An improvised comedy, shot over five days by Shane Meadows, devised with and starring Paddy Considine. Rock roadie and failed musician, Le Donk has lived, loved and learned. Along the way he’s lost a girlfriend but he has found a new sidekick in up-and-coming rap prodigy Scor-zay-zee. With Meadows’ fly-on-the-wall crew in tow, Donk setsContinue reading “Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee – 2009”
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Krautrock : The Rebirth of Germany – 2009
Documentary which looks at how a radical generation of musicians created a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war. Director : Benjamin Whalley Cast : Damo Suzuki|David Bowie|Dieter Moebius|Edgar Froese|Hans Joachim Rodelius|Iggy Pop|Klaus Schulze|Peter Orloff|Renate Knaup|Rex Gildo Genre : Documentary|Music Release Date : 2009-10-22
Houston, We Have a Problem – 2009
Director Nicole Torre directed this documentary about the America´s oil industry. The Oil Barons, Wildcatters, and roughnecks and their long struggle to feed America’s ferocious oil appetite. Step inside the oil culture to understand just how the USA became so addicted and why Houston believes we must go “Green” for a secure domestic energy future.Continue reading “Houston, We Have a Problem – 2009”
Unmistaken Child – 2009
In Nepal, a venerable monk, Geshe Lama Konchog, dies and one of his disciples, a youthful monk named Tenzin Zopa, searches for his master’s reincarnation. The film follows his search to the Tsum Valley where he finds a young boy of the right age who uncannily responds to Konchog’s possessions. Is this the reincarnation ofContinue reading “Unmistaken Child – 2009”
When I Knew – 2009
Alternately candid, funny, poignant and heartbreaking, this documentary focuses on a cross-section of men and women of all ages who invoke the exact moment in their lives–whether as toddlers, grade-schoolers, teens or young adults–when they knew, once and for all, that they were gay. Inspired by the work of writer Robert Trachtenberg, award-winning filmmakers FentonContinue reading “When I Knew – 2009”
Biggie Smalls: Rap Phenomenon – 2009
This documentary aims to give viewers a look inside the life of the late rap superstar Biggie Smalls. The filmmakers intersperse concert footage with recollections by many of the people who were around the man on a regular basis. Among the people who appear during the course of the documentary are Snoop Dogg, Lil’ Kim,Continue reading “Biggie Smalls: Rap Phenomenon – 2009”
Defamation – 2009
Intent on shaking up the ultimate ‘sacred cow’ for Jews, Israeli director Yoav Shamir embarks on a provocative – and at times irreverent – quest to answer the question, “What is anti-Semitism today?” Director : Yoav Shamir Cast : Abraham Foxman|John Mearsheimer|Norman Finkelstein|Uri Avneri Genre : Documentary Release Date : 2009-05-01
The Enochian System of John Dee – 2009
Introduces the historical background necessary for understanding the progenation of John Dee’s Enochian system of Theurgy into the world. This video covers the social context of Elizabethan-era England during the lifetime of Dr. Dee. compares the Sigilum Dei Aemeth, as it was used by John Dee, to the Alberti cipher disk, a poly-alphabetic encoder. Dee’sContinue reading “The Enochian System of John Dee – 2009”
1428 – 2009
The “Great Sichuan Earthquake” took place at 14:28 on May 12, 2008. In the days after, ordinary people salvage destroyed pig farms in the mountains, collect cheap scrapped metals, or pillaging other victims’ homes. Behind the media circus of official visits is an inconsolable grief of families searching for loved ones. As the Lunar NewContinue reading “1428 – 2009”
The Illusion – 2009
Susana Barrigas documentary, the illusion, begins with violence. A long shot reveals a man standing on a street corner, his features indiscernible in the night. He moves out of the cameras line of vision, but the filmmaker, persistent, moves with him as the jostling of the camera marks her steps. As we learn moments later,Continue reading “The Illusion – 2009”
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