A deadly virus has forced humanity into its four walls, but life must go on. The answer to this problem is our dummies, mechanical effigies that allow us to live through them. But the solution, although it was once described as temporary, seems more permanent than ever.
The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.
The main character cherishes a crude sea taken with a smartphone. Like an object as an object of fetishism... The sea was the place where I broke up with my lover. That's why the meaning of private secret springs up. He puts the sea on his laptop and looks at it all day. He mistakenly thinks that he is going to Saint Laurent, a place of pure love with his lover (even though the sea is leading him). Who Makes Fiction? Neither you nor me Calculated reason cannot enter the truth of fiction. You have to rely on something else. As if his longing was desperate, he goes into fiction and disappears. with the sea! The world is the same, but he is not. But he is still in reality. Because he didn't move a single step in the corner of the room. Perhaps that was his trick. Borrowing powers other than reason, coloring oneself like an existence longing to become pure... I'm not saying it's absurd, but it's the best...
Gina was a Montenegrin girl who had become a political prisoner in the 1950s in the ex-Yugoslavia. The story follows Marina, Gina’s niece, on her way to the prison she is visiting for the second time – the first time as a baby seen in a photograph and now as an elderly lady. Together, we are bringing the female side of the Yugoslavian camps, and questioning how many generations it takes to overcome a trauma.
On behalf of the Arvin Corporation, Buster Keaton demonstrates the importance of using Maremont auto parts for potential repairs while running a petrol station.
The Old Vic in association with Bristol Old Vic, Jonathan Church Productions & Global Creatures’ present their Olivier Award-winning production, A Monster Calls. Thirteen-year-old Conor and his mum have managed just fine since his dad moved to America. But now his mum’s very sick and she’s not getting any better. His grandmother won’t stop interfering and the kids at school won’t look him in the eye. Then, one night, at seven minutes past midnight, Conor is woken by something at his window. A monster has come walking. It’s come to tell Conor tales from when it walked before. And when it’s finished, Conor must tell his own story and face his deepest fears. On publication, A Monster Calls became a bestseller with children and adults alike with its dazzling insight into love, loss and healing. It garnered huge critical acclaim, including an unprecedented double win of the Carnegie and Greenaway Medals for outstanding children’s literature and illustration.
"Film artist John Warren transforms footage from the first three seasons of Dukes of Hazzard (1979-1982) into a cinematic hall-of-mirrors. Subjected to a meticulous digital reprocessing, both action and narrative dissolve and are subsumed into a psychedelic, cascading digital texture, presided over by a hypnotic soundscape." - Slamdance Film Festival program notes
The father of an RAF reservist killed in Basra in 2007 travels to the Iraqi city to discover the impact of the war and the subsequent occupation on ordinary Iraqis.
"I used to wander the streets of Vancouver very early in the morning experiencing sights, sounds and people going about their business. Somewhere along the way I imagined a narrative attempting to be genuine." –RM
Beyond the Gates explores the controversial push for public access to the beaches along Hollister Ranch in Goleta, California. The film highlights the ranchers' concerns about opening their private property while also stressing members of the public's desire to exercise their state right to coastal access. As legislation moves forward regarding public access at Hollister Ranch, California cities must explore perspectives on all sides of the issue.
As a celestial phenomenon neighboring the musical big bang of the Sixties, The Soft Machine Legacy echoes the melodious growl of an era when rock'n'roll, blues, jazz, jazz-rock, funk, soul, pop were, as yet, nothing more than a magma of sounds challenging the musicians' ability to shape the course of music to come. In those days, Soft Machine symbolized the uncompromising dialog between those rock and jazz musicians who were determined to create a synthesis of the untamed energy of rock and the improvisational thrust of jazz. Forty years later, The Soft Machine Legacy musicians have not forsaken their dreams. Immune to the leveling pressures of show biz, Hugh Hopper, John Marshall, John Etheridge and Elton Dean -who passed away shortly after this last reunion at the New Morning - still mesmerize their fans. Whether the cheeks be rosy, or the heads speckled with grey freedom is ageless. Recorded live at the New Morning, Paris on December 12th, 2005 by New Morning Vision.