ODDSAC (2010)

뉴욕 거리를 종횡무진으로 질주하면서 오스틴이라는 노숙자의 이야기를 들려준다. 우스꽝스러운 강박증을 가진 흉악범이기도 한 오스틴은 록 음악 평론가이자 철학과 학생인 윌리암스를 만나 의기투합한다.

A portrait of poet Hugh MacDiarmid.

The mailmen, Šime, is one of the favorite people of a small town, on an island in the middle of the sea. Šime is very intelligent and the locals have high regards for him because he is unusually well versed in all the events and destinies in the small town. He knows the weather forecast, what winds will blow, what the sermon on the Sunday mass will be. For all the locals Šime is an untouchable genius. However, unlike the locals, the viewers soon find out that the Sime's ingenuity is based on his reading of the mail. Fascinated by other people's destinies, Šime has perfected a way for opening letters and keeping complete records on the people living on the island. He keeps a precise track of who gets what kinds of letters, and that gives him insight into discrete and private affairs of people. One day a beautiful woman named Dea moves into town, and all the men try and court her...

'철고양이'는 트랜스젠더로 변장하고 활동하면서 그녀의 관능적인 매력을 테러리스트를 잡는데 이용하는 태국의 비밀요원. '철고양이'는 임무를 수행하기 위해 자신의 정체를 숨기고 신입 하녀 람두안으로 변장하여 폼피도이 부인의 성에 잠입하지만 부인의 아들인 탕을 만나 사랑에 빠지면서 그녀의 작전은 혼란에 빠지게 된다.

A child is confronted with the (ever young) old age of the world, its hazards, its cinema and music, shot in seven days in Rome, Fiumicino, Ciampino and Cineccità. What will happen on July 12, 1995, in Rome ? What will become of July 12, 1995, in Rome ?

Naomi Kawase collaborates with Shinya Arimoto, a Taiyo award-winning photographer she knows from university, to create a photo album of Machiko Ono (who Kawase scouted for her previous feature film Moe no Suzaku) and Mika Mifune (daughter of famous actor Toshiro Mifune) with the idea to contrast these two aspiring actresses, Ono coming from the rural Nara and Mifune from Tokyo. Kawase documents the photo shooting and interviews Arimoto, Ono and Mifune as the work progresses, while the tension between her and Arimoto increases over disagreement on the direction of the project.

중국의 한 산골 마을, 세 자매의 일상이 시작한다. 낡은 집에서 부모 없이 살아가는 어린 소녀들은 가까운 친척 집에서 끼니를 때우며 노동으로 날을 보낸다. 기다리던 아버지가 돌아오지만 형편이 더 나아지지는 않는다. 소녀들의 지루하고 힘겨운 일상은 마치 한편의 극영화처럼 전개된다. 나이 어린 소녀들이 등장하지만 귀엽고 순박한 모습을 기대할 수 없다. 소녀들의 일상은 끼니를 해결하고, 다른 곳으로 보내지지 않기 위한 노동으로 채워진다. 소녀들을 돌보는 친척들이 털어놓는 가난한 생활의 고단함과 가난으로 인해 해체되어가는 가족의 모습이 가슴을 서늘하게 한다.

준은 22세로 부모로부터 물려받은 바를 경영한지 3개월이 되었다. 가게를 도와 주고 있는 것은 어렸을 적부터 친구인 케이코이다. 하지만 어머니는 그에게 "케이코와 함께 하는 것은 너에게 좋지 않은 일"이라고 말한다. 아버지는 준에게 케이코가 강간 당해 귀가 먹었다고 이야기하자 준은 아버지를 죽인다. 돌아온 어머니는 자수하겠다는 준을 말리는데...

건설현장에서 덤프트럭을 운전하는 고조는 태연하게 강간을 저지르는데, 심지어 동료와 함께 사장의 딸을 윤간하기도 한다. 어느 날, 고조는 머리카락을 빨갛게 물들인 여자를 트럭에 태우는데, 이 여자는 고조에게 들러붙어 끊임없이 섹스 하기를 요구한다. 시간이 흐르자, 고조는 끝나지 않는 섹스에 지치고, 여자의 존재 자체가 그에게 고통이 되기에 이른다. 구마시로의 최고작으로 꼽히는 작품. 운명적으로 만난 두 남녀에게 섹스는 사랑의 몸짓이 아니라 자기파괴의 도구가 되어버린다. 여러 면에서 오시마 나기사의 <감각의 제국>(1976)을 떠올리게 하지만, 더욱 비관적이다. (2014년 영화의 전당 - 세계영화사의 위대한 유산 - 월드시네마 XI)

It is 1918, the evening of The Great War. Austro-Hungarian empire is collapsing, and all around Croatia there are outlaw deserters, fighting in forests. A city journalist decides to become a country schoolteacher, just to find some peace in that restless political situation. But, neither the village is safe from the militaristic policy of the imperial goverment.

