Tom Kalin
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Tom Kalin (born 1962) is an award-winning screenwriter, film director, producer, and professor of experimental film at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee.
His debut feature, Swoon, is considered an integral part of the New Queer Cinema. In addition to his feature work, Kalin has created a number of short films, many of which are collected in the compilations Behold Goliath or The Boy With the Filthy Laugh, Third Known Nest and Tom Kalin Videoworks: Volume 2.
Much of Kalin's work touches on issues of homosexuality (both modern-day and historical) and AIDS. He was a member of two AIDS direct action groups, ACT UP and Gran Fury. His work has won much critical acclaim and garnered a number of awards and nominations, including honors from the Berlin International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Fest and a number of gay and lesbian film festivals. Kalin won the Gotham Awards Open Palm Award (for Swoon) and has been nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards.
Kalin's last project was Savage Grace, Savage Grace tells the story of the 1972 Barbara Daly Baekeland murder case and stars Julianne Moore as Baekeland.
Tom Kalin has taught graduate-level filmmaking classes at Columbia University School of the Arts, and is currently lecturing at the European Graduate School in Switzerland.
He is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.
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Documentary about filmmaker and film lover Stig Björkman during the pandemic year of 2020 when he stay in touch with his friends over his laptop.
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Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all shot on iPhones.
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Inspired by the Liar In Chief and his Minister of Disinformation, we give you the newest invention of late stage capitalism: "alternative facts"!
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Short film.
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Commissioned by VISUAL AIDS for the 25th Anniversary of Day Without Art
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Director Tom Kalin uses the elegant dynamism of parkour as a motif for aspiration in Mirror Mirror's Sublime Objective music video. The lyrics speak to striving for a goal, while the music suggests a transcendent state: a relationship that Kalin explores with the use of Shaker-inspired movement, bubbles, and imagery of rainbows and light halos. Sublime Objective is available on Mirror Mirror's LP, Interiors.
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Barbara Daly (Julianne Moore) entra a formar parte de la alta sociedad americana tras casarse con Brooks Baekeland (Stephen Dillane), heredero de una gran fortuna. Aunque es bella y elegante, a su marido le parece que no está a la altura de su nueva posición social. El nacimiento de Tony, su único hijo, desestabiliza más el matrimonio. Viéndose despreciado por su padre, Tony (Eddie Redmayne) crece estrechamente unido a su madre. Este filme desvela los más ocultos secretos de una de las dinastías norteamericanas más famosas de la historia reciente.
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Barbara Daly (Julianne Moore) entra a formar parte de la alta sociedad americana tras casarse con Brooks Baekeland (Stephen Dillane), heredero de una gran fortuna. Aunque es bella y elegante, a su marido le parece que no está a la altura de su nueva posición social. El nacimiento de Tony, su único hijo, desestabiliza más el matrimonio. Viéndose despreciado por su padre, Tony (Eddie Redmayne) crece estrechamente unido a su madre. Este filme desvela los más ocultos secretos de una de las dinastías norteamericanas más famosas de la historia reciente.
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Barbara Daly (Julianne Moore) entra a formar parte de la alta sociedad americana tras casarse con Brooks Baekeland (Stephen Dillane), heredero de una gran fortuna. Aunque es bella y elegante, a su marido le parece que no está a la altura de su nueva posición social. El nacimiento de Tony, su único hijo, desestabiliza más el matrimonio. Viéndose despreciado por su padre, Tony (Eddie Redmayne) crece estrechamente unido a su madre. Este filme desvela los más ocultos secretos de una de las dinastías norteamericanas más famosas de la historia reciente.
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Third Known Nest is a collection of nine short works completed approximately one per year from 1991 to 1999. Interwoven with nine quotations from some of my favorite writers, the eighteen short entries in Third Known Nest function as an intimate visual diary—fractured pictures from my day-to-day life. I carried a Super-8 camera with me whenever and wherever I traveled, and also at home—just running errands or in the garden. I shot nearly a hundred fifty-foot reels of film.
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El trabajo como redactora de una revista lo es todo para la introvertida Dorine Douglas. Un día, la perversa redactora jefe decide recortar gastos y propone a Dorine que trabaje desde su casa a través del correo electrónico. Pero Dorine añora la oficina y, a la vez que monta en el sótano de su casa un despacho, mata accidentalmente a uno de sus compañeros. Al quedar impune el crimen, Dorine alimenta nuevas ansias criminales que le permiten ornamentar su nueva oficina con los cadáveres de sus compañeros.
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Video work by Tom Kalin
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Film basado en la verdadera historia de Valerie Solanas. Después de escribir un guión para una película, se propuso que Andy Warhol la produjera, pero, cuando él artista lo rechazó, ella le disparó.
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La película está centrada en la vida de un grupo de lesbianas. Dos de ellas forman una pareja estable y comparten piso con Max, una joven desesperada por encontrar a la mujer de su vida. Con la colaboración de la promiscua Daría, la pareja inventará mil argucias para que su amiga pueda poner fin a su angustiado celibato.
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A profile of fashion designer Geoffrey Beene, on his 30 years in the industry.
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A profile of fashion designer Geoffrey Beene, on his 30 years in the industry.
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Teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb share a dangerous sexual bond and an amoral outlook on life. They spend afternoons breaking into storefronts and engaging in petty crimes, until the calculating Nathan ups the ante by kidnapping, and murdering, a young boy.
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Teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb share a dangerous sexual bond and an amoral outlook on life. They spend afternoons breaking into storefronts and engaging in petty crimes, until the calculating Nathan ups the ante by kidnapping, and murdering, a young boy.
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Teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb share a dangerous sexual bond and an amoral outlook on life. They spend afternoons breaking into storefronts and engaging in petty crimes, until the calculating Nathan ups the ante by kidnapping, and murdering, a young boy.
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Commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art and The American Center in Paris as part of their international Trans Voices project, Nation flashes contradictory formulations of language, politics, and medicine across a sharp and close screen. Blurring geography with the body's landscape, Nation reminds us that our bodies, like land, have been shaped by history into zones to be charted, conquered, divided, or made whole. "Think globally act locally," in one dense minute.
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Commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art and The American Center in Paris as part of their international Trans Voices project, Nation flashes contradictory formulations of language, politics, and medicine across a sharp and close screen. Blurring geography with the body's landscape, Nation reminds us that our bodies, like land, have been shaped by history into zones to be charted, conquered, divided, or made whole. "Think globally act locally," in one dense minute.
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Kalin's short video works function both as visual poems and as alternative music videos. With their astute conjunctions of image, music and text, these tapes respond to issues of sexuality and human interaction in the 1990s, more than a decade into the AIDS crisis.
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They Are Lost to Vision Altogether acts as erotic retaliation on legislation such as the Supreme Court sodomy ruling — declaring the private bedroom as open target for the State — or the Helms Amendment — the U.S government's refusal to fund explicit AIDS prevention information for gay men, lesbians and IV drug users. An attempt to reclaim eroticism and to address the contradictions of sexuality and romance in the face of a monolithic and culturally compulsory heterosexuality, They Are Lost To Vision altogether finds queer history where it can and invents the rest.
