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Diamonds and Rust is a documentary about a diamond mining trawler, owned by De Beers, operating off the coast of southern Africa. The crew on board the rusting vessel is a mix of Namibians, Cubans and white South Africans. They are overseen by an Israeli martinet whom everyone dislikes. Racial and political tensions abound, as the generally dissatisfied crew wait for long delayed relief… The search for diamonds is a sordid enterprise, devouring the human spirit.

Guided by flute players, we arrive at the most famous wonderland in the world. But we soon realize that our journey is one of confusion. There is no laughter and fireworks. The director has let the image and sound slide out of sync, altering the Disney world we previously knew. In this unbelievably amazing land, we feel troubled and disturbed. If is a world more imaginative than Disneyland. There are distorted relations, death and sacrifices, Disneyland becomes a mirror image of our society. It reflects our dreams and the disillusionment of these dreams.

Filmed over three tumultuous years in India, Pakistan, Japan and the USA, War and Peace is an epic documentary rendering of peace activism in the face of global militarism and war. Triggered by macabre scenes of jubilation that greeted nuclear testing in the Indian sub-continent, War and Peace is dramatically framed by the murder of Mahatma Gandhi. Fifty years after his death memories of Gandhi seem like a mirage, created by out thirst for peace and our very distance from it.

Black and white archive footage, contemporary images shot on video and super 8, photographs and excerpts from Hollywood films overlap as Tom CHOMONT tells his story. A master of avant-grade cinema for more than thirty years, he has directed experimental films;often homoerotic and autobiographical works. Suffering from AIDS and Parkinson’s he appears before Mike HOOLBOOM’s camera, flamboyant at times and fragile at others.

An exploration of a young girl's inner life. Sent to an institution for abused children, she is persistently speaking but to whom? To her parents, to other adults, or to her spirits? She is searching for love everywhere, but will she find it? Or is solitude a fundamental fact of life? Same grave, Same Coffin is a stylized from of realism, shot on different formats from mini dv to 16mm.