A sea faring father, a man living on the edge of mental sanity, periodically sees his young son. During the visits, the father tells the boy stories, more
A sea faring father, a man living on the edge of mental sanity, periodically sees his young son. During the visits, the father tells the boy stories, exotic as well as close to home, about Magonia. This is a mythical place where clouds represent impossible dreams and unfulfilled desires. But the characters in this imaginary place all curiously resemble people now living near the father. close
Sam wakes up, gets ready and goes to do his daily job. And then the unexpected happens. A bomb explodes in the center of the shopping mall where he works. more
Sam wakes up, gets ready and goes to do his daily job. And then the unexpected happens. A bomb explodes in the center of the shopping mall where he works. He drags himself towards the entrance to save the victims. One by one he pulls them out, until something terrible takes place. In complete hysteria he runs off till he falls down from exhaustion. A woman's voice makes him raise his head. She's one of the victims he saved. She wants to know why the suicide bomber did it. This encounter projects him back in history and even in a surreal world. Thereafter he runs into everyone he saved and feels that their defeat shows many parallels with his own. Even his confrontation with the wrongdoer isn't that straightforward as he thought it would be and confronts him with the fact that guilt and innocence can be pretty much alike. close
The main character is crazy about about depicting various anomalies in art. Accidentally he finds a cinematography archive which makes him advance a completely more
The main character is crazy about about depicting various anomalies in art. Accidentally he finds a cinematography archive which makes him advance a completely new theory on the reasons why humans became bipedal. Yufit proceeds with the plot by describing a scientist struggling against the epidemic wave of anomalies in the physical and mental world thematically started in his other films. This time the struggle takes place on the background of paleoanthropology, psychoanalysis and modern art. As materials of the Museum of Anthropology and other archives are included in the film, it oversteps the boundary between a feature film and documentary. close
Meis is fifteen, lives in the back of beyond and aspires to a grand and stirring life, but all that happens is the passing of the time, waiting for the more
Meis is fifteen, lives in the back of beyond and aspires to a grand and stirring life, but all that happens is the passing of the time, waiting for the next car to run into the front of the house. close
A woman disguises herself as a man to avoid prosecution for murdering her lover fifteen years ago. She is the last living member of a wealthy Vienna family, more
A woman disguises herself as a man to avoid prosecution for murdering her lover fifteen years ago. She is the last living member of a wealthy Vienna family, and has spent the years after the murder traveling Europe with her female servant. Her travels provide her with an anonymous cloak that allows her freedom of movement but little peace of mind. Nearing middle age, the guilt and weariness of an empty life has her contemplating suicide as the only way out of her dilemma. close
Told from the point of view of a rescued buffalo, this is the story of a small town trying to find itself after the Armenian-Azeri conflict. The buffalo's more
Told from the point of view of a rescued buffalo, this is the story of a small town trying to find itself after the Armenian-Azeri conflict. The buffalo's reception by the other farm animals reflects the distrust rife in the countries of the post-Soviet world. close
An impressionistic experimental drama. A woman walks a fine line between sanity and madness in a world of constant twilight. She works at a filling station more
An impressionistic experimental drama. A woman walks a fine line between sanity and madness in a world of constant twilight. She works at a filling station and lives a life of emotional isolation. No one seems to pay attention to her, and she lives in a run-down flat that looks as if it's decaying before our eyes. As the woman wrestles with the demons that are taking hold within her mind, she frequently confronts herself in the mirror, often while naked. close
1969. Nine-year old Caro lives on a pig farm in a small town with her four other siblings and another on the way. She is curious and determined to understand more
1969. Nine-year old Caro lives on a pig farm in a small town with her four other siblings and another on the way. She is curious and determined to understand the mysteries of the world around her. But her devout catholic father can't explain the new world and her mother is too busy for philosophy so she converses to God. One day at school she is horrified to learn that man will soon set foot on the moon. In her eyes it's not possible that God would allow anyone to get so close to Heaven. Her clowning father agrees and, unable to cope with modern-day progress, hits the bottle. Caro is preparing for her first holy communion to become 'a bride of God' but before that she seals a pact with her father to overcome her fear of swimming in exchange, he will not touch a drop of alcohol. close
“The Appearance of Johan Stiller” is a mystical drama by Belgian director Harry Kümel, based on the work of the same name by writer Hubert Lampo. Frick more
“The Appearance of Johan Stiller” is a mystical drama by Belgian director Harry Kümel, based on the work of the same name by writer Hubert Lampo.
