An alternative look to the famous film of Yoko Ono in the 60’s. A sound/performance/object that goes beyound limits.
Secção: Observatório
Pascal, is a literature student who lives in a studio apartment in the Rue Saint-Jacques. His girlfriend Christine often stays over. Sarah, is a classical singer. She lives in a nicer apartment with her boyfriend Manuel, who is a computer programmerm and she sings in a baroque ensemble under the direction of a conductor she calls the Unnameable. Pascal and Sarah don’t know each other, but they have two things in common: they both live with people who love them without understanding who they really are, and they are both filled with melancholy. Their meeting happens within a baroque essence, just as Sarah had once defined it: It’s like being two persons at the same time, but one of them is alive because the other one is dead. Hearing Sarah’s moving voice singing Lamento della Ninfa by Monteverdi, Pont des Arts extends throughout La Seine river, a bridge built by men to overcome the emptiness of the city, and to join, in a single place, life and death.
Why bother dragging around one’s shadow? A man whitout shadow discovers that the absence of a shadow can be a humiliating handicap. After fleeing to the far corners of the earth, he ends up in Bali, in a theatre of shadows puppets, where he discovers the true worth of shadows.
In this narration-less documentary, the family of Hong Sun Hui, a female worker in a textile factory, is taking us through an ordinary day in the country of the beloved leader Kim Jong II. The system of indoctrination, control and self-criticism seems both frightening and ridiculous.
Settled somewhere in nowhere in the south region in Russia, the film tells the story of people living in one of the most radioactive contaminated spots on earth. Unknown to a wide public, this region was repeatedly irradiated by different accidents of the nuclear facility Mayak, which was the first plant for the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons in the Soviet Union and which is still in operation.
Olympic Games in miniature. The scores, the podium, the medals… Everything, in the most famous swimming competition of the world… In the back of my garden.
Tokyo. The Shibuya train station. At the end of the day, office workers and students pile onto a subway car. The expressions captured are bland and uninterested. A ritualised magic-show. The human activity of boarding an already full train.
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. “
Two nearby villages in Kurdistan are separated from each other by the mined border. Although now the inhabitants of these villages can’t communicate freely, young couples are still trying to unite their lives.
Run or stay? Jim searches for the eternal answer to the problem of human existence‚Ķ.But occasionally, it’s the wrong day to ask.
One of the pioneers of Canadian animation. Poor beggar. An artist unable to create. Fallen angel. Arrogant. Shy. Broken. Not destroyed. It is based on the life of Ryan Larkin, a Canadian animator who, thirty years ago, produced some of the most influential animated films of his time.
A 12 year old boy leaves his grandmother and goes to work the land with the man. During the labour they are disturbed by the voices of interlopers. The boy is sent to find out more and discovers the old woman is conjuring spirits of death into the forest.
A fake science-fiction movie about the way we live now. A girl drops into the ocean from outer space. A bring from a distant constellation called Monday, she has assumed the human form of a beatiful young woman in order to look for her friend who arrived years before and whom she suspects is in trouble; caught perhaps in the body he has assumed. On the heels of the Great Revolution, the city-state of NYC has been liberated by Triple M, the Major Multimedia Monopoly which has brought into being the Dictatorship of the Consumer, securing for the citizens greater choice, personal autonomy and technological progress. Jack Bell is responsable for the Human Value Reform Act. Citizens are now public offerings on the stock exchange; each time they have sex their value increases depending on the current state of the market. Horrified at the dehumanizing consequences of his suggestions, Jack is the secret leader of the Counter Revolution. The beautiful junior executive he works with, Cecile, ends up taking part of Jack’s counter revolution.
“A Man” is a story about a man called George, a dishwasher who lives in a trailer and he meets Constance his old girlfriens who has left her husband. In the end, Constance returns to her husband.
A farmer is experiencing problems with his sleepdog’s work. But what should we do?
A precious necklace. A marriage proposal. A theft. Mrs. Thief (Mandy), a prominent high-society woman and successful executive, pursues all things beautiful, especially invaluable jewels. That’s why she can’t refuse the marriage proposal if the great business man, Steve, when he offers her his family treasure. On the eve of the marriage, two mysterious gangs show up and steal his fortune. The wedding is put off and suspicion grows. Mrs. Thief believes her ex-husband, the famous and charming Mr. Thief (Alex), is behind the heist. A game. All the games. After following separate paths for a number of yearsm the couple meets again while fighting for a common goal. Mrs. Thief is certain her ex-husband stole the treasure in order to sabotage the marriage and earn back her attention. She is determined to use all means available to get him to confess. Mr. Thief, who insists he’s innocent, seizes this opportunity to reignite Mrs. Thief’s feelings towards himself. A game of cat and mouse, seduction and jealousy ensues.
On the trail of Ten, Abbas Kiarostami takes us to the heart of a creative process of his films and reveals to us a complete body of work. An incisive reflection on cinema.
A woman connects to the Internet. She not only embraces technology but surrenders to it entirely as she downloads her body and soul to her electronic lover. In this world of Pandora’s boxes, sexual desire and dehumanizing machine interwine till they’re finally and brutally disconnected.