignity.

The story of nine defectors in an attempt to cross from China into Vietnam.

Youngsoon is a North Korean girl has been determined to arrange her sister’s escape.

On the border of China, North Korean women are offered to Chinese brokers to be sold on the human market.

Titles are available individually or as a collection. Please e-mail digital@artfilms.com.au or info@artfilms.com.au for more info.

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The Bali Dances: A Veil Between Worlds

Dances of Bali

Acting Techniques of Topeng, Masked Theatre of Bali

Adapting Topeng, the Masked Theatre of Bali

Masks and Faces: Dance and Drama in Bali

JUN-Bali| 64’ | DVD & Streaming

CAT-Dances | DVD & Streaming

MS-Top | 39’ | DVD

MS-Adap | 45’ | DVD

DG-Balcd | e-book

Eleven of Bali’s most dramatic dances to show how intimately culture, religion and life are intertwined in Bali. Content: Legong Kraton, Aria, Sanghyang Jaran & Kecak, Baris, Topeng, Joged, Palawakiya, Terunajaya, Condong, Calonarang.

Several important classic Balinese dances are performed by six dancers and twelve musicians, artists celebrated in their own culture yet hardly known abroad.

Interviews in Malay with two leading dancers are included: Raka and Sukraka.

John Emigh introduces the masked theatre of Bali and shows how masks may be used as a guide to the interpretation of character.

The walk, variations on the basic walk, variety of character types and voices that is possible to achieve with the masks.

John Emigh explains how he has incorporated mask training and improvisation. Highlighted with humorous excerpts from LITTLE RED RIDING SHAWL. He discusses the ways he has combined ideas from the West and from the masked theatre of Bali.

A comprehensive guide to Balinese dance and drama by Dr. David George. Dancing for the Gods; Trance and Dance; Masks and Faces; Shadows Of The Past (Topeng). With more than 100 unique slides.

Cambodian Royal Ballet

Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan: Moon Water

Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan: Bamboo Dream

Ram Thai: Dance Art of Thailand

Dancing from Ceylon

CAT-Cam | 27’ | DVD & Streaming

NAX-Moon | 65’ | DVD

NAX-Bam | 63’ | DVD

CAT-Ram | 29’ | DVD & Streaming

CAT-Cey | 27’ | DVD & Streaming

Classic dances of India are performed by Nala Najan, American teacher and dancer who studied for years in India. Mr. Najan performs each dance in traditional costume. Classic dances of India are performed by Nala Najan, American teacher.

A breathtaking performance, water sweeps across the stage and is flicked in arcs from the dancers’ moving arms and feet. The sound of splashing water mingles with Bach’s music as the dancers throw themselves on the stage, gliding on the fine film of liquid.

In the choreography of the artistic Director Lin Hwai-Min, age-old beliefs and stories are brought into contemporary and universal perspective taking its inspiration from the Bamboo which is seen in China as a symbol of integrity and epitomising elegance.

An exploration of various types of Thai dance, conducted by Asian dance authority Faubion Bowers, and illustrated with performances by dancers from the royal dance school. The dances are seen with traditional instruments and costumes.

Ceylonese dances, each with an explanation by T.P. Amerasinghe, dance authority from Sri Lanka.

The fire dance, cobra dance, mask dance, harvest dance, a dance of exorcism, the butterfly dance, and the ritual dance Ves Natuma, which was originally the prelude to a sacrifice.

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culture & politics

Vietnam: A Contagious Revolution

Frontline

Global Citizen: Dioxin’s Children

The Lost Temple of Java

IC-Vietnam| 52’ | DVD & Streaming

FR-Frontline| 54’ | DVD

IC-GlobDiox | 52’ | DVD & Streaming

SEV-Lost | 50’ |DVD & Streaming

Using powerful, often new archives from sources East and West, the surprising itinerary of the Father of the Vietnamese nation will unfold in front of us. Testimonies of Vietnamese veterans and historians and researchers will bring their expert views to the equation.

An account of the Vietnam war as seen through the camera of Australian journalist Neil Davis. His footage of the conflict was seen nightly by millions. Vietnam was a television war, a war said to have been lost in the lounge rooms of middle US and not on the battlefield.

Operation ‘Ranch Hand’ was one of the most heinous military operations of the Vietnam War. The purpose of this operation was to use chemical warfare to destroy the vegetation cover used by the Viet Cong, and to poison their crops to deprive them of food supplies.

Borobudur, in the shape of a pyramid, this extraordinary building is covered with 3 miles of carvings. Following a recent complete renovation, many questions can only now be answered surrounding this enigmatic temple.

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