Brompton Cemetery November 2003, a place for breif encounters. Allan Warren takes us on a tour though crowded cruising lanes and popular bushes.
A document about the ritual of a religious service; faith and ecstasy as means of survival in the Puerto Rican community of the South Bronx, in New York.
UntitledBrothers Petroleum hiding in the horizon, Conan blessing the sword. It is the hour.
4 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1997 & Fenòmens interactius
Ten years after the civil war in Guatemala, war-like conditions still prevail and the state is regardes as being widely undercut by organised criminality. Guatemala has one of the highest-murder rates on the American continent and violence claims more than ten lives a day. The film documents urban criminality and the people who stuggle against it. BUENOS DIAS, SEGUIMOS EN GUERRA bears witness to the Sobrevivientes Foundation and mother of murdered 8 year-old Michelle's fight for justice or follows the photographic journalist Carlos in his lugubrious everyday working life.
Kobland's quiet, meditative video is a philosophical investigation, a travelogue of sorts, and, ultimately, a probing essay-film in the tradition of Aleksandr Sokorov or late Godard. Buildings and Grounds pairs lingering, beautifully framed shots of urban scenes, industrial installations, deserts, and other evocative landscapes with a series of fragmentary ruminations drawn from film luminaries such as Fassbinder, Fellini, Bergman and Tarkovsky. Presented as a unified diaristic accompaniment to the image, the text comes to us both as English-language 'subtitles' and, simultaneously, as voice-off appropriated from the original films. Floating over an image track virtually evacuated of all human form or movement, Kobland's questions and digressions call up a beautiful and melancholy world.