Everyday they break up. Everyday they make up. Most of the time they love each other.
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Empathy magic is based on two principles: The Law of Similarity states that “imitation produces reality”; the law of contagion or contact states that all things having been in contact continue to react upon one another at a distance even after separation. A fearful man meets a disquiet woman. Do you believe in magic?
The daily routine of self-sufficient Jake Williams, who lives alone within miles of forest in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Jake always has many jobs on at any one time, finds a use for everything. He has a different sense of time to most people in the 21st Century.
When ‘Vogler’s Magnetic Health Theater’ comes to town, there’s bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler’s prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople (including the police chief and medical examiner) request that their troupe provide them a sample of their act, before allowing them public audiences.
A group of young people dance and drink in a house. The atmosphere is festive and cheerful. The socialist victory in the general elections of 1982 seems recent. The night is full of music, euphoria and celebration. The attempt of coup d’état the year before seems quite far away. We could say that in Spain, in 1982, everything was future. However, the future comes at an enormous speed and like a black hole it devours everything in its way.
What does it mean to own a penthouse apartment in poverty-plagued Brazil? “High-Rise” examines this topic in a hypnotic and revealing examination, blending interviews with nine penthouse residents, owners of enviable killer views of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Recife, and a look from below, an overcrowded world that seems to be building on every square inch of land, with nowhere to go but up.
One late afternoon at the rice paddies after the harvest, four boys turns a little shack into a recreation centre, complete with white whisky, grilled mouse, and country music.
An intimate moment between a son and a father initiates a subtle change in the way they look at each other.
In a videocracy the key to power is the image. In Italy one man only has kept the domination of the image over three entire decades. As a TV-magnate and then as Presidente, Silvio Berlusconi has created a perfect system of TV-entertainment and politics. Like no one else he has influenced the content of commercial television in Italy. His TV-channels, known for their over-exposure of almost naked girls, are seen by many as a mirror of his own taste and personality.
A young graffiti artist gets caught in action.
Wakefield leaves on a business trip. At least that’s what he tells his wife. In fact, he settles down in a studio on the next street, planning to return home after a few days. Time passes. The depressed Mrs Wakefield finally mourns her husband. Everyday, Wakefield thinks he will come back tomorrow… Soon.
Der Unfertige is a portrait of Klaus Johannes Wolf, who decided to live as a slave. Chained on his bed, he’s telling about his decision to be a slave, his parents and what it means to be naked.
La Isla joins Chilean director Dominga Sotomayor and the Polish Katarzyna Klimkiewicz as the result of an initiative, which pairs up upcoming filmmakers from Latin America and Europe; together they create a magical environment from the return of a family to their summer house in the remote region of Chile, where they rediscover the place while waiting for a last family member.
A collage animation made from figures cut out of archival films from the late 1950s. This animation mixes the history of these films with the events of this era resulting into a large scale secret operation that veers bizarrely. An exploration of how technology shapes fears and desires.
Night, in a forest, a young man describes the images of a film we hear but don’t see: “The Birds” of Alfred Hitchcock. Haunted by this modern story tale where a man and a woman fall in love in a supernatural context, the forest comes alive little by little. On the set, the script girl is taking part of the film, connecting singular links where the sound track’s story of Hitchcock and the visual and silent story of the man and the script girl are intertwining.
From radical turntablism (Otomo Yoshihide) to laptop music innovation (Numb), via classical instrument hijacking (Sakamoto Hiromichi), Tokyo’s avant-garde music scene is internationally known for its boldness. While introducing some of the greatest musicians of this scene, “We Don’t Care About Music Anyway…” offers a kaleidoscopic view of Tokyo, confronting music and noise, sound and image, reality and representation, documentary and fiction.
Matilde lives in Tigre, a place near Buenos Aires, with her two daughters. The constantly flowing water that surrounds the house is the background that evokes the inevitable: the younger one, Mina, feels attracted by Luca, her mother’s boyfriend.
In La Fugue, Lakdar, a social worker in a home for juvenile offenders in Marseille, goes to court along with one of the teenagers he’s in charge of, Sabrina. She is to be judged for an offence she committed a while before. Lakdar feels confident: he is convinced that their efforts will be rewarded.