The sarcastic account of the assassination of five Spanish politicians between 1870 and 1973 is mixed with the narration of five short stories by Edgar Allan Poe illustrated by five skillful pencil artists. A documentary, a video essay, a collage, a provocative experiment where various pop culture figures and icons perform unexpected cameos. The macabre joke of a jester. Never more.
SQUARING THE CIRCLE is a documentary that explores the journey of Hipgnosis, the legendary album art design studio. Founded by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey 'Po' Powell, Hipgnosis created timeless and influential album covers, revolutionizing the music industry. This film takes viewers on a captivating journey through the vibrant era of rock music, showcasing the genius and impact of Hipgnosis. Featuring interviews with renowned musicians and artists, SQUARING THE CIRCLE paints a vivid picture of the creative process and the profound influence of album artwork on popular culture.
A haunting and brutal depiction of animal cruelty. Fast paced cut up art brut collage film.
La Classe américaine is a comedy movie that parodies American cinema. It follows an actor overcoming various obstacles, including car accidents and assumed deaths, while exploring different styles and tackling topics like racism. With its self-righteousness and speaking nonsense, the film creates a hilarious and nonsensical atmosphere.
The Movie Orgy is a comedy documentary that takes a humorous and nostalgic look at the history of television and film. It features clips from various movies and TV shows, including iconic characters like Mickey Mouse, Tarzan, and Daffy Duck. The film explores topics such as television history, film history, cultural history, and animation history. It also includes bloopers, satirical elements, and scenes from TV commercials. With a collage-style format, The Movie Orgy blends together different genres and themes in a unique and entertaining way.
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie is a documentary that explores the history of atomic bombs, from their development to their use and the impact on society. Through archive footage and interviews with physicists, the film provides a comprehensive overview of the nuclear era. It covers topics such as the Cold War, the arms race, and the catastrophic effects of nuclear weapons. The documentary also delves into the scientific aspects of nuclear bombs, including detonation, radiation, and the technology behind them.
A year in the life of Elsa Michaud and Gabriel Gauthier, students of Fine Arts in Paris, lovers in troubled times, overwhelmed by maddening verbal and auditory stimuli, witnesses of a globalized violence more visible than ever in a chaotic digital era, in which the slow execution of simple gestures in a silent performance is an act of resistance.
The Atomic Cafe is a documentary film that focuses on the history and impact of nuclear warfare. It covers topics such as the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the testing of nuclear weapons at Bikini Atoll, the Cold War, and the fear of a nuclear apocalypse. The film uses a mix of archival footage, government propaganda, and humorous clips to examine the culture surrounding the nuclear age.
Rejecting the billions of alphabetic diktats to liberate the incessant metamorphoses and metaphors of a necessary and true language by re-turning to the locations of past film shoots, while keeping track of modern times.
After the end of civilization, an aged man undergoes a mysterious journey through space and time that takes him through memories, visions, and historical events, ultimately transcending the limitations of the senses and into a new cosmic rebirth.
A multimedia sex-ed video about life and love in a world where humans have corkscrew penises and corkscrew vaginas.
How do German couples communicate in private? What are they arguing about? Is the way to a man’s heart really through his stomach? This docu-fictional hybrid production discusses such questions with the help of authentic interview snippets that were edited under the staged plot. We get an insight into the life of an animal couple, who experience typical everyday situations on behalf of us humans. At first, our fox is emotionally contained, while the penguin lady may get wild as hell. With a wink, the filmmakers hold up a mirror to the audience in the cinema.
When Forever Dies is a romantic drama that explores the concept of eternal love and the consequences that arise from making a pact with the devil. The film follows a couple who find themselves ensnared in a web of love, darkness, and the supernatural. As the story unfolds, they must confront the choices they have made and the price they must pay for their forbidden love.
A cinematic time capsule with over 1,400 hours of submitted material from all regions of Switzerland gives unknown insights about the life of Swiss people in the politically and socially turbulent summer of 2019.
Short animation by Renzo and Sayoko Kinoshita satirizes in a non narrative way the 'economic animal' Japan and predicted the economic recession in the 70s
Set in Berlin and New York's Lower East Side, The Great Yiddish Love stars the self-exiled Marlene Dietrich and her Nazi-endorsed replacement, Zarah Leander. It is a melodrama of love, emigration, and betrayal reassembled from Hollywood, German Ufa and Yiddish films from the 1930s and 40s.
In her recent films, Geiser has been exploring the possibilities found in merging video texture with film, creating a kind of deep, ambiguous space, a suggestion of “the floating world”. In ULTIMA THULE, gravity fails, land and sky lose their historical meaning. A small silver plane navigates an ultramarine storm, flying over barely-glimpsed hills, an unlikely ferry to ”Ultima Thule”: the farthest point north, the limit of any journey. The seduction of immersion in blue is too strong to avoid, the land fills with water, and time loses its line.
A struggling young man secretly plays a magical trumpet that transports him from his desolate world into a colorful "bliss." When his younger brother discovers his secret, their relationship is put in jeopardy.
An artistic short film directed by Stan Vanderbeek.
The Green Fog is a mesmerizing visual collage of classic film clips that pays homage to Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. The film loosely follows the plot of Vertigo, but replaces its well-known scenes with images from a wide range of other films and television shows. This documentary/mystery film is a brilliant and imaginative exploration of cinema-on-cinema, using clips from various genres and eras to create a unique and captivating experience.