Doez work liberate? Or what? Tripalium! What iz the natural state of Man? And the other one? Tripaliare! A no-yes-no cine-insult disguized as a cine-investygation of opinion making.
Secção: Retrospectivas | Retrospectives
A strange report about a an alien invazion is told by the Normal People’s League komissary. Includz Lubelya’s trauma with it. Have they been always here?
A peaceful father in a desperate search for his lost son finds himself in a P. H. Lovecraft like underground and suffers a violent transformation.
A motion.
The first nursery film. Mutant menace in Chiado Bunker. Nurse Penelope Kruxis faces iminent danger of Kontamination on levelz 3 through 5 or 8. She’s a jolly good fellow! A merry bad and short film sponsered by Mutex (r), anti-mutant spray, day after day, day after day (or so).
A cine-diary: a single shot of a demonstration in Palestine. Originally conceived for an installation by Luciana Fina.
From the apartment, the light is blue. Paris was those rooftops. This is a story about love and about love stories. It is about the static and the electricity. The pain of letting go and the attempt to recapture. An American man is obsessed with a French woman who is obsessed by films. This is an experimental retelling of a love affair through fragments and distortions of memory. Filmic images are transformed into electronic paintings. The narrative and myths of romantic love are deconstructed against a backdrop of Paris and Hollywood. It is also about the love of cinema being destroyed by video. She said these are stolen images. They’re not to be taken lightly.
A cine-diary of a bed exhibition at a Lisbon asylum.
The death of a child triggers this collection of personal reflections on grief and loss. (Phantom Limb is the illusion that a limb still exists after it has been amputated). PHANTOM LIMB uses this personal story as a point of departure.
Faith and fear. Duck and cover.
Rich slacker Sebastian’s favorite sport is slumming in Vienna’s seedy bars and cafés in search of quirky characters to toy with. He also likes surfing for young women over the internet, seducing them with elaborated stories of truth, half truth and lies. Grade school teacher Pia is his latest conquest. Or maybe this wallflower who talks to much when she’s nervous has actually conquered him? Their romance is jeopardized when Pia becomes angry about Sebastian’s latest act of flippant cruelty: just for fun, he and his friend Alex picked up an unconscious drunk off the street and drove him to the Czech Republic, where they dumped him without any ID. Pia decides to rescue this man, Kallmann, a down and out poet whose drinking binges usually result in ranting and raving and aggressive attempts to sell his poems on the street. Little does he know, he’s about to have a moment of sudden revelation, lost and alone in the wintry Czech wilderness…
Short Of Breath is a haunting, emotional collage about birth, death, sex and suicide. It’s like a punch in the stomach.
This is America. Do it.
In a unknown apocalytical time a monkey faces a roman in a Portuguese football stadium, designed by architect Eduardo Souto Moura.
A street in Oakland. Early morning hours. A motion. Music. A few sound bits. Someone paints the wall of a studio. Colors. Broken televisions. A street in Oakland. Early morning hours. A motion. Different music. Columbus. End.
What iz being a futurist now? And then? Sex-war machines play to six different tunes. Hate!!! Hate!!! Hate!!! 8!!! No more Dantas anymore!!! Anti-komemorative filmodrama celebrating the 100th anniversary of futurist poet-painter and everything else! Almada Negreiros.
The Smell of Burning Ants is a haunting documentary on the pains of growing up male. It explores the inner and outer cruelties that boys perpetrate and endure. The film raises gender issues and provokes the viewer to reflect on how our society can deprive boys of wholeness.
I came to the Abasto and filmed the construction of the shopping center, the man at work and at rest. I later filmed people wandering and shopping. Some dogs in the park and some people practicing tai chi chuan.