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Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.

Early Barbara Hammer film shot on Super 8mm in color and silent.

A placid documentation of autumn's fading graces.

A short film, in the wilderness gothic tradition, set in a crumbling estate, where strange visions and paranoia afflict its occupants.

While caring for her abusive mother, a talented, demure 20 year old gets the opportunity of a lifetime to meet her famous potential father but everything's not as it seems.

"This poignant and unassuming color film interprets the dreams and memories of an elderly woman as she looks back on her life, The film searches for a deeper image of death. A sense of loss weighs heavily in this work as what appears to be a home movie of a grandmother alone at the grave of her husband plays unaltered. Hope is symbolized in images of cherry trees in bloom and stained glass church windows, perhaps implying the promise of an afterlife." -- Black Maria Film Festival catalogue

The British poet John Milton is the inspiration to this film with images of great beauty about the contradictions of the human soul, torn between the Beautiful and the Horrible, Guilt and Innocence, in a journey through Art and the representation of the human body. This is the third short of director Jérémy Adonis, following “Zone 37” (2015) and “Son of Icarus” (2016). With Pierre Anganda.

Elegy is a film about and in memory of a cat. It depicts her nocturnal space as imagined by us. It occurs partly in our ‘garden’, a dank and decaying back yard full of weeds and wildlife, a place that belonged more to her than to us. Various creatures join in the process of mourning, on and off screen.

It’s the first day of autumn, and Gibbons can already smell death in the air. Leading us and his dog Woody on a walk through a cemetery, Gibbons voices his obsessive thoughts of death and destruction. Waxing weirdly philosophical, Gibbons satirically tries to impress the concept of mortality on his dog; the video, shot in Pixelvision, approximates his dog’s black-and-white vision.

Stone and light, just stone and light. ‘Elegy is a form of poetry natural to the reflective mind. Sorrow and love became the principal themes of the elegy. Elegy presents everything as lost and gone or absent and future.’ (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

For 20 years the Cassini planetary probe supplied humanity with new findings on the moons and rings of Saturn. Using archive footage and staged scenes, an original lament emerged for this particular space mission that organically links unknown desolate spaces, technology, and humans’ very existence.

In the future, nature has evolved to destroy humans. One man fights across a treacherous landscape to reunite with his past. (Post-apocalypse)

Amidst the ghosts of his cultural roots, Popovich creates a lyrical and loving light monument dealing with separation, change and death.

This film strives to meditate on loss, filmmaking and cadence of an unstable relationship. A poetic narration accompanied by meditative sounds gradually sinks the images into the viewer. An intriguing subjective montage of dream sequences and sounds, fragments of cultural contexts, bound together by the characters inner monologue. A series of circular, rhyming narrative repetitions, laying out desire and anxiety, with the chance that a particular dream might transcend away from the disappointment of reality into a sought of spiritual transcendence. The geography of the unconscious world and cinematic desires juxtapose over the topography of separating lovers as an aching journey: we must betray the memories of the ones we loved to love again. This film strives to follow a narrative trajectory, but itself becomes a poetic elegy.

This intimately narrated journey from Russia to Rotterdam, via rail, road and Finnish ferry, is a melancholy meditation on divinity, time and place in art, purpose (or its lack) and the loneliness of the soul. Passing through misty snowscapes, half-glimpsed cities and the icy night sea-swell.

Summary of the first TV-Series.

1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree".

Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss so she can pay her father's debt and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement.

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In a world marked by war against nature, Maya tries to avenge her daughter who was murdered by animals. When she encounters the soul of a powerful animal creature, she realizes that this revenge is part of the big problem that killed her daughter.

Coban and his four comrades are smugglers who live in the bleak, inaccesable mountains. They are hard, pitiless men like the county they live in, whose daily commerce is in greed, danger, betrayal and murder.

A woman takes time in private on a tiny island in Helsinki to contemplate a loss that has caused sudden changes in her life. This tragedy has challenged her to see the world in a different light. A light that is driven by a force of nature.

An elegy dedicated to rural life and its inhabitants. A soundscape that evokes the history of the countryside and suggests the loss of a lifestyle and its culture.

In 1952 Rose Miller returns to her rural hometown of Beresford, South Dakota to care for her ailing mother. Once there, she falls in love with a deaf man and must decide if she has the courage to follow her heart.

A backstage romance leads a pair of actors down a dark path, as they discover their lives beginning to mirror the story of Shakespeare's bloodiest play.

In the first century A.D. Carthago Nova is a splendid city of the Roman Empire. The Albino prosperous family is obliged to enter into competition with the mighty Lucio Andro to achieve the award of works. A conflict that will last for several years and that will worsen with the economic decline of the city and the popular revival of gladiatorial games.

A man receives a phone call. There is to go immediately to a restaurant, Laura has to talk to him. It's a matter of life or death.

Award winning dance music video featuring an addict battling his demon, yet giving hope that there's light beyond the darkness of addiction.

A struggling black college grad wakes up to find that reparations have finally been paid to descendants of slaves in America. With this new found capital, they will decide how best to spend their reparations, totaling a mere $16,000. Receiving reparations opens up old wounds of slavery, Jim Crow, and systematic oppression.

TripleMania XXXII: Monterrey was a professional wrestling event produced by Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA). The event took place on April 27, 2024 in Estadio Mobil Super in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Jack is on his way to grabbing the cash prize for an illegal car race in Mexico to California, when a desperate woman, fleeing from her gangster boyfriend who runs the tournament, jumps into his car pleading for help.

Detective Jones arrives at the house of a young couple, Ashley and Brad, blissfully engaged and preparing for their upcoming marriage. They had a mysterious break in at their home. While Det. Jones discovers nothing at the scene, we later find out it is their wedding planner, Mandy, who starts stalking them. She goes as far as sabotaging Brad at work. Ms. Johnson, his boss, has no choice and places him on permanent leave as this Wrong Wedding Planner will stop at nothing to exact revenge.

During a new age of tensions between America and Russia, an assassination attempt is made on the Russian president while visiting the White House. An enraged Russia scrambles jets over the Atlantic, forcing the U.S. to fill the sky with its own fighters trying to stop the high-tech SU-57 squadrons before they ravage Washington, D.C.

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It tells the story of a long journey: one that makes the immigrant from leaving his country of origin until it reaches its goal, geographical and personal. There are many faces of this person coming from outside, leaving his country abroad for an uncertain and unknown. The reasons are different, too. The course, however, is very similar ...

«I was not born in the wrong body, I was born in the wrong society.» Josseline Aguilar, a Mexican activist, tells her story and also that of other trans women through a monologue.