The Profligate Door: Borowczyk's Sound Sculptures(2014)

Film Is Not a Sausage: Borowczyk and the Short Film(en)

A documentary about Walerian Borowczyk's short films and animation, featuring his collaborators from that time.

Hacken Lee And Hong Kong Sinfonietta Live 2011(en)

Hacken Lee's perfect voice finds the perfect accompaniment! The pitch-perfect singer collaborated with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and conductor Yip Wing Sze for a series of concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum in July 2011. Hacken sang over 30 songs with the orchestra including unforgettable hits like "Blue Moon", "Deep Deep Deep", "Moonlight Sonata", "I Can't Sing", and "Red Day", as well as his new song "Galaxy". He also performed "Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo", "Best Position", "Short Date", and "Why Did I Let You Leave" for the first time, earning great cheers from the audience.

Tbilisi-Tbilisi(ka)

A young filmmaker named Dato has no money to make a movie, so he hangs out drinking and brooding all day in the capital of the former Soviet republic, Georgia. He is also writing a screenplay. Excerpts from his script, shot in black-and-white, are cut into his story. All the stories, including the framing story about Dato and his friends, are interwoven so that they become one long narrative about contemporary life in Georgia.

International Airport(en)

Manager of a large metropolitan airport tries to deal with the stress of his job, and the various characters that work for him.

Re Lear(en)

A Fantastical Meal(fr)

A family sits down to enjoy a meal that ends up being fraught with complications.

Symptoms(es)

A 17-year-old girl faces a life with an adverse perspective, where her social life, her experiences, her happiness and emotional stability only depend on a thread that is too damaged.

Men in Her Life(en)

A wealthy ex-bootlegger comes to the rescue of a formerly rich society girl after her gold-digging fiancé leaves her stranded when he finds out she's broke. The bootlegger proposes a deal: he will settle her debts if she teaches him how to be "a gentleman".

Solo de Violino(pt)

Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, daughter of the founder of the newspaper "Diário de Notícias", married to Alfredo da Cunha, then director of this newspaper, and mother of José, who is 20. This educated, cultured woman, falls in love with the chauffeur, who is youger than her and from a different social background. This passion leads to confronting the established order of things and the standards of social behaviour of a wife and mother. She may at the same time be heroine and victim of her own courage in deciding to make a final break from the whole family status and run off with the chauffeur. When his wife runs off with the chauffeur, Alfredo da Cunha with the aid of some of the eminent doctors of the day, has her declared irresponsible and incapable of administering her assets, and on this pretext he has her inprisoned in a mental hospital.

Aranmanai 2(ta)

A ghost enters a palatial mansion and starts attacking the men in the family. What is its back story?

Do Bhai(hi)

DO BHAI-1961 was a totally family drama of the routine type where there is a sacrificing soul and a selfish soul. In such films the story writer and the directors try every trick in their bags to make the women audience weep. Vishram Bedekar, who was once a hit director was now in his waning times and could not do much to lift the film above average. Babu Vishwanath dies leaving a will to give all wealth to his elder son Gopinath(Abhi Bhatta.).Gopi’s step mother Vimla(Durga Khote) loves Gopi more than her own vagabond son Shibu(Anil Kumar). Shibu is a gone case. Gopi and his wife Rukmini(Sulochana) also love Shibu but he is instigated by his Mama (Rajan Haksar) Kashinath and Shibu starts hating Gopi.

Fly(es)

Suspended in time, a widower drifts endlessly between nights and days that melt into one continuous longing for a love that will never die but can no longer be. When the blinding sun coming through the window suddenly forces him back into life with Mitzi and Teresita—but without Teresa—he asks what good it is if she’s reincarnated into a flower or a butterfly if what the girls need is a mother. Can God be so cruel so as to deprive a young girl of her mother’s touch? And so reality turns into dream—or is it the other way around? And she is back again. Could Teresa still be alive? From the streets of Mexico City comes this heart-warming story of a young man struggling to raise his two daughters while working the night shift as a taxi driver.

The Fighter(en)

Vietnam war veteran Merle is working as concierge. His small salary and the one of his wife Rindy are just enough to survive. Thus when Merle hears that there will be an amateur boxing fight he decides to participate.

Reverence(kk)

This educational film is intended for students of film schools. It illustrates the concept of directors copying each other.

Holy Cowboys(gu)

Holy Cowboys offers a fascinating, disconcerting look at Indian youth indoctrinated as bovine vigilantes. This observational documentary from Sundance Institute alumnus Varun Chopra goes deep into a world of bigotry and division, where a genuine love for animals and a naive sense of righteousness are weaponised.

The Hot Air Salesman(en)

A door to door salesman visits Betty Boop's home with a long line of useless household gadgets.

Noël à Disneyland : Dans le secret du plus grand parc d'attraction d'Europe(fr)

My Name Is Kate(en)

Kate (Donna Mills) is an alcoholic--and, as is often the case, she is in full denial regarding her illness. Only when she is threatened with mass desertion by her husband, children and best friend does the sullen Kate agree to seek out treatment.

