Adebar is the first of Peter Kubelka's 'metric films', in which every element of the composition is precisely ordered and in relation to the gestalt. The film is made up of single units---13, 26 and 52 frames long---which are subjected to a complex rule-system, including a strict use of positive and negative space, that determines their structure within the film.
An animated short about the daily life of people living in a windy area who seem helplessly exposed to the weather. However, the inhabitants have learned to deal with their difficult living conditions. The wind creates a natural system for living.
The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.
A man and a woman have been living together for six months. After disappearing for two days, the man returns and acts as if nothing has happened, refusing to say where he was.
An archival investigation into the imperial image-making of the RAF ‘Z Unit’, which determined the destruction of human, animal and cultural life across Somaliland, as well as Africa and Asia.
The inspirational story of Mercedes Gleitze, the first British woman to swim the English Channel and her battle against both the cold waters of the Channel and the oppressive society of the 1920s England.
1950 short film portrait of the octogenarian folk artist. Nominated for an Oscar in the category "Best Short Subject, One-reel".
5639/5640 Green Leather Slow Train, the "mountain bus", has maintained low fares during more than 20 years of operation. You can get a rare income in remote mountainous areas.\r This film reflects the humanistic care of Train 5639 by showing the deep friendship between Wu Wenzhen and other vegetable farmers and the people and things on Train 5639.\r This trip The train serves as a bridge for the Miao villagers to communicate with the outside world, and it carries the desire of the mountain villagers to live a happy life. It is not the speed that is slow, but the patience to keep pace with the low- and middle-income people.
In 1916, a group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.
Secondary school students, Amir and Mastura, vow to get married to each other after their university years. However, things are not as easy as they envisaged. Their relationship faces a string of problems when Mastura doesn't turn up for her SPM examination and her parents plan to get her engaged to her rich schoolmate, Fandi.
While he was about to end his life, Baron de Cantenac wanted to return one last time to the land of his ancestors. He then discovers a treasure that he will strive to use to revive his village.
A fifteen-year-old boy with only months to live is granted one wish from the Dreamscape Charity. But David doesn’t want to go to Disneyland or meet Gary Neville; what he really wants is an hour alone with a naked woman.
A mad man threatens to lure hundreds of sharks to the beach at Surfers Paradise Australia at the start of the tourist season, his price to hold off the sharks is $2 million. Our heroes do everything from escaping jail to risking death in a chemical factory, to stop him.
The Spaniards under Charles V aim to occupy all of Italy with the help of traitorous allies like Don Lorenzo. Lorenzo conspires to marry off his supposed niece Isabella to Charles V’s nephew, Prince Rodriguez, to confirm Spain’s dominance. The Black Devil, a heroic masked avenger, falls in love with the fake Isabella and takes vengeance on Lorenzo with the help of his friend Ruggerio and his men.
Images collected whilst travelling. The feeling of being called to something in the land, a strange force. Constructed only with video/sound that I compiled over 4 days.
The story of an abused young man who decides to take matters into his own hands, but...
About amusing adventures of the young blunderer Yankel during World War II who survives thanks to the sluggishness. The hired legionary he is taken prisoner, will pass across Sicily with the army of allies and it will appear in Indochina. And everywhere he will be accompanied by glory.