The Art Of Punk

Veteran director Nakajima Sadao examines the appeal, background, context and transition of chambara, or period sword-fighting and samurai films, in Kyoto. Not only interviews with actors, choreographers and critiques are included, but the director orchestrates an original chambara scene for the documentary.

Experimental French composer Pierre Henry, one of the pioneers of musique concrete, is the subject of this documentary that traces his development of a new sound that shocked the music world. During the 1950s, the radical innovator and his colleague Pierre Schaeffer created a unique form of music based on electronically modified environmental noises. Special features include a concert recorded in Paris and the short film "Le Candidat."

About police men's sensibility.

An introduction to the work of some of the foremost Black visual artists working today, inspired by the late David Driskell's landmark 1976 exhibition, "Two Centuries of Black American Art."

A mysterious, erotic and haunting love story between a writer/professor at Puerto Rico's leading University and an aspiring artist from the immigrant Chinese community.

Makos, a full grown adult, is visited by her mother from Mexico. She has to decide if is time to come out of the closet, after almost 30 years in secrecy.

SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: THE ART OF RAP is a feature length performance documentary about the runaway juggernaut that is Rap music. At the wheel of this unstoppable beast is the film's director and interviewer Ice-T. Taking us on a deeply personal journey Ice-T uncovers how this music of the street has grown to dominate the world. Along the way Ice-T meets a whole spectrum of Hip-Hop talent, from founders, to new faces, to the global superstars like Eminem, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and Kanye West. He exposes the roots and history of Rap and then, through meeting many of its most famous protagonists, studies the living mechanism of the music to reveal 'The Art Of Rap'. This extraordinary film features unique performances from the entire cast, without resorting to archive material, to build a fresh and surprising take on the phenomenon that is Rap.

A 10 minute featurette that details thoughts from the cast and crew about the reality of the battles shown in the film and also, how these scenes were filmed. It makes for moderately interesting viewing, especially hearing about some of the details, such as the massive amount of extras and equipment needed.

Follow the trail of a 'hungry' Los Angelino haunted by patriarchal normalcy, social media addictions and superstitious stereotypes. Can she escape the Hardcore Folklore which pushes her Self Realization behind a veil of socially-constructed reality?

An honorable Englishman destined to a military career, John Willie, born John Alexander Scott Coutts, John Willie (1902-1962) will become one of the heralds of fetishist and bondage art. A designer, a photographer and brilliant illustrator, he’s remembered as the guy with the whipped and tied up half naked distraught girls, between glamour and perversion.

An anime commissioned by The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan for short) for its "The Art of 10^64 -Understanding Vastness-" exhibition which ran from August 1, 2012 to April 15, 2013. This is an example about combinatorial explosion. "I want to demonstrate how amazing combinatorial explosion is! Please don't stop me!" Teacher and children tell you how difficult it is.

The unknown and fascinating origins of cinema and audiovisuals from prehistory to the beginning of the 20th century.

Investigating the most high profile art thefts of the 20th and 21st centuries, ‘Art of the Heist’ fits together the pieces of the crime jigsaw and studies the masterpieces coveted by the criminal world.

A Turk and a German try their hand at the art of being a man. They love the women on the Ferris wheel, seal their male friendship with a chicken heart feast and occasionally send their philosophical thoughts on a paper boat.