The Alchemy performance is a film and sound projection with the duration of approximate 45 minutes. The source material of this work decomposes itself during the show. Each Alchemy is thus an unique event. The work unfolds from a prepared film loop of 10 meter length. It is treated with chemicals during its projection. In the beginning there are hardly recognizable forms fading in from black. Read More »
Amazon.co.uk Review
Like the finest of film scores with its fluid beauty and succession of intensely romantic tunes, Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly has a surprisingly cinematic feel. In 1995 director Frederic Mitterand exploited this quality of the story, exposing a young woman’s disillusionment against a backdrop of cultural chasms. Shot on location, with Tunisia doubling convincingly as a turn of the century Nagasaki, this Butterfly shines with fragile beauty. The house becomes a brilliantly used set; airy and full of the scent of flowers and at the same time a cage for the trapped woman. Archive footage of bygone Nagasaki is used skilfully to underline the distance between the 15-year-old bride and Pinkerton.Read More »
Synopsis
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language. A series of sketches depict the unfolding of his life from boyhood, through the era of the first World War, to his eventual Cambridge professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. The emphasis in these sketches is on the exposition of the ideas of Wittgenstein, a homosexual, and an intuitive, moody, proud, and perfectionistic thinker generally regarded as a genius.Read More »
This video presents a portrait of fiction writer Bret Easton Ellis, who was catapulted to notoriety with the publication of American Psycho. Ellis, who was born in 1964 in New York, rose to fame and fortune in his early twenties for this and other controversial works, vilified by many for their misogynistic and violent content. His defenders say the author’s work is satirical in style, and realistic in its representation of pop culture of the 1980s. The film features an interview with Ellis, as well as comments from friends, relatives, and other artists. Also included are selected dramatizations from American Psycho and other books by the author. ~ Rose of Sharon Winter, All Movie GuideRead More »
Synopsis: Daniel and Clara are on a vacation in Italy. In the form of the mysterious “Sandman” Coppola, a figure from Daniel’s childhood, returns to haunt him, while he succumbs to an obsessive love with an enigmatic woman of strange beauty: Olympia, who might be far more than she first appears to be…Read More »
It is both a spoof and a loving recreation of Soviet silent film. It is also an inventive movie in its own right. It is so full of images, one rapidly following the other in montage style, that it feels like it has the imagery and storytelling of a much longer movie.Read More »
Hsu Chi plays agent 777 who works for an organization that practices industrial espionage. She is assigned a new partner.Read More »
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Goulag is a precise and documented investigation by the opening of the archives during the 90s but also based on Russian literature or traveling historians like Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu. A voice-over, reminiscent in many ways of the style and vision of a Chris Marker (Hélène Châtelain is the actress of La Jetée), tries to organize the logic, reversed or paradoxical, which innervates the evolution of repression, rehabilitation…Read More »
When a man’s best friend is shot in cold blood by two corrupt policemen, he must track down the only eyewitnesses, who have been deported to Mali.Read More »