SEXUAL FREEDOM IN DENMARK Production: USA, 1970 Director: John Lamb Category: Adult/Documentary A broad documentary look at sexuality in history, including Japanese and Chinese erotic art (including images of bestiality), plus issues of contraception, sex education and obscenity, and ending with a child-birth sequence plus filmed demonstrations of various sexual Continue Reading
Documentary
UNTITLED [TUOL SLENG PRISON, CAMBODIA]
UNTITLED [TUOL SLENG PRISON, CAMBODIA] Production: Cambodia, 1979 Director: Dinh Phong, Ho Van Tay Category: Atrocity Army cameramen Phong and Tay were with the Vietnamese troops that drove back the Khmer Rouge in a sweeping January 1979 offensive, and were the first to film inside the abandoned Tuol Sleng prison/torture/extermination camp, Continue Reading
THE WORLD OF GILBERT AND GEORGE
THE WORLD OF GILBERT AND GEORGE Production: UK, 1981 Director: Gilbert & George Category: Documentary/Art The beautiful world of Gilbert and George has its epicentre in Spitalfield, London, and thence expands in concentric circles across the entire globe – even as far as China, where they are the most popular Western artists of all time. Continue Reading
CHARLIE IS MY DARLING + 1
CHARLIE IS MY DARLING Production: UK, 1965 Director: Peter Whitehead Category: Documentary An early hybrid of cinema-verité, rockumentary and road movie, Charlie Is My Darling lies at the forefront of all these genres with regards to the history of film in the UK. Whitehead went on the road with The Rolling Stones, filming Continue Reading
INABA NO SHIROSAGI
INABA NO SHIROSAGI (“The White Rabbit Of Inaba”) Production: Japan, 1970 Director: Kato Yoshihiro Category: Documentary/Experimental Kato was co-founder with Shinichi Iwata of Zero Dimension (Zero Jigen), the notorious street performance sect who scandalized 60s Tokyo with nude street interventions and garish “art terror ceremonies”. Inaba No Shirosagi documents the history Continue Reading
ZEFIRO TORNA
ZEFIRO TORNA Production: USA, 1992 Director: Jonas Mekas Category: Documentary Dedicated “to the wind of Lithuania”, this is Mekas’ elegy for George Maciunas, his countryman and the leading Fluxus artist, a memorial in film clips from 1952 to 1978. Maciunas (1931–1978) organized the first Fluxus event in 1961 at the Continue Reading