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Poster for The Man Who Died Once

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Tragic circumstances bring together the wife and the mother of two migrant workers - one from the east, the other from west Nepal.

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Poster for The Deserter's Wife

1991 · ★ 6.0 (2)

Nina (Fanny Ardant) is a French concert pianist, Ilan (Sharon Alexander) is an Israeli computer specialist visiting Paris. A romance springs up between them, and they get married. Not long afterward, Ilan is called into the Israeli army to serve his obligatory tour of duty. Things are heating up with Saddam Hussein (it is just before the Gulf War), who has just invaded Kuwait. Nina receives a call from the military informing her that her husband was wounded in combat. She rushes to his side and soon discovers that he was wounded by Israeli soldiers while he was in the process of deserting his post. It is clear from his own zombie-fied behavior that this allegation is true. Despite this horrifying revelation, she still loves him, but becomes increasingly estranged from the society around her because she feels shunned. On top of all this, she must soon make her concert debut with the Israel Philharmonic.

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Poster for The Stocking Stuffer

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Produced for Glass Eye Pix as part of their 2018 Creepy Christmas Film Festival, in which each short is inspired by a holiday-themed word. This film, the twenty-second in the series, is inspired by the word “stocking.”

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Poster for Une poste à la Courneuve

1994 · ★ 2.0 (1)

A few days in the life of the postal workers and customers at La Courneuve.

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Poster for When We Grow Up

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The death of the beloved family dog brings the Barnes siblings back to their parents' suburban home for the weekend to console their distraught mother. Louise, the youngest sibling, is struggling with the decision to step out of the clear path that has been drawn for her in order to find out what she really wants to do with her life, despite the fear that her mother will disapprove. Maris, the middle child, has made the secret decision to embark on single parenthood using a sperm donor, and now must find the right way and time to tell her family. Elijah, the eldest child, and his wife Irena are deep in the process of filing for the adoption of their first child, which is complicated by the fact that Elijah, as the only black member of his family, has some concerns about how best to start an interracial family of his own. Their parents, Brian and Holly, are having trouble keeping their marriage together, which is made more difficult by Holly's inability to cope with the loss of her dog.

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Poster for 100 Years Of Design

2018 · ★ 8.0 (2)

Educational project and documentary. The purpose of the almanac is to give a systematic picture of the path that design has taken from the Bauhaus school until 2018.

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Poster for Drummer from the Hus Yan Mountains

1991 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A talented young tambourine player joins an ensemble in the capital of a West China province.

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2003 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The yearly gathering at the Catherdral of St. John the Divine, shot in 16mm black and white. Cats, dogs, and perhaps a lamb, get blessed.

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Poster for Whispering Pines 2

2003 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Presenting a domestic world just slightly askew, Whispering Pines 2 follows Moulton's character Cynthia as she attempts to navigate the enigmatic and possibly magical properties of her home décor. Moulton has spoken of her interest in the ways in which people draw spiritual or existential sustenance from banal products, and, wearing a dress embedded with a "medical pillow," Cynthia can be seen as representative of the degree to which identity is now bound up in relationships with functionless luxury objects.

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1967 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This footage by JoAnn Elam was probably shot in San Francisco, where Elam spent the “Summer of Love” in 1967 and which she perhaps visited again later. First rapidly edited, the footage then slows down to focus on rows of houses, the street numbers on their façades, and their mail slots. As 37th Av. & S.F. CA and many other elements about the US Post Office in this collection evidence, what seems to have fascinated Elam about the mail was the way it circulated within neighborhoods, from one house to the next, thereby connecting the people who lived in them together. At the end, one handwritten note reads: “To be looked at one frame at a time,” some directions possibly referring to the following series of rapidly edited shots of nature and dogs running in a park.

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Poster for À la recherches des Amazones

1986 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for El tesoro

2018 · ★ 8.0 (1)

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Poster for Velvet and the Walk

2008 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Produced for Glass Eye Pix as part of their 2008 Creepy Christmas Online Film Festival, in which each short was inspired by the inhabitants of a Christmas diorama advent calendar. Each filmmaker was assigned a specific date and given the props that were used in that window to use in their short. This is the seventeenth film in the series.

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Poster for notes in origin

1988 · ★ 5.0 (1)

"Shot in northern Alberta, where the artist grew up, the film consists of ten long-take shots of various lengths divided by black leader bearing a number for each successive shot... notes in origin realizes the subtle lyricism that appears in the last image of its predecessor. Here Epp intimates a mysteriously shared and personal complicity of artist and viewer without, however, abandoning that purity and extraordinary elegance that mark Epp as one of the most accomplished of film artist." - Bart Testa, Art Gallery of Ontario catalogue

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Poster for Aquel día

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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1992 · ★ 10.0 (3)

A tender but brash short film about the feeling of living in two worlds at once. Meriem, the child of Tunisian-French parentage, shuttles back and forth between Paris and Tunis, and between two men. It takes a long time for her to decide where she belongs.

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Poster for Women +

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In 2016, an HIV epidemic was announced in Russia, more than 1,000,000 cases, and more than half of them are women. This film tells the stories of three women who have been living with HIV + status for more than 10 years. They will openly tell about what it is like to be HIV-infected, and at the same time remain a woman, mother, wife, without ceasing to fight for themselves, their lives and family.

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Poster for Video Home System

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

How bootleg video kept the Pakistani film industry alive under censorship in the 1980s and 90s.

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Poster for Where is Kermit

2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Short experimental film

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Poster for Intercourse With...

1978 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In this haunting performance, Wilke conflates the private and the public as autobiographical theater. The audience "eavesdrops" on a series of phone messages intended for Wilke, recorded from her answering machine. This voice-over litany of messages becomes an intimate if one-sided narrative of Wilke's life, a diary of personal and professional relationships — family, lovers, friends, colleagues — that is oddly elegiac. Wilke strips to reveal that her body is covered with the names of the individuals we have heard speaking; she then methodically removes the names until all traces have disappeared.

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