The Profligate Door: Borowczyk's Sound Sculptures(2014)

Film Is Not a Sausage: Borowczyk and the Short Film(en)

A documentary about Walerian Borowczyk's short films and animation, featuring his collaborators from that time.

The ROH Live: Otello(it)

On a June night in 2017, opera lovers thronged to the Royal Opera House in London to hear tenor Jonas Kaufmann, recently acclaimed by The Daily Telegraph as the world s greatest tenor, make his eagerly anticipated debut in the title role of Otello Verdi s greatest and most demanding role for tenor voice. As the New York Times wrote Mr. Kaufmann made his debut in the part, and he calmly, confidently sang it for the ages.

Rosalinda 2020(pt)

Komasaufen(de)

Lukas is 15 years old. His parents are separated and he cannot really come to terms with Karsten, his mother Beate's goal-oriented and career-oriented friend. Lukas would much rather move in with his father Jochen, who runs a car repair shop. In general, Lukas is not particularly successful in life, and he hardly finds any recognition among his peers. When Lukas' father wants to celebrate a business success with his son, the 15-year-old learns to appreciate alcohol for the first time. In his clique, too, alcohol is taken for granted. And suddenly everything seems so much easier to Lukas when he can just drink his heartache and worries away. He's also getting a little braver, because he wants to get closer to the attractive Sylvia. But Lukas has no idea what the consequences of excessive alcohol consumption can be.

The Christmas Aunt(en)

When Rebecca Miller returns home to Tennessee two weeks before Christmas to take care of her niece and nephew while their parents are away, the last thing she expected is to reconnect with her childhood best friend, Drew. As she attempts to revive the kids’ Christmas spirit and redeem their faith in Santa, she rediscovers her favorite childhood activity: 12 Days of Christmas–something she always did with Drew. As the kids’ faith in the holiday grows, Rebecca and Drew’s friendship returns, and she starts looking at Drew in a whole new light.

P!NK: iTunes Festival(en)

Among the songs that Pink performed at the 2012 iTunes Festival, which was held at the Camden Roundhouse, were ‘Like A Pill’, ‘Raise You Glass’ and ‘U & Ur Hand’.

Assploitations(en)

Welcome to my Ass I Love Ass! In every way, especially when it's mine and it's getting fucked by a big, hard, rigid cock! It's as close as it gets to true love...I live it...love it...and dream it...so I put together an Anal Wet Dream just for you, filled with sweet puckery gapes and hard yummy cocks and the naughtiest little sluts I could find and let them go fucking crazy! These nubile ass nymphs are beyond belief... Sophia dishes out her first double anal with glee... Airanna begs for assploitation and gets more than she ever dreamed... Ashley and I take Velvet deep into the depths of sodom... Crystal licks up every orifice is prosecuted to the fullest extent. Each and every Ass was exploited with vigorous joy... After all the hardcore fucking, I served desert to my sluts, a nice mouthful of cum...mmm...sounds perfectly delicious!

Dan Invited Hannah over for Dinner(en)

Hannah questions her boyfriend's intention behind an "arbitrary" dinner invitation.

Bala(bn)

A documentary about the aging prima ballerina Balasaraswati (popularly known as "Bala"), the most famous exponent of the Bharatanatyam dance.

Flight Number 884(de)

Flight Number 884 is a film about the wishes and desires of Muslim immigrants. Every year thousands of bodies of Turkish immigrants are flown back from Europe to small villages - villages they had left long ago. The film follows the dead body of a Muslim on its last journey from Vienna to a graveyard in Turkey.

U.D.O.: Live in Sofia(en)

1. Rev-Raptor 2. Dominator 3. Thunderball 4. Leatherhead 5. Independence Day 6. Screaming For A Love-Bite 7. Heart Of Gold 8. Vendetta 9. Princess Of The Dawn 10. I Give As Good As I Get 11. Kokopelli (Guitar Solo) 12. Neon Nights 13. Break The Rules 14. Man And Machine 15. Drum Solo 16. Living On A Frontline 17. Up To The Limit 18. Two Faced Woman 19. Metal Heart 20. The Bogeyman 21. I'm A Rebel 22. Balls To The Wall 23. Burning Any anniversary provides artists with the perfect opportunity to look back and review the experiences they ve had. And, who realistically, could look back on more Heavy Metal history than Udo Dirkschneider, the legendary founder and frontman of Accept, and now singer with U.D.O.? Dirkschneider's unique voice, his humbleness and consistency of style have made him the fan s favourite. A quarter of a century for U.D.O., and it is time to pop corks all over the world.

