A visually impaired painter lets nature take shape on his canvas.
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Le Peintre
Lost Mind is an experimental short film, written and directed by Lucas Donnat, that explores the perception of time and memory through the staging of a man's death. The film questions the boundary between reality and imagination. Here, time is no longer linear: the past becomes the memory of a future, and the future becomes the altered continuation of a past already rewritten. Currently in production.
A grieving choreographer tries to connect with her deceased partner through ritual dance, pushing her body beyond its natural limit until it breaks.
Léonard is a victim of bullying. One autumn morning, a storm prevents him from taking his bike and forces him to board the school bus.
An experimental fashion film exploring the euphoric beauty and horror within a hair salon.
Through the opposition of two temporalities, Succession questions the parallel yet divergent evolution of humans and plants. The film explores the confrontation between two living beings, one gradually taking over the other.
If a tree falls dead, does it cease to be alive? Like a deep breath in the forest, Siob explores the different textures of wood, from its life in nature to its rebirth as a musical instrument. And what if, in human hands, wood found its voice again?
Letter to the Young Intellectuals of Hong Kong is a 35mm film that utilised and appropriates footage from a documentary Henry Moore exhibition in Hong Kong, through over-dubbing, painting directly onto the film and other gestures, Mok turns the material into an incendiary address to Hong Kong's youth. Intercut with newly filmed material creates, the film also functions as a personal diary of Mok's political activity throughout the 1970s.
Before its transmutation by fire, the Phoenix revisits the places that were a source of joy and hope, but also pain and suffering. It is in a great whirlwind that it tears itself from the flames to be reborn and take flight towards luminous lands.
Falling petals, flying snowflakes, fragments of memory…all are transient just like our dreams. Without thoughts, there need not be a concrete plot or captivating story to tell. Just as philosopher Zhuang Zi wrote--the fools think they are awake. Each scene and image exudes illusion and fantasy. The absence of plot and dialogues allows freedom in interpretation and clarity. The symphony of images becomes a poem for the audience to treasure. Cinema is dreamy in nature, allowing the true poetic spirit to thrive—when we rid ourselves with thoughts.
This film is a portrait of hypnotist and artist, Marcos Lutyens. It examines the idea of incorporating hypnotism into art through the filmmaker participating in a hypnotic induction.
A short film.
Using hand-painted film, animation and an inventive soundtrack, INTRODUCTION TO OOBIELAND is an exploration of gateways: a repeated series of movements from the familiar and safe to the unknown and dangerous. Cycles are left incomplete. Chases are never consummated; the day ends with no promise of rebirth. In this way the film touches on our oldest instincts, leaving us saddened and scared by the knowledge of a world that will never know freedom through the completion of action; safety through the sanctification of place.
Pulse is the heart of music. A series of uniform beats that are audible or implied and repeat themselves. It is the relationship between the beats and their silences. The pulse is also the artist's unique expression—their heart. And Murilo is getting ready to perform his drum solo. He practices. Repeats. Tries to find his own pulse.
Students walk into a photography studio to have their photograph taken, and put on a smile for the picture. But as soon as the camera flashes, it reveals their true nature...
Preferring to shower with clothes on, they wait patiently for an evening with Winder, a living movie camera. Made as an exercise activity for Capilano University.
Experimental film following a cycle of seasons as well as the stretch of a single day as a man and his dog slowly ascend a mountain.
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life.
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
Young Violetta and her mother Hannah are a peculiar couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet life with her grandmother, while her mother Hannah is an unpredictable photographer who lives off of the generosity of others. When Hannah forces her daughter to pose as a model, Violetta finds her life with her loving grandmother turned upside down.The resulting pictures quickly become a sensation for the trendy 70's Paris art scene, and Violetta finds herself caught in between her new stature as an art muse and her dull childhood.
Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing.
Matt, a charismatic coach, captivates crowds until he spirals into a disturbing downward spiral.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
A lonely typographer with a cruel speech impediment but an eloquent inner voice must face his greatest fear.
The story of a middle-aged woman with small children whose life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
Grieving and facing the consequences of their crimes, the Traoré brothers get one last chance to forge a new path.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Mathieu, a member of the French institute in Irkutsk, is arrested overnight by the Russian authorities. Imprisoned and accused of sexual abuse on his own daughter, he realises he is a victim of a Kompromat. With the help of the FSB, someone has built up a case to frame him. Isolated, he has no one to turn to. Proving his innocence is impossible: the only solution is to escape.
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
Charlotte Gainsbourg agrees to play a witch condemned to be burned at the stake in the first film directed by Béatrice Dalle. But the chaotic production, technical problems, and psychotic breakdowns gradually plunge the shoot into a chaos of pure light.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
