Message from Genova (1936)
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 8M
Director : Alberto Cavalcanti
Sinopse
This expository film shows the mood of European society on the eve of the Second World War while promoting the values of international cooperation. Using the Swiss office of the BBC as an example, the film describes the functioning of radio and presents the possibilities opened by mass communications. After the advent of sound film, Cavalcanti promoted experimentation with sound, and in this connection he was interested in the communicational, organizational, and social aspects of radio.
Antonio Gracia José (1942-2011), known as “Pierrot,” was a prominent member of the Barcelona art scene, a pioneer in the filmmaking of underground short films and Fantaterror movies, writer and playwright, magazine editor, movie poster painter, cartoonist and cabaret showman.
Milly's world revolves around her pet guinea pig. When her mother attempts to engineer for her a 'real' friend, it results in ridicule and forces Milly to question her sense of self.
Uma mulher idosa volta através de suas memórias. Ela existe entre dois estados, o passado e o presente.
Mrs. Strong, by reason of a good right arm, is absolute manager of her husband and his finances. While on a shopping expedition she collides with a passerby, spilling the contents of her purse. After they are restored to her, she misses her husband's pocketbook, and thinking the gentleman who bumped into her took it, she gives chase and succeeds in taking a pocketbook away from him. She relates the incident to her husband. He discovers his purse on the dresser. The restoration of the pocketbook to its rightful owner is very amusing. —Moving Picture World synopsis from IMDB
Flash Passion is one of the very first films that the two artists made in Athens when they took up the super-8 camera and extended their theatre practice towards cinema. Here, Maria Klonaris looks at/films Katerina Thomadaki.
SMOKING is a brief portrait of Maria Klonaris composed of seven shots. Katerina Thomadaki completed it in 2016, two years after Maria Klonaris' passing, from rushes shot in 1975 at the time of the filming of DOUBLE LABYRINTHE. The Greek word that appears at the beginning of the film, μετείκασμα, signifies "meta-image" and refers to retinal persistence.
Oil, gold and fire are the treasures inside the proud giant mountains. For the little mountain it's impossible to keep up with that. He's just in possession of this tiny, strange and useless SOME THING.
Four people meet by chance at the subway station, exposing sides of themselves they're not really can handle.
Five sunbathing teenage girls find a sleeping man in the bushes and start to play a game, but it all goes a bit too far.
Jonas and Johanna have a cabin in the woods, where the recording mixtapes to cheer up the district's residents.
The eccentricities of a young girl and her mother illuminate shadows of grief.
Christine breaks up with her boyfriend, Martin, before leaving for a school camp. While at camp, Christine seems to withdraw. Slowly, she slips further and further away from the others.
We all share the same kind of brain yet everybody has a different view of the world around us. As a very intriguing example, Carlotta vividly explains how a world without faces does look like. She suffers from the miswiring of a tiny brain region that makes it impossible for her to see and remember faces as a complete construct, called prosopagnosia or face blindness.
Pig lives at the top of a hill in a town surrounded by a destructive, dark cloud. Before Pig’s father leaves to find a solution to the cloud, he builds Pig a small wooden dam to protect him and the town. The dam’s windmill keeps the cloud at bay, and Pig now has the responsibility to care for the dam. Young and alone, Pig finds love and family through his friendship with Fox, and continues to care for the townsfolk in a variety of ways. However, Pig struggles with the absence of his father, and his desire to search for his father competes with his need to keep the town safe.
A honeymoon in Japan gets examined microscopically through comics, cards, magazines, and more in this delightful animated film.
A man sedated and held against his will in a mysterious institutional facility fights to piece together his fragmented memory and escape.
A young woman hangs an old mirror in her apartment, unaware of its dark history. Soon, dreams and reality begin to blend... and something is lurking in the shadows.
Afro Black is the coolest, dopest, toughest, roughest cat around and when it comes to dealers, slanders and bangers trying to mess up his community, he goes HAM on their jive turkey asses.
Em um futuro não muito distante da realidade em que vivemos, Nicolas, um artista em decadência, descobre um terrível segredo sobre as grandes corporações e desesperado por tal descoberta, resolve com as próprias mãos forçar o Grande Chefe da M.A.B. a revelar tal segredo para a população.
Uma mãe chinesa que fica triste quando seu filho sai de casa tem outra chance de maternidade quando um de seus bolinhos ganha a vida como um menino de bolinho de massa animado e risadinhas. A mãe animada parabeniza-se com este novo pacote de alegria em sua vida, mas o bolinho de massa começa a crescer rapidamente, e a mãe deve adotar a verdade agridoce que nada permanece bonito e pequeno para sempre.