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Haiku # 1

27 03 2011 17:47:23 +0000

Movie Title: Haiku # 1

Movie Language: English

Movie Length: 1:30

Movie Synopsis:
A project build in the same way as the ancient Haiku method – translated here to a video format/language. Originally the Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry, consisting of 17 moras in three phrases of 5, 7, and 5 moras respectively. Haiku typically contain a kigo (seasonal reference) and a kireji (cutting word/image). In Japanese, haiku are traditionally printed in a single vertical line, while haiku in English usually appear in three lines, to parallel the three phrases of Japanese haiku. Previously called hokku, haiku was given its current name by the Japanese writer Masaoka Shiki at the end of the 19th century. This new project is part of a new visual concept development: Blind Realism inspired by the surrealistic approach of the automatic writing/reading. Every Haiku will focus on a female portrait. The first one came out from the collaboration with the Hungarian artist (painter) and friend Agnes Szikra.

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Let there be Light

02 04 2011 03:19:10 +0000

Movie Title: Let there be Light

Movie Language: English

Movie Length: 17:21

Movie Synopsis:
When a young man from a middle class Bengali family came to know that he is HIV+, his known world underwent a sea change into an unknown one. He got flooded with uneasy curiosities and hatred – in reality as well as in his dreams. The glaring pricking stares from the near and dear ones make him bleed. Being tired of this shameful and useless existence, he decides to put an end to his life. While heading for committing suicide he met a street urchin repeatedly. The boy, in funny clothes, was playing his flute. But his face could not clearly be seen. The young man chose a lonely pond to drown into and die. But at the moment of plunging into the pond, the dancing green masses of algae under the water reminded him of the love and care his parents and sister kept him surrounded with all through. He could not kill himself. The remembrance of that eternal love, care, affection and prayer made him realize the shallowness of the temporary hatred and the queries. Like the vast azure sky, the white autumn flowers, a child’s smile and an artist’s creation, this life is also guileless and beautiful. None can put an end to that without a nod from the creator. The goal of life is to live it to its fullest and nothing else. He comes out of the water. Suddenly that urchin comes back to him. Yellow and green gets mixed up in his consciousness. He comes back to life with a new realization. His entire self gets all enlightened with fiery, brilliant light. This new light of consciousness removes all the darkness of life and the world.

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One Night Stand

14 01 2011 09:08:58 +0000

Movie Title: One Night Stand

Movie Language: English

Movie Length: 4:55

Movie Synopsis:
The morning after night before...

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Recreation

01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Movie Title: Recreation

Movie Language: Silent

Movie Length: 5min 48sec

Movie Synopsis:
Charlie is walking in the park. A girl leaves a seaman on one bench and joins Charlie on another. The seaman wakes up. He and Charlie stage a brick fight. Policemen get hit and arrest both men. During an ensuing fight on the dock the policemen, the seaman, Charlie and the girl wind up in the water.

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Rubbish

01 04 2011 19:02:54 +0000

Movie Title: Rubbish

Movie Language: Czech

Movie Length: 8:00

Movie Synopsis:
A lonely old grouch is upset by someone in his building leaving the trash outside the can...every day. Nothing can deter the culprit: signs, chalk footprints, staking out the scene of the crime. His outlook on life changes when he discovers who is really responsible for his foul mood. Directed by Amy Allen and Lisa Denny as part of a study abroad program in Prague via American University, Rubbish is shot on lovely Super 16 and stars local actors in the leading roles. A sweet, simple gem in a crowded field of attention-grabbing shorts, the film has been featured on multiple 'best of' lists and now enjoys its home on the internet. Please download and share. :-)

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Sex Madness

01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Movie Title: Sex Madness

Movie Language: English

Movie Length: 57 min

Movie Synopsis:
This sex exploitation film includes wild parties, sex out of wedlock, lesbianism, etc. After going to a "casting couch", a chorus girl contracts syphilis. The film then focuses on the effects this lifestyle and disease have on her marriage.

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Silenci

01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Movie Title: Silenci

Movie Language: Catalan

Movie Length: 12'35''

Movie Synopsis:
After thirty years of being a daughter, wife and mother, Dolors decides to see what happens when she tries thinking of herself for the first time… and of course all changes force us to learn new lessons. Dolors has to learn how to follow her own path to its end, and be strong enough not to look back – to home, and a husband she still loves and respects, but who has still to learn to listen to his wife and find out what her needs are. In these difficult moments for his parents, Dolors’ son, Jordi, goes to see her in her hotel. As Dolors listens to her son, she feels admiration for his achievements and gratitude for the consideration he shows her, while she also admires the professional success of her daughter-in-law Neus, in whom she now places her hopes, happy in the knowledge that women can be wives and mothers while remaining women.

