Black Salt Water Elegy
A short film that weaves together original and archival material to create an ethereal narrative texture, Black Saltwater Elegy intimately links the discordant threads of a popular history of dispossession (Africville) w
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A short film that weaves together original and archival material to create an ethereal narrative texture, Black Saltwater Elegy intimately links the discordant threads of a popular history of dispossession (Africville) w
After committing murder to avenge the family name, a young man flees from his father, a former hangman who wants justice done.
Romero’s Elegy is a 21 -minute film which was shot in Pittsburgh in 1963 with Richard playing one of the antagonists. It was intended to add music and poetry to it. It was never finished! Richard in 2020 wrote this poem/
Simon, a painter, regains the use of his hands thanks to therapy administered by Ren. Later, when Simon is kidnapped by communists and forced to paint a portrait of Stalin, Ren again helps him by assisting in his escape.
Artist Dorward Akopyan is walking in autumn park, remembering the long way to the main dream of his life.
Hand-processed 16mm. Exploring the AIDS crisis from both a personal and a political perspective, the film intertwines two main motifs: memories of Roger Jacoby, a filmmaker who died of AIDS, and the development of a mas
Mashiro works for a law firm in Kagurazaka. It takes 2 hours for him to commute one way. Kyoko works at the counter in a real-estate agency in Yurakucho. It takes 2 1/2 hours for her to commute one way. They meet each ot
A surreal journey of a displaced spirit as he wanders in the interminable darkness through the temporal landscape of a quaint and isolated feudal-era fishing village. Guided by a series of faintly illuminated rooms, the
Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsuragi, but also becomes dangerously obsessed with his unfaithful wife, Akiko.
Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).
In the aftermath of her friend's passing, an artist processes her grief by making a film. She weaves her personal archival footage and an unfinished science-fiction narrative into a deeply raw and emotive work of art.
Based on the poem "Elegia 1938" (by Carlos Drummond de Andrade), narrated by Caetano Veloso.
A short film that follows Melodi, a cheerful old lady who, after being diagnosed of cancer, wants to realize her youthful dreams: to be a singer, and to make a music video to be screened on her funeral night.
A desperate man forces himself to fall in love with a mentally ill psychologist.
Li Kai, a chinese student in France, his fake master degree in his pocket. At the crossroads between past in France and future in China, Li Kai recalls his affair with Chloe. After be back in his hometown, Li Kai finds t
Uninvolved with the political movements of the time, Ichiro and Sachiko hope for something better, but they’re no revolutionaries; their spare time is spent drinking, smoking, daydreaming, and sleeping—together and at ti
Roku Takewaki (Ryuji Harada) of the Rikiishikai launches an attack on the head of the Ebina Union! However, the attack fails, leading to Roku’s imprisonment and Rikiishikai falling under the control of the Ebina Union.
In this film you will see labour emigrants from Uzbekistan who for many years have been working in a car wash and a vehicle service station in Almaty (Kazakhstan).