In Terra Infirma a still life painting becomes charged with motion as the earth is disturbed; gradually the images are destructed frame by frame, and eventually the paper erodes, as do the subjects within.
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Three different locations of prostitution: Thailand, Bangladesh and Mexico. The first part is set in a fish tank brothel, where the prostitutes are sitting behind a lit glass like models ready for a runway, where customers chose. Prostitution in Thaland is an everyday routine, a customer service, an entertainment business in contrast with the two other cities. In Bangladesh, women are approaching their job as a social service. If they didn’t perform their services men would be raping women on the streets. They sacrifice their sence of shame everyday for money. In México, we are getting literally the glory of the profession, where Glawogger is filming a prostitute at her service. Worderful images exceptionally edited accompanied by the sounds of PJ Harvey and Cocorosie constitute a voyeuristic camvas on the oldest profession. (Nina Veligradi)
Jamie is sent to live with his paternal grandmother and uncle; a life full of silence and rejection.
Beeswax is the third feature from American indie auteur Andrew Bujalski. A pair of identical twin sisters share an Austin home. Athletic free-spirit Lauren is between jobs and boyfriends and considering going abroad to teach English. More up-tight Jeannie is a paraplegic who co-owns a local vintage store where she has ongoing problems with her business partner. A Character based script offers yet another low-key take on twentysomethings finding their way.
Two boys hatch out of eggs and have an imaginative adventure. Sometimes as friends, sometimes as rivals, they build a house to protect themselves from the wolf.
An elderly man from a middle-class family finds himself forced to pass the time with a new companion.
Boston, 1951: my uncle Tommy is drafted into the Korean War and brings along his 8mm home movie camera.
A group of foreign legionnaires forgotten and abandoned in an outpost on the Horn of Africa. Aide-de-camp Galoup (Denis Lavant) perceives the new recruit Sentain as a rival for the favor of his commander and decides to put him out of action. The plan went wrong and Galoup is thrown out. From a hotel room in Marseilles, he remembers his time with the company. The structure of the film follows these memories only loosely, with plot and dialogue taking a back seat to a series of fleeting scenes and choreography of training, fighting and dancing bodies executing routines which tell a story all of their own.
Tom is 16. Discreet and secret, he made his invisibility a refuge, a way to escape.
Milo is a little cat from the city. He is lively, happy and disruptive. So as to calm him down, his parents sent him to a holiday camp in the countryside. Milo will discover how to live with others…
The Brazilian production company Belair produced several unusual and often experimental films in the 1970s. With much archival material, this documentary reveals the eventful story of the Brazilian counterculture. Narrated by Julio Bressane, one of the founders of Belair, among others.
Portrait of the founders of rear projection, the Hansards, who were responsible for much of the rear projection techniques used in 20’s Hollywood films: actors stand in front of a translucent screen while film is projected from the rear. It was used brilliantly by Kubrick in “2001” and Hitchcock in “Notorious”.
An unlikely encounter between a strange bird who lives in deep water and Lena, a little urban girl.
The sole is asymmetric and has both eyes on the right side of its body. This original documentary makes up its own poetic language and invites us to discover the universe of the sole in every aspect, shape, size and colour. There is no limit to the imagination and the variations are infinite. (Miguel Cabral)
Jamie’s ultimate victory over his circumstances; after a spell in foster care, and a homeless shelter, he is conscripted into the RAF, where he embarks on a redemptive friendship with Robert, which allows him to emerge from his ineffectual adolescence to pursue his artistic ambition.
Set during the 1970s in the West of Ireland, “Aunt” explores the effects of an unplanned pregnancy on a young girl and her family on the day that her baby is being Christened.
A rapturous elegy to a rich era of film production in Egypt, through one of its most revered actress: Soad Hosni, who from the 1960 into the 90s, embodied the modern Arab woman in her complexity and paradoxes. Pieced exclusively from VHS footage of films, it’s constructed as a tragedy in three acts where the actress tells her dreamed life story.
A portrait of HPG, actor, director, and producer of pornographic films, entirely assembled from thousands of hours of behind-the-scenes footage. More than a simple archive of the world of porn, this documentary film questions the nature of pornography and the passion for the real that characterizes it.