Frick Grunvelt (Hugo Metsers) begins to notice inexplicable things happening around him that excite his journalistic flair. His suspicions are heightened when he receives a twenty-year-old letter from Joachim Stiller (Peter Strinx. In it, he tries to warn Frick of an incomprehensible danger. Similar letters begin to receive other people from the writer’s environment. The situation is driven by the imminent appearance of comets in the sky and rumors about the end of the world. close
In I'm Too Sad to Tell You (1971), he cries in front of the camera. The sea, the land, the artist has with great sadness known they too will be no more. more
In I'm Too Sad to Tell You (1971), he cries in front of the camera. The sea, the land, the artist has with great sadness known they too will be no more. “The artist realized with great sadness that in this world even the sea and the earth are not eternal.” And he himself is not eternal. close
Contemplation of transience combined with the depiction of landscapes, portraits and texts by the Dutch author Remko Kampert. The short, four-minute film more
Contemplation of transience combined with the depiction of landscapes, portraits and texts by the Dutch author Remko Kampert. The short, four-minute film Hier Nu is a poetic work directed by Barbara Mether.
Love, like everything else in life, is fleeting, it comes and goes. We have to live here and now. Remco Campert's texts complement the atmospheric picture of nature and man. close
In an empty apartment somewhere in Holland lives a young girl. During the day, she sells clothes in a luxury store, and spends her nights at the club more
In an empty apartment somewhere in Holland lives a young girl. During the day, she sells clothes in a luxury store, and spends her nights at the club with the guys from the football team. She smokes, drinks and regularly goes up to her apartment with another friend, just to avoid being alone. After sex and a mandatory cigarette, she goes to a diner, where she orders fries and grabs another gentleman. Nothing happens in her life, just sex, food, cigarettes and alcohol. Without trying to resist the defiant meaninglessness of her existence, she just wants to know how and when the natural end of this stupefying madness will come. And it will come, but not in the way that anyone could have imagined. close
Because of her incestuous past Charley (Marie Kooiman) refuses to talk. Together with her friend she invites men to her house, seduces and poisons them more
Because of her incestuous past Charley (Marie Kooiman) refuses to talk. Together with her friend she invites men to her house, seduces and poisons them and removes their male parts. Then it is revealed that she can talk after all. close
From Moscow to Mexico City, Eisenstein was privileged enough to met the cultural heroes of the era and embrace them as compatriots, with a handshake. more
From Moscow to Mexico City, Eisenstein was privileged enough to met the cultural heroes of the era and embrace them as compatriots, with a handshake. Such was his reputation as the wunderkind of the new art of cinema, everybody wanted to meet him; there were writers, painters, critics, theorists and philosophers, as well as composers, architects, and artists from all branches of the cultural life that was shaping minds and civilizations. Our project would follow Eisenstein's journey and note the significant characters he encountered on his travels, with a focus on Switzerland. close
With the help of 25 cameras, director Michael van Buckel in his experimental film Edison Bay shows us how time flows in the port of Rotterdam. View of more
With the help of 25 cameras, director Michael van Buckel in his experimental film Edison Bay shows us how time flows in the port of Rotterdam.
View of Edison Bay and Yangtze Harbour, where large containers from China are unloaded. Two or more realities are mixed: floating human figures and the industrial horizon. The soundtrack was composed of recordings of natural and electronic sounds recorded at the scene. close
It's About Light and Death (to Joseph Plateau) is an optical theater and is a tribute to the inventor of the strobescope, Joseph Plateau. Stuffed animals more
It's About Light and Death (to Joseph Plateau) is an optical theater and is a tribute to the inventor of the strobescope, Joseph Plateau. Stuffed animals come back to life through the play of light.
Created at a taxiderm workshop, the film On Light and Death (Joseph Plateau) explores the boundaries between life and death, as well as trying to understand how to treat once living beings, now gone into eternity. Repeating dead photographic poses 24 times a second creates the illusion of perpetual motion. close
Sexual power games, hysteria, psychosis and the brutality of government in the film Exodus 1 (Raw 1.0), the work of the most versatile Dutch experimental more
Sexual power games, hysteria, psychosis and the brutality of government in the film Exodus 1 (Raw 1.0), the work of the most versatile Dutch experimental director.
Since the late 1960s, Frans Zvartjes has become known for his black and white works, where he showed extravagantly dressed actors trapped in sexual power games. His film “Exodus 1” is one of these films. It was supposedly lost, but was recently found while Zvartjes was working on his photo album The Holy Family. close
What happens when people who are more used to watching movies than making them try to cope with one of the most famous and complex cinematic scenes of more
What happens when people who are more used to watching movies than making them try to cope with one of the most famous and complex cinematic scenes of all time? What happens when they have a minimum budget and are given the opportunity to create a video on the same topic?
The famous scene of the murder in the shower from the thriller Alfred Hitchcock "Psycho", where the role of the murdered girl was played by actress Janet Lee, serves as a starting point for the author of the film "Tocome Be, Shinet, J.A.E.L.A.L.A.D.L.L.A.D.L.L.L.D.L.A.L.L.L.D.D.L.D.A.L.D.L.L.D.L.A.D.L.D.A.D.D.L.D.L.D.D., to begin his own study.
How to Become Janet Lee is a short film about a repetition where the angles remain the same, but tiny or, on the contrary, serious differences change the murder scene.
The author of How to Be Janet Lee claims that he was inspired to shoot numerous videos on the YouTube portal, where people imitate this scene from the Hitchcock film. close
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