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Song Lee (28), an extra actor, hoping not only for the opportunity to be an actor but also for respect. In a restaurant set of a film shooting, Song is kicked off the stage by the director. When Song is about to leave, t
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Song Lee (28), an extra actor, hoping not only for the opportunity to be an actor but also for respect. In a restaurant set of a film shooting, Song is kicked off the stage by the director. When Song is about to leave, t
Ruben is an anodyne guy attracted by the unusual beauty of Alba, an enigmatic woman. Both live in a peculiar silent universe, with established and surrealistic rules. Ruben must break some of these rules to get Alba's at
In America, 80 million people in America have an arrest record. That’s 1 in 3 working age Americans. Most people want to work and thrive in America. Yet a conviction background carries thousands of collateral consequenc
Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the children. When John's old friend Bill professes his love for Barbara, the marri
Background is a 1973 American short documentary film directed by Carmen D'Avino. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. The original version was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
On a tense set of a film noir, two background actors quietly form a connection take after take
A conversation between the filmmaker and his father, separated by the war in Syria. Now a refugee in Germany, the son reconstructs the journey of his father, who was a student there 70 years earlier.
The comedic short film Backgrounded takes you into the wacky world of Evan Higginbotham: professional movie extra. One morning on the way to set, Evan and his fellow "Background Actors" are left behind. Unwittingly picke
Background Music is a documentary-based short film that chronicles a Rap Hype man's path into legend. Directed by Ian Randolph and Solomon Gross, this uniquely riveting story of an unsung individuals successes and strugg
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Ever wonder what happens behind the scenes of television? Take a short comedic look into the world of background extras. Based off the true life experiences of an everyday background.
Documentary that profiles of U.S. Marines who were cast as background extras in “Jarhead.” Produced for the “Jarhead” DVD.
A short film.
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
The artist films his oversized face in a fixed shot as he attempts, over several sequences (including "failures"), to control the blinking of his eyes caused by the detonations of shelling on the Gaza border. A text, tak
This story of exceptional situations that happen only once, based on real events, tells of the struggle of six people to survive the great dangers of nature and to stand out in the eyes and opinions of others. It takes p
The guests at Count Otto von Trepow's East Prussian estate Gross-Ehrenfeld are Lord and Lady Ruthven, Mr Hendriks with his wife and foster-daughter Mariska, a gypsy they adopted years ago, Kundry, the fiancée of Otto's s
A mother/daughter relationship analyzed through textile materials and the careful consideration of movement within the 16mm frame.
For decades, film and television audiences have watched their favorite stars with little thought or concern for the people standing behind them. All of that is about to change as "Strictly Background" explores the charm
The collaboration between visual artists Matthew Cowan (NZ) and Jana Müller (GER) is concerned with the role of museums and archives in the representation of identity and history, as well as the question of identity and