Film Before Film (1987)
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 1H 23M
Director : Werner Nekes
Sinopse
An exhilarating and amusing encyclopedic look at the "prehistory" of cinema. Werner Nekes charts the fascination with moving pictures which led to the birth of film, covering shadow plays, peep shows, flip books, flicks, magic lanterns, lithopanes, panoramic, scrolls, colorful forms of early animation, and numerous other historical artiffices. Working with these formats, early "producers" created melodramas, comedies, -- as well as lots of pornography -- anticipating most of the forms known today. Nekes probes these colorful toys and inventions in a rich and rewarding optical experience. Film Before Film is a bewildering assault of exotic (and sometimes erotic) images and illusions.
Winnipeg, 1939: Bosnian immigrant Nihad Ademi conceives of a way to harness the power of the Aurora Borealis in order to broadcast imagery of his vast and beloved adopted land from coast to coast to coast.
In Spring is a masterpiece of the Ukrainian film avant-garde, a non-fiction film created by Mykhail Kaufman. In it, the now almost unknown Kyiv of 1929 appears. Shots of the awakening of the city, renewal of its life, echo with lyrical pictures of the revival of nature. Kaufman's attentive camera stops for a long time on the smiling faces of the children, painting a lyrical picture of a confession of love for Kyiv.
A short film from Jonas Mekas depicting an afternoon in New York of people joining in singing "Hare Hare"
The short film is a montage of sped up clips of The Ringling Brothers Circus in action set to a musical track. The film is separated into four segments, each segment which focuses on different acts within the circus. The later segments often incorporate clips from earlier segments, mostly as background to the featured acts. The speed of the clips match the tempo of the soundtrack music.
The 16-minute film falls neatly into two nearly equal parts, separated by fades to and from black. Part one depicts a sunrise, a journey out to sea in a boat, then gulls flying around the boat while fish are cleaned, and finally the journey back and the reappearance of land.
A powerful nation has experimented with a new gas, which does not kill or injure the asphyxiated subjects, only puts them in a lethargic and mystical state. X-70 gas bombs will be dropped by mistake over Nebelux and provoke an unexpected mutation of the population of this friendly little country. (miff.com.au)
Experimental film with Gunvor Nelson's daughter Oona.
Documentário que usa imagens de arquivo e intertítulos para contar os eventos que antecederam a Revolução Russa de 1917.
A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.
The film is dedicated to the achievements of the Ukrainian SSR for the eleventh anniversary of the October Revolution.
Helsinki, Forever is a montage film about the city of Helsinki by the award-winning Finnish film director and academic Peter von Bagh. The film draws a portrait of Helsinki and also acts as an essay on Finnish culture in a wider sense. It shows Helsinki as captured by leading Finnish feature film and documentary makers over a period of one hundred years.
In the 1936 short Allegretto, diamond and oval shapes in primary colors perform a sensual, upbeat ballet to the music of composer Ralph Rainger. The geometric dance is set against a background of expanding circles that suggest radio waves.
Esta comédia absurda, com seu extenso grupo de vigaristas, ladrões, anarquistas, prostitutas, inspetores-chefes, negociantes de arte e inventores, lembra as vibrantes tapeçarias de Robert Altman. A história gira em torno de dois objetos, um conjunto raro de porcelana de Limoges, do século XVIII, e um retrato aristocrático do século XIX. Quando esses itens são passados, vendidos ou roubados de um personagem para outro, uma vertiginosa dança em volta do excesso começa a tomar forma, o que sugere que, se a história não se repetir, certamente rima. Juntamente com o co-escritor Gérard Brach, cujos outros créditos de co-escrita incluem Repulsão e Tess, Otar Iosseliani usa um leve toque para expor a futilidade da classe e ordem social, transformando em insignificantes as preocupações dos ricos e pobres. Premiada com o Prémio Especial do Júri no 41.º Festival Internacional de Cinema de Veneza.
Romance sentimentale is a 1930 French film directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein. A short, experimental, slightly poetic montage of city and abstract images.
The film's soundtrack is an original musical composition produced with synthetic sound - through photographing unusual geometric shapes and running them through an optical sound head. The images are an artistic rendering of this soundtrack.
This twisted sequel to the Oscar-nominated film "Guard Dog" details the continuing adventures of an eager canine. This time he takes a job helping the blind, but still leaves a path of destruction in his wake.
An aging movie actor who is preparing to shoot a death scene finds himself visited by the spirit of a dead, long-ago lover.
A story told with few words. We see a solitary man and a solitary woman, each alone with their thoughts. She is in the country, staring out a window. Nature is quiet, waiting for spring, trees are bare. He is in the city, walking from the docks, watching, somewhat aimless. She walks a country lane. Both are alone. She writes him a letter, offering an opportunity. Will he take it?
Julian, a middle-aged single doctor, meets his childhood friend Pablo again. The latter is back from Africa and has just married a beautiful young blonde, Elena. Julian falls in love with her and tries to seduce her, but she mockingly pushes him away from her. He then finds that Ana, his nurse, bears a troubling resemblance to Elena. He decides to gradually transform Ana into Elena…
Mulheres com pastas e livros nas mãos passam com pressa. O filme acompanha jovens estudantes no auditório, no laboratório e, à noite, de volta para seus maridos e filhos em casa. O que uma vez era considerado excepcional agora se tornou muito comum.
