29 Effeminate Gestures

KQED contracted with Colossal Pictures to direct the Joe Goode Performance Group segment for “Alive from Off Center”;, Part of KQED's Dancing on the Edge series.

Sheltering Gestures

A group of young dancers witnessed the gradual disappearance of the traditional Danza de las Tabliteras. Determined to bring it back to life, they learned its rhythms and choreography from the four remaining elders who s

Shapes and Gestures

Begins as a whimsical piece with 'sheets' of lines running down the screen, progressing into more and more complex geometic patterns but without deviating from the basic precepts of 'dot and line' animation. Jazz piano o

Gestures and Fragments

"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on three points of view on the same theme: Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and Edu

Model Young Gestures

gestures toward Plant Vision

Perception and intelligence in plant life have been gaining scientific attention and recognition in recent decades. Gestures Toward Plant Vision offers a cinematic meditation on how plants might visually perceive their w

Chambers: Tracks and Gestures

An intimate portrait of Jack Chambers, a major figure in the Canadian cultural landscape. This lyrical film includes the full range of his work from the age of thirteen until his death. The story is told in Chambers' own

Gestures of Resistance

Gestures of Resistance connects the personal testimonies of some of the last survivors of the Holocaust from Romania, Czech Republic and Slovakia through their presentations of antifascist resistance - chapter 1: Armed R

Medicine, gestures, computers

Presents the implementation of computer-analysis of video-images in contemporary medicine.

Gestures of Thought: Scratch

The everyday gesture of scratching makes us think our bodies in new and different ways. Scratching dis/connects us with ourselves, with other bodies, human and non-human, with flesh and machines, with our own history and

Speech: The Function of Gestures

George is a dealthly dull after-dinner speaker who thinks he's great because he keeps getting invited to speak, probably because of a severe shortage of speakers in his town. John, however, is invited to speak because he

The thinking machine 26: only free gestures

In 1984, Raymond Bellour reflected on a method and style of film analysis that grasped – as modern cinema itself also did – for decisive moments of absolute stillness, freezing, arrest. The emblem of this revelatory stas

Gestures to Break an Image

A woman wanders through the streets of Lima, Peru, using Google Street View. Faced with surveillance footage documenting state violence during the protests of 2022 and 2023, she is confronted with a question: what is to

That Mexican Car That Drives with Gestures

Mexican feature film

Ishaare: Gestures and Signs in Mumbai

"Ishaare" has a double meaning: it means "gestures" in Hindi and Marathi, but it also means "signs", as such indicating that there cannot be made a strict distinction between them. However, whilst there seems to be overl

Factory of Gestures: Body Language in Film

The Factory of Gestures investigates the metamorphoses of the body language in Russian and Soviet society through the 20th century as evidenced by documentary and fiction films, private and professional photography, visu

Italian Hand Gestures: How to Speak Italian Without Saying A Word

Ah, the Italians.... what are they up to now... Well, here it is. Italian Hand Gestures in 30 easy lessons. Speak Italian without saying a word. Now, you can understand what your girlfriend or boyfriend is really saying

Study of Gestures_01

Study of gestures_01 is a video loop on a TV monitor. Two hands fold meticulously and gently caress a shirt. An exploration of cultural heritage, traces and resurgences through gestures. The evocations of body memory, co