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Poster for Inside Women Inside

1978 · ★ 7.0 (2)

This film exposes the daily humiliation regularly faced by women in U.S. prisons using firsthand accounts of inmates at the North Carolina Correctional Center for Women and the Correctional Institute for Women at Riker's Island, New York.

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Poster for Everything Flows - distance

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Yuko Mohri is best known for her sculpture and installations comprising found objects and kinetics, often incorporating aspects of chance. Here she splices together scenes in Yasujirō Ozu’s acclaimed film Tokyo Story (1953) where no humans are present. Ozu’s film tells the story of an elderly couple visiting their children, who are now adults and whom pay their elderly parents scant attention. Much of it is set within small domestic interiors, with fixed camera shots and with much of the ‘action’ taking place off camera, such that its tempo, setting and themes all strongly resonate with our current circumstances, as does Mohri’s eerie subversion.

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Poster for Of Present Body (or the perpetual spirals of pleasure and power)

1998 · ★ 9.0 (3)

Through the montage of film fragments from the Mexican Golden Cinema, it explores the cinematographic representation of of pain, violence, repressed sexuality and Mexicanness.

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Poster for Butterfly Disaster

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Inspired by a newspaper article about the plight of monarch butterflies, using found footage from four different sources, I edited, optically-printed, superimposed, scratched on, bleached and otherwise altered the film to highlight, lament and challenge the monarch butterflies’ dilemma. –Caryn Cline

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2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The poet Ali Sarandibi takes us to an experimental journey in to his work place in The Grand Hall of Books in Enghelab street in Tehran,best known for its bookshops and Tehran University.The sound bites from the shopkeepers tell the story of the arcade and how their work condition has changed lately.

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Poster for A Era de Lareokotô

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

World Cup, garden, ritual. In the midst of an intense - and common - day in the village of the indigenous people Enawenê-Nawê, in Mato Grosso, Kularenê tells us how, when they left the same stone, Indians and whites took different paths: the first guided by Wadari, his ancestor, and the others by Lareokotô, grandfather of whites and father of technology.

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2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

After eight days in coma, a 15-year-old girl is given a second chance in life.

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Poster for Sculpture Garden

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An unedited film documenting a rooftop sculpture garden cultivated over a summer in Vancouver. The sculptures come alive but the vegetables are apathetic.

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Poster for Irregular Time Signatures

2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

How does music measure time if time is stretched like a rubber band? Irregular time signatures are ways of describing an uneven beat. The arrhythmic pulse of this film is music lesson, math puzzle, and spot-the-difference game.

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Poster for A Mão do Povo

1975 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Two models of age show off fashion at a nursing home. One of them goes missing.

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2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In the Gruen Effect, an architect's life, work and critical humor become a means to make sense of the cities we live in today. The Viennese architect Victor Gruen is considered the father of the shopping mall and the pedestrian zone. His ideas about urban planning, both influential and abused, have led to cities that serve the new gods of consumption. By tracing Victor Gruen’s path from prewar Vienna to fifties America and back to Europe in 1968, the documentary explores the themes and translation errors that have come to define urban life.

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1982 · ★ 0.0 (0)

For nine months German filmmakers and performance artists, Birgit and Wilhelm Hein lived in New York. LOVE STINKS is a very personal, deeply disturbing and often shocking record of their visit. "For many people it will perhaps be depressing at first sight, but it was created from a tremendous strength"

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2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

War as a preposterous and absolutely masculine fiction -as well as the educational and occupational exclusion of women in a society that educates them to serve and be mothers- is repudiated by Virginia Woof in Three Guineas. The Civilization Desire is a piece that appropriates family movies filmed in Spain during the Republic, the Civil War and the early years of Francoism. The home movie becomes an alternative chronicle to the great stories, that reveals social differences and gender stereotypes learned from childhood, in the civilization of strength, despised by Woolf.

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Poster for Malvaceae

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The boxes for the return into her home country are packed and stand around her bed since years. But will she ever know again, if it’s day or night, if she’s awake or asleep, if she’s breaking out or just running into a trap?

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1995 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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1991 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Hour by Hour I, February 1, 1991: Every hour, I film my portrait in its environment. During sleeping hours, the film is black. Generally with a particular rhythm of images. It is not a self-portrait, because no one else was available to me at all times.

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2001 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A snapshot of a month in Provence. The ants are feasting on the bread and cheese, changes in the weather, a clothesline.

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1994 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A storm approaches: The wind blows across the lake, rain streams down the windshield, while we admire the landscape from inside the car. An umbrella is blown up by the wind, just like a bird's wings.

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Poster for Playing With Water I

1997 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"Reflections abound on the surface of the canals in Amsterdam. The buildings are less important than the way the sun blinks on to the water‘s surface, which, after a while, results in abstract images in motion. Shots taken backwards in slow motion show an evening sky, with ample clouds. It seems so very different; why it does so remains beyond comprehension." —Milena Gierke

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