Prelude

short by Guy Sherwin

Prelude

Tortured found footage for a short piano piece of Galina Ustvolskaya.

Purple Prelude

Kamata Prelude

A four-part film done in the unique style of each director, Matusbayashi Urara gives a portrayal of a struggling actress named Machiko who lives in Kamata. Machiko is the central axis of the movie as the film comically d

Prelude 20

Prelude 20 begins with pale washes of hand-painted tones overlaid eventually by sharp forms, a kind of sliced color becoming more and more smeared.

Prelude

A single shot, improvisational dance film set to Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold: Prelude.

Prelude to Fame

While holidaying in Italy, Nick Morell, son of John Morell, a famous English philosopher and amateur musician, becomes friendly with young Guido, and Morell discovers the boy has an extraordinary instinct for orchestrati

Prélude 06

"A series of photographs of the feet of random passers-by in the New York subway." - from the Midnight Sun Film Festival catalog 2023

Prelude 15

Doubly-printed striations of "brush-strokes" through multicolored "rock" forms dissolving then to blackened "mud" eliciting increasing sense of being under earth.

Prelude 16

Singly-printed criss-crosses of molten "brush"-(hard-edge)-strokes of black over pebbled yellow, ending finally on an intermix of all intertwined forms with increasing lightness/whiteness.

Prelude 19

Prelude 19 begins with hand-painted swatches of variable colors encompassed eventually by vertical strokes of reds and blues, followed by sudden clearings which are counterpointed by sections of multiple blobs of color,

Prélude

Prelude to Axanar

Various retired leaders discuss their experiences of the Four Years War, a war between the Federation and the Klingons, and the build up to a battle at Axanar that caused a major turning point in the war.

Prelude 14

Prelude 14 begins in deep brilliant red which darkens into deeper reds and lavender shapes, disrupted by a variety of colors settling into browns and grays and shapes most rock-like, all of which is then shot-thru with s

The Pulpit - Prelude

When a progressive, midwestern pastor's life is threatened by extremists, she must answer to a gang of interrogating FBI Agents as she reels from the trauma of terrorism. "The Pulpit: Prelude" is about small town politic

Prelude 21

Prelude 21 is most characterized by the double-time of single-frame printing of extremely thick swatches of multiple colors as if in a furiously boiling cauldron.

Prelude 12

A bursting of mostly golden light forms as if heralding sunlight itself in their hurried (single-frame) display.

Prelude 23

Prelude 23 is doubly-printed hand-painted frames causing an effect almost as if wisps of tone were tinting the film intercut with sharp thin lines which "fatten," then, into thick crowded layers of paint, senses of great

Prelude 13

Singly-printed multi-colored watery "blobs" and "feathery" streaks of painted color, dominated by yellows and reds interweaving in complexity until there's an evolution of hard-edge autumn leaf patterns which dissipate i

Fosse: Prelude

A short documentary featuring legendary performer/choreographer Ann Reinking, recounting the history behind three historic pieces of Bob Fosse choreography, combined together for the first time by Thodos Dance Chicago.