Michael Conrad, owner of a group of strange animals, trains his beasts to obey him, unleashing them on anyone who stands in his way. His wife and mute assistant begin to suspect that they too are becoming part of the black zoo.
Drei junge Frauen sind mit dem Auto in der Provinz von Kansas unterwegs. Ein Wettrennen mit einem anderen Wagen wird ihnen zum Verhängnis. Die Fahrt endet in der Tiefe eines Flusses. Während die Rettungskräfte alle Hoffnung aufgegeben haben, die Frauen lebend zu bergen, steigt Mary Henry als einziges der Unfallopfer Stunden später aus dem Wasser und irrt verwirrt in der Gegend herum. Jahre später übernimmt sie einen Job als Kirchenorganistin in Salt Lake City. Unterwegs dorthin entdeckt sie die Überreste eines alten Vergnügungsparks und beginnt zu halluzinieren - eine bizarre Erscheinung verfolgt sie...
Auf einer hoch gelegenen Tiroler Alm legt die alte Sennerin Adelheid Falkner eine Tarot-Karte auf den rauen Holztisch. Die kleine Runde, für die sie die Schicksalskarten legt, blickt gebannt auf den „Tod“. In einer Mulde im Hochgebirge wird einige Zeit später eine aufgebahrte junge Frau aufgefunden. Am Kopf trägt sie einen Alpenblumenkranz, rund um sie brennen Grablichter. Doch als die Polizei im unwegsamen Gelände eintrifft, ist die Leiche spurlos verschwunden.
Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.
Beautifully made and historically important pipe organs are being scrapped in their hundreds. Once at the centre of British culture pipe organs are now neglected and unloved.
The movie captures the responses of 31 authors, musicians, filmmakers and dancers to Olivier Messiaen's monumental organ work "Apparition of the Eternal Church." Listening to the 10-minute piece through headphones, the documentary subjects-most of whom are outsiders to the church and do not know what they're hearing-put Messiaen's project to the test: Is it possible to portray, through time-bound, invisible sound, the spiritual, the architectural, the eternal? The result is a collective interpretation improvising its way through an aesthetic landscape defined by violent contradictions. Resolution abuts eternity, eroticism asceticism, spiritual ecstasy physical torture. Together, the music and its interpreters conjure something like what William Blake famously called the marriage of heaven and hell.
Christmas Extravaganza that features renowned(?) organist Dennis Awe in his sequined tuxedo playing classic Christmas tunes on his Technics Console Organ, along with "Special Guests" such as his sister, a puppet, some guys in costumes.
The tragic story of an American music virtuoso who found in 1970s Iran the love and acceptance he never received back home, and who was punished by his country upon his return after the Iranian revolution.
Enjoy pre-dinner cocktails in the company of organ maestro Nick Olson, tickling the ivories at Uncle Tom's Cabin, Minnis Bay, Birchington.