Hogi-Lala(ja)

Set in the near future. Children who are contaminated by radiation poisoning face the fate of being cast into the sea. However, one boy manages to survive and drift to Hogi-Lala Island, where only children live.

KT-800(de)

Mehnersmoos are one of Germany‘s most important music act. In this documentary we see that carrying a whole nation of music nerds is not as easy as it seems.

UFC 15.5: Ultimate Japan 1(en)

UFC Japan: Ultimate Japan (aka UFC 15.5) was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on December 21, 1997, in Yokohama, Japan. The event was seen on pay per view in the United States, on cable TV in Japan, and was later released on home video. It featured a four-man heavyweight tournament, the first ever UFC Middleweight Championship bout, a Heavyweight Championship bout, a Superfight and was the first UFC appearance of MMA legends Kazushi Sakuraba and Frank Shamrock. It was the first event to be located in a country other than the United States or its territories.

Canada Vignettes: The Thirties(en)

A watercolour evocation of a prairie storm coming after a period of severe drought.

La juge Beaulieu(fr)

Sophie Beaulieu, examining magistrate, cannot manage to find the limits between her work and her family life. The boundaries are further blurred when, following the violent death of her son, the judge finds herself involved in the investigation. Beaulieu thinks he knows who the murderer is, but he manages to escape justice.

The Last Stop(en)

The Élan School was a for-profit, residential behavior modification program and therapeutic boarding school located deep within the woods of Maine. Delinquent teenagers who failed to comply with other treatment programs were referred to the school as a last resort. Treatment entailed harsh discipline, surveillance, degradation, and downright abuse. Years later, the patients who were institutionalized in this facility still carry the trauma they endured, with mixed opinions on the impact of their experience.

Okay for Sound(en)

This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 August 1926. The film highlights Thomas A. Edison and Alexander Graham Bell's efforts that contributed to sound movies and acknowledges the work of Lee De Forest. Brief excerpts from the August 1926 exhibition follow. Clips are then shown from a number of Warner Brothers features, four from the 1920s, the remainder from 1946/47.

Ballad of Imprisonment: Making Blanche(en)

A documentary about the making of Walerian Borowczyk's 'Blanche'.

O Som, ou Tratado de Harmonia(en)

film about the desire of listening. An intermingling of voices from childhood, dreams, history, sex and politics. A visual essay about the universe of sounds. What is sound? What is the sound experience? Sound placed and replaced as Energy. Nothing more should be said. The final conclusion, while the spectator flies over an infinite sea, talks about spreading fragility open. That is the Sound.

The Voice That Thrilled the World(en)

This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from early sound pictures.

Soundtracker(en)

Pure sound unaltered by human hands is becoming increasingly difficult to find. Gordon Hempton is an Emmy Award-winning sound recordist who has spent the last 30 years trying to find and record the vanishing sounds of nature in an attempt to capture a disappearing sensory experience. Filmmaker Nick Sherman observes Hempton in the wilderness for 30 days and uncovers an obsessive artist on a quest for perfection in this obscure medium. Hempton’s natural ability to locate and articulate himself through sound has a contagious energy and gives his work a transportive quality. Soundtracker is a fascinating meditation on the world’s changing landscape and the things we may be leaving behind in the service of progress.

Melody of Noise(de)

The film accompanies musicians who have devoted themselves to new, uncharted sounds with a great deal of passion. They build new instruments and work with quotidian noises. In the process, the ostensible noise often becomes sound. An adventurous journey of discovery into the realm of noises and sounds, rhythms and stillness. Together with people who listen closely and without reservation. A film that aims to engage viewers to listen with their eyes and see with their ears. Astonishingly sublime.

