Emanuel Licha
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Painting with Falls
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_Painting with Falls_ is first and foremost an investigation into a painting : _Landscape with the Fall of Icarus_ painted by Pieter Bruegel around 1555. The author's personal reading of this painting raises countless questions. Here's one that could contain them all: what does it mean to _look_? Unemployed people, anonymous passers-by, philosophers, a psychoanalyst, politicians and the directo...
Devil's Rope
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This is the story of a universal and familiar tool: barbed wire. It goes back to the first settlers, to the spirit of conquest, and is anchored in the space-time of the American West. It's the story of a small agricultural tool that turns into a political story and gets carried away by the train of capitalism. It's the story of the evolution of surveillance and control techniques; the inversion...
Havarie
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On September 14 2012 at 2:56 PM, the cruise liner _Adventure of the Seas_ reports to the Spanish Maritime Rescue Centre the sighting of a dinghy adrift with 13 persons on board. From a YouTube clip and biographical scenes evolves a choreography reflecting the past, present, and future of the voyagers on the Mediterranean.
Taming The Garden
A powerful man, who is also the former prime minister of Georgia, has developed an exquisite hobby. He collects century-old trees along Georgia's coastline. He commissions his men to uproot them and bring them to his private garden. Some of these trees are as tall as 15-floor buildings. And in order to transplant a tree of such dimensions some other trees are chopped down, electric cables are s...
It Happened Just Before
Five people in their everyday surroundings tell stories that they have never experienced personally. They recount tales of people involved in the trafficking of women. They speak of exploitation, violence and force. They tell of realities which have happened and which might have happened in the places shown.
Les mains
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Five of the director's acquaintances are invited to present their hands, and nothing else, to the camera. The stories that this unconventional situation provokes reveal sensual memories and buried pain. The hands, restored to a certain independence, join, shake and dance.
Painting with Falls
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_Painting with Falls_ is first and foremost an investigation into a painting : _Landscape with the Fall of Icarus_ painted by Pieter Bruegel around 1555. The author's personal reading of this painting raises countless questions. Here's one that could contain them all: what does it mean to _look_? Unemployed people, anonymous passers-by, philosophers, a psychoanalyst, politicians and the directo...
Devil's Rope
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This is the story of a universal and familiar tool: barbed wire. It goes back to the first settlers, to the spirit of conquest, and is anchored in the space-time of the American West. It's the story of a small agricultural tool that turns into a political story and gets carried away by the train of capitalism. It's the story of the evolution of surveillance and control techniques; the inversion...
Havarie
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On September 14 2012 at 2:56 PM, the cruise liner _Adventure of the Seas_ reports to the Spanish Maritime Rescue Centre the sighting of a dinghy adrift with 13 persons on board. From a YouTube clip and biographical scenes evolves a choreography reflecting the past, present, and future of the voyagers on the Mediterranean.
Taming The Garden
A powerful man, who is also the former prime minister of Georgia, has developed an exquisite hobby. He collects century-old trees along Georgia's coastline. He commissions his men to uproot them and bring them to his private garden. Some of these trees are as tall as 15-floor buildings. And in order to transplant a tree of such dimensions some other trees are chopped down, electric cables are s...
It Happened Just Before
Five people in their everyday surroundings tell stories that they have never experienced personally. They recount tales of people involved in the trafficking of women. They speak of exploitation, violence and force. They tell of realities which have happened and which might have happened in the places shown.
Les mains
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Five of the director's acquaintances are invited to present their hands, and nothing else, to the camera. The stories that this unconventional situation provokes reveal sensual memories and buried pain. The hands, restored to a certain independence, join, shake and dance.
