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As years and years go by, a tiny civilization makes its way upwards.

Wanderings of the young Ami in the streets of Kabukicho, Tokyo.

Sistiaga painted directly on 70mm film a circular (planetary?) form, around which dance shifting colours in a psychedelic acceleration matched by the soundtrack’s deep-space roar and howl. - Cinema Scope

A tale of 2 passages within the Spirit house. This is the first in a series that looks at the places we find our spiritual presence augmented, inflamed, or simply acknowledged.

Life drums the playfulness out of a boy as he grows up.

A experimental animated film featuring moving shapes and lines.

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"In medical terminology, absence of genitalia in females is referred to as "gynatresia". In other words, an extreme defect that goes beyond a mere illness" Adachi's follow-up to Bowl using the figure of a woman suffering from an unusual sexual aliment has often been taken as a controversial allegory for the political stalemate of the Leftist student movement after their impressive wave of massive fiery protests failed to defeat the neo-imperialist Japan-US Security Treaty. The ritualistic solemnity of the charged sexual scenes contribute to the oneiric qualities of Closed Vagina which Adachi would later insist was an open work, not meant to deliver any kind of deliberate political message. - Harvard Film Archive

Documentary on the interdependence of the world of the living and the dead, and 'the infernal influence on the thoughts and actions of living people.

This films fractures homogeneous conceptions of white masculinity through exploring the ways class produces different valences of whiteness. To do this, Andrea Slane presents a barrage of tabloid television stories of "real-life" violence and tragedy as she works through her own expressions of grief, guilt, anger and regret around the circumstances of her 20-year-old brother's suicide.

A memory-using location film of a stay with a uranium mining community. Using a kaleidoscopic array of experimental techniques, this film explores uranium mining in Canada and its destructive effects on both the environment and the women working in the mines. A plethora of images ranging from the women at work to spine-chilling representations of cancerous bodies are accompanied by unnerving industrial sounds and straightforward information from some of the women.

"Adrift" is shot on the arctic island of Spitzbergen and in Norway. It combines time-lapse photography with stop-motion animation of the landscape. Through camera-angles and framing the film gradually dislocates the viewer from a stable base where one loses the sense of scale and grounding.

A collage of newsreels, trailers, clips and other visionary and unseen fragments of sight and sound regarding the late plastic artist Helio Oititica.

A sinister montage intimates the hellish void facing a man emptying bottles by the river. Sandy Fisher’s densely reverberating electronic score provides strong support for Lloyd Williams’ cultic collage of skulls, chess boards and fire.

A look at the various modes of transportation made for the Expo '86 World Fair in Vancouver, Canada.

A short experimental animation influenced by micrographic images of cells, acids, bacteria, and viruses using the technique of painting on glass and stop-motion animation. Ink, canvas, paint, glycerin, water, oil, and glass.

Flitter like tittertatter trying to breathe while working, like a mad hatter; the outofbreath feeling rising from recursive reforgettings (or their resemblances).

Rather pointless, rather stilted, fetid; not what we want us going after.

Tales of old springing forth underlying dissatisfaction with current states of being.

The Greek island of Syros is visited by a series of unexpected guests. Immutable forms, outside of time, aloof observants to human conditions.