The Trees in "La Flor"
A botanical-cinematic guide based on La Flor by Mariano Llinás. This work explores the various uses and roles of trees: as background, fictional device, figure, object of reflection, and as an image of an image.
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A botanical-cinematic guide based on La Flor by Mariano Llinás. This work explores the various uses and roles of trees: as background, fictional device, figure, object of reflection, and as an image of an image.
The Fig Trees of Washington, DC is a Super 8 documentary contemplating urban fig trees around Northwest DC and the many other fruiting trees that can be found here. It also explains how to best prepare figs for eating.
A family tree is usually a rigid form, documenting relationships and family structures through time. This work uses forms playing on my family tree, loosening that structure to bring in more distantly (and tangentially)
North Carolina Poet Laureate, Jaki Shelton Green, paints moving, vivid, and poignant pictures of the complexities of the African American experience with her audio poems. Jaki visited the grove of trees in which an ances
It is through the voice of Salim, newly arrived in Canada, that we follow the journey of six immigrants who, cramped in a van, earn their living by distributing advertising leaflets. Despite their diverse origins, they s
From the piano to the balcony Look! There is the sea. By the Olive Trees and the Moon are 10 audiovisual views from a balcony in Antibes, France. Each view recorded on a different day during the summer months.
"What kind of times are these, when talking about trees is almost a crime? Because it implies silence about so many misdeeds!" Bertolt Brecht from the poem "To Those Born After," written in exile in Denmark between 1934
It tells about a boy who wants to please his grandfather who came from the city. While talking about the events with Zuunai, the old man Norov said, "I have seen a lot in my life. Galkhu took the words very seriously. Af
Diana Beresford-Kroeger presents ancient forests of the Northern Hemisphere, revealing connections shared between the nature and the people of the regions.
A young man grows up with the sound of wind through the forest and sunlight that never rushes. But today, he must step into a city that waits for no one. From “being himself” to “becoming what the world demands.” Thi
Belzec, Poland, late 60's. Local children decide to find a treasure buried behind the forest.
The last wedding of an Udmurt. A year after his death, his soul says goodbye to the world of the living and becomes engaged to another, unknown world.
A hopeless farmer struggles to pay his debts.
The film confronts the reality of cultural displacement and the search for identity, framed by my family’s own longing for the Romanian culture, absent in American surroundings. There Are No Fir Trees Here is a story abo
A poignant moral dilemma unfolding against lush mountainous landscapes, The Albino’s Trees follows Yuku (Ryohei Matsuoka), an animal control hunter who takes on a lucrative job to kill a rare white deer considered to be
A mouse learns about bravery.
A girl discovers a flower.
Rachel Amado Bortnick takes the viewer on a fascinating journey exploring her Sephardic roots, recalling the rich, vanishing world of Sephardic culture and the endangered Ladino language.
The last days of the Second World War in Prague.