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Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain
Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain
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Drifting between moving-image formats and collaging local textures and bygone voices, Oscar Ruiz Navia’s film reflects on loss and mourning as experiences of temporal dislocation.
Before Their Eyes
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A couple moves into a tower on an island and spends each day observing the small creatures living on the foreshore and in the grass. By reversing scales and perspectives the film establishes a strange relationship between the observers and the observed. While small living beings try to express their fragility in the face of intrusive exploration, what anxieties do humans experience?
Untitled (The Things Around Us)
Untitled (The Things Around Us)
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The video assembly _Untitled (The Things Around Us)_ presents a heterogeneous scenario of constituent elements—environments, conditions, objects, and figures—that play a distinct role in the conceptual processes and design methods of the Brussels-based architecture and urbanism agency 51N4E and the research agency Rural Urban Framework (RUF). Formulated as a catalogue of “things,” in the philos...
81 meters
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Spring 2021. A cinephile invites you on an intimate journey through the last surviving cinema houses in Latvia. This documentary essay, shot on Super 8, opens the locked doors of these theaters during what may be the most difficult period in the history of physical cinema spaces. They are closed to the public, but at times we can feel that they are still alive.
No God No Father
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_No God No Father_ is a documentary/fiction that explores the intimate relationship a young man has with the Internet. In the absence of a father figure, he turns to Google as an unexpected mentor. From learning everyday tasks like shaving, to discovering deeper knowledge, the algorithm becomes much more than a simple search engine, blurring the boundaries between real and virtual.
Where the Grass is greener
This trip on the edge of surrealism transports the audience through the various corners of the suburbs in order to find where the grass is greener. An unsettling exploration of a seemingly peaceful place that takes a look beyond the white picket fence.
Joseph Samuel Jacques Julien
Jacques is 59 years old and has spent his entire career as a salesman in Quebec City. The past few months have been especially challenging for him: mourning the loss of his wife, he finds it difficult to regain his footing. Should he change his life? Change his identity? Amidst a growing political turmoil, the narrator remains hopeful, insisting that Jacques still has reason to hope.
Waiting for Casimir
In the village of Saint-Casimir, a seniors’ residence houses five people. At the heart of this confined space shaped by daily routines, a parallel world unfolds. Hours pass slowly in an endless waiting, punctuated by the presence of a local community TV station that intrudes into their universe through the television screen. Alternating between the sweetness of childhood memories and the presen...
Idle Times
Beginning in the late 19th century, the history of baseball tells the story of the transformation of pastures and mindsets in North America. Slow and repetitive, the game makes ample room for daydreaming and boasting. Full-bodied and mannered, it evokes the vastness of a new continent while also recalling its British origins. Filmed at the Victoria Stadium in Quebec and developed with the colla...
Le temps qu'il fait
Nestor, Lei, Pierrette, Mohamed, Hafida, Marius, Marc, Galina, Genady, Mike and Lala: through their presence, \_Le temps qu’il fait\_ weaves a mosaic of stories in which dreams and disappointments, hopes and worries intertwine with the life that is before them. In counterpoint, there are these new landscapes of financial centers, abandoned industrial spaces and wasteland from which we hear the...
Landscape in the Mind's Eye
Through the eyes of children and women from different generations, this film reveals the soul of a small village on Quebec’s North Shore. Madame Kennedy shares a vital bond with the forest; Diane, faced with the hardships of her life’s journey, lifts her head high; Cathy, at 18, possesses the biting clarity of those who have had to fight. The strength and determination of each woman converge...
Clotheslines
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_Clotheslines_ poetically documents the pragmatic, symbolic and artistic role of laundry in women's lives. The film presents an enduring, vivid account, showing how the creative energies of women have been sapped by mundane tasks, and in turn how such tasks reflect a ritualistic approach to life.
Speakn' Trane
_Speakn’ Trane_ is a visual conversation that considers one of the great masterpieces of music through the eyes of its creator. Mirroring the dialogue at its core, it mixes 16mm film and digital images, performance and nature footage to illustrate the revolutionary themes and ideas that would combine to craft the album _A Love Supreme_: the generative practice of meditation, the creative potent...
Manakamana
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Filmed entirely inside the narrow confines of a cable car, high above a jungle in Nepal, that transports villagers to an ancient mountaintop temple, _Manakamana_ is an acute ethnographic investigation into culture, religion, technology and modernity.
Hyperlink
In this intimate documentary, the filmmaker delicately examines the complex relationships that evolve, fracture, and reshape among the children of a blended family after a breakup. By pushing the boundaries of the "desktop documentary" format, she crafts a poignant and heartfelt portrait of a grief rarely acknowledged, offering a unique and compelling exploration of loss and connection.
7 Walks with Mark Brown
Following the English botanist Mark Brown through the landscapes of the Normandy coast, Pierre Creton and Vincent Barré explore the world of plants and flowers in seven walks. The documentary unfolds in two stages, from the filmed journal to the resulting cinematic herbarium.
Vivant parmi les vivants
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Following in the footsteps of a Przewalski's mare, a city dog, and two philosophers (Baptiste Morizot and Vinciane Despret), this is a fascinating reflection on our relationship with other living beings which, by reversing the perspective, raises new questions about our place in the world.
Stand Out of my Sunlight
Joseph is an elderly man living with Diogenes syndrome, a compulsive hoarding disorder that has left his apartment overflowing. For Messaline, who comes to help him clean, it becomes an opportunity to discover him in two ways: through their conversations, and through the objects he has accumulated—layered memories of a life lived in that apartment. This film, about memory, identity, and social ...
Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain
Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain
New product!Duration: 30 minutes
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Drifting between moving-image formats and collaging local textures and bygone voices, Oscar Ruiz Navia’s film reflects on loss and mourning as experiences of temporal dislocation.
Before Their Eyes
Duration: 1h00
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A couple moves into a tower on an island and spends each day observing the small creatures living on the foreshore and in the grass. By reversing scales and perspectives the film establishes a strange relationship between the observers and the observed. While small living beings try to express their fragility in the face of intrusive exploration, what anxieties do humans experience?
Untitled (The Things Around Us)
Untitled (The Things Around Us)
New product!Duration: 1h00
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The video assembly _Untitled (The Things Around Us)_ presents a heterogeneous scenario of constituent elements—environments, conditions, objects, and figures—that play a distinct role in the conceptual processes and design methods of the Brussels-based architecture and urbanism agency 51N4E and the research agency Rural Urban Framework (RUF). Formulated as a catalogue of “things,” in the philos...
81 meters
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Spring 2021. A cinephile invites you on an intimate journey through the last surviving cinema houses in Latvia. This documentary essay, shot on Super 8, opens the locked doors of these theaters during what may be the most difficult period in the history of physical cinema spaces. They are closed to the public, but at times we can feel that they are still alive.
No God No Father
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_No God No Father_ is a documentary/fiction that explores the intimate relationship a young man has with the Internet. In the absence of a father figure, he turns to Google as an unexpected mentor. From learning everyday tasks like shaving, to discovering deeper knowledge, the algorithm becomes much more than a simple search engine, blurring the boundaries between real and virtual.
Where the Grass is greener
This trip on the edge of surrealism transports the audience through the various corners of the suburbs in order to find where the grass is greener. An unsettling exploration of a seemingly peaceful place that takes a look beyond the white picket fence.
Joseph Samuel Jacques Julien
Jacques is 59 years old and has spent his entire career as a salesman in Quebec City. The past few months have been especially challenging for him: mourning the loss of his wife, he finds it difficult to regain his footing. Should he change his life? Change his identity? Amidst a growing political turmoil, the narrator remains hopeful, insisting that Jacques still has reason to hope.
Waiting for Casimir
In the village of Saint-Casimir, a seniors’ residence houses five people. At the heart of this confined space shaped by daily routines, a parallel world unfolds. Hours pass slowly in an endless waiting, punctuated by the presence of a local community TV station that intrudes into their universe through the television screen. Alternating between the sweetness of childhood memories and the presen...
Idle Times
Beginning in the late 19th century, the history of baseball tells the story of the transformation of pastures and mindsets in North America. Slow and repetitive, the game makes ample room for daydreaming and boasting. Full-bodied and mannered, it evokes the vastness of a new continent while also recalling its British origins. Filmed at the Victoria Stadium in Quebec and developed with the colla...
Le temps qu'il fait
Nestor, Lei, Pierrette, Mohamed, Hafida, Marius, Marc, Galina, Genady, Mike and Lala: through their presence, \_Le temps qu’il fait\_ weaves a mosaic of stories in which dreams and disappointments, hopes and worries intertwine with the life that is before them. In counterpoint, there are these new landscapes of financial centers, abandoned industrial spaces and wasteland from which we hear the...
Landscape in the Mind's Eye
Through the eyes of children and women from different generations, this film reveals the soul of a small village on Quebec’s North Shore. Madame Kennedy shares a vital bond with the forest; Diane, faced with the hardships of her life’s journey, lifts her head high; Cathy, at 18, possesses the biting clarity of those who have had to fight. The strength and determination of each woman converge...
Clotheslines
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_Clotheslines_ poetically documents the pragmatic, symbolic and artistic role of laundry in women's lives. The film presents an enduring, vivid account, showing how the creative energies of women have been sapped by mundane tasks, and in turn how such tasks reflect a ritualistic approach to life.
Speakn' Trane
_Speakn’ Trane_ is a visual conversation that considers one of the great masterpieces of music through the eyes of its creator. Mirroring the dialogue at its core, it mixes 16mm film and digital images, performance and nature footage to illustrate the revolutionary themes and ideas that would combine to craft the album _A Love Supreme_: the generative practice of meditation, the creative potent...
Manakamana
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Filmed entirely inside the narrow confines of a cable car, high above a jungle in Nepal, that transports villagers to an ancient mountaintop temple, _Manakamana_ is an acute ethnographic investigation into culture, religion, technology and modernity.
Hyperlink
In this intimate documentary, the filmmaker delicately examines the complex relationships that evolve, fracture, and reshape among the children of a blended family after a breakup. By pushing the boundaries of the "desktop documentary" format, she crafts a poignant and heartfelt portrait of a grief rarely acknowledged, offering a unique and compelling exploration of loss and connection.
7 Walks with Mark Brown
Following the English botanist Mark Brown through the landscapes of the Normandy coast, Pierre Creton and Vincent Barré explore the world of plants and flowers in seven walks. The documentary unfolds in two stages, from the filmed journal to the resulting cinematic herbarium.
Vivant parmi les vivants
Subscription access
Following in the footsteps of a Przewalski's mare, a city dog, and two philosophers (Baptiste Morizot and Vinciane Despret), this is a fascinating reflection on our relationship with other living beings which, by reversing the perspective, raises new questions about our place in the world.
Stand Out of my Sunlight
Joseph is an elderly man living with Diogenes syndrome, a compulsive hoarding disorder that has left his apartment overflowing. For Messaline, who comes to help him clean, it becomes an opportunity to discover him in two ways: through their conversations, and through the objects he has accumulated—layered memories of a life lived in that apartment. This film, about memory, identity, and social ...
