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Walla Walla Wiffle is an annual one day round-robin wiffleball tournament wherein 48 men from all over the country gather in Eastern Washington to play wiffleball. Most of the participants are in their 30s or 40s, married with children, highly educated and well-employed. The film documents the joy they take in being able to revert to the simplicity of their youth, if only for a day, while also showing the conflicts that arise from the inescapable responsibilities that come with jobs, relationships and families.
Follow our documentary reporting team as they take a look at the lives of these characters. These are people who are willing to go to great lengths all for the passion and commitment of their interests, however unusual they may be. Definition - Anorak: 'A person obsessive in a subject or hobby becoming largely their livelihood'
In order to rectify the poor bus accessibility at Slussen station in Stockholm, the city council, as per the municipal board’s recommendation, erects so-called ‘bus traps’ on the street.
Meet the awesome musician twins, Hedi Slimane models and creative soulmates behind The Garden, in a documentary by Liza Mandelup.
Mick Glasheen, an architect and pioneer of early cinema and experimental film, created work that was heavily influenced by media theorists. His video Teleologic Telecast from Spaceship Earth: On Board with Buckminster Fuller, 1970, is a re-mixed recording of a Buckminster Fuller’s lecture given at UNSW, presenting Fuller’s ideas on science, metaphysics and the universe, merged with just as radical techniques of moving image production, creating a multi-layered expression of image, voice, and sound.
A humorous look at various circus and other acrobatic feats. One of the "Pete Smith Specialties" produced and narrated by "A Smith named Pete."
Documentary about the life and work of mystery writer Mickey Spillane.
FATTO A MANO is a documentary short film that shows how a lot of essential food, from the region in Puglia, Italy, is handmade with a lot of energy, passion and knowledge and the people who produce it.
Jean-François Boisvenue tells us about his childhood fears and his history of mental illness. On the screen, we can see a series of hand-drawn animations projected onto his body that plunges us into psychosis and depersonalization. The whole was captured by the camera without postproduction effects.
A documentary exploring the importance of film preservation through the work of the IFI Irish Film Archive
For months Eva Van Tongeren maintains a correspondence with the convicted and incarcerated paedophile Thomas. With a voice-over she reflects upon his thoughts and how their atrociousness resonates through her daily life. Despite her unchanging incomprehension she seeks the limits of her empathy and tries to find ways to deal with such a loaded subject. As it proves to be impossible to make a connection she looks for something that does bind them. This brings her to the American landscape surrounding Death Valley, a place Thomas always wanted to visit. The filmmaker sends him fragments of quiet landscapes and memories that will never be his.
Self-storage units are windows into human histories: the silent cells with their discarded objects and dust-covered furniture are inscribed with past dreams, secret hopes and of lives we cannot let go.
Shot instinctively during the evacuation of a family home due to urban renewal, Intervals transforms fragments of domestic rituals and archival images into an intimate essay on memory, loss, and belonging, exploring the gaps between moments, between remembering and disappearance.
Mysterious towering tepuis in South America have been the inspiration for movies such as Avatar and Up, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World. A team of explorers repels down the mystical mountains of this legendary lost world to uncover evolutionary secrets of some of the most unique ecosystems in the world.
The story of the volleyball semi-final game at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics between Brazil and Cuba. Players from both countries review the match and comment on the emotions and events that occurred.
From the Academy Award-nominated producers of Everest and Grand Canyon Adventure comes an all-new IMAX 3D Theatre experience—Arabia 3D—about the extraordinary culture, history and religion of Arabia.
This short documentary presents the empowering story of Rodney "Geeyo" Poucette's struggle against prejudice in the Indigenous community as a two-spirited person.
In 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono embark on a search for a girl named Kyoko. On April 23rd, they are arrested by the police at a hotel in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Started in 1993, finished in 2018. "David Bowie Is Dead" is a road movie in and out of london.