You Take Care Now, an early student film, is a perfect exemplar of Ann Marie Fleming's idiosyncratic vision and stands as one of her signature works. Made on 16mm, and incorporating found footage, original material, animation, and processed images (Vancouver's groundbreaking avant-garde cinema of the 1970s is a decided influence here), Fleming's film offers a visually dazzling, emotionally wrenching, oddly humorous account of two profound personal traumas.
The experimental animated short is a collaborative work between Keiichi Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara.
Three memories that become one. An attempt to merge heterogeneous materials: a film sequence shot in Rome, a photo from the 1930s, a noisy soundtrack. Fragmented lines, exploding bass frequencies and flickering.
La Maison en Petits Cubes tells the story of a grandfather's memories as he adds more blocks to his house to stem the flooding waters.
Prelude 14 begins in deep brilliant red which darkens into deeper reds and lavender shapes, disrupted by a variety of colors settling into browns and grays and shapes most rock-like, all of which is then shot-thru with sufficient yellow to break up all hard-edge form and give a molten aspect to the mixtures of shapes.
An early experiment in employing computers to animate film. The result is a dazzling vibration of geometric forms in vivid color, an effect achieved by varying the speed at which alternate colors change, so producing optical illusions. In between these screen pyrotechnics appears a simple line form gyrating in smooth rhythm. Sound effects are created by registering sound shapes directly on the soundtrack of the film.
Five years in the making, Lawrence Jordan's feature-length "alchemical autobiography" Sophie's Place takes as its inspiration the story of the Greek goddess of wisdom, Sophia. Writes Jordan, "I must emphasize that I do not know the exact significance of any of the symbols in the film any more than I know the meaning of my dreams... I hope that the symbols and the episodes set off poetic associations in the viewer. I mean them to be entirely open to the viewer's own interpretation."
The experimental animated short is a collaborative work between Keiichi Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara.
Moonlight reflected in water: the forms and lines are continually rearranged by the currents.
A free transposition of a Kafka novel: the peace of an imaginary insect is disturbed by three little balls.
Piotr Kamler meets Luc Ferrari & Iannis Xenakis. A play of opposites: space, colour, forms, movements
A dialogue of forms, colours and movements follow a rhythm which is both plastic and musical.
Based on abstract images by Kamler, Andre Voisin and Francois Bayle imagined the story of a messenger charged to bring to our planet the key to a forgotten wisdom.
Combines animation, documentary footage, and hand-painted film as well as slide projections, a painted 12" x 24" backdrop, and sculptural palm tree to create a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Puerto Rican psyche.
Life drums the playfulness out of a boy as he grows up.
A boom operator attempts to record the noise mushrooms make in this semi-experimental animation inspired by the world of sounds.
The mutating forms of Tensai Banpaku, or “Genius Expo” create a stunning abstract orchestra.
A meek office worker finds himself flung into a fantasy world as a naked muscleman. An early version of the Den character, known from the comic magazine Heavy Metal and the movie by the same name.
Mizuki Kiyama's short animation utilizes a paint on glass technique to render a young girl's visit to a neighborhood sento (bath house) with her mother with dazzling sensuous wonder. Evoking childish fascination at daily rituals, this quotidian act amidst feminine intimacy becomes a space of otherworldly fantasy.
Enigma is something of a more glamorous version of White Hole, with a wide variety of elaborate textures (often composed of iconographic and religious symbols) converging towards the centre of the screen.
A young man and a veteran meet for the last time before the war will separate them.
Archaeologist Nicholas Zavaterro and his student find an antique vase with an inscription that points to where Noah's Ark is hidden. They decide to go looking, but things get out of control when they encounter opposing forces, including a monster named Tama.
