This film is a playful depiction of the festivities around the performance If All Trains of the World by Alex Mlynárčik on June 12, 1971. Still photography, live action, interviews, old etchings and archive footage of old train journeys are skilfully blended to create a sympathetic and humorous portrait of the romance of an old steam train and the joy of artists and the general public in participating in this children’s game for adults. Once again, the avant-garde is imaginatively used to eulogise over traditional values and the past. Deň radosti is important not just for the considerable pleasure it brings; it is the first of a series of films in which artists use film to document happenings.
Category: Short
An orphan girl chooses an old book from a box of donated charity items. In this book, she reads a story that she makes her own. When she collides with an old man, the story comes to life…
“There is a World in one of those far off stars sand things do not happen there as they happen here”. A love story with a twist, set on a distant planet.
An American Vietnam serviceman arrives on a 5 day R&R leave in Sydney. He meets a local girl and they enjoy their short time together.
Horror, but with a comedic twist? Tadeusz Wilkosz decided to tell the story of abandoned objects from the attic. The titular sack goes on a rampage of destruction and begins to devour the numerous junks gathered there. Will the red beast devour all the things scattered in the attic? Puppet animation made at the Studio Małych Form Filmowych “Se-Ma-For” in Łódź.
The film is an extract from the Gypsies’ way of living, dedicated to the celebration of the “St. George’s Day” holiday. The theme of the film deals with the contrasts of the contemporary urban processes. Also, the film expresses a many-sided iconography as a source for incarnation of the romantic comprehension of life, without any obstacles. The balladic atmosphere conjures up the reminiscences of the distant myths. This poetic vision on the life of the last nomads is shot in the authentic milieu of Gypsies’ camp shortly before the celebration of their greatest holiday.
Paul Sharits is one of the great experimental, sometimes called structuralist/ materialist, filmmakers of the 20th Century. Epileptic Seizure Comparison is a deeply empathetic interpretation of epilepsy, far beyond anything as crass as voyeurism.
The Chinese Typewriter is about education and language, and the way a society is shaped by them. It exemplifies the politically committed film that defies the strict rubric of avant-garde. Daniel Barnett seems less interested in challenging traditional form than in exploding his own occidental vision. He transforms cyclonic cutting among a character-filled Chinese printing shop, a school, and street life into a visual poem that extracts the country’s fierce mechanistic energy while leaving the fragrant residue of humanity.