The Floating World
After being transported into a 19th century Edo painting, a university student discovers everyday sustainable practices from history to bring home to modern Japan.
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After being transported into a 19th century Edo painting, a university student discovers everyday sustainable practices from history to bring home to modern Japan.
In a city for the first time Ben wakes up in the middle of the night to find his bed empty. The Red Man watches him from a storm drain as he rollerblades through an unfamiliar nightscape searching.
Floating Free is a 1978 short documentary directed by Jerry Butts featuring images of several of the contested events at the 1977 World Frisbee Championships. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Shor
SUNLIGHT (1970, 4 min, 16mm, silent) Sunlight patterns on a window in constant change through subtle camera swings – the motions repeated giving the light a fluid quality. FLOATING (1970, 15 min, 16mm, silent) Moving
A science non-fiction film exploring the territory of Navarre. Desolate landscapes from which humans have disappeared, leaving only their trace behind them. Radio waves float in the ether. Radio amateurs talk to each oth
Disturbed by an irrational aversion to his house owner's unsettling left eye, man contemplates murder to escape the disturbing presence and restore peace to his disrupted lifestyle
Another entry in the 'At Your Fingertips' series from ACI Films, this time around the kids are gluing trash together to make boats.
At the time of the student demonstrations on Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989, Liu Wei was a student at the Beijing University. Before the repression by the Chinese government on 4 June, Liu was able to take photograp
The events took place in June/July 1973 and the film was made with the help of the Mowanjum Community
Liuqiu, a tiny island on the outskirt of the Taiwan Strait, which means ‘floating ball’. Surrounded by more floating balls—’hotels-on-the-sea’ where Chinese fishermen stay. The film depict fate, humanity and destiny of t
Philosophical excerpts breaking the rules of language overlapped with footage of nature, inscrutable voice recordings, strange noises, and classical music.
Ladies and gentlemen, we're floating in the world.
Interactions between humans, plants, and animals in the urban environment highlight the weird position of the city-scape as a fabricated extension of nature that poses unique concerns as the earth warms. The displaced ba
Marino doesn't sleep well, Mamoru sells her a new futon and Minori finds a long-lost friend again.
In this film “(un)Flaoting World” depicts a journey of exploring the vast collective world while being an individual distinct from others. Searching for a shadow symbolises achieving completeness and blending into socie
A flute with the ability to levitate objects. One day, while playing with a teddy bear at home, he becomes playful and goes out and starts floating everything he sees into the air.
Ryuki was born into a rich family, but two years ago he lost everything. Like a lot of people with nowhere to go, he ends up in Tokyo’s infamous red-light quarter. He starts working in a cutthroat Host Club where women,
short film by Eoghan Ryan
The title Floating by Eagle Rock / She Is Asleep is culled from a) an image in the film that evokes the spirit of relaxed alertness, and b) the title of a quiet John Cage percussion piece that the images accompany.
A heart-wrenching sadomasochism; a bland survival story; a road without end.