Programme 1: No Place Like Home

Why Don't You Love Me?

Directed by Matthias Muller/Christophe Girardet
Germany
1999
5 mins
Video

The definitive study of Hitchcock's distinctive portrayal of mothers.

Migration of the Blubberoids

Directed by George Kuchar
US
1989
12 mins
Video

It is the first white turkey day for fifty years: snow abounds yet life goes on.

The Pharaoh's Belt

Directed by Lewis Klahr
US
1993
9 mins
16mm

"Klahr's characters negotiate a labor of extrication from the morass of Betty Crocker chocolate icing, formica kitchens and parental phantoms toward a mastery of the imagination and the attaining of true love." - Tom Gunning

The Waltons

Directed by Anne McGuire
US
1996
7 mins

A homespun deconstruction of an entire era of TV mannerisms, this re-examination of John-boy's near death experience at the sawmill is deft and cunning.

Back East

Directed by Cordelia Swann
UK
2000
14 mins
16mm/video

A chronicle of a progressively darkened New York childhood.

Alpsee

Directed by Mathias Muller
Germany
1995
15 mins
16mm

Muller's unforgettable moving portrait of growing up in the 1960s.