• Tex Avery – A Wild Hare (1940)

    1931-1940AnimationShort FilmTex AveryUSA

    Quote:
    The first official appearance of Bugs Bunny. Elmer is a dimwitted hunter, “wooking for wabbits.” Bugs is a clever, smooth-talking character, who confuses Elmer with double-talk and misdirection. Elmer is no match for the wascally wabbit, even when he thinks Bugs is dead.Read More »

  • Tex Avery – I Love to Singa (1936)

    1931-1940AnimationShort FilmTex AveryUSA

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    A very stern owl who teaches ‘voice, piano & violin, but no jazz!’ becomes a father of four. Very soon, three of his boys turn out to be musical talents in the classical repertoire. However, the fourth isn’t into classical music but into jazz. When he keeps singing jazz songs, the father decides that enough is too much and turns him into the street, much to the distress of the mother. While joyously walking and singing through the forest, the young son stumbles across a radio audition day and decides to try his luck.Read More »

  • Pat O’Neill – Horizontal Boundaries (1997)

    USA1991-2000ExperimentalPat O'Neill

    Horizontal Boundaries takes on Los Angeles as an uncertain subject, a displaced location in space and time. Shot in and around the city and other locations in California with “the intent to produce “synthetic” depictions of locations made up of multiple and disparate parts,” O’Neill combines the visual effects with a visceral soundtrack that demands the total attention of the viewer. As O’Neill writes, the goal is to “present an image that is both clearly understood and obviously altered. Altering the imagery from its original photographic state raises inevitable questions concerning its reception: What are we to believe? How is a representation changed by proximity with another? How does contradiction, itself, represent our experience?” And goes on to point out that, “My films share some of the concerns of other experimental filmmakers worldwide: defining parameters for the representation of space and time, exploiting personal experience as metaphor, using archival materials in a restated context.” – Cherry and MartinRead More »

  • Nimród Antal – Kontroll AKA Control (2003)

    2001-2010ComedyHungaryNimrod AntalThriller

    Synopsis:
    Ghost trains and ghostly characters, figuratively speaking of course, are what run through the perpetual night of this underground metro system. Bulcsú’s (Sándor Csányi) life that once was, on the surface, where the real people go home after work, who go to the movies or a fine restaurant is now replaced by the dark, cold and solitude arena of his new dwellings. He, and his motley crew of ragtag metro ticket Kontrollers must patrol the trains that run these City dwellers back and forth and with daily ritual, check that no one dare come down into their world for a free ride. With indifferent passengers, a possible love interest, a regime set on competition and to top it all a mysterious serial killer at large, Kontroll is a dark and bleak comedy of the world of the ticket inspector, who, in the end must keep this Metro system running. If not, what would be the worst that could happen, if they ever lost control? Dare you ride here for free, too?Read More »

  • Antonia Bird – Priest (1994)

    1991-2000Antonia BirdDramaThe Female GazeUnited Kingdom

    Father Greg Pilkington (Linus Roache) is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic
    priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church.
    Upon hearing the confession of a young girl of her incestuous father, Greg enters an
    intensely emotional spiritual struggle deciding between choosing morals over religion and one
    life over another.Read More »

  • Khodzha Kuli Narliyev – Nevestka AKA Daughter in Law (1972)

    1971-1980AsianDramaKhodzha Kuli NarliyevTurkmenistan

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    A woman whose husband has been killed in WWII lives with her father-in-law in the desert. She cannot leave and go back to her family, because that would mean the end of hope that her husband, a heroic pilot, might return one day.

    This film from Turkmenistan belongs to an edition of ten films from Central Asia that were shot both during the Soviet times and during the independence epoch. This collection contains 2 films of each country.

    This collection was edited in 2006. It was released by the Center of Central Asian Cinematography with the financial support of “Arts and Culture” Network Program of Open Society Institute of Budapest. You will have english subtitles for each film.Read More »

  • Lorcan Finnegan – Vivarium (2019)

    2011-2020IrelandLorcan FinneganMysterySci-Fi

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    A young couple is thinking about buying their starter home. And to this end, they visit a real estate agency where they are received by a strange sales agent, who accompanies them to a new, mysterious, peculiar housing development to show them a single-family home. There they get trapped in a surreal, maze-like nightmare.Read More »

  • Samuel Alarcón – La Ciudad de los Signos AKA City of Signs (2009)

    Documentary2001-2010ExperimentalSamuel AlarcónSpain

    Quote:
    In March 1980, César Alarcón traveled to Pompeii on an ambitious project: to collect ‘psychophonies’ – electronic voice phenomena – from Vesuvius’s great eruption that destroyed the city. After listening to all of his recordings, he finds that none contain sounds from the year 79 AD. However, one of the tapes caught a much more recent and peculiar bit of conversation that César had heard somewhere before.Read More »

  • Clara Law – Qiu yue AKA Autumn Moon (1992)

    1991-2000Clara LawComedyDramaHong Kong

    A young video camera-wielding Japanese tourist traveling alone in Hong Kong pursues a tentative relationship with a Chinese teenager planning to join her family in Canada. Wai invites the young man to join her for a spectacular home-cooked meal made by her 80-year old grandmother. As their platonic friendship develops, the subtle relationships between generations, upheavals in traditional Hong Kong society and the clash between Asian cultural identities are explored with considerable warmth, charm and humor.Read More »

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