The Darkening Veil (2018)

Документально-художественный фильм об истории видеоигр.

«Koyaanisqatsi» — с языка индейцев племени хопи — это безумная жизнь, беспорядочная жизнь, жизнь на грани распада, жизнь вне баланса, жизнь, требующая изменений во имя продолжения жизни… "Коянискацци" (Koyaanisqatsi; Жизнь, выведенная из равновесия) - документальный фильм Годфри Реджио с музыкой композитора-минималиста Филипа Гласса и киносъёмками Рона Фрика. Лента содержит большое количество фрагментов, снятых по технологии замедленной киносъёмки. Фильм полностью лишён дикторского текста и актёрской речи, однако его музыкальное оформление, на которое опирается сюжет, занимает в повествовании такое же значение, как и видеоряд, и, фактически, создаёт атмосферу фильма. Это первый из трилогии фильмов "Кацци", показывающей с различных сторон взаимодействие человека и технологии. Более десятилетия из-за лицензионных ограничений фильм "Коянискацци" не издавался, так как Филип Гласс и его ансамбль гастролировали с ним, вживую исполняя музыку прямо перед киноэкраном во время показов.

Video Games Live is an immersive concert event featuring music from the most popular video games of all time. Top orchestras & choirs perform along with exclusive video footage and music arrangements, synchronized lighting, solo performers, electronic percussionists, live action and unique interactive segments to create an explosive entertainment experience! Video Games Live bridges a gap for entertainment by exposing new generations of music lovers and fans to the symphonic orchestral experience while also providing a completely new and unique experience for families and/or non-gamers. It's the power & emotion of a symphony orchestra mixed with the excitement and energy of a rock concert and the technology and interactivity of a video game all completely synchronized to amazing cutting edge video screen visuals, state-of-the-art lighting and special on-stage interactive segments with the audience.

Какие тайны хранит в себе пустыня в Нью-Мексико? Пропавшие цивилизации, следы инопланетного присутствия или… место захоронения 3 млн картриджей с худшей видеоигрой в истории человечества? Фильм режиссера Зака Пенна повествует об истории взлета и падения корпорации Atari, переросшей в городскую легенду штата Нью-Мексико о том, как корпорация пыталась скрыть следы масштабного просчета. В 1983 году, когда Atari была на пике своего развития, корпорация выпустила видеоигру ET Extra-Terrestrial по мотивам одноименного фильма Стивена Спилберга. Игра оказалась настолько плоха, что повлекла за собой распад корпорации и индустрии видеоигр в целом. Согласно легенде Atari похоронила миллионы непроданных игровых картриджей на свалке в Аламогордо, Нью-Мексико, тем самым смыв с себя позор за создание самой худшей видеоигры в мире.

A woman returning home after having a sour day decides to sleep.

Псевдодокументальный (mockumentary) экспериментальный фильм, в котором показан один день из жизни молодого человека. Действие происходит в День Советской Космонавтики, 12 апреля одного из последних лет существования СССР. За окном постепенно теплеет, ощущается наступление весны, сулящей надежду на возможность перемен в стране. Герой фильма увлекается космосом. Юноша, боготворящий Гагарина, занимается реконструкцией, изготовлением униформы, в которой ходил космонавт в расцвете своей славы. Ещё наш герой – кинолюбитель. Он снимает фильмы с сюжетами космических полётов и демонстрирует их своим друзьям. Фильм стилизован под любительские кинофильмы 1980-х годов и снят на цветной 16-мм плёнке фирмы "Свема", изготовленной ещё в Советском Союзе. Качество этой киноплёнки позволяет зрителю наиболее полно погрузиться в атмосферу времени действия фильма, который посвящён советской космонавтике и Эдварду Вуду Младшему.

What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Côte d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.

A costume designer is sent to the Catskills for an interactive theatre piece set in the 1920s. When she arrives things seem dark, strange and off. She soon realizes she is part of a student film.

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.

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.

This short film made by László Moholy-Nagy is based on the shadow patterns created by his Light-Space Modulator, an early kinetic sculpture consisting of a variety of curved objects in a carefully choreographed cycle of movements. Created in 1930, the film was originally planned as the sixth and final part of a much longer work depicting the new space-time.

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 tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which sprout from the existing design. The figure vanishes and the process begins again with a new pattern, each cycle lasting one or two seconds. The complete figures are drawn in a vaguely Art Deco style and could be said to resemble any number of things, an ear, a harp, panpipes, a grand piano with trombones, and so on, only highly stylized. The tone is playful and hypnotic.

An experimental film comprised of Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING played forwards and backwards at the same time on the same screen, creating bizarre juxtapositions and startling synchronicities

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)

30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. He has spent no time among men. He is trembling with cold. His clothes are soaked. His mother was overprotective ; his father conspicuously absent. He knows that he must face the mockery, refusal, ignorance and blindness of the men around him. They travel in gangs, in large numbers : soldiers, mercenaries or the like, on majestic, imposing horses. Everything is out of proportion to his thin, bewildered, innocent body ; he is the madman of the new city...

In this short film Bert Haanstra gives his vision - from the water – of a tranquil Holland. During filming he held the camera upside down and afterwards put the images ‘up right’ again in the film. By doing this, we see the ‘usual’ waterfront, but transformed by the rippling of the water. In this way Mirror of Holland became a modern looking experimental film. However this did not devalue the Dutch sentiment regarding waterfronts that are so trusted to so many.

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.