essentia

Dec 12, 2022

★ 10.0

Overview

Essentia is an experimental film in which decentralized young people seek new perspectives on their routine through clothing, showing how clothes affect our affections. Naoki, Felipa and Neve cross their personal paths and, in doing so, find new perceptions of tranquillity, complicity and rest.

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Anastacia

Felipa Anastacia

Naoki

Vinicius Saccá

Neve

Trindade

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0.0

Looking through a Glass Darkly

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An experimental media installation of three windows exploring fragments of liminality. Three unique re-constructions of experiential instances volumising the cataclysms of thresholds. Experience the absence of definition, the absence of boundaries set and the absence of rationale. A myth is not to be understood, a myth is passed on, like a game of Chinese whispers, it takes its course and ages with time, suiting the demography and tale, it warps and distorts

0.0

Butterfly

Dec 14, 2023

A short experimental film, exploring the concept that one small change can have a profound impact on a person's life.

8.0

Dream of the Wild Horses

Jun 1, 1960

The horses in Denys Colomb Daunant’s dream poem are the white beasts of the marshlands of the Camargue in South West France. Daunant was haunted by these creatures. His obsession was first visualized when he wrote the autobiographical script for Albert Lamorisse’s award-winning 1953 film White Mane. In this short the beauty of the horses is captured with a variety of film techniques and by Jacques Lasry’s beautiful electronic score.

10.0

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A hen questions the meaning of her life on a farm.

9.0

Las Preguntas que Perdimos

Dec 30, 2023

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5.4

The Brown Bunny

Nov 14, 2003

Bud Clay races motorcycles in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. After a race in New Hampshire, he has five days to get to his next race in California. During his road trip, he is haunted by memories of the last time he saw Daisy, his true love.

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Preparação I

Jan 1, 1975

In Preparação I (Preparation I) Letícia Parente prepares herself to go out. In front of a bathroom mirror, she places bandages over her mouth and eyes, draws eyes and a mouth over the bandages, fixes her hair, takes her bag and leaves the room. This masquerade becomes a political commentary about the female gaze, voice, modes of interaction, sociality and corporeality in Brazilian society during the 1970s.

10.0

The Chickenman Cometh

Jan 8, 2024

A man is haunted by the mysterious CHICKENMAN after he chooses not to order a takeaway.

0.0

How to Be a Candid Woman

Nov 16, 2022

To produce speech, a set of mechanisms must be brought together. What is the normal articulation for speech? How to produce the sounds that make it up in the correct way? A physiological analysis of the aspects of speech shows us how: the jaw must move in a certain way; the air must be expelled from the lungs in another. Based on the concepts stated in the film "Normal Speech Articulation" (1965), produced by the University of Iowa (USA), we intend to reflect on the way women have been represented, and consequently educated, over the years, both in film and in the media. Largely composed of archival footage, this film intends to make evident, through a montage inspired by Structuralist movements, the violence of this education.

0.0

The Ego Death

Sep 13, 2022

A cine-essay about the ego death and consciousness rebirth.

6.5

Paranoid Park

Jul 12, 2007

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10.0

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Dec 6, 2023

Made entirely as stopmotion, this experimental short compiled over 900 images of pure strangeness, with frightening visuals and disturbing sounds.

0.0

Ang Ipinagbabawal na Prutas ng Paraiso

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An experimental film that explores the minds of a teenage couple experiencing an unintended pregnancy and their struggles with social pressure, discrimination, and abuse.

0.0

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A seagull, a dog, a child, a call to prayer; Looking through a window, the corridor of a train, the wall of a medina; Everyday life is momentarily paused through the eyes of a stranger in an unknown land.

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0.0

The Silver Stream

Nov 22, 2022

Along the silver stream

6.9

La Chinoise

Aug 30, 1967

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.

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