(Re)created Figures

The negative stigma hovering around camera-generated images of the nude bodies is a result of pressure from societal ideologies such as culture and religion, shaping the current connotation that all works are indecent an

28.IV.81 (Descending Figures)

2011, 3 minutes, 16mm double projection, color, silent

Figures

A zoologist couple travels to West Africa to document some of the worlds deadliest snakes. Their expedition reveals a surprising similarity between handling deadly snakes and living in a healthy relationship.

Figures of Speech

In 1999 we got a contract from ITVS to make a series of animated short documentaries in the vein of Snack and Drink. The twelve segments of Figures of Speech feature subjects interviewed in Austin and on the road betwee

Facts and Figures or Whatever Happened to Dick

Unambiguous message, unpretentiously inventive animation and a blackly comic tone.

Inhuman Figures

Inhuman Figures is a film essay by Michelle N. Huang and CA Davis that excavates three popular science-fictional archetypes—the robot, clone, and alien—to reveal how imagined futures are produced from a long history of t

Figures of History and the Grounds of Intelligence

What happens when an image leaves a state archive and enters the feedback loops of an artificial neural network? Inspired by an encounter that the artist had at the Google Cultural Institute with an image originating fro

It All Adds Up - The Making of Hidden Figures

It All Adds Up is an above average set of featurettes that kind of ping pongs between more traditional EPK fare with interviews and a more thoughtful analysis of some of the actual history involved.

Kandinsky « Figures de l’invisible »

At the time Wassily Kandinsky painted Yellow-Red-Blue (1925), he was a professor at the Bauhaus. In this work, the painter applies the principles of color and analytical drawing that he also taught to his students and de

Seated Figures

Although Seated Figures is characteristically confined by a specific placement of the camera — in this case, fixed to the rear of a pickup truck and aimed at the ground — the result is one of Snow's most visually compell

Bacon « Les figures de l’excès »

A plunge into the strange and fascinating world of Francis Bacon, whose painting struggles to exorcise violence and death. The anguished and very intimate universe of one of the greatest 20th century painters reveals mul

#Familiar #Touch #Lost #Figures

Can we reinvent our lost queer histories? #Familiar #Touch #Lost #Figures is about queer ancestry and diaspora, a hybrid of cultural traditions and contemporary queer identity. It explores feelings of guilt and joy, and

Pool with Two Figures

Desire peaks and thoughts race as a man watches as another man swims naked in a pool.

Round Figures

Illustrates the importance of good posture for health.

Stick Figures On Crack

Comedic surreal misadventures starring stickmen

Figures in the Landscape

“FIGURES IN THE LANDSCAPE…refers to older media, in that it was shot with a pinhole camera, a form of camera obscura. The images show a sprawling Chicago suburb, while texts refer to earlier inhabitants – the Indians. Th

Stick Figures

A child's rendering of the human form appears genderless until the signifiers of clothing, hair, and other objects are added.

Me and Plastic Figures

As the earnest narration at the beginning of the film suggests, this is a film that, in a nutshell, looks back on a page of my youth at university by revisiting the few sculptures I made during my two years there. Howeve

Action Figures

Sometime in the 21st century, a new evil threatens humankind. Meet the fundamentalist movie fan! Raised by violence in the media and armed to the teeth, these suburban thugs declare holy war against Hollywood in a string

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