This previously unreleased, 35-minute documentary film that takes you deep into the bowels of Winnipeg's punk and hardcore underground circa the mid-2000s. "The Manitoba Connection" provides a rare, lightning-in-a-bottle snapshot of DIY subculture as it is on the Canadian Prairie, marked by geographical isolation, brutal winters, and a history of working-class politics.
Shakespeare's Othello is reimagined as Sümbül, the former Chief Black Eunuch who falls in love with an Italian slave girl in 17th century Istanbul. The story is told to a coffeehouse audience by a troupe of musicians headed by a traditional storyteller, Meddah Hayali. The emotional burden of the film is carried by the unique musical setting.
A documentary based on the life of Branimir Vugdelija, frontman of the gothic metal band Embrio. Branimir was an ambitious musician, biker and martial artist. Sadly, in the summer of 2007 Branimir died in motorcycle accident.
The Inspirator is an installation that incorporates projected video, a mirrored fountain and glitter ball/s. The filmed image is of someone dressed as a panda playing the trumpet in the forest. He bursts from a glittery explosion to play his badly synched performance for a few minutes before turning to retreat into the forest bubble. The footage repeats itself on a continuous loop. The footage is projected into a masked circular frame cut at the top and bottom by the wall's limits and the room is painted dark green outside this projected area. The fountain is filled with running water, the sound of which is amplified through speakers that are built into its sides, adding another layer to the installation's sound. The film's soundtrack was produced specially by Matty Skylab.
In A Silent Way centers around a young jazz guitarist, Jazzen Goodman, who dreams of becoming a jazz legend. He hires his best friend Dylan to film him on his journey through the jazz world. After being upstaged by his old bandmate at a house show where their now dueling bands are on the same bill, Jazzen has a dream about his death. Haunted by this "premonition" that he will meet his death in 30 days, Jazzen starts to devise a surefire plan that will take him to his ultimate goal of "post-mortem solidification into the annals of jazz history".
A road movie with music. A song-soaked, foot-stomping trip straight to the heart of what it means to be Mexican, and to be American, and the complex joy of being both at the same time.
Anne Hutchinson's troubled relationship with her missing sister is under alien tribunal. Meanwhile, her new roommate's mysterious illness causes her to go on a cannibalistic killing spree.
The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
Broken Poet is a compelling investigation into the meaning of success, rock stardom and even freedom itself which, as Janis Joplin sang, is just another word for nothing left to lose.
A documentary film focusing on the current state of the music business and on how "the brand" of a rock group, in many cases, has more power than the band members themselves.
An aspiring heavy metal band's lead singer returns to the rock scene as a devout "born-again" Christian after his cancer goes into remission. The band's members struggle with this drastic transformation while dealing with their own downward spirals.
Miya Masaoka uses music to interact with plants and insects; Jon Rose turns fences into musical instruments with a violin bow in conflict zones ranging from the Australian outback to Israel; John Luther Adams translates geophysical phenomena in Alaska into music; and Bob Ostertag explores socio-political issues through processes as diverse as transcribing riots into string quartets, and creating live cinema with garbage. By contrasting the creative paths of these artists, and a connection between them by the world renowned Kronos Quartet, the film explores music not as a form of entertainment, career, or even self-expression, but as a tool to develop more deeply meaningful relationships with people and the complexities of the world they live in.
Drink and drugs, love affairs and divorces, hirings and firings, ever changing line-ups... and the members of Fleetwood Mac even found time to make some great music. Despite being scattered with scandal, Fleetwood Mac have sold over 100 million albums worldwide in their 40-year history.
The music documentary "Bwana Jogoo: The Ballad of Jessy Gitta" tells the story of Jessy Gitta Kasirivu, a well-known Ugandan musician who, in the early morning of August 4, 1974, gets violently arrested by Idi Amin's infamous State Research Bureau (SRB) agents.
The hitman in this parody of a music video, inspired by the figure of the bad men-rapper of music videos, he tells a fiction in which the act of killing is banalized, as in action movies, one after another, the bodies of the actors, they are riddled under the bullets, the killing activity is acted upon and recorded indifferently.
Rare and Unseen Footage Of Deep Purple Performing For The TV Cameras in Europe During The Early Seventies. As An Added DVD Also Features British TV Footage Of Ian Gillan And His Band Performing Some Deer Purple Classics For The Cameras In 1989.