Tape

Detectives in a remote town pore through every frame of a troubling tape to find the whereabouts of three missing college students. The chilling footage becomes more and more disturbing when the students come upon the bloody dress of an 8-year-old girl in the secluded wilderness and take it upon themselves to find her. Linking the case of the missing girl and the missing students together, the detectives race to piece enough information together to find them alive.

This film is Ivan Cardoso's new incursion on pop and experimental cinema, making an hommage to old screenings at Cine AC, and reuniting restaured films and new works.

Banned in Iran this experimental film uses fictionalized, grainy, home video footage to tell the story of the abusive relationship between a successful middle aged Iranian businessman and his 18 year old wife, Goli. She has just received a camcorder as his birthday present and the entire story is told from the view of this camcorder. Goli has lived with him and been his sex slave since he took her captive as a nine year old from her family in the Kurdish rebellion. Now she is pregnant, but as she starts to talk back to him and he discovers that she has learned English and started to read, he again is making her more and more a prisoner in his home.

Short Film

Encounter the Pearl Harbor attacks, the L.A. riots, the Son of Sam murders and Patty Hearst's kidnapping the way they unfolded on TVs and radios across America. We present these shocking events from the 20th century, not through traditional journalistic reportage, but in real-time, as they were covered by national and local news broadcasts. This footage, much of which has not been seen in decades, gives an intimacy and immediacy to stories we thought we knew but will now rediscover through a unique perspective.

Set in 1987, a young black Saudi man attempts to impress a girl by mimicking the music video of Crown, an iconic singer from that time.

Tapeur, who introduced himself as a composer invites the young lady into the Movie Theatre of Baron Schmitt. Suddenly the seance turns into a tragedy — Baron presents to the audience a brand new miracle - the mechanical Pianola which replaced the Tapeur, and thus the young lady falls in love with the Baron.

The Schleyer Tape is a compilation of television and news footage comprising two hours of media accounts regarding the infamous Baader-Meinhof gang. Klaus vom Bruch's material begins with the September 1977 kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the dramatic news reportage from the scene of the car accident in Cologne where Schleyer was abducted.Vom Bruch then proceeds to chronologically relay footage from official press conferences, talkshow speculation, public interviews and the news, giving a broad and detailed account of the events leading up to the final downfall of the left-wing terrorist Red Army Faction and group suicide of Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and other RAF leaders.

What happens when you record your dreams on video and view them outside their natural boundaries? Find out as Dennis think he got it all figured out but soon the tables are turning and he and his friends Jimmy & Mike find themselves in a nightmare that is just as real as dialing for a pizza or striking the g-chord. What are smoky minds to do? Entering the dangerous realm of a collective nightmare the three friends must find their way through and around their hideous doppelganger in order to free themselves of this terminal nightmare - but is it possible? Find out in this hair raising, rock'n'roll injected pizza pie of cinematic slime.

A cinematic journey into the world of Yona Wallach, an Israeli poet, whose radical life and poetry ended with her death at an early age, leaving behind a myth and a trail of admirers. More than 25 years after her death, seven recorded tapes from her last interview, which were made with Helit Yeshurun, are discovered. In these tapes, Wallach confesses to her attraction to madness, her experiments with drugs, her relationship with god and about the dangers of writing. The film weaves her testimony with interviews, with rare archival footage, with her poems and with animation that revives Wallach's thoughts, images and visions.

Between the lugubrious landscape of the river and an old deteriorated house, a sleepless man reflects on the absence of his wife. An encounter with fishing partners reveals his disturbed nature, and a violent drive.

Shot at the Department of Nuclear Physics at the University of Helsinki, the images of The Punched Tape of Life illustrate the beauty of 1960s information technology. These decorative scenes parallel a set of ”summer interludes” which document Kurenniemi’s entourage.

Fisnik is about to embark on a absurd journey in creating a fake weeding video, to get the German visa. He has to succeed in convincing his family, friends, and his ex to join him in this crazy journey.

For five grueling years, Li Ning documents his struggle to achieve success as an avant-garde artist while contending with the pressures of modern life in China. He is caught between two families: his wife, son and mother, whom he can barely support; and his enthusiastic but disorganized guerilla dance troupe. Li's chaotic life becomes inseparable from the act of taping it, as if his experiences can only make sense on screen. Tape shatters documentary conventions, utilizing a variety of approaches, including guerilla documentary, experimental street video, even CGI. Tape captures a decade's worth of artistic aspirations and failures, while breaking new ground in individual expression in China.

A Finnish comedy film.

Two episodes concerning tapes recorded by investigative reporters

Once upon a time the Chuang family chopped firewood for a living. Mother Tanja spent three years day and night weaving this tapestry. One day a wind storm came and the tapestry flew away. Kam Tong, one of the children, would venture off to the dangerous Tibet mountains to try to get the tapestry back. Very few have ever survived the cave.

Mathieu comes back from Alberta after his elder brother's death in order to dig out memories from the town where they grew up.

A documentary about the life of the four members of punk rock band Dreads 'N' Drones. The footage allows a peek into the rise of the group, their creative interactions and the importance of 'cirandeiro'. This is the first of many grasshoppers to come.

A flood of curses is overflowing a city, including this one, a cursed audio tape. Unexplainable and mysterious psychic phenomena quickly occur. This film collects a few of those psychic phenomena.