Mompelaar is a withdrawn young man who lives with his domineering mother somewhere in the Flemish countryside. One of his daily walks through the fields is interrupted by a strange encounter with some locals.
Category: Short
Antoine has only one friend: his camera. Son of a level-krossing keeper, he collects the passing trains on film. In the past, one of them carried off his mother. One day, the infinite magic of cinema brings her back.
This surreal, allegorical short film by Agustí Villaronga follows a young woman by the sea who encounters a mysterious red creature that reveals hidden secrets of the ocean. The encounter transforms her, granting uncanny, almost sorcerous powers. Drawing on Christian symbolism and pagan ritual, the film unfolds as a dreamlike meditation on feminine transformation and elemental forces, heightened by Carl Orff’s music.
At nightfall, Paris gradually envelopes itself in a coat of lights. The activities of the inhabitants are transformed as the night progresses:… go home, eat, sleep, go out, drink, wander, etc. The authors, camera in hand, present us in this film, an evocative look and bright over Paris and Parisians, from dusk to dawn.
A film about the radical attack surrealism and Dada wrought on the familiar and traditional art values of the past. Through the perceptive choice of paintings and sculptures from the work of de Chirico, Duchamp, Man Ray, Ernst, Miro, Magritte, Dali, Klee and others, we become exposed to the philosophy, poetry and politics of these fascinating art movements.
A portrait of Arthur “Peg Leg Sam” Jackson –black harmonica player, singer, and comedian who made his living “busking” on the street and performing in patent-medicine shows touring southern towns. Footage includes excerpts from one of his last medicine shows, videotaped at a county fair in 1972, and material filmed near his home in South Carolina in 1975.
This provocative short documentary film is a private testimonial on the body of the director’s mother, who, in the presence seen and felt, reveals, the physiognomy of old age. The camera intimately undresses and examines the obese and exhausted body. But the film bears above all a sentimental tone. The widow recalls her housband, would be happiest if she could turn back time, and sobs.