One evening, my grandfather Tahar died in palliative care. Zouina, his stepdaughter is there. Aziz, his son is there. Fayçal is there. I am there. God is not there? Kamel arrives too late.
Archives: Filmes
A strange report about a an alien invazion is told by the Normal People’s League komissary. Includz Lubelya’s trauma with it. Have they been always here?
The video for Paranoid Android features Robin, an animated character, created by Magnus Carlsson, a Swedish cartoonist who stars Robin in his own 5-minute episodes of Robin.
The horrifyingly hilarious story of a man who comes home and discovers his family has become the victims of a brutal attack.
A peaceful father in a desperate search for his lost son finds himself in a P. H. Lovecraft like underground and suffers a violent transformation.
Office technology becomes obsolete very quickly. Old tools are transformed into musical instruments of the future. The film is based on the Symphony # 2 for Dot Matrix Printers, composed by [The User].
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A stuffed donkey’s search for respect. On the list of bad jobs, getting smacked with sticks by small children who want to get to your insides is right up there. One small, feisty, lolly-stuffed Burro has had enough … but there’s an even smaller, determined little girl who decides his sweets are going to be hers no matter what. Caution; contains hitting, sombreros and papier-maché.
The first nursery film. Mutant menace in Chiado Bunker. Nurse Penelope Kruxis faces iminent danger of Kontamination on levelz 3 through 5 or 8. She’s a jolly good fellow! A merry bad and short film sponsered by Mutex (r), anti-mutant spray, day after day, day after day (or so).
A cine-diary: a single shot of a demonstration in Palestine. Originally conceived for an installation by Luciana Fina.
From the apartment, the light is blue. Paris was those rooftops. This is a story about love and about love stories. It is about the static and the electricity. The pain of letting go and the attempt to recapture. An American man is obsessed with a French woman who is obsessed by films. This is an experimental retelling of a love affair through fragments and distortions of memory. Filmic images are transformed into electronic paintings. The narrative and myths of romantic love are deconstructed against a backdrop of Paris and Hollywood. It is also about the love of cinema being destroyed by video. She said these are stolen images. They’re not to be taken lightly.
A very little boy tries to clean up the dirty sun all day. He finally succeeds. Well, he almost does.
Bipedalism, or ‘two-footed walking’, is the story of a painter who grew up in an orphanage and only years later learns the circumstances of his father’s disappearance and death. Childhood memories bring the main character back to the past: he buys a house in the suburbs that used to belong to his family. In the basement, he finds his father’s archives and scientific research documents on the hybridization of human race with related biological species. Studying the archive material, he unexpectedly finds evidence of efforts to renew the experiments on the remaining hybrid population. The painter then becomes a researcher, and consequently a victim. The basic idea of his father’s research was to change, control and influence the process of human evolution – initially connected with eugenics theories of the period before World War II, and now being placed in a context of modern ‘biotechnological’ expectations by his former colleagues. The main character tries to recreate and realize his father’s heritage, who was forced to cooperate with state terror organizations, using the results of his secret research. In a tragic manner, this information turns into the main character’s reality, at first forcing him to reappraise his father’s values and later driving him to madness.
A prize-winning writer, Reiko, moves to a quiet sub-urban house to finish up her new novel with a help from the editor. That night while sleeping, she sees a man in a storage room transporting an object wrapped in cloth. She soon finds out that he is a renowned archaeologist, Professor Yoshioka, researching ancient mummies, and that object was a recently discovered mummy. Working late on her book, Reiko witneses a ghost and finds out that her room once belonged to a woman who had been misssing for a while. This brings unexplainable fear to Reiko as she starts to uncover more stories from the past.
A weekend dad goes fishing with his 8-year-old son Martin. The father has been absent for most of his son’s life, and trapped in a small rowboat he is confronted with his life choices. Thanks to his father, Martin has gotten an unpleasant glimpse of the realities of adult life, and now he also demands to be treated like an adult. Otherwise, their roles will be reversed.
A cine-diary of a bed exhibition at a Lisbon asylum.
A man and a woman live in a village near Berlin. The city seems far away. They’ve loved each other since they were children. Inseparable. They’re now both in their early thirties. Markus is a metalworker and a member of the local fire brigade. Ella works a couple of hours a week as a domestic and sings is the local choir. People eye them with a mixture of astonishment and suspicion: They seem so happy, so innocent – and sometimes clueless as two children. Markus visits the nearest town to attend a training course with his fire brigade. That night there’s a lot of drinking, laughing and dancing. The next morning Markus wakes up in the apartment of the waitress, Rose. He can’t recall much of what happened. When he tries to find out, it’s the beginning of a love for his wife.
Bandai, an successful attorney, and Kyoko, working in a real estate office, start having an affair out of a sudden, although both are married. This way they try to find a relieve from the pressures and fears which arise from their everyday life, in which they feel forced to mask their inner emotions. But their affair is different from others: They are united in love by their wish to die together. Unnoticed by their spouses they meet once a week to make love and to think about their plans to commit double suicide together. They have inexplicably discovered that perfect strangers may also mean perfect partners in death.