Few minutes away of an important game of the New York Knicks, two friends carry a couch in the street’s of New York, one of them has been kicked out of his apartment by his wife. Now these two fanatic fans have to find a place so they can see the game seated in their lucky couch.
The fishes, the dogs and the birds. 3 little animal’s adventures reflecting the children’s preoccupations: being more clever than the big ones, being fair, honest and getting united with friends.
A young girl thinks all things can be rewound -broken cups, a dead goldfish, her grandpa’s eyesight… like rewinding a tape. But is this the right thing to do? If you had the same magic power as she thinks she has, what would you do?
Beezes are very loveable creatures living in vast, dry plains.
The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth Of All Time is a Radiohead DVD, which was released on December 1, 2004 and was directed by Chris Bran who is one half of the Vapour Brothers. The film features unheard songs with numerous live videos. The film contains all four episodes of TMGLMOAT. It also has animations and interviews with the band. Some of the sections of TMGLMOAT were created by Chris Bran, Stanley Donwood and Radiohead, while others were directed by people who submitted videos to Radiohead and were selected for inclusion. Each of the four episodes is introduced and closed by commentary from Chieftan Mews, a digitally composite and likely fictional character thought to be either Nigel Godrich or Stanley Donwood.
A hare starts chasing a snowman to eat its carrot. But things are not always what they seem…
This is the story of a lonely man named John. He lives his life alone trying to connect with anything or anyone he can. Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between hysterical laughter and hysterical crying.
Igor Leschenko was in the headlines in the late 1920s. The debacle at the pataphysicist convention leads to a secret expedition to the point of zero gravity. Rare film documentation of a hazardous journey… Will he ever find the Nanopol island? Terra Incognita is an homage to Raymond Roussel.
The Smell of Burning Ants is a haunting documentary on the pains of growing up male. It explores the inner and outer cruelties that boys perpetrate and endure. The film raises gender issues and provokes the viewer to reflect on how our society can deprive boys of wholeness.
The Ukranian steppe, toward the end of World War II. The German and Romanian troops are retreating in the face of the unstoppable Red Army. In a deserted school, a Romanian military unit has set up its headquarters. In front of maps become useless, the Romanian officers are awaiting disaster. A visit of a high ranking Wehrmacht officers is suddenly announced. Hope is awakened: will they receive new orders? Will they counterattack? Will the chaos of retreat end? But disappointment comes quickly…
Marc needs the paving stones on which he walks to move, for fear of stepping on the lines. He starts a treatment to overcome his phobia.
Why do people strive to clone other people, if another sister can’t substitute a dead sister, even if they are twins that look absolutely alike? Why does a woman have to lie about working in advertising when in reality she is selling her body? Why does a man tell servant-rumors about the president’s family and lie about working in the president’s administration, although he is really a businessman? Where is the border between life and death, and how high is man allowed to raise the curtain to look over to the other side? Is not science, in fact a form of contemporary magic? A deserted village out in the middle of Russia and an all-night bar in a big city. Episodes of life in Moscow and in the country. Because of their absurdity, these episodes are as much realistic as they are unimaginable. However, a closer examination reveals that these two worlds – are but clones of each other, only they duplicate reverse reflections, like positive and negative film.
Shot under extreme secrecy and set in a dingy suburban apartment, the film features shocking and unsettling images. Moodysson focuses on Rickard and his painfully shy son Eric, who spends most of his days holed up in his room, listening to abrasive industrial music, presumably in an attempt to drown out what’s going on in the rest of the apartment. His father, an amateur pornographer, is shooting his latest opus with a friend Geko and a young woman named Tess. As the trio gets drunk and more impressed with themselves (they seem to think they’re celebrities by virtue of being involved with this tawdry effort) they lose what little inhibitions the had – and their behavior grows more and more disturbing. In some ways, the film suggests the writings of the Marquis the Sade – especially in its emphasis on the bedlam that erupts when social codes are abandoned entirely. It may be even more perturbing than the Sade, since a sense of ritual and class are virtually non-existent here. Moodysson’s working class characters are completely unaware of history. About the only thing they’re familiar with is pop psychology, cosmetic surgery and tabloid journalism.
Jim Peck feels his social order unpended when a homeless man requests a dollar from him. If a homeless guy has a gun, but isn’t robbing you, should you give him a dollar out of gratitude, or get angry because you feel manipulated? A meeting between two unhappy men.
When she hangs up the phone after hearing her lover say We’re coming right now, she knows in her heart of hearts what she hadn’t faced up to before: that this man she loves, this prince from nowhere, is a hoodlum. He has just robbed a bank and a man got killed. It’s the mid-1970s. She’s ninteen years old. Right now, as if in a waking dream, she falls headlong from the tight, narrow space of her father’s uptown apartment into a weaving world of escape – Spain, Morocco, Greece – and from being an almost well-behaved girl into the life she’s always wanted, for better or worse. The crazy, dizzyingly elliptical progression of the action perfectly embodies the emotional turmoil that Lili is keeping to herself – like most teenagers, she’s in far less control than she thinks she is.
Two neighbours live opposite each other on a country road somewhere in Northern France. They hate each other and life for them is nothing but a daily painful confrontation. One day, in the course of a violent dispute, an agricultural trailer knocks them over and sends them to hospital. They are both released, in wheelchairs, paralysed from the waist down. Giving up on the idea of suicide, they each decide to embark on a personal journey. However, before they know it, they both end up on the same railway platform, waiting for the same train. Neighbours once again, for better or for worse. An odd and unpredictable odyssey then starts, taking them all the way to Finland where they intend to obtain financial compensation from the manufacturers of the agricultural machinery responsible for their accident. In this film, the disabled protagonists are simply normal, at times a bit stupid, a bit nasty, often funny. These two wheelchair-bound travellers will somehow live an initiatory journey, in search of one’s neighbour.
I came to the Abasto and filmed the construction of the shopping center, the man at work and at rest. I later filmed people wandering and shopping. Some dogs in the park and some people practicing tai chi chuan.
In an imaginary island in the Azores, a community shuts itself around Edmundo, a rural aristocrat, patriarchal figure, who has just lost his wife has she gave birth to a girl. Edmundo pronounces the island to be in mourning. Edmundo prohibits any sort of sex and the island is shut into Edmundo’s mourning, through solidarity and obedience to the old master. Adriana grows in these times; she is one of the last children to be born after the aristocrat’s proscription. The years go by. The desertification of the island is at stake and Edmundo declares he has taken a drastic decision. Edmundo announces his decision to send to the mainland, to a trustworthy friend, his daughter Adriana so that she can set up a family trough natural means. Adriana arrives in the mainland. Right at the airport she is robbed by an elegant Luiza Menezes who also takes her identity. Lost in Lisbon, Adriana will be helped by Estela and her son, who takes her at night to a transvestites’, trough a misterious Lisbon.