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Poster for Memory of August

2017 · ★ 10.0 (1)

A series of moments captured in room 139. Intimate spaces of time spent with my grandmother, Margaret during a month long recovery in a rehabilitation center in Baltimore, Maryland.

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1900 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Man plays piano

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Poster for Panem Aurorae

2022 · ★ 10.0 (1)

Nowadays the art of baking bread has become so common that it lost the charm of its confection. This documentary presents a bakery that has never lost the essence or taste of producing this essential good. From distribution to production, gestures can be observed that, in the mere details, allow us to appreciate this ancient art in a way that is not common these days.

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Poster for Jours D'école

2022 · ★ 10.0 (1)

A short film set during the span of an entire school week.

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Poster for Heated Winter

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A documentary filmmaker follows a group of six young snowboarders, chronicling their powerful friendship, passion for snowboard, and their violent desire to live the present.

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Poster for Les Noces Rompues

2014 · ★ 6.0 (1)

A new leaf. In like a lion, out like a lamb. Rain or shine. The calm before the storm. Mad as a March hare. Out to pasture. Once in a blue moon. April showers, May flowers. Where the wind blows. The wolf at the door. To each his own.

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Poster for Heidi

1974 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A young woman sits on a bench in a baroque park. The motion of the wind in the leaves, in her hair, and also the flutter of her eyelashes, the opening of her lips, her imperceptible smile are all made visible with the absolutely static camera. A large baroque birdcage symbolizes a hopeless emotional situation. (Friedl vom Gröller)

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Poster for Sounds of Love and Sorrow

2000 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Sounds of Love and Sorrow lets the eerie sounds of the Paiwan flutes including the nose flute, which legend says imitates the call of the deadly hundred-pace snake, mix in with the recollections of tribal elders and traditional tales to present a rich background of Paiwan life in Taiwan. Tribal elders recall the days of the youth and their romances. They tell of the creation of the Paiwan people, and lament the end of tribal life, crushed by the irresistible and contradictory forces of government policies and alien cultural influences. Talking of love, both the charm and cruelty of a traditional society are revealed. For many of the Paiwan, love may be a high point of a young life – but it is also the gateway to sorrow. But in the end, it is the high spirits, the playful romances and the family spirit of the Paiwan which shine through.

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Poster for Rust

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Friedl vom Gröller´s Rust starts by gazing into the strained face of the saint. The artist herself reads "Holzschnitt", or woodcut, rather as "Höllenszene", a scene of Hell – perhaps because it appears as if animate nature is trying to force the giant to the ground. Gradually emerging from blurriness in the film, the hero defies fate – at least initially. In so doing, he sets the agenda for Gröller´s figures: Rust is about delaying the deterioration that comes with time. Three so-called "best agers" act according to the saying, "If you rest, you rust," training their muscles, stretching their fascia, staying on the move. (Anne Katrin Feßler)

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Poster for It's OK to Say No

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Jane is 16 when she finds out that Simen likes her too, but life isn't that easy. They soon have to stand against social pressure and what is expected of them.

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Poster for Incidence or Reflection

2003 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Projecting the real on the imaginary. This single channel video installation explores notions of perception and reflection when juxtaposing the self and its empty image. A rhythmic mixture between stop-motion and cubism.

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2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A disabled woman obsessively instructs her housekeeper until the oppression becomes something she can’t live without.

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2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Shop stylist asks for assistance in setting up a display in a high end boutique, with moving consequences.

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Poster for Egungun (Ancestor Can't Find Me)

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The word bone translates to yoruba as “bones.” In Egungun: Ancestor Can’t Find Me, a shell-covered sea creature swims emerges form the Gulf of Mexico and wanders island jungles and shores. The shelled creature we see wandering in this film bears traits of both male (egungun) and female (gelede) ancestors. The chasm of time, distance and violence has severed its link to the living leaving it to look and listen for traces of our lives in an endless disorienting loop. The film references the ancestor-reverent Egungun masking tradition of the Yoruba people who, indigenous to modern-day Ghana, Benin, Togo, and Nigeria, were among the many African ethnic groups captured, enslaved and sold as chattel into the Transatlantic Slave trade.

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1990 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Film made entirely from slides. Images of bodies distorted by overlays, filters... leading to highly abstract shots... fantasies?... eroticism?...

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1983 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Mammy Water is a pidgin English name for a local water goddess worshipped by the Ibibio, Ijaw, and Igbo speaking peoples of southeastern Nigeria. The water goddess traditionally gives wealth and children, compensates for hardships, and is sought in times of illness and need, especially by women. Her various cults are led, predominantly, by priestesses.

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2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Award-winning filmmaker Irene Gutierrez intersects a personal journey back to her native Spanish town, on the border with Morocco, with the lost images of other migrants.

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Poster for MTV Ident

2017 · ★ 8.0 (2)

MTV Ident "HORNY"

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2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Icarus (after Amelia) is a work study shot on 35mm. It shows Glasgow women at their workplace and deals with issues of feminist economic theory.

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2000 · ★ 0.0 (0)

16mm stop-motion animated film

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