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People continue trifling habits, which is disconsolate. However, one day absurd incidents change little things and make a little hope.
People speak in conversations and banal situations, a loose, uncompromising, though sometimes tense and timid speech. It is these voices that tell minimal stories that the image unmasks, multiplies or breathes: universes that are people-house (or house-people) are anchored in boxes, bodies, secrets, desires, looks or in the ephemerality of the stories. In this flow, we access unstable territories, places of being in permanent construction - the inner house of each one.
C.H.Z. ("Continuously Habitable Zones") is linked to a territory. The film gives perspective to a black garden constructed in Portugal. A landscape produced a film, and a film produced a landscape. The landscape is perennial; it is what the image rejects.
Svetlana Romanova’s Managa Bar/Rustam’s Habitat brilliantly portrays contemporary youth culture in Yakutsk, the capital city of the Sakha Republic and the coldest city in the world. Divided in half like the two sides of a record, the film immerses viewers in the daily happenings of the filmmaker’s life, depicting her social circle of Yakutian artists, punks, and community inhabitants.
The journey begins. Behind, an accumulation of sounds and images, where things are losing their name. A train takes us far away. To Mongolia. On the way, unknown faces, new melodies, gestures that fuse with the landscape. Being in a strange land, moving with it. With each step, our destination vanishes and pushes us forward, revealling the sense, that has always been there, that emerges through the mere existence: A land that, by undressing itself, fills up and inhabitates us. And from here, maybe, recover that place from which to look again.
Elena, 7 years old, is going for the first time to her grandmother's after years without seeing her. Grandma, old and touched by Alzheimer's, entrusted Elena with the complex task of bringing the stars, those, she says, are hidden around the house. The visit becomes an adventure to bring those stars to make real the grandma's last wish.
The short film follows the chaotic routine of a delivery man in São Paulo, who tries to balance his challenging professional responsibilities with his social, love, and family life during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Biography of a bush of who we closely look at the body, the branches: revolutionary states in the middle of an urban center. Reflections on what it is to "be vegetal". A short film produced in reaction to the future destruction of a place (where the future École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy will be built, where I am studying). The main stake was to find a vegetal time and a space of consideration for the forms of life already there.
A new man is born in the habitat. Kicked out by the others he follows a new direction. How far will he go?
Documentary on the revitalization of a housing complex in a working class neighborhood of Montreal. Modern housing has now replaced the old, sagging and overcrowded houses. There is fresh air, light and hope. Habitations Jeanne-Mance, a bold way to renovate a city: a perfect example of the collaboration that can exist at the federal, provincial and municipal levels.
A spanish born painter reminisces about his childhood as an immigrant in Vienna through his paintings.
Alan Bennett and director Nicholas Hytner discuss and dissect the process they went through to produce the final version of The Habit of Art, the critically acclaimed play in which a group of actors rehearse a play about W.H. Auden and Benjamin Britten.