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Kwaidan (1964)
Kwaidan is a 1964 Japanese portmanteau film directed by Masaki Kobayashi; the title means ‘ghost story’. It is based on stories from Lafcadio Hearn‘s collections of Japanese folk tales.The four narratives are ghost stories which are interconnected by two themes: the rotation of seasons and guilt. Kwaidan is an interesting film in that is offers…
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Sound of Noise (2010)
one day, a group of percussionists decide to go for erratic, guerrilla-like performances that disrupt their everyday locations, using any objects they can lay their hands on as potential instruments. the same day, a tone-deaf cop who hates music decides to hunt them down. and what follows is an urban and earwormy symphony, always a work…
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Paul (2012) (short)
Still in the aftermath of a tough break up, Paul’s life is deteriorating. A mindless burglary of his rented apartment forces him to to push through the underworld of Tel Aviv to investigate. Winner: // Silver Hugo Award for Best Narrative Short (Chicago Intl’ Film Festival) // Best Short (European Independent Film Festival) // Official…
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Seed (2012) (short)
here it is, Seed, a fresh new sci-fi short movie. from it’s vimeo page: Seed . http://clicktotweet.com/X73DB Set in the year 2071, where technology has brought mankind to the brink of colonization on a planet named Gaia, one astronaut takes on an isolated mission and discovers unearthly horrors that could bring an end to human…
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“There Will Come Soft Rains” – Budet Laskovyj Dozhd (1987)
This is one of my favorite short stories by Ray Bradbury
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selfmademusic feat p.n.e.a. – the planet is glowing aglow aglow (abstract comic book)
Short abstract story by artur ditu aka selfmademusic and p.n.e.a. for Kinema Ikons Intermedia of 2008. A low-fi schi-fi trip on a deserted planet untouched by man. An astronaus talking to his friends and family wanting to get back home on his plastic planet. The planet is entirely made from mold with the astronaut beign…
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Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (2012)
A documentary that follows the Serbian performance artist as she prepares for a retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. During the run of the exhibition, Abramović performed “The Artist is Present,” a 736-hour and 30-minute static, silent piece, in which she sat immobile in the museum’s atrium,…
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Tears Of Steel (2012) (short)
“Tears of Steel” was realized with crowd-funding by users of the open source 3D creation tool Blender. Target was to improve and test a complete open and free pipeline for visual effects in film – and to make a compelling sci-fi film in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The film itself, and all raw material used for…