Citizen Monikin: The Person and the City is an ambient film concerning the play "The Pre-last of the Monikins - A monologue without a beginning and without an end" of Paris Tacopoulos. It is a film in Beckett's style-atmosphere and Joyce's style-content as a narrative peculiarity imposed by oral speech when encountering the moving image. The filmmaker, as the manager of his own look, always aims at the realm of the "other person".
Citizen Monikin: The Person and the City is an ambient film concerning the play "The Pre-last of the Monikins - A monologue without a beginning and without an end" of Paris Tacopoulos. It is a film in Beckett's style-atmosphere and Joyce's style-content as a narrative peculiarity imposed by oral speech when encountering the moving image. The filmmaker, as the manager of his own look, always aims at the realm of the "other person".
Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare.
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.
Set in the glamour of the New York and Paris art scenes, gallery owner Brooke Gatwick and her newscaster husband Owen Shore, face temptation, jealousy, twists and mystery when two seductive newcomers enter their lives.
The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
An in-depth investigation into the private world of the American writer J. D. Salinger (1919-2010), who lived most of his life behind the impenetrable wall of a self-imposed seclusion: how his dramatic experiences during World War II influenced his life and work, his relationships with very young women, his obsessive writing methods, his many literary secrets.
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter.
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. So begins a long night…