Sed uz sliekšna pasacina: a very pretty and surreal animated film from Latvia
Mirdza Zivere, “Sed uz sliekšna pasacina” (1987) Made for Latvian-language television in the Soviet Union in 1987, this very pretty and surreal animated short has some…
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Mirdza Zivere, “Sed uz sliekšna pasacina” (1987) Made for Latvian-language television in the Soviet Union in 1987, this very pretty and surreal animated short has some…
Phil Grabsky, “The Surprising History of Egypt with Terry Jones” (2002) An entertaining trip into the lives and customs of every-day people of ancient Egypt, with…
Terry Jones, “Terry Jones’ Barbarians (Episode 1: The Primitive Celts)” (2006) This droll history lesson delivered by former Monty Python member Terry Jones examines the complicated…
Louise Wardle, “Human, All Too Human (Episode 3: Jean-Paul Sartre)” (1999) The final episode in this 3-part BBC series on existential philosophy focusses on the daddy…
David Cronenberg, “Cosmopolis” (2012) A profound and thoughtful film on the nature of the corporate fascist mind-set, “Cosmopolis” is a quasi-cyberpunk road movie across New York…
Robert Stark, “The Stark Truth: Interview with Igor Artemov” (Voice of Reason Radio Network, 21 May 2012) Where does he find his interview subjects? In this…
Jeff Morgan, “Human, All too Human (Episode 2: Martin Heidegger)” (1999) Second in the three-part BBC series on “existential” philosophers, this episode concentrates more on Martin…
Simon Chu, “Human, All too Human (Episode 1: Friedrich Nietzsche)” (1999) This is the first of a three-part BBC series made in 1999 about three significant…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Andrew Fowler and Wayne Hurley, “Sex, Lies and Julian Assange” (Four Corners / Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 23 July 2012) Australian current affairs program Four Corners broadcast…
Robert Breer,”Fuji” (1974) An interesting short of a train trip taken through the Japanese countryside with Mount Fuji dominating the rice-fields and towns along the way,…