Science Please! : The Wind (1998)
Find out in The Wind
ジャンル : ファミリー, アニメーション
上映時間 : 1分
演出 : Martin Barry
シノプシス
In the collection Science Please!, the first clip, entitled The Wind, explains the phenomenon of the wind with the help of archives, animation and narration.
1935年、上海。あるナイトクラブで殺されかけた考古学者にして冒険家のインディはクラブの歌姫ウィリー、現地の少年ショーティを連れて逃げだす。3人が乗った飛行機は墜落し、インドの山奥に不時着。3人は寂れた村にたどり着くが、そこでその長老から神の使いだと誤解される。村は謎の邪教集団に襲撃され、宝の石を奪われ、子どもたちを奪われたという。子どもたちの救出を依頼されたインディは教団の宮殿へと向かう。
1930年代、戦火が忍び寄るイギリス。政府官僚の長女セシーリアは、兄妹のように育てられた使用人の息子、ロビーと思いを通わせ合うようになる。しかし、小説家を目指す多感な妹ブライオニーのついたうそが、ロビーに無実の罪を着せ、刑務所送りにしてしまう。
A・タルコフスキーの作品は様々な映像の断片がコラージュされたようなものばかりである。この「鏡」もまたそうであり、彼の自伝的要素を持つというが、解るような解らないような……。でもその数々の映像はどれもこれもかっこ良く、戦争の記録フィルムらしきものも出てくる。物語などの存在は忘れてただひたすら映像の中で泳ぐような感覚で、なんとも美しい一本だ。
A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.
The just out of college effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was little.
When Letty Mason relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever-present wind and sand. Arriving at her new home at the ranch of her cousin, Beverly, she receives a surprisingly cold welcome from his wife, Cora. Soon tensions in the family and unwanted attention from a trio of suitors, including neighbor Lige Hightower, leave Letty increasingly disturbed, resulting in tragedy.
After a family survives Hurricane Katrina, there is another storm but this one is much worse.
An experimental romantic thriller, Solo is the story of four different men, their love, rage and afterlife. Through four elements - water, air, fire and earth, they also represent different facets of Lord Siva.
An ancient Indian warrior who has reached the end of his life is brought back from his 'death' to save his family from a raiding party of enemy Indians in this unique story of 'Indians without a single cowboy.
A struggling musician takes a job teaching music to middle school children in a rural mining town.
A man travels through corporate corruption and his own sin to find his soul.
Dutch documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens follows the course of the famous wind as it originates in the Alps and finds its way to the Mediterranean Sea. Natural sounds and creative camera work provide a mood film showing the effect of the fury of the wind on the life of southern France.
The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that are called the 'black wind'. Based on true events.
Agnès, Juliette and Carmen's neighbour, writes children's storybooks that take place in a fantasy world, The Kingdom of the Winds. The two intrepid sisters discover a passageway between their world and this extraordinary universe. Once on the other side the girls take on the appearance of cats, and discover Sirocco, a terrifying character who can control the wind.
Find out all about the fantastic Cape Verde Windsurf Worldcup 2007. Purely the best 32-man wave sailing specialists were invited onto the Cape Verdean archipelago, located in the Atlantic Ocean 450km off the West African coast. An historic, double mast high swell and consistent trade winds set the stage for this windsurfing extravaganza. This DVD contains the full story and drama of the best windsurfing competition most people remember. See Kevins mind blowing aerials eyewitness Polakow going through 6 entire rigs during one day. Feel the adrenaline as Kauli Seadi, Josh Angulo and todays wave riding Elite face lif threatening water masses and change the way we look at windsurfing today.
Documentary on the work of a Japanese artist and his hopes of creating a wind powered community.
In the beginning the idea was to make something from nothing, in a neutral and unknown place. Collect images and sounds instead of producing them. The camera, the microphone and the mini-amplifier: tools that take away and then give back. We defined a rule: the sound shouldn't illustrate the image and the image shouldn't absorb the sound. Less than a hundred kilometres from Reykjavik we found Strokkur. For three days we saw and heard the internal dynamics of the crevice: the boiling water that spat out every seven minutes and the thermal shock, given the eighteen degrees below zero of the atmosphere.
Based on a real testimony, "Where the cold burns" takes us back in time through an atmospheric journey towards the feelings of a woman. Aurora arrives at her childhood home in the midst of an accumulation of fog and intense cold. Uneasy, she visits this place to reunite with her dead father. But the past overwhelms her, those uncomfortable events of her childhood are relived, which has been marked by the love and abuse of her father.
A person attempts to rid their apartment of cat urine smell.
Claude and Pierre are brother and sister yet it is apparent early on that they are physically attracted to each other. In order to suborn their feelings they enter into relationships with others but nothing they do seems to work - they are always drawn back to their same fatal attraction.