A film in three parts: a man talking while a telephone rings, a walking tour of New York, and a goldfish swimming.
Social & External
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.
For this film, Takashi Makino allowed himself to be inspired by the earth. In a never-ending stream of images, we recognize elements from the forest that he then reduces to an abstraction. The film came about as a classical composition in which the picture and the musical contribution of Jim O’Rourke link up seamlessly and lead the mood in turn. A sense of freedom is what predominates.
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.
An important sensory organ, the eye, is damaged. The exhausting healing process takes us on an inner journey full of pain, fragility and mental unrest, in which even superstition and witchcraft seem to have an influence on recovery.
A night of tortured and solitary sleep, in which fears unfold and a bell tolls.
A reflection on loss and nature’s quiet observance in a small nook of the Ozarks.
In Bloom is an abstract Gothic Romance short film by writer-director Christopher Rosica, blending experimental cinema with the timeless themes of love, loss, and memory. Crafted with a meticulous attention to atmosphere, the film offers a haunting exploration of the boundaries between the living and the dead. Shot in evocative black-and-white on a Fujifilm XT-30 by up-and-coming cinematographer, Xuepei Hou, In Bloom pays homage to the aesthetic traditions of visionary filmmakers such as Bergman, Tarkovsky, and Fellini, while drawing narrative inspiration from literary icons like Mary Shelley and Henry James.
A depiction of a girl’s uneasy state of mind as it wavers between life and death.
One of Rimmer's early 2000s video works which he made by hand-painting 35mm film, running it on a flatbed viewer, and shooting it off the screen with a video camera to then subject it to further manipulation.
The quasi-fictional story of transgender sex workers living in Rio de Janeiro's swampy red light district, who are joined by a group of hippies and a runaway stockbroker, "Mangue-Bangue" is the paradigmatic expression of the post-1968 spirit of desbunde, the Brazilian slang catchword for "sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll".
Colors and snowfall surround a street lamp with a loose fixture on time and space in this abstract ambient vid.
Sarah and her two cats go about their separate lives. The cats have strange dreams about their desires, and Sarah develops an unshakable paranoia that something is wrong with them. Sarah's paranoia bleeds into her social life, and her two cats have their dreams come true.
A day in the life of a group of stray cats, who live in a wealthy neighborhood
The second part: Brakhage’s layering of images spends less time with images of war, and begins filtering in scenes of Vienna and his home in Colorado. He sets up a comparison between “Kubelka’s Vienna” and his own.
A quasi-sequel to Michel Houellebecq's novel The Possibility of an Island, Masbedo's short presents a post-apocalyptic landscape overseen by a distant mother nature or perhaps mother of nature portrayed by French icon Juliette Binoche.
A short experimental animation by Jules Engel
Experimental short animated film by Péter Molnár
A queer poet navigates heartbreak through writing, techno, and self-destruction.
Robert Drew shows the sights and sounds from the funeral of President John F. Kennedy in November, 1963. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2002.
In Portugal, during the night of April 24-25, 1974, a peaceful uprising put an end to the last government of the Estado Novo, the authoritarian regime established in 1933 by dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970), paving the way for full democracy: a chronicle of the Carnation Revolution.
Between two unsolicited calls, the director’s grandfather recalls an episode from the time when he was twenty and fought in the Second World War.
Ada and Lise are both costume designers, the first is around 20, the other around 30. Both are working hard on their break through. There are also jobs for the movies. This is where Lise meets producer Alphonse, who is nearly 20 years older than she. Because he is unhappy with his girlfriend a secret relationship evolves. Ada has problems as well, but she's not the only one. There are also the young Emma and Nina, as well as Yves and Guido - enough people to get into complicated relationship entanglements.
Based on Mallory Smith's posthumously published memoir, Salt In My Soul offers a look inside the mind of a young woman trying to live while dying. Diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, Mallory turned to a secret diary to record her thoughts.
Set against the backdrop of an understaffed stroke unit, the skilled neurologist Alexandra’s unwavering confidence is put to the ultimate test when a routine case spirals into tragedy. Blame and guilt ripple through the hospital, and Alexandra confronts her own fallibility, grappling with the profound repercussions of medical misjudgements. In a raw and introspective journey, we learn the weight of guilt and the power of compassion.
Red Sox is a stand-up show produced by Trident and Piper Lizia . Show recorded in Cesena on 24 April 2024
Dance It Off & Firm Up. Forget the treadmill. Don’t dread your strength training routine for one more day. Instead, you can dance your body into shape! This unique program is made up of three fun and fabulous dance-inspired workouts. The first two are all about getting the calories burning with some irresistible moves, while the third brings a dance energy to some super sculpting sequences designed specifically with the dancer’s body in mind. You’ll move to the music as you blast fat, sculpt sexy abs, firm your thighs, and boost that booty. It all comes together in a feel-good workout that helps you slim and tone your entire body without the usual workout grind.
The young teacher Lobanovich, who has just graduated from the seminary, comes to the remote Polessky village of Telshino to teach the peasant children to read and write. In the heads of seminarians persistently hammered into the idea that the Tsar-father endlessly cares about the common people, and the people respond to him sincere filial gratitude. Arriving in the village, the teacher saw a different picture. The Poleshuk people are beaten down, driven, living in mud, darkness, tightly entangled in a network of prejudices and superstitions....
Five friends—Quinn, Sarai, Zel, Mickey, and Cohen—embark on a mission to save their high school’s gay-straight alliance following their principal’s orders to diversify the group by “recruiting” straight students. To achieve this quixotic aim of straight-washing their GSA, each of the five becomes the “gay best friend” of select peers while also riding the roller coaster of being queer in high school, as they fall in love, form their chosen family, come out, and discover pride within themselves.
A convenience store clerk begins to suspect the store is haunted after he hears the disembodied voice of a female opera singer. The only person who believes him is a lonely cop, whose mother is an expert on the paranormal.
The word “Manshin” refers to a shaman who are considered an intermediary between gods and humans. Kim Keum-hwa, Korea’s most famous shaman, is also a world-renowned Korean traditional dancer and a religious figure respected by the Vatican. The documentary tells the story of her fascinating life journey from a girl forced to take a job she never asked for to becoming a living national treasure.
The inhabitants of the windswept island of Sein, in the nineteenth century, in Brittany follow their own religion without need for clergy, but as strangers arrive, their faith and beliefs face a deep crisis.
Documentary and reflection about the effects of technology.
A documentary about the making of Jane Campion's 'The Portrait of a Lady'.
An actuality of the Brock's fireworks factory to celebrate its 40th anniversary organizes. The final shot has two flaming portraits of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, originally presented by Brock's at the coronation in 1902. The film is a cornucopia of colors, as it was originally a hand-painted film. The 2011 restoration has tried to revive the brilliance and the impact of colors through digital reproduction. The original film archival print is at the National Cinema Museum.
