Fireworks (Archives)

The Hidden Talent of Gilbert Gottfried

June 2023 •English

Gilbert Gottfried was world famous for his comedy, but most people didn't realize that he was also a very talent visual artist! Inspired by his passing in 2022, his daughter, Lily Gottfried, made a documentary short about her father's hidden talent.

Spomíname na Edmunda Gwerka

January 1975 •Slovak

Black Trip

November 1965 •English

Through the uses of kinescope, video, multimedia, and direct painting on film, an impression is gained of the frantic action of protoplasm under a microscope where an imaginative viewer may see the genesis of it all. – Grove Press Film Catalog

Chocolate

February 2008 •Thai

Zen, an autistic teenage girl with powerful martial arts skills, gets money to pay for her sick mother Zin's treatment by seeking out all the people who owe Zin money and making them pay.

Miracle

January 1975 •English

Los Angeles-based artist Ed Ruscha’s 1975 short film Miracle centers on a day in the life of an auto mechanic (played by artist Jim Ganzer), who has a transformative experience while working on the engine of a Ford Mustang. Actress and singer Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas plays his love interest. Since the 1960s, Ruscha has received extensive critical acclaim for his paintings, photographs, drawings, and books exploring the commercial vernacular of Los Angeles—its graphic signage, architecture, and even parking lots. In effect, his work subtly comments on America’s cultural and socioeconomic evolution in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Miracle is one of only two films made by the artist in the 1970s. – Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis by Kelly Shindler, Associate Curator

Bangkok Hooligans

January 1994 •Thai

1994 film by Thai martial arts director, Panna Rittikrai. Thai action supermo Panna Rittikrai stars as a hard boiled gangster who takes control of a Bangkok suburb with a violent and iron grip. Great fights and stunts galore.

Gangster's Bible

January 1991 •English

1991 film by Thai martial arts director, Panna Rittikrai.

Pecker

September 1998 •English

A Baltimore teenager who picks up a second-hand camera starts snapping his way to stardom, soon turning into a nationwide sensation, with a fateful choice between his life and his art.

Belly of the Beast

December 2003 •English

Jake and Sunti go to meet Mongkol, the leader of the Abu Karaf. Mongkol confirms that ever since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Jantapan has worked to corner the narcotics and arms markets. Jake must engage in a battle that will put both his physical and spiritual powers to the ultimate test.

Michael Palin & the Mystery of Hammershøi

July 2005 •English

In 2005, Michael Palin set out to unlock the mysteries and find out about the background and life of Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi. Hammershøi painted around the start of the 20th century and many of his pictures have a distinct coolness and distance about them. Palin, wanting to know of his inspirations and the reason for these mystical pictures, starts his search in Hayward Gallery in London, goes to Amsterdam and finally the painters home town, Copenhagen (Denmark).

An Ordinary Love Story

November 2012 •Thai

Note is planning to propose to Nam. They dream about a simple wedding by the beach at a beautiful resort in Hua Hin. With Nam's boss, an advertising agency owner, Nueng, and his wife Vinie, the resort owner and former actress who plan to return to the show business, help making it come true. The couple also gets help from their friends. Ploy, to record this hectic story before the wedding day. Tam, an annoying photographer, who can shake Ploy's heart. Their story is as chaotic as Guy's, Winnie and Nueng's dear son, and Boat's, the head chef at the resort. The hippest wedding concept by the weirdest advertising creative, Suzi started to get together. In the meantime, other love stories begins, but the soon to be husband and wife encounter the biggest challenge in the relationship.

Seven Days Twenty-four Hours

June 2007 •Thai

Ble is a weird guy because he has two different selves that can be switched into "Ble A" and "Ble B" everyday when he wakes up in the morning. Anyway, Ble doesn't feel it's weird and lives as a normal guy by having a job at 7-Eleven. His two dual characters always confusing his customers and co-workers at 7-Eleven, but that's not a big deal as long as he can make people laugh. Ble is happy with his life and job until one day that a girl called Tau steps into 7-Eleven to be his assistant. From that day, Tau is the only girl that Ble falls in love with, but Ble's unusual talent becomes a big problem for her.

Because We Must

January 1989 •English

The Michael Clark Dance Group perform to the music of T.Rex, Chopin, the Beatles and the Velvet Underground.

The Story Won't Die

April 2021 •English

THE STORY WON’T DIE, from Award-winning filmmaker David Henry Gerson, is an inspiring, timely look at a young generation of Syrian artists who use their work to protest and process what is currently the world’s largest and longest ongoing displacement of people since WWII. The film is produced by Sundance Award-winner Odessa Rae (Navalny). Rapper Abu Hajar, together with other creative personalities of the Syrian uprising, a post-Rock musician (Anas Maghrebi), members of the first all-female Syrian rock band (Bahila Hijazi + Lynn Mayya), break-dancer (Bboy Shadow), choreographer (Medhat Aldaabal), and visual artists (Tammam Azzam, Omar Imam + Diala Brisly), use their art to rise in revolution and endure in exile in this new documentary reflecting on a battle for peace, justice and freedom of expression. It is an uplifting and humanizing look at what it means to be a refugee in today’s world and offers inspiring and hopeful vantages on a creative response to the chaos of war.

Happy Inn

January 2005 •English

In a run down inn, three groups of people is together for their own different goals and also a group of bank robbers that hide money in the inn. But then, the money is stolen and the inn owner is mysteriously murdered. Who is behind this event? The answer awaits you in Happy Inn.

The Art of Antony Gormley

January 2009 •English

The Art of Antony Gormley features the documentary Antony Gormley and the 4th Plinth, produced for Sky Arts, which reveals the background to this living monument and explores its origins in the sculptor's beautiful and mysterious art. Works created across more than two decades were filmed in HD for this visually sumptuous and thought-provoking documentary.

Goya Exposed with Jake Chapman

January 2016 •English

Jake Chapman explores why Goya's The Disasters of War etchings are so central to his own art and explains why, for him, there is a fundamental conflict at the heart of Goya's art.

Hannah Gadsby: Nanette

June 2018 •English

The Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby is taking an anti-comedy stance in her newest special.

24×36

March 2016 •English

A documentary exploring the birth, death and resurrection of illustrated movie poster art. Through interviews with a number of key art personalities from the 70s and 80s, as well as many modern, alternative poster artists, “Twenty-Four by Thirty-Six” aims to answer the question: What happened to the illustrated movie poster? Where did it disappear to, and why? In the mid 2000s, filling the void left behind by Hollywood’s abandonment of illustrated movie posters, independent artists and galleries began selling limited edition, screenprinted posters — a movement that has quickly exploded into a booming industry with prints selling out online in seconds, inspiring Hollywood studios to take notice of illustration in movie posters once more.

Sniper 3

August 2004 •English

Having taken out warlords, drug kingpins and international assassins, Thomas Beckett must now face the ultimate enemy, his best friend Paul Finnegan.