Vincent Gallo as Flying Christ (1981)
Gênero : Fantasia
Runtime : 1M
Director : Michael Holman
Sinopse
"My first actor in my first film was Vincent Gallo. We made a film together called Vincent Gallo as Flying Christ. It's kind of a famous film. It must be twelve or thirteen seconds long. It's like an art film, shot on Super 8, and it was his first film, it was my first film. We did other films, too, short art films." - Michael Holman
No verão de 1979, um grupo de seis garotos em uma cidade industrial de Ohio testemunha uma catastrófica colisão noturna de uma caminhonete com um trem de carga. Eles registram tudo com a câmera Super-8 com a qual estavam tentando fazer um filme. Não tarda para que eles comecem a desconfiar que aquilo não foi um acidente, quando misteriosos desaparecimentos começam a acontecer e o exército tenta encobrir a verdade (algo muito mais terrível do que eles poderiam imaginar).
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Alfredo Lopez (Javier Cámara) é um vendedor fracassado de enciclopédias, que vive na Espanha dos anos 70. Convidado por seu chefe para um simpósio, ele e sua esposa Carmen (Candela Peña) são surpreendidos com o anúncio do novo projeto da empresa: a confecção de uma Enciclopédia Sexual Visual, que contará com fitas de casais de vários países europeus. A proposta do chefe é que seus empregados rodem seus próprios filmes eróticos, que seriam destinados exclusivamente aos países escandinavos. O casal, em crise financeira, aceita a proposta e inicia suas produções com uma simples câmera Super 8. Essa nova atividade rejuvenesce a paixão do casal, que fica famoso em toda a Escandinávia. Alfredo se empolga com a repercussão e influenciado por seu grande ídolo, Ingmar Bergman, planeja sua primeira incursão em uma película não pornográfica.
Low-budget superhero flick about a young man given a mystical medallion by a South American shaman, in order to become a puma- empowered champion like his father before him. In trying to locate the young man initially, the shaman has the nasty habit of pushing candidates out windows to test them.
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By helping Doctor Proctor getting recognition for his amazing invention in a world quite different from ours, two lonely children gets help to stand on their own two feet.
In 1948, French singer Charles Aznavour (1924-2018) receives a Paillard Bolex, his first camera. Until 1982, he will shoot hours of footage, his filmed diary. Wherever he goes, he carries his camera with him. He films his life and lives as he films: places, moments, friends, loves, misfortunes.
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During a recent remodel of The Yellow House crews discovered the remains of a little girl and a super 8 movie camera with the footage still inside. The footage has been released to the media by Summerland police with the hope that someone can solve this mystery. Police investigators confirm the film was shot by the missing couple. It is believed they were murdered by occult members. This is their footage.
SONGS 2 & 3: Fire and a mind’s movement in remembering (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).
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Uma mulher. Passado. Uma trilha. Futuro. Um desejo.
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