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Poster for Peach Landscape

1973 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Illusions of surface, abstract to pictorial. Initially the grain of the film emulsion, complete with scratches, variations in framing – the meat of film – are the most apparent elements of all. The object shown is revealed to be a bowl of canned peaches. But even with identification, the visual illusions return – e. g., a concave surface becomes convex, the flat bottom of the bowl becomes an egg.

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Poster for Access to the View

2000 · ★ 6.0 (1)

with Yogi John Franzoni

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Poster for River Ghost. Hudson River Diary Book: IV

1973 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"Reflections on a haunted cove along the banks of the Hudson River." –S.D.H.

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2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Once the populous Russian-Tatar village Tankaevka gradually comes to desolation. Abandoned wooden houses gap with windows failures, orchards overgrow with swan and bird cherry trees. Nevertheless, the life of the remaining twelve inhabitants continues: they leisurely repair a rusty tractor, knit birch brooms, sculpt dumplings and, recalling the past, sing old forgotten songs.

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2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Artemy Ulyanov works as a nurse in the morgue. And writes books. Which are published by the largest publishers.

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2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Two weeks later, football players from Abkhazia go to England. The World Cup among unrecognized states and autonomies will be held there. For the national team of Abkhazia, the challenge is to win this tournament at all costs. What overshadows the plans of Abkhazian football players is that it remains unclear to the last whether they will receive a British visa and whether they will even get to London.

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Poster for Exit The Matrix

2019 · ★ 6.0 (6)

In the Absheron region of the Krasnodar Territory, among the majestic Caucasus Mountains and impenetrable forests, small villages were lost. They are connected to the rest of the world only by a thin thread of a narrow gauge railway winding through the gorges - and this is the only way from there and the only way there. A small old trolley - a motor-car, nicknamed by the locals "Matrix", delivers food, fuel and other benefits of civilization every day. People who, for one reason or another, prefer loneliness and unity with nature to noisy city life, make their journey on it.

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Poster for b e d e v i l e d

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Dragon bones and snakes embracing; skeletons in underwear, flying shoes and bug-eyed aliens are among the characters that comprise the annual NYC Halloween Parade — filmed and transformed into a subjective extra-terrestrial dreamscape. Fragmented, cyclic, and in continual flux, b e d e v i l e d is a collage in motion, grounded within a visible construct of open and ever-shifting frames. From early furtive sketches I’ve reworked my original Hi-8 video into a layered weave of images cut to phase between the imaginary and ‘reality’ — from Day of the Dead spectacle to clocks at play with light bulbs. The haunting music of avant-garde composer Lois V Vierk is performed by cellist Theodore Mook.

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Poster for Operneïa

1980 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A single plan and its inverted double: a portion of the Avenue de l'Opera, cut out in the city where "the zoom gliding over this space, rather in a deserted space, which anticipates or participates in a disaster. "(Claudine Eizykman in Erres, No. 5, Toulouse, 1978).

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1973 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Self Portrait: At 47 Km

2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The young filmmaker returns to her village to interview the elderly on the Chinese famine of 1958-60. But the villagers' replies direct her back to the memory of her own family.

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Poster for In The Mountains

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The story of a family that left a successful life in Moscow and arrived in the Artsakh village. The head of the family is an Armenian, his wife is Russian, his daughter still remembers life in Russia, but speaks more and more about the Armenian nature and the importance of life on the land of ancestors.

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1981 · ★ 0.0 (0)

SIREN ISLAND is a real find-stream-of-consciousness from Switzerland. Director Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch creates a moviegoer's 'Morpehus Descending,' a dream trip on stepping stones of the drugged self into an Underworld/Underground of floozy female 'chanteuses,' drag acts and the lunatic fringe of showbiz. Mostly set in New York but also slithering for surreal variation through the skull-piled catacombs in Rome, this narrative fantasia is pure association-of-ideas in film form. (...) –Harlan Kennedy, 1982 Venice Film Festival, Film Comment

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Poster for The Room of Chromatic Mystery

2006 · ★ 5.0 (1)

'The Room of Chromatic Mystery' is (...) another three-colour separation film, shot in the living room of the Cantrills’ old house in Brunswick. An ordinary domestic scene, with flowers and carved artifacts on a table by the window; but the borderlines of these objects quiver, and everything is bathed in a spectral or perhaps extraterrestrial glow. The mysterious soundtrack blends voices from earlier films – including the whispering of the singers in 'Two Women' – with discussions in a foreign language on a shortwave radio, drowned in static like the hiss of time escaping. An image of a place. An echo of a voice. (Jake Wilson)

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Poster for Por que non cantades todas

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Ethnographic documentary showing the musical relationship of a group of women and men from Zobra, Serra do Candán, Pontevedra. Music is exposed as memory, experience and coexistence. Music for them becomes a bridge between two realities, the past and the present. This documentary loves us in relation to the music of a group of mulleres from the place of Zobra na serra do Candán, Galicia. To music as memory, experience and life. A comma music put between realities, or past and present.

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Poster for Bocanoite

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Water and night. The night flows through the water as a substance that cannot be grabbed, fugitive and mysterious, which changes places every time the camera focuses it. Carla Andrade shoots the lake with that feeling, between expectant and contemplative, which nourishes her wish to see and hear all that is out of the scene: the transformation of the night that, like a rumour, follows the course of the water.

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Poster for Split Infinities: Self-Portrait Reconsidered

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"Two films & two iPhone sketches, with 40 years between them. Includes formal studies in light & shadow, subjectivity & objectivity, film material and the creative process. Filmmaker’s self-portrait in time, and by chance." - Holly Fisher

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Poster for Progress, Pork-Barrel, and Pheasant Feathers

1966 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"This film is an intimate case study of pork barrel politics, framed within the on-going controversy over construction of the Florida Cross State Barge Canal by the US Army Corps of Engineers–a civil works project originally cooked up by President Henry Jackson, picked up and dropped by President Kennedy, and periodically re-visited by local groups with assorted vested interests. The Barge Canal was designed to shorten the oil-shipping route from Texas to New Jersey by cutting across the top of Florida, linking the Atlantic with the Pacific. The Oklawaha River, one of Florida’s last remaining wild rivers, was slated as primary water feed-source for the Canal. As a cinema verité depiction of a grass roots attempt to save the river from destruction, Progress, Pork-Barrel, and Pheasant Feathers is a story of profit pitted against beauty, made several years before the word “environment” was even in the political activist lexicon." - Holly Fisher

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Poster for Ghost Dance for a New Century

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"Ghost Dance for a new Century is a re-imagining of my earlier double-projection silent 16mm project Ghost Dance (1980), reworked here into a single, multi-layered, evolving digital canvas, rich in desert colors with pale whites overlapping, and fragments of running shadow interlaced. This film is inspired by the Native American dance performed especially in the 1890s to encourage renewal and prosperity – or from another point of view, to drive out the white man and bring back the buffalo. This is a meditative landscape piece, set between a eulogy for an unspoken past and a plea for attention to an unmapped future … Music is an original work called LENS, written and performed by composer/ cellist Ha-Yang Kim." - Holly Fisher

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Poster for Barbara, elle et nous

2019 · ★ 8.0 (1)

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