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Poster for Conjuror's Box

2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Through the looking glass one travels, and becomes immersed in a fiery pane of hand-painted wonders.

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Poster for Planet of the Children

1992 · ★ 6.0 (1)

Documentary about Cuban education. El planeta de los niños is not a documentary and not a feature film. Sarmiento actually filmed a documentary subject with the mise-en-scène and the cutting of a feature film. Without further ado, she takes the viewer into a world where adults would appear to have died out ; a society within which all functions and professions are held by children with deadly seriousness as if things have always been this way. Only right at the end does Sarmiento reveal that she shot the film at the 'Escuele de Pioneros' set up in Cuba in 1979, an institution which Fidel Castro gave to the children of his people to prepare themselves for a later working life. The film opens with an as-good-as-real wedding ceremony and progresses via a birth to a simulated battle ; from birth to death. The subtle irony with which Sarmiento portrays this 'Utopian' world was not understood by all German critics.

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Poster for 625

1969 · ★ 0.0 (0)

‘625' operates with changing blurs of TV screen rasters, filmed off the TV set and negatively reproduced, and made up of 625 lines. The sound is derived from the light levels of the individual picture elements via a photoresistor.

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Poster for Watts with Eggs

1967 · ★ 3.0 (1)

"By 1967, Menken had become interested in the work of Fluxus artist Robert Watts and made a short animation piece, Watts with EGGS, in which she animates his chrome-casted Box of Eggs. The film opens with lights reflected in the eggs (of course), then, through single framing, pixilates a man's hand arranging eggs in different patterns. The hands (those of John Hawkins) fill the box back up with eggs. Next, the eggs do the same routine, but more magically, more serenely, without the assistance of the hands. Menken also introduces a string and a feather duster into animated action, so that the eggs, one by one, seem to be coming directly out of the duster (objects infect objects). By the end, the eggs are magically back in their box." Melissa Ragona

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Poster for Remembrances

2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Fleeting images of Soho in New York, shot in 1998 with a camera hand held along the body, capturing parts of passer by met along the way, and flanking a part on the Brooklyn bridge following the rhythm of my steps cut by several turns around myself.

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Poster for The Lost Film

2003 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A copy of the filmmakers' first feature film disappeared somewhere in Yemen on the 10th anniversary of the reunification of north and south. A year later, they returned to track down the print, embarking on a journey that would take them across forbidding terrain from Sana to Aden. What they discover is a land of contradictions where film is openly reviled and secretly loved, teaching them much about their status as filmmakers in the Middle East.

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Poster for 4242

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Cristi has just moved to an unknown country, far away from family and friends. At first, she is happy for the challenge. But soon she begins to question her place in this new world that seems to be a lost town, made of absences, distances, silence and indifference. '4242' is the story of a young female immigrant, a story of a teenager's anguish who is trying to redefine her identity after being forced to leave home.

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2015 · ★ 5.0 (4)

A Seat with a View is a film that takes us on a journey with three children sitting as passengers on a bicycle. It is a depiction of those mythical moments experienced along the way: what is seen and what thoughts arise when one is “on board”.

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Poster for Métro

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A poetic short about the Montreal subway system

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2005 · ★ 7.0 (1)

The rooftops of a darkened city, a couple walking by a lone streetlight on an otherwise darkened street, an old man rocking in a creaky chair in the corner of a room lit only by the moon or the streetlight entering through the window.

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Poster for One, Two,  Tree

2015 · ★ 7.0 (2)

One day, a tree like any other jumps into a pair of boots and goes off for a walk inviting everyone it meets to follow.

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Poster for Bopem

2015 · ★ 6.0 (2)

Teenager Ruslan is a half-orphan who lives by the dried Aral Sea. When he learns that due to serious illness he has no more than 3 months to live, Ruslan decides to punish those responsible for the death of his beloved mother.

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2001 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for And You Belong

2013 · ★ 5.0 (1)

A visual and musical rocket ride through the queer music underground telling the story of two girl electro hip hop act Scream Club and their network of friends.

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Poster for VII. Thou You Shalt Not Steal

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Norbert, the protagonist of the film, is a priest. But also a father and a criminal convicted of bank robbery. His future is uncertain, as is his family's.

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Poster for Month One

2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Short documentary about the occupy movement.

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2006 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for The Florestine Collection

2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Experimental Animator Helen Hill found more than 100 handmade dresses in a trash pile on one Mardi Gras Day in New Orleans. She set out to make a film about the dressmaker, an African-American seamstress who had recently passed away. The dresses and much of the film footage were later flood-damaged by Hurricane Katrina while Helen was still working on the film. Helen was murdered in a home invasion in New Orleans in 2007. Her husband Paul Gailiunas has completed the film, which includes Helen's original silhouette, cut-out, and puppet animation, as well as flood-damaged and restored home movies.

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2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A omnibus film about protests in Rio de Janeiro during 2013.

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Poster for Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists

1983 · ★ 6.3 (6)

A unique documentary that looks at the political activities of the American Communist Party in the early to mid-twentieth century.

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