A document of a system observed from a fixed point, and the point is the musician Otomo Yoshihide. It is a gesture, arbitrary yet perfect, as though connecting stars with lines and giving a name to the constellation.
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Written in two movements like a musical score, “Kinogamma” meanders in a melodious evasion. From a slow movement based on a bluish arpeggio, it slips into a staccato rhythm followed by an orangey-colored trance. A melody rises and the camera lovingly films the poem, embracing unfamiliar faces.
There’s no place more mundane than a pub. Everyone goes there for a chat and a drink. Joseph Pierce captures all the details, physical and psychological, of the daily customers of a London pub, exaggerating them in a sharp and entertaining way. A grotesque animation that also works as a social satire. (Carlos Ramos)
The tormented escape of a young African from his native land. The search for a better world, where war is not a part of everyday life. Even when the will of one man is unshakable, everything else around can play a prank on him. An animation that leaves us breathless as we accompany this bitter journey. (Carlos Ramos)
On the coal road linking the Shanxi mines with the large port of Tianjin, in northern China, the drivers of 100-ton trucks shuttle endlessly to and from, day and night. On the roadside: prostitutes, cops, petty racketeers, garage owners, mechanics.
16-year-old Junie finds herself in the same class as her cousin Mathias, who introduces her to his friends. All the boys want to date Junie, and she chooses the quietest among them, Otto Clèves. But soon after, she encounters the great love of her life in her Italian teacher, Nemours. The passion that burns between them is doomed. A contemporary adaptation of Madame de La Fayette’s novel, “The Princess of Clèves”, transferring the action from the court of Henry II to modern day Paris.
Josh returns to Buenos Aires for an unpaid internship, he is searching for something maybe nothing non the less trying to reconnect with his previous visit to the city and it’s people, with a girl lost from his life. Older and wiser he feels estranged without really having a realised connection of his place, he seems lost. Suddenly, behind the flowery wallpaper in his bedroom wall he receives a surreal knock. At the other side is Anna signaling her presence. He listens for a while but still Josh appears not to be present of his life. Hoocked on skype and imaginary e-mails he is not getting in touch. Absence appears to be the main theme of the film, its atmospeare nichelic and emotionally confused, caught between past the present. (Nina Veligradi)
Thibault has many responsibilities despite his age: he takes care of his flock, of his bees and of his land. The little man dominates his work perfectly. We return to the essence of life, earth, fire, water… We find his dreams, his problems, his friend Ophélie who comes from the city and some of his friends. (Miguel Cabral)
In a sleazy Parisian pornographic cinema, the bored ticket seller tells the story of her life to an attractive young projectionist. Her intention isn’t to chat the young man up. It’s to get him into bed with one of her clients, a fifty-year-old homosexual.
About two young people formatted by a culture of success with two men embodying a nihilistic and dematerialized vision of the society.
Named after a painting by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Ford Madox Brown, Jarman’s kaleidoscopic 6th feature is a meditation on the decline of the English culture in the 1980’s. Shot in Super-8mm, with the camera often hand-held, it combines home movies of Jarman’s family, a documentary record of industrial and ecological ruin and portrays signs of struggle: a punk walks through a landscape of destruction; a baby lies in a carriage with newspapers proclaiming imminent doom; a bride lies dressed in tatters; a terrorist and a naked man embrace on a bed with bottles and guns around them; a voice on the soundtrack invokes Allen Ginsberg’s Howl. An apocalyptical and lyrical vision of Tatcher’s Britain.
For Alex and Nica (Gael Garcia Bernal e Nani Furstenberg), in love and soon to be married, the world is bright, colorful and the objects around them so incredibly alive that they seem like toys. Everything is allowed. They are young and will spend this Summer discovering the Caucasus Mountains, in Georgia. Dato, their guide, shows them around and keeps them company, but as they dive in the royal green of the mountains, a gesture makes all the difference and seems to threat his masculinity, her protection, forgiveness as a rehabilitation of their relationship. Silence slowly replaces what were once automatic smiles and settles down between them, as they pack up the tent. The director, in her third feature film, adapts a story from Tom Bissel and shows us the most improbable, surprising shots. The music, with Richard Skelton’s piercing string composition, predicts the loneliness ahead. (Ágata Pinho)
It was a house, just like a one built of toy blocks.
Since the sea level was rising higher and higher,
the house too was built higher and higher.
This is a story of a grand pa living in the house and his memories of life with his family.
Mushrooms that love chocolate sneak into a house of a girl who is making a chocolate cake.
Then they play a trick on her that makes her cry. They think over what they did, and make the cake on behalf of her.
My device is a part of my body and I never treated an object as well as it. It’s like if I removed a fake arm and left it in the table to paint its nails. That’s how I regard my body.
An entomologist finds a new species of bug in the meadow and would be glad to add it to his collection. But the bugs don’t want to be museum objects – the two bug girls have to find a way to save their parents.
A mysterious foundling emerges from a dark cellar where he has spent his youth, and, as if fallen from another planet, has no concept of this world. Based on the legendary true story of Kaspar Hauser, his captors and murderers remain unknown to this day. The film’s original German title is means “Every man for himself and God against them all”.
There’s a rabbit who is a great leader, misteriously adored in silence. A magical and enigmatic animation, made of delicate drawings and soft movements. An action in loop that can be read as a metaphor for the complexity of our world and power relationships. What about you: do you believe in the Great Rabbit? (Carlos Ramos)