The Town That Dreaded

Joli returns home after spending a long period in rehab. Her father, Anthony, a famous city politician, is quite concerned about her conduct and reintegration into society. This is the time when father and daughter will fix the broken ties of the relationship.

After several years of being away Oscar returns to his hometown wanting to relive the past. What he longs for is an impossibility, the town of his memories only exists within him. Things have changed drastically, and old relationships have withered.

The American Religious Townhall is a syndicated weekly television program in which clergy from various religious denominations debate various religious, political, and social issues.¹ The show was started in 1952 by Bishop A. A. Leiske and continued by his son Pastor Robert Leiske. The current moderator of the show is Pastor Jerry Lutz. The show is currently taped in Dallas, Texas. A different issue is debated on each episode.

Early 8mm student film. Selected for the 1977 Japan Recording Video Festival (sponsored by Nippon Television)

Yasu and Masaki are two Film students from Tokyo who want to make a Documentary about the yakuza. Their Friend Eiji, who works in a club introduces them to the yakuza member Hayashida. But filming a movie about the yakuza isn't as easy as a sunday walk and before they realise what is happening around them, they are already tangled into things which are very dangerous for them…

In 1944, at Himmler's command, a film was shot in Terezín, meant to give the impression that the rumors of extermination camps were enemy propaganda. In the film titled "The Führer Gives a City to the Jews", Terezín was depicted as a town handed over into free Jewish self-administration.

The story of the town of Cardamom and the people there, as well as the only characters who stir up serious trouble.

Come along and experience a hot summer day in the small Japanese town of Misato.

A representative film directed by Masahiro Makino, son of Shozo Makino ("the father of Japanese film"). This film lent status to ensemble casts that did not rely on famous stars. The unique setting of the samurai town, exquisite camera work and fast-paced sword fighting scenes all have an original appeal that audiences can related to even today.

Ushibuka in Amakusa City prospered a century ago with its fishing industry and red-light district, but has become Japan's fastest declining city. Homemaker Yumie wants to revive the town she loves, and invites her friends to realize an unusual plan at a former brothel built a century ago.

In Mushiu, Yokoshibahikari-machi Sanbu-gun, Chiba prefecture, a National Important Intangible Folk Property, Kiraigo, which is said to have begun in the early Kamakura era, still continues to be performed despite the risk of being lost. The camera follows the residents of Mushiu and how they are carrying on the tradition.

The bullfighter Marcial Lalanda financed and starred in this film about the rivalry between two bullfighters for the ill-fated love of the same woman. It features scenes of bullfights shot by Enrique Blanco using polychromatic film for the first time in Spain. Considered one of the greatest Spanish silent films.

Video essay ‘Rock and Cliff' investigates the creation of Horn Town, a new model village and centre of large scale tourist development, and the experiences of rural residents moved there through government-led displacement. Horn Town is located in Wulong, a rural district near the Three Gorges Dam administered by the Chongqing municipality (a city of 30 million people). Narrated in the style of a science documentary but using local Chongqing dialect, the video brings a geological and topographical perspective to types of 'rocks' found in the area,from mythological stones from a mountain cliff, to ruins of the original settlement, to a stone sculpture from a dubious 'Land Art Biennial', in order to address issues of land acquisition, top-down development and spatial politic.

Tokunaga, a student at the Tokyo school of art and design, has filmed a subtle journal of brief experiences and songs in which, with a fine sense for shifting detail and rhythm, she offers a sketch of a joyful romp.

Things are very exciting in the land of toys, today is the day for the big parade. Everybody is getting prepared to participate in the big event - but who is going to lead it all?

In Groß-Umstadt, a small town in the Oberwald region of central Germany, a community of Portuguese workers arrived in the 1960s. Legend has it that a young Portuguese man was travelling through the area in 1962 when his motorbike broke down… and he never left, becoming the first Portuguese person to settle there. This documentary looks at the immigrant story between Portugal and Germany.