World Symposium on Humanity
Native American leaders, including Ernie Peters, Wallace “Mad Bear” Anderson, Oh Shinnah Fastwolf, James Cachunkse, and Bobby Woods, speak at 1979’s “World Symposium on Humanity,” held in Los Angeles and Toronto.
Native American leaders, including Ernie Peters, Wallace “Mad Bear” Anderson, Oh Shinnah Fastwolf, James Cachunkse, and Bobby Woods, speak at 1979’s “World Symposium on Humanity,” held in Los Angeles and Toronto.
A compilation of short videos featuring new age music and images of and musings about nature. Includes Soundings of the Planet, Tao Om, Desert Dawn Song, Great Mystery, and Desert Airs.
Documentary covering the San Diego Trolley Dances the director describes as “much more than a record of six original site-specific dance performances.”
A portrait of the works of six Indonesian choreographers, interspersed with comments from the choreographers themselves.
Described by the filmmaker as “an abstract poetry film,” the camera moves over a nude female body covered in shadow and transformed through optical printing while voices recite poetic texts in English and Spanish.
Conversations and performances at a party organized to raise money for George McGovern’s 1972 presidential campaign.
Features definitive versions of Beckett’s recent works written or adapted for television. There are three additional works in The Beckett Project series produced by Global Village: What Where (1988/10 minutes), a video version of Beckett’s last play overseen by the playwright himself, Godot in San Quentin (1988/27 minutes), a fascinating version of Waiting For Godot, produced by inmates of this maximum-security prison, and Waiting for Beckett (1994/86 minutes), a unique television documentary on the life and work of the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett, which includes a rare scene with the playwright critiquing a video performance of one of his plays.
Abstract image processing footage created using a Sandin Image Processor.