An 18 year-old-girl called Joy has gone missing. Another girl called Helen is asked to play Joy in a police reconstruction that will retrace Joy’s last known movements. Joy had everything. A loving family, a boyfriend, a bright future. Helen, parentless, has lived in institutions all her life and has never been close to anyone. Helen begins to immerse herself into the role, visiting the people and places that Joy knew; quietly and carefully insinuating her way into the lost girl’s life. Is Helen trying to find out what happened to Joy that day, or is she searching for her own identity?
Please don’t think I’m weak, I couldn’t turn the other cheek.
When a woman rents a miserably tiny room, she finds mountains of belongings from the previous tenant, Anthony, as well as a backlog of messages on the machine from the landlord, his mother, and disparate acquaintances. As she cleans up the place, she begins to experience uncanny visions, nightmares, and the feeling that Anthony is much closer than she imagined. Terror haunts her sweaty-summer mind as she ritualistically cleans the room, strips to old-fashioned bra and panties, climbs in the fridge to cool down, and makes pudding.
On an arctic shore, in a calm so absolute that water waves like oil, one can ear a deep breathing. Out of time and far from the human world, some walruses are sleeping. Their sleep so deep that the approach of a boat hardly troubles it.
A found footage film. An Italian sixties softporn soundtrack which is repeated two times. Each time a sequence of images is synched to the soundtrack. The film images are illustrating acts of ocular light perception as well as imagery with strong visual impact. It’s a kind of visual test directed towards the viewer.
A meditation on gender, the ephemeral nature of lust, and the sheer importance of staying alive. Texts that sound as if they were entries of an intimate diary. The streets of san Francisco and the stories this city hides. a film about landscapes, both physical and emotional.
In spring 1938 in the mountains in the north of Chile a fiery UFO, later named ‘Chilean Sphere’, fell down. The investigation of this episode, made by a film crew, has led to sensational discovery. It appeared that that before the Second World War (in the thirties) in the USSR a secret space program had been developed. The Soviet scientists and military authorities managed to launch the first spacecraft with a cosmonaut on board 23 years prior to Jury Gagarin’s flight.
The Ukranian steppe, toward the end of World War II. The German and Romanian troops are retreating in the face of the unstoppable Red Army. In a deserted school, a Romanian military unit has set up its headquarters. In front of maps become useless, the Romanian officers are awaiting disaster. A visit of a high ranking Wehrmacht officers is suddenly announced. Hope is awakened: will they receive new orders? Will they counterattack? Will the chaos of retreat end? But disappointment comes quickly…
Based on a book composed of some letters from the prison by Rosa Luxemburg, written between July 1919 and October 1918. And the inherent refrains: birds singing, vegetables, passages of colors and sounds. This regarding the inner events. As for the exterior ones: the October Revolution, the First World War, Chaplin, Klee. The histories present, and their blends. Destinies.
What You Do ‚ A practical guide. This book shows you how to use your model A1. Using one hundred and twenty three illustrations, it shows how even the hopeless can make a film.
It’s the story of a young girl in rupture, somewhere in the countryside, in a kingdom. It’s summer. She has to study for her examens. Gerda finds herself back at her aunts house. She had not seen then for years, since her mother died. It’s 1985. There is a tape in the cassette deck full of reverb. It’s crisis. Gerda has to do some choices, choices which must lead to see other horizons. Around her, some convulsions: a time is finishing.
From a mere technical point of view the tv/video screen comes alive by a controlled beam of electrons in the cathode ray tube. For ‘Energie!’ an uncontrolled high voltage discharge of approx. 30.000 volts exposes photographic paper which is then arranged in time to create new visual systems of electron organization.
Like a walk through the dreams of another. The sun shines through the treetops and leaves, the sky is reflected in a lake, and on the banks of the short there lie people with ticks. They make grimaces, or yell obscene words in the middle of someone else’s sentence. Some are introverts, other are actors. What will happen this time if my limbs twitch, or if I scream? What kind of scream is this? One says it’s a cry for love. Wrong, says another, looking for an argument. It’s a cry for authenticity. (Renée Zucker)
At first glance everything seems motionless. A street, passers-by, a sunset, all accompanied by electronic humming: Current Shot 01 consists of a single 15-minute shot. The picture is framed by the upper bodies of two people looking into the light of the setting sun. But the apparent stillness of the shot turns out to be deceptive. The detail oscillates between animated photography film still and tableau vivant. “
The primal impulse, the moment of light, is the trigger for a view searching for this situation in space. In intervals of dawn our gaze searches for a motion that cannot be located within the image. Due to unpredictable shifts of the images length, we self produce the motion in between the frames. The labyrinth of connections between the motion images traps the gaze, and no longer lets it free.
A one-night party, love with music: Cape to the North, on a northern soul beat.
The third part in a series of films dealing with naturally-derived psychedelia. Shot during a performance by Rhode Island noise band Lightning Bolt, this film documents the transformation of a rock audience’s collective freak-out into a trance ritual of the highest spiritual order.
In Singapore, censorship is fairly strict. So when the film maker filmed an erect penis, he knew he could never screen it at home. And he might go to jail.