In his debut feature film, director Muhammad explores the inexorable dissolution of a family, ironically during the planning of a wedding, the kind of ritual that ought to bond family members together in shared joy. The film exposes the divisive dynamics of patriarchal oppression, and the terrible connections between familial and sociopolitical violence.

"Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, chicken, sausages, wet paint, transparent plastic, ropes, brushes, paper scrap. Its propulsion is towards the ecstatic — shifting and turning among tenderness, wildness, precision, abandon; qualities that could at any moment be sensual, comic, joyous, repellent. Physical equivalences are enacted as a psychic imagistic stream, in which the layered elements mesh and gain intensity by the energy complement of the audience. The original performances became notorious and introduced a vision of the 'sacred erotic.' This video was converted from original film footage of three 1964 performances of Meat Joy at its first staged performance at the Festival de la Libre Expression, Paris, Dennison Hall, London, and Judson Church, New York City."

In a small valley, riders pursue and kill a man. A horse thief, so his assassins claim. But for his ten year old son Issa, the disappearance of his father causes an avalanche of problems. With the family name stigmatized, Issa is bullied by the other children in the village. While his mother fights to clear her husbands name, Issa is left to his own devices. But unexpectedly, his solitude gives birth to his freedom, his real passion, horses.

My films are like that: in a room, but looking out onto an open sky. [...] I can’t really say it except to repeat that Bresson note, ‘that without a thing changing, everything is different.’ The film exists. The fiction is set up, and we believe in it. The justness of the agreement leads us to believe it, because everything plays equally at being a sign. That’s the arrangement of the elements. It’s an act of faith. La vallée close is just this: elements treated above all as if in a documentary that, without being changed, portray the story and reveal between them the elements of fiction. But above all seen as they are, insignificant. And then in the relations they set up, they can satisfy our desire for a story. -- Rousseau

This is the story of a young man at the dawn of the 21st century. He belongs to the most vulnerable, most futile and most appealing segment of society. Raoul flits from woman to woman, searching for seemingly unattainable love, until he meets Jeanne, who is fated to live freely and tragically.

Protagonist of the film is Melita Zganjer, woman who desperately tries to lose weight. This proves to be very difficult because she works in a pastry shop. Unlike her man-eating roommate Visnja, she only dreams about love and spends all her free time watching South American soap opera "Slave of Love". The man of his dreams is much closer than she thinks, though. Janko, young man who delivers pastry, loves Melita but is too shy to express his feelings. In the meantime, Eva, policewoman and another of Melita's roommates, tries to set her up with one of her colleagues. Those efforts fail, but Melita's dreams seems to come true with Antonio Mulero, "Slave of Love" star who arrived to Zagreb to shoot a feature film.

This half-hour documentary focuses on Medvedkin and his CineTrain of the 1930s, a sort of mobile film workshop, complete with post-production facilities, animation stations and a large laboratory. Traveling thousands of miles across the Russian countryside, the train stopped to have its filmmakers document Ukranian harvest practices, steel production facilities in southern Russia and other industrial / agricultural matters; With each crew member living in 1 square meter living quarters, all individuals on the train were responsible for various odd-jobs and other practical matters in addition to their own film-making concerns.

Short experimental film by Stephen Dwoskin.

Nikola is a man who knows how to really enjoy life; he's even able to rouse sympathy for his sinful ways. His brother turns a blind eye to his philandering although, with a broken marriage behind him, he doesn't have a clear conscience, either. Is there anything positive to be said about infidelity, or does it simply deserve the utmost contempt, particularly when it's more premeditated than spontaneous?

Trouble usually starts when the power falls into the wrong hands. That's how the book that hides an ancient evil fell to Stanislav. It does not matter whether Stanislav is a nice guy who helps old ladies cross the street, a psychopath, nerd, or a blood-thirsty young man.