The body beautiful This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image and the strain of racial and sexual identity on their charged, intensely loving bond. At the heart of Onwurah's brave excursion into her mother's scorned sexuality is a provocative interweaving of memory and fantasy. The filmmaker plumbs the depths of maternal strength and daughterly devotion in an unforgettable tribute starring her real-life mother, Madge Onwurah.

Demarcations Uses the female body as a landscape to explore memories of a rape. The filmaker focuses on ways in which identity and eroticism are played out on the level of the body.

Trash humpers "A film unearthed from the buried landscape of the Ameriacn [i.e. American] nightmare, Trash Humpers follows a small group of elderly 'Peeping Toms' through the shadows and margins of an unfamiliar world. Crudely documented by the participants themselvs [i.e. themselves], we follow the debased and shocking actions of a group of true sociopaths the likes of which have never never been seen before. Inhabiting a world of broken dreams and beyond the limits of morality, they crash against a torn and frayed aAmerica. Borderin on an ode to vandalism, it is a new type of horror - palpable and raw"--Synopsis (booklet, p. [1]).

Aquele querido mês de Agosto Despite a complete lack of financing and cast, driven young director Miguel Gomes is hell-bent on making a film and dives headlong into a cinematic kaleidoscope. With a camera and a small crew, Gomes travels to a remote Portuguese mountainside, where the Pardieiros music festival is under way, and begins filming the townsfolk. While the festival sets one's eyes ablaze and toes tapping, Gomes finds a narrative slowly and sneakily emerging. Locations, songs, and characters from the documentary are recast as echoes of their former selves. Townspeople are reincarnated as members of a family band and incestuous subplots unfold. These colliding realities beg the question: Is the beginning of the film merely research for following fiction? Is truth a rehearsal for fiction here, or is it th [...]

Meyerhold, theatre and the Russian avant-garde Meyerhold collaborated with avant-garde and futurist artists like Popova and Maykovsky to create a new kind of theatre in Russia in the early 1920s. His goal was to break free from naturalistic theatre set design and solve the problem of combining the two dimensionality of the set with the three dimensionality of actors.

Kick that habit "A film created in the bleak eastern region of Switzerland. At first, a group plays a game of mini-golf, then the Swiss musicians Voice Crack rehearse in the studio, afterward heading up to Alpstein, at which point you are right in the middle of a concert, next stepping away to the blue south, taken back to a table laid for dinner, then relocating down by the lake for the next concert, which fades away into romanticized Russian super-8 landscapes, until before long you find yourself groping in the dark, when underneath the water you return back to the studio, where the movie writes its own soundtrack." -- Container.

Talking light Recordings from the Bimbo's show on April 16th, 2011 in San Francisco.

Obedience Presents a psychology experiment on obedience to authority. Describes both obedient and defiant reactions of subjects who are instructed to administer electric shocks of increasing severity to another person.