Book of Hours

Sep 9, 2019

0h 10m

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Incorporating rephotographed etchings and clips from Yvonne Rainer’s Lives of Performers, Annie MacDonell weaves together an elegant play of gestures and patterns, in which quiet moments in a family home become a site of formal and intellectual experimentation.

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5.8

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In Hands Reach

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La croce

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6.8

The Adventurer

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10.0

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Jameel Alsaeed

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Strangers

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Who needs to talk to strangers when you're the only one who can understand the garbled mewling of your best buddy cat, Charley?

3.3

Sunshine Sparkling in My Eyes

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0.0

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6.5

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7.8

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5.0

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5.3

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5.8

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7.7

All of This Unreal Time

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On a journey from darkness into light, a man explores his failings as a human being.

5.5

Knokke: une petite fiction

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A 2nd short super 8 film made by Chantal Akerman in Knokke to be used to be accepted at INSAS.

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