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- In 1988, Chris Bryson was found running down a Kansas City street naked, beaten, and bloody wearing nothing but a dog collar and a leash. He told police about Bob Berdella, a local business man and how Berdella had caputed him, held him hostage, raped him, tortured him, and photographed him over several days. Police later arrested Berdella and searched his mid-town Kansas City home where they found several hundred polaroid photographs, a detailed torture log, envelopes of human teeth and a human skull. It was soon discovered that Berdella had murdered six young men in his home after drugging them and performing his sick acts of sexual torture. He met a couple of the victims at his business, a small shop called "Bob's Bizaare Bazaar" where he sold artifacts from around the world related to the darker side of human nature for people with jaded tastes.Some lived the horrors for only a few days, one for six weeks. After death, Berdella would cut up the bodies with an electric chain saw and a bone knife, place the body parts in empty dog food bags, put them into large trash bags setting them out for trash collection on Monday. It is believed that Berdella used specific organs of the victims as meat in several food dishes he would serve at his shop, although he denied this until the apprehension of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer one year later.
- Am amazing film created from the largest private collection of "stag" films in the United States
- A strange film employing old home movies and newly shot footage in an effort to expose one Hungarian family and their mutiple problems from the 1940s to current. Narrated by James Ellroy, Stan Brakhage, and Dr. Roy Menninger.
- Kansas City Murder Factory is a documentary film that explores the murder epidemic in the urban core of Kansas City, Missouri. Kansas City Murder Factory is an unscripted experimental documentary told from the perspective of the victim. In the film both observational and traditional forms of filmmaking collide to expose Kansas City's most taboo topic: Murder. This truly inspirational film shows the many hurdles and struggles of the victim's families as they fight to get justice from a system, which manufactures injustice. The film also presents the many challenges of organizations and individuals trying to decrease violent crime in Kansas City, includes compelling commentaries from Kansas City's top spoken word artists.
- Filmmaker Meade follows Burroughs as he does his usual escapades in the mid 1970s.
- The film is the story of HENRY FLOYD BROWN, a man who grew up living in a cave in Northern Arkansas and was incarcerated beginning at age 14 for 54 years in 17 different penal institutions including Alcatraz. He is best known in the Kansas City area for robbing the Metcalf State Bank which lead to a Western Style gunfight at the Heatherwood Apartment Complex where he killed a law enforcement officer and was seriously injured himself. Brown was next in line to be hanged at the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas after Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Smith who brutally murdered the Clutter family of Holcomb Kansas becoming the subjects of IN COLD BLOOD written by Truman Capote. Brown was also a member of a revolutionary group that stockpiled money from robberies to purchase weapons and ammunition for a future revolution. Historian Michael Helm has joined the film as has retired officer Harley Sparks who shot Brown following the robbery of the Metcalf State Bank on January 19, 1968. Also on board is Joe Vader, Brown's attorney. BROWN was spared and became an activist for prisoners and their rights as he was transferred to and from various penal institutions. Years later when he was transferred back to prison in LANSING he was allowed to enroll at ST. MARY'S COLLEGE in LEAVENWORTH KANSAS where he earned a degree in BEHAVIOR SCIENCE and graduated VALEDICTORIAN in 1991. He resides in Grandview, Missouri at the age of 86. He is a model citizen.
- Woke Up This Mornin' in the Arkansas Delta is a film that chronicles a filmmaker from Missouri who travels with a crew from north to south in the Arkansas Delta with a fresh pair of eyes and discovers the humor, hardship, music & art that lies along the Mississippi River, largely ignored by the American People. Racism and the Elaine Massacre of 1919 are examined, a filmmaker is shot at, great food is consumed and multilevel generational poverty is examined in a system designed to keep people from working. A fantastic original soundtrack by Paul Sammons and Michael Sutterfield alongside a serendipitous structure make for an amazing kitchen sink film. You will not see anything like this for a long time.....guaranteed.
- American Music: OFF THE RECORD features theorists Noam Chomsky and Douglas Rushkoff in an interrogation of the American music industry. The film covers a great deal of ground from the authenticity of live music to the circumvention of the corporate machine by indie distribution, to the demise of the privately owned music store.
- This film follows the career of the Cate Brothers and their music.
