"We, the Children of Caterpillars"
Género : Drama, Comedia
Tiempo de ejecución : 16M
Director : James Haggarty
Sinopsis
The theatre company of a forgotten town puts on one last performance to escape the reality of their home fading away into nothingness.
Following a one-night stand, a young insomniac wakes up in a luxurious Manhattan apartment where things are not what they seem. Something about his host is off. When she reveals that they are not alone, the red flags escalate into a waking nightmare.
How would a found footage film look if the footage was never found? This conceptual art experiment questions the very nature of film and cinema while serving as an ironic tribute to the found footage horror pop culture. The found footage format provides the narrative justification for such a film to exist: the non-existence exists because the footage existed yet it was lost and never found.
A constant journey from outer space to a town in Norway, where we encounter small pieces of people’s lives.
Tranquility is a silent short film centering feelings of emptiness and the search for fulfillment.
Short animation by Mati Kütt
Plans for an arranged marriage between the beauteous young Juliet and the wealthy but off-putting Count Paris are thrown awry when Juliet falls for Romeo, the son of her father's only enemy. Their romance will yield explosive passions — and deadly consequences.
After a close friends suicide; Will, a Punk and Post-Punk musician living in the US is struggling with doubts about his relationship, his identity and ultimately what he wants to do in life. Will becomes isolated, reliant on substances and is sent down a path of pain, suffering and existential terror.
A quiet meditation on the mundanity of life.
Margaret "Mar" Moon, suffering from extreme writer's block with an important deadline looming, travels to visit her sister Helen for inspiration, a decision that will bring only pain and disaster.
Tras un polvo salvaje en un prostíbulo en su 40 cumpleaños, Luis, amargado y altanero, trata sin éxito de escapar de la mancha de sangre que, sin explicación, crece en la sábana sobre el bulto que forma su amante. La desesperación y lo que encuentra bajo la sábana provoca que la única única opción sea lanzarse por la ventana del cuarto ya lleno de sangre. El golpe lo sumerge en un extraño sueño en el que una particular hada madrina le recuerda el niño que todavía lleva dentro y la necesidad de cuidarlo. Convencido de la enseñanza, al soplar las velas de su pastel de cumpleaños, Luis desea convertirse en ese niño. Bajo las sábanas, empapado en sangre, descubre el error de su deseo.
A young man and an older one meet by happenstance in a local cafe and decide to sit and talk about their points of view on life.
Four young men and a young woman sit in boredom. She smokes while one strums a lute, one looks at a magazine, and two fiddle with string. The door opens and in comes a young man, cigarette between his lips, a swagger on his face. The young woman laughs. As the four young men continue disconnected activities, the other two become a couple. When the four realize something has changed, first they stare at the couple who have kissed and now are dancing slowly. The four run from the house in a kind of frenzy and return to stare. The power of sex has unnerved them.
Theatre 1 (Observational Film Series #3) is a feature length documentary, which closely depicts the world of Oriza Hirata, Japan's leading playwright and director, and his theatrical company, Seinendan. By depicting them, the film leads the audience to revisit fundamental but timely questions: What is theatre? Why do human beings act?
Oriza Hirata is Japan's leading playwright and director, who runs his own theatrical company, Seinendan. Theatre 2 (Observational Film Series #4) examines the dynamic relationship between theatre and the society through depicting Hirata's activities. In order for his art and his not-so-commercial company to survive this highly capitalistic modern society, what kind of strategy does Hirata have and practice?
Una exposición de la obra de la fotógrafa de guerra Isabelle Reed, tres años después de su prematura muerte, lleva a su hijo mayor de vuelta a la casa familiar. Allí pasará tiempo con su padre Gene y su hermano menor. Estando los tres bajo el mismo techo, Gene tratará de estrechar lazos con sus dos hijos mientras ellos luchan por reconciliar sus sentimientos hacia su fallecida madre, mujer que recuerdan de manera diferente.
Extraordinarily detailed and beautifully drawn animation of a bizarre and surreal world; the domestic life of a fat man, his wife, a sort of oversized obese chicken, and their child/pet, a slug-like creature with a human head. This expressionistic and interior vision of Soviet animator Kovalyov is like an animated Eraserhead. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Academy War Film Collection, in 2007.
A priestess in “Serafisk Sang”, virginal in “Pastorale”, botanic in “Sommertanz” and finally a witch in “Hexentanz”, Mary Wigman is a woman-flower, goddess and a prophetess in turn. Her jerky, sombre and introspective movements proudly claim the expression of the free body. We are at the end of the roaring twenties and Mary Wigman provoked a real revolution in the world of dance.
Jankovics's adaptation of the eponymous play is divided into multiple parts, and depicts the creation and fall of Man throughout history.
Un hombre que duerme narra la peripecia de un estudiante que decide no levantarse de la cama el día de sus exámenes de Sociología, abandonar sus estudios, romper toda relación con amigos y parientes, y recluirse en sí mismo. Más tarde se dedicará a deambular incansable por París, a ir al cine, a leer los titulares de los periódicos, pero como lo haría un sonámbulo. Para el estudiante todo forma parte de una vaga estrategia encaminada a alejarse de los deseos materiales, de la ambición y de su dependencia de los objetos, los ambientes, los sonidos y aromas de París, la ciudad que lo ha acogido y que lo acabará fagocitando.