冬の間は豪雪で閉鎖されるホテルの管理人職を得た小説家志望のジャック・トランスは、妻のウェンディーと心霊能力のある息子ダニーとともにホテルへやってくる。そのホテルでは、かつて精神に異常をきたした管理人が家族を惨殺するという事件が起きており、当初は何も気にしていなかったジャックも、次第に邪悪な意思に飲みこまれていく。
A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
常人離れした知能指数を持つが日常生活には順応できない男、マックス・コーエンは自作のスーパーコンピュータを用いて日々株式市場の予測を行っていた。「世界に存在する事象のすべてはそれぞれ一つの数式で理解できる」と信じる彼の前に、ある日コンピュータが巨大な数字の塊を吐き出した。216桁のその数字には、かつて円周率 (π) を研究していたマックスの師ソルも辿り着いていた。彼はその日を境に216桁の数字が持つ不可思議な魔力に取り付かれていく。
Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.
特殊な能力を持ち、口のきけない少女エレナは 狂った科学者アルボリアに捕らえれ、 実験材料として施設に監禁される。 彼女は施設を脱出して逃亡しようとするが、行く手を阻まれる...
荒野を歩き続けていた男の意識が、やがて錯乱の淵へ堕ちていく悪夢譚、「火星の運河」。殺人事件の現場に残された和鏡の謎を追う、美青年・透と明智小五郎の物語「鏡地獄」。廃墟でひっそりと暮らす、胴体だけの夫とその妻の奇行を、一人の男が屋根裏から監視し記録する「芋虫」。恋焦がれる女優を殺害した運転手の、異常な執着を描く「蟲」。4つの物語は、やがてひとつの大きな流れへと向かっていく。
Suppressed memories reach a boiling point. An animated tale of longing. “The Experimental section saw Non Films’ Dull Hope scoop the premier place as category winner. Half animation and half movie footage, this hybrid resonated very much with the judging panel who deemed it to be a sad dirge on personal memories and heartbreak.” – The Guardian Directed & Animated by Brian Ratigan
Music & Sound Design by Nick Punch (R.I.P.)
Produced by Non Films
Lost Boundaries is comprised of footage shot by Julien on location, in England in the summer of 1985, during the making of the Sankofa film and video collective's first experimental feature film The Passion of Remembrance (1986), which he co-directed with Maureen Blackwood, another member of the collective. In recapturing those moment Lost Boundaries both deconstructs and foregrounds the means of 16mm film production while weaving together a fragile community of Black artists and actors who came to prominence at a time when debates in film theory - such as those of the Screen film journal and of "third cinema" discourses where cinema was intertwined within (Brechtian) filmmaking practices - were at the forefront of forging a new politics of artistic representation. A Black avant-garde.
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A young man wakes up in a dingy bathroom, where the lifeless body of a woman lies in a tub full of flowers. He doesn't know what he's doing here and tries to escape the nightmare he's woken up in.
A dreamy, impressionistic 16mm film of light on water, comprised mostly of sepia tones.
Seeing himself as a form unable to experience intimacy, he is given the chance when brought to the household of twin sisters.
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