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Filmmakers and collectors lift the curtain on their manic media obsession that is not only a huge part of their lives, but the lifeblood of their existence!

Judith, an investigative journalist, begins to unravel a murder mystery that implicates one of her current lovers. When she checks out a peep-show business on the seedy side of Hamburg as part of the investigation, she runs into a former boyfriend who used to be a psychiatrist but is now an arms dealer. Judith is lured back into his fold, cheating on her current lovers, one of whom is also a shrink. Despite her profession, or perhaps because of it, Judith tends to blend fantasy and reality, so small wonder she is attracted to psychoanalysts. But, two shrinks and a murder prove more than Judith can handle. 　　"Valie Export's third feature is an anti-romance in which the heroine, oscillating between two relationships, 　　gradually discovers that both are impossible, not because the subjective processes of "love" are defective, 　　but because the objective, social matrix in which both her male lovers operate is corrupt, immoral, murderous: 　　in this film, the male world and its power structures cancel the possibility of love beyond the matter of sexuality, 　　that is the objectification of love. Export makes use of techniques drawn from her earlier experimental cinema, 　　video and conceptual photography to expand the possibilities of narrative feature filmmaking and to disintegrate 　　some of its overdetermined conventions." 　　Video control in subway stations and in street traffic, tapes and cameras are very important 　　for the structure of the film. Mediocrity, hypocrisy and violence are the film's main themes. 　　Valie Export deals with them on private, social and media levels, adhering to the techniques 　　of video avant-garde.

Paradox of Praxis 1 (1997) is the record of an action carried out under the rubric of “sometimes making something leads to nothing.” 　　For more than nine hours, Alÿs pushed a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City until it completely melted. And so for hour after hour he struggled with the quintessentially Minimal rectangular block until finally it was reduced to no more than an ice cube suitable for a whisky on the rocks, so small that he could casually kick it along the street. 　　The art of Francis Alÿs is a reflection of political realities. On the same streets, thousands of locals spend their days pushing, carrying or towing wares or chattels. The results are the same: nothing to show for all the hard work. 　　But Alÿs does have something to show for it, a five minute film. And in a work called Ambulantes I and II, he also gives the street traders and removal men their due. Physical labour has given rise to art, if not profit, but what good is that to people who earn a living by the sweat of their brow? 　　The piece is called Paradox of Praxis I (Sometimes Doing Something Leads To Nothing), as if Alÿs were making a point about the futility of art. And yet this is not merely art about art. The routines of manual workers are just as much of a praxis and must at most times feel just as paradoxical.

Judith, an investigative journalist, begins to unravel a murder mystery that implicates one of her current lovers. When she checks out a peep-show business on the seedy side of Hamburg as part of the investigation, she runs into a former boyfriend who used to be a psychiatrist but is now an arms dealer. Judith is lured back into his fold, cheating on her current lovers, one of whom is also a shrink. Despite her profession, or perhaps because of it, Judith tends to blend fantasy and reality, so small wonder she is attracted to psychoanalysts. But, two shrinks and a murder prove more than Judith can handle. 　　"Valie Export's third feature is an anti-romance in which the heroine, oscillating between two relationships, 　　gradually discovers that both are impossible, not because the subjective processes of "love" are defective, 　　but because the objective, social matrix in which both her male lovers operate is corrupt, immoral, murderous: 　　in this film, the male world and its power structures cancel the possibility of love beyond the matter of sexuality, 　　that is the objectification of love. Export makes use of techniques drawn from her earlier experimental cinema, 　　video and conceptual photography to expand the possibilities of narrative feature filmmaking and to disintegrate 　　some of its overdetermined conventions." 　　Video control in subway stations and in street traffic, tapes and cameras are very important 　　for the structure of the film. Mediocrity, hypocrisy and violence are the film's main themes. 　　Valie Export deals with them on private, social and media levels, adhering to the techniques 　　of video avant-garde.

An intimate documentary charting the production of Jackie, from ideation through execution.

From There To Here is set in the aftermath of the 1996 Arndale bombing and follows Daniel Cotton, a Manchester family man who is torn between the life he wants and the life he could have.