Playing Cards (2017)

Browsing through his collection of snapshots from safety cards during take-off, Daniel Wetzel of Rimini Protokoll reflects on what these images can tell.

My mother is a Sociologist – she came to Glasgow from the south of England in the 60’s to work within the Politics Department of Glasgow University- after a few years the Sociologists broke away and formed their own department, where she taught until she retired. Although the university advocated and furnished her with her own personal computer – she still used index cards to make notes on the books and articles that she read. Now that she no longer has an office her house is filled with shoeboxes and filing cabinets containing these cards. My mother was absent on the day that I shot this film; the interview and sounds were recorded at a later date.

"The Miracle of the Cards" is based on the true story of Marion Shergold and her son, Craig, an eight-year-old English boy who had a brain tumor. Several events convinced Marion that God was leading her to a cure for Craig and that the get-well cards he was receiving had the power to keep him alive, so she launched a worldwide campaign to break the Guinness record for receiving the most get-well cards. At the time, the world record seemed an impossible 1,000,265, but Craig received over 350 million cards from all over the world. Against the advice of her doctors, Marion followed one of those cards to America for Craig's miraculous cure.

고고학자인 남편 알렉스와 함께 외국의 유적지에서 살던 건축가 루스. 답사 도중 사고로 알렉스는 사망하지만, 딸 샐리는 아빠가 달나라에 갔다 믿으며 달에 가까워지기 위한 노력을 한다.

Frieda , a therapist, is cheated by her husband Daniel. He makes love with Dorothea. Dorothea is wedded to Philip. Philip has an affair with his scholar Maggie. Maggie is in love to the florist Michael. Michael is married with Barbara. Barbara has a lover, her boss Marko. Marko is engaged with Simone Stern, a singer. Simone loves Leon. All of these secret liaisons could be undiscovered, if Simone Stern wouldn't be anxious to suffer from Aids. Without waiting for the test results, she informs her fiancé Marco about her apprehension of being Positive. Within a few hours the fear of being infected by the disease circulates in this group of people. Lies get transparent, secrets are uncovered, relations break up, Philip even has to pay his flam on his wife with his live.

Before Brian De Palma became a narrative film maker he made documentaries. Among them is The Responsive Eye, which chronicles the Museum of Modern Art’s 1965 exhibition of op-art. Curated by William Seitz, this was the first significant exhibit of optical art synchronous with and in some cases arising out of the early days of psychedelic culture. It’s amusing to watch the stuffed shirts within the art world attempt to describe what they are looking at in conventional terms or resorting to psychological mumbo jumbo without ever mentioning mescaline or LSD.

Marking interactions between designs across natures.

Found Film.

마지막 한판을 위해!! 내가 생각한 것과 언제나 반대인 세상 이기고 지는 건 해봐야 알아!! 화투의 최고수급인 정수(김명곤 분)는 서울에서 얼굴이 너무 많이 알려져 지방 도시를 전전하며 도박 생활을 하던 중 재향(진주희 분)이라는 도박판 심부름꾼 여자를 만나 같이 서울로 올라 온다. 재향은 정수에게 돈을 벌어올 것을 강요하고 사기 도박단을 조직하고 있던 옛친구 홍석(전무송 분)이 정수에게 도움을 청해온다. 자해 공갈단을 조직해 길거리에서 돈을 뜯어내는 저질 폭력배였던 강토(박상민 분)는 홍석의 아지트에서 도박을 하다 정수의 놀라운 도박솜씨에 매료된다. 그리고 우연히 이 도박판이 속임수라는 것을 발견한 강토는 홍석을 협박해 돈을 뜯어내려 한다. 더이상 정수가 필요없다고 생각한 홍석은 부하들을 시켜 정수와 강토를 처치하라고 명령하고 정수의 여자인 재향을 유혹, 사채업자인 황사장에게 소개한다. 돈과 여자를 잃어버린 정수는 홍석에게 복수를 결심하고 도박 기술을 배우기 위해 정수에게 매달리는 강토를 수재자로 삼아 자신의 기술을 전수한다. 2년의 시간이 흐른 후 변장을 한 강토는 홍석의 사기도박에 잠입하고 정수는 강토를 돕기 위해 홍석을 유인한다. 홍석은 강토와 정수가 한패라는 사실을 모르고 정수와 강토는 도박으로 홍석을 알거지로 만드는데 성공한다. 계획이 성공한 후 정수는 도박판을 영원히 떠나겠다며 강토의 곁을 떠나고 강토는 떠나는 정수의 뒤를 향해 개같이 벌어 정승같이 쓰겠다며 다짐을 하는데.

The eldest (Barbara Stanwyck) of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer (George Brent) she once married.

Ichiro Sasaki, 35, is working for a small training school in Tokyo. Though his work and his life are rather dull, he at least gets along somewhat well with his young daughter. He recieves a phone call one day, informing him of the sudden death of one of his colleagues. Shortly after this shocking news, his wife who is now living apart cuts him down further by telling him, "You don't see anything." While walking in the night, Ichiro is struck by an idea: why don't we go there? He heads off holding his daughter's hand. And thus begins a strange little tale of an ordinary father and his daughter.

In this film without sound, a man awakes disheveled in a rooming house. He stares out the window seeing children playing and a well-dressed man sitting on a chair in the middle of the street reading a newspaper and looking up at him. A headline describes the murder of a child. The disheveled man, whose face expresses fear and despair, leaves, going through the city, alarmed when anyone looks at him. A woman invites him to look through a public telescope. He does then keeps going. He climbs a hill. Two fencers appear; so does a jester. Is flight fruitless?

In focusing his attention on the competitors of Mr Gay Syria, director Ayse Toprak shatters the one-dimensional meaning of “refugee”. Using the pageant as a means of escape from political persecution, the organiser Mahmoud — already given asylum in Berlin — hopes to offer the winner a chance to travel as well as bring international attention to the life-threatening situations faced by LGBT Syrians.

A couple take the chance to blackmail a politician, only to get caught in the web of lies and deception.

A card game turns violent in the Wild West.

An amazing experimental S/M pixel scene

Eleven-year-old Alice lives on a ranch with her father, her favorite horse and confidante, Red, and the love of Red's life, Molly.

For the past 20 years, ex-Army Ranger and “killology” expert Dave Grossman has been traveling across the US to train police officers on his philosophy of killing. Footage from one of Grossman’s seminars is juxtaposed with stark, brutal images of police brutality—including the shooting of Philando Castile by a Minnesota police officer.

The story of community in the Deep South that is forced to deal with the struggles of ignorance, hypocrisy and oppression.