While the Iraq war continues, a day’s sightseeing and the features of a German hotel provoke a stream of thoughts about events large and small.
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The film is a mix of live action and animation. Victor Bergdahl works with a painting. Suddenly it continues to be painted by invisible hands. It is beautiful but Bergdahl is awaken from his artist dreams. Captain Grogg arrives to get his portrait painted. Bergdahl fills a syringe from which a jet of colour by some magic the portrait is painted. But Grogg dislikes the result, especially the nose. More noses are done, and he doesn’t like any of them. Grogg chases Bergdahl around the room. In the end Bergdahl walks out with Grogg under his arm.
An intimate musical portrait of legendary singer/songwriter Neil Young, filmed on the occasion of the world premiere of Young’s Prairie Wind concert at Nashville’s hallowed Ryman Auditorium last summer. Young’s music provides an emotionally rich view into this unique artist’s relationship to family, friends, mortality, and the passage of time. Young is accompanied onstage by many long time musical companions, including country star Emmylou Harris, Neil’s wife Pegi Young, and bandleader/steel guitarist Ben Keith.
A film about multi-media artist Kjartan Slettemark’s Nixon Visions, the collective title of his famous pictorial version of president Nixon, made 1971-74. It has its beginning in, among other things, Slettemark’s slogan “Opposition Must Pay Off”. The new, coffee-loving Nixon is marketed in a satirical balancing act between humor and seriousness. Slettemark’s advertising campaign is ” a study of Nixon’s mental health in wich ” the face is the mirror of the soul”.
An exercise of truth. A woman tries to put away a stage of her life. But, many times, love can mean pain.
Alan is a musician who leaves a busted-up band, The Bumblebees, for New York City and a new musical voyage. He tries to stay focused and fends off all manner of distractions, including the attraction to his good friend’s girlfriend.
Three ex-students get the ultimate offer: shooting a porn video! This sounds like money, sexual adventure and above all fun. Despite a few initial difficulties, the three friends develop an almost fierce ambition to achieve their goal.
A father carries his wounded son looking for help. It‘s been a long time since they grew apart but the eventuality of an ending incites an urgent moment of reencounter.
A house cat dreams of her past lives.
A little love story about a star and a stone, set to music by Chopin.
In the beginning of their life in common, a young couple is facing the difficulties of being apart from each other because of work.
High up on the steel girders of a construction site: an apprentice, his frog, the site foreman, and a lunch break that never was…
Sunny day in the outskirts of a small Portuguese city under a tree and facing a road this dysfunctional family have lunch. Domestic violence appears invisible to the group, and compassion non existent.
A satire by Eric Satie to the bureaucratic world of the artists. A film conceived during a workshop with students of Film and Theatre, for a theatre play.
A documentary about the life and work of António Pedro, a Portuguese surrealist artist and a sort of phantom figure in the history of Portuguese theater.
Doez work liberate? Or what? Tripalium! What iz the natural state of Man? And the other one? Tripaliare! A no-yes-no cine-insult disguized as a cine-investygation of opinion making.
A man, a poem, and a family destroyed. History has never taught us so much! A hand warming tale of love, lust, incest, and death.
A young, inexperienced film critic, François, has a girlfriend and falls in love with a well-established female colleague, Rosa. A kinky relationship develops between the two of them, leading François to discover the inner workings of desire: desire of a woman and of a critic. Until the day his cheating is discovered.