- Obese man attempts to fly a kite between smoking binges.
- Tech N9NE plays a bus driver in this musical short-
- Great interview with the late Ray Harryhausen-
- In the style of Sergei Eisenstein, this film is a juxtaposition of the beautiful and the horrid in Venice, Italy. Music is provided by street musicians.
- Film Documentary of last live performance of Nektar's Roye Albrighton.
- This is a compilation of experimental, documentary, and shorts films by award winning filmmaker Benjamin Meade. Most this is never before seen footage and ranges from political, educational, to absurd. An extremely well done selections of work from one the country's most creative true independent film artists.
- Horrific satire on domestic violence.
- Film Chronicles 88 year old Andy Anderson who has been building airplanes since the age of 14-
- A disturbing short documentary partially hand painted emulating a bad dream-
- On January 3, 2012, award winning filmmaker Benjamin Meade and musician Danny Cox traveled to Haiti in an attempt to bring American Roots Music to a small village on the Northwest Coast. They found themselves stuck in an a poor lawless culture under extremely dangerous and life threatening conditions. To further complicate things, the trip was sponsored in part by a missions organization dead set on religious conversion of the Haitian people in the midst of the starvation, disease and mental illness. Much of images captured in this film were shot in places and of subject matter that even Haitian people never experience. Although the music is incredible and the scenery breathtaking, the omnipresent danger to the crew and horrific images of the people were enough to send any person over the edge. There will not be a film anything like this for a long time.....Guaranteed.
- Hand Painted Film completed during a workshop with Stan Breakage in 1983 emulating the death of Biblical figure Simon Peter and his death by crucifixion upside down on an X shaped cross.
- Brakhage: The Final Word is a vital short documentary. Not long before his passing, the grandfather of experimental film, Stan Brakhage, (recently celebrated with the Criterion Collection DVD By Brakhage), sat down with director Benjamin Meade and camera man Bill Pryor to discuss his life, his longings, and the state of film in America. Edited with expressionist breaks that emulate the late filmmaker's aesthetic, Brakhage: The Final Word captures the congenial master for the final time on camera.
- In the spirit of Waiting for Guffman and Spinal Tap , DAS BUS combines real and staged events alongside archival footage as viewers experience "BUS CULTURE" in the "Bible Belt" metropolis of Kansas City. With Guest appearances by crime novelist James Ellroy and rap star Tech N9NE, DAS BUS is a thought provoking romp that will confront everyone's attitude about public transportation. You will laugh, you will cry, you will empathize, you will say "no way"--an independent film in the true sense of the word.
- Guy Maddin flies to Kansas City, Missouri, in a vain attempt to save cinema as it continues to die from contempt and neglect. The tongue-in-cheek project begins in a Winnipeg bar where filmmaker Guy Maddin (played by, yes, Guy Maddin) reads a newspaper article declaring the death of cinema in the United States. He decides to ride - or fly - to the rescue. The idea is that the young people have been zombified by their iPhones and iPods and have become celluloid illiterates who watch postage stamp-sized movies on tiny screens. Maddin comes to Kansas to save cinema.
- Experimental film told from the point of view of someone with an old camera checking the city out.
- Imagine a film crew and 150 American fans as they chase across Ireland with the hottest Irish Band in the United States. The result is the film Alive and Live in Ireland which chronicles The Elders and their amazing Celtic rock music as it makes a pounding impact abroad. This 67 minute tightly paced music documentary is like nothing you have ever seen before. It is not a concert film, but rather a reflexive visual and audible experience in the style of Jonathan Demme. This film is appropriate for all ages, both in music and content-so sit back with a pint and get ready for a wild ride across Ireland....The Elders: Alive and Live. You won't see anything like this for a long time.
- There are bands that play a lot, and there bands that play A LOT! The Nace Brothers are the latter. Brothers David and Jimmy have been going at it together with bassist Tim Williams since 1981. And a couple of years ago, Kansas City filmmaker Ben Meade figured it was time to celebrate that perseverance in documentary form. The Nace Brothers: Lifelong Road Trip chronicles everything from their dad Johnny Nace and their musical roots in Warrensburg, to all manner of amazing tales about what it's been like to keep rowdy crowds across America tapping their toes. If you weren't a Nace Brothers fan already, seeing this might just change that.