“Electric, lovely film-making. Must be seen by...anyone who wants to feel superbly inspired.” - Chicagoist "Illuminating...Helps fill a yawning gap in the conventional telling of American modern art’s story." - Hyperallergic "Far from a dry litany of talking heads...A…
Filmed on the impoverished island of La Gonave, Haiti, MUD AND GUTS documents the efforts of a small team of men determined to provide fresh water to a desperately thirsty people. In La Gonave, only 25% of families have unpolluted water to drink. Disease is rampant. As many as one in five children will…
A short DVD with a study guide which links climate change with conflict and war. A short DVD with a study guide which links climate change with conflict and war. It includes the following sections: Is climate change really happening? Does climate change mean more conflict? Is there a military solution…
No Treats for Animals DVD 1984 16 Minutes How we exploit animals. Film for young children. A film made for 8-13-year old children concerning the way we exploit animals in so many different areas of society and, more particularly, how most of us take such exploitation totally for granted. It…
Young people discuss media stereotypes and their effects. Young people discuss the adverse effects of the sexual stereotypes which bombard them. They talk about how hard it is to develop their own personality and to make friends when they don’t conform to media and advertising images. Directed…
A destroyed Palestinian village triggers a personal meditation on memory and reconciliation Unfolding as a personal meditation from the Jewish Diaspora, this programme explores the hidden remains of the destroyed Palestinian village of Lubya, which lies under a purposely cultivated forest plantation…
A short therapy session with a young woman who is exploring her feelings in relation to her search for ‘belonging’. During the process of her search she encounters a number of barriers and contradictions all of which lead to her feeling different from the local community and experiencing…
This video explores how three individuals experienced loss when someone close to them died and traces how their grief changed with the passage of time. Supported throughout by experienced counsellors and counselling trainers the participants are sensitively and carefully held by the practitioners…
Six people share their experiences which led them to seek counselling. Maureen Moore, an experienced counsellor and psychotherapist, talks about counselling and explores some of the issues relating to what counselling is and how we go about choosing a counsellor. She explains the need to think about…
Twenty-four hours in the life of Radio France, from one dawn to another. Along its corridors, inside its recording studios, with its producers, presenters, journalists and various guests. And outside on a motorbike in the wake of the Tour de France or in the company of a thunderstorm photographer.
Of the great ballerinas, Tanaquil Le Clercq may have been the most transcendent. She mesmerized viewers and choreographers alike - her elongated, race-horse physique became the new prototype for the great George Balanchine. The muse to both Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, they loved her as a dancer and…
A feature length documentary about an extinct giant woodpecker, small town in Arkansas hoping to reverse it misfortunes, and the tireless odyssey of the bird-watchers and scientists searching for the Holy Grail of birds - the elusive Ivory-billed woodpecker.
