Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.

Whiplash is a British/Australian television series made by the Seven Network and ATV and ITC Entertainment. Filmed in 1959-60, the series was first broadcast in September 1960 in the United Kingdom followed by Australia in February 1961 and had opening titles featuring the Australian locale and terrain and a dozen wild kangaroos as a Cobb & Co stage passed pulled by a team of five horses driven by Cobb himself.

A ferocious, bullying music teacher teaches a dedicated student.

An artist follows a woman from California to New York, where he boxes for her mobster husband.

The Empress Dowager flees when the allied forces descend upon the capital. During an attack by bandits, her jewels are lost in the mountains. Ten years later, a local villager finds the treasure. When news of the found jewels spreads, a group of bandits descends upon the town hoping to find the treasure, but first they’ll have to deal with the villager’s daughter, Tigress (Pei-Pei Cheng), who is quite dangerous due to her amazing fighting skills.

During the years preceeding his death, Sonbert channeled his energy into making Whiplash. His vision and motor skills impaired, he gave his companion, Ascension Serrano, detailed instructions about the assembly of specific shots and the music to be used as a counterpoint to the images. Before his death in 1995, he asked filmmaker Jeff Scher (a former student of Sonbert's at Bard) to complete the film. --Jon Gartenberg. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Estate Project for Artists with AIDS in 1996.

Renowned photographer, Larus, returns to Iceland to attend the funeral of his mother. With him is his wife Rose, twenty years his junior. With his homecoming, Larus begins to reminisce on his childhood, and becomes distant from his wife. Soon she begins to realize that not everything is as it should be.

The film explores the abrupt transition between tradition and innovation within the context of carnival. In this work, Xavier Villaverde creates a video narrative about the rapid shifts in the Hispanic mindset during the 1980s, intuitively foreshadowing the new virtual theater of appearances.

Tom's wife tells him that he needs to get more sleep or he's going to start seeing things that aren't there. After working the night shift Tom leaves for a camping trip. Tom probably should have listened to his wife.

The documentary on Yamazaki Hiroaki, the student died in the First Haneda Incident of 8 October 1967.

Part 1 of 3 of a long-form interview with Mikey Whiplash.

Recorded on 12-31-87 at Detroit's Cobo Hall, the original Motor City Madman gives a kick-out-all-the-stops show for New Year's Eve. Songs include: "That's the Story of Love," "Free for All," "Cat Scratch Fever," "She Drives Me Crazy," and more.

Charlie is a dope smuggler who lives on his own private desert island and rules over the natives with an iron fist. When the native stooges get out of line, Charlie literally cracks the whip on his insubordinate subordinates. When a sexpot named Glory comes to the island, he holds her prisoner and makes her go-go dance for him.

Joe and his friends are going Road Trip in the City.

The Whiplashed Ones uses a riveting experimental mode to explore a dizzying network of issues connected to chronic symptoms affecting Osaka taxi drivers. This major work of postwar activist independent film deploys a radical visual style that shuttles between X-rays and Osaka’s rough urban map, seeking out visualizations of a many-layered trauma that is physical and social and inscribed into the city’s transit structure. The film is one of the central works of Ko Hiroh (1938-2024), a filmmaker who left his mark on major turning points in Japanese cinema but is almost unknown outside of Japan.