Hai cercato: Prayer
Prayer for Marilyn Monroe /
Moving pictures and still shots of Marilyn Monroe at various stages of her life alternate with graphic scenes of poverty, oppression, exploitation, and other politically charged images from the 1960s. The narration over these images consists of the text of the poem, “Oración por Marilyn Monroe”.
Survival Prayer / 2013
'Survival Prayer' explores the power of food, nature and culture. On a remote archipelago in Western Canada, an uncommon abundance of wildlife has sustained the Haida people for countless generations. Here, a last speaker frames a moving portrait of these sacred food systems at risk. Rich with spectacular scenery of the North Pacific coastline and detailed views of wild food gathering and preservation, 'Survival Prayer' is a story of possibility amid deep loss.
Achilles' Prayer / 2022
A modern reimagining of the story of Achilles and Patroclus as a tale of love, death, and faith.
Buried Prayers / 2011
When facing even the most dire of situations, the strength of the human spirit prevails.
The Bad Man's First Prayer / 1911
Driven to drink by poverty brought upon by the long illness of his wife, Joe Selling, a western miner, spends most of his time at the village bar, where one day his daughter Alice enters and pleads with him to come home. She is thrust aside by the brutal bartender, who orders her to leave the place when Dan Quigley, a rather shady character, takes her part, thrusts the bartender aside, and helping Joe to his feet, leads him out of the place and home. At home Alice pleads with both men to reform, but her father is obstinate and Dan says he is "too bad."
Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer / 2011
For the first time on film desert hermits, monks and nuns share their practices and invite us into their private cells, caves and sanctuaries in the Middle East, Mediterranean, Eastern Europe and Russia.
The Prayers of Cupie LaRue / 2005
A girl with two male companions in a room is a space where the mind's eye wanders!
Pillows & Prayers / 1984
In 1984, director Christopher Collins made a film of the same name that essentially strung together six videos of songs by Cherry Red artists. . (Everything But the Girl, Marine Girls, and Eyeless in Gaza Everything But the Girl's "On My Mind," Kevin Hewick, Fantastic Something, and the Monochrome Set). Pillows and Prayers -- The DVD is above-average for mid-'80s rock video, the clips showing the artists in peculiar, sometimes surrealistic settings that seem halfway between the British suburbs and the British countryside, although the Monochrome Set's "Jet Set Junta" is a more conventional performance-on-soundstage looking bit. The clips are linked together, on a more surrealistic note, by '50s British TV advertisements, as well as a bored-looking young woman switching a TV channel to mark the start of many of the different sections.
A Prayer for Beslan / 2005
Beslan will forever be synonymous with the murder of hundreds of innocent children. One year on, how is the town coping? Our documentary this week is a harrowing and powerful new film on the school siege and its enduring legacy.
Satya: A Prayer for the Enemy / 1995
The personal testimonies of the courageous Buddhist nuns who have led the nonviolent resistance against the Chinese occupation of Tibet.
Untitled 1 (Prayerielandescape) / 2004
B&W and Colour/Super-8/16mm
Cyprian's Prayer / 2014
An excommunicated Eastern Orthodox priest is the only one who can save a possessed young woman.
School Prayer: A Community at War / 1999
Lisa Herdahl, a Mississippi mother of six, is forced to sue her public school district in order to have The Bible removed from her childrens' classrooms.
We Need Prayers: This One Went to Market / 2018
A young African visual artist has a sly plan to break through into the global arts market (Jim Chuchu). The work that was commissioned by the Performa Festival in New York stars Kenyan singer, songwriter, actress, radio and reality television personality Patricia Kihoro.
Finding Prayers / 2018
A quest of prayers for peace and hope through ancient religions and a transgender artist's practice of a marginalized art form in this violent and sad world.
Prayer Wheel / 1987
An artifact of Secular Humanism, circa 1985. Text undeciphered. An attempt to explore the loss of connectedness to higher "levels" of consciousness, and to posit the potential for regaining that connectedness through focused attention to mundane existence. The world of nature and artifice are not necessarily separate; human consciousness is the meaning giver and hence offers a deep connectedness to all that is.
Earth Prayers Two: Seasons of the Heart / 2005
Blending music, poetry and mellow images, this soothing video offers a great way to ease the stress of everyday living and enter a world of serenity. Actor Michael York narrates three 35-minute segments featuring tranquil sights and sounds. William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mother Theresa and others provide the verse while Secret Garden, Michael Hoppé, Ron Clearfield and Patrick Ki supply the music.
The Prayer Circle / 2013
When a young ex-con joins a prayer group to receive guidance - and the group members discover they have more in common than they thought - their lives are changed forever.
Prayer Bear 1 Best Friends /
How Prayer Bear was first found by his boy. Steve Green tells the story to kids with cartoon.