A pivotal work for video art of the 1980s. Fragments of time during a journey where the changing landscapes become full players in a story shown in shadowy backplay, which relates the imagined encounter of two passengers.
Category: Movies
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A Few Drops
Four one-act plays by Viktor Rozov in two parts.
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A Fist Full of Talons
Qing I-ming springs into action to help his friend, who runs into danger while trying to deliver important government documents.
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A Night In Heaven
Faye Hanlon is a community-college professor with an emotionally depressed husband and an abundance of sexual frustration. Her sister drags her to a male strip-club for a girls-night out, where she discovers that one of the dancers is her failing student Rick Monroe, a.k.a. “Ricky the Rocket”. A heated affair between teacher & student ensues, as Faye struggles to reconcile her emotions and make consequential life choices: Continue her lustful sessions with the studly-but-shallow teen stripper? Or break it off with Ricky & work to salvage her marriage to the loving-but-distant husband?
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Krull
A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet.
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Bloody Mission
Bloody mission
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The Whale’s Tooth
A South Sea islander boy receives his first outrigger canoe and tries to save a sacred talisman that is stolen by enemy warriors. It was prepared for the American television show, but did not air. First aired in Canada on October 22, 1983. It was later shown on The Disney Channel.
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The Unlimited Dream Company
An experimental documentary portrait of author J.G. Ballard. Ballard speaks about his life and work, and submits to a lengthy personality questionnaire; these sections are intercut with surrealist scenes inspired by Ballard’s fiction, centering on a downed pilot wandering through various landscapes.
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Nice – À propos de Jean Vigo
Part of a series in which foreign filmmakers portray a region or town in France. Manoel de Oliveira looks at Nice.