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A sumptious and compelling film adaptation of one of Australia's boldest contemporary operatic works by Andrew & Julianne Schultz. Seen through the eyes of its central character, Miriam, an Aboriginal woman, whose son recently died in police custody and performed by the award winning mezzo soprano, Maroochy Barambah, the film portrays the tormented world of injustice; past and present perpetuated against indigenous Australians.
Last in the series.
We follow the workers at the end station of society. Their job is to take care of slaughterhouse waste.
A film director is compelled to struggle and go to jail for portraying the bad sides of society and politics.
An old man has carried out a secret experiment in a windmill shed. One night a couple meets there. Mysterious words appear on their faces and they lose their memories.
Forgotten Tenor pays tribute to Wardell Gray, considered by many one of the greatest and most unheralded tenor saxophonists in American Black Classical Music. Utilizing a combination of rare archival footage, family photographs, memorabilia, and conversations with family and colleagues, the film attemps to resurrect the presence of this great musician and pay tribute to his accomplishments.
The story of frivolous and lecherous emperor Qianlong's search for a morally upstanding person is told in a fashion that smartly fuses the puppet proscenium with the conventions of cinematic language. While everything is obviously arranged on a stage, the camera moves freely around in this environment, getting close to the puppets or setting them up in deep focus shots. The result is deeply enchanting, with the puppets soon feeling like living creatures of a very special kind, whose presence and company one cheerfully enjoys.
A girl dancing, repeated movements; Two layers of film superimposed and shifting in a complex rhythm, accompanied by an African drum. The making of MENI consisted of an obsessive unraveling of a series of dance movements. The movements were cut into very short fragments (0.5 to 1.5 seconds). These fragments are edited into repeating patterns. Through exchanging fragments and double exposure the film becomes an intriguing and complex rhythm.
Winter of 1919, Petrograd. The wind of destruction is blowing through the city. In a frozen apartment, an Oriental professor sees a living incarnation of the Buddha... A Buddha statue found by a professor many years ago in the Gobi Desert turns his life upside down: by the decision of the revolutionary government, he is included in a group that must return the statue to a Mongolian monastery in exchange for cattle for starving Petrograd. Unusual travelers gathered in a cold carriage around a bronze statue. Everyone pursues their own goal...
In this illuminating study of cultural contrasts, American filmmaker Lynne Sachs and her sister, Dana, travel north from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi, recording conversations with Vietnamese strangers and friends. The sisters' expansive travel diary covers tourism, insights into city life, pervasive culture clashes and a bracing historic inquiry. What begins as a picaresque road trip soon blossoms into a richer social and political discourse.
Enjoy your favorite extreme skiers and boarders in some of the most beautiful and deepest powder ever. Chamonix, La Grave in France, Big Sky and Bridger Bowl in Montana, Mammoth Mountain, also Island lake Lodge, Red Mountain and Whistler in Canada. You will see all of the usual suspects and even some eccentric snow bums. Glen Plake's massive Mohawk will be around for anyone willing to rubber neck. Featured music includes Seal, 808 State, The Beastie Boys, Meshell Ndegeocello, Billy Idol, Dinosaur Jr. and Deee-lite.
Based on the stories and songs of Haya Shenhav.
Mr. Krása’s not your ordinary country farmer – he’s also a DIY-er and amateur inventor. When reporters come to interview him one day while in the middle of mowing his lawn and gathering chicken eggs, he introduces them to his inventions: a lawnmower, a cooling oven, and most notably his singing robot Karel, who’s managed to take over the world with his infectious songs. A film grotesque and mockumentary about the origin of a Czech music legend.
Short documentary about Lazaro Cardenas' presidency.
Four persons get involved in unexpected events. The seemingly quiet life of a 40-year old couple Alexandra and Antoni, will be disturbed when almost simultaneously two unexpected people occur in their lives. Stephanos the famous Greek composer from abroad who comes to Greece every year and gives unique and peculiar performances and Klairi an impressive 18-year old girl. Two persons that will drive Antonis and Alexandra in erotic adventures in an attempt to escape from their marital crisis. A film about love, personal relationships and the small details that determine our feelings and our communication with those around us.
In his film 'La tête dans les nuages' ('Head in the Clouds') Jean-Marie Teno criticizes the ills of the modern world and the regression of African societies. This short documentary shows the capital of the Cameroon, Yaondé, but might equally show other African cities: heaps of rubbish lie at the edge of streets, academics are out of work, officials unpaid, corruption is the norm, and misery everywhere. For Jean-Marie Teno 'colonization, civilization, independence, then humanitarian talk are merely excuses and theatrical gestures to ensure that Africa remains the place which foreign powers can exploit with a good conscience.'
This film was made for the Grande Galerie in the National Natural History Museum in Paris, retracing the major stages of its recent restoration.
The traditional conflict between the daughter-in-law and the daughter-in-law is resolved in the expressive manner of a poetics-symbolic cinema and a philosophical parable.
A woman is setting the table for dinner. Her husband does not come; she waits. Finally, an (unexpected) visitor suprises her.
Toward the latter part of his life, George Balanchine talked about creating a "dictionary" of his technique, a visual reference for the students of ballet. The George Balanchine Foundation has helped to fulfill his wish by producing 'The Balanchine Essays". This part is about Transfer of Weight.
Rio Funk is a project about kids from favelas in Rio how to get hope and learn how to escape from their indistinct fate to be drug dealers in the future.
When his cat proves too lazy to lift a paw, a man resorts to setting mousetraps in order to catch an elusive, annoying critter.
