Postscript (2012)

Ivan Ladislav hides a true chamber of wonders behind the clear, mathematically abstract structure of his films and videos, meticulously compiled rhythmically frame for frame, each work likewise presenting an analysis of the film medium. Concealed therein, culled from deep in the medium’s prehistory, are hermetic parallel universes in whose number ranges and symbolic spaces, Galeta’s precisely constructed film compositions find a formalist anchor.

The first part (winter) of a seasonal study of the Hudson river in New York.

"Moons Pool" is a masterful and lyrical use of the film medium to portray the search for identity and resolution of self. Photographed under water, live bodies are intercut with natural landscapes creating powerful mood changes and images surfaced from the unconscious." – Freude Bartlett

Adebar is the first of Peter Kubelka's 'metric films', in which every element of the composition is precisely ordered and in relation to the gestalt. The film is made up of single units---13, 26 and 52 frames long---which are subjected to a complex rule-system, including a strict use of positive and negative space, that determines their structure within the film.

An experimental film, the last in Peter Kubelka's trilogy of “metric films”. Each frame of Arnulf Rainer is composed of darkness or light and silence or sound.

In 1957, Peter Kubelka was hired to make a short commercial for Schwechater beer. The beer company undoubtedly thought they were commissioning a film that would help them sell their beers; Kubelka had other ideas. He shot his film with a camera that did not even have a viewer, simply pointing it in the general direction of the action. He then took many months to edit his footage, while the company fumed and demanded a finished product. Finally he submitted a film, 90 seconds long, that featured extremely rapid cutting (cutting at the limits of most viewers' perception) between images washed out almost to the point of abstraction — in black-and-white positive and negative and with red tint — of dimly visible people drinking beer and of the froth of beer seen in a fully abstract pattern.

An impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor Harry Dean Stanton comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his renditions of American folk songs.

아버지를 일찍 여읜 존은 성공을 꿈꾸며 뉴욕으로 간다. 그러나 바람과는 달리 그는 삭막한 대도시에서 그 존재조차 희미해져 가는 수많은 노동자들 중 한 명으로 하루하루를 살아간다. 존은 메리에게 반해 가정을 꾸리지만, 삶은 비극의 연속이다. 대공황기이자 유성 영화가 도래하던 시기에 발표된 작품으로, 지극히 평범한 삶을 사는 주인공에게 닥친 비극을 통해 보통 사람들이 겪는 삶의 애환을 그린다. 예술적 영감이 넘치는 카메라 움직임과 편집으로 잊을 수 없는 순간들을 만들어낸 무성 영화의 걸작 중 하나.

해외 전문가들로부터 ‘놀라운 걸작’, ‘배우에 관한 가장 위대하고, 가장 통찰력 있는 다큐멘터리’라는 격찬을 받은 바 있는, 할리우드 최고의 배우 말론 브란도에 대한 독특한 인물 다큐멘터리다. 말론 브란도가 직접 녹음한 자기 독백적 음성 메모와 생전의 여러 인터뷰 속 브란도의 음성을 중심으로 말론 브란도에 대한 다양한 영상과 이미지와 음악을 정교하게 조합하여 파란만장한 삶을 살았던 말론 브란도의 일생을 재구성한다. 그의 명성과 여러 작품들에서 나타나는 배우로서의 삶과 불행한 가정사, 결혼, 아들이 저지른 살인 사건, 딸의 자살 등 불행한 개인사들도 함께 언급된다. 죽은 자의 일생을 죽은 자의 목소리를 통해 재구성하는 이 전례 없는 형식의 다큐멘터리는 2015년을 대표하는 최고의 다큐멘터리 중 하나로 평가받고 있다. (2016년 제4회 무주산골영화제)

에밀리는 고대하던 휴가 전 날 남자친구에게 이별을 통보받는다. 충동적인 성격의 에밀리는 극도로 조심스럽고 신중한 성격인 엄마 린다에게 함께 휴가를 떠나자고 설득하고 전혀 다른 성격의 에밀리와 린다는 함께 여행을 떠나는데···

한여름, 뜨거운 뉴욕의 거리. 존스 부인은 이웃들과 모여 안나와 스티브의 관계에 대해 떠들어댄다. 한편, 출장을 갔던 안나의 남편 프랭크는 예정보다 일찍 돌아오는데, 잠시 후 비명과 총소리가 울리고 거리는 구경꾼들로 가득 찬다. 총을 든 프랭크가 붙잡히고, 안나는 병원으로 후송된다. 퓰리처상을 수상한 동명의 희곡을 영화화했으며, 작가 엘머 라이스가 직접 시나리오를 썼다. 하루 정도의 시간과 한정된 공간에서 킹 비더는 긴장감 넘치는 극적 분위기를 자유자재로 만들어냈다.

Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns out that Annabelle West, the only heir with his name left, inherits, if she is deemed sane. If she isn't, the money and some diamonds go to someone else, whose name is in a sealed envelope. Before he can reveal the identity of her successor to Annabelle, Mr. Crosby, the lawyer, disappears. The first in a series of mysterious events, some of which point to Annabelle in fact being unstable.

제2차 세계대전이 끝난 지 10여년이 지나 버려진 수용소의 현재 모습은 흑백의 기록화면으로 이어진다. 12년 전 빈 들판엔 수용소 건설이 진행되었고 ‘밤과 안개’ 작전으로 유대인들이 수감되기 시작했다.

A piano player is able to perform a Chopin piece backwards and Galeta will film it backwards and forwards creating four different variations of a movement bound to time.

Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining guests are being murdered one by one, and their bodies being placed at the same dinner table in the appropriate seats they occupied thirteen years prior.

Nazi propaganda film contrasting Germany in the days of the Weimar Republic with contemporary Germany under Adolf Hitler.

A film in which the one 60-story skyscraper that soars in the spaces between roofs spins with incredible speed. I centered the circumference with its 400 or 500 meter radius on the skyscraper and divided it into 48 sections, then took photographs from those spots and shot the photographs frame by frame.

A short experimental film dedicated to Polish artist Wacław Szpakowski (1883–1973).

Ancient of Days is a remarkable series of "canons and fugues for video" that comprises Viola's most sophisticated structural and metaphorical explorations of time. Mathematical notations of precise time-code editing were applied to construct illustrations of temporal symmetry, duality and transposition — time-based equivalents of musical compositional principles such as counterpoint and serialism. Astonishing temporal interventions — a 180-degree pan gazing downward on a New York City street that progresses from day to night, an image of Mount Rainier in which the foreground and background unfold in different time planes — unfold as symbolic transformations of natural and urban landscapes.

"The filming of the entrance to the company dormitory in which the film-maker was living. Centering the film on one pillar, he warps the spaces to the left and right and creates an unstable space similar to painting that employs anamorphosis. Made as were SPACY and BOX with a large number of photographs, the film ends with a violent movement, but is poetic for this." - Takashi Nakajima