Will This Work

The desire to grow closer to yourself will lead you to disappear. The simple desire to get a closer look at yourself makes you see yourself disappear. The possibilities of recording are limited.

This film is about Japanese traditional bamboo craft.

Chile and the 1988 plebiscite Film belonging to CEMA. The migration to digital was carried out within the framework of the "Rescue of the CEMA archive" project financed by ICAU and with the collaboration of FIC-Udelar in 2010. The U-matic cassette is in custody by the Audiovisual Preservation Laboratory (LAPA-AGU-Udelar)

Borrowing performance idea from Yoko Ono: the figure entertains her guests by presenting her laundry and explaining how each item became journey.

The Yokohama and Kawasaki factory district, industrial heart of Japan. In 1953, a Kanagawa Prefecture May Day (International Workers’ Day) took place here, spreading links of solidarity among workers. Workers criticize the Korean War-era transformation of Japan into an American military base and protest remilitarization. A new print will be screened.

A group of women is pounding millet to the rhythm of a song, a farmer is hoeing his field in tempo, and a man is dancing to the sound of drums during a ritual of possession. Those are scenes taken from previous films by Jean Rouch. The three sequences illustrates in their own way the importance of song and music in everyday life in Niger, whether in everyday chores, in working the land or during rituals.

In 1997, the Taipei City Council abolished the Licensed Prostitute System without any compensatory measures. For over 2 years, Miss Guan was one of the leading figures that organized over 500 protests to defend the prostitutes’ work rights. Yet under huge pressure from their mounting debts and governmental crackdown, she finally threw herself into the ocean….

Meet Brett, Brett's not the brightest when it comes to yard work but he knows it can be a good escape from the wife and that damned awful stepson. Follow along as Brett finds himself getting into some very troubling situations like a limb on a powerline or the classic potato wedged in the mower blades! Who knows what might happen to Brett? Starring Michael Simmons as Brett Directed and Shot by Justin Cottingham and Samael Horton Written by Samael Horton, Justin Cottingham, Madison Malcolm, and Michael Simmons Best and Only Grip Syd Pollock Original Score by Druidic (also Michael Simmons) Presented by Gosh Darn Video and ​⁠

At a rough construction, bricklayers begin their work day calmly and serenely, until they discover the heaviness that lies within them and the physical wear and tear that it involves. This same situation begins to fall on the workers so that everything begins to become encapsulated and become like a limbo.

Following the expansion of urban development, land prices in Taipei’s Shilin District soared exponentially. The Shinkong Textile plant in Shilin became the first to close down. Soon, its laid-off workers gathered for a street protest, singing popular songs with altered lyrics. As the battle wore on, they began a long-term protest in front of the Shinkong headquarters lasting for 76 days.

Al-Asti Ahmed works as a worker in one of the major factories. He is a staunch defender of workers’ rights, and the rest of the workers rally around him in order to defend their cause and rights. However, the factory owners try all the time to plot one machinations against him after another in order to discourage him from his struggle.

In modern Estonia, a modern factory employs modern workers, a Russian, a Ukrainian and a Chinese. They try to understand each other and the society in which they find themselves.

The second installment in the "ghost story" series by Kiyoshi Yamamoto, a film crew visits an abandoned house to record a TV program called "The Ghost Special Investigation Headquarters". The crew plans to create a bizarre phenomenon and invites a beautiful young horror novelist to join them, but...

In the seemingly simple fate of the heroine of the film, Vera, there is a whole tangle of social, national, demographic and other problems of our difficult time.

Marcha de los Cañeros, by Marcos Banchero, made in 1968 as part of the Cinemateca del Tercer Mundo. During the second half of the 1960s, the Unión de Trabajadores Azucareros de Artigas (UTAA) carried out a series of marches from the north of the country to Montevideo, demanding better living conditions for its workers. These mobilizations took place in a context of economic crisis in the country and growing political and social conflict. Filmmakers Mario Handler, Alberto Miller and Marcos Banchero recorded some of these mobilizations at the time, contributing to the visibility of this sector of society, whose conditions of exploitation had been unknown to the capital's gaze until then.

What happened in the GDR on 17 June 1953? Using a lot of original footage, Norddeutscher Rundfunk looks back on the events in a detailed report marking their 20th anniversary and shows different interpretations and explanations. Agent coup? Workers’ revolt? Popular uprising? The interpretations were controversial, even among contemporary witnesses and Western historians.

A man goes to a kiosk and buys cigarettes.