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The Comedian's Guide to Survival(en)
One man's journey around the world to discover the secret of comedy.
Forest(en)
Video installation, 2005, at LOKAAL_01 Breda 2007, Burning Marl, curator Frederik Vergaert in Seppenshuis Zoersel, 2005. A woman walking through 3 video images. Three screens display how the day’s light passes by: from the early morning light until late at night. Along with the woman the artist walks through the forest, in the same rhythm, the same pace. Off-screen she looks through the camera, fragmenting time. The age-old androgynous trees are a vertical constant along which the woman moves, as if in an interval between visibility and invisibility, between sound and silence, while the light keeps on evolving metabletically.
Main Street(en)
Eric Buford (Eric Streit) was willing to do just about anything to break out of his small Southern town. When Andrea Patterson (Andrea Griffin) arrives to oversee the opening of a huge corporate mega store, Eric thinks that he finally has a ticket out of "Small town USA". Eric's plans change when he discovers Food Demon's plot to destroy all of the Mom & Pop businesses on Main Street, including his grandparents' grocery store. Before Eric knows it, he is thrust in the middle of angry mobs, shady land deals and greedy businessmen that consider murder to be all in a days work. After his grandpa is slain before his eyes, Eric joins forces with his fellow Main Street merchants in a quest to save their town. Their mission: Run corporate America out of town on a rail..and live to tell about it.
Turkish Saddle(ru)
The film’s hero, Ilyich, cannot understand what’s wrong with him. Ilyich is a for- mer “mole”, an external observation agent in the KGB, then FSB. A skilled instructor. Now he is retired. From loneliness, he continues to watch those who catch his attention and curiosity. The doctor diagnoses him with empty sella syndrome (the syndrome of an empty Turkish Seat), which poses no danger for society... One day new neighbours move in, a young couple of musicians, and Ilyich’s life changes...
Forest(en)
Short film built from photographs, sped up like a traditional stop motion and is meant to be an evocation of the English Eerie and Folk Horror.
Félix Mayol Performs "The Trottins' Polka"(fr)
Félix Mayol performs The Trottins Polka (La Polka des Trottins, by A. Trebitsch and H. Christine) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early form of music video was created using a chronophone recording of Mayol, who was then filmed "lip singing". Guy would film phonoscenes of all three major Belle Époque celebrities in France: Polin, Félix Mayol, and Dranem.
Goldfish,Noodles etc.(ne)
Poonam, a mother and a wife,facing domestic abuse and martal rape, meets her long time friend on the night of her anniversary. As they engage in a deep cnversation after-party, her husband intervenes.
Hürmüz with Seven Husbands(tr)
Hurmuz is a beautiful woman, her husband Ömer is in prison and she's in love with him. She thinks that her husband is very loyal to her, but one day, when she goes to visit him, she learns that she has six other wives besides herself, and she can't get over this and wants to take revenge. Hızır Reis, Guard Hasan, Tulumbacı Hayri, Hallaç Rüstem and Berber Hasan. Hurmuz marries all of them in turn and kidnaps them all on their wedding night. But still, Hurmuz's heart is with the doctor.
Hide(en)
HIDE is a contained psychological thriller about one resilient wife’s (Nadine Malouf) fight to escape her husband’s (Ben Samuels) escalating gaslighting and abuse during lockdown. The female-centric genre film is lensed in the wife’s evolving perspective as she slowly comes to see what is happening to her and finds the support to fight back. Visually mesmerizing and emotionally arresting, the film’s pace and pathos pull us into a story that will feel uncomfortably familiar to too many of us.
Maldita Cocaína(es)
A father searches for the drug dealer responsible for his daughter's death. He kidnaps who he believes is the girlfriend of one of the thugs; the woman turns out to be an undercover agent of the DEA, who will help him carry out her revenge.
Past Imperfect(fr)
Alice leads a routine life as an escort and dodges social contact. When she's forced to take care of her son after the death of her ex, her apparent indifference seems to fade away and she gets confronted with her emotional emptiness.