Gap-Toothed Women
Directed by Les Blank • 1987 • United States Filmmaker Les Blank breezily questions our commonly accepted standards of beauty with this paean to women with extra-wide dental spaces. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34hWEbldaFE
Cane Toads: An Unnatural History
Cane Toads: An Unnatural History is a 1988 documentary film about the introduction of cane toads to Australia. Cane toads were introduced to Australia with the aim of controlling a…
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
Directed by Philipp Virus • 2021 • Germany, United States One of the most influential bands to emerge from the 1980s underground, East Coast rock legends Dinosaur Jr. laid the…
Jörg Thomasius – Meditation
(Germany Experimental 1985)
Making 200-Year-Old Mayonnaise – How has it changed?
Mayonnaise (or magnonnaise, as Carême calls it in this recipe from 1828), didn’t really become popular until the early 19th century. First popular in France, by the 1850s, cookbooks in…
The Grasshoppers Are Coming!
by Alicia. She was reading a book about Laura Ingalls Wilder, and one chapter was all about this horrendous grasshopper invasion from the 1800s! It shocked AJ so much, and…
The Paruretic #1: The Story of a Guy Who’s Pee Shy
The Paruretic tells what the intricacies and complexities of life with parusesis, the social phobia of being pee shy. {read}
Trans-Europe Express (1977)
Kraftwerk