Illuminated Texts
Distribution
R. Bruce Elder
Professor
Anna Pafomow
Student
Henry Jesionka
Diabolus
James D. Smith
Man in workshop with goggles
Films recommandés
⭐ 7.2Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World belongs to a 35-hour film cycle, The Book of All the Dead, which comprises the bulk of Toronto-based Bruce Elder’s filmmaking from 1975 to 1994. In ancient Egyptian culture, the Book of the Dead consisted of religious texts intended to help preserve the spirit of the departed in the afterlife — but in Elder’s reading, that comforting idea of continuity takes on a rather darker cast. Lamentations is comprised of a complex audio and visual patchwork: a philosophical meditation superimposed as text throughout the film; vignettes featuring a comical but disturbing Franz Liszt, a debate between Isaac Newton and George Berkeley, an angry, deranged man in an alley, and an arrogant psychiatrist; and a final search for salvation in the forests of British Columbia, the American Southwest, and Mexico’s Yucatan.
⭐ 8.7Brutal Ardour
Boy meets girl (or vice versa) and they predictably fall in love to follow the canons of the strictest convention.
⭐ 6.0Suck It Up
Ronnie lost her brother. Faye lost her first love. These two best friends set off on a debaucherous road trip to the mountains to get over the death of the man they both loved.
⭐ 6.5People
PEOPLE is a new collaboration of riders and filmers from Mack Dawg Productions. Directed by Pierre Minhondo and Justin Eeles. This newly formed collective combines the talents, attitude, and fun-loving folks from such films as kidsKNOW’s “Burning Bridges,” and Neoproto’s “Some Kinda Life”. Learn, watch, and follow these PEOPLE as they show you real snowboarding in their own form. From our cities to yours, look forward to watching: Jon Kooley, Justin Hebbel, Nima Jalali, Jordan Mendenhall, Curtis Woodman, Mitch Nelson, Bryan Fox, Etienne Gilbert, Robbie Sell, Stephen Duke, Pat McCarthy, Shaun McKay, Josh Mills, Marius Otterstad, Jussi Tarvainen, and Ryan Thompson. -Released August 2006.
⭐ 5.7Boy
Boy is the unsettling story of a young male prostitute, or Rent Boy, in a small rural town who learns the truth behind a hit and run accident which has killed a local girl. When the news of the girls death spreads through the community, the driver and his family decide that the boy must be silenced. The set out to scare him into silence. The pressure becomes more and more violent, but despite this, the boy battles to expose the truth.
⭐ 9.9The Way to the Heart
Ava, an award-winning chef at a big-city restaurant, has lost her spark. Her boss sends her out to find herself to save her menu and her job. She returns home and finds little to inspire her, but when she reunites with her childhood friend Logan, Ava has to get her head out of the clouds and her foot out of her mouth to rediscover her passion for food.
⭐ 6.6Bip Bip et Coyote - Coyote Volant Non Identifié
Wile E. Coyote fabrique lui-même un casque d'hélicoptère fait maison, en utilisant un assortiment de produits de vente par correspondance. En planant dans le ciel et au-dessus des falaises, c'est un moyen infaillible d'attraper le Road Runner... en supposant qu'il puisse éviter les terrains d'essais militaires.
⭐ 10.0The Trade
A man who is a news reporter is going to Germany from America to meet his son who is living there. There he tells his son that he is divorced now. The father is pick pocket by two guys.
⭐ 7.7Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross
This is the very first silent slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. What's more fun: fishing with worms, or dynamite? Three friends decided to have a blast! Unfortunately their dog Barbos just loves playing fetch. And this time that stick was used for blast fishing. Barbos saw people throwing a smoking stick in a water, and fetched it right back to his owners. The "unusual cross" part begins when owners try to outrun the dog with dynamite.
⭐ 10.0Le Pilier de la Solitude
Le célèbre alpiniste suisse Michel Vaucher joue ici le rôle de Walter Bonatti lors de l'ascension historique du pilier sud-ouest des Drus (le Pilier Bonatti), dans le massif du Mont Blanc en 1955. Un mur vertical de 800 mètres que Bonatti a affronté seul pendant six jours avec seulement trois jours provisions. La faim, la soif, le découragement qu'il a dû affronter lorsqu'il était coincé au mur incapable de monter ou de descendre et la façon dont il surmonté cette situation dramatique et réussi cette ascension exceptionnelle.