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Bluetits is the documentary short and directing debut from celebrated Cornish photographer Katie Burdon. The film follows founder Sian Richardson and early members of the beloved swimming group BlueTits, a now 100,000 strong organisation. A journey of self discovery and pure joie de vivre, Bluetits is a heartwarming and honest celebration of older women and the community that brings them together.
My first love, Michaël, died at the age of 20, killed in the Peruvian jungle in the fall of 2000. 22 years later, I go for the first time to the Amazon, under the direction of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, to the place where Michi lost his life.
It’s been six years since Michelle and Deja fell in love and things appear to be going from strength to strength. They’re newly engaged, remain obsessed with each other and still have mind-blowing sex.
"le corps soif d’autres corps // la soif corps d’autres soifs". B/W Super8 film flat printed by hand - some filtering by hand during digital transfer.
Paris capital of tragedy. Free and prisoner of your lights. "You wakes up goddess and hunt the satyr you are reborn on one side when on the other you die." Paris is a party Whirlwind of life.
three fractured letters written to a stranger, each lost in their demise.
Three directors prepare a film about the chemical factory in the Cologne district of Kalk, on whose former grounds a shopping mall has been built. With some self-mockery they talk about their investigation and search for sources, their capitulation to the resistance of the material. Meanwhile, an archivist struggles with a mis-spooled 16mm film. Historical images splutter across the monitor of his analogue editing table. The silhouette of the factory with its towering chimneys is discernible. Site plans are shown, chemicals are blithely mixed. In an album, the filmmakers discover faded photos of female forced labourers. Suddenly, questions arise: Which stories are kept, which forgotten? Throwing away is part of his job, after all, the archivist explains in the finest Rhenish accent. What does this statement mean for the directing trio?
A brilliant and witty portrait of life in the town of Cabrianes: the grandmothers' daily walks, the church, the orchards and the parties for the elderly.
In the near future, the drug of choice is memories, or MEMS. Groomed to deal people’s memories, Mel pushes back against her almost-like-family dealer, Hippo, who pressures her to sell the last good mems she has of her absent mother. And as she travels to the deal, memories of her mother invade her thoughts, confronting her with the very real possibility of losing her mum for good.
The history of trade union demands in the Piacenza textile sector in the 1960s and 1970s told through the voices of the women protagonists and the images of a struggling generation.
Alone, the little filou is bored. When he discovers a mysterious red thread, he decides to follow it to find out what lies at the end. Along the way, he’ll meet new friends, and together they’ll overcome many obstacles. Will they discover what’s at the end of the thread?
Experimental short. A glance inside a film projector, focusing on digital error and noise to amplify the analogue features.
Our perception gets a refreshing reboot in this brief and whirling piece by filmmaker Dionysios Tanteles who takes us on a fun ride to, um, outer space? Maybe. You have to see it for yourself: Spinning Sun, a short film inspired by literary theory. Think ‘defamiliarization’ or, as Anais Nin wrote in her 1968 The Future of the Novel, “It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see.”
The experience of a moonless night on the outskirts of the small town of Beaumont, Texas.
In a glowing, infinite space, “One” depicts the journey of an artist who faces adversity and transcends his reality to arrive at a higher consciousness of his art. Created and produced by Studio Simkin. Renowned choreographer David Dawson and star ballet dancer Daniil Simkin create an emotional journey that reflects the struggle and rebirth of artists in a changing world. By moving through fear, isolation, and distress, the dancer comes to understand the transformative power of his art and its potential to awaken new understanding.
In May, Field Music’s David Brewis brought a ten-piece band to the Howard Assembly Room to perform his new album The Soft Struggles. All-acoustic and jazz-inflected, The Soft Struggles takes one step away from Field Music’s eclectic palette and instead leans into the luminous spontaneity of Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks and the breathy, string-laden chamber pop of Colin Blunstone’s One Year, with several tracks built around a single day of live recording at Field Music’s studio in Sunderland. The ensemble featured Admiral Fallow’s Sarah Hayes on flute and piano, leading lights of North East jazz, Faye MacCalman and John Pope, on saxophone/clarinet and double bass, strings from regular collaborators The Crude Tarmac Quartet, Alan Hull, award-winning singer Eve Cole and David’s brother Peter on drums.
A work that explores María Luisa Pino's extensive career, according to her own testimony, as an expert in the field of film editing and special effects, working on many fantastic genre films that are part of the collective memory of universal cinematography.
While navigating through an arduous journey with lupus, Kate Appleby continually engages and wholeheartedly immerses herself in outdoor adventures. Spreading awareness of hidden illnesses, Kate has become a powerfully inspiring woman in the outdoor community. This documentary examines the psychological and physical benefits yielded through thoughtful and respectful engagement with one’s environment and explores the human connection to nature.
Before the foundation of Trieste, the lands of the Caput Adriae were already inhabited by our ancestors, the population of the castellieri. Hema is a joung girl who lives in the Iron Age in the castelliere of Elleri and like all children of all times she becomes attached to a small animal that she finds occasionaly. The father, a salt merchant, becomes the protagonist of a sad ritual that Hema, in a sort of game, will imitate. But a parallelism to the present day sees another little girl similar to Hema, who, being on an educational trip to the same hillford, accidentally brings to light an artifact that will evoke an emotional bond with the past. Present in every era the figure of a bird of prey who supervises the human events around the castelliere from above.
