A forest must make way for an industrial park, but before the ugly nothingness destroys all beauty, it finds itself one last time in this equally beautiful film. Michael Heindl has assembled this impressively bitter swan song from thousands of photographs of tree bark from the forest that was later cleared.
A forest must make way for an industrial park, but before the ugly nothingness destroys all beauty, it finds itself one last time in this equally beautiful film. Michael Heindl has assembled this impressively bitter swan song from thousands of photographs of tree bark from the forest that was later cleared.
Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.
A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.
A suburban father gets trapped in a one-sided incestuous relationship with his abusive son.
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.
Four kayakers take the wrong river into a jungle inhabited by a tribe of merciless cannibals.
A man sees the dark side of the time-manipulating biotech company he works for when a crushing debt forces his wife to give up 40 years of her own life.
Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane, adolescent son Porter pushes for his parents to get a divorce.
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.