MODULO: analogue synth documentary (short, 2014)
The story of early electronic instruments, and the nearly forgotten Canadian music pioneer who created the first synthesizers. As told through interviews with three modern-day modular synth musicians.
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The story of early electronic instruments, and the nearly forgotten Canadian music pioneer who created the first synthesizers. As told through interviews with three modern-day modular synth musicians.
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Initially titled “Books for all”. A moving institutional commission in which the filmmakers lovingly portray New Jersey’s public library system.
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(At 36 minutes a song had to be removed to avoid a copyright issue, so it will sound a bit strange for a few minutes.)
In 1991, John T. Davis made Hobo, generally considered to be his finest work. Certainly his most famous film, Hobo follows the exploits Beargrease – the hobo of the title – as he criss-crosses America, stowing away on freight trains and foraging for food in dump trucks.
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Bergen to Oslo railway journey filmed in real-time from the train driver's cab, showcasing the stunning Norwegian landscape over seven hours.
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Bells from the Deep is German director Werner Herzog's documentary investigation of Russian mysticism.
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The story examines declining birth rates globally through personal interviews and data across 24 countries, exploring causes and consequences of this demographic shift on communities and future societies.
The Birthgap documentary uncovered the underlying trends behind declining birthrates and also led to the formalization of key measures for demographers to analyze contemporary childlessness and family size. These findings were peer-reviewed and published in Nature Portfolio’s Scientific Reports (August 21, 2025).
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In a near-future Britain, the far-right government has declared a state of emergency and suspended elections. The Queen has fled in protest, while the defence of the state is in the hands of the Guardians, a paramilitary force with absolute power and a ruthless determination to stamp out resistance.
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After his family moves to Eerie in Indiana, Marshall Teller can't help but notice bizarre things happening in the country town. With the help of his friend Simon, he collects evidence about it.
Eerie, Indiana is an American horror science fiction television series that originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1991, to December 9, 1993. The series was created by José Rivera and Karl Schaefer, with Joe Dante serving as creative consultant.
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24 Preludes for a Fugue is an authorised documentary about Arvo Pärt. A portrait made of precious moments recorded during three prolific years of the composer's life, the film features rehearsals, premieres, seminars, meetings and recollections. Director Dorian Supin succeeds in revealing Arvo Pärt's musical thinking. His work opens a door on the inner world of one of the most spiritually intense composers of our life. The documentary is enhanced by excerpts from major musical works such as Tabula rasa, Für Alina, Fratres, Orient & Occident, Cecilia, vergine romana and Como cierva sedienta. With English subtitles.
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Documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop stage. In the late 1970s, small pockets of electronic artists including The Human League, Daniel Miller and Cabaret Voltaire were inspired by Kraftwerk and JG Ballard, and they dreamt of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain. The crossover moment came in 1979 when Gary Numan's appearance on Top of the Pops with Tubeway Army's Are 'Friends' Electric? heralded the arrival of synthpop. Four lads from Basildon known as Depeche Mode would come to own the new sound, whilst post-punk bands like Ultravox, Soft Cell, OMD and Yazoo took the synth out of the pages of NME and onto the front page of Smash Hits. By 1983, acts like Pet Shop Boys and New Order were showing that the future of electronic music would lie in dance music. Contributors include Philip Oakey, Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, Bernard Sumner, Gary Numan and Neil Tennant.
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Doctor Mordred wants to replace humans with plants. A misanthrope, he lures Dr. Falicia Fairweather into Venus' trap. Represented by six incarnations, she wrestles with Mordred. Are they different versions of one another? We follow their battle via images of light, air, dance, horror, water, fire, tarot cards, masks and swords. Supervised by a Master of Ceremonies, each gender makes 'love'. Who will win? Can you wait till the end to find out?
Starring: Jonathan Bowden, Lisa Garner, Nicola Henry, Jane Robinson, Katie Willow, Nicole Wiseman, and Claudia Minne Boyle.
Directed by Andrea Lioy.
Produced by Jonathan Bowden.
Screenplay by Jonathan Bowden & Andrea Lioy.
Based upon the short story by Jonathan Bowden.