Suicide is the biggest cause of death of men under 50. The North East has the highest suicide rates in the UK. Grounding this crisis in a history of industrial decline, A Man’s Man focuses on seven working-class men who meet in a community hall to talk about their mental health – unearthing the common bonds that bring them together, the struggles that have been tearing them apart, and the processes that are leading to their healing.
H.264 infrared video – a compressed, wide-angle image of a security camera shows a sparse, exchangeable interior room in which a young woman resides. For professional reasons, she is monitoring office spaces and employees until she turns her gaze to the inside. Tanita Olbrich paints the psychogram of a fragile person to whom everything seems suspicious.
The Haitian government decides to develop a tourist project in the forgotten island of Île-à-Vache, an unexploited paradise in the Caribbean. What seems an opportunity for profit and common wealth becomes a nightmare for its people
“Words are the only instruments I have”, says Aslı Erdoğan in this powerful audiovisual collage. The writer, physicist and human rights activist who lives in exile in Berlin writes against the disappearance and loss of her own language. As a former political prisoner in Turkey, she knows only too well what autocratic violence and oppression intend: to silence people.
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The passions and pitfalls of a lifetime as actress and teacher, from the Russian Civil War through World War II, are shown from the exploits of Maria Ouspenskaya, who was born in Tula, Tsarist Russia in 1876 and died in Los Angeles, U.S. in 1949. Touched by her versatile performance of domination, care and otherness, my family and I unexpectedly find a new sense of belonging in Maria’s queer transcultural hybridity.
6/28/2020 : Grégory Doucet, a politics noboby, become the first mayor from the ecology movement of the third biggest city in France, Lyon. Out of the shadows into the limelight, Antonin Bachès followed him with his movie camera, through this incredible learning process of the field of politics.
Observing the everyday life, obstacles and creativity of one woman from St Helens, Merseyside; we follow Cath as she reaches 50 and takes stock of her journey in negotiating the balance between life and art. Having arrived at a point of now-or-never she revisits her alter-ego Kitty O'Shea in a final attempt to shift the balance from occasional maker to practising artist.
In this surreal realm, the spinning of the “thread of life” has evolved into a strange therapeutic spinning circle where the personal and bodily connections between the characters become the very machine that spins the thread. Rather than perceiving destiny as a large unfathomable matter, the characters connect it to the bodily experience of labor, birth, genetic inheritance and the spinning itself as a structure that provides the opportunity for change and transformation over time.
ABSTRART is part of an audiovisual artistic research project that tries to transfer expressive and emotional concepts to the screen with moving images and, therefore, intentionally lacks formal narrative and structural aspects. Any resemblance to reality is pure coincidence or a chance accident in the production process.
The title of this film translates to the Shona word “Gukurahundi,” a cynical euphemism which refers to a series of massacres, executed in wake of Zimbabwe’s liberation. The work unfolds as a mosaic, evoking ghosts in the shape of nationhood and ancestry.
Two exiled beings trade stories of kin, loss, folklore, and queer intimacy as they prepare for reincarnation in a forest. Jazz guides the journey as ghostly connections between Chinese, West African, and Caribbean migrant experiences are revealed and explored.
When the village outcast starts to hear strange sounds in the mountains, everyone except his little brother writes it off as another eccentric performance. He must focus now on finding a wife to redeem himself and secure his place in the social hierarchy, but the sounds keep growing louder and louder.
A sheep writes a letter to his sister whilst being prepared for a ritual.
"Bleiben" deals with Duc's search for identity. He grew up in Chemnitz and had to deal with the racist structures there. The film attempts to portray Duc's personal German-Vietnamese perspective and addresses the challenges faced by a young adult who first had to find his place in a predominantly white society.
This film is a surreal ode to Dave Brubeck’s 'Point of Jazz,' born from his reflections during a train ride, where the rhythm of life unfolded through a window. Set in the wake of the pandemic’s first wave, the film captures a couple trapped in a timeless bubble, where reality dissolves into imagination. Their love—both fragile and unyielding—emerges as a poignant symbol of hope and resilience.
Documentary made about the Escolania de Montserrat boys' choir and school by a current member of the choir with the participation of other members, presenting the school as the boys see it.
A forensic medicin student with a trouble relationship with her chaotic roommate tries to concentrate for an upcoming test.
A comparison between animation and continuous motion, Spinning uses various filming speeds in relation to the performing body, and with reference to a memory of Wonder Woman. One continuous physical rotation at the rate of 8fps motion equals one second of time and yields 8 separate film frames. Stop motion is then applied, such that the figure does not spin but rather is repositioned across eight, then four, and finally two poses. Upon projection, the film reconstitutes the impression of a continuous action, while the multiple simultaneous perspectives evoke Cubism.
The School of Free Thought is a philosophical project for people with mental retardation, a place where everyone is welcome, regardless of their abilities. The unusual is poetically integrated into the ordinary, appropriating what is natural to it, materializing a possible utopia.
In an increasingly liquid and stimulus-saturated reality, Ilaria finds herself on an emotional psychophysical journey while dancing her favorite child dance: Giro Tondo. In constant motion, body and mind manage to integrate without hindering each other, towards transformation.
A caveman tries to gain importance in his tribe thanks to an invention that could revolutionize humanity: the cigarette!
