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Poster for Your Voice Came Out Through My Throat

2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Yamashiro Chikako channels the stories of survivors of the Battle of Okinawa through lip-synch and superimposition. With her body as an archive, she stages the link between the donors and inheritors of trauma and, ultimately, the impossibility of transferring memory across generational lines.

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2008 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Two Überavian blacksmiths meet on a lazy spring afternoon—romance ensues. Ray-o-grams, springs, feathers and spring-like metal shavings serve as primary source materials. Tinted, bleached, painted and re-photographed, these materials become a study in color and movement set against a soundtrack of both organic and industrial/machine sound.

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Poster for Mother

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

It's been several years since the incident happened. Xianyun tries hard to return to normal life. As a counselor, she hopes to ease her pain of losing her daughter through helping others with their pain. The mother of the killer, Chen, is a neighbor of Xianyun. They see each other occasionally but never spoke. Xianyun could not bring herself to forgive Chen. As the execution day of Chen’s son getting closer, all the pains and memories are once again stirred.

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2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Nicole and Kristan are a queer Bay Area couple who want to adopt a child from foster care. As they prepare to have their home inspected, they child-proof their apartment and invite a couple of kids over to examine their handy work. Will they pass the safety check?

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Poster for FF (aka Fuck Face)

1986 · ★ 5.7 (5)

FF is around three years' worth of collected footage culled from all sources in a variety of formats, from dumpsters to video. It is put together in such a way as to provide miniature, almost instantaneous fictions, confined and numerous, where meaning can occur between the frames as much as it might in the frame. Overall, the film could be described as a visual assault as well as a reference to the invasive nature of the act of taking photographs and more abstractedly with the problem of image or picture functioning as representation of some or all aspects of an object or thing. While the movements and the pace of the film are structured as to suggest relentlessness and insistence of control, the assembly of images therein serve to illustrate the nervous breakdown of the characters represented as their actions, forced into exact repetitions, lose their original expression and take on a new, more ominous existence.

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Poster for Birth Control Your Own Adventure

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A darkly comedic, personal testimony about birth control side effects and navigating the inadequacies of women’s healthcare.

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Poster for Peter Kubelka und Jonas Mekas

1994 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In a series of films made in the 1990s Friedl Kubelka introduced a new element: her participation in the film by interacting with the subject. These films are designed in such a way that the camera films a frontal view of the apparently motionless face, and a touch-a caress of the hair, a kiss, a hug-demonstrates the artist´s relationship with the subject being portrayed, who react in various ways, whether through a lightening of facial expression, a smile or intensified squinting. This matter of involvement represents the specific nature of this series of portrait films, ensuring Kubelka an outstanding position in the field of avant-garde film.

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Poster for O Ladrão do Pão

1979 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A fiction from the series "Contos Tradições Portugueses", based on a poem by Alexandre O'Neil, telling the story of a fisherman tired of the sea, who departs to conquer a new life on land.

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Poster for Born to be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby $/M

1988 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Born to be Sold is Paper Tiger Television and Rosler's acerbic and witty interpretation of the notorious "Baby M" case, in which a natural — "surrogate" — mother and father of a baby fought each other for custody of the child. Rosler assumes various roles of the participants in the controversy, from the baby to the sperm, from the lawyer to the judge, as well as the two women in the case. Reconstructing the story from its trial by media and the court transcripts, Rosler views "surrogate" mother Mary Beth Whitehead's actions as an attempt to defy the identity assigned by her class and gender, and sees the verdict favoring the Sterns as an endorsement of the father's phallic right, his jurisprudential entitlement. Her analysis demonstrates how political, class and ideological systems are played out on the body of the woman.

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1999 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Kino-eye and ciné-tract: the skippers of the inland waterways are demanding a revaluation of their services and blocking the traffic on the Seine in Paris, between the Pont Alexandre III and the Pont de la Concorde.

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Poster for Songs for Earth & Folk

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A found footage assemblage of epic proportions. Produced on residency at Chicago Film Archives, with music by The Eternals.

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1927 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Only a fragment of this film survives (175m from the original 1820m).

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2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"A Journey of the Sacred Prostitute" - Who was she? The sacred Prostitute, a living priestess in ancient temple times. This piece is an artistic exploration of this vital archetypal figure- she was a vessel for fully embodied prayer, prophesy, a gate keeper of divine love.

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Poster for Across the Water

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A misty body of water holds the moving human form, flesh, glass, and fabric placed in iridescent relation. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

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Poster for He left on a long trip

1932 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"He left on a long trip" - A young boy, fascinated by geography, leaves his homework for his interest in a pram lying nearby, about to leave on a long journey.

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Poster for Below

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Below every surface is another world with its own rules, rulers and inhabitants all looking to find their way and to understand.

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Poster for Makoko Sawmill

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Curious blue sticks probe Makoko Sawmill.

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Poster for Hum

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A short film by Zoe Ferrell, addressing topics of gun violence and mental illness.

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Poster for Belmont

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Time has forgotten Belmont, population zero. Even a red light can’t halt the train that sees no need to stop there.

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Poster for Her Dream

1987 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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