Absence of Me(es)

Hundreds of boxes left by the famous uruguayan musician and political activist Alfredo Zitarrosa (1936-1989) who run away the dictatorship in the 70s, have not been touched since his death 27 years ago. Now his wife and daughters are trying to save the memories, tapes, music and sound recordings that the boxes contain to the posterity.

Ballad of Imprisonment: Making Blanche(en)

A documentary about the making of Walerian Borowczyk's 'Blanche'.

The Concentration Universe: Making Goto, Isle of Love(en)

A documentary about Borowczyk's 'Goto, Isle of Love' and its creation, featuring key cast and crew members.

Film Is Not a Sausage: Borowczyk and the Short Film(en)

A documentary about Walerian Borowczyk's short films and animation, featuring his collaborators from that time.

Okay for Sound(en)

This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 August 1926. The film highlights Thomas A. Edison and Alexander Graham Bell's efforts that contributed to sound movies and acknowledges the work of Lee De Forest. Brief excerpts from the August 1926 exhibition follow. Clips are then shown from a number of Warner Brothers features, four from the 1920s, the remainder from 1946/47.

Everybody's Cage(en)

In “Everybody’s Cage”, German film artist Sandra Trostel turns John Cage and his approach to art into a tangible fascination, without giving in to explain just a single bit of it.

The Voice That Thrilled the World(en)

This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from early sound pictures.

KanZeOn(en)

An unusual documentary exploring sound. Unique elements of Japanese culture are revealed through ancient rituals and extraordinary musical spectacles. A young Buddhist priest whose family has been serving a temple for the past 500 years is also a DJ and beat-boxer. A drum teacher takes part in a costume performance of a 700-year-old ghost story. A female performer plays the Sho, a rare bamboo instrument that is believed to imitate the call of the mythical phoenix. The core ideas explaining the magical potential of sound that permeates all parts of the film are presented in the tradition of Shingon Buddhism. These beliefs are explored through following Buddhist chanting lessons for student priests at Shuchiin University in Kyoto.

Sonic Sea(en)

The devastating impact of industrial and military ocean noise on whales and other marine life.

Soundtracker(en)

Pure sound unaltered by human hands is becoming increasingly difficult to find. Gordon Hempton is an Emmy Award-winning sound recordist who has spent the last 30 years trying to find and record the vanishing sounds of nature in an attempt to capture a disappearing sensory experience. Filmmaker Nick Sherman observes Hempton in the wilderness for 30 days and uncovers an obsessive artist on a quest for perfection in this obscure medium. Hempton’s natural ability to locate and articulate himself through sound has a contagious energy and gives his work a transportive quality. Soundtracker is a fascinating meditation on the world’s changing landscape and the things we may be leaving behind in the service of progress.

Obscure Pleasures: A Portrait of Walerian Borowczyk(en)

During a hospital stay in 2001, the Polish painter, sculptor and filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk compiled a handwritten list of the objects and animals that were featured in his films. While he had used both encyclopedias and dictionaries to order chaos in his own films, this list saw Borowczyk putting his own life in order.

O Som, ou Tratado de Harmonia(en)

film about the desire of listening. An intermingling of voices from childhood, dreams, history, sex and politics. A visual essay about the universe of sounds. What is sound? What is the sound experience? Sound placed and replaced as Energy. Nothing more should be said. The final conclusion, while the spectator flies over an infinite sea, talks about spreading fragility open. That is the Sound.

Melody of Noise(de)

The film accompanies musicians who have devoted themselves to new, uncharted sounds with a great deal of passion. They build new instruments and work with quotidian noises. In the process, the ostensible noise often becomes sound. An adventurous journey of discovery into the realm of noises and sounds, rhythms and stillness. Together with people who listen closely and without reservation. A film that aims to engage viewers to listen with their eyes and see with their ears. Astonishingly sublime.

Blow Ups: Borowczyk's Works on Paper(en)

A visual essay about Walerian Borowczyk's works on paper.

Actors of Sound(en)

Since the 1930’s, sound gurus referred to as Foley artists have recreated the sounds that infuse a film with life. During a film’s post-production, Foley artists recreate sound that will match the moving image on-screen, using whatever objects are at their fingertips, from hundreds of pairs of old shoes to clunky old tools and squeaky mattresses. But how will Hollywood’s low-tech sound artists survive as digital technology consumes modern movie-making?

Parc Central(fr)

"Central Park" is composed of 11 films that offer a visual, sound and poetic journey through 11 cities crossed by the artist. Fascinated by the city, space and urbanism, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster has been developing the concept of "tropical modernity" for several years, starting from the cohabitation and the confrontation between architecture and vegetation. It is around this research that she designed "Central Park" 11 films : - Kyoto (1998) - Taipei (2000) - Buenos Aires (2003) - Los Glaciares (2003) - Hong Kong (2000) - Encore Tapei (2000) - White Sands (2003) - Brasilia (1998) - Paris (1999) - Shangai (2003) - Rio de Janeiro (2000)

A Quiet Place(en)

A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.

Silent(en)

A duo of street performers learns how sound and picture work together to create amazing cinema experiences.

Plane Crazy(en)

Inspired by Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris, Mickey builds a plane to take Minnie for a trip.

The Shout(en)

A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.