Unfinished 8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada.
When things seemed to be slipping away from human control, offering offerings and sacrifices were the only hope for a successful harvest and, ultimately, survival. The film reconstructs a time when life revolved around the seasons and, with the help of the memories of the oldest, the author transposes long-forgotten customs.
Alejandro Cotto, a pioneer of Salvadoran cinema, celebrates his 63rd birthday in Suchitoto while the youth celebrate the end of the civil war. He speaks with Escalón about the struggles faced by Third World filmmakers, the horrors of war, the fate of his village, and the pursuit of his dreams.
In Aquavitae, director Vanessa Jopp shows a transgender woman self reflecting on the creative potential and limitations of gender.
A portrait of the filmmakers Bärbel Freund and Karl Heil like a song in its changing verses, the locations were chosen according to mood and season: in spring, in snow, in Venice, in the flat, alone and together.
When the young King Danjong accedes to the throne, the Court is in chaos. In this moment, Han Myeong-Hoe, who feels strongly the absurdity of the society, appears. He cherishes an ambition with the help of his friend Kwon Rang. The plot of Han Myeong-Hoe kills Kim Jong-Seo and Hwang Bo-In, who grope for the regency of the King Anpyeong. After that, his plot kills the scholars of Jibhyeonjeon, who plan for comeback of Danjong, as well. Han Myeong-Hoe obtains a high government position twice in the chaos of the death of the King Keumseong and the exile of the King Danjong.
One of Klahr's masterpieces, Altair is an 8 minute collage color -noir culled from late-40s pages of Cosmopolitan, which induces a sense of claustrophobia and dread through its use of Stravinsky's The Firebird.
A fairytale for Ochberg’s grandchildren, Dylan and Jake, the boys imagine an original world to explore using their new crayons. The detailed backgrounds of the forest evoke Ochberg’s still work and embroidery. Each pixel is woven like thread, creating lush tapestry-like environments for the protagonists to get lost in.
With Lola, her dog, the cleaning lady, the doctor, the television: the prostitute Lola works a lot while her dog Fifi watches television non-stop. One day, the animal attacks the humans.
Fred Dinenage looks back at some of the highlights of Meridian's first year on air.
A movie of intense nature.
Nobue, a reporter, wanders around Osaka's red-light district in search of the legendary soapland girl Miiko in order to write an article about her. When Nobue finds Miiko working in Tobita Shinchi, he ends up peeking at her play from inside the closet...
Shakespeare's witty battle of the sexes is given a fresh airing in puppet animation. The unlikely bonding of a headstrong Kate and domineering Petruchio is only one aspect of a play about change and the magical transformations that theatre can produce.
Snip. cut and style.
Animated film set to Chopin's Waltz in B Minor.
A 1994 Philippine action film starring Ronnie Ricketts.
Movement, glance, rhythm and hints. Meetings on fragrant meadows and in enclosed training rooms. Joy, sweat, disciplined training and physical presence. A film about the dialogue between man and woman, but also between cultures, generations and social classes.
Once again, this Armenian Canadian filmmaker proves that she is the world’s best alchemist of handmade abstract film, this time taking on the aesthetic of her contemporaries, Mike and Doug Starn. A natural homage and collaboration, in that Torossian's own darkroom techniques of decaying and obliterating the surface of film echo the Starns’ approach to photography in deterioration. Drowning In Flames is a spectacularly mesmerising non-stop express train of images from art history books mutilated into submission. No computer could create the kind of organic textures that seem to peel off the screen, and the effect is akin to an ancient manuscript crumbling in your hands as you turn the page.
Sharon Lockhart's debut film from 1994 is divided into three parts. All parts are linked in showing the progression of a devastating skin disease of two ten-year-old boys which is successively revealed to be the progression of a skilfully applied special effects make-up. Shot against coloured backdrops, the first sections show portraits of the boys who are introduced by preceding titles as Khalil and Shaun. The third section is a dramatic sequence based on one of the last scenes in John Cassavetes's film A Woman Under the Influence (1974). Lockhart refrains from reproducing the scene literally. Instead, she places and collapses several moments into one, amplifying the main theme of the film - the attempt to pretend that everything is okay. Shaun is presented with his face horribly disfigured by blisters and wounds. His mother's pledges of future happiness thus become rather ominous.
In this non-orange negative of a hand-painted film, a series of luminously pastel shapes – often patches of color against a stark white background – are interspersed with nearly black intermittent smudges punctuating white. These visual themes develop gradually into a series of multi-colored vertical lines which weave contrapunctally in relation to the flickering (single-frame) paint shapes. Twice, a solid (as if photographed) shape is seen receding from the amalgam of paint. Masses of tiny dots and "curlicue" shapes sometimes interrupt the thematic progression from irregular paint-shape flickerings to fluidity of vertical lines: this theme eventually resolves itself through the intervention of globular shapes (most notably, brilliant orange-yellow "globs") which spread themselves over several frames and prompt the eventual amalgamation of all themes.
This was funded by the Arts Council as a test or pilot for their ‘Long Format Experimenta’ scheme. Although short-listed it was not commissioned as a feature-length project. Andrew Kötting then worked with Ben Woolford of Tall Stories on the idea of including Gladys and Eden as central characters in a version that was eventually developed and realised by the BFI.
It is the Friday before a long weekend; the hours of an afternoon in an unbearable hot summer. Karl, the employee, is given one last job to complete.
Imax simulated experience short
K-1 Grand Prix ’94
A group of university students goes on an archaeological expedition into the mountains, where they find a rare gold mask.