Watch 38/79: sentimental punk lookmovie. 'It was in San Francisco at a punk festival. I was already high and the air was so thick in the rooms that you could cut it with a knife. I had a photograph camera with me; I stood in a corner of the entrance hall and took 36 pictures on slide film. At home I put the slides into a slide projector. I took out the lens and filmed the slides by filming directly from the projector - using single frames according to a certain plan.'
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Short film by Mary Ellen Bute
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Interviews from 1999, with some queer artists, activists and bands about queer punk, feminist concepts and actions. Filmed during a trip to San Franci...
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Ballroom dancers Veloz and Yolanda perform the various dance fads of the first half of the twentieth century.
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The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.
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This feature length documentary tells the story of 1970's punk band The Gears - in their own words.
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A postmodern Swiss-Tyrolean ensemble ventures into remote mountainous regions, embracing the sonorous variety of local vernaculars. A poetic road movi...
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"Collective Unconsciousness: The Not Dead Yet Story" explores the annual Not Dead Yet festival that takes place in Toronto. This documentary dives int...
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A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and String Quartet.
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Set against the backdrop of 9/11, this documentary tells the story of how a new generation kickstarted a musical rebirth for New York City that reverb...
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Crash 'n' Burn is an experimental film shot in and named after Toronto, Ontario's first punk rock club. (Not to be confused with Peter Vronsky's simil...
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The first-ever DVD to feature one of the great New-Wave acts of the late 1970s, The Fleshtones. For over 30 years, the band has recorded and toured pl...
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Originally aired as part of the Arena series, this BBC biography of Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex. She is one of the first black women singer-songwriters...