Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty

The Peony's whisper(ja)

Details from a portrait of Kinbakushi Akira Naka, through the otherness of image and speech; broken up memory, fragmented time, reminiscences of places, moments, faces and bodies, during a back-and-forth between the recollections of a child and the aspirations of a man in his fifties...

Beautifully Maintained and Well Located(en)

A mansion, a lawn, some trees: an unmoved frontal view, 9 minutes long. We hear an off-screen voice. It si the co-director, who commands what goes on in the image. He calls up participants while the other co-director climbs a ladder and holds up a cornet that emits smoke and sparks.

How We Became Friends(en)

two people decide who will save a dog inside their pool.

People(en)

The Red Mountain Tribe hangs out in my backyard. "Lipton's lovely home movie PEOPLE, in its affection for valuable inconsequential gestures, indicates in the course of its three minutes why there has to be a continuing alternative to the commercial cinema." – Roger Greenspun, The New York Times

Horrid Henry's Wild Weekend(en)

With his parents on a getaway, Horrid Henry is chosen for the Brainbox of the Year contest and faces off against his nemesis alongside a quirky team.

Ritmo Alucinante(pt)

His Official Appointment(en)

This touching short film lasts only 10 minutes, 34 seconds, but is rather engaging. Charles Kent is an old man, who has spent all he owns on influencing a government appointment. His faithful black servant, Amber (Hal Wilson), cares for him as he waits to hear from the Capitol. No one there intends to do anything but make fun of him, even sending a false appointment, to his shame.

This Time(en)

As Manny has second thoughts about getting married, he is visited by an unexpected guest.

Angelita, la doctora(es)

Tony MacAlpine and band perform "Tears of Sahara" on EMGtv(es)

Eat the Peach(en)

Two young Irish men are watching an old Elvis Presley movie in which a carnival cyclist performs an act called the Wall of Death. Transfixed, they decide to put together their own "Wall of Death".

Closed Vagina(ja)

Adachi's follow-up to Bowl using the figure of a woman suffering from an unusual sexual aliment has often been taken as a controversial allegory for the political stalemate of the Leftist student movement after their impressive wave of massive fiery protests failed to defeat the neo-imperialist Japan-US Security Treaty. The ritualistic solemnity of the charged sexual scenes contribute to the oneiric qualities of Closed Vagina which Adachi would later insist was an open work, not meant to deliver any kind of deliberate political message. - Harvard Film Archive

Shakedown(en)

In the middle of a devastating Los Angeles earthquake, terrorists and bank robbers battle over a deadly super-virus.

Birthday(az)

Birthday of a lonely woman. Her husband died years ago and her sons left her alone. She expects only a simple telephone call but nobody calls. She makes special meals but nobody visits. She prays all day but they are not heard.

Sheffield United v Bury(en)

Sparkling images of fans and players at an Edwardian fixture at Sheffield's Bramall Lane.

L'Énigme Mylène Farmer(fr)

Dui Prithibi(bn)

A rich man falls in love with an idealistic medical student. However, when circumstances force them apart, he learns the true meaning and value of love.

Grenzgänger(de)

Two men and one woman are involved in a dramatic triangle between love and passion, transgression and betrayal. Florian Flicker has set Karl Schönherr's "Der Weibsteufel" in Austria's borderland shortly after the turn of the last century. In the remote swamps next to the March River, Hans and Jana are living in a criminal idyll that comes tumbling down when a young soldier enters the picture.