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New Acquisitions - January 2007

All means all an introduction to circles, MAPs, and PATHs 2004

Shows a beginning Circle of (support) Friends in a Canadian high school going through the MAPS (Making Action Plans) mandala, and in New Mexico, a parent and her school team go through a moving PATH (Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope).

1 videocassette (33 min.)

MEDIA 2-7697

Baycot Boycott 2001

Performer Note: Majid Majidi, Mohammad Kasebi, Zohreh SarmadiSet in the period just prior to the Islamic Revolution the story is inspired by the filmmakers's own painful experiences. Valeh, a member of a leftist organization, is arrested and is sentenced to death. In prison, he reconsiders his beliefs and comes to doubt the validity of the ideas for which he is condemned. At the same time, his prison comrades are pressuring him to make a sacrifice for their cause.

1 videocassette (85 min.)

MEDIA 2-7696

The collector of Bedford Street 2005

Performer Note: Selman, LarryEvery year Larry Selman, a 60 year old man with mental retardation, raises thousands of dollars for charity. When his life teeters on the edge of a crisis, his New York City community comes to his aid through a unique act of generosity.

1 videodisc (34 min.)

MEDIA 10-732

Gol-e Yakh Ice flower 2005

Performer Note: Mohammad-Reza Golzar; Vishka Asayish"Based on the Ali-Fardin's most celebrated film "Soltan e-Ghalbha" ( from Iriarian Movies Co.).

1 videodisc

MEDIA 10-729

A hidden life 2006

Performer Note: Narrator, Will Lyman"On May 6, 2005, the residents of Spokane, Washington, awoke to one of the strangest headlines in the town's history: 'West Tied to Sex Abuse in '70s, Using Office to Lure Young Men.' The popular, socially conservative Republican mayor of Spokane, Jim West, had been outed by the town's newspaper The Spokesman-Review. The paper told the sordid story of a man with two lives: in public, he had once sponsored legislation forbidding gays from teaching in public schools, while in private, the paper alleged, he was trawling for young men online, using the trappings of his office to lure them into sexual relationships. But as bizarre as the revelations were, so too were the newspaper's methods. For months, a middle-aged 'forensic computer specialist' had posed as an 18-year-old boy online, engaging the mayor in a relationship that became more and more intimate, ultimately exploding on the front page of the newspaper. Frontline investigates the complex relationship between politics, sexuality, fear and judgment in one all-American town--Container.

1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-5495

The human zoo 2002

A reality-based experiment that tracks the behavior of 12 people isolated in a country house in Britain. Teams of psychologists conduct and comment on this and other experiments designed to test the limits of human behavior.

3 videodiscs (153 min.)

MEDIA 10-726 pt. 1-pt. 3

Khvab gah-i dukhtaran Girls dormitory 2003?

Performer Note: Baran Kosari, Majid Salehi, Dadegh Safaei, Negar JavaherianRoya who has just finished high school is thinking of going to college. After passing entrance examinations she gets accepted into a recently founded university. The university is situated in a far away province. Her parents oppose to their daughter studying and living apart from them. Finally Roya manages to get their approval and leaves and leaves with her best friend Shirin. They enter the university and find out the Dorm is not ready yet and they have to spend some time in a provincial house. The land lady Sakine rents a room to them and gets them their necessary equipment and asks them to be careful with their communications. She tells them not to enter the abandoned building next to her house because jinns live there. The girls curisity to see jinns takes them inside the the building and there they are faced with strange things including a lunatic named Ghobad whom every one believes is a harmless creature. Royas curiosity brings changes to Gobads character. In one rainy night Gobad murders the land lady and attack Roya this involves the police and uncovers the secrets of murders of many young girls. Now Gobad's only concern is to find Roya and kill her.

1 videodisc (98 min)

MEDIA 10-414

Kinsey 2005

Performer Note: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, Tim Curry, Oliver PlattKinsey is a portrait of a man driven to uncover the most private secrets of the nation, and journey into the mystery of human behavior. His 1948 book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male irrevocably changed American culture and created a media sensation.

1 videodisc (118 min.)

MEDIA 10-730

Le mystére Picasso The mystery of Picasso 2003

Performer Note: Artist, Pablo PicassoExplores the mind and motivations of Pablo Picasso as he creates over fifteen works before the camera. Using a specially designed transparent 'canvas' to provide an unobstructed view, Picasso creates as the camera records. He begins with simple works that take shape after only a single brush stroke. He then progresses to more complex paintings, in which he repeatedly adds and removes elements, transforming the entire scene, until at last the work is complete.

1 videodisc (76 min.)

MEDIA 10-708

Runaway bride 2005

Performer Note: Amin Hayaei, Elnaz Shakerdoost, Siroos Ebrahimzadeh, Gholamhossein Lotfi"Sima finds out right on her wedding night that the groom is already married. [The] bride's father decides to rent out a groom for her wedding night to prevent any family disaster. Right after the ceremony, Sima leaves to Shomal where she can get even with her unfaithful husband to be."--container.

1 videodisc (84 min.)

MEDIA 10-728

The secret life of the central heating system The secret life of the television set 1988?

Performer Note: Host, Tim Hunkin and Rex Garrod Added Title: Secret life of the television setSecret life of central heating: From chimney pots to boilers and thermostats all is revealed. Secret life of the television set: The idea of "seeing with wireless" emerged accidently. Tim Hunkin takes the "telly" apart bit by bit and puts you in the picture.

1 videocassette

MEDIA 2-7692

The secret life of the quartz watch The secret life of the telephone 1990

Performer Note: Host, Tim Hunkin and Rex Garrod Added Title: Secret life of the telephoneA look at machines that are heavily dependent on electronics, the most inscrutible of all modern technologies.

1 videocassette

MEDIA 2-7694

The secret life of the video recorder The secret life of the radio set 1990

Performer Note: Host, Tim Hunkin and Rex Garrod Added Title: Secret life of the radio setEven if making recording tape and a radio receiver out of a coin does not fully explain how a video recorder and FM radio works, it does help to make them less intimidating.

1 videocassette

MEDIA 2-7695

The secret life of the washing machine The secret life of the vacuum cleaner 1988

Performer Note: Host, Tim Hunkin and Rex Garrod Added Title: Secret life of the vacuum cleanerThe mystery of what's inside these household appliances is vividly unravelled in these two programs.

1 videocassette

MEDIA 2-7693

Zir-i dirakht-i holo Under the peach tree 2006

Performer Note: Hamid Jebelli, Fateme Motamed Arja, Shohreh Lorestani, Iraj TahmasbFor years members of a strange family have been predicting their time of death in their sleep ... taking place at 5 pm. Now when an old man from this family has a dream about his time of death, he summons his son and puts a condition on his will and that is that the members of the family have to marry off an old bachelor butler of the house or they can not inherit his wealth, but their is only one problem, the butler does not want to get married.

1 videodisc (100 min.)

MEDIA 10-731