A moment of reality in three acts, not at all just mere provocation, quite the opposite. Without a care, DIARY OF A MARRIED MAN throws taboos in our face and is intentionally shocking. But behind the deliberate desire to shake accepted standards of behavior, another reality takes shape: the reality of America where the individual is overpowered by loneliness, boredom and work. Where pleasures are nothing but fantasies. The last scene wavers between funny and despair borderline for sure, but so invigorating.
In the middle of Vienna stands an old tenement building, and time has left its mark both on the house and its inhabitants. Here, time passes at a strange pace. Floor by floor, the visitor can discover small self-contained worlds: grousers, collectors, the forgotten, people with obsessions, concealed and exposed passions. Then, however, death makes its entrance for the first time, sweeping through the stairwell. The owner of the house, a resident himself, dies. His nephew, an entrepreneur, inherits the building and acts immediately. He moves out, takes up lodgings, hands out notice to quit, renovates and devastates. One goal hovers before his eyes; to get rid of the tenants and make money out of the property. Gradually, the closed doors begin to open, and with each outrage committed by the new owner, the residents are drawn closer together. A minor official, plagued by persecution mania, fears a dreadful end to the matter. Though the signs he sees of this are all wrong, nevertheless, the outside world descends upon the house and his inhabitants.
This film uses images from a well known movie: «The night of the living-dead», a cult horror movie. The cinema toys with our fascination by a realistic scene to which we can identify. The realistic representation of an impossible situation or action is very spectacular. It can be either spectacularly beautiful or spectacularly horrific. The second option is more unifying ; beauty remains more subjective. Thus a horror movie is especially spectacular and this one in particular, since it creates what we expect from the cinema: to revive the dead.
Two women in two different countries, leading different lives. One lives Austria, one in Yugoslavia,. But yet their lives are strangely entangled for a moment in time. What if you wake up in somebody else’s head and the city around you that isn’t the one you used to know?
A poetic understated movie about tragedy and reconciliation in the Mississippi Delta. Lawrence and his brother live together in a small town next to young James and his mother Marlee. She is a single mother struggling to scratch a living for herself and her son. James roams the rural landscape getting into trouble. The brother’s death causes a profound ripple effect in their lives. Marlee confronts Lawrence using this opportunity to take over the property, but hope rises when she helps Lawrence in reopening his convenience store. The three of them learn gradually to get past their issues and deal with life ‚ as a family.
It’s Sunday, a day for resting. Near the river, the father is fishing and drinking, the mother sleeps, the daughter plays…
Every year thousands of tuna fish migrate to the Mediterranean sea. Men chase them in a ritual of blood and death. Images of nature, abused and overwhelmed.
Given the context of atrocity, one individual, a night watchman who sleeps by day, faces his existential aloneness in the confines of his motel room.
Michel, stock breeder in Franche Comté (France), makes the most of winter’s peace to pass the time with his young apprentice, Francis. They will be very close friends.
To an old celluloid film box sicks a note to be from the estate of Jack Goldstein. The S8 footage seems to be a film document, which hardly can be interpreted. Place, time and authorship cannot be dated and due to the missing data the viewer will be kept in mystery.
AD 2015. The world’s major cities are decimated by a terrible plague, a highly contagious virus that fills those it infects first with unbearable dread, then with overwhelming despair. A fatal disease, without cure. The Lemming Syndrome. In an isolated country mansion, two musicians ‚ Mizui and Asuhara – live in seclusion, devoting themselves to the creation of pure sound far from the trappings of fame and success they knew in the corrupt and dangerous city. They are visited by an ageing plutocrat, his desperately sick daughter and a detective, who believes that in the music made by Mizui and Asuhara lies the seed of hope that the old man’s daughter can be saved. In the vast, changeless stillness of nature, the musicians begin to play…
The trials and tribulations of truly independent filmmaking and the quest for the perfect shot.
“A Day in the City” is an urban symphony about the city and specifically about Stockholm in the fifties. Hultén has constructed a collage of images on the basis of the aesthetics of silent film and the montage technique of Vertov and Ruttman.
“A Day in the City” moves between pure experimentation and humorous touches, poking fun at the labyrinths of bureaucracy.
At a Japanese oil refinery, a truck loaded with hot petroleum jelly is paraded from the factory to the harbor. The procession, led by animals, is flanked by hundreds of rejoicing Japanese as it arrives abreast an enormous whaling ship where the jelly is pumped into a mold on deck. The ship departs, and during the weeks of the voyage, the mass of petroleum jelly cools. Meanwhile, below deck, a western couple are falling in love as they are served bowls of tea. As the voyage ensues, the tea room slowly fills up with warm fluid. The western couple become enveloped in the fluid and slowly transform. As the ship reaches the Southern Ocean, amongst a backdrop of luminous icebergs we behold the de-moulding of the sculpture…
In the middle of the tracks Nills pulls on the handbrake and turns off the engine.The train is due in 3 minutes. Nils leans back in his seat and waits for death,when Gosta happens to turn up his tractor. Nils lays blame on a dodgy motor and Gosta decides that Nils is in shock and recommends a nice cup of coffee. According to the timetable,another train is due in 3 hours’time. Before then Nils has to drink a cup of coffee with Gosta,say thanks for the help and return to the track in time to meet his death.
The world is turning and changing. So do I.
A collection of commercials for the insurance company Trygg & Hansa, Estrella peanuts, the cooperative housing organisation HSB, Lotto and the labour union LO by Roy Andersson.
When his wife leaves him, Joaquín turns to his son to help him bring his mother-in-law out of a home to do the housework.
