The works and the artistic trends of a given time are an excellent representation of the social order that surrounds them. Music, due to its popularity, ability to be easily shared and constant need of reinvention and evolution is undoubtedly an excellent analysis subject. A portrait of the Micro Audio Waves.
“Musicbox Club Docs” is a series of 60 minute documentaries, approaching an artist, his influences, his creative process and his work, with Lisbon’s Cais do Sodré district as background. The first portrait centers on J.P. Simões.
Gustav, the goose from Little Red Riding Hood, goes for a walk in the forest; absent-minded, he forgets about the Bad Wolf; very soon he is in Goose Trouble.
Teenagers at a secondary school in the Canadian provinces. A time between childhood and adulthood where boundaries are tested and overstepped. This particular aspect of their daily reality ‚ breaking rules, discipline problems at school and conflicts with other students ‚ shine through in the long conversations conducted between the adolescents and their social workers. School is also where they have moral guidelines for how to live together in society laid out for them. The film’s own approach has nothing to do with social education however. Its calmly observed conversations and carefully composed images of the teenagers in their free time articulate a sense of interest and empathy for this odd period in life.
A childhood dream of travelling funfairs dances with the reality of a family manufacturing thrill-rides and their life on the road. The showpeople family finds great pleasure in sharing their simple joys with communities across Scotland. They not only travel with the rides, they also create and build them.
The story of the DeLorean car, its creator John DeLorean and the workers who built it. The film deftly contrasts the DeLorean dream with its spectacular downfall during a critical period in Northern Ireland’s history, and the canonisation of the car – the DMC12 – as a symbol of the American myth of mobility.
In order to claim their labour rights, public transport workers decide to turn off the sound of the trains in circulation; the sentence opens the film Meio Corte that follows that same logic and introduces changes each time the train passes by the same place.
Hazards starts with the idea that chance guides us through life and show us in a very delicate documentary fifty years of 35mm e 16mm footage that Virke Lehtinen filmed, often by chance.
The adventures of Masha and her best friend, the Bear…
A young couple who move to the big city, the search for orientation in the grown-up world and frequent returns to the familiar terrain of childhood are at the centre of this film. At first life in Taipei seems to offer the promise of modest contentment for the couple, which finds work and lodgings in the back room of a cinema, where there are also pleasant get-togethers with people of their own age. Wan and Huen live together in silent agreement until he is called up for military service and she marries another man in his absence. In a brilliantly casual and laconic tone and yet with great sensitivity, this film tells of life’s major and minor upheavals.
Somewhere in the backwoods at the turn of the last century a crack unit of female Japanese soldiers track a group of lost, ancient desperadoes. But who is searching for who and why? With a soundtrack expertly crafted from dictaphone recordings, old 78s, hiss and scratches, this is a return to fiction.
2011 12 30, a date; a woman draws the outline of her body on a wall to say something we’ll only understand at the very end.
In Feline City, there’s a cat that spends his time singing; if only he could sing… yet, things might change after enrolling in a music school; there could be a Hidden Talent.
37º4S are the geographical coordinates of Tristan da Cunha Islands, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, where only 270 people live; Nick and Anne are local teenagers who have known each other since they were born and lovers since very young; life in the island is eventless but Anne’s just made up her mind: she’s going to study in England, 6152 miles away from Tristan.
A hot summer. A private district with an enormous park. An abandoned plot of land in the suburbs and an uncontrollable wave of smoke spark uncertainty and chaos.
An elderly ill woman packs some clothes in a suitcase, her fish in a plastic bag and leaves on foot to a monastery where she stops eating and drinking. During her lonely journey she has some intense encounters.
Visual essay about our struggle with the two-headed monster boredom and mortal fear. Lots of people try to escape this by seeking exiting activities like bungee jumping. In the lonely mountains the alter ego of the film maker preaches to a single mountain goat about falling as the only real escape.
Christine has been confined to a wheelchair for most of her life. In order to escape her isolation, she travels to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees mountains. She wakes up one morning seemingly cured by a miracle. The leader of the pilgrimage group, a handsome 40-year-old volunteer from the Order of Malta, begins to take an interest in her. She tries to hold on to this newfound chance for happiness, while her cure provokes both envy and admiration.