Acting
Shawn Phillips is an American singer-songwriter.
In the far-flung future of 2025, where man is a victim of his own technology and corporations deal to a black market that trades in human body parts, a cyborg bounty hunter is hired by a wealthy woman to find out who murdered her husband.
Rocker Shawn Phillips -- whose genre-defying excursions into folk, jazz and progressive rock made him one of the most intriguing musicians of the 1970s -- delivers a career-spanning concert at Cape Town, South Africa's Kirstenbosch Gardens. Playing before an exuberant crowd, Phillips performs "American Child," "Radio," "Burning Fingers," "Calico and Rainbows," "Song for Sagittarians," "Ballad for Casey Deiss," "Moonshine" and more.
A young woman is unable to decide between a boxer and folk singer, and ends up losing both.
A film about Alexander Trocchi. Scottish born poet, writer, translator and author of "Young Adam" and "Cain's Book". Part of the film was made at the old Arts Laboratory and includes a discussion with William Burroughs. A portrait of Alexander Trocchi, covering his history as a writer, his interest in drugs, his family life, and ‘Sigma’, the organisation he founded to bring together like-minded people.
Brutally abused by his parents, teenage Thomas finds comfort in associating with a film director who is making a documentary about physical child abuse. The two fall in love, and the elder is faced with the decision of either running away with Thomas or focusing on his career and thereby letting the boy possibly be beaten to death.
This film expresses John Pilger’s belief that working people are seldom allowed a place in an essentially bourgeois media on their own political terms. In 1971, John Pilger travelled to the West Yorkshire industrial town of Keighley. This documentary features 36-year-old Jack Walker, a dye house worker, and is intended to present the views of a rank-and-file trade unionist: his life, struggle and hopes.
A photographer comes back to Italy after a trip to India and struggles to adjust to his new life.