Concert held on August 4, 5 and 6, 2008 at the Nippon Budōkan hall in Tokyo to commemorate both the Japanese theatrical release of Ponyo (2008) and the 25 years of musical collaboration between composer Joe Hisaishi and filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki.
Kinogamma is a unique cinematic experience – a strange, lost gem. The camera takes us on a hypnotic journey to the discovery of people, places, sounds, and things – a travel journal in which the eye stops to admire the everyday and the uncommon, a magnetic experiment to kidnap our gaze and rediscover the pleasure of simply seeing. The first part, East, takes us to the cities of Moscow, Tallinn, Orsk, and Novotroisk.
What promises to be a stormy night of fun, costumes, and pranks turns deadly when a group of high school seniors, who are staging an elaborate senior prank, find themselves trapped on campus, tormented by someone from the town's dark past who's returned for bloody vengeance. One by one, the students disappear until only a few remain to battle the fiendish psychopath whose identity reveals a gruesome twist that no one could have ever suspected Lock In is a perfectly terrifying homage to the gory slashers of the 80's that's sure to make you scream in delight.
The film about Max Bill (1908-1994) moves between the dynamic fields of art, aesthetics and politics. Max Bill was probably the most important swiss artist of the 20th century and the most famous student to come out of the legendary Bauhaus in Dessau. He was an ardent anti-fascist and all his avant-garde work as an artist, sculptor, architect and typographer showed a social responsibility and environmental awareness right through his life. His views have become incredibly topical.
A recent college dropout attempts to sort out his life's problems after taking a job as a maintenance worker at an abandoned amusement park trying to reopen it's doors.
Filmed over the course of two years, Our City Dreams is the story of a woman's struggles and successes as an artist in New York City. Told through five women artists, from youngest to oldest, the film features Swoon, Ghada Amer, Kiki Smith, Marina Abramovic, and Nancy Spero. From the studio to the streets of New York, from the canals of Venice to the alleys of Cairo and the beaches of Phuket, Our City Dreams takes us deep into the artists' worlds.
The small child’s world is wonderful and extremely complex. A seemingly unimportant event can lead to tragic disaster in child’s life. On the other hand kindness of the baby soul is capable to work a miracle. And it can even to animate the tiny fish.
Alison waits nervously for a lunchtime appointment with her girlfriend, Sara. As she lights up another cigarette, a long ago ex-lover enters the restaurant. Sometimes coincidences suck.
At the Munich Olympics of 1972, John Akii Bua, from the impoverished African country of Uganda, powered round the inside lane in the 400m hurdles, past the English favourite, and reigning Olympic Champion David Hemery, to win the gold medal, 10m clear of the field. John Akii Bua had become the first African to win gold in an event under 800 metres. He was also the first man to break the 48 seconds barrier in the 400 metre hurdles, an event so gruelling its nickname is 'The Mankiller'. This is the story about that amazing triumph - and what happened next. David Hemery retired to respectable fame and fortune, later becoming president of the UK's athletics federation. John Akii Bua returned to a Uganda carving the name of its military "President", Idi Amin, into genocidal notoriety. This is a film about the pinnacle of athletic achievement - and the search to discover what followed.
The Prisoner’s Cinema is a phenomenon which is described in neuro and optical science as visual hallucinations as a result of prolonged visual deprivation. Prisoners confined in a dark cell have repeatedly reported this phenomenon, hence the name. Whenever a person is completely cut off from visual information, as a result of looking at a ‘blank screen’, visual hallucinations will appear. They take the form of geometric light shapes which are seemingly ‘projected’ about a hand stretch away from the subject.