П'ятеро шкільних друзів вирішують провести разом вихідні на День Незалежності - та чи вийде з цього щось серйозне, адже пройшло цілих тридцять років відтоді, як вони сиділи за партами.
Державний службовець Ватанабе дізнався про жахливий вирок – через хворобу жити йому лишилося щонайбільше – рік. Ця звістка змусила його переглянути усе своє життя – і непорозуміння із сином, і роботу на бюрократичну бездушну машину, і лицемірство суспільства. Збагнувши, що життя змарновано, він вирішує зробити бодай одну добру справу – побудувати дитячий майданчик на місці захаращеної пустки на околиці міста. Колись покірний і безвільний чиновник перетворюється на борця – він не поступається ані перед гнівом начальників, ані перед відвертими погрозами бандитів і задля втілення своєї мрії проходить усі кола бюрократичного пекла до кінця.
Літня подружня пара їде до Токіо провідати своїх старших дітей: сина, який став лікарем, і дочку, яка відкрила салон краси. Але діти дуже зайняті роботою і зовсім не мають часу на своїх батьків. Щоб якось зайняти батьків, вони відправляють їх на курорт до Атамі. Після безсонної ночі на галасливому курорті батьки повертаються назад і приймають рішення їхати додому, оскільки розуміють, що для всіх буде найкраще, якщо вони поїдуть і не заважатимуть сім'ям дітей жити своїм життям, в якому для них місця вже немає.
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband, Bhupati. Realizing that his wife is alienated and unhappy, he convinces his cousin, Amal, to spend time with Charulata and nourish her creative impulses. Amal is a fledgling poet himself, and he and Charulata bond over their shared love of art. But over time a sexual attraction develops, with heartbreaking results. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation and Merchant and Ivory Foundation in 1996.
In Italy, small-town newlyweds Wanda and Ivan Cavalli embark on their honeymoon in the big city of Rome. Ivan dutifully wants to keep appointments with family and church, but Wanda is only interested in meeting her favorite photo-strip star known as "The White Sheik". While Wanda impetuously sneaks away to locate the object of her affections, disconsolate Ivan tries his hardest to keep up appearances with the couple's relatives.
A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
Agostino is a 13-year-old boy on vacation in Venice with his widowed mother. When a local stud seduces her, jealous Agostino joins a local group of juvenile delinquents out of protest. They force him to face his budding sexuality..
Louis Jordan's Orchestra perform Jordan Jive. Setting is a canteen, with the orchestra and audience in US military uniform. The Swing Maniacs go through some extremely strenuous acrobatic dancing.
At the Katnip Kollege, we see a roomful of cats taking a course in Swingology. Everyone swings except Johnny, who can't cut it and has to sit in the dunce chair. Miss Kitty Bright tells him to look her up when he learns how to swing. Finally, listening to the pendulum clock at night, Johnny gets the beat. He rushes out to where everyone is playing and sings "Easy As Rollin' Off a Log" to Kitty Bright. She joins in; he grabs a trumpet for an instrumental break, with the complete band. They both fall off a log; she covers him with kisses.
Living in the forest, little spider Temi dreams of catching the Moon. For that, she will do anything.
Julia Whitman and her daughter Jody flee their husband and father’s violence to a doomsday paradise. Julia meets Matthey Haley in New Zealand and falls in love despite her inner resistance. However, the shadows of the past will not let you forget. Julia's ex-husband, Charles, who follows in the footsteps of his wife and daughter, shows up on the island.
In the absence of the genuine article, stable boy Pandoy serves as the Panday, forging a magic sword out of a meteorite and fighting pirates and white slavers. The film features a subplot of Pandoy having to choose between two romantic interests.
A short film of the last day of summer that never ends.
Two instants separated by 99 days conflict with each other.
The professor shows his power to Mephisto by mysteriously placing a young lady in a swing. Mephisto then shows his power by making the young lady disappear from the swing, to the surprise of the professor. The professor makes another mystic pass and produces a second young lady then in the swing, and also a skeleton.
A look at what the future might hold for us all
In this musical, a con man makes a good living by promoting bogus charity shows. He gets the communities all revved up and then skips town with all their money. But then he meets three earnest people wanting to garner financial support for an orphanage. This time the con man's loyal assistant finally catches on to the wicked scam and turns him in to the police. Meanwhile, the newly reformed assistant and one of the charity workers fall in loves.
A Playground Day is a single-channel screen-recorded video with a voiceover of a narration of a fictional playground trip with my sisters. Through the illegible 3D scans of the playground, I constructed a fragmented visual story that depicts reimagination and faded memories. The self-referential voiceover serves as an index to the process of making this video, I had let the visuals of the video take its course and simply follow along, making up unscripted stories along the way.