Fate of the Lhapa color, 63 minutes
A touching portrayal the last three Tibetan shamans (lhapas) living in a Tibetan refugee camp in Nepal. With no other descendants to carry on their healing practices and a younger generation attending schools, acculturating, and modernizing, these “sucking doctors” are practicing an endangered tradition.

Sean Scully at Work - three short films color, 42 minutes
In 1997 Robert Gardner visited friend and well-known American painter Sean Scully in his Barcelona studio. He documented the making of two paintings, Testigos and Passenger, and the opening of “Sean Scully 1987-1997” at Salas del Palacio Episcopal in Malaga. This DVD, an important document of an influential modern artist, brings together the three short films made during that summer.

West of the Tracks color, 554 minutes
DER is proud to announce the North American release of Wang Bing’s acclaimed West of the Tracks, a document of the slow, inevitable death of China’s obsolete manufacturing system. Between 1999 and 2001 he meticulously filmed the lives of the last factory workers in China’s Shenyang province, a class of people once promised glory during the Chinese revolution. Now trapped by economic change, the workers become deeply moving film heroes in this modern epic. The film is an engrossing portrait of Chinese society in transition.