In 1995 Las Vegas, a homesick cover band singer writes an original song to connect with her daughter who is growing up in the Philippines without her.
Heavy Metal Parking Lot documents heavy metal music fans tailgating in the parking lot outside the Capital Centre (since demolished) in Landover, Maryland, on May 31, 1986, before a Judas Priest concert (with opening act Dokken).
Four dancers, two males and two females, merrily dance to the merry tune of "Skip to my Lou".
Inada plays Betty Yoshida, a singer and dancer from America who arrives in Japan to go on tour, only to be swindled by scheming managers. Penniless and cast to the streets, Betty is taken in by Oki (Nakagawa), a talented tap dancer who introduces her to a group of struggling musicians living and working together.
Hal and a theater manager see people watching a building excavation for entertainment. They suggest that city employees entertain their customers, including a singing tax collector. Hal becomes the Mayor's assistant.
Three young lads on the first day of work wish for a bit more than they can handle.
Colourful puppets illustrate the old French song about Cadet Rousselle, who falls down a ladder, who trips on battlements, and whose dogs will not obey him. The animated figures carry our hero through his predicaments with colour and verve.
Night vs. light, music vs. motion, figuration vs. abstraction. Experimental video artist Max Hattler utilises distorted urban imagery and neon glare to create this entrancing short
High school violinist Rachel begins to question her ideas about gender when she meets handsome genderqueer teenager Sammy. Rachel and Sammy form a band and combat the notion that "he" and "she" are the only options in this short with a rocking soundtrack. A lighthearted look at the power of an accepting group of friends to shake up the status quo.
Noetic, Faun and Boléro: Three elements, three visions, three journeys through dance. Choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's show offers a profound reflection on our intimate connection with the world around us. From putting mathematics in movement to Ravel's Boléro as a dance of death, Cherkaoui transcends the boundaries of the stage to offer us a unique philosophical perception of the world.
The stripper Tony and the naive enthusiast Anthony, two entertainers, destined for the big time, who are mismatched in a casting office from two very different online contests.
An experimental short comprising a few dance numbers.
Four species facing extinction tell their stories of suffering at the hands of humans...
A Deer Falling Into the Sea
The film depicts the star, Ayumi Hamasaki, as herself on a tour in Hong Kong with local actor Shawn Yue as her bodyguard, whom Hamasaki later falls in love with as the film progresses. It depicts the fame aspect of her love life and the inevitable heartbreak towards the end.
Olivier Assayas’ Eldorado is a riveting documentary chronicling the efforts of Ballet Preljocaj to choreograph an otherworldly icon of 21st century music: Karlheinz Stockhausen’s ethereal Sonntags-Abschied.
BLUE is an audiovisual series by Swedish audiovisual project iamamiwhoami aka artist Jonna Lee, music producer Claes Björklund and directors collective WAVE. It consists of 11 connected audiovisual chapters connected by its' narrative. It describes the project's own evolution seen from the eyes of the artist Jonna Lee in relation to their followers.
A remarkable homage to and parody of the “Camelot” song and dance from Monty Python’s Holy Grail motion picture. Essentially, the scene is totally redone with LEGO figures and blocks, but is true to the movie, which is why it is so hilarious.
Flannery, a railway agent does everything by the book. He gets into a scrape with a customer, McMorehouse, who wants to pay 44 cents freight for two guinea pigs which he considers pets. Flannery, however, considers them pigs (freight 48 cents), a decision he begins to regret when the animals begin to reproduce.
A piano tuner happens to go to a children´s outdoor concert for business. There, he meets his first lover who he played the piano together with in his childhood.