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Historian Michael Wood presents this BBC series about the Dark Ages. Originally aired in 1981, the series gives the audience an insight into the period known as the Dark Ages with Wood going on a journey of discovery to find out what really happened in Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire. All 8 episodes are included; 'In Search of Offa', 'In Search of Boadicea', 'In Search of Arthur', 'In Search of Alfred the Great', 'In Search of Athelstan', 'In Search of Eric Bloodaxe', 'In Search of Ethelred the Unready' and 'In Search of William the Conqueror'.
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Takehisa Kosugi was a hippie become avantgarde composer. Born in Tokyo in 1938, and graduated in 1962 at the Tokyo University of Arts, Kosugi founded the Japanese equivalent of the Fluxus movement, called "Group Ongaku", a group devoted to improvisation and multi-media performances. In 1969 he formed the Taj Mahal Travellers, a psychedelic-rock group that played lengthy improvised jams that can be summarized in three principles: a Far-Eastern approach to music as a living organism, an intense electronic processing of instruments and voices, a semi-mathematical overlapping of frequencies. Basically: LaMonte Young on acid. Kosugi mainly played electric violin. The band acquired free-jazz improviser Seiji Nagai, Yukio Tsuchiya on tuba and vibraphone, Ryo Koike on santoor (a hammered dulcimer) and on a horizontal double-bass, Michihiro Kimura, who had begun as designer of LP sleeves and started playing percussion and "singing", and Tokio Hasegawa, another improvised singer, all of them much younger than him. Kosugi was on the road with this group between 1971 and 1972, traveling in a Volkswagen minibus from Holland to the Taj Mahal itself. Two albums were made out of that experience: Taj-Mahal Travellers (Sony, 1972), also known as July 15 1972 (reissued in 2002 by Drone Syndicate) and performed by a seven-unit line-up, and Taj Mahal Travellers (Denon, 1983), also known as August 1974 (reissued in 1998 by P-Vine), four tracks over two LPs performed by eight players, plus one side (two tracks) of the legendary double-LP bootleg Live At Oz (Oz, 1973 - OZ Days, 2001), which also includes live performances by obscure Japanese musicians Acid Seven, Minami Masato and Hadaka no Rallizes.
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Directed by Jun Kurosawa
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After a string of popular protests in Seattle against the World Trade Organisation in 1999, tens of thousands reemerged to challenge the International Monetary Fund and World Bank at their April 2000 meeting in Washington DC. Once again, media activists were on the spot to provide the non-corporate coverage you just won’t find anywhere else. Breaking the Bank provides an informative background on the history and impact of the IMF and World Bank, and features extensive coverage of the events in Washington against the powerful organisations that are killing the planet.
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Modulations is a feature-length documentary that captures a moment in history where humans and machines are fusing to create today's most exciting sounds. It traces the evolution of electronic music as one of the most profound artistic developments of the twentieth century. By cutting back and forth between avant-garde composers, Kraftwerk's innovative synthesizer drones, Giorgio Moroder's glacial Euro-disco, Afrika Bambaataa's electro-funk, and Prodigy's current worldwide superstarstardom, Modulations celebrates, replicates, and illuminates the nomadic drift of the post-human techno sound. The film examines the kids who have turned the turntable into a musical instrument, disillusioned disco lovers who created acid house out of primitive synthesizers, Motor City mavericks who saw the drum machine as their escape route out of urban neglect, and a generation of British youth who transformed these blips and bleeps into dance floor anthems of their own alienation. Modulations provides a sense of history and context in which today's electronic music can be understood. It entertains the converted and remixes the mindset of electronica's nay-sayers. Featuring a stunning collage of interviews, cutting-edge visuals, in-studio footage, and live performances, Modulations moves at a pace that matches the energy and innovation of the music.
Soundtrack:
Donna Summer | "I Feel Love"
Afrika Mambaattaa | "Planet Rock"
Juan Atkins/Model 500 | "No Ufo's Remix"
LFO |"Simon From Sydney
Derrick May | "Strings of Life"
Jesse Saunders | "Yeah"
Aprodite | "Amazon 2 - King of the Beats"
Panacea | "Stormbringer"
Goldie & Rob Playford | "The Shadow"
Ryoji Ikeda | "Luxus 1-3"
Coldcut | "Atomic Moog 2000"
To Rococo Rot | "Kritische Masse 1"
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