Sonic Sea(en)

The devastating impact of industrial and military ocean noise on whales and other marine life.

Obscure Pleasures: A Portrait of Walerian Borowczyk(en)

During a hospital stay in 2001, the Polish painter, sculptor and filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk compiled a handwritten list of the objects and animals that were featured in his films. While he had used both encyclopedias and dictionaries to order chaos in his own films, this list saw Borowczyk putting his own life in order.

Actors of Sound(en)

Since the 1930’s, sound gurus referred to as Foley artists have recreated the sounds that infuse a film with life. During a film’s post-production, Foley artists recreate sound that will match the moving image on-screen, using whatever objects are at their fingertips, from hundreds of pairs of old shoes to clunky old tools and squeaky mattresses. But how will Hollywood’s low-tech sound artists survive as digital technology consumes modern movie-making?

Film Is Not a Sausage: Borowczyk and the Short Film(en)

A documentary about Walerian Borowczyk's short films and animation, featuring his collaborators from that time.

KanZeOn(en)

An unusual documentary exploring sound. Unique elements of Japanese culture are revealed through ancient rituals and extraordinary musical spectacles. A young Buddhist priest whose family has been serving a temple for the past 500 years is also a DJ and beat-boxer. A drum teacher takes part in a costume performance of a 700-year-old ghost story. A female performer plays the Sho, a rare bamboo instrument that is believed to imitate the call of the mythical phoenix. The core ideas explaining the magical potential of sound that permeates all parts of the film are presented in the tradition of Shingon Buddhism. These beliefs are explored through following Buddhist chanting lessons for student priests at Shuchiin University in Kyoto.

Absence of Me(es)

Hundreds of boxes left by the famous uruguayan musician and political activist Alfredo Zitarrosa (1936-1989) who run away the dictatorship in the 70s, have not been touched since his death 27 years ago. Now his wife and daughters are trying to save the memories, tapes, music and sound recordings that the boxes contain to the posterity.

The Concentration Universe: Making Goto, Isle of Love(en)

A documentary about Borowczyk's 'Goto, Isle of Love' and its creation, featuring key cast and crew members.

Everybody's Cage(en)

In “Everybody’s Cage”, German film artist Sandra Trostel turns John Cage and his approach to art into a tangible fascination, without giving in to explain just a single bit of it.

Parc Central(fr)

"Central Park" is composed of 11 films that offer a visual, sound and poetic journey through 11 cities crossed by the artist. Fascinated by the city, space and urbanism, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster has been developing the concept of "tropical modernity" for several years, starting from the cohabitation and the confrontation between architecture and vegetation. It is around this research that she designed "Central Park" 11 films : - Kyoto (1998) - Taipei (2000) - Buenos Aires (2003) - Los Glaciares (2003) - Hong Kong (2000) - Encore Tapei (2000) - White Sands (2003) - Brasilia (1998) - Paris (1999) - Shangai (2003) - Rio de Janeiro (2000)

Blow Ups: Borowczyk's Works on Paper(en)

A visual essay about Walerian Borowczyk's works on paper.

Silent(en)

A duo of street performers learns how sound and picture work together to create amazing cinema experiences.

A Quiet Place(en)

A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.

How Does Sound Sound?(en)

"Toot!" "Tick!" "Chirp!" Onomatopoeia is introduced in this "soundsational" adventure. To learn the importance of sound in the world, Peter and Jessica accept Figment's invitation to go with him into Soundspace where they unlock the power of words and the magic of their imaginations. By journey's end, our intrepid explorers learn that language and sound have rhythm—and that the five senses may be used to explore the world around us.

Listen(ar)

Despite living in a doomed country that hangs by a thread, Joud, a handsome sound engineer meets and falls in love with strong and free-spirited Rana. The young lovers, from completely different social and religious backgrounds, are drawn closer to each other, but a drastic turn of events gets between them and Rana suddenly slips away. As her parents forbid Joud from seeing her, the young man determined to see her again, finds new means of communicating with her by convincing Marwa, her sister, to download his voice messages and secretly play them to Rana