Environment
Films to stop and observe, in order to feel the pulse of the world that surrounds us. Life in all its forms; slithering, lurking, swarming, dazzling. Films that remind us that humans are not the centre of it all and that nature will make it its duty to convince those who still doubt it.
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Beasts in Bits and Pieces
Duration: 22 minutes
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Winter 2018, Amsterdam, constellation of the Dog. I scour seventeen kilometers of archives in search of the beasts. Six hundred and eighty-three fragments of silent films, anonymous images collected by the EYE Film Institute under the title _Bits and Pieces_. But for me, these are the crumbs from our feast of beasts.
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Duration: 3h18
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In an employment assistance community organization, asylum seekers are offered jobs in slaughterhouses that will allow them to restart lives they were abruptly forced to leave behind. On a livestock farm, cows, pigs, and farmers are subjected to the rhythm of an industrial agricultural model. Outside, only the corn plants that serve to feed the animals pierce the aridity of desert-like soil. _R...
Animal Macula
Duration: 2h44
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_Animal Macula_ plunges us into the heart of a sprawling and winding network where animals transform as they move from one sequence to another, all drawn from 125 years of cinema. An enigma is contained in each image where an animal appears, diffused in the signs that he sends us in silence. Through archaeological work and collage, it is to this enigma that the film seeks to approach. By lett...
Living Here
Duration: 34 minutes
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_Living Here_ is a story made of solitude and wind, told with the poetry of Nunavik's stark tundra and the beauty of young Martha's words.
Neighbors In My Backyard
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Between Parc-Extension and the town of Mont-Royal, a scar in space creates a strange dichotomy between two neighborhoods.
Utuqaq
A poem from the frozen plains of Greenland blends with the technological prose of a polar expedition. The endless white space, folded by ice, remembers the millions of years of evolution and decades of our negative effect on the planet. Crude and bewitchingly beautiful Arctic as a place of magic blending of languages, traditions, sounds and worlds.
Forests
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In a dark, ambiguous environment, minuscule particles drift slowly before the lens. The image focuses to reveal spruce trees and tall pines, while Innu voices tell us the story of this territory, this flooded forest. Muffled percussive sounds gradually become louder, suggesting the presence of a hydroelectric dam. The submerged trees gradually transform into firebrands as whispers bring back th...
Orchard
Much of the footage that comprises _Orchard_ is of a 19th century ruin that included a walled orchard of the southwest of Ireland. It is set deep in the woods and the crumbling brick and mortar of the broken walls have become the anchor for the roots of slender trees, so uninhibited for all this time that they reach 20 feet in height and have thick roots that follow like slow lazy trickles of w...
Honeyland
Hatidze is one of the last people to harvest honey in the traditional way, in the desert mountains of North Macedonia. Without any protection and with passion, she connects with the bees. She only takes the honey she needs to make a modest living, always ensuring to leave half for the bees to maintain the delicate balance between humans and nature. But this equilibrium is soon disrupted by a no...
City of the Sun
Imagined as a city of the future during the Soviet era, the once-celebrated manganese-mining town of Chiatura in Georgia is now all but abandoned, crumbling around those who still inhabit it. And yet, as anywhere, people live their lives and go about their daily business. There is joy here, and there are the usual challenges. Rati Oneli’s _City of the Sun_ takes us on a languorous tour of this ...
The Velvet Queen
In the heart of the high Tibetan plateaux, among unexplored and inaccessible valleys, lies one of the last sanctuaries of the wild world, home to rare and unknown species of fauna. Photographer Vincent Munier takes writer and adventurer Sylvain Tesson on a quest to catch a glimpse of the snow leopard, one of the rarest and most difficult big cats to approach. Over a period of several weeks, he ...
I Speak All Languages, But In Arabic
I Speak All Languages, But In Arabic
Duration: 1h44From the peaks of the High Atlas to a mouth's cavity, the creative documentary Je parle toutes les langues, mais en arabe (I speak all languages, but in Arabic) takes us on a journey along a vocal furrow that leads from song to language. In the relief of this furrow, the memory of words, the traces of colonial violence, a song of remedy, the history of letters and the cosmos are inscribed. Inte...
Spirit Emulsion
A woman's connection to her mother in the spirit world reactivates Taíno culture and presence, revealing a realm unseen. Meanwhile, amidst a backdrop of flowers everywhere, an ancestral act of sovereignty extends into the future. Filmed on Super 8 and developed by hand with plant medicines and botanicals, Spirit Emulsion evokes a language for Taíno filmmaking in relationship to the earth and co...
