Dahlia (2009)
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Runtime : 13M
Director : Shiho Kano
Sinopse
This work is one film of the omnibus ‘Seeing’. About ‘Seeing’: “Filmmaker Matsumoto Toshio, a pioneer of experimental film in Japan and an advocate of Neo-Documentarism since the 1960s, conceived and structured this omnibus film, directed by six experimental filmmakers. Based on the theme of ‘seeing’, proposed by Matsumoto, the six directors approach the subject from varying individual perspective and develop their own unique images. The film addresses fundamental questions: What does it mean to ‘see’ things, and What does it mean to ‘make films’?” (from the official catalog of Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2009)
Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she attempts to seduce the bishop's son, the Church exacts a terrible revenge.
Koyaanisqatsi - Uma Vida Fora de Equilíbrio. As relações entre os seres humanos, a natureza, o tempo e a tecnologia. Cidade, campo, paisagem, rotina, pessoas, construções, destruição. Um documentário sem atores e sem diálogos, composto por uma impressionante coleção de imagens e uma marcante trilha sonora.
Fênix é um rapaz que está internado em uma clínica psiquiátrica por achar que é uma ave. Dorme em uma árvore, come apenas peixe e sequer se comunica com as pessoas. Para entender Fênix, é necessário voltar a seu passado e conhecer a tragédia ocorrida com seus pais.
Três mulheres muito diferentes se encontram em um spa para idosos e enfermos. Uma delas se envolve na vida de uma outra e surpreende as demais mulheres com até onde ela irá para manter a relação delas intacta.
A história entreligada de duas mulheres: uma é a vencedora do concurso Miss Mundo cujo prêmio foi se casar com um magnata do petróleo e que foge desse casamento tumultuado para Paris, tem um caso selvagem com um famoso rock star, El Macho e se muda para uma comunidade radical. A outra dirige um barco carregado de doces e açúcar, atraindo homens e rapazes com sexo, morte e conversa revolucionária.
A train speeds through the country on its way to Berlin, then gradually slows down as it pulls into the station. It is very early in the morning, about 5:00 AM, and the great city is mostly quiet. But before long there are some signs of activity, and a few early risers are to be seen on the streets. Soon the new day is well underway. It's just a typical day in Berlin, but a day full of life and energy.
Um satírico e envolvente retrato da cidade turística de Nice, na Côte d’Azur, na época vendida como a cidade dos prazeres.
Uma apresentação das polêmicas teorias e terapias do psicanalista Wilhelm Reich, ferrenho incentivador da liberdade sexual. Simultaneamente duas jovens iugoslavas - uma delas militante comunista - tentam seduzir um astro russo, enquanto norte-americanos adeptos do sexo livre contam suas aventuras e compartilham algumas de suas dicas.
Jovem motorista de taxi é perseguida por um demônio.
A cowherd with a skull-mounted motorcycle and a university student meet in Dakar; put off by life in Senegal, they plan to make money in Paris.
A woman lies on the sand, left there by the tides and waves (and in a pose that would be copied in From Here to Eternity). She reaches up across tree roots and makes a difficult climb. Only to discover herself climbing horizontally along a long dinner table as bourgeoise black-tie guests chat and drink and smoke, oblivious to her. At the top of the table, a man is playing chess but abandons the game. Fascinated, she gazes at board, the pieces moving unaided. The woman chases a pawn as it falls to the floor. Falls down a waterfall. Is lost.
Each day after work, Carlos, a language school teacher, frequents the heady surroundings of his local cruising ground. One evening he encounters a teenage boy from his class named Toni, and the two engage in a brief sexual tryst. As the relationship between teacher and student begins to develop, some dark truths emerge about the young man and his mysterious group of friends.
A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.
Shot under extreme conditions and inspired by Mayan creation theory, the film contemplates the illusion of reality and the possibility of capturing for the camera something which is not there. It is about the mirages of nature—and the nature of mirage.
Dois jovens são encarcerados no mesmo dia, cumprindo penas por crimes de homicídio não relacionados. Yun, tímido e bem parecido, é alvo previsível de desejos e abusos por parte de outros prisioneiros, mas Shiro, frio e violento, sem pestanejar antes de enfrentar, a soco e pontapé, meia dúzia de oponentes, decide protegê-lo. Um dia, sem que nada o pudesse fazer prever, os guardas encontram Yun com as mãos em redor do pescoço de Shiro, já inerte. Como que a prever a incredulidade de todos, enquanto é levado pelos guardas, Yun assegura que foi ele quem matou Shiro. Dois detectives investigam o caso.
Eggeling analisa objetivamente o movimento das formas enfatizando a linha em uma série de contrastes – vertical e horizontal, retas e curvas, claras e escuras, fortes e fracas, desaparecendo e emergindo – muito parecido com uma peça musical onde idiomas ou temas emergem.
This hand-painted work is easily the most minutely detailed ever given to me to do, for it traces (as best I'm able) the hypnagogic after-effect of psychological cathexis as designed by Freud in his first (and unfinished) book on the subject - "Toward a Scientific Psychology." (SB)
Short documentary directed by Jean Vigo about the French swimmer Jean Taris. The film is notable for the many innovative techniques that Vigo uses, including close ups and freeze frames of the swimmer's body.
A visual representation, in four parts, of one man's internalization of "The Divine Comedy." Hell is a series of multicolored brush strokes against a white background; the speed of the changing images varies. "Hell Spit Flexion," or springing out of Hell, is on smaller film stock, taking the center of the frame. Montages of color move rapidly with a star and the edge of a lighted moon briefly visible. Purgation is back to full frame; blurs of color occasionally slow down then freeze. From time to time, an image, such as a window or a face, is distinguishable for a moment. In "existence is song," colors swirl then flash in and out of view. Behind the vivid colors are momentary glimpses of volcanic activity.
A spiral design spins. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as it rotates. The messages, in French, feature puns and whimsical rhymes and alliteration. The final message comments on the spiral motif itself.
