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Poster for Childhood

2001 · ★ 0.0 (0)

8mm short film, Shizuko Tabata.

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2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Set in a future-adjacent world, runaway data technician Livia is on a mission, but when an alternate-dimension version of herself shows up, she has to decide between safety and sister - In a world where autonomy gets you killed. Director Sarah Phillips Writer Sarah Phillips Stars Laetitia LeonViet Hoang

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Poster for The Body of the Woman Without Shadow

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Alicia D'Amico was one of the best-known photographers of her time. She worked from the late 50's to 2001, when she died in Buenos Aires. Her best known work are portraits (writers and artists). And her most unknown photographs are dedicated to feminism, made during the last Argentine dictatorship until the end of her life.

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Poster for PEP (Process of Entanglement Procedure)

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Jordan Strafer's PEP (Process Entanglement Procedure) was exhibited at SculptureCenter as part of In Practice: Total Disbelief (2020). Strafer’s PEP (Process Entanglement Procedure) is, among other things, a video about betrayal, the public nature of victimhood, and behavioral conditioning. Its narrative spreads across at least two related timelines. In the present, the video opens onto a witness testimony at a public hearing acted out by a plastic doll in glamorous closeups. Meanwhile, sequences shot to give a handheld, first-person perspective read as composed flashbacks of events described in the hearing. Notably, these sequences include the speaker’s compulsory attendance at a makeshift behavioral bootcamp in the woods at the behest of her two fathers, who later appear as villains in realistic rubber masks. (SculptureCenter)

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2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A confused college student expresses her disbelief in the power of love. Through a class assignment she examines her own values and finds the love she has been looking for right under her nose.

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Poster for Kae, Act Like A Girl

1996 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In Kae, Act Like A Girl, Idemitsu continues her experimental narrative exploration of women's roles in contemporary Japan with a tale of women's liberationist awakening. Here she presents a young female artist's conflict with the traditional, patriarchal expectations of women in Japanese culture, in which men are privileged and women are groomed to be wives and mothers. Within Idemitsu's narrative, video screens and images represent the protagonist's inner struggle — memories, conscience, familial pressure — as she subordinates and then ultimately achieves her personal and artistic desires.

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Poster for Great Mother (YUMIKO)

1983 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The second part of a trilogy, Great Mother (YUMIKO) is a domestic melodrama that examines the cultural and familial role of Japanese women by tracing the psychology of a turbulent mother-daughter relationship. Yumiko, a rebellious young woman from an affluent family, encounters resistance from her mother, a successful career woman, when she becomes pregnant and marries. The mother is an icy, assured presence, seen only on a television screen as a superego who monitors Yumiko's behavior. The television becomes a powerful metaphorical device, underlining the disunity of the familial structure and acting as a psychological presence. As Yumiko's marriage deteriorates, her pain is juxtaposed with the banal rituals of her mother's life (instructing her subordinates at work, scrubbing the floor at home), an irony ultimately heightened by the viewer's awareness of the reflexivity of this drama-within-a-drama.

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Poster for Transform

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Forced to present as male at a Christmas party among old high school friends, a trans girl tries to hide her true identity.

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Poster for A Return to The Return to Reason

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A Return to The Return to Reason is a tribute to Man Ray's 1923 film "Le Retour à La Raison" (A return to Reason), the first film to use his 'Rayograph' technique in which Man Ray exposed found objects onto film negative. In this film the found object is Man Ray’s digitized film, the first Dada film. The “original” film was digitized with all its aged emulsions, scratches, and splices, then compiled into digital filmstrips. These filmstrips are used to output a dithered and inverted image that the laser engraver may etch onto black 35mm film leader. The film images are created as the laser engraver scratches away the emulsion on the black leader.

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Poster for Brave New World

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In this video, 35mm archival silent documentary film footage shot by Henry Ford’s own filmmakers is reworked and given a soundtrack revealing the colonial lens through which the filmmakers apprehended unfamiliar nature. Through editing and processing the film confronts the violent history of Fordism while questioning the limits of mediated vision.

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2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Amedeo Modigliani's portraits of women are among the most printed images of modernism. What is their special magic? British art critic John Berger believes that the nudes in particular are about falling in love. The documentary follows Berger's thoughts and explores the secret of Modigliani's art.

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Poster for Histeria

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

HYSTERIA is a one take and real time feature film that tells the story of Marina, a woman who is not able to recognize her emotions. Her partner Martin will try to help by submitting her to some exercises and tests that trigger a hysteria in which both will be victims.

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Poster for Falling

2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A study in motion, perception, imagination and emotion, this film is ultimately a tribute to classic German cinema. It was shot with a macro lens in slow motion (64 fps) and is projected alternating between 18 and 5 frames per second throughout the piece.

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Poster for Ready Mix

2021 · ★ 10.0 (1)

Ready Mix (2021) is a forty-five-minute film shot over two years at a concrete plant in central Idaho. Ready Mix records the churning transformation of mineral aggregates and cement binders into one of the world’s most ubiquitous building materials: ready-mix concrete. The film’s extra-wide aspect ratio references the surveying origins of the anamorphic format. Developed during World War I to give military-tank operators more expansive views of the terrain, the format later became a staple of Western genre films. Ready Mix collapses this perspectival depth into visual flatness and material density. In doing so, it counters the ways in which Westerns traditionally frame the landscape to perpetuate the myth of the so-called frontier as receding, empty, and untamed.

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Poster for Machine for Living - Montigny-le-Bretonneux

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Machine for Living is a project elaborated in the context of a 9 month residency at Château Ephémère (Carrière-sous-Poissy, France). The video series investigates the architecture of the new towns (Villes nouvelles) and brutalist habitation buildings in the surroundings of Paris. Cities such as Noisy-le-Grand, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, Créteil, Grigny, Cergy-Pontoise, Nanterre and Ivry-sur-Seine were at the center of this research. Created using photographs, 3D animation and video synthesizer, Machine for living combines documentation and abstraction and straddles the line between utopia and dystopia.

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2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The story of Thor, the god of thunder and lightning, and his legendary hammer, which was stolen by the giant Trym.

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Poster for The Gypsy Dance

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A young woman seeking her identity explores her history and that of her ethnic group to have a better understanding of who she is.

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2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

How to deal with a tricky puzzle? What if one of the solutions brings new problems?

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2021 · ★ 4.0 (1)

Sometimes, no words are needed for people to understand each other. The two protagonists meet at a railroad crossing and spend a few fragile moments together in unbroken silence.

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Poster for Four Play - Blue, Table, Water, Cello

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A woman sits alone writing music. As her imagination leads to deeper inspiration, her music and her sexual imagination intertwine.

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