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- Queen Elizabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk.
- A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.
- Egyptian gods summons the angel Lucifer - in order to usher in a new occult age.
- A gang of Nazi bikers prepares for a race as sexual, sadistic, and occult images are cut together.
- James Joyce's masterpiece incarnated: The story of two seperated Dublin wanderers, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, struggling to control their personal lives.
- Historical, biblical, and mythical characters gather in the pleasure dome and become part of a visual feast of superimposed images, hallucinations, and decadence.
- In a fictional country, the Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation.
- A director tries to film a group of junkies in Leach's room while they are waiting for Cowboy to bring their heroin connection.
- A dissatisfied dreamer awakes, goes out in the night seeking a 'light' and is drawn through the needle's eye. A dream of a dream, he returns to bed less empty than before.
- A Dominican friar visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics. Despite the opposition of the local priest and the indifference of the villagers, he finds a seemingly perfect suspect: a young woman who lives in a forest outside the village and cures people with herbs and folk remedies.
- Stylistic documentary about the cyberpunk movement. William Gibson, author of cyberpunk classic Neuromancer, and Timothy Leary, famous advocate of psychedelic drugs, share their thoughts on the future of society and technology.
- Pierrot waxes romantic, entranced by the moon. Harlequin appears and bullies him, then uses a magic lantern to project an image of Columbine. Pierrot tries to court the illusory Columbine unsuccessfully, then enters a mystical moon-realm from which he returns dead.
- Experimental short, featuring strobe-like erotic imagery with several shots of the Rolling Stones in performance and an original synthesizer score by Mick Jagger.
- A ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig (or jail) at a camp in Japan in 1957. Marine prisoners are awakened and put through work details for the course of a single day, submitting in the course of it to extremely harsh and shocking physical and mental degradation and abuse.
- A soundtrack plays folk rock as a woman prepares, at noon, to take her Borzois for a walk. She goes through her dresses, all 1920s style flapper gowns, holding them one at a time, shaking them as if they are dancing. She picks one - in puce. She puts it on, delighted, adds perfume, languishes on a chaise for a few minutes, then goes for her walk. It all has a 20s feel.
- A sequence of surreal cutout animation imagery, largely without a discernible narrative.
- A documentary film about Haitian vodou.
- Jack Kerouac was a Beat Generation writer who took the nation by storm upon the publication of his novel On the Road. Kerouac's legacy and influence are explained via interviews with Kerouac's friends and contemporaries such as William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, and Edie Parker. Narrator Peter Coyote reads sections of Kerouac's (mostly autobiographical) books as an actor recreates scenes from Kerouac's life.
- A man in tight jeans buffs his car to the strains of "Dream Lover".
- Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate untroubled by gravity against a slowly changing starfield background. Their movements are accompanied by music scored for a small ensemble of woodwind and percussion.
- A woman dressed in an elegant period dress wanders through the water gardens at the Villa d'Este.
- Maya Deren's unfinished short film from 1951, "Ensemble for Somnambulists", set to DeVotchKa's "How It Ends".
- The play is a voyage from the many to the one and from the one to the many. , , . It is a voyage for the actors and the spectators. . , . The plot is The Revolution, , , . The voyage is charted. The Chart is the map. The Chart depicts a ladder of eight Rungs. Each Rung consists of a Rite, a Vision, and an Action which lead to the fulfillment of an aspect of The Revolu-tion, . . , The awareness which issues from the experience of the Rite and the , , , experience of the Vision merge to precipitate the Action, . . , The Rites and Visions are performed by the actors, but the Actions are introduced by the actors and are performed by the public with the help of the actors, . , , The purpose of the play is to lead to a state of being in which non-violent revolutionary action is possible. Attempt to define and thereby understand the characteristics of the stumbling block at each Rung, and of the form of action that can overcome it. . . . The Resistance to the Revolutionary Change is treated as the obstacle. The energy form designated is an appro-priate strategy for the actor to use to transform the obstacle.
- The first part of Dog Star Man (1964), an experimental film wherein a man climbs a mountain along with his dog.
- A philosophical flume ride through the physical, political and moral borders that inhibit the free movement of people and ideas.
- An hour-long interview with author William S. Burroughs in which he expounds on American culture, art and morals.
- Bettie de Jong performs the same dance nine times, starting and ending in a reclined position. As the film proceeds the camera becomes more and more adventurous.
- In 1983, at a Tibetan Buddhist monastery, Tomas Anderson interviewed the 12-year-old, Massachusetts-born, ordained "tulku" Ossian Maclure about his life and religious beliefs, and again almost a decade later.
- A powerful three-part documentary studying the US involvement in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. The differing factions - Sandinista leaders, Guatemalan campesinos, CIA operatives, Contras and US government apologists - are interviewed and, in the absence of a controlling narration, the audience is encouraged to draw its own conclusions.
- A biographical film, in English throughout, telling the story of film director Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948) from his childhood in Riga, Latvia to receiving the 'Stalin Prize' in Moscow. Based on his own writings, the film uses actual film clips of Eisenstein at various points of his life as well as photographs, illustrations and archival film of a variety of locations around the world. Eisenstein's talent as a satirical cartoonist and later an artist is particularly highlighted with many photographs of his work. Films discussed include "Strike", "Battleship Potemkin", "Oktober", "The old and the new", "Alexander Nevsky" and "Ivan the terrible". There is a detailed account of Eisenstein's world tour during which time he met and worked with other leading film-makers, writers and personalities including Einstein, James Joyce, D. W. Griffith and Walt Disney. Includes anecdote on his visit to High Table at Trinity College, Cambridge and its inspiration for a scene in 'Ivan the terrible'.
- An anthology of Harry Smith's films 1-5, 7, and 10, unfortunately without the divisions clearly marked.
- A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."
- Contains first person interviews with Beck and Malina and archival footage of performances and street actions from various news reporting sources of the theater's political life in the late 1960s.
- Historian, educator, composer, and vocalist Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon is interviewed by Bill Moyers. Interwoven with footage of her and Sweet Honey in the Rock's musical performances and seminars, she explains the history of Black America's tradition of communal singing, and its collective composition and repertoire of songs of resistance, pride, faith, and courage from the days of slavery through the end of the twentieth century. A musical, cultural, and historical journey for the viewer.
- A 1973 visit by Peter Brook and his experimental International Theatre Company to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
- Kalachakra: The Wheel of Time documents the construction of a 2,600-year-old Indo-Tibetan Peace Mandala at Trinity College, Dublin. The mandala is part of the Kalachakra rite of initiation, a secret teaching of wisdom and compassion first taught by Buddha in 600 B.C.
- Psychologist R.D Laing is the subject of this documentary that explores the dynamics of human relationships and the vital necessity of bringing honesty to our lives. Recorded at lectures, seminars and interviews in Boulder, Colorado in 1987