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Polyphemus and Galatea Aqidah, Russian animation by Regisseur Anatoly Petrov from 1995 recounts the mythological tale of Acis and Galatea.

In Ovid's Metamorphoses xiii. 750–68, Acis (Greek: Άκις) was the spirit of the Acis River in Sicily, beloved of the nereid, or sea-nymph, Galatea (Γαλάτεια; "she who is milk-white"). Galatea returned the love of Acis, but a jealous suitor, the Sicilian cyclops Polyphemus, killed him with a boulder. Distraught, Galatea then turned his blood into the river Acis. The Acis River flowed past Akion (Acium) near Mount Etna in Sicily.

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Story by: Ray Bradbury Director: Nazim Tulyakhodzayev Russia - 1984 Animated Film based on Ray Bradbury's Sci-Fi novel "The Martian Chronicles", for the short story called "There Will Come Soft Rains". Won "Golden Dove" Award on Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animated Films in 1984.

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Finis (The End of All Things), 1887 by Maximilian Pirner

Maximilian Pirner (1854-1924) was a Czech painter. A member of the Vienna Secession and associated with the Czech Secession art movements, Pirner's usual themes were classical mythology (such as his Medusa (1891) and Hecate (or Hekate) (1901)) and the macabre (such as Sleepwalker (or Girl in Her Nightie Walks on the Window-Ledge) (1878), Daemon Love (1893), and Allegory of Death (1895)). Pirner also completed a number of sketches of female figures, many of them nudes.

Described by one critic as having achieved "mastery of the sinuous line," Pirner also had his detractors. One contemporary critic, while acknowledging Pirner's talent, considered him an "over-sophisticated mystic."

Reference: www.wikipedia.com

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Alien Encounters from New Tomorrowland (1995, Hosted by Robert Urich), A UFO documentary, filmed and produced by The Walt Disney Company.

With an introduction by Michael D. Eisner.

This film is unavailable commercially. Apparently broadcast only once on television in just five states and never again, it presents UFO phenomenon as fact.

From IMDB: Robert Urich, the legendary Jim Street in ‘S.W.A.T.’, is the host of this voyage around the UFO’s and its mystery. From New Tomorrowland, in Disneyland, Urich talks about UFO, contacts, evidences of its arrives, abductions, military documents and other things what surround this controversial thematic. From the 30′s years until the present, the UFOs always have been there very close to us, everyday, every time.

Do aliens exist? Have aliens visited the Earth? Could it be a fiction created by the military? And the last and most important question: If they exist, would they will be our friends…or our enemies?

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Clive Barker : The Art of Horror

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Bela Lugosi as Jesus Christ in The Passion Play (1909).

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The top image is from a deleted scene from the erotic fantasy/horror film, Cat People, directed by Paul Schrader released in 1982. The film is a reinterpretation of Cat People from 1942 by Val Lewton. This scene was inspired by Fernand Khnopff’s The Sphinx or The Caresses, painted in 1896. It was cut from the film because it was deemed rather silly, but it’s also quite interesting. It would have occurred near the end of the film during a dream sequence by the lead character, Irena. The leopard woman was supposed to be Irena’s mother so they recruited Nastassja Kinski’s (who played Irena) real-life mother, actress Ruth Brigitte Tocki to play this part. Next to her is actor, Malcolm McDowell.

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Terry Gilliam’s Do It Yourself Animation Show

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Hydre (1734) by Albertus Seba

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Mindscape of Alan Moore

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Pina Bausch - Blaubart

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Reckon - Maya Deren, Alexandr Hackenschmied

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Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1945) by Maya Deren

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“I make my pictures for what Hollywood spends on lipstick.” (Hollywood) “has been a major obstacle to the definition and development of motion pictures as a creative fine-art form.” - Surrealist Filmmaker, Maya Deren (April 29, 1917- October 13, 1961)

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Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1965.

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The BBC's Radiophonic Workshop was set up in 1958, born out of a desire to create 'new kinds of sounds'. Alchemists of Sound looks at this creative group from its inception, through its golden age when it was supplying music and effects for cult classics like Doctor Who, Blake's Seven and Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, and charts its fading away in 1995 when, due to budget cuts, it was no longer able to survive. There are interviews with composers from the Workshop, as well as musicians and writers who have been inspired by the output. Great archive footage of the Workshop and its machinery is accompanied by excerpts of the, now cult, TV programs that featured these sounds. First broadcast October, 2003. Last Broadcast May, 2005.

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"Halber Mensch" (aka "1/2 Mensch") is a 1986 film by Japanese director Sogo Ishii with German band Einstürzende Neubauten. Einstürzende Neubauten were in their creative prime when punk film pioneer Sohgo Ishii shot this 58-minute document in Tokyo during the band's world tour in 1985. Set mostly in a condemned factory/junkpile (the former Nakamatsu Ironworks), the film features a tormental troupe of butoh dancers, fire, FM Einheit repairing his shoe, micro photography, industrial textures, live footage from their Korakuen Hall arena shows, one of their guerilla street actions, lots of beautiful destruction and amazing music. It's extremely, lyrically visual, perhaps because Ishii didn't feel the need to hang everything on some skimpy plot this time and could just let his camera do the talking.

[01]. Armenia

[02]. Sehnsucht

[03]. Letztes biest

[04]. Abfackeln

[05]. Zerstorte Zelle

[06]. Halber Mensch

[07]. Z.N.S.

[08]. Die Zeichnungen des Patienten

[09]. Der Tod ist ein Dandy

[10]. Schaben