B-ROLL with Andre: high definition as a spiritual purpose.
Secção: Silvestre
The normalization of gay and the erasure of difference.
“Atlantis” speaks of another utopia: how its idea has influenced our lives and ways of filming it.)
Neon bull is the story of a cowboy on the road that aspires to realise his dream of becoming a fashion designer. This is the second fiction film by Brazilian filmmaker Gabriel Mascaro.
“Bad at Dancing” is an uncomfortable portrait of someone who refuses to acknowledge the limits of intimacy.)
Tunisia, summer 2010, few months before the Revolution. A young woman fights for her dreams against her parents’ wishes and tries to have an active role in the country’s future through her music.
Franssou Prenant goes back to Argel, where she lived as the wife of the Madagascar’s ambassador. She shoots a polyphony that mixes her own memories with other visions of the city, digging into the past life of Argel.
Paranoia forces small-time scam artist Marty to flee his hometown and hide out in a dangerous Detroit. With nothing but a pocket full of bogus checks, his Power Glove, and a bad temper, the horror metal slacker lashes out.)
6A focuses on the distressing encounter between angry parents, a helpless teacher and three schoolgirls. While the parents exchange several accusations, the students Denise, Bella and Mina seem progressively left out.
Tomatoes + politics = #67
Brussels, La Monnaie Opera House. Three people near the end of their
lives meet with choreographers, actors and musicians. They take part
in a unique experience which involves music, dance and silence. Their
journey becomes a tribute to the fragility of the human condition, between
reality and representation, tragedy of the body and freedom of
the spirit. Together they question their own relationship with death.)
“Headlands Lookout” looks into the ecological and cultural heritage of the Pacific Coast.)
A young woman named Helen has found work as a forest fire lookout responsible for monitoring a large Maine woodland. While there she has made an inexplicable but lucrative discovery: by analyzing the images of the forest that surveillance cameras relay to her base in a seaside 19th century home, she is able to predict future developments and trends in the world financial market. Discreetly compensated for her services by stock market speculators, she finds security and intellectual satisfaction in her new work, but also increasing selfdoubt. Helen turns for help and assurance to Charlie, an old school friend. But when the inquisitive and demanding Charlie arrives at the house, Helen finds herself challenged and unsettled by her new colleague, and the two girls’ relationship begins to unravel.)
When his husband Frank is sent on a mission to Djibouti, Roger remains behind with his adopted daughter, the temperamental Roxy, at Fort Buchanan, a remote base in the middle of the woods. Over the course of the four seasons he seeks advice, company and consolation from a middle-aged woman, three pretty wives abandoned by their husbands, and a farmer-cum-personal-trainer, all of whom have their own romantic turmoil.)
“Hotel Straussberg” is a military-like prison for BDSM pleasuring.)
“I Am a Spy” is a study on observation and identity in a society ruled by information.)
Insects’ life and the memories of a past love haunt a colonial house in “Exuvie”. )
“In Waking Hours” reproduces the mechanism of a magic lantern inside a real eye to show us the source of images and cinema.)