Gesture Down (I Don't Sing)
A graceful and personal adaptation of the poem “Gesture Down to Guatemala” by the late Native American writer James Welch.
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A graceful and personal adaptation of the poem “Gesture Down to Guatemala” by the late Native American writer James Welch.
A fictional journey constructed from small movements of bodies as portrayed in melodramas and war movies of the 30s and 40s in Hollywood cinema, beginning and ending with intimate gestures of life being at once destroyed
Anna works at a bookstore. Lucas is suddenly very interested in books. A romantic comedy in which Chaplin meets the Nouvelle Vague.
John flies home to furniture in one corner, the dining table arranged for guests, and their bedrooms removed of its function– he comes home to his father’s funeral. With his mom Leia, they learn how to put together what
Last Gestures
A Miraculous-themed COVID short.
Assuming roles of both performer and director in "Gestures", Wilke explores her own face as artistic material. Whether kneading her skin into misshapen contortions or enacting stereotypical poses, she stages a fluid, con
Sightings of Brooklyn-based artist Loren Connors. To graze against the pulsations of time, to feel matter, to linger on the imperceptible frailty of gesture...
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
Sequence of animations and random footage (Olympic torch lighting, rituals etc) which were "based on ideas of Hans Hollein; created for the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt Museum's opening exhibition: Man transForms", 1976.
The religious diaries of a public access actress, encountered within an archive of queer play, kinship, and aspiration.
Alexander Nikolaevich is very old. The war turned his whole life upside down. But he does not remember the war, and he does not remember insults, he remembers something completely different. He remembers gestures, hand m
Gestures captures Christian Marclay's hand scratching, crossing out, and counteracting the speed of rotation of records placed on turntables. His gestures alter the analog nature of the recording and transform the vinyls
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
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
A blind florist goes on a date with someone she met through a dating app.
"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
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
Inspired by Bach presents cellist Yo-Yo Ma performing the six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by J.S. Bach in collaboration with artists from different disciplines, in a set of six films.
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.