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In this homage, Louise Lecavalier's creative vision is fully explored, illuminating a woman in perpetual motion, spiritually, mentally and physically.
Experimental short by Jun'ichi Okuyama.
Constructed from the delays in real-time video feedback and recorded onto black-and-white 16mm, this film summons both Muybridge and Duchamp through a hallucinatory mise-en-abyme.
nseparable barriers limit the vital space of human activities. Pedestrians emerge from static lines, isolated in the outline of their bodies, only to disappear once more when they encounter the next boundary. Underpinned by an electronic soundscape, Le silence est en marche questions spatial and social conditioning.
The museum-like calm of historical clay figures and vessels from different epochs is over, as voices from the present begin to drive them. The dictate of efficiency results in an oppressive endless loop of busy standstill.
Film reportage of a kinetic, abstract work by Richard Mortensen.
A day in the life of three inhabitants of Hasaluth in 1951.
Richie captures the strange rhythm of sumo, where the wrestlers quietly and repeatedly face off—eye to eye—before smashing into each other. He focuses on the rippling muscles of the bodies, suspended, then in furious motion.
Effects of refractional experiments put in the language of the film.
They go out with slogans on streets, climb with flash-lights on the roofs, they want to be noticed. Why? They are 18-20 years old, they are in motion. What for?
Eight of the strongest athletes from different parts of the world are fighting for a chance to get to Sochi.
Through the eyes of eight filmmakers "Nahui Ollin, Sun Of Motion" explores several sites in Mexico to reveal how climate change has been advancing in one of the countries with the highest biodiversity globally. Corals, glaciers, seas, mangroves, rivers, mountains, fields and cities have witnessed the advancement of what may represent the greatest threat to human kind in this age. Through the voices of the inhabitants in different parts of the country, we will witness the adaptation as well as the mitigation that is carried out in their communities.
A trucker and his friend who gets mixed up with the wrong crowd
It all begins with a childhood memory: that day when the father of the future filmmaker Sebastiano d'Ayala Valva forces him to listen to certain music that initially terrifies him; a distant echo from the past that leads him to follow the trail of his mysterious ancestor, the Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), who claimed that his music was directly inspired by the gods.
Rather than writing a simple letter to explain his absence from the press conference for his latest Cannes entry, "Goodbye to Language," at the Cannes Film Festival, instead, legendary filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard created a video "Letter in motion to (Cannes president) Gilles Jacob and (artistic director) Thierry Fremaux." The video intercuts from Godard speaking cryptically about his "path" to key scenes from Godard classics such as "Alphaville" and "King Lear" with Burgess Meredith and Molly Ringwald, and quotes poet Jacques Prevert and philosopher Hannah Arendt.
Mouvement de lumière (Motion of light), which is comprised of noise music and lines hand-painted directly onto the film, attempts to break free of a visual and sound-based order through abstraction, thereby initiating a process centred on inner sensation. A radical proposition of power inherent in film. Music by Olivier Borzeix.
From a collaboration between the Murmurante Theater and Línea de Sombra Theater, arises El viaje immóvil, a study on suicide. With testimonies of the members of the P.I.A.S. (Comprehensive Suicide Attention Program), a woman expresses her decision to take her life. Through her performative actions, she forces us to accompany her on this purpose-built journey to formulate questions and dispel myths about suicide. Is it a creation? It's spread? Is it a mental health problem or is it a social problem?
Niuniu, a wealthy middle aged woman living in Beijing, discovers that her husband is having an affair after coming upon a romantic e-mail. She knows only that it is one of her close friends but not which one. Determined to discover the truth, she invites her friends Qinqin, a ditsy actress, Lala, a successful artist, and Madam Ye, a property developer over to her lavish siheyuan home. There the four women share stories of their sexual past over food and mahjong. Niuniu, however, still has her plan to execute...