Oliver Laxe presents at the 2010 Quinzaine des Realisateurs (Directors’ Fortnight) in Cannes his first feature, Todos vós sodes capitáns, wining the Fipresci Award.
This is one of his first short films, shot, as the feature, in Morocco, and published in Spain in a DVD as an hommage to Andrei Tarkovski.Read More »
One of Will’s most complex films in terms of its visual choreography and editing.
Abstract visual poem celebrating the freedom of bodies moving through water. A filmmaker unconcerned with plot films the practice of an olympic swimming team and creates a visually stunning work.Read More »
Constructed from found and stock footage, the short is a meditation on vision and adversity, drawing humour and pathos from a moralising educational film.Read More »
Arbor Vitae is a gesture towards a cinema of pure being. Its atmosphere is haunted by the period in which it was shot, the year of 1999. Although the cuts are open and numerous in their intent, the underlying motivation is the delicate reveal of the transparency of presence, our tender mystery midst the elaborate unfolding of the tree of life.Read More »
Taking a selection of my father’s vast archive of landscape photographs as a starting point, I embarked on an investigation of the possibilities for creating ‘landscapes’ directly on motion picture film material. Using yeast, salt, leaves and seaweed as reactive elements I managed to find a new way for creating images on analogue film. The yeast grew; feeding on the gelatin, the caustic power of the salt left marks in the emulsion, the acidity of the leaves attacked the film even stronger, and chlorophyl in the seaweed was absorbed; creating unexpected colours.Read More »
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London is cut up and manipulated in this highly structured, emotionally compelling piece about the UK’s capital city and its capacity to alienate and atomise people. Images printed using custom-made equipment at the London Filmmakers’ Co-op stagger forward and back in precise rhythms and establish both a spatial and emotional map of the various night-time locations seen here.Read More »
The expanded cinema performance Pattern/Chaos is a negotiation between the unpredictability of organic processes and the regularity of frames, optics and motors. Images that are at first glance perceived as abstract turn out to be concrete precipitation from phenomena that surround us in every day life. The work can be understood as an attempt to undermine the assumption that the natural world and the human world are opposites.Read More »
A puppet equipped with suction cups slides along different surfaces.
Story:Ugo Nespolo
Screenplay:Ugo Nespolo
Photography:Bruno Dreossi
Music:Stefan Grapelli, George SheringRead More »
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The collective consciousness of human pain has led to an unknown alternate reality wasteland. Appearing are those searching for their answers and somewhere beyond-the entity Embodiment of Angst. It is believed that this mysterious thing can save whoever encounters it from whatever pain they’re undergoing. So of course everyone started battling to the death so that any which one of them may gain catharsis. With only the most hardcore and pain-ridden still standing and a Psycho in the Radio summoning reject objects to crash onto everyone they resent, the answers to pain don’t wait. The use of “Angst” is repurposed as synonymous with all pain-physical, psychological, spiritual. Jacked into the Wasteland of Angst’s heightened alternate reality, how each person experiences, handles, and expresses their pain is represented as supernatural traits both to their advantage and disadvantage.Read More »