The Open Body
1909. Miguel, a young teacher, is destined for a small mountain town on the border between Spain and Portugal: Lobosandaus, an inhospitable place, inhabited by distant people with remote traditions. It doesn't seem like
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1909. Miguel, a young teacher, is destined for a small mountain town on the border between Spain and Portugal: Lobosandaus, an inhospitable place, inhabited by distant people with remote traditions. It doesn't seem like
One day a commuter, who happens to be a burglar, finds a dead body on a train. As he was just returning from a burglary and not wanting to draw attention to himself, he decides to get rid of the corpse himself. Little do
When a mysterious man stops a world wide storm with the swipe of his hand, life as we know it changes, and the source of his divine power must be found before humanity self destructs.
A short film by Phil Stevens.
Humanity is on the brink of extinction. When a mad scientist injects himself with water bear (called Kumamushi in Japanese) DNA and gets a squishy body, humanity soon transforms into Kumamushians, and the world is saved.
A quotation from Aristophanes, "The desire and pursuit of the whole is called love," precedes views of a man and a woman's bodies, often in extreme close up. Off-screen, a voice recites fragments of oracular literature a
It's been a long day, and you're tired. You come home, nearly doze off in front of the television set, then wander down the hall and plop on your bed expecting to fall asleep in a instant. But - suddenly and mysteriously
The footage was collected at AIDS fundraisers held at the time in Vancouver East Side, Canada from 1994 to 1996. The Body Remembers chronicles Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco's struggle to make drag into a form of artesania (n
A young boy tries to improve his chances with the new girl at school by hiring a personal trainer, and fails.
An appropriated film, portraying the arrival of Adam and Eve to an exotic Eden, is intercut with appropriated videos of virtual reality demonstrations, among them a human hand shadowed by a computer-generated rendering,
When a video of kids dancing in the rain goes viral, it brings global attention to an unlikely ballet school outside Lagos, Nigeria. Now they're preparing for the world stage.
The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to her ending up as a prostitute.
Focused on the concept of 'acceptable bodily risk', the film explores the meaning of risk within the contexts of care, work, and health. Due to the presence of docks and heavy industries, the borough with the highest inc
In my school days, the feeling of being chained up in life evokes discomfort. My school uniform is the embodiment of pressure, leaving me breathless. The uniform can confine my body, but not my soul.
Takes the story of Anna Göldi, the last European witch to be executed (1782) in Switzerland, as the point of departure and considers the ramifications of hearsay and storytelling. Highlighting the role of the witness, t
Learning that he has a brain tumor, wealthy businessman Karl Brussard seeks medical help, finding a scientist experimenting with transplanting monkey heads on different monkey bodies. Brussard steals the head of Nostrada
This video presents a number of women telling stories about their body.
Story of what happens under the skin that lets you see the extraordinary achievements of everyday human life. The film provides images of the 100 billion new red blood cells produced by the body every morning, the 40 yar
A portrait of a woman recovering from cosmetic surgery in Miami.