According to the director, this film is made by Osaka people, for Osaka people (?). according to the director. The director himself appears in the film and gives a light-hearted performance. The combination of the slapstick sensibility and the beautiful screen is indescribably stylish.
An Alberto Bróccoli's animation short film.
In a breakneck undertaking, the musicians of the "Modern Soul Band" take on the GDR rugby champions "Stahl Henningsdorf" in a seriously comical game.
Using highly-manipulated and over-processed images, Latham investigates the process of video as inherently fragmented. Weaving together various people’s impressions of the artist and her work, the work demonstrates important parallels between video, storytelling, and the formation of identity — all processes of active fabrication that blend “lies” and truth in the construction of a certain reality, history, or past. Labeling an image of herself talking as “her most recent explanation,” Latham addresses “the construction of her video personality” as an identity outside of herself.
Short experimental film by Phil Morton and Guenther Tetz.
This Bollywood musical comedy was the first East Indian movie shot completely in Canada
Animated short film showing a hammer stymied by a nail that won't be hammered down.
The filmed image is liberated from the shackles of representation of an external reality, becoming autonomous and spatial; the sound drifts and is regenerated by its asyncronous but nevertheless intimate relation to the image. Here, the sound is not reduced to the secondary role of accompanying the image. It constitutes the sensory experience just as much as does the image. Fast motion, slow motion, superimposition, reflection, colorization, filtering and synthetic composition: a combination of effects that produces a long audiovisual perspective within just one sequence.
The Stool Becomes the Ladder was made in 1978, using techniques of video feedback, quantizing levels and chroma, and simple downstream text. The stool is transformed into a ladder.
Three young bears are sent by their father to hunt on their own, using different techniques: strength, agility and smartness.
The story takes place in the Lowveld and is about the illegal burning and marketing of the sacred moisture, popularly known as Withond. A drinking war breaks out between two grumpy old men - A farmer against an Englishman. Uncle Koos and his daughter, Sopie, make a good profit from the sale of their white blitz, which they secretly heat in the valley and sell to the local hotelier. But one day Solly refuses to buy their stock. He has a new supplier, and this peach brandy is just as delicious as Oom Koos' white blitz - just cheaper. Oom Koos is shocked and it turns into a drinking competition to see whose moisture is the best. Very soon, Oom Koos and the Colonel are together, and Sopie and Peter, the Colonel's son, have to cheer each other up just before their father and get the local sergeant sniffed.
The psychology of collecting records - whether they be Classical, Jazz, Popular or Rock is seen in interviews with both dealers and collectors all entwined with Devensky’s visual and sound obsessions. A powerful Documentary which shortly shows that it really doesn’t matter what one collects, for their ‘missing needs’ are all the same. The final incident is an interview with a disgruntled 78rpm record dealer who tells an unforgettable story of why in enter this business culminating, when, in otter frustration, he proceeds to destroys his stock of recordings.
Long work.
Women, multiple images, ironic metamorphoses of sea, land and air - bodies that flow, crumble, evaporate...
A man sits in his room. He is wearing clothes and combat boots. He listlessly sucks on a cat-shaped lollipop. The cat wears a red bow. A pineapple comes into play, later a porcelain horse. Outside, the train screeches through the snow. A version of the German folk song “Der Graf von Rüdelsheim” plays in the background.
The story of a successful Greek immigrant, the restaurant owner Giorgos Kozompolis, who emigrated in the mid 1960’s from the poor village of Sotirianika, in Mani to the developed city of Heidelberg in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Filmed in the south of France and in Paris at the end of August and the beginning of September 1978.
