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A short film about a compliment to a stranger
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A short film about a compliment to a stranger
Todri, a patriotic teacher, returns in his homeland to bring the Albanian letters.
At a Christmas writing retreat, Ava confronts her failed career and past betrayal by bestselling author Clay. Stranded by a storm, the group of writers bonds while Ava rediscovers her voice. Despite setbacks and doubt, s
and the daughter began to tell a story about seeing when colours remain silent to you about listening, when words refuse blooming anew
The film discusses different ideologies in terms of religion, geography and intellect reflected as well in the current rifts between different parts of the Arab world. A group of individuals strive to find the hidden tru
A portrait-conversation with writer Rick Moody. Writing and describing New York. New York as a writing in which to find oneself.
"In this half-hour documentary, Producer Sandra King provides an intimate portrait of a public phenomenon: Graffiti. Over an 18 month period, King and her crew followed the teenage members of a graffiti 'crew,' Vandals o
“Continued explorations of automatism as a practical guide to negotiating the mysterious zone where light and no-light flutter in a fecund equipoise. A homemade rocket to realms unknown to any movie camera or photo lens.
A unique documentary about troops' experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, based on writings by soldiers, Marines, and air men.
A richly lyrical documentary celebration of the vibrant beach life in the North East of England, constructed entirely out of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's black & white photographs.
William Shakespeare, struggling to write the assassination scene for his play Julius Caesar, settles into an armchair and begins to daydream the scene that depicts the assassination of the dictator.
Screenwriter Billy Shaw is desperately trying to finish his latest screenplay. The screenplay he's writing is about "Fren-Zee," the hottest comic book property that's being turned into a movie at the moment. Billy finds
Calligrapher Donald Jackson presents an historical overview of the alphabet from the cave paintings of primitive man more than 35,000 years ago to the stylus and wax tablets of the Romans and the Egyptians' hieroglyphics
Portrait-conversation with the writer Nathan Englander.
Lorna Collins experienced a catastrophic brain injury at the age of 18 and spent the next 20 years going in and out of psychiatric hospitals, including the infamous Esquirrol asylum in Paris, subjected to humiliating tre
Henry Miller discusses his art as a writer, among friends and colleagues such as Lawrence Durell and Anais Nin among others.
Peter Elbow talks directly to students about the process of writing. Beginning with his own early difficulties with writing as a college student, Elbow provides insights into how one can work through writing problems. Fu
Horror author Shirley Jackson (The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House) was known for transforming her daily fears and anxieties into literature full of menace and shadowy dread. In this theatrical film essay, the line b
Four speeds in writing associated to four physical movements that become louder and louder. The word returns to gestures and the body to survive. The real time of screen-writing makes the time of poetic action coincide w
Rob Carter masters the well meaning idiot in this endearing character comedy based on a bad writer and his even worse books.