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Five women in their thirties examine their own power in life.Read More »
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Chloë Sevigny – White Echo (2019)
2011-2020Chloë SevignyHorrorShort FilmUSA -
Amit Dutta – Wittgenstein Plays Chess With Marcel Duchamp, Or How Not To Do Philosophy (2020)
2011-2020Amit DuttaExperimentalIndiaShort FilmAmir Dutta’s latest film, Wittgenstein Plays Chess With Marcel Duchamp, Or How Not To Do Philosophy, is a 17-minute animation that adapts an essay of the same name by Steven B. Gerrard. The essay examines how Wittgenstein and Duchamp, both keen chess players, used the game to question language and perception. The film has a winking style of animation—by the director’s wife, Ayswarya S. Dutta—that involves the juxtaposition of cutout figures, objects and backgrounds. It’s a sprightly investigation into the nature of surface appearances and how we perceive meaning, packed with allusions to art, linguistics, philosophy and chess.Read More »
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Krsto Skanata – Prvi padez – Covek AKA First Case – Man (1964)
1961-1970Czech RepublicDocumentaryKrsto SkanataShort Film“The film has three plans: on the one hand, scenes of children who write a school task on the subject of the size and ugliness of a human being, on the other hand, the cadres of miners who protest against inhuman maltreatment of a colleague who lost his hand and on the third side, a shot of a disabled person with a prosthesis Under the arm passes through a rocky street.”Read More »
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Bahram Beizai – Safar AKA The Journey (1972)
1971-1980Bahram BeizaiDramaIranShort FilmThe story is about two poor boy’s search for their father through a “Journey” from downtown to uptown.
Two hungry boys are forced to move through the events, people and unrealistic and risky places in a nightmare way.
A daily journey in search of their lost identity and worth! The have neither the money nor the ability to commit theft and fraud…Read More » -
John Hubley & Faith Hubley – The Tender Game (1958)
1951-1960AnimationFaith HubleyJohn HubleyShort FilmUSAQuote:
Ella Fitzgerald, backed by the Oscar Peterson Trio, sings “Tenderly” as watercolor animation portrays life and love in a big city. Simple and marvelous.Read More » -
Sergei Loznitsa – Une nuit à l’opéra AKA A Night at the Opera (2020)
2011-2020DocumentaryFranceSergei LoznitsaShort FilmUsing archive images, Sergei Loznitsa revisits the gala evenings organized at the Palais Garnier in the fifties and sixties. Between prestige and protocol, these evenings gathered both celebrities and ordinary people who came by the thousands from the Place de l’Opéra to watch this spectacle, of which the director amusingly brings out the irony…Read More »
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Ramin Bahrani – Plastic Bag (2009)
2001-2010Ramin BahraniShort FilmUSAQuote:
This short film by American director Ramin Bahrani (Goodbye Solo) traces the epic, existential journey of a plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog) searching for its lost maker, the woman who took it home from the store and eventually discarded it. Along the way, it encounters strange creatures, experiences love in the sky, grieves the loss of its beloved maker, and tries to grasp its purpose in the world.Read More » -
Robert Clampett – Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1943)
1941-1950AnimationRobert ClampettShort FilmUSAFrom Steve Schneider’s book, That’s Not All Folks! The Art of Warner Bros. Animation (1988):
The one cartoon that best sums up the Clampett sensibility – and, for that matter, the new braziness of the entire [Leon Schlesinger] studio – is Warner’s first release of 1943, Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs. Notorious now, the cartoon is virtually a scene-by-scene, character-by-character send-up of the fabled Disney feature, as enacted by an all-black cast. (The film’s regrettable ethnic element, it must be added, is indicative of some of the conventions of the time.Read More »
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Pablo Mazzolo – Ceniza verde AKA Green Ash (2019)
2011-2020ArgentinaExperimentalPablo MazzoloShort FilmIn the mountains of Córdoba hides a historical scar. In 1575, hundreds of Hênia-Kâmîare women, children and elders jumped off in order to avoid slavery. A free, poetic view at the very place where the largest mass suicide in the history of the territory known today as Argentina took place. The film is a phantasmagoric trip within this geographical extension, taking it as a vast, green cemetery.Read More »