Figure Studies (2012)
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Tiempo de ejecución : 2H 40M
Director : David Michalek
Sinopsis
A series of figure studies using high-speed HD video, and inspired by the works of Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey.
Jennie is a twelve-year-old girl living with her parents in extremely rural mountain country. Her schoolteacher, Miss Carol, though a mountain girl herself, has gone off to be educated and returned in hopes of stopping the tradition of child marriage which permeates the culture. Jennie's father Ira is a good man who tries to protect Miss Carol from the men who threaten her if she doesn't call off her crusade. One of these men, Jake Bolby, has his eye on little Jennie and plots to make her his bride. NOTE: the actress playing Jennie was 14 years old when she made this film, and appears topless in a couple of shots.
A young hitman is asked to prove himself by killing an innocent woman.
Dos mujeres, amigas y madres de dos niñas, se ven enfrentadas entre sí cuando una de ellas toma como rehén a un grupo de personas en un hospital. La otra, una negociadora de la policía, deberá de impedir que la policía actúe de forma precipitada y evitar que nadie salga herido.
No clothes. No apologies. This film marks artist Spencer Tunick's third 'Naked' documentary which feature photo shoots that create art from the naked bodies of men and women. In this shoot, 85 HIV-positive men and women gather in a downtown Manhattan bar where they bare it all for Tunick's camera, creating an unsentimental look at life with AIDS in America today.
A young teacher is the victim of a cruel joke. When she enters the classroom, all her pupils are naked, standing near their bench. Their clothes are heaped up on the podium
In a world at the brink of the 21st century, where strict social stratification is rigidly enforced, and the only manifestation of violence is in magazine pages, a photographer whose special talent is mixing violence and sex, is told to find a new girl whose freshness will rejuvenate the pages of the magazine.
Shot at 2,000 frames per second, this short shows a man exhaling smoke in incredibly slow motion.
Nulepsy: the pathological need to be nude. An elderly man recounts his life story characterised by the rare, exceptional and inconvenient disease he suffers from.
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, Dr. Harold E. Edgerton demonstrates stroboscopic photography, which he helped develop. This process allows us to see in slow motion what happens during events that occur too fast to be seen by the naked eye. Examples shown here include a bullet in flight as it shatters a light bulb, the moment of impact when a kicker kicks a football, and the motion of a hummingbird's wings as it hovers.
A 16 mm film, featuring Yoko Ono's own eye slowly blinking, shot by Peter Moore with a high-speed camera at 2,000 frames per second, which is projected at normal speed, 24 frames per second, thus creating a slow-motion effect.
Naomi, a fifteen year-old Dutch girl from South-Amsterdam, develops a crush on a beautiful Arabic girl of the same age living in the poor quarters of Amsterdam West. During one magical summer in Amsterdam, the two girls play an emotional chess game of love, seduction and attraction.
This short features professional bowler Andy Varipapa. He first shows the correct way to grip a bowling ball and the proper form for delivering the ball down the alley. He then performs several trick shots.
Failed music hall performer Jack James inherits a brothel when his ancient Aunt dies. He takes over the running of the business and falls in love with its star attraction, beautiful prostitute Virginia.
Grabación del legendario musical creado en 1981 por Andrew Lloyd Webber, basado en la obra "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" de T. S. Eliot. El argumento narra la vida de una comunidad de gatos comunes que, una vez al año, de noche, se escapan de sus casas y se reúne en el basurero del barrio a esperar la llegada de su líder, el anciano Old Deuteronomy. Este gato es el padre y abuelo de muchos de los gatos Jellicles y es quien cada año da el nombre del felino que va a pasar a una nueva vida en el Heaviside Layer, una especie de paraíso para los gatos. Pero, mientras se da el nombre del afortunado felino un miembro del clan se da cuenta que hay un humano mirando y escuchando con cara de sorpresa a los gatos, y por ese motivo, se proponen aclarar quienes son los Jellicles a través de la presentación de los felinos más característicos de esta peculiar familia.
Durante el reinado del emperador romano Diocleciano los cristianos gozaban de una cierta tranquilidad, hasta que unos disturbios hacen que la actitud del emperardor con respecto a ellos cambie.
En este breve documental Werner Herzog posa su mirada sobre un saltador de esquí cuya ocupación diaria es la carpintería. A través de las pruebas deportivas en las que compite, Herzog muestra su resistencia física y mental, así como sus momentos de derrota y gloria, de adrenalina y exaltación.
Five years ago David's life came undone when his young daughter fell victim to a brutal attack. The subsequent emotional fallout cost him his marriage and his job. Handicapped by guilt and anguish David abandoned his past and alienated himself. He took a second rate job as a security guard and plodded on - his wounds concealed but unhealed. All it would take is a scratch for them to open wide and consume him.... During a routine security inspection, David discovers a young Serbian girl stowed in the cab of a truck. Her sister and other girls have been murdered - all victims of a perfidious human trafficking racket. She pleads for his help. This is his chance at retribution. This time he will champion the young girl that places her trust in him. But David is taking on Goliath and he has his back against the wall and a gun at his head. Enlisting the help of a woman's refuge counselor, David embarks on a do or die mission to save the girl.
Una mujer se emplea como maestra en el Instituto Ravenscroft, un colegio de señoritas y en cuyo personal se puede contar un ex paciente mental. Acechada por misteriosas alucinaciones, la mujer comienza a investigar las desapariciones de algunas estudiantes.
Explores a fleeting moment between two strangers, revealing their brief connection in a hyper real fantasy.
A smile gradually fades into a neutral facial expression.