Film Before Film (1987)
Жанр : документальный
Время выполнения : 1Ч 23М
Директор : Werner Nekes
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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.
Автор фильма демонстрирует процесс пробуждения природы, ассоциируя его с пробуждением общества - «весной социалистической страны».
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.
Авторский монтаж уникальных исторических кинодокументов о величайших и одновременно трагических событиях в истории России начала 20-го века: падении династии Романовых и февральской революции 1917 года. Фильм полностью смонтирован из дореволюционной кинохроники, которую Эсфирь Шуб собрала в различных киноархивах, и материалов дворцового киноархива Николая II.
A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.
Фильм посвящен достижениям Украинской ССР к одиннадцатой годовщине Октябрьской революции. 28 февраля 1928 года Вертов говорил : «Фильма «Одиннадцатый» написана непосредственно киноаппаратом, не по сценарию. Киноаппарат заменяет перо сценариста. «Одиннадцатый» написан: 1) на чистом киноязыке, 2) документальном языке — языке фактов и 3) социалистическом языке». Фильм немой.
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.
Картина XIX века и китайский фарфор XVIII века попадают в водоворот интриг, афер, законных и не очень манипуляций дюжины персонажей из самых разных слоев общества от воришек и проституток до звезд панк-рока и террористических группировок с неясными целями и задачами.
В картине участвует лишь один персонаж — это женщина, которая поет популярный романс под названием «Жалобно стонет ветер осенний».
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?
Хулиан — доктор средних лет, который однажды встречается с путешественником Пабло и влюбляется в его жену Елену. Та отшивает его, после чего Хулиан решает воссоздать образ Елены в своей помощнице Ане…
Eric Rohmer directs this short documentary that narrates the presence of women in French universities as of the time of its release -- 1966. During the film's short run, the narrator continues to point out that during the advent of World War II, only 21,000 women attended college and made only a 30 % of the student body, a number that by the 1964-1965 school year had passed the 120,000 mark. Instead of opting to live according to what was expected of them, now they were joining the work force, trading in aprons for lab jackets and becoming professionals even after getting married.
