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Simon Pummell’s (Bodysong) visually ravishing sci-fi thriller exploring the future of virtual reality and the desire to transcend human limits. The theft of an experimental drug to suppress the immune system reveals a case of virtual reality addiction and forces a detective to confront his nightmares.Read More »
Etta is an elderly acrobat incarcerated in a care home. One night, a ghostly presence brings Etta into contact with Alice, a young night nurse. Etta discovers that Alice’s touch brings ecstatic, disturbing memories to life, but Alice has a morbid fear of physical contact.Read More »
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The problems of showing the naked male body in all its glory are laid bare in this witty short. From the unabashed nudity on Grecian urns to the homoeroticism of 1950s muscle mags, this strange history is related by an unseen photographer as he snaps a naked male model, his kinky commentary full of sardonic observations on society’s hypocrisies.Read More »
Experimental short film directed in 2024 by Ken Jacobs.Read More »
Synopsis and user review from the Imdb:
Falling asleep on the job, he dreams of various Shakespearean characters coming to life from the pages of giant books and singing and dancing in celebration of their “goin’ Hollywood.” The characters appearing include Romeo, Juliet, Juliet’s Nurse, Puck, Peter Quince, Hamlet, Old Hamlet’s Ghost, Falstaff, Antony, Cleopatra, and Macbeth. Shakespeare appears toward the end of the film to object, but he is quickly convinced by his characters to join a big song and dance routine. Includes passing references to a number of familiar Shakespearean scenes including Hamlet’s “to be or not to be” soliloquy, Romeo and Juliet’s balcony scene, Hamlet with Yorick’s skull, and Enobarbus’ speech on Cleopatra’s barge.Read More »
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Structured in the camera by adjusting the focus frame by frame according to a series of patterns on particular plants situated in different areas of several contiguous sunflower fields, Sunflowers tries to make the whole spatio-temporal representation gain a certain stability, while keeping the graphic elements of the image mobile. The small cluster of frames, filmed one after the other, overlap each other on the screen to form various configurations. Filmed near Bedarrides, Vaucluse.Read More »
Vibrant love story, which means “Just You” in Lingala, intersperses modern life, the youth of Brazzaville at the time, the European dances in vogue in the 1960s, and life initiation, the sorcery, spiritual power and ritual.Read More »
Isfi can wear her comfortable pants among her guy friends but has to wear hijab to be accepted at Nita’s house. Two days to Nita’s Birthday, all Isfi wants is to prepare the best gift in Nita’s room.Read More »