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The Battleship Potemkin

01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Movie Title: The Battleship Potemkin

Movie Language: Silent

Movie Length: 75 min.

Movie Synopsis:
The Battleship Potemkin (Russian: Броненосец «Потёмкин», Bronyenosyets Potyomkin), sometimes rendered as The Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm. It presents a dramatised version of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against their oppressive officers of the Tsarist regime.The Battleship Potemkin has been called one of the most influential propaganda films of all time, and was named the greatest film of all time at the World's Fair at Brussels, Belgium, in 1958. Фильм "Броненосец "Потемкин" — глыба, скала, монумент. Он и сейчас поражает воображение, запоминается, оставляет сильное послевкусие. Причем запоминается не изысканная "картинка", как в большинстве современных киноработ, а движение, чувство, ритм. Еще Хичкок сказал, что кино — "это не движущаяся фотография людей". Эйзенштейн это наглядно подтверждает. Насыщенность и энергичная мощь жизни бьет сплошным потоком с экрана. Сюжет, основанный на подлинном историческом событии, образно выразил основные социальные тенденции ХХ века: массовое стремление к свободе, борьбу с тиранией, защиту человеческого достоинства, призыв к единению людей во имя равноправия. Новаторская форма фильма и сегодня оказывает глубокое влияние на развитие выразительных средств кино.

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Movie Title: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Movie Language: Silent

Movie Length: 0:72 min

Movie Synopsis:
A man named Francis relates a story about his best friend Alan and his fiance Jane. Alan takes him to a fair where they meet Dr. Caligari, who exhibits a somnambulist, Cesare, that can predict the future. When Alan asks how long he has to live, Cesare says he has until dawn. The prophecy comes to pass, as Alan is murdered, and Cesare is a prime suspect. Cesare creeps into Jane's bedroom and abducts her, running from the townspeople and finally dying of exhaustion. Meanwhile, the police discover a dummy in Cesare's cabinet, while Caligari flees. Francis tracks Caligari to a mental asylum.

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The Good for Nothing

01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Movie Title: The Good for Nothing

Movie Language: Silent

Movie Length: 13min 24sec

Movie Synopsis:
Charlie meets a couple and agrees to care for the man's crippled uncle. After the couple breaks up the man's new girl drops some eggs which Charlie slips on while trying to control the wheelchair. Charlie sets up the uncle near another wheelchair on a jetty, from which he lifts a beggar's cup and "invalid" sign. These he places with the uncle, and money begins to roll in. Charlie takes the money and buys himself a drink. Returning, he gets to know the abandoned young woman. After pushing the uncle and his chair into the drink and battling the beggar and two policemen (one of whom arrests the uncle), Charlie beats up his rival and gets the girl.

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The Man Who Knew Too Much

01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Movie Title: The Man Who Knew Too Much

Movie Language: English

Movie Length: 1:15:00

Movie Synopsis:
Bob and Jill Lawrence are on a winter sports holiday with their teenage daughter Betty. When their friend Louis Bernard is shot whilst dancing with Jill, he tells Bob of an assassination about to take place in London. Fearing that their plot will be revealed, the assassins kidnap Betty in order to keep the Lawrence's quiet. Bob and Jill return to London and take matters into their own hands. Bob Lawrence (Banks) and his crack-shot wife, Jill (Best) are holidaying in Switzerland when their French friend, Louis Bernard (Frensay) is gunned down, warning them, with his dying breath, of an imminent diplomatic assassination. To ensure the couple's silence, the conspirators kidnap their daughter (Nova Pilbeam). However, Abbot (Lorre) and his comrades have fatally underestimated British pluck. Jill and Bob Lawrence are on a winter holiday with their daughter, Betty. While he is dancing with Jill, the secret agent Louis Bernard is shot to death. With his last words he tells Jill about an assassination planned by some terrorists, about to take place in London. Fearing their plan would be revealed, the spies kidnap Betty and carry her off to London with them. Bob and Jill come back to London too, searching for their daughter.

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The Masquerader

01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Movie Title: The Masquerader

Movie Language: Silent

Movie Length: 9min 1sec

Movie Synopsis:
Charlie is an actor in a film studio. He messes up several scenes and is tossed out. Returning dressed as a lady, he charms the director. Even so, Charlie never makes it into film, winding up at the bottom of a well.

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