Pueblo Heritage 1950 traces the history of the Pueblo peoples from the Mesa Verde to 1950 --with emphasis on Taos, Acoma, and Zuni. Concludes with scenes of the Indian Ceremonials in Gallup, New Mexico.
Everywhere in the parks and on the river bank of the Osaka river one sees blue tents or barracks covered with blue plastic tarps - at times scattered throughout the park area, sometimes lined up in rows, or united to form small communities. The term homelessness only insufficiently describes the situation of these No-jukusha - the campers in the rough. Without any budget and only the simple camera at the place the reason to start the documentary was the threat of evictions of homeless tents from parks. Now the film is used in Osaka as a tool against new evictions by No-juku-sha, andbecame a vehicle of articulation for those who live outside of the Japanese society.
Untitled"Impressively beautiful stop-motion cinematography gives Peter Bo Rappmund's mesmerizing art/essay film on the Los Angeles Aqueduct, its source in the Eastern Sierra Nevadas and its terminus at the Pacific, the feel of a James Benning film crossed with Koyaanisqatsi..." - promo from Vancouver International Film Festival
All Jayne Austen and I have to say about the meaning of repetition compulsion and home.
UntitledA "cut-up" adaptation of the key themes and situations in Naked Lunch. Filmed in the late 60's in Paris London and Tangiers. Burroughs as junkie - his long-standing metaphor for capitalist supply and demand - breaks into the hallucinatory world of Brian Gysin and his dream machines.
UntitledIt's time to harvest the strawberry crop in Huelva. Due to the crisis, an estimated 1,500 un-documented immigrants didn't find work last season. Clotaire, Ibrahim and Adama are three of them. From their shanty town, they watch 300,000 tons of strawberries roll by, to be sold in supermarkets all over Europe. Clotaire, Ibrahim and Adama don't earn any money, they are barely surviving. They are thinking about their next stop. The story of 21st century nomadism.