The Study Of Groundhogs A Real Life Look At Mar

Alice Guy films the sea.

Experimental short film by Oskar Fischinger

Experimental short film by Oskar Fischinger

A work of abstract animation

In Fischinger's study No. 7, the shapes of Study No. 6 move to the 5th Hungarian dance by Johannes Brahms.

Experimental short film by Oskar Fischinger. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

An abstract to music from "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" by Mozart.

Short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

Full film record explores a pre-Columbian tradition of folk therapy known as in northern Peru. Based on seven years of ethnographic research by Douglas Sharon, the footage documents the activities of Eduardo Calderon, a Peruvian fisherman, ceramacist and (healer). Scenes of the healer in various daily interactions with members of his family and local community illustrate the impact of Eduardo's charismatic personality and serve to underscore the importance which a specific cultural context has upon the diagnostic and healing process. Also explored is the importance of the local pre-Columbian ceramic art and iconography to Eduardo's healing practice; the use of herbs (including the San Pedro cactus), divination with the use of a live guinea pig, and the various ritual manipulations of the healer on his (table). Featured are scenes from a number of "seances" or curing ceremonies. The edited film EDUARDO THE HEALER was produced from this footage.

An experimental film documenting a river leading up to a waterfall, depicting both its natural beauty and its inherent danger.

An experimental short from Oskar Fischinger

American documentary film-maker George C. Stoney visits the Aran Islands to try and unravel some of the myths surrounding a film that had engrossed him as a youngster - Robert Flaherty's famous documentary "Man of Aran" released in 1934.

Form, it has always existed somewhere or infiltrated, regardless of will. Somewhere, this place is simply a space where life and death cannot be measured.

Montage of different sequences reconstructing the three-color additive synthesis process patented by Audibert, French inventor who began researching natural colors in cinema from 1909. The process used in this film dates from 1923 and consists of capturing three photograms at the same time, through three lenses containing color filters.

Using a special printing technique, Esther Urlus makes the film images look hand-drawn. She was inspired by Late-Medieval sketches of falling horses and studies for spectacular battle scenes. The historical pastel colours are based on the Medieval 'Epiphanie medicorum', a urine colour wheel used for medical diagnoses.

In a prologue, two acts and a musical number.

Christopher Isham discusses Gillo Pontecorvo's 'The Battle of Algiers' with Richard A. Clarke, former USA national coordinator for security and counterterrorism, and Michael A. Sheehan, former USA State Department coordinator for counterterrorism.

'Studie IV' (1955) by Peter Weiss portrays a liberation process. The main character moves between different rooms, rooms of significance for him, dragging something that constantly changes form but eventually turns out to be himself. It is an old and consumed I that disappears from him.

A flim from DARK ROOM TRILOGY: 02