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The Nightmare Before Chr... Tim Burton's original poem narrated by Christopher Lee.

Spring Awakening Moritz Stiefel faces expulsion due to poor marks. When he is caught with an essay titled “Shame and Lust”, he is indeed kicked out – instead of classmate Melchior Gabor, who actually penned it. Gabor was drawing on his experiences with neighbourhood girl Wendla. Then Wendla turns up pregnant. Stiefel descends into despair ... Exploitation between Eros and Thanatos in this “sexual tragedy of youth” based on Frank Wedekind’s play. Setting the film in the 1920s provided a chance to explore “modern” youth culture, complete with cigarettes, jazz music, the gramophone, and a goodly bit of alcohol. Richard Oswald, a master of films of manners and young sex beginning in the 1910s, fully explores the temptations of the youthful body, even early childhood flirtatiousness. At the same time, with his target audience in mind, the film laments the bigotry and double standards of the adult world.

Abode of the Snows An evocative 16mm short shot during a visit to Nepal.

A Camera Journey Through... A journey by camera through Berlin.

Zoology It is believed that Life originated in the Sea, and like the Ocean itself, human existance is thus subject to tides and surging currents of emotions stirred up by memory.

Witchery Secret number... secret shape... knower of the secret name... God of the realm of night - I summon you, 'Son of Sin'... arise!

Tryst This breezy and flamboyant essay about an afternoon rendezvous is pure candy for the eyes.

Summer Sins There is a garden in the dark hunger of his psyche where forbidden fruit grows.

Jaco Pastorius: Live At ...

The Stone Boy He hears the whispers of gargoyles in a hall of heavy stone.