Somewhere on the outskirts of Tokyo, whenever the days are as long as the nights, love loses yet another battle.
Archives: Filmes
“Espectros da Terra” portraits a mysterious world inhabited by strange spirits.
The director (together with his photographic camera) accompanies his grandmother, for the first time, to the balls she has been attending every Sunday in the past 19 years.
Ostraliana uses the rhythmic drum vibration of the 3’25 minutes ‘Expire Date’ to turn professional dance into photographic drawings (rotoscopy).
An investigation on films and strange experiences of the 1970s, that look at ecosystems from a co(s)mic perspective.
Fabiana, a trans woman, lived as a nomadic truck driver all over Brazil for more than thirty years. Now she is approaching retirement and should leave behind her adventures on the road.
A neighbourhood party with drones, a barbecue, icecreams and a stunt: Youtube inspired and simulated.
Early 2010, Jean Luc Godard shots “Film Socialisme” incognito, aboard the Concordia cruise ship. Three years later the same ship wrecks into the Mediterranean sea. “Film catastrophe” investigates the case.
Along the day, we accompany Filomena, who works as a cleaning lady, through six different places.
A guard and a stray cat meet in the security room.
Pierre Koralnik’s musical comedy with Anna Karina, from music and songs by Serge Gainsbourg (orchestrated by Michel Colombier) was the first color (tv) film produced for the TV station ORTF. Shot in 35mm on the streets of Paris, the nightclub Bus Palladium and the gare de l’Est, the Porgès castle of Rochefort-en-Yvelines and the beach of Deauville, Anna is made up of musical and choreographic inspiration, but also pop and graphic. The story of a publicist’s passion for the image of a girl photographed by chance in a station. It was an important title in Gainsbourg and Karina’s career, Sous le soleil exactement. (Cinemateca Portuguesa)
In a film theater with red chairs, Anna Karina comments on her journey through cinema and music, with special regard on the decisive encounters with Jean-Luc Godard and Serge Gainsbourg.
Demetrius has just arrived on Earth from another galaxy. But the girl brought to him by the commissar, Hostess 703, is not a “physical love” girl; she’s a “sentimental love” one, who only knows how to excite men with language.
Antoine Doinel is 17, lives in a hotel and loves music. He falls in love with a woman he meets at a concert. She sees him as a friend, but her parents love him. Programmed together with Quentin Papapietro’s “En fumée”.
Luis Lázaro explores pictorially, in an almost histrionic way, what the longest track of this series of films trys to conceal.
Arriaga, vindo de uma família de emigrantes de classe média, procura ser aceite pelos jovens do seu bairro. O preço a pagar pelo desejado respeito pode ser mortal. Welket Bungué inspira-se nas lendas de Tupac, Notorious BIG e NAS para este policial sobre a fronteira da marginalidade.
Conhece o Havai? Essa é a pergunta que o protagonista de “August at Akiko’s”, o músico cosmopolita Alex Zhang Hungtai (da banda Dirty Beaches), se coloca quando regressa à ilha onde cresceu. Aterra com apenas uma mala de viagem e o seu saxofone, mas é confrontado com uma desilusão: tudo o que encontra está muito distante das suas memórias de infância. Será na companhia de uma senhora mais velha, Akiko, que Alex descobrirá uma paisagem à qual consegue finalmente ligar-se. Um deslumbrante filme que através do conto de fadas dá um novo significado à espiritualidade.
A fisherman without a boat is infuriated with his brother who is using the family vessel for day-tripping, and resents the tourists flocking to the village while locals are relegated to a sink estate on the hill. “Bait” was shot on B&W 16mm film and processed by hand.