Diamanda Galás
Biography: Diamanda Galás is a Greek-American avant-garde dramatic soprano, composer, pianist, organist, performance artist, and painter.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 29, 1955
Deathday: N/A
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
1988-02-05
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Overview: A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-05
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Silence = Death
1990-02-16
Silence = Death
Overview: AIDS victims and activists cope with hardship and society’s ignorance.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-16
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IDn3
1990-10-21
IDn3
Overview: A family travels through Egypt in 6 months.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-21
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Sinema
2014-07-26
Sinema
Overview: A 96 minute internet video collage made during a particularly disorientating time.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-26
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Plague Mass
1991-04-01
Plague Mass
Overview: "Heart-wrenching cry about the physical suffering caused by the AIDS plague being compounded by the shameful arrogance of self-appointed moralists."
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-01
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Judgement Day
1993-05-12
Judgement Day
Overview: Rare VHS tape of Diamanda Galás performing in 1993.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-12
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The Red Thread
1993-10-22
The Red Thread
Overview: Second part of Brown's Air Cries 'Empty Water' trilogy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-22
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Diamanda Galas: The Litanies of Satan
1986-06-10
Diamanda Galas: The Litanies of Satan
Overview: Live performance of Diamanda Galas in 1985, released by Target Video. The performance, based on a poem by Charles Baudelaire, devotes itself to the emaraldine perversity of the life struggle in hell.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-10
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Sphinxes Without Secrets
1991-08-29
Sphinxes Without Secrets
Overview: Since its inception, performance art provided a forum for those artists whose work challenges the dominant aesthetic and cultural status quo. In "Sphinxes Without Secrets", performers, curators and critics unravel the mysteries of performance art and ponder the world women confront today.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-29
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Schrei 27
2011-04-22
Schrei 27
Overview: Galás is known for her arresting concert performances and has been seen in the Barbican Hall on several occasions. SPILL and the Barbican are proud to present this important film installation which deals with asylum institutionalisation, originally commissioned by New American Radio and the Waker Arts Center in Minneapolis (US). Witness several short performances over the space of twenty-seven minutes alternating extreme high-energy vocal work with absolute silence. These performances reflect the state of a patient subjected to torture through chemical or mechanical manipulation of the brain, kept in a confined space with periodically or randomly triggered bright light, heat, beatings or rapes. There is a high density of speech-sound over time which is often machine-like in its velocity. The work employs the atypical speech and vocal signal processing that Galás has been researching since 1979.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-22
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Positive
1990-05-04
Positive
Overview: This film powerfully documents New York City's gay community's response to the AIDS crisis as they are forced to organize themselves after the government's failure to stem the epidemic. Activists who are interviewed include playwrite Larry Kramer, People With AIDS Coalition co-founder Michael Callen (who died of AIDS in 1994), New York filmmaker and journalist Phil Zwickler, as well as representatives from ACT-UP, Queer Nation and the Gay Men's Health Crisis.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-05-04
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Her Noise - The Making Of
2006-11-26
Her Noise - The Making Of
Overview: Her Noise was an exhibition which took place at South London Gallery in 2005 with satellite events at Tate Modern and Goethe-Institut, London. Her Noise gathered international artists who use sound to investigate social relations, inspire action or uncover hidden soundscapes. The exhibition included newly commissioned works by Kim Gordon & Jutta Koether, Hayley Newman, Kaffe Matthews, Christina Kubisch, Emma Hedditch and Marina Rosenfeld. A parallel ambition of the project was to investigate music and sound histories in relation to gender, and the curators set out to create a lasting resource in this area.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-26
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Conan the Barbarian
1982-04-02
Conan the Barbarian
Overview: A horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child for years on The Wheel of Pain. As the sole survivor of the childhood massacre, Conan is released from slavery and taught the ancient arts of fighting. Transforming himself into a killing machine, Conan travels into the wilderness to seek vengeance on Thulsa Doom, the man responsible for killing his family. In the wilderness, Conan takes up with the thieves Valeria and Subotai. The group comes upon King Osric, who wants the trio of warriors to help rescue his daughter who has joined Doom in the hills.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-02
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