Journey to the West, by Tsai Ming Liang follows a Buddhist monk on a wondrously patient journey throughout the city of Marseille city of Marseille; there is also a second man played by Denis Lavant whose presence in the film begins as almost omniscient – or at least physically abstracted – until he finally manifests in the French streets following the monk in a careful replication of his measured pace.
A momentary still life, a scene setting: ironing board, iron, and a pile of shirts; is Livepan a humorous scene?
An ordinary man with an ordinary life joins a mysterious club. The membership lasts for one year only and there is one rule: no cancellation under any circumstance. The man enters into a whole new exciting world he never before experienced where crazy love goes wilder and crazier. Is it an illusion or is it real? Welcome to the world no one has dared to explore until now!
In 1912, Arnold Schonberg composed Pierrot Lunaire from the collection of poems written by Albert Giraud; in 2011, conductor Premil Petrovic invited Bruce LaBruce to direct a theatre version of Pierrot Lunaire based on Austrian composer’s the notion of cabaret; in 2013, Bruce LaBruce takes Pierrot Lunaire to the streets of Berlin and with Petrovic’s interpretation of Schonberg’s music, shots a story of desire, love and transgression, in which a woman dressed as a man seduces a young girl who doesn’t suspect that her lover is actually a female.
Sleeping Image is a “film-experience” that lets us see the development of 25 Polaroids and the imagination they contain; in a continuous, fluid motion, the film offers a way through a hostile and fascinating world, where violence and suffering stand alongside hope.
Three different locations of prostitution: Thailand, Bangladesh and Mexico. The first part is set in a fish tank brothel, where the prostitutes are sitting behind a lit glass like models ready for a runway, where customers chose. Prostitution in Thaland is an everyday routine, a customer service, an entertainment business in contrast with the two other cities. In Bangladesh, women are approaching their job as a social service. If they didn’t perform their services men would be raping women on the streets. They sacrifice their sence of shame everyday for money. In México, we are getting literally the glory of the profession, where Glawogger is filming a prostitute at her service. Worderful images exceptionally edited accompanied by the sounds of PJ Harvey and Cocorosie constitute a voyeuristic camvas on the oldest profession. (Nina Veligradi)
The time, right before the French Revolution of 1789, the hero, Louis Mandrin a notorious outlaw famous for his trafficking contraband out of the French borders. He is caught and executed and his companions led financially by the idealist aristocrat Marquis of Levezin (Jacques Nolot), they started an underground network to publicize Mandrin’s poems and songs. A period drama, a representation of an era long gone and yet so contemporary, filled with poetry at a unique open space where cinema meets history and politics. Thieves, murderers, poets, rebellious and vengeful warriors signify the beginning of the French Revolution through their intense and progressive spirit. The need of freedom is evident throughout the film, not only by its brutal lyricism but also by the crude French landscape that becomes itself a character. (Nina Veligradi)
In his latest work, Nicolas Philibert films animals set to extracts read from Rousseau’s L’Essai sur l’origine des langues that questions the social role of language and its origins.
A key figure of the international terrorism of the 70’s and 80’s, Carlos, “the Jackal”, was associated with the extreme-right and, at the same time, considered an opportunistic mercenary working for the secret services of the Asian governments. United wit
A film in 16mm black and white. Through its double exposure, Todd reaches the delicacy of a visual poetry near abstraction. Its strong contrast between light and shadows, the image’s texture and the sound’s subtlety, take us into the landscapes of a dream
Integrated in the “Civic Life” project (IndieLisboa 2009), this new segment intertwines stories of people who need to raise their own voices. Leo and Veronica have something to tell; grandmother made a decision and the granddaughter needs inspiration. It’
“Flag Mountain”‘s point of departure are a series of fixed images very precisely choose and a sound design that follows the population of Nicosia (Chipre). The Turkish flag will appear in the mountain in the north of the city and we hear the national Hymn
2008. Qingtian, Zhejiang province, People´s Republic of China. A small rural city from where Chinese immigrate to Europe. Jin Wang Ping is a young man who’s turn to leave his home town has arrived. Faced with the prospect, and process, of emigration, he will look for other’s advice.
Anne has a problem in her apartment: it trembles. One day she decides to solve the problem once and for all and stop with the domestic solutions that avoid the object’s vibrations. Just like a documentary, we discover neighbors and friends in interviews a
If our belief in faith is enough for us to go through the worst probation in life, and even risking it, what happens when we find the “noble savage” and he offers to help us? Kelly Reichardt ‘s return to IndieLisboa (after Old Joy and Wendy & Lucy), i
Through an initial sequence of rigorous fixed images, Seabra Lopes and Akerman present us a delicious comedy sewed with classical music. The poet is Goethe, the musician is Schubert. The three pupils dislike the teacher’s rigor and they are going to show
A disturbing film about the interior devils of each person. The effect “red eyes” registered in some photos turns into the leitmotiv of a story that balances between tenderness and pure horror. An ambiance film. And it’s not an ambiance we can breathe…
This Jay Rosenblatt’s essay follows an old man in a journey through what we could perceive as his memory. Archetypes of happiness in childhood, of normality as an adult and eventually, in the old age, of conscience of death. A tribute to his deceased fath