United States of America
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Seven color film that explores the seduction of a generation of Americans through the glamour of the 50s and his obsession with the appearance of the object of consumption. Includes: "American Look" and the musical of General Motors, "Design for Dreaming".
Millions of Americans have seen Rollen Frederick Stewart, a.k.a. “Rainbow Man”, who achieved notoriety during the late 70's by appearing in the crowd at thousands of televised sporting events wearing his trademark rainbow-colored afro wig. Later -after he became a born-again Christian- he added a sign reading “John 3:16”. Over the years, grabbing the attention of the media became an obsession for Stewart. He abandoned his home and marriage to roam the country living out of his car, studying TV Guide each week in a never-ending quest to stay televised...
Untitled"Common Knowledge". It focuses on the representation and the ego, always in the foreground, and the story is mysterious. The Red Tapes is the key work of Acconci, a kind of epic in three parts. Acconci tracing the topography of the self within a societal context (...) building in this search of self and America a dense, poetic text.
"Local Color is essayistic". The outlook is more open, the body is presented in context, the sculptural and architectural space becomes psychological.
"Time Lag". Space is theatrical, action is communication.
Remarkable, surreal industrial film promoting "Atarax," a tranquilizer, and asserting how "ataraxic medicines" can help us all to achieve the relaxed state we long for. (The Prelinger Archives are a source of educational material, mainly ordered by theme, giving a vision of the dark side, the underbelly, perhaps naive of the American dream and the America that is often hidden behind the media curtain.)
UntitledIn this seventy-three-minute documentary, the unique life and teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi are artistically unfolded in a chronology of photographs, interviews, narration and archival film footage. Follow the Sage from his birth in a small South Indian village to his final mortal day, as grieving crowds push in from all sides to have their last darshan. Released after a two year effort of archival film restoration, interviews, research and travel.
UntitledFilmed over three years during the most historic and pivotal time in Nepal's modern history, The Sari Soldiers is an extraordinary story of six women's courageous efforts to shape Nepal's future in the midst of an escalating civil war against Maoist insurgents, and the King's crackdown on civil liberties. The film intimately delves into the extraordinary journey of these women on all sides of the conflict, through the democratic revolution that reshapes the country's future.
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