Il passo
Gabriele is thirteen and has a strong will to prove himself. He chooses to spend the summer in the mountains to look after cattle and returns home a new person. Dotted with feats of strength and unexpected moments of tenderness, _Il passo_ is an unusual coming-to-age story, set in a world bound to disappear.
FREM
As the climate crisis becomes increasingly urgent, and artificial intelligence expands exponentially, _FREM_ presents a striking and sometimes uncomfortable reaction to the current wave of post-humanist, anthropocentric thinking. A unique and wildly experimental documentary, Viera Čákanyová’s film provides a haunting and futurist portrayal of one of the most beautiful yet extreme landscapes on ...
White on White
_White on White_ is director Viera Čákanyová’s video diary that she kept while staying at the Polish Antarctic station, where in 2017 she shot the film _FREM,_ whose main character was an artificial neural network. During her stay, the author chats with various artificial intelligences, leading conversations that touch on the nature of film, art, and the meaning of life while also revealing a w...
Sukwan's Island
In a remote village in Thailand, Sukwan, an 8-year-old autodidact, is building with her parents’ help a life-sized version of "Snowyaland": an imaginary world she has conceived in her own mind. Against all odds, the modest family has been pursuing this colossal endeavor over the years while attempting to preserve Sukwan’s luxuriant inner world as she is soon approaching adolescence and its many...
Mountain Fire Personnel
_Mountain Fire Personnel_ is an experimental documentary that explores a wild fire spanning 27,000 acres in Southern California. The film surveys the response from firefighters and State Prisoners by using over 30 sources of amateur footage, internet media and professional camerawork.
This Stolen Country of Mine
The film follows the struggles of Paúl Jarrín, a local mediator in Río Blanco, northern Ecuador, and Fernando Villavicencio, an investigative journalist, against their government, which is depriving its population of control over the country's mineral resources by awarding contracts to Chinese contractors. Mark Wiese gives a voice to the people caught up in the geopolitical machinery and victim...
I Am Berta
On March 2, 2016, Lenca environmental activist Berta Cáceres was murdered. She was shot at close range after denouncing those who wanted to see her dead. In the world's most dangerous country for environmentalists, tenacious Honduran journalist Milton Benítez follows the clues he and Berta noted at a meeting held the day before her murder. With the help of Almudena Bernabeu, a renowned internat...
Beasts in Bits and Pieces
Duration: 22 minutes
Subscription access
Winter 2018, Amsterdam, constellation of the Dog. I scour seventeen kilometers of archives in search of the beasts. Six hundred and eighty-three fragments of silent films, anonymous images collected by the EYE Film Institute under the title _Bits and Pieces_. But for me, these are the crumbs from our feast of beasts.
Resources
Duration: 3h18
Subscription access
In an employment assistance community organization, asylum seekers are offered jobs in slaughterhouses that will allow them to restart lives they were abruptly forced to leave behind. On a livestock farm, cows, pigs, and farmers are subjected to the rhythm of an industrial agricultural model. Outside, only the corn plants that serve to feed the animals pierce the aridity of desert-like soil. _R...
Animal Macula
Duration: 2h44
Subscription access
_Animal Macula_ plunges us into the heart of a sprawling and winding network where animals transform as they move from one sequence to another, all drawn from 125 years of cinema. An enigma is contained in each image where an animal appears, diffused in the signs that he sends us in silence. Through archaeological work and collage, it is to this enigma that the film seeks to approach. By lett...
Living Here
Duration: 34 minutes
Subscription access
_Living Here_ is a story made of solitude and wind, told with the poetry of Nunavik's stark tundra and the beauty of young Martha's words.
Neighbors In My Backyard
Subscription access
Between Parc-Extension and the town of Mont-Royal, a scar in space creates a strange dichotomy between two neighborhoods.
Utuqaq
A poem from the frozen plains of Greenland blends with the technological prose of a polar expedition. The endless white space, folded by ice, remembers the millions of years of evolution and decades of our negative effect on the planet. Crude and bewitchingly beautiful Arctic as a place of magic blending of languages, traditions, sounds and worlds.
Forests
Subscription access
In a dark, ambiguous environment, minuscule particles drift slowly before the lens. The image focuses to reveal spruce trees and tall pines, while Innu voices tell us the story of this territory, this flooded forest. Muffled percussive sounds gradually become louder, suggesting the presence of a hydroelectric dam. The submerged trees gradually transform into firebrands as whispers bring back th...
