The Minimalists: Less Is Now (2021)

物質的な豊かさが幸せをもたらすというアメリカ的考え方を拒否し、シンプルな暮らしを実践するミニマリスト。真に大切なものとは何かを問うドキュメンタリー。

This seminal work of avant-garde opera from composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson arrives full-circle, coming to France, the site of its 1976 Avignon Festival world premiere, at the tail end of this 2014 revival tour for a landmark Theâtre du Châtelet production and a first ever filming by award-winning arts filmmaker Don Kent. Eschewing conventional narrative, the opera revolves loosely around pacifist Einstein’s relationship to the creation of the atomic bomb.

This documentary captures the overflowing energy and activity of one today's greatest composers, Philip Glass, and allows us to follow him from New York to London and from Paris to Boston. He speaks about his beginnings, his moving to Paris for two years of intensive study with Nadia Boulanger, his meeting with Indian musician Ravi Shankar and director Robert Wilson, who had a deep influence on his career. The film also shows him at work on the last details of his opera The Sound of a Voice, directed by Robert Woodruff and conducted by Alan Johnson. Éric Darmon's camera, with its poetic shots and original framings, takes us for a musical journey into seven months of the life of the composer who, rising from the underground scene of the seventies, brought on a revolution in modern theater.

Global travel with nothing but a bum bag. Sharing the realities of 'true minimalist travel' and a choice to live simply. A travel adventure with a difference, there’s no luggage!​ Experienced traveller and amateur filmmaker Benjamin Luke Mitchell (Lost Yet Free), explores the possibilities of freedom if one opens up their mind and leaves the backpack behind. No packing or carrying necessary, the philosophy here is to live simply, without restraints. Our curiosities spur the way, and an ultralight approach allow us to access places and global gifts beyond the reach of a big, heavy sack. This is a personal quest, an introspective story about a man learning how to confront that continual feeling of bewilderment.

A female election agent and a gun-toting soldier try to collect votes among the local islanders with mixed success.

With input from actor and writer Jan Hlobil, director and cinematographer Rene Smaal presents a film in the true surrealist tradition, in the sense that only 'found' elements were used, and that it defies interpretation based on ordinary cause-and-effect time sequence.

It’s like almost all is lost. Yet still they are here – abandoned bungalows, an artificial lake, dirty plastic bottles, lost donkeys and stray dogs, draining pipes running over fields of salt, deserted factories, statues of revolutionaries, concrete playgrounds covered with weeds, rotten fruit, folded T-shirts, pop songs, decades of forgetting, a single room with a blue tent inside. And it felt like a kiss.

After a tough week at the office, Richard and George like to play war games over the weekend to relax. The dispassionate atmosphere and minimalistic style with which the growing brutality is handled slowly wipes the smile from your face, before making sure that it doesn’t return.

Minimalist, bizarre and surreal story that takes place in some sort of post-cataclysmic future, where the main hero collects tracks which were the only connection of his with the environment known today.

One of Takahiko Iimura's (and modern art's) earliest works in conceptual video, A Chair entirely consists of a steady (and usually ghosted) image of a chair to the accompaniment of the firecracker pops of television static. While formally minimal, A Chair is conceptually challenging in its simplicity and its demand that the audience zero in on, of all things, a simple chair. - Tom Fritsche

2020: A year so [insert adjective of choice here], even the creators of Black Mirror couldn't make it up… but that doesn't mean they don't have a little something to add. This comedy event that tells the story of the dreadful year that was — and perhaps still is? The documentary-style special weaves together some of the world's most (fictitious) renowned voices with real-life archival footage.

ジャズピアニストになることを夢見る音楽教師のジョーに、ニューヨークのジャズクラブで演奏するチャンスが巡ってくる。しかし喜びもつかの間、彼はマンホールに落ちてしまう。そこには青くかわいい姿の魂(ソウル)たちの世界が広がり、人間として生まれる前にどんな自分になるかを決めていた。夢を追い続けるジョーがそこで出会ったのは、自分がどのようになりたいかを決められない「ソウルの22番」だった。

災厄によって人類が逃げ出し、滅亡に向かいつつある地球。ある理由で北極に残った老科学者オーガスティンは、取り残された少女と出会い、共に生活を始める。そんな中、長い探査任務を終えた宇宙船が地球に帰還しようとしていることが判明する。宇宙船の乗組員サリーは、地球との交信が途絶えたことに不安を抱きながらも、仲間たちと航行を続けていた。そこでオーガスティンは、地球がすでに帰還できる状態ではなくなっている現状を宇宙船に伝えようと奮闘する。

While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.

スミソニアン博物館に勤める、考古学者のダイアナ(ガル・ガドット)には、最強の戦士「ワンダーウーマン」というもう一つの顔があった。1984年、禁断の力を入手した実業家・マックス(ペドロ・パスカル)のたくらみにより、世界のバランスがたちまち崩れ、人類は滅亡の危機に陥る。人並み外れたスーパーパワーの持ち主であるワンダーウーマンは、マックスが作り上げた謎の敵チーターに一人で立ち向かう。

When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.

同伴者なしでは厳しい年間行事を乗り切るため、祝日限定のパートナーになった2人。プラトニックな関係だったはずが、やがて2人の間に淡い恋心が芽生え始める。

ジョン・ギャリティと別居中の妻、そして幼い息子は、地球を破壊する彗星が地球に接近する中、聖域を探す危険な旅に出る。都市が破壊される恐怖の中、ギャリティ家は人間の最良と最悪の面を体験する。地球滅亡へのカウントダウンがゼロに近づく中、彼らの驚くべき旅は、可能性のある安全な避難所へのギリギリの絶望的な飛行で頂点に達する。

1981年、犯罪が多発する大都会ゴッサムシティ。ピエロの仕事をしているアーサーは貧しく、老いた母親ペニーと暮らす上、突然笑いだしてしまうという心の病に悩むが、TV界の人気司会者フランクリンを憧れの対象にして日々耐え忍んでいた。ある日、失業したアーサーは地下鉄で、女性客に嫌がらせをしていた男性3人組を偶然持っていた拳銃で皆殺しにしてしまう。以後アーサーは、自身の心にあった怒りを解放させていく。