“I love poetry because it makes me feel like my mind expands.” In Regard Silence, that's the very first sentence expressed—in sign language of course. Watching the poems signed by deaf people in this film has a similarly mind-expanding effect. That’s because sign language—the Mexican version in this case—is a very different means of communication than written or spoken language.
A fascinating exploration of the literary — The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, by English playwright William Shakespeare (1604) — and lyrical — Othello, by Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi (1887) — myth of Othello, the desperately tragic story of a Moorish general in the army of the Venetian Republic whose absurd jealousy poisons his love for his wife Desdemona.
Live@Home is the first web music program created to allow the world's best artists to come and play their songs in a beautiful house. These intimate performances are recorded without an audience, aiming to make artists feel at home. Once every three months, Live@Home moves to an exceptional location for other intimate performances. Ellie Goulding is an English singer-songwriter, instrumentalist whose music finds the balance between electro-pop and indie folk. She released Lights -- a sparkling debut album in 2010. In 2012, she returned with the album "Halcyon", electro-pop-infused, which is now a worldwide success. She wins British Female Artist prize at The Brit Awards 2014. Tracklist: Burn (Live); Anything Could Happen (Live); I Need Your Love (Live); Lights (Live); How Long Will I Love You (Live)
In 2010, the iconic Tote Hotel – last bastion of Melbourne’s vibrant music counterculture – was forced to close by unfair laws. Filmed over 7 years, “Persecution Blues” depicts the struggle of more than 20,000 fans – and the bands who inspire them – to preserve their history and protect their future, and puts the audience on the front line of an epic-scale culture war.
A live video album by American rock band The Killers. The album is pulled from two nights the band performed at the Royal Albert Hall in July 2009, and also includes footage from festival dates the band headlined during the middle months of 2009.
A massive sing-a-long party with live music at Loftus Versveld in Pretoria.
Larion Dyakov is a painter, but he doesn't use paint; instead, he "paints pictures through music." He plays the viola and connects it to a chain of various effects devices to loop his phrases and alter the original sound of his classical instrument. The result is a mixture of classical and modern ambient music that can transport you to another world and paint a new picture in your mind's eye, if you let it.
Inside the secret world of Sergei Pugachev, a Russian oligarch, and his British partner Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, mother to their three children.
David Markey's documentary of life on the road with Sonic Youth and Nirvana during their tour of Europe in late 1991. Also featuring live performances by Dinosaur Jr, Babes in Toyland, The Ramones and Gumball.
Five gay Black men who are HIV-positive discuss how they are battling the double stigmas surrounding their infection and homosexuality.
A lonely character braving a steep mountain attempting to reach its peak. As he journeys the mountain, he is forced to confront a plethora of internal demons.
A short documentary following the story of a local pub in Adelaide facing threats of demolition.
Recorded between 1994 and 1998, The Actuality of Thought documents live performances from the mid-90s American emo/hardcore scene.
Melancolia
A series of in-depth conversations with Poet Laureate Rita Dove—conducted and recorded by Eduardo Montes-Bradley between September 2012, and October 2013. The film explores the poet's life, exposing fundamental facts of Dove's childhood and formative years growing up in Akron, Ohio in the 1950s and during the turbulent 1960s, supplemented by selections from hundreds of still images and several hours of home movies from the Dove family's collection.
Heather Nova performs live in London's intimate, atmospheric Union Chapel in September 2003. Includes songs from her studio album "Storm."
The documentary focuses on images of women in advertising, in particular on gender stereotypes, the effects of advertising on women's self-image and the objectification of women's bodies.
A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.
Inspired by the poetry of Robert Frost, this short primarily aims to capture the dynamic nature of the world around us; the ego and the id; the past and the present; everything that has, as of yet, diluted the course of life as we know it.
The future belongs to those who control it while humanity has begun to erode. Our every move is being monitored, every action controlled and freedom slips away as an insidious global plan has accelerated by a shadow Elite regime controlled by beings from another world wielding advanced technologies. Manipulation fuels compliance and fear keeps us in line, but as technology evolves so does the power of those who enforce it. The future is now - and it's not what we imagined.