In the last completed work of the Irish playwright, we see five supposedly different faces on a TV screen that are gradually blended together.
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Short Film
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Samuel Beckett – Was wo AKA What Where (1986)
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Samuel Beckett – Geistertrio AKA Ghost Trio (1977)
1971-1980DramaGermanySamuel BeckettShort FilmA man is waiting, reading a newspaper, looking out of the window, etc., seen first at distance, then again in close-up, and the close-up forces a very intense kind of intimacy. His face, gestures, little sounds. Tired of waiting he ends up getting into bed. The close-up enters into the bed. No words or very few. Perhaps just a few murmurs.Read More »
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Samuel Beckett – … nur noch Gewölk … AKA but the clouds (1977)
Samuel Beckett1971-1980DramaGermanyShort FilmAfter putting on stage a dialogue between actor and tape recording in Krapp’s Last Tape in 1958, Beckett went one step further when aged over sixty and made plays for television. Between 1966 and 1985, he produced with Süddeutsche Rundfunk four television dramas which in their intensity and radical reduction are related with the video art of the period.Read More »
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Samuel Beckett – He Joe AKA Eh, Joe? (1966)
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Claude Goretta & Alain Tanner – Nice Time (1957)
1951-1960Alain TannerClaude GorettaDocumentaryShort FilmUnited KingdomSynopsis
In September 1956, two young Swiss film enthusiasts, Claude Goretta and Alain Tanner applied for a grant from the British Film Institute to finance a film about London’s Piccadilly on Saturday night. Both in their mid-twenties, they were working at the BFI, where they had met Lindsay Anderson and the other Free Cinema members, as well film critics like Derek Prouse and John Berger, who offered encouragement and support.Read More »
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Peter Weir – Incredible Floridas (1972)
1971-1980AustraliaDocumentaryPeter WeirShort FilmThis short film documents Australian composer Richard Meale’s homage to the young French poet, Arthur Rimbaud. Meale composed a music piece for woodwind, percussion and strings which he titled “Incredible Floridas”. This music is based on the poetry of the Frenchman, which many may find a little obscure.Read More »
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Georges Schwizgebel – Hors-jeu Aka Off-side (1977)
1971-1980AnimationGeorges SchwizgebelShort FilmSwitzerlandSYNOPSIS
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Hannes Schüpbach – Spin (2001)
2001-2010ExperimentalHannes SchüpbachShort FilmSwitzerlandThe concept of Spin, the inherent turning momentum of electrons, stands for the passing of time and for time itself. The unceasing transformation of the world is translated into film via the gliding movement of the camera. Bright light and blurring portray the environment of the film’s elderly subject, my mother, as pure atmosphere. Her few calm gestures in the face of diminishing time and energy convey a personal presence undisturbed by specific goals. She sits and breathes quietly. When walking she travels across space. The turning away of a tree full of apples evokes regret, as does a sharp light that narrows and dissolves. In the final image my mother seems to taste a bitterness that eludes comprehension.Read More »
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Pablo Mazzolo – The Newest Olds (2022)
Pablo Mazzolo2021-2030ArgentinaExperimentalShort FilmThe Newest Olds is the second installment in Argentinian filmmaker Pablo Mazzolo’s cinematic diptych exploring the natural and urban environment within and surrounding the border region of Windsor–Detroit. Completed seven years after the release of Fish Point (2015), Mazollo’s revelatory study of light and landscape that animated the deciduous forest harbours and rare ecosystem at the southeastern tip of Pelee Island, The Newest Olds transforms Detroit’s iconic cityscapes, dislodging buildings from their foundations and collapsing the physical, political, and sensory boundaries between Canada and the United States through alchemical, in-camera, and optical printing techniques.Read More »