The Russian version of the movie "Fight Club" is not just a Russian version of a well-known cult film, it is the result and of the hard work of two young men and their love for cinema, Alexander Kukhar (GOLOBON-TV) and Dmitry Ivanov (GRIZLIK FILM) , who are responsible for this project, from the development of its idea and the selection of the cast, to the organization of filming and financial support. Filming lasted a whole year. Everyday work, constant trips, searching for suitable film sets and an exhausting schedule - all this was not in vain and resulted in an unusually amazing and original project - the film "Fight Club", created in the very heart of southern Russia, in the city of Krasnodar, by two young people
Intertwined stories from the gladiator/athletes participating to the Calcio Storico Fiorentino yearly championship.
Weslie and his crew discover an evil mechanical dragon who defeats Wolffy as he was attempting to capture the goats, but a series of good dragons rescue Weslie and the goats. The good dragons say that evil dragons have taken over their world, and they need the help of the goats.
In a world on fire, a seven-month-old pregnant nurse deals with growing anxiety while gradually finding herself attracted to a member of the Pentecostal church and her community.
A second generation migrant with a dehumanizing factory job returns to the land her family members left behind when they went to the city for a better life.
1. THE FILM MUST BE EXACTLY ONE MINUTE IN LENGTH 2. THE FILM MUST HAVE NO CUTS 3. THE NUMBER 3 MUST NOT BE MENTIONED 4. THE FILM MUST HAVE LIVE SOUND ONLY (NO POST) 5. THE FILM MUST HAVE NO DIALOGUE 6. ONLY BLACK, WHITE, & PRIMARY COLORS MAY BE USED 7. THE FILM MUST BE SHOT IN ONE TAKE, WITH NO REHEARSALS 8. THE FILM MUST BE PROJECTED IN 35 MM 9. THE CAMERA MUST NOT MOVE 10. ARI VON GOLD MUST PERFORM IN THE FILM
Dramatized documentary about the days of Norwegian pirates starting around the year 1807 when Norway went into extreme poverty.
A group of scientists are thinking outside the box for ways to reverse the effects of global warming. And who better to save the earth than National Geographic Channel's host of the World's Toughest Fixes, Sean Riley? He'll join these experts in the labs and in the field to see what wacky new technologies are being developed, like sending mirrors into space and reducing the greenhouse emissions chickens produce.
A young woman closes her eyes: in the darkness of the screen and the night, she recites O Marinheiro, by Fernando Pessoa. Dreams replace reality in the frightening wait for sunrise.
Unable to cope with harsh reality of the world she lives in, Apala seeks solace in vivid and frequent flights of fantasy. She slowly detaches herself from everything real and starts treading the thin line between imagination and delusion.
The soil, the last fortress between life and death, passes entirely through the hands of Yiota and Labrinis. Their work, the last task for the now gone dead, a post uncomfortable but extremely important, without them the dead will not be buried and his story will not end. An Other City that gradually leads us to the reappropriation of a willfully unseen subject.
Discovered in 1990 in the Aveyron Gorges, near the village of Bruniquel, Bruno Kowalczewski discovers a cave which shows evidence of being inhabited by Neanderthals as far back as 47,000 years ago, with stalagmites arranged in circles. What significance do these limestone rings have? From when exactly do they date? For fear of damaging the remains, the excavations were stopped in the late 1990s, leaving these questions unanswered. Beginning in 2014, a new team relaunches research into the cave. Using the current uranium-thorium method, calcite samples are dated to 176,500 years ago, revealing the construction as one of the oldest ever discovered underground. This stone circle is surprisingly complex. How was it built and what was it used for? This is a story of a discovery that brings new elements to the capabilities of the Neanderthals.
Volarte is a free flight through a computer generated Palace of Fine Arts, offering the murals of Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros, Tamayo, Montenegro, Rodríguez Lozano and González Camarena. A novel view that allows to enjoy these works of art in their architectural context, in a way that's impossible in reality
While Alfalfa was away at military school, his letters to his friends back home bragged about how he was a star football player. Now that he's back home, he has to prove it.