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1989 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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1988 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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1988 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for For a Place Under the Heavens

2003 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Acclaimed director Sabiha Sumar, recent winner of the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival for her feature Silent Waters, offers an insightful perspective on Pakistan in this finely crafted personal film. Beginning with the creation of Pakistan in 1947, Sumar traces the relationship of Islam to the state in an effort to understand how women are coping with and surviving the increasing religiosity of civil and political life in her country. Raised in a more secular time, she struggles to comprehend how religious schools have expanded at once unthinkable rates and presents chilling footage of a mother encouraging her toddler to be a martyr when he grows up. Mixing political analysis with interviews with activist colleagues, noted Islamic scholars and Pakistani women who have chosen to embrace fundamentalism, Sumar’s provocative questions dramatically capture the tension between liberal and fundamentalist forces that are shaping life in contemporary Pakistan.

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Poster for Absurdities In a City

1990 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The director of a Repertory Troupe and a young student are tasked with investigating a potential incidence of bribery at a jade carving factory.

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1995 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A glimpse behind the scenes of the world's oldest entertainment park, Vienna's Prater. The little, grotesque city within the city has for generations been the home of showmen rich in tradition.

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Poster for Amazon of the Avant-garde

2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A film about the great 20th century sculptor whose work was inspired by the cubism of the 1920s, and her life story which contains all possible dramas for a creative person living in the previous century.

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Poster for Human Beings are Dancing Stars

2006 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Yapping Out Loud: Contagious Thoughts from an Unrepentant Whore

2002 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A documentary based on first-person Toronto performance show (7 monologues) dealing with prostitution and anti-prostitution. A tour de force by Canada’s most famous transsexual sexworker animal-rights activist performance artist, Yapping is hilarious and moving --half autobiographical, half agitprop satire, fully unforgettable.

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Poster for Cyber-Eve

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Cyber-Eve comes face to face with her fears and gains an inner voice that helps her learn to make independent decisions.

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Poster for From Your Head

1996 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This jazzy little film, which pairs Sally Cruikshank’s psychedelic style with Betty Carter’s groovy singing, is a creative exploration of what thinking and dreaming look like.

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Poster for De Dora, por Sara

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

“De Dora por Sara” shares excerpts from writings, letters from prison and letters from exile exchanged between guerrilla Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcelos and Clélia Lara Barcelos, recreating what she called “Dora Dam”, a communication field between confinement and the possibility of utopia. This research combines “real” words in a poetic time, feeling both the processes that led her body to suicide and the other way around: it investigates a vibrating field for her to relive, in a kind of “incarnate” cartography, averse to giving up.

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Poster for Pleasure Prospects

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

New Mineral Collective is the largest and least productive mining company in the world. The company provides counter- prospecting operations and geo-trauma healing therapies at 259 Lake Shore Blvd E and Small Arms. This video installation, Pleasure Prospects, follows the process of acquiring prospecting licenses for alternative values and takes a critical look at “perforated landscapes”—land altered by extractive industries.

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Poster for Get Lost

2020 · ★ 10.0 (1)

This found footage film is about how easy it is to get lost both physically and emotionally within a short amount of time and how hard it may be to come back to where you were or simply coming to terms with change. Edited to an original score.

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Poster for Mix Wildflower Seeds

2017 · ★ 10.0 (1)

A train ride through a desolated suburban area. A post-internet visual essay on transition, assimilation and forgiveness. The short consists of layers of 16mm film, found footage, .png files, and internet generated graphics.

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Poster for Pulling Power from the Sky: The Story of Makani

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Pulling Power from the Sky: The Story of Makani is a feature length documentary that chronicles the thirteen-year quest of an eclectic band of scientists, artists, sailors, pilots, and engineers, as they team up to design and build kites that can efficiently harness energy from the wind.

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Poster for Paracusia

2019 · ★ 2.0 (2)

A woman alone in a small flat is carrying out her daily housework when she starts hearing sounds from the other side of the wall. The neighbor's's undecipherable doings are slowly invading ...  »

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2003 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Juliane Lorenz on Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Lili Marleen.

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Poster for Change. My Problem is a Problem of a Woman

1979 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Ewa Partum’s work entitled Change. My problem is a problem of a woman (1979) is the culmination and the turning point of a process which began with Change in 1974. The latter was an action in which the artist had half of her face aged using make-up and immortalized in a portrait posted in the streets of Warsaw. Up to that point, Partum had used make-up to glamorize herself, signing various words with her lips outlined in red and pressed against paper as she spoke 1. But in Change. My problem is a problem of a woman, Partum had wrinkles, varicose veins, and grey hair applied over half of her body while, reclining on a white podium, she recited passages from the critic Lucy Lippard and the artist VALIE EXPORT.

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Poster for 13 Shots

1978 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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