Great Barrier Reef (1981)
Género : Documental
Tiempo de ejecución : 40M
Director : George Casey
Sinopsis
Misteriosa y explorada superficialmente por generaciones de aborígenes nativos, la Gran Barrera de Coral de Australia es uno de los sistemas de vida natural más extraordinarios del mundo. Mil doscientas millas de largo y compuesta de coral, es la estructura más grande de la Tierra construida por seres vivos, en algunos lugares se extiende hasta 120 millas en el mar. Tantas variedades de vida llaman hogar al arrecife que se pueden encontrar más de una docena de especies dentro de cualquier metro cuadrado de su superficie. Esta película IMAX captura brillantemente el esplendor visual de este entorno con espléndidas fotografías submarinas típicas del formato. Los tiburones, las tortugas marinas, las anémonas y el propio coral son los sujetos vivos del ojo inquisitivo de la cámara. En general, este documental es una mirada integral a esta red de vida estudiada durante mucho tiempo que deja una impresión duradera de su profundidad y belleza.
It's just a simple stretch of interviews and images capturing the people who camp out, dope up, drink up, sometimes get naked, and jump into a nearby waterfall, whilst listening to musicians like Daniel Johnston.
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A road safety film for pedestrians in city traffic. Demonstrates typical unsafe practices.
El argumento de esta obra lo desvela el propio título: el film consiste en un sólo plano de los trabajadores de la fábrica Lumière saliendo de la misma tras concluir su jornada laboral. Su importancia en la historia del cine es capital, puesto que se trata de la primera película que fue proyectada comercialmente para un público. (FILMAFFINITY)
Doce años después de la Liberación y del descubrimiento de los campos de concentración nazis, Alain Resnais entra en el desierto y siniestro campo de Auschwitz. Lentos travellings en color sobre la arquitectura despoblada, donde la hierba crece de nuevo, alternan con imágenes de archivo (en blanco y negro, rodadas en 1944) que reconstruyen la inimaginable tragedia que sufrieron los prisioneros así como las causas y las consecuencias de esa tragedia: desde el advenimiento del nazismo y la deportación de los judíos hasta el juicio de Nuremberg.
Misrepresented, maligned and on the verge of extinction, the great white shark is an iconic predator: the creature we love to fear. Great White Shark will explore the great white's place in our imaginations, in our fears and in the reality of its role at the top of the oceanic food chain. The film will concentrate on key aggregation points around the world: Mexico, South Africa, Los Angeles and New Zealand. Key figures in the history of shark research, people whose lives have been changed by contact with the great white, will tell us of their experiences, culminating in a direct encounter between man and shark.
A portrait of the daily life of Zé de Sabino, a fisherman who works and lives in the breathtaking village of Regência, Espirito Santo (located near the Rio Doce, which suffered one of the greatest environmental tragedy in Brazil's history). The vastness of man is a place suspended in time, bordered by sky, land, river, and sea.
Shows new methods in treating those afflicted with mental health issues. Contrasts past treatment regimes where people were locked away out of sight with the new, 1960s, psychiatric ideas of "group therapy" and talking therapy. Also shows practical behaviours aimed at returning patients to productive lives in society and outpatient services.
This film about Library services in Australia shows some of the work of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library, the National Library with its varied resources and examples of State, University, special and public services suggesting their value in meeting needs for information at all levels. The library movement has become a vital part of Australian life. How libraries have fitted into society all over Australia, from the bustle of Sydney's Kings Cross to the remote outback.
In a futuristic, antiseptic food factory, workers select healthy chicks, while the rejects are carried along a conveyor belt until they are crushed by a mallet and drop into a garbage bin. A single black chick appears among the yellow and is shoved toward the garbage bin. Before the mallet strikes, the gasping chick rebels.
A young woman grapples with the declining health of her beloved dog in this film about mortality, cloning, and Barbra Streisand.
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Nikolina Kulidžan was twelve years old when she fell in love for the first time. Not long after, the Bosnian War changed her life forever.
Projecting parallel straight lines converging at a geometric point in a conical projection system where the sum of the factors encourages escape.
Can heartbeats be “reactionary”? Yes, if they are the only sonic element on a montage-heavy documentary about the war dead. Made just before Enver Hoxha’s cultural purges in 1974, Dhimitër Anagnosti’s formalist, wonderfully edited affair will finally premiere in a restored version after its completion forty-two years ago.
Ania, a few years old girl, starts attending to a new kindergarten. The film shows the difficult moments of a little girl's adaptation to a new environment, and the impact of the institution's educational methods on assimilation with her peers.
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The Australian pelican is built for long distance travel. One of the largest pelicans in the pelican family, with a light skeleton and a wingspan of over eight feet, it can be airborne all day and deep into the night, riding far and high on rising thermals. When rare weather systems bring heavy rains, huge numbers of Australian pelicans abandon the sea and coastal waters and embark on a mass pilgrimage to a place a thousand miles inland. It’s the last place you would look for one of their kind, the Australian Outback, one of the driest, hottest places on the planet.
One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean reflects on the experience of not being able to see the world with depth perception. Made up of micro-events from "satisfying video" that swarm on the internet, the abstract narrative unfolds through an appropriation way by referring to trance and minimal music. It's about a desire for groundless waves, blended with today's inexorable entropy of our information societies.
