Joseph K., giovane impiegato di banca, apprende di essere accusato davanti a un misterioso tribunale, ma non sa perché: non gli si dice quale sia il capo d'imputazione.
Aussie boys of Asian descent candidly discuss their status as a "minority within a minority".
A chance encounter backstage: Broken glass and a shared cigarette bring two strangers together. Three nights in which they learn to overcome social hierarchies and unrequited love. A short film inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel “White Nights”.
Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jhally offers a blistering analysis of commercial culture's inability to let go of reactionary gender representations. Jhally's starting point is the breakthrough work of the late sociologist Erving Goffman, whose 1959 book The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life prefigured the growing field of performance studies. Jhally applies Goffman's analysis of the body in print advertising to hundreds of print ads today, uncovering an astonishing pattern of regressive and destructive gender codes. By looking beyond advertising as a medium that simply sells products, and beyond analyses of gender that tend to focus on either biology or objectification, The Codes of Gender offers important insights into the social construction of masculinity and femininity, the relationship between gender and power, and the everyday performance of cultural norms.
Four cult members and their leader sit down for dinner after one member goes missing, leaving everyone's loyalties at risk.
Dorival, a man in jail, has only one wish: to take a bath. To achieve his objective, he defies the private, the corporal, the sargeant and, finally, the lieutenant in charge of the prison.
Human minds are corrupted by the thought that they are the superior one. The reality is often contradictory.
Sidnei is a young recruit of the fire department fighting forest fires in the Amazon. During his first mission, he will be separated from the group and will have to undertake a perilous mission, guided by his mentor, Joao. Sidnei will be confronted with a choice: follow the orders of the hierarchy or save a thousand-year-old tree at the risk of his life.
The Midnight Parasites è uno dei lavori più emblematici di Kuri Youji, dato che mostra le caratteristiche essenziali tipiche di tutta la sua produzione: un'atmosfera surreale, un senso dell'umorismo grottesco e inquietante, una realizzazione tecnica povera secondo gli standard odierni eppure voluta e immediatamente riconoscibile. Non si può parlare di una vera e propria trama in questo corto onirico, ispirato a un dipinto di Hieronymus Bosch. Siamo piuttosto di fronte a un catalogo di esseri grotteschi che predano o parassitano su un'umanità anch'essa deforme e quasi indifferente alla propria sorte. Il tutto sottolineato da una colonna sonora molto efficace, elettrica e pulsante, che rafforza la sensazione di irrealtà. "thanks Kurofune"
A King and Servant find themselves in the clutches of a potential Witch, however his deals seem too good to be true...