4 Rural Sketches
A silent film
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A silent film
A singer, dancer, and bandleader, Cab led one of the most popular African American big bands during the jazz and swing eras of the 1930s-40s, with Harlem’s famous Cotton Club as his home stage. Best known for his “Hi de
The rhythms of tribal dance and street basketball commune in this diasporic summit, in which studio footage of famed Zimbabwe-born, New York–based choreographer Nora Chipaumire is intercut with teenagers hitting jump sho
In the vicinity of Tajín, several schools teach the art of the Papantla Flyers, attended by Dana, Said, Jairo, and Sarahí. These four children introduce us to the magic of this Totonac dance. As they train to become flye
In 1913, polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen took part in an expedition, to open up a regular trade connection between Norway and the interior of Siberia. His fascinating diary, Through Siberia, The Land of the Future, is a
A 1948 animated film of Hein Heckroth’s painted storyboards, with the Red Shoes ballet as an alternate angle.
A piano tuner wanders through the streets of New York after dark, seeking artistic inspiration. Sketchbook in hand, he observes the city’s lovers, mourners, and giant ants from afar. But when a twist of fate brings him f
Marc Augé coins the term "non-place" to spaces of transience, spaces that do not hold enough significance to be considered a place, where the human remains anonymous. These non-places, such as shopping malls, minimize h
The three portrait sketches of the title are called 'Claudia', 'Fernando Birri' and 'Saulat Rahman'. Presumably made when Margaret Tait was a student at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematographia, Rome.
Lou (29) is a present-day nomad. Forever in search of the ultimate kind of freedom, she’s long ago blocked out what it is she is actually running from. At home everywhere and nowhere. Living a now-now life. Click and - n
Apuntes is a sort of prologue to ‘The Quince Tree Sun’. With images shot by Erice in the Summer of 1990, as he was preparing such film, observing how the painter Antonio López worked. Erice wrote and selected the texts w
The Sketches produced by the surviving Pythons for the BBC's celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the first showing of Monty Python on 5 October 1969.
Karl Lagerfeld, seated at his desk, sketches the events of his life and career with comments and snippets of intimate, lively narratives.
A collection of recordings related to Steve's acoustic guitar performances. DVD1 - (VH1 Onstage 1997) By Paved Fountain / All Is Mended / (NBC VIP 24-Feb-9 Horizons / Interview / Black Light / (Hungarian TV 2000) Gnossi
Here, the camera goes into a dance, accelerates, becomes ornamental. This is not to catch something in a quiant dynamic composition but to realize itself as part of action.
Jennifer Jones meets Joan Crawford in a haze of criss-crossing black and white as the two dance out their social class dreams and nightmares. Part of preliminary research and experimentation for Silk Tatters.
This kit contains 3 DVD coluche most of this great comedian. All sketches present on these DVDs are worthy of interest. Yet many memorable sketches are not and so I was somewhat disappointed when first viewing. These skt
The titular “obrazki” (ENG: pictures) are both prison tattoos and wounds inflicted on sons by their abusive fathers and stepfathers. Such a son is the protagonist of the film. After many years, he meets his biological, p
A powerful documentary about the ancient songs that have been sung and passed down from generation to generation, and the people who pass them on! The fire of the rituals has been passed down from person to person for ce