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Gateway to Heaven

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Through the art works of two established artist and 10 children paintings, the film reveals something about the Jewish residents of Hebron- the only city in the West Bank where Jews and Arabs live side by side, in a constantly growing tension.
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The Work's the Thing (Abigail Norris & Jerry Rothwell)
A short film about the art and working methods of Paul Housley. Born in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, in 1964, Paul studied at the Royal College of Art. He has an interest in observing the everyday and a penchant for humble mass-produced objects. Like a number of other young UK artists, Paul is returning to figurative painting, at a time when video, photography, installation and new media have attracted increased attention as art forms. Since the popularity of the young British artists, the rise of 'Brit Art' and the controversy of the Turner Prize, painting has taken a back seat. Damien Hirst was famously quoted as saying that painting was dead. Housley, however works with traditional materials, proving that painting is alive and has an energy and power of its own in today’s art world. His paintings play with our notions of taste, finding novelty in cliché and lyricism in mundane, blank objects like sports bags and light bulbs.
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Once a museum
The people of small village Peski in Russian province live in neighborhood with artists. But they create own works of art, and have own museum. For three days.
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American expansion
American history has always been one of expansion. From the first push into the Wild West, Americans associated freedom with creating a space where they make the rules. It now has military bases in 132 countries and plans to colonize Mars. Even to its most loyal supporters, the US engenders feelings of affection, apprehension and humour. This cleverly crafted film explores what makes Americans tick.
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Sideshow Picasso (Marilyn Agrelo)
Brooklyn painter Marie Roberts comes from a family long entrenched in Coney Island's Sideshow. Her family home once housed the famous freaks and oddities of the 1920s and 1930s where her uncle was the "talker" luring audiences in to see them. Marie paints beautiful banners for the current Sideshow.
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Paradise Regained (Steve James)
He was the painter who brought paradise to the infamous Chicago housing projects, miles of urban housing rife with violence, gangs and crime until they were finally torn down. With Reed's wall-filling murals, residents transformed their living rooms into oases from the ghetto storms outside. Through description and animation, Reed depicts a world that is thankfully gone yet brought alive again by ex-residents who will seek his views of paradise.
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Repelling the Viewer (Abigail Norris & Jerry Rothwell)
Johannes Phokela, as he explains, has always been fascinated by iconic images and how they have “infiltrated our lives.” So this very unusual painter takes those images from classic paintings of the European masters and twists and turns them into satires of contemporary life. It might be turning a muscular white man black as he drapes himself over a nude woman, or hanging a cigarette from the mouth of a female, or adding a clown nose here and there. Filmmaker Jerry Rothwell’s camera captures Phokela at work, putting words to the brush strokes that transform allegories from centuries past into notions that could be considered subversive, as an unsettling cello underlines notions that could be considered subversive. At least, Phokela hopes so.
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The R.O.M.E.O.S - Ep.1 (Katy Chevigny)
ROMEO is an acronym for 'Retired Old Men Eating Out' and features an informal club of retired lawyers, writers and intellectuals who meet every week at a classic New York diner. It is a long lunch to talk about anything and everything; telling old jokes, making fun of each other, complaining about politics. This is what the conversation would be like if the guys from 'Diner' hung out 50 years after the movie.
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"I dream and see pictures and get up and make the pictures in the sand." -Vuyisile Funda. Vuyisile Funda lives in the village of Hamburg in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa. He has been a watchman for most of his life, but a beating left him unable to work. He now lives off a disability grant. Vuyisile calls himself “Gaba”, which in Xhosa means “the prophet”. Gaba believes he receives visitations from God in the early mornings. God instructs him not to hurt anyone, and sometimes tells him to go to the dunes along the edge of the sea and run patterns in the sand until his problems are resolved. So, in the early hours of morning he runs intricate patterns over the sand dunes in the area; the patterns are seldom seen by anyone as they fade soon after dawn. Gaba says that this pattern-making is unconscious, guided by God and that he runs on the dunes as a prayer for the world and to draw attention to the beauty of the natural world. Often, he runs in a red skirt to show his solidarity with women.
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