Time strung together by recollections, encounters and dreams. A farewell over a man’s last three months before his final transformation.Read More »
Short Film
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Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis – Aktisto Fos AKA Unbuilt Light (2017)
2011-2020DramaEfthimis Kosemund SanidisGreeceShort Film -
Zhangke Jia – Lai Fang AKA Visit (2020)
2011-2020AsianChinaShort FilmZhangke JiaSynopsis
The idea is to create a film at home, using the environment, the people or the animals in that space. The only outdoor areas that may be used are outdoor living spaces, such as the terrace, the garden, the balcony and the stairwell.Read More » -
Agnès Varda – Oncle Yanco AKA Uncle Yanco (1967) (HD)
1961-1970Agnès VardaDocumentaryFranceShort FilmQuote:
While in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda, tipped by her friend Tom Luddy, gets to know a relative she had never heard of before, Jean Varda, nicknamed “Yanco”. This hitherto unknown uncle lives on a boat in Sausalito, is a painter, has adopted a hippie lifestyle and loves life. The meeting is a very happy one.Read More » -
Jean Epstein – Le tempestaire (1947)
1941-1950ArthouseFranceJean EpsteinShort FilmQuote:
Despite her protestations and concerns over ominous signs, a young woman’s lover leaves for the sea to fish for sardines, but while he is out a terrible storm strikes. However, she finds out about Le Tempestaire, or Tempest Master, who has the power to speak to the wind and subdue it.Read More » -
Robert Breer – Jamestown Baloos (1957)
1951-1960ExperimentalRobert BreerShort FilmUSAAn experimental short film from Robert Breer with animated and live-action scenes cut together.Read More »
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Robert Breer – Time Flies (1997)
1991-2000ExperimentalRobert BreerShort FilmUSAPersonal photos are interspersed with fragmentary drawings and flashes of colour, observed and/or remembered everyday events – all of which add to a general sense of reminiscence. Sometimes a hand appears (Breer’s own) on top of a photo, reminding us that the photo is but an object in the film, not the film itself.Read More »
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Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub – Toute révolution est un coup de dés AKA Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice (1977)
1971-1980ArthouseDanièle Huillet and Jean-Marie StraubFranceShort FilmQuote:
Straub and Huillet invited friends to recite Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1897 poem “A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance,” with its radically modern use of free verse, in a park alongside the wall in Père Lachaise cemetery where the last 147 men and women of the Paris Commune were lined up and shot dead in 1871.It is not hard to understand why these ambitious filmmakers were drawn to Mallarme’s late-19th-century poem, which casts readers adrift in a sea of elusive meanings, a playfully and hermetically cubist constellation of words that can assume myriad visual, aural, and symbolic forms.Read More »
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Robert Breer – Form Phases IV (1954)
1951-1960ExperimentalRobert BreerShort FilmUSAForm Phases IV is the last film in Form Phases, the first series made by Robert Breer to lend movement to the abstract forms in his paintings. Breer was a self-taught practitioner of animated film, focusing particularly on the demystification of the screen space. This was a theme already touched on in the 1920s by Hans Richter, one of the references for avant-garde European cinema. Richter’s work, specifically his film Rhythmus 21 (also in the Museo Reina Sofía collection), the starting point of abstraction in film, was a decisive influence on Breer’s cinematographic output.
Here, Breer applied, in a particularly sophisticated way, the principle by which a static screen is animated by the appearance of a moving shape which then changes as another shape appears, and then disappears, leaving the screen blank, to return once more to its static state.Read More » -
Gan Bi – Nanfang AKA South (2010)
2001-2010AsianChinaGan BiShort FilmQuote:
Original Title in Chinese: 南方
When studying in campus, Gan Bi (Kaili Blues and Long Day’s Journey Into Night) finished his first work Nanfang (South) in 2010. This work got a golden prize of the best film in the film festival of his school.It is said that Gan Bi doesn’t care about the preservation of the digital copies of his works. Two of his early works are not easy to find. And this one is the best quality I can find. And another work called Laohu (Tiger) is still no resources…Read More »