When The Shelves Hymn
After Mariam’s husband mysteriously disappears, she reluctantly takes their teenage son Saeed from their home in Jeddah to mountainous AIUla, intending to sell their family-owned antique shop. Saeed is sullenly resentful
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After Mariam’s husband mysteriously disappears, she reluctantly takes their teenage son Saeed from their home in Jeddah to mountainous AIUla, intending to sell their family-owned antique shop. Saeed is sullenly resentful
Kodachrome 100D/7294 Color Reversal. Digital edit. From the filmmaker “A loose, curious film.”
“Hymn of Urban Evenings” is an animation based on a poem by Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński. The film portrays the narrator’s sense of alienation from the city — a human figure is cut out from the cold, foreign space which, in
While chasing his dreams in Cairo, Azzam faces tough choices between love, family, and survival as heartbreak and setbacks threaten to break his spirit.
Jarre gave two charity concerts in June 2001 at the Herodion Atticus amphitheatre next to the Acropolis in Athens, for Elpida, a foundation to help children with cancer.
Paul Wellard is leaving home for the city. He goes to say good-bye to his mother and finds her at the organ singing her favorite hymn. For a while he prospers very well in the city, but finally gets in bad company, gambl
An eulogy to growing up in freedom with its ups and downs. The director, Sara Bonaventura gives us an insight in radical pedagogy and Emilia Reggio's experience based education, which she is a strong advocate for.
A Mother struggles to bond with her baby.
The dark storm of repression in the 1930s, which left a deep and tragic mark on the history of Mongolian society, massacred the leading intellectuals and religious and political figures of that time.
“I tried to imagine what the last hymn to Novalis’s night had been if it was beyond language. (…) is the most elaborate hand painted film I’ve ever made”.
A reply to an earlier work – a radically digressive footnote – and the opening salvo of a new tendency. It is intensely personal and explores the relationship of storytelling to violence, to power, and to memory.
“This is a hand-painted film whose emotionally referential shapes and colors are interwoven with words (in English) from the first Hymn to the Night by the late 18th century mystic poet Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg,
A celebration of the filmmaker’s daughter’s birth. The blazing garden as a metaphor for the cycle of life.
A surrealistic portrait of restaurant guests as seen by an otherworldly visitor who has the ability to read people’s subconscious.
What looks like a beefy sea cucumber sunk in a toaster without casing is actually a computer-controlled organ of speech. From a YouTube clip of the singing latex mouth montaged after and next to itself, Norbert Pfaffenbi
Meditations in an emergency. A short film by David Humphreys
The sound of the waves is crying and calling. Goodbye to love, freedom, bondage, and betrayal. The wind blows over the old pine trees, scattering sand. And then... the barefoot woman disappears into the waves.
A gang of criminals in the suburbs face a challenging week of violence, desperation, and betrayal. When hitman Sully fails a job, package courier Frank quits, and a vigilante starts hunting the group down, it sets off a
A palliative care doctor meets with a series of dying patients.
A tribute to Edith Piaf, live from New York's Beacon Theatre.