In his book "1984", George Orwell saw the television of the future as a control instrument in the hands of Big Brother. Right at the start of the much-anticipated Orwellian year, Paik and Co. were keen to demonstrate satellite TV's ability to serve positive ends-- Namely, the intercontinental exchange of culture, combining both highbrow and entertainment elements. A live broadcast shared between WNET TV in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, linked up with broadcasters in Germany and South Korea, reached a worldwide audience of over 10 or even 25 million (including the later repeat transmissions).

'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the stu...

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen par...

"This film explores how freedom of speech — including dissent — is afforded to all Americans, and sh...

A thirty-something aspiring children's author, labeled "meskina" (pity case) by her Moroccan-Dutch c...

A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe wi...

Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagem...

Arturo Urbiola, independent singer/songwriter, talks about the influence music has had on his life, ...

An irritable marketing executive, Neal Page, is heading home to Chicago for Thanksgiving when a numb...

Just out of jail, rumpled English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward crew of tombaroli...

The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal fou...

Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his ...

A wild journey into the origins of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the biggest cult film of all time,...

Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style o...

Arriving in the small town of Fallwell, Massachusetts to claim her inheritance, horror hostess Elvir...

After concluding the now-legendary public access TV series, The Pain Factory, Michael Nine embarked ...

When her only daughter goes off to university, an empty nest mother gets stuck taking care of her da...

World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus h...

The quasi-fictional story of transgender sex workers living in Rio de Janeiro's swampy red light dis...

Kevin, Nick, and Joe Jonas face a series of escalating obstacles as they struggle to make it from Lo...

After a failed engagement, heartbroken art critic Kseniia finds herself embroiled in intrigue relate...