A building becomes so affected by the atmospheres left behind by people that it develops an allergic reaction.
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Is Effie Wu a good fairy or an evil witch? Neither nor. She is the charming hostess who welcomes you into her home and before you can even bat an eye, she’s got you hypnotized and trapped with her **Super Smile**. You willingly float along as she moves from room to room performing her chores: there is no escape. A delightful proposition.
Looking at the ever changing forms ‚ mirrored images developing before one’s eyes like animated black-and-white Rorschach inkblot tests ‚ one might get taken away by the visions they induce or, inversely, get frustrated when not figuring out what exactly is represented here. The film returns to abstraction. The gaze that follows then looses the complex stapling then deconstructing figures; suspended for four minutes.
No matter how calm the surface of the ocean appears to be, each time we cross the line that divides land and water we enter an unknown and unexpected world. Did our world remain the same by the time we come back ashore?
Squirrel and bat. The convergence of different worlds and times of day. Forces in the underground rule night and day ‚ and much more. By accident, this regulated everyday life has ground to a halt. And thus begins the mutual journey of two solitary figures.
Inspired by Garth’s own experiences as a child in the 1980s, it’s a project that Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith ‚Äî collectively known as Hammer and Tongs ‚Äî have been working on for some years. The film is a gentle coming-of-age comedy. It tells the story of two schoolboys who are inspired by Rambo: First Blood (which they see on a pirate videotape) to make their own action adventure film.
It’s not a simple ABC, this found footage alphabet by Volker Schreiner. Schreiner reveals his qualities in collecting and choreographing footage from classic (Hollywood) films. The concept of alphabetical ordering is loosely maintained so there’s room for a playful contribution from the subconscious.
In early 1990s Mozambique, following the dissipation of the Civil War, a sensitive boy named Muidinga struggles to survive without the presence of his parents – who have long since disappeared, whereabouts unknown. As the story commences, Muidinga happens upon a diary found near a lifeless corpse that speaks of a woman on a ship seeking her estranged son. Certain that the woman in question is his mother, he embarks on a long journey in search of her, and soon gains the support and assistance of a traveling companion, the elderly Tahir. The two set out on a long trek from one refugee camp to another hoping to find at least some trace of the woman who brought Muidinga into the world.
On his way to a business meeting, Tudor has an unexpected break of 30 minutes. Long enough to drink o coffee, talk about his daughter and take a picture.
What if adults had to read all children’s stories? Would we really be capable of learning what we ourselves have been teaching for so long? The Biggest Flower in the World is a beautiful story for children‚Ķ and for adults, written by José Saramago.
A hair tragically destroys a love-story between HIM and HER. An ironical outlook on the human tragedy. Without dialogues and apparently filmed in a sole long shot.
Being controlled by time can take its toll.
A film posing as a re-constructed analysis of a series of home movies shot by Gerard Fleury before he disappeared looking for the right shot to complete a film he was working on about the Normandy village of Le Thuit. The footage shows his family and household staff walking around the grounds playing games. Guerín intercuts this real footage with fake b&w footage of the same location and adds color scenes which purport to show the activity that may have occurred off-camera.
What exciting musical developments are nurtured on both sides of the US-Canadian border, and where do their aesthetics converge and diverge? This curated Field Guide takes an irreverent look at the natural and synthetic aspects of life above and below the 49th parallel. From the electro-art experimentation of NY and Montreal to the indie spirit in Vancouver, Chicago or San Francisco, this collection celebrates two assertive and vast cultural landscapes.
After MacArthur’s savings are stolen from his federal-issue trailer, he and his cousin Natt take work gutting a house.
In the late 1960’s Kim Jong Il guaranteed his succession as the Dear Leader of North Korea by adapting his father’s Juche philosophy to propaganda, film and art. Translated as self-reliance, Juche is a hybrid of Confucian and authoritarian Stalinist pseudosocialism. The film is about a South Korean video artist who comes to a North Korean art residency to help bring Juche cinema into the 21st century.
An impression of the harsh reality of gypsy `survivors’ in a village near Bucharest, who find an oil well near a refinery and start using it to provide fuel for heating. The local police intervene… Without commentary, the camera follows the people from a distance, accompanied by the music of the Romanian gypsy orchestra Taraful din Clejani.
Hollywood seen through the eyes of a bunch of look-alikes. You can have your photo taken with them for a dollar. Although they look as if they stepped straight out of a film, their lives are quite different from those of the real stars. Without Hollywood, these one-time leading actors wouldn’t exist and they don’t all realize that.