Orchard
Much of the footage that comprises _Orchard_ is of a 19th century ruin that included a walled orchard of the southwest of Ireland. It is set deep in the woods and the crumbling brick and mortar of the broken walls have become the anchor for the roots of slender trees, so uninhibited for all this time that they reach 20 feet in height and have thick roots that follow like slow lazy trickles of w...
Honeyland
Hatidze is one of the last people to harvest honey in the traditional way, in the desert mountains of North Macedonia. Without any protection and with passion, she connects with the bees. She only takes the honey she needs to make a modest living, always ensuring to leave half for the bees to maintain the delicate balance between humans and nature. But this equilibrium is soon disrupted by a no...
City of the Sun
Imagined as a city of the future during the Soviet era, the once-celebrated manganese-mining town of Chiatura in Georgia is now all but abandoned, crumbling around those who still inhabit it. And yet, as anywhere, people live their lives and go about their daily business. There is joy here, and there are the usual challenges. Rati Oneli’s _City of the Sun_ takes us on a languorous tour of this ...
The Velvet Queen
In the heart of the high Tibetan plateaux, among unexplored and inaccessible valleys, lies one of the last sanctuaries of the wild world, home to rare and unknown species of fauna. Photographer Vincent Munier takes writer and adventurer Sylvain Tesson on a quest to catch a glimpse of the snow leopard, one of the rarest and most difficult big cats to approach. Over a period of several weeks, he ...
I Speak All Languages, But In Arabic
I Speak All Languages, But In Arabic
Duration: 1h44From the peaks of the High Atlas to a mouth's cavity, the creative documentary Je parle toutes les langues, mais en arabe (I speak all languages, but in Arabic) takes us on a journey along a vocal furrow that leads from song to language. In the relief of this furrow, the memory of words, the traces of colonial violence, a song of remedy, the history of letters and the cosmos are inscribed. Inte...
Spirit Emulsion
A woman's connection to her mother in the spirit world reactivates Taíno culture and presence, revealing a realm unseen. Meanwhile, amidst a backdrop of flowers everywhere, an ancestral act of sovereignty extends into the future. Filmed on Super 8 and developed by hand with plant medicines and botanicals, Spirit Emulsion evokes a language for Taíno filmmaking in relationship to the earth and co...
Il passo
Gabriele is thirteen and has a strong will to prove himself. He chooses to spend the summer in the mountains to look after cattle and returns home a new person. Dotted with feats of strength and unexpected moments of tenderness, _Il passo_ is an unusual coming-to-age story, set in a world bound to disappear.
FREM
As the climate crisis becomes increasingly urgent, and artificial intelligence expands exponentially, _FREM_ presents a striking and sometimes uncomfortable reaction to the current wave of post-humanist, anthropocentric thinking. A unique and wildly experimental documentary, Viera Čákanyová’s film provides a haunting and futurist portrayal of one of the most beautiful yet extreme landscapes on ...
White on White
_White on White_ is director Viera Čákanyová’s video diary that she kept while staying at the Polish Antarctic station, where in 2017 she shot the film _FREM,_ whose main character was an artificial neural network. During her stay, the author chats with various artificial intelligences, leading conversations that touch on the nature of film, art, and the meaning of life while also revealing a w...
Sukwan's Island
In a remote village in Thailand, Sukwan, an 8-year-old autodidact, is building with her parents’ help a life-sized version of "Snowyaland": an imaginary world she has conceived in her own mind. Against all odds, the modest family has been pursuing this colossal endeavor over the years while attempting to preserve Sukwan’s luxuriant inner world as she is soon approaching adolescence and its many...
Mountain Fire Personnel
_Mountain Fire Personnel_ is an experimental documentary that explores a wild fire spanning 27,000 acres in Southern California. The film surveys the response from firefighters and State Prisoners by using over 30 sources of amateur footage, internet media and professional camerawork.
This Stolen Country of Mine
The film follows the struggles of Paúl Jarrín, a local mediator in Río Blanco, northern Ecuador, and Fernando Villavicencio, an investigative journalist, against their government, which is depriving its population of control over the country's mineral resources by awarding contracts to Chinese contractors. Mark Wiese gives a voice to the people caught up in the geopolitical machinery and victim...
I Am Berta
On March 2, 2016, Lenca environmental activist Berta Cáceres was murdered. She was shot at close range after denouncing those who wanted to see her dead. In the world's most dangerous country for environmentalists, tenacious Honduran journalist Milton Benítez follows the clues he and Berta noted at a meeting held the day before her murder. With the help of Almudena Bernabeu, a renowned internat...
